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