Archives for April 2009
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 12: “The Shadow” & “Man-Size in Marble”
In the build up to this week’s E. Nesbit-fest, several punters (childhood Nesbit fans all) have mentioned to me that they were barely aware (if aware at all) of Edith’s contribution to the spooky story canon. This is not entirely… continue reading »
Dreadful Thoughts: A Double Dose of Nesbit
After an enjoyable week spent discussing terrible slimy yokes in bunks and grimly determined brutes with small heads, we now turn our petrified gazes to Dreadful Thoughts 12 (we’ve reached the dirty dozen). The singular thing about our next choice… continue reading »
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 11: The Upper Berth
Though he was (in his day) prolific,1 popular, and commercially successful – F. Marion Crawford’s posthumous “literary star” appears to have faded quite quickly.2 For the next seven days, however, Dreadful Thoughts will be waving a ragged Crawford-ian flag and… continue reading »
Dreadful Thoughts: Distractions, Apologies, Crawford
Update 09/04/09: By an odd, but happy, coincidence today is the 100th anniversary of F. Marion Crawford’s death. Uncanny stuff. Update 06/04/09: Oops. Sorry folks. It seems I mistakenly said that discussion of “The Upper Berth” would be kicking off… continue reading »
A Lovely Lick of Paint for Spring
The last time Jess (my in-house designer, baby co-producer, loving wife etc) gave this here blog a makeover was way back in January of 2007. What does that tell you about Jess? That she’s very, very lazy. Yes. Very lazy… continue reading »
