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Book Review: Dark Entries, by Robert Aickman
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Book Review: Dark Entries, by Robert Aickman

Posted on June 4, 2024June 4, 2024 by Berrmot

Dark Entries is another collection of previously published “strange stories” by Robert Aickman (1914-1981), first published in 2014.  The contents: The School Friend. The old friendship of two women is severely tested when one of them sinks into a bizarre…

Book Review: The King in Yellow
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Book Review: The King in Yellow

Posted on June 2, 2024June 2, 2024 by Berrmot

The King in Yellow is a collection of nine short stories and several poems written by William W. Chambers in 1895. It was highly regarded by H. P. Lovecraft and is something of a cult classic in the horror genre.…

The Unsettled Dust, by Robert Aickman
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The Unsettled Dust, by Robert Aickman

Posted on June 1, 2024June 1, 2024 by Berrmot

The Unsettled Dust is a collection of short stories by the great Robert Aickman (1914-1981), an English writer and conservationist highly esteemed by horror genre authors and fans, despite his relatively small output of 48 stories. Aickman called his works…

Horror Stories: Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson, Edited by Darryl Jones
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Horror Stories: Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson, Edited by Darryl Jones

Posted on May 28, 2024May 29, 2024 by Berrmot

Horror Stories, an Oxford World Classics anthology, hasn’t a weak link in its 29-story chain.  Authors represented in this volume include Honore de Balzac, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle,…

Book Review: The Lucifer Society
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Book Review: The Lucifer Society

Posted on May 16, 2024May 17, 2024 by Berrmot

You may wonder why someone who recently wrapped up a 40-post series of fairly lengthy Lenten reflections is now reviewing a book entitled The Lucifer Society. Well, be not confused. The title is not really descriptive of the contents, but…

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