Out of Print…

Akboritha-soft-cover-webRichard W. Rohlin’s Akboritha is now out-of-print. Some copies may be available at Eighth Day Books.

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

Moods at Margate: Unless it is absolutely a condition of your holiday happiness that you are one of an immense horde of your fellow creatures, unless you must struggle for a small portion of sand to sit on before you can feel really bright, unless a costly garret with a fine view of the chimney-pots is of the essence of your joys, now in the season of lengthening days, of sunlight that is genial without being too hot, now is the hour of the wise holiday-maker.

What Is Your Favorite Criminal Trial?

POETRY

IMG-1971Congratulations to Jesse Keith Butler, the author of The Living Law, for his recent book launch at Perfect Books of Ottawa. The event included a poetry reading by Butler and concluded successfully with the store selling its complete stock.

A Nursery-Rhyme For Paradox by Joshua Alan Sturgill

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Talks About Books: What is your favourite criminal trial? I am all for the case of Madeleine Smith myself, though I think there is a great deal to be said for the Campden mystery, out of which Mr. Masefield made a play.

The Ideal Holiday

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AM-halftoneThe Ideal Londoner’s Holiday: Narrow winding lanes with hedges all wild and overgrown are not convenient for motorists; and so they must go, for this is an age of progress. I always admit the progress—but I have my own opinion as to the ultimate destination of the progressive. … I suppose we must console ourselves as best we can with the red raw of the new County Lunatic Asylum, and with the thought that lunacy is greatly on the increase.

Are We Merry At All?

NEW POETRY

IṢA: The Present and Approaching Lord by Joshua Alan Sturgill

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AM-halftone“Merry England!”: “The Middle Ages! What were the drains like in the Middle Ages? Tell me that.” He might have asked what about the motor-omnibuses, the taxi-cabs, the electric lighting, the “tubes” in the Middle Ages. And yet, granting our superiority in these and many other matters. are we merrier than of old? Are we merry at all? I have a shrewd suspicion that we have lost mirth and gained comfort—a very different thing.

AN ARTHUR MACHEN CALENDAR

The Merry Month of May

Arthur Machen Visits Oedipus Rex

sturgill photo 3NEW POETRY

Ash and Maples by Joshua Alan Sturgill

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Max Reinhardt’s Latest: There is cold horror upon the heart of Œdipus; he hopes for a moment that there is some mistake. He hopes only for a moment; from the thronging, surging crowd an old man is pushed forward, the herdsman who had exposed him at the bidding of his father and mother; and, as with fire and thunder from heaven. Œdipus and Jocasta are smitten from our sight.

MACHEN MISCELLANEA

A Late Chrysanthemum