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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,…
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…
Fancies Versus Fads is a 1923 collection of 30 previously published essays by G.K. Chesterton, covering a wide range of topics including modernity, feminism, divorce, poetry, drama, literature, education, progressivism, and prohibition. Here Chesterton is at his wittiest, most penetrating,…
The Sermons of St. Alphonse’s Liguori, For All the Sundays of the Year, by St. Alsphonsus Liguori (1696-1787), Bishop of St. Agatha, Founder of the Redemptorist Order, and Doctor of the Church, This book, if you are a Christian, will literally…
The 1937 novel Descent into Hell, by Charles Williams, has a magnificent title, but was torture to read. I would describe the writer’s narrative style as relentlessly choppy: it is loaded with long, complex sentences riddled with abrupt and awkwardly placed…