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June 2025

The Bad Place (1990) by Dean Koontz
Readers unfamiliar with The Bad Place may wish to read my notes only after reading the novel.
Fifty years of The Night Ghouls and Other Grisly Tales
The Night Ghouls and Other Grisly Tales (1975) by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
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Cornish Tales of Terror (1970) edited by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
Cornish horror fiction 1865-1970
Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World (2024) by Dorian Lynskey
Reading list and notes
Terror Tales of Cornwall (2017) edited by Paul Finch
Contemporary Cornish horror fiction
Mr. George and Other Odd Persons (1963) by August Derleth
Seventeen weird tales as by “Stephen Grendon”

May 2025

Ten supernatural stories by Mary Louisa Molesworth (1839-1921)
"After all, one likes to think one's ancestors were gentlemen!"
Cornish Horrors: Stories from the Land's End (2021) edited by Joan Passey
British Library Tales of the Weird series
"I'll Bring You the Birds from Out of the Sky" (2017) by Brian Hodge
Readers unfamiliar with "I'll Bring You the Birds from Out of the Sky” may wish to read my notes only after reading the novella.
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Helen Vardon's Confession (1922) by R. Austin Freeman
A melodrama with Thorndykean interludes
Holes for Faces (2013) by Ramsey Campbell
“If there’s a face at the edge of my vision, it must belong to a picture on the wall, even if I don’t remember any there.” (“The Long Way”)
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