A Companion to Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles (Part One).
In 1456 Louis, the wayward Dauphin of France, fled to Burgundy. He had been already exiled within France, to his …
In 1456 Louis, the wayward Dauphin of France, fled to Burgundy. He had been already exiled within France, to his …
In Robert Aickman’s “The Cicerones” (1967) a tourist named John Trant is thrown out of a cathedral before it closes …
“The Devil’s Bridge” is contained within William Fryer Harvey’s third published volume of short stories, The Beast with Five Fingers …
[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 …
[“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 …
I had worked through American literature at university, in chronological order, and such was the rush to get to Edgar …
Duolingo is the biggest language-learning app in the world and it counts its active users in the tens of millions. …
Midnight House and Other Tales (1910) is William Fryer Harvey’s debut volume of short stories. He must have written juvenilia, …
In the assessment of the literary historian Wendell V. Harris, Doctor William Maginn is “perhaps the first nineteenth-century English writer …
Nick Holdstock predominantly writes nonfiction about China, a society that he has explored as an English teacher, though his debut …
[The following contains spoilers.] You cannot understand Count Dracula without first getting the lie of the land. One of the …
Count Dracula was the brainchild of the Irish writer Bram Stoker, who might seem to us today to be more …
Marina Warner is a feminist historian and novelist; her latest book Fly Away Home was published last September. Twenty short …