Easily Distracted
Notes on the genre literature of 1760-2020
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Monday, June 5, 2023
New Substack posts of interest
Please join me on Substack. All the blogspot posts have moved over successfully, and I am posting my new material there.
Jay
5 June 2023
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Some recent Substack posts:
"This sure isn't Jersey" – Wrong turns and Machenian perichoresis in Breakthrough: The Next Step (1995) by Whitley Strieber
Published on May 5
https://jayrothermel.substack.com/publish/posts/detail/119461236
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Personifications of malevolence: Seven stories from The Clock Strikes Twelve and Other Stories by H. R. Wakefield. (Ash-Tree Press, 1998)
135 years since the birth of H. Russell Wakefield (1888-1964)
https://jayrothermel.substack.com/p/personifications-of-malevolence-seven
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Imagine a Man in a Box (1931) by H. Russell Wakefield
A mid-life collection of odd, funny, strange, and uncanny short fiction
https://jayrothermel.substack.com/p/imagine-a-man-in-a-box-1931-by-h
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Murder for revenge: The Uttermost Farthing (1914) by R. Austin Freeman
Uncanny moments as a gifted forensic anthropologist spends twenty years tracking-down his wife's killer...
https://jayrothermel.substack.com/p/murder-for-revenge-the-uttermost
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