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The Publishing Iceberg

Or of all the typos in the world why did you have to walk into mine… Continue reading

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Dear Edgar 48 ~ The Oblong Box

In September 1841 John C Colt, the brother of renown gunsmith and industrialist Samuel, found himself in the unenviable position of being choked to death with his own cravat. In fairness to the elegant neck wear it was not responsible for the attempt on its wearers life, rather Samuel Adams, a printer of text books who had been employed by Colt, was using the cravat as an improvised garrote. This was over the matter of $1.35, an inconsiderable sum even in 1841 to motivate an attempted murder by neckwear, one would think. Continue reading

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Dear Edgar 47 ~ Mesmeric Revelation

Poe, Newton and hypnotism Continue reading

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Minoan Dreams

a window on humanity soul, our pagan past, and the mythology that is the seed from which we grew. Yes these are modern interpretations and yes the are based on mere fragments, but even so these stories remind us of who we once were, of a common past. Something we all need once in a while. Continue reading

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Dear Edgar 46 ~ The Premature Burial

In 1844, the second great cholera pandemic (1826 – 1837) had been over for seven years, fear of the disease had not lessoned and minor outbreaks had continued to occur. More importantly perhaps than the minor out breaks that the … Continue reading

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The Also By Anomaly

I decide to do something different for Auguries of Euryale, my forthcoming anthology of my own work. I decided instead to write it in a more narrative style, telling a story of my novels and other works. I think it sort of works as a more interesting way to do the Also by pages… Continue reading

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Dear Edgar 45 ~ A Tale of the Ragged Mountains

Science Fiction is awash with tales of procession or bodily transference… This one by Poe, may have been the first Continue reading

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Dear Edgar 44 ~ The Spectacles

love at first myopic blur Continue reading

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Friday book news

Because one is as ever behind on reviews, as well as general book news here is a catch up in general on my book news and a few new releases form authors I have reviewed before and recommend. Firstly this … Continue reading

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3 Turns Widdleshin’s: For she is Devine

Whom ‘She’ is, is a matter for your conjecture. She could be ‘The Sibel’ of ancient Rome. She could just be a woman who claims that is the case to add mystic to her illegal den of vice and corrupted youth. A dark forbidding goth club named for an ancient standing stone. Continue reading

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