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Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 14: “The Outsider” & “The Rats in the Walls”

January – as the fella said – is a gelid month. A hiemal, brumal, dismal and tenebrous month. A month when the dankest...

Suffragette. Modernist innovator. Paddler in the turbulent "stream of consciousness" (a phrase she allegedly coined). May Sinclair...

Right. Enough of this summer (such as it is) lark. Enough flip-flopping about suggestively licking 99s. Enough gambolling through...

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...

After an enjoyable week spent discussing terrible slimy yokes in bunks and grimly determined brutes with small heads, we now turn...

Though he was (in his day) prolific,1 popular, and commercially successful – F. Marion Crawford's posthumous "literary star"...

Update 09/04/09: By an odd, but happy, coincidence today is the 100th anniversary of F. Marion Crawford's death. Uncanny stuff. Update...

Welsh Anglo-Catholic occultist. Member (briefly) of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Avowed anti-materialist. Inspirer of everyone's...

Penury? Ruin? Weeping and gnashing of rotten teeth? Corpses putrefying in the streets – their strewn entrails being slurped...

Given the current global financial apocalypse I assume that most of you are now eating shoe leather for dinner, wailing yourselves...

Misanthrope? Misogynist? Satirist? Supernaturalist? Tonight, on Dreadful Thoughts, we're not only getting out the club magnifying...

Being (occasionally) a collaborative sort who (occasionally) values input, I canvassed regular and semi-regular Dreadful Thoughts...

Poor Polidori. That's the title of D. L. MacDonald's (critical) biography of the sometime author and physician we turn our attentions...

By way of buildup to next Monday's (miss it and you'll die crying) John Polidori Vampyre-fest, I hereby present a post on a strangely...

brynh: It wasn't first and as I see nor the last time that Italy pl...
Pat: I cannot wait till that gobshite Cathal Crowe calls to my do...
Wayne Flanagan Tobin: hahaha!!! YAWN !!! :-)...
louise le bas: Thank you for a fabulous chat with Eugene Lambert R.I.P. it...
fústar: John - Thanks. Might try and float it round, if time permits...

@Ruaidhri_ Dude, I'd be amazed if some fucker hasn't beaten you to it. # 2 hours ago

@Ruaidhri_ That was a few years ago. We're into a cuddly 'n' snuggly caring capitalism stage now. # 2 hours ago

The contemporary parade/street performance scene seems to be dominated by a Beyond the Thunderdome (flaming oil barrel) type vibe. # 2 hours ago

@hughgreen "Approve of book idea" your brain dept fella just slotted into the suggestion box. # 2 hours ago