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57. Doctor Forrest returns to Edinburgh: A short BookFest Q&A in ‘The List’

This succinct interview with me is from The List (Issue 686, 9 August 2011), and was written up by Brian Donaldson: Give us five words to describe The Possessions of Doctor Forrest The ones I’d borrow from reviews would be … Continue reading

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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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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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