Tag: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

• Reflections on Le Fanu: In a Glass Darkly

  You may have noticed that, here at Bill Ectric’s Place I feature a lot of links to Wormwoodiana. It’s one of my favorite blogs. Today, Douglas A. Anderson tells us, “I was recently reading Herbert van Thal’s interesting autobiography, The Tops of the Mulberry Trees (1971), which covers many of van Thal’s roles in publishing—as an agent, anthologist, editor […]

  Bill Ectric

  July 4, 2013

  autobiography, Douglas A. Anderson, Edward Ardizzone, Herbert van Thal, In A Glass Darkly, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, publishing, Wormwoodiana

• Old, Dark Houses

  “The Oaks” mansion in The Bat (1959, Liberty Pictures), one of several movies based on the book and play of the same name by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Click on the mansion, if you dare.                                              Click on the picture From the PBS web site, Masterpiece Mystery Casebook Index, here’s Ron Miller on that classic staple of mystery fiction, […]

  Bill Ectric

  November 1, 2010

  Edgar Allan Poe, haunted house, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Mary Roberts Rinehart, mystery, old dark house, PBS, Ron Miller, The Bat, The Wyvern Mystery