Posts tagged with 'Dreadful Thoughts'

Dreadful Thoughts: The Abysmally Unexpected & Grotesquely Unbelievable

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

Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 13: The Nature of the Evidence

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

Dreadful Thoughts: Edward, There’s Something in the Bed

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

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...

Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 10: The Inmost Light

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

The Return of the Son of the Dog of Dreadful Thoughts

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

Horror Bits and Nasty Bobs

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

Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 9: Gabriel-Ernest

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

Dreadful Thoughts: Fústar vs. The Wolf Man

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

Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 8: The Vampyre

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

Dreadful Thoughts: The Autumnal Rebirth

For the eight session of our Dreadful Thoughts story club we're heading way back to the Villa Diodati – summer residence of...

Back on the Good Ship “Dreadful Thoughts”

This just in. Thanks to one of the many trans-dimensional portals opened by the CERN experiment I've managed to lock my homemade tractor...

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