The Big Manky Blog Awarding Night Out
On February 27th (yes, this very day) last year I 'penned' a Manky Toy post about the delectable Maureen – a doll beautifully...
Posts from February, 2008
Songs for the Bewildered: Pal of My Cradle Days
Writing about music close to one's heart can be be tricky. The challenge of trying to capture – through clumsy, clunky prose...
Manky Toy Monday: Phantasms and Maniac Bellows
A Manky Toy double-bill for you on this glorious Monday (glorious because the sun has his/her hat on and I'm off work). Through no...
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club: Casting the Runes
2) "Casting The Ruins (pdf), (html)
The path by which I came to know and (greatly) enjoy M. R. James was a rather long and meandering...
Continuing to think Dreadful Thoughts
Like most sensible people I loathe and abhor Mondays. Mondays take my weekend jauntiness and kick it in the face – before setting...
V: Friendship is Universal
When I was but a small, nervous, big-eyed child (in the late 70s/early 80s) two parental fears dominated all others. One concerned...
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club: What Was It?
1) "What Was it?" (pdf) (html) (Google Books)
Despite being described variously as "a lion of literary New York", "a Poe in the...
Dreadful Thoughts: A Beginning
While the fústar/Tuppenceworth crossover FIZZOO!1 slowly gathers momentum (quietly bubbling and fizzing away) I thought I'd fill...
