[Review] A Phantom Lover and Other Dark Tales
Sarah Johnson is transported in time and place by A Phantom Lover and Other Dark Tales by Vernon Lee, part of the British Library’s Tales of the Weird…
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[Review] The Black Dreams: Strange Stories from Northern Ireland
Sarah Johnson reviews The Black Dreams from Blackstaff Press, perhaps the first collection of strange stories from Northern Ireland, which draws on its culture and history for a thought-provoking read…
The Face in the Glass – Tales of the Weird
Sarah Johnson celebrates the genre accomplishments of Mary Elizabeth Braddon, a commercially successful Victorian writer, in her review of The Face in the Glass from the British Library’s Tales of the Weird…
[Review] Minor Hauntings
Sarah Johnson reviews Minor Hauntings: Chilling Tales of Spectral Youth (ed. Jen Baker), the latest in the British Library’s excellent Tales of the Weird series…
[Review] Things I Didn’t Know My Father Knew
Sarah Johnson discovers Peter Crowther’s impressive short story range in his ‘best of’ collection, Things I Didn’t Know My Father Knew…
[Review] Bedtime Stories
Sarah Johnson reviews Bedtime Stories, a collection of thought-provoking original and Lovecraftian short stories by Russell Smeaton…
[Review] Women’s Weird: Strange Stories by Women, 1890-1940
Sarah Johnson reviews Women’s Weird, a collection of strange stories by women 1890-1940 from Handheld Press…