Easily Distracted

Notes on the genre literature of 1760-2020

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

The sound of enormous wings - Homefront Horrors: Frights Away from the Front Lines, 1914-1918 Edited by Jess Nevins

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Homefront Horrors: Frights Away from the Front Lines, 1914-1918 Edited by Jess Nevins Editor Jess Nevins' anthology of stories written a...
Friday, July 20, 2018

“It’s the wind in the rocks. Try and go to sleep again.” Charles Birkin's collection Devil's Spawn reviewed.

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DEVILS' SPAWN by Charles Birkin 1936. Reissued by Valancourt 2015 ______ OLD MRS. STRATHERS A stroke-muted mother tries to save her son...
Saturday, June 9, 2018

The time was 5:04 P.M.

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The Mothman Prophecies by John Keel I first heard about Keel's book twenty-five years ago. On an autistically facilitated holiday from ...

Rich and Strange: John Keel and Machenean Perichoresis?

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From the article Some Thoughts on 'N'  By Thomas Kent Miller (Copyright © 2012-2018 All Rights Reserved): ….in 1936 Machen de...
Saturday, June 2, 2018

Rereading: "N" by Arthur Machen

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"N" by Arthur Machen Three men in London spend several evenings debating strange recollections about a part of town they knew - or...

Rereading: The Great Return by Arthur Machen

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....So, to be brief, it appeared that there had been a long feud at Llantrisant between a local solicitor, Lewis Prothero (we will say), and...
Thursday, May 3, 2018

The moon is heck: Two stories by Raymond F. Jones

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Raymond F. Jones appears on T.E.D. Klein's canonical list "The Thirteen Most Terrifying Horror Stories." As a reader I place a...
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