Book Review: Weathering.
[The following contains spoilers.] Lucy Wood’s Weathering is both a debut novel and that difficult second book. I approached it …
Tag Archives: Ghosts
Book Review: The Tell-Tale Heart.
The eighth and latest novel from the English author Jill Dawson initially appears to share nothing other than a name …
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 …
Tychy@ the Fringe: The Collector.
[The following contains spoilers.] “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.” Nine days after 9/11, when …
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 …
Tourist Review (18): Hailes Castle.
Startlingly, Edinburgh has awakened to find itself beneath a Mediterranean sky. The familiar spires and domes are now stranded under …
TV Review: The Tractate Middoth.
Why can’t the poor old BBC make ghost stories anymore? In 1968, Jonathan Miller directed an eerie, nerve-wracking adaptation of …
Wanderers They Knew Not Where (39).
There were graves around the church, and now an uneasy thought obtruded into Robin’s breast. What if the object of …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Very Still and Hard to See.
[The following contains spoilers.] There is a scene from the classic sitcom Fawlty Towers in which the hotel proprietor Basil …
Tychy@ the Fringe: The Ghost Hunter.
[The following contains spoilers.] Tychy was wowed last year by Stewart Pringle’s play “As Ye Sow,” but I had prepared …
