The Headless Horseman: Another Ghost Story for Halloween.
It was three in the morning on the double bed, in the double room, in the Travelodge at Cameron Toll. …
Tag Archives: Dreams
Autumn Leaves.
A Tale from the Borneo Rainforest (By Night).
[Part 1: By Day.] All at once, Ellen was taken aback by her husband’s appearance. “You look seriously unwell,” she …
Enter the State!
Mr Rosedhu awoke at some point in the middle of the morning, in a state of almost stunning clarity. His …
Sangria.
Tychy previously wrote about sangria here. The final image is based upon David Des Granges’ “The Saltonstall Family” (1636-7), which …
The Fairy Boy of Leith.
[You may recognise this as a retelling of an old Edinburgh fireside tale.] Once his ship was berthed in Leith, …
The War of the Weddings.
When Adam Honeydew, the leader of the Scottish Symphony Orchestra, scuttled into the concert hall, the conductor’s baton was already …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Kaya, Dream-Interpreter.
It is good to sit here in the George Square lecture theatre at ten in the morning, listening to Kaya …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Porphyria.
[The following contains spoilers.] Back to the world of the Nottingham New Theatre this afternoon, to see their play “Porphyria” …
Sisyphus.
In my dream, I found myself in your bedroom. It did not occur to the mind which I had been …
An Epilogue to “Musophobia.”
[“Musophobia” is one of the finest short stories on Tychy – “A hit, a palpable hit!” – and it can …
Premonitory Tales: From Dickens’ Signalman to the Radio Broadcasts of A. J. Alan (6/6).
#1: Dickens’ “The Signalman.” #2: “Lord Dufferin’s Ghost” and “The Bus-Conductor.” #3: Algernon Blackwood. #4. E. F. Benson. #5. W. …
Dining with Death and Dicing with “The King’s Messenger.”
[This essay on F. Marion Crawford’s “The King’s Messenger” was originally written for Tychy’s series on premonitory fiction, but it …
Film Review: The Edge of Dreaming.
[This review complements Tychy’s ongoing series on premonitory fiction. Ed.] The Edinburgh filmmaker Amy Hardie’s The Edge of Dreaming (2010) …
On Richard Wiseman’s “Can Dreams Predict the Future?”
As Tychy is presently rolling out a series on premonitory fiction, I feel obliged to let my eye wander over …
