What is afoot at Perceval Landon’s Thurnley Abbey?
[The following contains spoilers.] Perceval Landon’s ghost story “Thurnley Abbey” had first appeared in Raw Edges (1908), his only published …
Category Archives: Short Story Review
Short Story Review: “The Year of the Short Corn” by Fred Urquhart.
“The Year of the Short Corn” is a short story by the Scottish author Fred Urquhart and it also gives …
Short Story Review: “Gentlemen, The Queen” and “Provide for Your Poor Sisters” by Fred Urquhart.
[“An Introduction to Exploring Fred Urquhart’s Short Stories.”] Fred Urquhart’s short stories “Gentlemen, the Queen” and “Provide For Your Poor …
Notes, Critical and Contextual, on RL Stevenson’s The Dynamiter: The Influence upon Arthur Machen’s “The Inmost Light.”
[This article was written several years ago but never published. I think that I was intending to revisit it when …
Short Story Review: Man-Size In Marble.
[The following contains spoilers.] Two newlyweds have got London out of their hair and down in Kent, about two miles …
Short Story Review: Duolingo Stories.
Duolingo is the biggest language-learning app in the world and it counts its active users in the tens of millions. …
Short Story Review: “The Tortoise” by W.F. Harvey.
“The Tortoise” is one of the many thoughtful gifts within William Fryer Harvey’s first collection of short fiction, Midnight House …
Short Story Review: “Midnight House” and “Across the Moors.”
Midnight House and Other Tales (1910) is William Fryer Harvey’s debut volume of short stories. He must have written juvenilia, …
Short Story Review: “The City of the Demons” by Doctor William Maginn.
In the assessment of the literary historian Wendell V. Harris, Doctor William Maginn is “perhaps the first nineteenth-century English writer …
Short Story Review: Robert Spalding’s Ghost Stories.
[The following contains spoilers.] In the dying days of 2019, Robert Spalding got going a new WordPress blog called “A …
Book Review: The False River.
Nick Holdstock predominantly writes nonfiction about China, a society that he has explored as an English teacher, though his debut …
Christmas with Washington Irving.
Today the Christmas material in Washington Irving’s The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1819-20) encompasses a jovial and expansive midsection …
Short Story Review: The Bram Stoker Bedside Companion.
Count Dracula was the brainchild of the Irish writer Bram Stoker, who might seem to us today to be more …
Short Story Review: Fly Away Home.
Marina Warner is a feminist historian and novelist; her latest book Fly Away Home was published last September. Twenty short …
Short Story Review: Three Moments of an Explosion.
After my rare expeditions out of the Edwardian period and into modern “weird” fiction, I have usually returned disappointed. Thomas …
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