Posts from 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...

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...

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"...

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...

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...