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Category Archives: amreading
Nice Safe Cosy Fiction Involving No Moral Ambiguity At All…
Shelley Adina is one of my favourite writers for a reason. I read her cosy fiction for a reason, the reason is that it is never quite as cosy as it seems. The good guys are not always entirely good. The bad guys are not always entirely bad, but merely misguided or driven by not unreasonable agenda’s. There are wonderful shades of grey, delicately hidden in behind all that nice safe cosy.
Hiding in plain sight like venetian assassins, waiting to catch you unawares. Continue reading
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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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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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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
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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
Posted in amreading, book reviews, Harvey Duckman, horror, indie novels, rant, reads
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Dear Edgar 61 ~ The Domain of Arnheim
the question before us is not if the landscape Garden is a story, but if The Domain of Arnheim takes that original non-narrative piece and turn it into a story…? Continue reading
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Interesting Folk…
Folk horror is when a stranger stumbles into a “quaint” village and discovers horrors at a harvest festival! Folk horror is fundamentally British and pagan! Continue reading
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Lucifer Redux
Magic, mayhem and impeccable manners in a Victorian London where magic is real Continue reading
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