Forum: Mark Samuels
12-08-2023
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Replies: 42
Views: 8,377
Rest in peace, Mark Samuels
I have just been informed of the tragic passing of Mark Samuels at the age of fifty-six. I believe he died peacefully in his sleep, ten years on after another much-missed English master of the...
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Forum: Website News
12-16-2022
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Replies: 11
Views: 3,879
Re: Druidic
I am deeply saddened by this news. Druidic was a fervid admirer of wyrd literature, and had a keen sense of the cosmic and ultramundane. He was passionate about many writers, from Lovecraft, August...
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Forum: YouTube Selections
09-07-2022
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Replies: 8
Views: 4,329
Re: Liminal Spaces and The Backrooms
There is a fellow on YouTube, who goes by the sobriquet of the Librarian, who has amassed a devoted following for his explorations of abandoned places and liminal spaces, especially in the sphere of...
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Forum: Television
02-14-2021
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Replies: 408
Views: 177,043
Re: Last TV show you watched
Had something of a Julian Barratt double bill lately: Nathan Barley, and Flowers. The former is a hilarious mockery of early Internet culture, with that typical Chris Morris melange of razor-sharp...
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Forum: Film
09-14-2020
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Replies: 1,079
Views: 584,412
Re: Movie Recommendations
Shanks (1974). Directed by William Castle and starring the mime, Marcel Marceau, as a deaf-and-mute puppeteer who, through a strange fusion of science and magic, begins manipulating cadavers as if...
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Forum: General Discussion
12-31-2019
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Replies: 2,371
Views: 936,799
Re: Recent Reading
I seldom keep tracks of books that I have read (one of the many benefits of not having a Goodreads account), but 2019 brought me some fascinating and unforgettable reading; here is a selection:
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Forum: Art
10-16-2019
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Replies: 0
Views: 2,416
The Art of Jeanie Laub
Miss Jeanie Laub is an Edinburgh artist who works in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional art. Her assemblage boxes recall those of Joseph Cornell re-imagined by the Brothers Quay, whilst her...
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Forum: General Discussion
12-29-2018
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Replies: 2,371
Views: 936,799
Re: Recent Reading
Another day, another years passes by. The tide is rising. Europe experienced one of its hottest summers ever, which eventually outstayed its welcome, even though I, more or less motivated by...
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Forum: Happy Birthday
12-03-2018
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Replies: 10
Views: 5,747
Re: Happy Birthday James
Dear James
Thirty years ago today, a living ghost came into the world, and some twenty-odd years later, he became enchanted by the unassailable, everlasting spell of the WYRD. Your intelligence...
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Forum: General Discussion
11-15-2018
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Replies: 87
Views: 57,938
Re: Neglected/Underrated Writers
Walter Owen, the Scots-born author and translator who was a long resident in Argentina and, also, a correspondent of M.P. Shiel and a mystic. He wrote two bizarre and idiosyncratic novels; the first,...
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Forum: General Discussion
07-31-2018
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Replies: 406
Views: 169,470
Re: Articles of interest
Re: the doll village in the desert, truly wonderful; it is like those uncanny gas station carnivals, the decadent Vermilion Sands, or something conjured by Angela Carter. I want to live in a desert...
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Forum: Other Authors
07-25-2018
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Replies: 1
Views: 5,686
Re: J. G. Ballard
For Ballardians everywhere:
Applied Ballardianism: Memoirs from a Parallel Universe. ...
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Forum: Off Topic
07-22-2018
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Replies: 597
Views: 380,936
Re: Book Recommendations
This may have slipped under some people's radars, but I can wholly recommend Martin MacInnes' excellent, unclassifiable debut novel, Infinite Ground, which I read in May, 2017. Brought to my...
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Forum: General Discussion
12-26-2017
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Replies: 2,371
Views: 936,799
Re: Recent Reading
What to make of 2017? Well, it has been a rather polarizing year, with triumphs in the field and an increasing sense of despair in the world at large. I have read many interesting books over the past...
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Forum: Other News
11-15-2017
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Replies: 287
Views: 155,222
Re: The Swan River Press
It was long rumoured that a Swan River Press edition of William Hope Hodgson's fascinating cosmic novel, The House on the Borderland, a tortured fusion of Gothic horror and...
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Forum: General Discussion
08-26-2017
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Replies: 18
Views: 10,108
Re: New To Weird Fiction - Recommendations?
Mark Valentine and John Howard. The former, in my estimation, has created some fine and mystic jewels that ameliorate literature and our prosy world as a whole. And we must not forget authors such as...
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Forum: Timothy J. Jarvis
06-07-2017
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Replies: 11
Views: 10,453
Re: Timothy Jarvis
I just finished reading this novel today. I cannot recommend it enough; fantastical, imaginative, arcane, Lovecraftian, nightmarish, apocalyptic, darkly comical, sepulchral, demonic, Ligottian,...
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Forum: General Discussion
04-16-2017
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Replies: 34
Views: 16,289
Re: Looking for some dreamlike stories.
Off the top of my head, usual suspects I can recommend include William S. Burroughs, Borges, Philip K. Dick, and William Hope Hodgson's The House on the Borderland; and other examples would include...
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Forum: H. P. Lovecraft
03-15-2017
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Replies: 35
Views: 22,233
Re: Lovecraft and Barlow
No Iot-Sotot, but Kutulu, the Sleeping Serpent who cannot be summoned, is mentioned, as is Pan and a legion of other demonic deities (unless I am mistaken, most of them were inspired by the Simon...
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Forum: General Discussion
12-25-2016
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Replies: 2,371
Views: 936,799
Re: Recent Reading
There are seven-and-a-half days left until the New Year; I think it is fair to say that 2016 has proven itself to be a year that many people would wish to forget. I will not speak of this year. But...
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Forum: General Discussion
12-16-2016
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Replies: 87
Views: 57,938
Re: Neglected/Underrated Writers
Scots author John Herdman is an author who has been on my radar for the past two years; his grotesque and surreal work has been compared to Kafka, Beckett, Gogol, Stevenson, and others, and his...
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Forum: Bruno Schulz
12-07-2016
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Replies: 54
Views: 43,380
Re: Discussion: Bruno Schulz
Read, if you can acquire it, the Penguin Classics edition, which is by the above-named Celina Wieniewska, as I did in October. Read it and return to the world with ''Bengal lights, magic boxes, the...
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Forum: General Discussion
11-19-2016
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Replies: 87
Views: 57,938
Re: Neglected/Underrated Writers
Is anyone here familiar with the Polish author and poet, Antoni Lange? His writings and poetry are haunted by a deep obsession with the occult, ancient legends, and recondite Eastern philosophies, as...
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Forum: Film
10-30-2016
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Replies: 1,079
Views: 584,412
Re: Movie Recommendations
I finally got around to seeing Donald Cammell's film, Performance. Nicholas Roeg, who dealt with the cinematography, is credited as co-director, but I feel it is primarily Cammell's film. If you...
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Forum: Other Authors
10-19-2016
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Replies: 3
Views: 6,826
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