Introducing the Detective.
The house looked immediately like a stroke of mischief. It was from the late-Victorian period and so symmetrical that it …
Tag Archives: Family
The Named Person Mysteries: The Case of the Teetotal Teenager.
[It has just occurred to me that there has never been, in the entire history of detective fiction, a detective …
Up On The House.
Back in the drawing room, the man who was known to them as Upensky was gripping the carpet with both …
Book Review: Weathering.
[The following contains spoilers.] Lucy Wood’s Weathering is both a debut novel and that difficult second book. I approached it …
Childermass.
On the floor a small envelope containing the unmistakable shape of a Christmas card was lying amongst the day’s flyers …
Home Wrecker: A Ghost Story for Halloween (2/2).
INTRODUCTION and PART 1. I had wanted to sit back and be alone with the city for a while, doing …
#Indyref Anguish: The Unnamed Wilderness.
On the 30th August, Hampshire police obtained a European arrest warrant for the parents of a severely ill five-year-old boy …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Barge Baby.
[The following contains spoilers.] Over at C Nova, Bricks & Mortar Theatre’s new play “Barge Baby,” which is written by …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (41).
… and how the little one of all, whose sports had hitherto broken the decorum of the scene, understood the …
Enter the State!
Mr Rosedhu awoke at some point in the middle of the morning, in a state of almost stunning clarity. His …
The Death of Father Christmas.
When I was three years old I stabbed Father Christmas in the back of the neck with a carving knife …
A Reported Sighting of the Krampus.
[Last Christmas the following was related to Tychy by Ingrid Schottel, a friend of the website. It was originally published …
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 Lady of the Lake.
The end of the year found me driving to my sister’s house deep in the fens. She had sent me …
