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James Bond's Christmas Eve

The Prisoner in the Mask by Dennis Wheatley (1957)

Sallust 8, Germany 0

Reading Manly Wade Wellman (1903-1986)

Tadzio & Giovanni

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

Bury Him Darkly (1969) by John Blackburn

Re-reading: Blood of the Impaler (1989).

Alucarding with Saberhagen

Reading Joe R. Lansdale: Days 2-3

Only matriarchy can save us: Island Life by William Meikle (2001).

Pearls on black velvet: Looking for Something to Suck: The Vampire Stories of R. Chetwynd-Hayes With a foreword by Stephen Jones Valancourt 2014

Pact of the damned: The Devil's Own Work (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) by Alan Judd (first published 1991)

"Crouch End — I think that is an ugly name."

Crown Jewels: The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume 3 ​Edited by James D. Jenkins and Ryan Cagle

Face of fear: The House with the Brick-Kiln by E. F. Benson

Reading notes on N by Arthur Machen [1936]

Review: No Sharks in the Med and Other Stories by Brian Lumley

From the Lower Deep by Hugh B. Cave.

The appetites of Ichabod Crane

Colonial Horrors: Sleepy Hollow and Beyond Edited by Graeme Davis

Beyond Stranger Bridgerland: True Paranormal Stories from the west By John E. Olsen

H.P. Lovecraft and Simone Weil: Sufferers

The sound of enormous wings - Homefront Horrors: Frights Away from the Front Lines, 1914-1918 Edited by Jess Nevins

“It’s the wind in the rocks. Try and go to sleep again.” Charles Birkin's collection Devil's Spawn reviewed.

The time was 5:04 P.M.

Rich and Strange: John Keel and Machenean Perichoresis?

Rereading: "N" by Arthur Machen

Rereading: The Great Return by Arthur Machen

The moon is heck: Two stories by Raymond F. Jones

Sallust. Gregory Sallust.

The devil you know

History is made at night: V for Vengeance by Dennis Wheatley (1942).

The Wheatley touch: review of The Black Baroness (1940).

What goes around comes around: Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child (2009).

Faked Passports by Dennis Wheatley (1941)

Great Plains Carnage: The Midnight Line by Lee Child (2017).

Shapes of larceny: Pale Gray for Guilt by John D. MacDonald (1968).

It would break your heart if you let it: Out on the Cutting Edge by Lawrence Block (1989).

Fame at last!

It was all the same jungle: The Specialists by Lawrence Block (1969)

The gang plays detective: The Seventh by Richard Stark (1966)

Aw-tour theory: John Dortmunder as a reader of Richard Stark: Jimmy the Kid by Donald E. Westlake (1974).

It was so stupid it might even work: The Score by Richard Stark (1963).

Credo of Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op

It and Other Stories by Dashiell Hammett

Arson Plus and Other Stories by Dashiell Hammett

My Mark Samuels Itinerary

Death to the French by C.S. Forester (1932) reviewed.

A great Great War novel: The General by C.S. Forester (1936)

England expects: The African Queen by C.S. Forester (1935).

Reading notes: 13 Stories from The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer [2012: Tor].

Nailed down and in torment: Clock Without Hands by Gerald Kersh (1949)

Sgt. Nelson over all

Sargeant Nelson of the Guards

Gerald Kersh: There are occasions when the entire fabric of dialectical materialism seems to go phut

Thicker than Water

Kicked in the mouth by one's horse

Absalom, Absalom pickles

Brown on Resolution By C.S. Forester

Historical melodrama à la mode: The Hope and The Glory by Herman Wouk.

He really believed he bought it: The Pistol by James Jones

An atmosphere of peculiar circumstances and strange happenings: Algernon Blackwood

Setting the scene: Algernon Blackwood's strange camping stories

If the monstrous can paralyse, it also can affront: The Doll by Algernon Blackwood

Hunting grounds: The Trod by Algernon Blackwood

Delicious melancholy with horror : The Roses of Picardie by Simon Raven (1979)

Happily ever after: Sinners Beware by E. Phillips Oppenheim (1932).

Swindlers and seances: The Adventures of Mr. Joseph P. Cray By E. Phillips Oppenheim (1925)

Scoundrels versus Scoundrels: Crooks in the Sunshine by E. Phillips Oppenheim (1933)

The Zeppelin's Passenger (1918)

Witching Hill by E.W. Hornung (1913)

Sixty-four thousand seven hundred pounds: Curious Happenings to the Rooke Legatees by E. Phillips Oppenheim (1938)

Troupe of Fools and the Black Mass: The Grin of the Dark by Ramsey Campbell (2007)

Feast of Fools: The Grin of the Dark by Ramsey Campbell (2007).

A potboiler for the curious: Next, After Lucifer by Daniel Rhodes (1987)

A forest as large as the dark: Midnight Sun by Ramsey Campbell (1990)

The Overnight by Ramsey Campbell (2004)

Swallow this: The Overnight by Ramsey Campbell (2004)

The Kind Folk by Ramsey Campbell (2012)

Some buried wizard: The Doll Who Ate His Mother By Ramsey Campbell (1976)

Once the forest gets in: The Darkest Part of the Woods by Ramsey Campbell (2003)

If we see anything it will not be nice to look at

Bull-roarers and Panic terrors: The Garden at 19 by Edgar Jepson (1910)

The naked face of oblivion: Night-World by Robert Bloch (1972)

How I got the angles wrong: Reconsidering Strange Eons by Robert Bloch (1979)

Alone in the dark at last: Such Stuff As Screams Are Made Of by Robert Bloch (1976)

Diary of a Mad Man: The Scarf by Robert Bloch (1947, 1966)

The stench of something atrociously wrong: A few reading notes on the collection The Red Brain: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos

No time for geometry lessons: Strange Eons by Robert Bloch (1979)

My Fritz Leiber Itinerary

The Color Out of Time by Michael Shea (1984)

London insists: The Tango Briefing by Adam Hall (1973)

Turning the tables: High Citadel by Desmond Bagley (1965).

A Cornish thriller: Wreckers Must Breathe by Hammond Innes (1940)

Unfinished review: The Sending by Geoffrey Household

Winter by Len Deighton: Decline of a German family