Start from Chapter One. Chapter Five. I had been lying with my face away from my uncle’s chair, so that in this sudden flash of awakening I saw only the door to the street, the more northerly window, and the … Continue reading The Shunned House – H.P. Lovecraft 5/5
Start from Chapter One. Chapter Four. On Wednesday, June 25, 1919, after a proper notification of Carrington Harris which did not include surmises as to what we expected to find, my uncle and I conveyed to the shunned house two … Continue reading The Shunned House – H.P. Lovecraft 4/5
Start from Chapter One. Chapter Three. It may well be imagined how powerfully I was affected by the annals of the Harrises. In this continuous record there seemed to me to brood a persistent evil beyond anything in Nature as I … Continue reading The Shunned House – H.P. Lovecraft 3/5
Read Chapter One here. Chapter Two. Not till my adult years did my uncle set before me the notes and data which he had collected concerning the shunned house. Dr. Whipple was a sane, conservative physician of the old school, … Continue reading The Shunned House – H.P. Lovecraft 2/5
As I was growing up (late eighties and nineties), goblins were mostly confined to Labyrinth, weird rubbery puppets that came in their own cage, and an excellent PC game that I don’t remember much about. I’m pretty sure it was … Continue reading Goblins
The Shunned House (1924) probably has my favourite opening and my favourite ending of any Lovecraft short story. The ending could even be considered a happy ending by Lovecraft standards and leaves me smiling and not grimacing or despairing! It’s … Continue reading The Shunned House – H.P. Lovecraft 1/5
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It’s been years since I finished the books, I’m expecting season five on DVD next week and of course season six airs next month… that’s a lot of waiting. So, I decided to reminisce about the good old days; when … Continue reading Remembering Eddard Stark (spoilers)
Genre Fantasy, Horror, Weird fiction Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (14 March 1869 – 10 December 1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He … Continue reading THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF A PRIVATE SECRETARY IN NEW YORK by Algernon Blackwood (1869–1951)
Here are some books already released this year which I’m looking forward to reading, along with links to reviews. When The Floods Came – by Clare Morrall A dystopian coming-of-age tale that doubles as a paean to the author’s home … Continue reading 10 Books Released in 2016 that I’m Looking Forward to Reading!
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