Deacon Nicholas Kotar, Dean of St. Basil Writers’ Workshop, is offering a new course for beginning writers: Motivating Your Lazy Characters. Early bird admissions closes soon. Kotar is a noted fantasy author who seeks to encourage a new generation of “future Inklings.”

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Our Freedom to the Altar by Joshua Alan Sturgill

A Drinking Song by Benjamin Rozonoyer

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My Wandering Week, Part V: We wound in and out among the valleys, green with rich pasture lands, with bowery apple-orchards on the hillside; with clear streams. Here were sweet scented, hanging woods rising to a sheer height above the road, here the entrance to more secret valleys, to more hidden thickets, here, suddenly, abrupt, tremendous, the huge round dome of a vast hill swelled in its vault toward the sky.

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The 3 Best Novels Since 1900

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To See God by Joshua Alan Sturgill

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The Discovery of England: People tell me that the North Pole has been discovered and that the South Pole has been discovered. It may be so; I neither know nor care; but I am pleased to think that there is every likelihood that the discovery of England will soon be an accomplished fact.

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Where the Lover Shows the Secrets by Joshua Alan Sturgill

Two Prairie Poems by Benjamin Rozoyoner

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The Shudder of the Drums: The air was heavy with the murmur and the rumour of thousands of voices. No one spoke aloud; but it was as though the great deep whispered and muttered on a far shore. It was one of those occasions on which little things became great. The royal carriages that rolled by at intervals drew every eye towards them; plumed officers who galloped to and fro were gazed at eagerly as they spoke to other officers, indicating an order within an expressive wave of the hand.

NEW POETRY

Prayers of Incomprehension by Joshua Alan Sturgill

Jesse Keith Butler has published a new poem in the latest issue of THINK.

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How the King Was Crowned: The mystic throne! As I write these words, suddenly it comes upon me that we are assembled together in a great and holy house of mysteries, where every stone is eloquent, having been redeemed from the shapeless masses of the quarry and taught to speak a wonderful and holy speech.

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Dale Nelson continues his survey of Arthur Machen’s reading list with a review of Beresford’s The Hampdenshire Wonder.

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The Enchanted City: To-morrow the King and Queen set out from Buckingham Palace on their sacred errand; and at the Palace people were gathered in thousands before eleven o’clock. They stood six deep by the railings, they were standing in dense black clusters on the steps of the Memorial, they had made a line in the centre of the roadway, leaving spaces on either side for the wheeled traffic.

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A new untitled poem by Benjamin Rozonoyer

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A Study in Scarlet: At first no voices and no sound of words reached the onlookers by the lake; it was as if some great and solemn and significant ritual was being performed in dumb show behind the scarlet hedge of the Yeomen. But the golden cross was lifted up, and we knew that the Archbishop of Canterbury was dedicating the memorial to the glorious memory of Queen Victoria.

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Some Autumn Books: It will be a surprise to lovers of the gentle, ironic, smiling Jane [Austin] to find that she would now and then compete with Swift in bitterness.

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Letter to the Editor: A curious mystery.

Order before August 1^st to receive a discount on the expanded editions of A Reader of Curious Books and Dreamt in Fire by Arthur Machen. These books include newly added material, much of it rare. See the List of Contents for Dreamt of Fire. These two new volumes and Mist and Mystery are available in limited and numbered hardcover versions.

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A Kitchen Incantation by Joshua Alan Sturgill

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Stray Notes on Some Books of To-day: … Mr. [Algernon] Blackwood’s greatest successes have been in the region of vague terror, in enlarging on the emotions that we all feel in solitary, untrodden spaces. “The Human Chord” is not vague; it is definite—nay, it is technical.

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Consolations by Joshua Alan Sturgill

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Saturday Nights in War Time: This week, we present one of the new additions to the second edition of Dreamt in Fire. Preorder here.

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Dale Nelson introduces us to The Silence of Dean Maitland

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Porch Poem by Joshua Alan Sturgill

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In Memory of Our Canadians: So a dying sun may have shone on the waste levels of Flanders when, the smoke of the battle and the poison-clouds had passed away, and the Canadians looked on one another; and looked on their dead.