Tag: Wormwoodiana

• Eerie Kipling

  From the fine purveyors of the peculiar over at Wormwoodiana: In Wormwood 26, admired writer of the fantastic Colin Insole draws attention to the range and power of Kipling’s stories of the strange and supernatural. There are at least a handful (of Kiplings eerie tales) that might stand among the most effective in the field.…

  Bill Ectric

  May 19, 2016

  Colin Insole, Eerie Tales, ghost stories, Rudyard Kipling, supernatural, The Phantom Rickshaw, Wormwoodiana

• 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…

  Bill Ectric

  July 16, 2014

  A Ghostly Company, ghosts, Ghosts and Scholars, paranormal, supernatural, Supernatural Tales, Wormwoodiana

• Brooding Scholars and Malevolent Spectres

    The always-interesting Mark Valentine writing about Patrick Carleton at Wormwoodiana: In a contribution to a mailing of the ghost story correspondence society The Everlasting Club (new members welcome), the eminent anthologist and scholar of the field Richard Dalby revealed his researches into the little-known author of a single Jamesian tale, ‘Dr Horder’s Room’. This was Patrick…

  Bill Ectric

  April 29, 2014

  books, ghost stories, Mark Valentine, Patrick Carleton, Patrick Railton, Philip Allan, Richard Dalby, spectre, The Everlasting Club, Thrills, Wormwoodiana

• Haunted Tower, Occult Madness

  Here’s an excerpt of the latest news from Wormwoodiana says: Championed by the eminent ghost story anthologist and scholar Richard Dalby, Lewis’ work has seen a revival which has included the hardback editions from The Ghost Story Press in 1994 and 2003, and now a paperback reprint (Shadow Publishing, 2014). Dalby, in his introductions, describes how he…

  Bill Ectric

  February 15, 2014

  ghost stories, Ghost Story Press, L. A. Lewis, Richard Dalby, Tales of the Grotesque, The Tower of Moab, Wormwoodiana

• 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…

  Bill Ectric

  October 4, 2013

  Book Reviews, Michael Dirda, S. T. Joshi, supernatural, The Weekly Standard Book Review, Unutterable Horror, Wormwoodiana

• 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

• Architecture of Light and Shadow

  Via Wormwoodiana, a good interview with John Howard by Mark Valentine can be found at the Swan River Press. Mark Valentine: This approach is particularly significant in “Time and the City”, where imagination seems to be actually creating a city. Do you see some strong affinities between architecture and literature? John Howard: I’m sure there can be. For…

  Bill Ectric

  June 5, 2013

  architecture, art deco, constructing a story, International Style, John Howard, Mark Valentine, psychogeography, shadows, Swan River Press, Weird Stories, Wormwoodiana, writing, Written By Daylight

• 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…

  Bill Ectric

  August 31, 2012

  anthology, books, Dorothy Macardle, Douglas A. Anderson, Guy Endore, Peter Haining, The Werewolf of Paris, Weird Tales, Wormwoodiana, writing

• Shelves of Ancient Secrets

  Wormwoodiana presents an article that first appeared in Book-Lore in May 1887, which proves that nothing much changes in the world of book collecting: Lord Lytton, in that curious and mysterious novel, Zanoni, mentions an old bookseller who, after years of toil, had succeeded in forming an almost perfect library of works on occult philosophy: ” A purchaser was indeed a…

  Bill Ectric

  July 29, 2012

  Barrett’s Magus, book stores, Book-Lore, bookstores, Fludd, Heinrich Agrippa, Latin, Lord Lytton, occult, Simon Magus, witch of endore, Wormwoodiana, Zanoni