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Forum: W. H. Pugmire 03-27-2019
Replies: 28
Views: 13,546
Posted By Derek
Re: News

Very sorry to hear this.

He was the finest of writers.
Forum: Miscellaneous Polls 05-27-2018
Replies: 48
Views: 29,935
Posted By Derek
Re: Religious horror writers?

“The allotted function of Art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow...
Forum: Rants & Ravings 01-29-2018
Replies: 209
Views: 116,450
Posted By Derek
Re: Walter de la Mare Strangers and Pilgrims

The narrator spends the majority of the story surveying the gravestones in the desolate churchyard many of which display sentiments of despair at the prospect of bodily dissolution and the loneliness...
Forum: Happy Birthday 01-18-2018
Replies: 14
Views: 5,151
Posted By Derek
Forum: Musicians 06-17-2017
Replies: 3,945
Views: 1,334,539
Posted By Derek
Re: Your favourite song at the moment..

J'aime beaucoup Francoiz Breut.

Françoiz Breut - - YouTube

Francoiz Breut - Les Jeunes Pousses - YouTube
Forum: Happy Birthday 06-17-2017
Replies: 9
Views: 3,834
Posted By Derek
Forum: Other News 05-12-2017
Replies: 18
Views: 10,482
Posted By Derek
Re: Has anyone had any paranormal experiences...

About six or seven years ago, I was staying on my own in a holiday cottage in Beaumaris, a small seaside town in Anglesey, North Wales. The cottage itself was relatively modern, although I later...
Forum: Personal 05-05-2017
Replies: 1,201
Views: 513,245
Posted By Derek
Re: What Makes You Laugh?

Where Will I Go When Im Dead And Gone? www.peteralsop.com - YouTube
Forum: Contemporary Horror 05-04-2017
Replies: 7
Views: 7,433
Posted By Derek
Re: The Love Witch - 2016

I have to admit that I found the film rather wearisome towards the end. A couple of good vignettes, but at two hours it's far too long when compared with the film genres it's trying to pastiche:...
Forum: Other News 03-28-2017
Replies: 39
Views: 27,526
Posted By Derek
Re: RIP-Avalon Brantley/New Zagava book from Avalon Brantley

I have posted a short appreciation of Avalon Brantley to my blog (https://miscellaneacuriosa.wordpress.com/2017/03/28/in-memoriam-avalon-brantley-1981-2017/).
Forum: Other News 03-24-2017
Replies: 39
Views: 27,526
Posted By Derek
Re: New Zagava book from Avalon Brantley

Very sad news.

Avalon was one of the most interesting and talented writers to emerge from the Ex Occidente/Zagava nexus.

I'm particularly fond of 'Aornos' her strange and completely...
Forum: Happy Birthday 01-18-2017
Replies: 16
Views: 8,451
Posted By Derek
Forum: General Discussion 01-15-2017
Replies: 8
Views: 11,882
Posted By Derek
Re: Re. Mark Fisher: The Weird And The Eerie

I was very sorry to hear the news about Mark Fisher (K-punk).

His short book Capitalist Realism, which I only read very recently, is a poignant meditation on the sorrows and melancholy of...
Forum: Rants & Ravings 12-11-2016
Replies: 209
Views: 116,450
Posted By Derek
Re: Walter de la Mare Strangers and Pilgrims

Some thoughts on ‘Seaton’s Aunt’

The traditional reading is that Seaton’s aunt is some form of ‘psychic vampire’ sucking the life out of her pathetic charge unto the point of death and beyond....
Forum: Other News 01-21-2016
Replies: 40
Views: 23,231
Posted By Derek
Re: G.S. Carnivals?

Very sorry to hear this.

I didn't know GSC/Spot personally, but I shall miss his contributions on TLO which always exemplified the very best of this forum.

RIP
Forum: Mark Samuels 10-04-2015
Replies: 223
Views: 122,247
Posted By Derek
Re: The Mark Samuels tribute anthology

I remember very clearly the moment I first encountered Mark's work.

I was living in Cambridge at the time and hanging around with a Guardian-reading literary set who were constantly trying to...
Forum: Rants & Ravings 03-23-2015
Replies: 209
Views: 116,450
Posted By Derek
Re: Walter de la Mare Strangers and Pilgrims

Re: Seaton's Aunt.

I was curious to read Sand's comment that Seaton could be considered the locus of the supernatural element in the story rather than his eponymous Aunt. This has always been one...
Forum: Happy Birthday 01-19-2015
Replies: 14
Views: 6,726
Posted By Derek
Re: Happy Birthday Nemonymous

Happy Birthday and best wishes!

Derek
Forum: Off Topic 12-21-2014
Replies: 5
Views: 6,627
Posted By Derek
Re: Haunted Houses/Places

I can thoroughly recommend 'Haunted Ireland': a recent coffee-table book by Tarquin Blake from the Collins Press in Cork.

Sumptuously photographed and strong on historical details unlike many...
Forum: Other News 07-16-2014
Replies: 176
Views: 129,254
Posted By Derek
Re: Sarob Press

One to watch out for in September.

Ghosts and Scholars Book of Shadows vol. 2 (http://sarobpress.blogspot.ie/2014/07/the-ghosts-scholars-book-of-shadows.html)

Including stories by Reggie...
Forum: YouTube Selections 06-28-2014
Replies: 21
Views: 19,965
Posted By Derek
Re: What is your favourite Smiths song?

SANDIE SHAW (with Morrissey 1984 - YouTube
Forum: Personal 06-22-2014
Replies: 18
Views: 12,265
Posted By Derek
Re: Jung Personality Test (similar to MBTI / Myers Briggs)

Jung Test Results

Introverted (I) 76% Extroverted (E) 24%
Intuitive (N) 52% Sensing (S) 48%
Feeling (F) 66% Thinking (T) 34%
Judging (J) 72% Perceiving (P) 28%

Your type is: INFJ

INFJ -...
Forum: Off Topic 02-03-2014
Replies: 14
Views: 13,267
Posted By Derek
Re: Reading and Memory

For me, poetry is something which I find very easy to remember (I can spout Yeats until the cows come home). For fiction and non-fiction, much less so. Which is why I usually try to copy down...
Forum: Website News 02-02-2014
Replies: 215
Views: 104,183
Posted By Derek
Re: Writer Nic Pizzolatto on Thomas Ligotti and the Weird Secrets of ‘True Detective’

For those in the UK/Ireland with satellite or cable TV: True Detective will premiere on Sky Atlantic starting on Feb 22nd.
Forum: Happy Birthday 01-18-2014
Replies: 8
Views: 3,451
Posted By Derek
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