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Category Archives: Short Story Review

Short Story Review: The Bram Stoker Bedside Companion.

April 14, 2019

Count Dracula was the brainchild of the Irish writer Bram Stoker, who might seem to us today to be more …

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Short Story Review: Fly Away Home.

March 3, 2016

Marina Warner is a feminist historian and novelist; her latest book Fly Away Home was published last September. Twenty short …

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Short Story Review: Three Moments of an Explosion.

November 17, 2015

After my rare expeditions out of the Edwardian period and into modern “weird” fiction, I have usually returned disappointed. Thomas …

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Short Story Review: Not Exactly Ghosts.

April 1, 2015

There are two volumes of Sir Andrew Caldecott’s short stories, Not Exactly Ghosts and Fires Burn Blue, which were published …

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Short Story Review: Young Skins.

January 8, 2015

It’s very hard to write about Colin Barrett’s debut collection of short fiction, Young Skins, without resorting to gender as …

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Short Story Review: The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher.

October 2, 2014

There are ten short stories in Hilary Mantel’s latest collection, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, all of them published, mostly …

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Short Story Review: Dear Life.

March 2, 2014

[The following contains spoilers.] Dear Life (2012) is Alice Munro’s latest and possibly last collection of short stories. If, like …

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Short Story Review: The Rajah’s Diamond.

January 28, 2014

Each of the short stories within Robert Louis Stevenson’s New Arabian Nights (1878) adopts a needy young man as their …

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Short Story Review: Tales from the Mall.

January 20, 2014

Let us begin with the etymology, since every time that I read the word “mall” I want to howl, “IT’S …

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Short Story Review: The Suicide Club.

December 2, 2013

Robert Louis Stevenson’s three tales about the Suicide Club emerge from a heartfelt appreciation of romance, which is at once …

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Book Review: William Maginn and the British Press.

September 17, 2013

Is judgement finally nigh for the doctor? Until now nobody has written a complete biography of Doctor William Maginn (1794 …

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Short Story Review: Stories Toto Told Me.

July 30, 2013

[Tychy is nothing if not a writer and reviewer of short stories: this website to date features about eighty short …

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Short Story Review: Republics of the Mind.

June 14, 2013

[Tychy is nothing if not a writer and reviewer of short stories: this website to date features over eighty short …

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Short Story Review: Diving Belles.

July 16, 2012

[Tychy is nothing if not a writer and reviewer of short stories: this website to date features about eighty short …

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Short Story Review: Couching at the Door.

July 16, 2012

[Tychy is nothing if not a writer and reviewer of short stories: this website to date features about eighty short …

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