Monday, October 30, 2023

A Ghost Version of A Voyage to Arcturus

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Updated 5 November 2023 Some months ago I consulted Walter Rigdon's Notable Names in the American Theatre (1976), and in a list of ...
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Saturday, September 16, 2023

Finding E.R. Eddison in an Unexpected Place

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Chance brought me to view a copy of an anthology Great Stories of Sport (1931), edited by Thomas Moult. Scanning the contents I was surprise...
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Sunday, August 27, 2023

William Morris on Believing or Not Believing in a God

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 In his posthumous;y published A Diary (1907), William Allingham (1824-1889), a friend of William Morris, recorded on [Tuesday] 13 June 188...
Thursday, August 17, 2023

2023 Sounds a Lot Like 1968

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 Only a few specifics might be changed: The world you were born into is going nuts. Just check around you if you think I’m wrong. People s...
Sunday, July 9, 2023

How to Correctly Pronounce Names Like Cabell, Dunsany, Machen, Powys and Tolkien

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The Literary Digest was a weekly American magazine published by the Funk & Wagnalls Company of New York. It began in 1890, and by mid 1...
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Saturday, February 4, 2023

William Gibson on H.P. Lovecraft

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In 1981, William Gibson was three years away from publishing his award-winning first novel, Neuromancer . He had published an early story (...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Guy Thorne: Why I Chose My Pen-Name

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From Pearson's Weekly , 4 July 1907:   “Guy Thorne”   (C. Ranger Gull), the author of “When It Was Dark”             I chose my pen-...