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"Machenean perichoresis" in War In Heaven by Charles Williams (1930)

The Other Passenger by John Keir Cross (1944)

A rarity: The Hole of the Pit by by Adrian Ross (1914)

4 stories from The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Volume III (2018)

8 stories from The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories Volume II (2017)

7 stories from The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories (2016)

An unalloyed materpiece: The Black Fox: A Novel of the 'Seventies

5 stories from Shivers for Christmas (2014)

The arrow of coincidence: Moonfleet (1898)

A Christmas ghost story: "The Shepherd" By Frederick Forsyth (1975)

My reading notes on The Anatomy of Influence [i]

My reading notes on The Anatomy of Influence [ii]

My reading notes on The Anatomy of Influence [iii]

3 more stories from The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination

Elegiac conclusions: Reading The Western Canon (1994) by Harold Bloom

Four stories from The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination: Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius (2013) Edited by John Joseph Adam

Bright patterns of nonsense: The Green Ripper by John D. MacDonald (1979).

Reading, thinking, and writing about literature

Three grawlix stories from The Saga Anthology of the Monstrous and the Macabre (2016)

Spectral Elizabeth Bowen gets the Royle treatment

A note on notes

My reading notes on Hugh Haughton's introduction to The Uncanny by Sigmund Freud (Penguin, 2003)

Reading notes: Freud's 1919 essay "The Uncanny"

A review of After Sundown edited by Mark Morris

Perhaps still crewed and under sail on the ocean tonight: a reading of "Jelland's Voyage" (1892)

A Not Boring ouija board story: "Murder Board" Grady Hendrix

High altitude horror: Michelle Paver's Thin Air (2016)

Kim Newman's Burn Hollywood Burn!

Eagleton on Gatsby

Arctic folk horror: "Mine Seven" by Elana Gomel

The spectral Arctic: Michelle Paver's Dark Matter

Dirda on Bierce

"To give the New Critics their due"

"Society is key": Notes on Chapter One on Anshen's Marxist Literary and Cultural Theory (2017)

There is no utopian schema to replace careful reading: Notes on Anshen's Marxist Literary and Cultural Theory (2017)

Anshen on Bakhtin: serious laughter

Anshen on Walter Benjamin

How art arises in human history: Christopher Caudwell

Faulkner’s Halloween ‘twixt dog and wolf

Anshen on defamiliarization, Shklovsky and Bakhtin

Aldous Huxley on Edgar A. Poe

"Late one night, I would find out just how wrong I was." Beyond Stranger U.S: True Paranormal stories from across North America

A Wrinkle in the Skin (1965) by John Christopher

The Possessors (1964) by John Christopher

Affect horror in Perfidia by James Ellroy (2014)

Eight tales by Erckmann–Chatrian

The Silence by Tim Lebbon (2015, Titan Books)

Affect horror underground: Underland by Robert Macfarlane

A is for Affect Horror

A real pussy-cat: Final Reckonings: The Complete Stories of Robert Bloch, Volume 1

Four stories by John Farris

The Uninhabited House (1875) by Charlotte Riddell

Terry Eagleton on terror and the sublime

Four strange stories by John Galsworthy (1867-1933)

Five stories by Stacy Aumonier (1877-1928)

Richard Connell's tale of a most dangerous game at a grim house in Pelham Manor, NY

"A Source of Irritation" by Stacy Aumonier (1918)

"We shall meet at Philippi": Six contes cruels by Robert Barr (1849-1912)

The Fantastika of Gore Vidal: Messiah (1954)

The Fantastika of Gore Vidal: Messiah (1954)

The Fantastika of Gore Vidal: Kalki (1979)

"Doorslammer" by Donald A. Wollheim (1963)

The Wind in the Rose-Bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural (1903) by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Terror and sublimity: All Night at Mr. Stanyhurst's (1933)

Reading: The Year's Best Horror Stories XV Edited by Karl Edward Wagner (DAW Books, 1987)

19 stories from The Year's Best Horror Stories XIV (1986)

Reading: Darkness on the Edge of Town by Brian Keene (Leisure, 2010)

Celebrating: In a Lonely Place by Karl Edward Wagner (Warner Books, 1983)

It’s a prelude: "Take the Long Way Home" by Brian Keene (Deadite Press, 2006)

On: Sleeping with the Lights On: The Unsettling Story of Horror by Darryl Jones (OUP, 2018)

Black Easter by James Blish (1968)

"Disappearances" by Elizabeth Gaskell (1850)

Devil Stories: An Anthology Edited by Maximilian J. Rudwin Alfred A. Knopf: 1921

On Reggie Oliver: The Boke of the Divill (2017)

A magnificent Fortean obsession: The 37th parallel

Two stories by Andrew Michael Hurley

Two decades of Reggie Oliver: Stages of Fear (2020, Black Shuck Books)

Peerless David Case: Fengriffen & Other Gothic Tales by David Case (Valancourt Books, 2015)

Peerless David Case: The Cell & Other Transmorphic Tales

[Review] The Ghost Stories of Oliver Onions and the case for "Tragic Casements"

"Pelican Cay" by David Case

The Hunter by David Case (1969)

"Witches in 1964" by Robert Graves

A Fortean cowpat

Break of Dark by Robert Westall (1982)

"Alfandega 49A" by Edward Lucas White

Two Deadly Beds

The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral: Two Stories of the Supernatural by Robert Westall

Three supernatural masterpieces by Robert Westall

There are no ghosts: Psycho by Robert Bloch (1959)

The War in the Air by H. G. Wells (1908)

The Shape of Things to Come (1933) by H. G. Wells

"What Strange Stars and Skies'' (1963) by Avram Davidson

"Is That What People Do?" By Robert Sheckley (1978)

"The Last Days of Earth" by George C. Wallis (1901)

“Can this be A.D. 2O16?” The Plunge (1916) by George Allan England

"Within an Ace of the End of the World" by Robert Barr (1900)

At the noon of night: Four stories by Vincent O'Sullivan

A Book of Bargains by Vincent O'Sullivan (1896)

Edgar A. Poe: Five droll stories

Morbid symptoms: Five strange stories by Henry James

Father and daughter: "The Ghostly Rental" (1876) by Henry James

Sister horror: "The Romance of Certain Old Clothes" (1868) by Henry James

Three pieces from Supernatural Horror Short Stories [edited by Laura Bulbeck (Flame Tree Publishing, 2017)]

Remembering Under The Fang (1991)

Master and epigone: a note on Lovecraft and Frank Belknap Long

"Warren Clark couldn’t have picked a better day to kill himself."

Horror in Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

Four stories from Alfred Hitchcock anthologies

On The Silence by by Don DeLillo (Scribner, 2020)

Baudelaire [from Gaunt's Aesthetic Adventure]

On "The Picture" by Rosalie Parker

Slingshot openings in Amelia B. Edwards?

On "Man-size in Marble" by Edith Nesbit (1886)

Was Count Magnus A Vampire?

Reading five stories from The Second Cthulhu Mythos Megapack edited by Shawn Garrett (2016)

Piece of Cake by Derek Robinson (1983)

Better Out Than In: Think Yourself Lucky by Ramsey Campbell [2014]

Hawksbill Station by Robert Silverberg (1967)

Richard Stark's formula: The Mourner (1963)

Ever-decreasing circles: The Jugger by Richard Stark (1965)

Gutted: The Handle by Richard Stark (1966).

Doubtful Canyon

Re-reading Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror

A diamond: On These Blackened Shores of Time by Brian Hodge

Monstrous tentacles

Looking at H. P. L.

Pleasantly uncomfortable: Ways of the fiction of M. R. James

Art "that overturns our conception of reality for the worse"

How Well Are You Read?

Poe Baudelaire Bloch

"Near Zennor" by Elizabeth Hand (2011)

My notes on "Near Zennor" by Elizabeth Hand

The horrible host: The Strange Adventures of a Private Secretary in New York by Algernon Blackwood (1906)

Two Prologues

Mrs. Bridge and Mr. Bridge by Evan S. Connell

A successful sequel to Machen's The White People? A review of The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher (2019)

A biter bit: "The Uncommon Prayer-Book" by M. R. James

Judeophobia in M. R. James' "The Uncommon Prayer Book" (1925)

Notes on John Clute's anatomy of the horror novel

"Snow Cancellations" by Donald R. Burleson (1989)

Cozy cloacal horror: The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher (2020)

A double-goer: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)

Comedy of terror in The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. Wells (1897)

Margery Lawrence's strange club stories

A not disagreeable shudder: Six Ghost Stories by Sir Thomas Graham Jackson (1919)

The net of language: Notes on Holy Terrors by Arthur Machen

An excellent recipe for humility: The Clock Strikes Twelve and Other Stories by H. R. Wakefield. (Ash-Tree Press, 1998)

Summoned by bells: A. F. Kidd's campanological horror stories

Where Human Pathways End: Tales of the Dead and the un-Dead by Shamus Frazer (Ash-Tree Press 2001)

A Fire of Driftwood by D. K. Broster (1932)

The Dancing Floor by John Buchan (1926)

John Buchan: The hour between dog and wolf

Two stories by B. M. Croker (1847-1920)

Uncanny Margaret Irwin

Randalls Round by Eleanor Scott (1925)

The Year's Best Horror Stories 13 (1985)

My very own misreading of The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Henry James

The decay of grammar is a feature of our time

Women's Weird 2: More Strange Stories by Women, 1891-1937 Edited by Melissa Edmundson

Women’s Weird: Strange Stories by Women, 1890–1940 edited by Melissa Edmundson