The First Attempt (2/2).
The dust road never recovered after the cattle grid. It became a straggling track, with the grass more trodden apart …
Tag Archives: Ghost Story
Tori’s Story (A Dean Village Horror).
As with Janet’s tale, a bare transcript of Tori’s story would consist chiefly of umming and erring, dithering and backtracking. …
The Headless Horseman: A Ghost Story for Halloween.
On the morning before Halloween, the food bank had taken delivery of over forty pumpkins. The supermarket around the corner …
Tychy@ the Fringe: The Ghost of Sadie Kimber.
This afternoon I’m at the Merchant’s Hall on Hanover Street to see Making Light Productions’ “The Ghost of Sadie Kimber,” …
The Room Under The Eaves.
The house had settled down after lunch; little doors had opened in inconspicuous places and gulped down all of those …
An English Ghost Story.
Seldom are the ghost stories which appear on Tychy set in England. Some people get very upset about this kind …
Lorrimer’s Lady.
[For a while I was toying with the idea of reviewing Alec Gurney Melross’ Thirteen Strange Tales (1983), which I …
Short Story Review: Not Exactly Ghosts.
There are two volumes of Sir Andrew Caldecott’s short stories, Not Exactly Ghosts and Fires Burn Blue, which were published …
Book Review: Weathering.
[The following contains spoilers.] Lucy Wood’s Weathering is both a debut novel and that difficult second book. I approached it …
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 …
Home Wrecker: A Ghost Story for Halloween (1/2).
INTRODUCTION. Timothy was one of Pablo’s cronies, by which I mean that they both took drugs together. At parties, you …
Halloween Illustration.
In the front room, a baby was sitting alone at the dining table. For its size, it looked very alert, …
Book Review: Printer’s Devil Court.
[The following contains spoilers.] Susan Hill’s Printer’s Devil Court was first published as a Kindle Single last year and as …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Casting the Runes.
MR James’ ghost story “Casting the Runes” (1911) furnishes exhibit A whenever Tychy is making the argument that literature is …
Why Should Anybody Vote in the European Elections?
It’s a dark night and the owl is on the wing. As I give the fire a final stir, settle …
