What is afoot at Perceval Landon’s Thurnley Abbey?
[The following contains spoilers.] Perceval Landon’s ghost story “Thurnley Abbey” had first appeared in Raw Edges (1908), his only published …
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Short Story Review: “The Year of the Short Corn” by Fred Urquhart.
“The Year of the Short Corn” is a short story by the Scottish author Fred Urquhart and it also gives …
Book Review: The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier.
[The following contains spoilers.] The Silver Sword is a children’s novel by Ian Serraillier that was first published in 1956. …
Short Story Review: “Gentlemen, The Queen” and “Provide for Your Poor Sisters” by Fred Urquhart.
[“An Introduction to Exploring Fred Urquhart’s Short Stories.”] Fred Urquhart’s short stories “Gentlemen, the Queen” and “Provide For Your Poor …
An Introduction to Exploring Fred Urquhart’s Short Stories.
If you are a genius then it is wonderful, of course, but it is never advisable to develop any genius …
“Transphobia” in The Female Eunuch and the Story of April Ashley.
Clichés have always bedevilled the feminist Germaine Greer but I have grown interested lately in one that concerns her relationship …
On the Rabbit in Women in Love.
I had read D H Lawrence’s 1920 novel Women in Love when I was an undergraduate. It was on one …
Book Review: The Book of Nights (Le Livre de Nuits) by Sylvie Germain.
The sterility of magic realism. Everywhere within Sylvie Germain’s The Book of Nights one is met with the sterility of …
Storytelling in Washington Irving’s Tales of a Traveller.
I had worked through American literature at university, in chronological order, and such was the rush to get to Edgar …
Notes, Critical and Contextual, on RL Stevenson’s The Dynamiter: The Influence upon Arthur Machen’s “The Inmost Light.”
[This article was written several years ago but never published. I think that I was intending to revisit it when …
Short Story Review: Man-Size In Marble.
[The following contains spoilers.] Two newlyweds have got London out of their hair and down in Kent, about two miles …
Book Review: The Man With The Golden Gun.
[The following contains spoilers.] With one last, courageous effort, in January 1964 he tapped out the first draft…. Where once …
Book Review: The Ruin Of All Witches.
In seventeenth-century New England witches were often hunted with a great deal of circumspection. The evidence for their guilt had …
Book Review: High Spirits.
It is quite obviously wrong for ghosts to be funny but it is a graver sin when they are harmless. …
TV Review: The Mezzotint.
This Christmas Eve the BBC showed an adaptation of a 1904 short story by M.R. James, about a group of …
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