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Forum: YouTube Selections 05-24-2019
Replies: 235
Views: 137,579
Posted By Sand
Re: Arthur Machen

The Secret Ceremomies - Critical Essays on Arthur Machen (https://www.hippocampuspress.com/other-authors/nonfiction/the-secret-ceremonies-critical-essays-on-arthur-machen), edited by Mark Valentine...
Forum: Rants & Ravings 01-20-2018
Replies: 209
Views: 115,845
Posted By Sand
Re: Walter de la Mare Strangers and Pilgrims

Thank you for raising the question of 'The Almond Tree'. Forrest Reid devotes quite a few pages to this story in his study of de la Mare, and R L Megroz looks at it too in his study. They both say...
Forum: Items Available 01-10-2018
Replies: 6
Views: 5,766
Posted By Sand
Forum: Items Available 01-10-2018
Replies: 6
Views: 5,766
Posted By Sand
Crypt of Cthulhu 68 - Thomas Ligotti Special Issue

Crypt of Cthulhu 68 (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/263427308184?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649)
Forum: General Discussion 11-15-2017
Replies: 7
Views: 9,290
Posted By Sand
Re: Letters to Dagon

I am sorry to report that Carl T Ford, the editor of Dagon, the Lovecraftian journal which also published work by and about Thomas Ligotti, has died. A brief tribute is here...
Forum: Other News 06-06-2017
Replies: 31
Views: 19,727
Posted By Sand
Re: The White Road reprint!

Sarob Press announce a new edition of The White Road:

SAROBLOG - The SAROB PRESS News Blog: SUMMER NEWS (http://sarobpress.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/summer-news.html)
Forum: General Discussion 05-01-2017
Replies: 11
Views: 8,355
Posted By Sand
Re: Writers' biographies

Dear Matthias, I have had quite a bit of writing published and I did not go to college or university. My formal education stopped at 18. Justin has a fair point about creative writing courses too. ...
Forum: Rants & Ravings 12-20-2016
Replies: 209
Views: 115,845
Posted By Sand
Re: Walter de la Mare Strangers and Pilgrims

Teresa Whistler's biography of de la Mare is well worth reading for a sense of his influences. As a young man in the Nineties, he was an aesthete and published a journal in this style called The...
Forum: Bruno Schulz 12-08-2016
Replies: 54
Views: 43,093
Posted By Sand
Re: Discussion: Bruno Schulz

I recommend 'Inside the Head of Bruno Schulz' by Maxim Biller (Pushkin Press, 2015). This piece by the Prague-born, Berlin-based author channels Schulz with intuitive sympathy, in the form of a...
Forum: Other Authors 11-30-2016
Replies: 117
Views: 69,254
Posted By Sand
Re: Joel Lane

Announcing 'This Spectacular Darkness - Essays by Joel Lane' (http://tartaruspress.com/lane-this-spectacular-darkness.html)
Includes...‘The Ruins of Reality: Thomas Ligotti and the Uses of...
Forum: General Discussion 08-25-2016
Replies: 2,364
Views: 930,105
Posted By Sand
Re: Recent Reading

Since you enjoy the stories of Aickman, de la Mare and Onions, permit me to recommend those of John Metcalfe who, at his best, is not out of place in their company. Unfortunately, there are no recent...
Forum: Rants & Ravings 07-31-2016
Replies: 14
Views: 8,710
Posted By Sand
Re: narcissistic rant about loss of creativeness and joy

A lot of good advice here already. Here's a few other thoughts:

Being a writer doesn't mean you have to produce work all the time. Aickman wrote, what, 40 to 50 stories, in his lifetime. Two...
Forum: Other News 06-25-2016
Replies: 35
Views: 31,721
Posted By Sand
Re: Wormwood: Literature of the fantastic, supernatural and decadent

In case anyone missed it the first time round, Wormwood 1 (http://tartaruspress.com/wormwood-1.html) is now back in print. It includes "Everything Ends in a Greater Blackness: Some Remarks on the...
Forum: General Discussion 06-14-2016
Replies: 2,364
Views: 930,105
Posted By Sand
Re: Recent Reading

Prince James Zaleski wrote: "I am not one for using established characters, but I am sorely tempted to write my own Zaleski adventure."

I was tempted too. And I succumbed. Twice. 'Prince...
Forum: YouTube Selections 06-14-2016
Replies: 235
Views: 137,579
Posted By Sand
Re: Arthur Machen

"he lived in the shadow of his earlier golden period of writing"

That would have been my view too until lately, when I came to introduce the Tartarus edition of The Children of the Pool. Reading...
Forum: Quentin S. Crisp 12-12-2015
Replies: 126
Views: 78,560
Posted By Sand
Re: Quentin S. Crisp

Erith is a compelling study of inner and outer geography. The description of the drab and semi-derelict Thames-side town is precisely observed, unerringly finding the things that represent larger...
Forum: Rants & Ravings 10-29-2015
Replies: 209
Views: 115,845
Posted By Sand
Re: Walter de la Mare Strangers and Pilgrims

Regarding other writers in the de la Mare tradition, I certainly agree with Quentin about Oliver Onions (and of course Reggie Oliver). Others to suggest would be Elizabeth Bowen, whose stories are...
Forum: General Discussion 10-08-2015
Replies: 7
Views: 6,766
Posted By Sand
Thomas Ligotti and the European Fantastic

When I first read Thomas Ligotti’s work what attracted me in particular were those stories that seemed to be infused with a sensibility similar to that of the European fantastic. This was evident in...
Forum: Jorge Luis Borges 07-24-2015
Replies: 3
Views: 8,288
Posted By Sand
Re: Paris Review Interview of Borges

The Paris Review, The Library of Babel, and The Secret Characters:

Wormwoodiana: The Library of Babel (http://wormwoodiana.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/the-library-of-babel.html)
Forum: YouTube Selections 07-06-2015
Replies: 235
Views: 137,579
Posted By Sand
Re: Arthur Machen

News of an edition of The London Adventure from Mark Simmonds, an author and designer who runs Alma Matters (http://www.marksimmonds.info/almamatters), “a micro-press publishing books on quotidian...
Forum: YouTube Selections 07-05-2015
Replies: 235
Views: 137,579
Posted By Sand
Re: Arthur Machen

Tartarus Press have announced the publication of The Library of the Lost (http://tartaruspress.com/news.htm) by Roger Dobson, a collection of literary essays including four on the writings of Arthur...
Forum: Other News 05-05-2015
Replies: 286
Views: 154,214
Posted By Sand
Re: The Swan River Press

Stephen J Clark is not only an original visionary artist, he is a writer of strange romances in the decadent macabre tradition of the Yellow Nineties: elegant, bizarre, full of curious occult...
Forum: Rants & Ravings 02-17-2015
Replies: 209
Views: 115,845
Posted By Sand
Re: Walter de la Mare Strangers and Pilgrims

l (http://wormwoodiana.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/new-walter-de-la-mare-work.html)The latest issue of The Walter de la Mare Society Magazine (No 16) includes 'The Idealists', his previously unpublished...
Forum: Off Topic 02-08-2015
Replies: 575
Views: 243,260
Posted By Sand
Re: Dark Poetry

The poetry of E H Visiak is full of macabre imagery and a fascination with pirates and buccaneers. Newly discovered is a poetic tribute to him in this vein, by Manchester librarian and artist Ernest...
Forum: Other News 02-08-2015
Replies: 4
Views: 7,335
Posted By Sand
Re: Arthur Machen Collection At Risk

There is now better news for the Machen Collection. The local paper the South Wales Argus reports that the latest proposal would keep the library open, though with reduced hours and services. Though...
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