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Author Archives: Mark Hayes
Blyton and Lovecraft
“What’s the weirdest thing you have discovered today mark?”
Why, I am glad you asked… Continue reading
Posted in amreading, books, cthulhu, dreamlands, Lovecraft
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Dear Edgar 66 ~ Landor’s Cottage
Becoming an overnight success is easy, provided you are prepared to endure the years of relative failure until your night arrives… Continue reading
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Nailing my colours to the mast
This is a rant, I make no apologise for this. If you don’t wish to read a rant then you should just stop here, but it is, I feel, an important rant. I also stand by ever word. Originally this … Continue reading
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Dear Edgar 65 ~ X-ing a Paragrab
As it is well known that the ‘wise men’ came ‘from the East,’ and as Mr. Touch-and-go Bullet-head came from the East, it follows that Mr. Bullet-head was a wise man. If that short exert doesn’t tell you all you … Continue reading
Posted in humour, Poe, reads, retro book reviews
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Dear Edgar 64 ~ Von Kempelen and His Discovery
By April 1849 our dear Edgar was a widower finding his comfort once more in the bottle. Privately he had started becoming increasingly unstable after Viginia’s death in January 1847. Yet publicly he had never been so successful. The initial … Continue reading
Posted in Poe, reads, retro book reviews, Uncategorized
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Dalek humour
In a departure to my normal methods of procrastination I have bene messing about maying single frame Dalek cartoons because… Well actually because three years ago I did an event in Scarborough and spent the whole weekend across from the … Continue reading
Dear Edgar 63 ~ Hop Frog
“I now see distinctly… what manner of people these maskers are. They are a great king and his seven privy-councillors—a king who does not scruple to strike a defenceless girl, and his seven councillors who abet him in the outrage. As for myself, I am simply Hop-Frog, the jester—and this is my last jest.” Continue reading
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Dear Edgar 62 ~ Mellonta Tauta
In Mellonta Tauta, our Dear Edgar imagines the world a thousand years in his future and writes a letter from it. All be it a letter not address to us, but sealed in a bottle and thrown into the ocean by its writer just before the balloon, on which they will be traveling, collapses into the sea Continue reading
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Tagged art, fiction, literature, nonfiction, reads, science, sciencefiction
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Oh what convoluted webs we do weave
Main characters are bad enough, but the incidental characters that hang around the edges get more often than not have their own lives that morph and change as they go from a one chapter, one scene, body with a plot point nailed to it, to someone with a complete back story and who has had their own weird adventures of stage… Continue reading
Posted in amreading, amwriting, books, fantasy, Hannibal Smyth
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A Tale of Two covers
This post may offend some people. To be fair I could write that at the beginning of almost everything I write so I’m not overly worried. However, this post will touch upon a subject which offends a lot of people, including me. The subject of AI art. Continue reading
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