What Can The Matter Be?
There had been a single sunny day, in between the cool days and the gloomy ones, rather like a peal …
There had been a single sunny day, in between the cool days and the gloomy ones, rather like a peal …
Tori and I were walking up from Royal Circus, up to where Edinburgh’s head seems to suddenly clear and Stockbridge …
[The following contains spoilers.] The Silver Sword is a children’s novel by Ian Serraillier that was first published in 1956. …
Sabine Baring-Gould was a Victorian clergyman and his The Book of Were-Wolves (1865) aims to achieve a historical and scientific …
I had read D H Lawrence’s 1920 novel Women in Love when I was an undergraduate. It was on one …
[Most of this long short story was written last summer. It owes its entire existence to the generous furlough payments …
Over the last week three ships had been sunk, one after the other, like stray nuts that had disappeared behind …
If you are taking your government-permitted exercise in the south of Edinburgh these days, you will sometimes see boxes of …
When Amir woke that morning, the first thing that he did was to lie in his bedsheets and listen to …
I have never jumped off a cliff before. In my heart of hearts, though, I am pretty sure that I …
The BBC has not broadcast an original “Ghost Story for Christmas” since 2013, which seems of questionable competence considering the …
Pornography, as most people eventually discover, bears as much resemblance to reality as the dead surface of the moon does …
I am discussing the apparent Punic custom of child-sacrifice over dinner with my hosts. I cannot bring myself to believe …
[It has just occurred to me that there has never been, in the entire history of detective fiction, a detective …
[“The Dolls’ House” is here.]