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A long way out on a thin plank over a deep sea: Horse Under Water by Len Deighton.

2017 favorite fiction reading

On composition: Against the Wind by Geoffrey Household

Devil Dance: The Sending by Geoffrey Household

Witch Trial: The Sending by Geoffrey Household

The Robin: The Sending by Geoffrey Household

King's Blood: The Sending by Geoffrey Household

No hills, and precious little horror: The Horror from the Hills by Frank Belknap Long

The Executor and Other Ghost Stories by David G. Rowlands

Twisted fingers: The Tragedy of X by Ellery Queen

The World of S.J. Pereman

A perfect book: The Country of the Pointed Firs [1896] By Sarah Orne Jewett, 1849-1909

Ghost Stories of an enthusiast: They Might Be Ghosts by David G. Rowlands

The dead might look in: Halloween III: Season of the Witch by Jack Martin

Antique Dust by Robert Westall

Uncanny ecstasies: Ritual and Other Stories by Arthur Machen

A killer killer doll story

Unending Night: With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa By E.B. Sledge

Who can tell the difference? The Missing Girl by Shirley Jackson

"Whatever cries there...."

Late magic: The Children of the Pool and Other Stories by Arthur Machen

A Mountain Adventure: The curious epilogue to The Green Round by Arthur Machen

The Bridegroom and the Bride: Change by Arthur Machen

A note on The Tugging by Ramsey Campbell

Really very quiet: Crouch End by Stephen King

A double disaster: The Double Return by Arthur Machen

The matter is of little consequence, the manner is everything: The Three Imposters by Arthur Machen

Two lines converging: The Red Hand by Arthur Machen

A light touch: The Stoneground Ghost Tales by E.G. Swain

Spain, fascism, political atavism: The Croquet Player by H.G. Wells

And all the world to wonder turns: A Fragment of Life By Arthur Machen

A hushed and haunted air: Tales of Horror and the Supernatural by Arthur Machen

Menacing landscape: The Inhabitant of the Lake by Ramsey Campbell

Why Leave? The Last Revelation of Gla'aki by Ramsey Campbell

The speed of reversion to barbarism: MS Fnd in a Lbry by Hal Draper

A taste for old, forlorn things: Haunted by Books by Mark Valentine

Haunted into madness: The Doomed Man by Dick Donovan

When the lights are low: The Log of the Evening Star by Alfred Noyes

Et in Arcadia Ego: A review of Secret Europe by John Howard and Mark Valentine

The Lost Legion by Rudyard Kipling

Valentine, the book-finder: Notes on A Country Still All Mystery by Mark Valentine

Jane the Ripper: Hell! said the Duchess by Michael Arlen

Jewels in the crown: The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume Two

Copping Squid by Michael Shea

Omens of mischance: A review of ’Twixt Dog and Wolf By C. F. Keary

Thirteen Days By Sunset Beach by Ramsey Campbell

Foreword and Introduction to The Dark Side of Guy de Maupassant: A Selection and Translation

Pinned and taxonimized: My week with The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

Fully connected: a review of Before Crazytown by Duane Pesice

Alan Dean Foster and John Carpenter's The Thing: celebtating 35 years of the 1982 novelization

Tales of the marvellous and the ridiculous: Don't Dream - The Collected Horror and Fantasy of Donald Wandrei

The green stone that ate Willy: The Web of Easter Island and Dead Titans, Waken! by Donald Wandrei

Just a glimpse: The Forbidden Zone by Whitley Streber

Stories I Have Tried To Write: Bringing It All Back Home

The invisible air, full of unknowable Forces: The Horla by Guy De Maupassant

Horror distilled: Notes on The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories

Uninhabited: The Terror on Tobit by Charles Birkin

Never visit Wet Waste-on-the-Wolds: Let Loose by Mary Cholmondeley

Cremating the Father-thing: California Burning by Michael Blumlein

Five finger exorcize: The Adventure of Lady Wishaw’s Hand by Richard Marsh

The Smearing: School Crossing by Francis King 1979

Jealousy and witchcraft: Miss Mack by Michael McDowell

The Sumurun manner: The Chronicles of Clovis by Saki/H.H. Munro

The ship sails on: A Dip in the Pool by Roald Dahl

My first Powell dance: A Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell (1951)

What Pongo had to tell: The Night Sea-Maid Went Down by Brian Lumley

The little devil: Petey by T.E.D. Klein

Herein the warning: The Purple Cloud by M.P. Shiel

An unspeakable betrothal: The Dead Smile by F. Marion Crawford

The complex under the bed: The Cat Jumps by Elizabeth Bowen

The Upper Berth by F. Marion Crawford

Among the voices: The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold: A conversation piece by Evelyn Waugh (1957)

Upper strata: The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh, Redux

Like people in books : The sad stories of Evelyn Waugh

Doctor Kakophilos and Mister Crowley: Out of Depth by Evelyn Waugh

Dreams go by contraries: Two for the River and Other Stories by L. P. Hartley

The unnameable history of the United States: The Unnameable by H.P. Lovecraft

Get a new President: Bob Hauk versus Snake Plissken in Escape from New York (1981)

No child in the house: The Attic by A.M. Burrage

Wish we hadn't gone: The Travelling Grave and Other Stories by L.P. Hartley

Never Visit Venice, Redux

The Devil's shelfie, probably: The Book by Margaret Irwin

A note on Brenner's Boy by John Metcalfe (1931)

"Never Visit Venice" by Robert Aikman

13 on Saturday: A roundup of stories read

A sublime sickness: Doctors Wear Scarlet by Simon Raven

The adventure of the gray vapour: The Haunting of Low Fennel by Sax Rohmer

Moonlight on the fen: The Barn On the Marsh by Charles G.D. Roberts

Never say never: I read a Carnacki story by John Linwood Grant

The ache of a rotten tooth: The Last Illusion by Clive Barker

Talking ourselves to death: Pontypool

Marvel's Doctor Strange

The enemy within: The Spear by James Herbert (1978)

Click, Click. Clickety-click

A case of the horrors: Back there in the grass by Gouverneur Morris

An uncomfortable quarter of an hour: Sea Mist by E.F. Benson

Black flies, worms, and the lord of lies: The Sanctuary by E.F. Benson

Some black well digging itself into his soul: The Step by E.F. Benson

Two Returns by Terry Lamsley

The Night Wind Howls by Frederick Cowles

The legacy of a peculiarly English seclusion and continuity: The Night Comes on by Steve Duffy

Every third night: The Fiend of the Cooperage by Conan Doyle

Continuity of sacrifice: Wolverton Tower by Grant Allen

The old fashion in ghosts: The Four-Fifteen Express By Amelia B. Edwards

With water filling your mouth, and looking up to the little patch of sky above: The Well by W.W. Jacobs

Valley of the Angel/Satyr: L.T.C. Rolt's Cwm Garon

That very day: Randalls Round by Eleanor Scott

Mender of destinies: Oppenheim's General Besserly

The right to rule: Blood Royal by Dornford Yates

Heartland horror: Make Me by Lee Child

Weird Kipling

Black meadows and knucklebones: The Scarecrow by Roger Johnson

The Moon Is Hell by John W. Campbell

"The Spindly Man" (2014) by Stephen Graham Jones

If Love were All: Stephen Volk Whitstable

Perfidia by James Ellroy

The Early Stephen King: Night Shift

The doubled nightmare: Patricia Highsmith

Uncanny Oppenheim: E. Phillips Oppenheim's story The Two Spinsters

Misunderstanding Roth's The Ghost Writer

Behind the lines: Dennis Wheatley's novel The Scarlet Impostor

Devilish hard on the nerves: Dennis Wheatley's novel Contraband

Kong: Skull Island

As a cat plays with a mouse: H.C. McNeile's novel Temple Tower

Bulldog Drummond's disaster: A note on The Female of the Species

Horror in Hemingway: A brief note and two stories

Madman's Luck: Oppenheim's The Terrible Hobby of Sir Joseph Londe, Bart.

As sociable a field as you will find: Guy Boothby's story A Strange Goldfield

Sad about the Spaldings: John Collier's story Bird of Prey

The hills have teeth: Anthony Boucher's story The Bite

A delightful summer at Valley Farm: J.D. Beresford's Cut-Throat Farm

The devil, certainly: J. Sheridan Le Fanu's story Dickon the Devil

Lawsuits, debts, and misery: J. Sheridan Le Fanu's story Squire Toby's Will

Terribly Familiar: Le Fanu's story The Watcher

Ruined choirs of the body: Michael Shea's story The Autopsy

A bad taste of the Nineties: More questions than answers in Walter De La Mare's "A.B.O."

"If you'll pull, I'll push" R.H. Malden's story The Sundial

In death undivided: L.T.C. Rolt's story Bosworth Summit Pound

L.T.C. Rolt's "The Mine at Long Barrow"

They 'had been after her for a long time'

The mad, murderous workplace: Conrad's story The Brute

Over-looking, hag-riding, and the hang-fair: Hardy’s story The Withered Arm

The Boy Wizard of Wholesale Groceries

Men, Monsters, and Murderers: Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell

The awful comedy of espionage: Notes on Maugham's Ashenden

Contradictions of Jewish Assimilation: Some Notes On Somerset Maugham's The Alien Corn:

Age of dark intent: A few notes on Leiber's The Terror from the Depths

Max Kelada: Having your cake and eating it, too

Long wave goodbye: "The Year of the Jackpot" by Robert A. Heinlein

Told in the Inn at Algeciras and The Man from Glasgow

Ramsey Campbell’s story “The Faces at Pine Dunes”