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Post by ropardoe on Apr 8, 2019 17:08:18 GMT
Rosemary, In your obituary of Hugh Lamb in Ghosts & Scholars 35 you mentioned again that he phoned you when every issue came out. Did he ever say anything about my contributions? For example, "Who in hell is he?". We talked of nothing else.
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Post by ropardoe on Apr 8, 2019 17:09:46 GMT
Rosemary Pardoe [ed.] Ghosts & Scholars 35 (Haunted Library #99, April 2019)
I've just realised. It's the Haunted Library's 99th publication! It is indeed. Frightens me too.
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Post by jamesdoig on Apr 8, 2019 20:43:56 GMT
Is it still $13 including shipping to the U.S. or have you had to make the understandable increase? Either way, set me one aside and I will have cash in the mail within 24 hours. Mr Happy Yes, it's still $13 for one issue; $25 for a two-issue sub. I'll need to find somewhere here to buy British pounds and send them off (it's hard to find somewhere where you can by anything under 100 quid). I think last time I was lucky because I had some left over from a work trip.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Apr 10, 2019 11:38:49 GMT
Rosemary, In your obituary of Hugh Lamb in Ghosts & Scholars 35 you mentioned again that he phoned you when every issue came out. Did he ever say anything about my contributions? For example, "Who in hell is he?". We talked of nothing else.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 18, 2019 16:22:52 GMT
Kite war on the common and a golf widow's lament.
Christopher Harman - Windsheer: This is excellent. A traditional folk horror set in the here and now of WiFi,selfies, YouTube, smart phones & Co. Thirty years on from the tragedy at the Kite Festival, Breace returns to Treddith to confront the ghosts of his past. What really happened in the skies above Sloebry Common that day? Why should Alan Downham's Windsheer set upon the other kites "like a fox in a chicken coop," and what became of the child who went missing? Breace takes a room at Mrs. Downham's boarding house. As the solitary guest, he is ideally located to explore the garden shed the crazed Downham used as his workshop. Sure enough, the black box-kite with it's haunting grey eye has survived the passing decades. Breace is determined to fly it just the once before smashing it into pieces. He continues his investigation. The locals are reticent on the subject of the disastrous Kite Festival, but Breace learns of Downham's study of Black Magic, an obsession which may or may not have led to his abrupt departure from the priesthood "by mutual consent." We realise that Breace is in way above his head long before grisly confirmation of the fact.
Victoria Day - An Aunt's Tale: "Now we're shut in for the night." Gentlest of traditional ghost stories concerning the late Canon Harold Kerman, who defies death to pay a last visit to Mary, his beloved wife. Or so she thinks. Initially flattered, Mary is not best pleased to learn the true nature of his business.
Of the articles read to date, I particularly like Pete Bell's riposte to Mark Valentine re the merits of Aickman's The School Friend (polar opposite viewpoints: both of them likely "right") and the aforementioned Mr. V.'s Wrapped In His Books ... which rather persuasively argues that, far from being the sexless, undynamic cobwebs and misfits certain critics would have us believe, James' scholars are adventurous to the point of suicidal recklessness.
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