Tag: Wormwoodiana
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Ghost Recognition
Cool news from our friends at Wormwoodiana: “Three stalwarts of the classic ghost story have combined to launch new awards for the best ghost story and the best ghost story collection each year. The journals Ghosts & Scholars and Supernatural Tales and the literary society A Ghostly Company will jointly sponsor the awards. The winners will be chosen by votes of…
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S. T. Joshi Chides Again
Today via Wormwoodiana I learned of this book review by Michael Dirda of S. T. Joshi’s new book, Unutterable Horror, at The Weekly Standard’s Book Review. Because Joshi is so opinionated, Dirda suggests that we “trust Joshi on the books he praises, but look for yourself at those he dismisses or disdains.” Here’s an excerpt…
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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…
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Haining Waning?
Douglas A. Anderson maintains that this Werewolf anthology (left) contains no story by Guy Endore (right) Yet another bogus claim by anthologist Peter Haining, as investigated by Douglas A. Anderson on Wormwoodiana. Anderson says, “I’ve written elsewhere of a few other instances of his outrageous frauds (for…