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53. William Sansom’s city of night and ‘A Woman Seldom Found’
In these entries up to now I have been candid, have I not – maybe too much so? – in ‘fessing up to many and various sources of inspiration for images, lines, odds and ends in The Possessions of Doctor … Continue reading
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46. The legend of Mary Shelley
With my editor/publisher hat on my head I am returning Miranda Seymour’s greatly praised Mary Shelley to print through Faber Finds. On first publication in 2001 the book was hailed by the FT’s reviewer as “the most dazzling biography of … Continue reading
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36. Robert Aickman’s ordinary ghosts
Is Robert Aickman the twentieth century’s ‘most profound writer of what we call horror stories and he, with greater accuracy, preferred to call strange stories’? Such is the opinion of Peter Straub, author of Ghost Story, voiced in a discerning … Continue reading
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