A story about a famous writer of wild fiction in wild Scotland, as narrated by his forty something niece, who replaces his ‘common law wife’ to look after him and be his literary executor, and he eventually dies ‘mildly’ of a so-called mild heart attack while fishing. Brueghel’s Icarus sort of went fishing, I guess, […]
Nearly seventy years between above photos of the reviewer! *** The links shown below are to the comment streams… FIRST LINK: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/04/28/that-glimpse-of-truth/ THE BOOK OF JONAH THE DECEITFUL MARRIAGE: Miguel de Cervantes THE CHILDREN OF HAMELN: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm THE TELL-TALE HEART by Edgar Allan Poe THE NOSE by Nikolai Gogol THE SIGNAL-MAN: Charles Dickens […]
Links to the the comment streams… FIRST LINK: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/04/12/penguin-books-of-british-short-stories/ RUDYARD KIPLING: The Man Who Would be King P. G. WODEHOUSE: Unpleasantness at Bludleigh Court THE WITHERED ARM by Thomas Hardy ‘MALACHI’ WHITAKER: Courage W. S. GILBERT: An Elixir of Love JACK COMMON: Nineteen OLIVE SCHREINER: The Buddhist Priest’s Wife THE DANCING-MISTRESS by Elizabeth Bowen SECOND […]
Edited by Mark Morris Titan Books 2017 When I review this anthology, my thoughts will appear in the comments stream below… (My reviewing queue of purchased publications is growing longer and I don’t expect to catch up until November). THE BOGGLE HOLE – Alison Littlewood SHEPHERDS’ BUSINESS – Stephen Gallagher NO GOOD DEED – Angela […]
An Anthology of the Undelivered, the Missing, the Returned…. Edited by Conrad Williams Titan Books 2016 Stories by Steven Hall, Michael Marshall Smith, Joanne Harris, Alison Moore, Christopher Fowler, Pat Cadigan, Ramsey Campbell, Claire Dean, Andrew Lane, Muriel Gray, Nina Allan, Adam LG Nevill, Lisa Tuttle, Nicholas Royle, Angela Slatter, Maria Dahvana Headley, China Miéville, […]
“THE BURNING CIRCUS” (2013) BFS HORROR 1 An Anthology for British Fantasy Society Members Edited by Johnny Mains Introduction by Ramsey Campbell Fiction by Adam Nevill, Thana Niveau, Angela Slatter, Alex Hamilton, Lynda E. Rucker, Stephen Volk, Muriel Gray, Rob Shearman. **My review will take place in the comment stream below as and when I […]
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