Easily Distracted
Notes on the genre literature of 1760-2020
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Six stories from Dead Water and Other Weird Tales by David A. Sutton (2015)
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Dead Water and Other Weird Tales by David A. Sutton (2015). *** Zulu's War A soldier has returned home, haunted by memories of desert w...
Sunday, May 24, 2020
The Subletting of the Mansion by Dion Fortune (1926).
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Readers of this blog know I have a love-hate stance toward some horror fiction, mostly Lovecraft pastiches. I have also noted a couple of ti...
Saturday, May 23, 2020
"The Place of Revelation" by Ramsey Campbell (2003).
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Ramsey Campbell never tires of creating hell for his protagonists. His stories and novels usually kick off with family and workplace hell, t...
Drinking the ether again: three stories from Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday edited by Italo Calvino (1983)
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Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday edited by Italo Calvino (1983) This collection deserves pride of place on the anthology shelf next ...
Some regret was manifest: August Derleth tries M.R. James on for size.
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"Here, Daemos!" by August Derleth From: Beware the Beasts edited by Roger Elwood and Vic Ghidalia (1970) Derleth is here aspiring...
Friday, May 22, 2020
Spenser tropes: Mortal Stakes by Robert B. Parker
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Mortal Stakes by Robert B. Parker (1975) The antagonists ....Harold Erskine's office was small and plain. There were two green file cab...
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