Easily Distracted
Notes on the genre literature of 1760-2020
Sunday, April 23, 2023
"Like one that on a lonesome road doth walk in fear and dread...."
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....I had been for a walk in the lane that led from my refuge in the direction of another fallen, forlorn old estate, whose manor was now in...
Saturday, April 15, 2023
Gomorrah as Poe's "City in the Sea" per T. O. Mabbott [1945]
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T. O. Mabbott (1945) 1. Poe's City in the Sea, The Explicator, 4:1, 3-5, DOI: 10.1080/00144940.1945.11481201 To link to this article: ht...
Friday, March 31, 2023
Three stories by Mary Webb (1881-1927)
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Readers unfamiliar with the fiction of Mary Webb may prefer to read these notes only after reading the stories. "The Name-Tree" ...
Thursday, March 30, 2023
Celebrating Dennis Etchison (1943-2019) on his birthday
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In The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural (1986), editor Jack Sullivan briefly sums up Dennis Etchison's career: ...
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Aickman's Introduction to The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1964)
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Balking at the prospect of paying the price for a copy of Night Voices , through dumb luck I found all eight volumes of the Aickman-introdu...
The Year's Best Horror Stories XX (1992) Edited by Karl Edward Wagner
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Readers unfamiliar with The Year's Best Horror Stories XX may prefer to read these notes only after reading the stories. The Year'...
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