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As the "Dreadful Thoughts" club badges begin to wing their way around this wide world (i.e. Ireland) my thoughts have turned from the sunlit plains of munificence to the shadowy valleys of …

As the first batch of badges make their way to their (un)lucky owners (and the mixtape continues to grow & mutate satisfactorily), Sinéad has announced details of the tale up for discussion …

Evenin' all.

Given that one of very short stories up for discussion tonight ("Sredni Vashtar") concerns …

Though our last meeting provided much to feast on and chew over - alien abduction; the joys/frustrations of narrative ambiguity; the merits of sharing one's tent with a burly Swede (etc) - it …

Welcome, once more, dear friends to the second meeting of our most dreadful story club. Though tomorrow may be (for some) a good Friday, this evening we hope to enjoy a most wicked Thursday.

After the …

I say:

Come, dear friends. Come and pull …

2) "Casting The Ruins (pdf), (html)

The path by which I came to know and (greatly) enjoy M. …

1) "What Was it?" (pdf) (html) (Google Books)

Despite being described variously as "a lion of literary New York", "a Poe in the minor mode", …