Sitemap - 2023 - Reading After Dusk
Haunters at the Hearth: Eerie Tales for Christmas Nights (2022) edited by by Tanya Kirk
A History of the Modern British Ghost Story (2011) by Simon Hay
Chill Tidings: Dark Tales of the Christmas Season (2020) edited by Tanya Kirk
Tales from the Dead of Night: Twelve Classic Ghost Stories (2013) edited by Cecily Gayford
The Dead of Winter (2023) edited by Cecily Gayford
The Heart of a Mystery (1900) by L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace
"The Crevasse" (2009) by Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud
“The Brute: An Indignant Tale” (1907) from A Set of Six
November Night Tales (1928) by Henry Chapman Mercer
Captive Narratives and Puritan Beginnings of U. S. Horror
Christmas and Other Horrors: An Anthology of Solstice Horror (2023) edited by Ellen Datlow
#HBD Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944) 🎂
"Absolute Evil" (1918) by Julian Hawthorne
My review available November 23rd
"Incident at Bear Creek Lodge" (2022) by Tananarive Due
A scared, lonely voice: An uncanny interlude in Max Brooks' World War Z (2006)
"The Bullet That Grows in the Gun" (1985) by Terry Dowling
"What?" And "How?" In E. A. Poe
Halloween (1979) by Curtis Richards. Based on the screenplay by John Carpenter and Debra Hill.
"He'll Come Knocking at Your Door" by Robert R. McCammon
"Halloween for Mr. Faulkner" (1959) by August Derleth
"Halloween Hunt" (1987) by Richard Laymon
The Manse (1987) by Lisa W. Cantrell
"Halloween Girl" (1982) by Robert Grant
"Old Halloweens on the Guna Slopes" (1975) by R. A. Lafferty
"The Black Pumpkin" (1986) by Dean R. Koontz
"Tricks & Treats: One Night on Halloween Street" (1999) by Steve Rasnic Tem
"Halloween" (1975) by Isaac Asimov
Six Stories from Halloween (2011) edited by Paula Guran
"Halloween Street" (1999) Steve Rasnic Tem
Eleven Stories from The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories (2018) edited by Stephen Jones
"Halloween Story" (1972) Gregory Fitz Gerald
"A Perfect Halloween Night" (1986) by Rose Rinaldi
"The Halloween Man" (1986) William F. Nolan
"Struwwelpeter" by Glen Hirshberg
"The Vow on Halloween" (1924) by Lyllian Huntley
"The Spirit of Things" by John Skipp
“Another Halloween” (1994) by Alison Lurie
"The House on Cottage Lane" by Ronald Malfi
"Bad Things Happen on Halloween" (1995) Lucy Taylor
"Monster Night" by Brian James Freeman
"Spells for Halloween: An Acrostic" (2004) Dale Bailey
"The Toll" by Kealan Patrick Burke
"Eyes" (1986) by Charles L. Grant
"The Press" by Graham Masterton
"Trickster" by Steve Rasnic Tem
"A Little Halloween Talk" by Joe R. Lansdale
"Yesterday and the Day Before" by Ed Gorman
"Devil’s Night" by Richard Chizmar
"Quiet House" by Norman Prentiss
"The Man Who Killed Halloween" by Ray Garton
"The Ghosts of Pontefract Castle" by Simon Clark
"The Legend of Halloween Jack" by Lisa Morton
"Short of Breath" by Trent Zelazny
"The Banshee's Halloween" (1903) by Herminie Templeton Kavanagh
"Treats for Adeline" by Elizabeth Voss & Peter Tackaberry
"Invitation Only" by Ray Garton
"The Halloween Phantoms" by John R. Little
"Incredibly creative and perhaps surprisingly socially conscious horror"
Vampires from folklore to the cash nexus
Lycanthropy: a psychological as well as a moral and geopolitical category
“Are you familiar with the concept of a techno-myth?
"They tried to adapt their environment instead of adapting to it."
"The Acid Test" (2017) by Livia Llewellyn
"How to Talk to Girls at Parties" (2006) by Neil Gaiman
"The Room Where Love Lives" (1993) by Grant Morrison
"The life of mere sensation is uncovered as anarchic and self-destructive"
Glenn Gould’s distinction as a late-twentieth-century phenomenon
Valences of cosmic fear: "Hinterlands" (1980) by William Gibson
Weirding a green, pleasant nation-state
“But that looks like a dinosaur to me.”
"Gh-gh-gh-gh-gh-ghosts": naming the experience they can barely articulate
The more Henry S. Whitehead I read, the more Henry S. Whitehead I read
"Dinner at Countess Kotłubay's" by Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969)
"The Ghoul and the Corpse" (1923) by G. A. Wells
"The Painter’s Bargain" (1834) By William Makepeace Thackeray
"Mid-August was a dull time in my garden."
"Ghost Stories" of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
"Deborah" (1929) by Josephine Tey (1896-1952)
“He is asleep now,” Piers said, “and the taint sleeps with him.”
"The Portable Phonograph" (1941) by Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1909-1971)
"The New Mother" (1882) by Lucy Clifford (1846-1929)
Two stories by Rose Macaulay (1881-1958)
"The myth of the vindictive image"
"Gerassimos Flamotas: A Day in the Life" by Simon Clark
"Quo quisque stultior, eo magis insolescit."
"Stirred, and fed, and mocked the light..."
Recommended Reading: Short Horror stories
"The artist moves the world towards self-recognition, with at least a tinge of self-redemption"
The old Gods were dying, but not fast enough
"Then, suddenly, without the faintest shadow of warning, from the centre of the lake...."
"I’ve seen him three times these last few nights, and each time he was dead.”
Ramsey Campbell's 1987 Top Ten Lists
"The aromatic manner of his expression"
Dependable patter, new imagination and new beauty
"Thus we had released Barabbas and crucified an innocent man"
Newsletter 1: Reading After Dark
"My thoughts were beginning to run away with me"
"Are the waters of the lakes in that locality sufficiently clear for a lady to do her hair by?"
"There was sun outside, the kind sun of mid-September"
The context of horror fiction in the fin-de-siècle
Connoisseurship and a tendency towards the short form
"After her own way she loves him"
"Events come to people—not people to events."
Historic Vermont Floods & cosmic horror
"I would not make my destination before darkness unless I could find a short cut across the fields."
Doctors Wear Scarlet (1960) by Simon Raven
"What is known versus what is hidden"
Decadence, Environmentalism and sex
"Twice my lamp flickered and went out"
"Let’s end it all in the river!"
Alternative hypothesis: Joyce Carol Oates
""I want to ask you if you ever saw a man with gills like a fish?"
"It was awful to hear the noises in that wood"
Murder for revenge: The Uttermost Farthing (1914) by R. Austin Freeman
When will there be an east wind?
Robert W. Chambers: 90 Years since his death
Imagine a Man in a Box (1931) by H. Russell Wakefield
Gothic Chthonicism in John Blackburn's novel Children of the Night (1966)
Earthly Powers (1980) by Anthony Burgess
Edward Lucas White & "Alfândega 49A" (1927)
"Mr. Oliver Carmichael" (1921) by Amyas Northcote
Robert Aickman's Introduction to The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1964) [Reading notes]
By way of introduction: Reading after dusk
"To See the Sun" (1980) by Kingsley Amis
Celebrating Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) on his birthday
Like the tremor of an impalpable bell: The Lycurgus Cup and Other Stories by Ron Weighell
"It’s a treat to be able to put one over on the police…."
"Like one that on a lonesome road doth walk in fear and dread...."
Gomorrah as Poe's "City in the Sea" per T. O. Mabbott [1945]
Three stories by Mary Webb (1881-1927)
Celebrating Dennis Etchison (1943-2019) on his birthday
The Year's Best Horror Stories XX (1992) Edited by Karl Edward Wagner
Short horror fiction: An initial personal list
Whistling past the graveyard: On the Beach (1957) by Nevil Shute