Richard W. Rohlin is seeking support for a new project: Amboria: Roleplaying in the World under Starlight. Later this year, Rohlin’s second book will be published by Darkly Bright Press.
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Based On A True Story by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Wonderful London: It was a large square, and it was built entirely in sham Gothic. The walls were of grey brick, the moulding and arches and ornaments were painted a lively cream colour, and, save that three or four numbers has recessed porches, every house was exactly like every other house. Some day, I am to write an exhaustive history of Sham Gothic Architecture, and so, as an expert, I may say that this square was intended to be of the style of 1500. Its stillness was appalling; I suppose the painted mouldings had scored the inhabitants into silence, and I fled shuddering.
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Used, Good Condition by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Sunday Night in London: Below their breath, for they all know that beyond, on the dread stage of war, the flames and the fires of death are blazing, that the doom of the world hangs in the balance, that the thunders are uttering their voices.
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Prodigal by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Continuing his winning streak, Jesse K. Butler has published in Ekstasis Magazine.
Peter Pan: Hence let us gladly suffer “Peter Pan” in Kensington Gardens as a marble reminder of heavenly melodies and their power.
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The Desert by Joshua Alan Sturgill
The Phantom Ship by E. H. Visiak. This one is in verse!
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Does the Seaside Hotel Pay?: There is a great chapter in Rabelais entitled, in the admirable English version, “How they chirrupped over their cups.” I was reminded of it yesterday, down at Brighton, as I listened to the tale of the Brighton hotel-keepers and drank their venerable Cognac of 1848.
Recently, Austin Conrad reviewed Akboritha by Richard Rohlin at his blog: Akhelas.com.
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Closed by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Twentieth-Century Village: We were in the peaceful heart of England … There is not a railway station, at Bugbrooke, or within five miles of it. I had driven out from Northampton behind a gently ambling horse, who went slowly up hill because he was tired, and slowly down hill because it was dangerous, and slowly on the level because he felt like it.
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Opened by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Congratulations to Jesse K. Butler winner of the third place prize in the Kierkegaard Poetry Competition.
The Joy of London I: To the imaginative man, I suppose nothing has so great an attraction as that which has some savour of mystery about it. He who is something more than a new automaton, a mechanical performer of certain mechanical tasks, returning day by day, feels instinctively that he is born to voyage in the unknown, to live always in contemplation of a great perhaps. And here, I think we touch on the secret of one of the most powerful of the many attractions of London.
Arthur Machen remembers Maurice Barrès, the French Belloc.
CATALOG UPDATE
As Far As I Can Tell, the debut poetry collection by Joshua Alan Sturgill, is now OUT-OF-PRINT. A few remaining copies may be purchased at Eighth Day Books. Sturgill’s latest book, Now A Major Motion Picture, is still available.
Joshua’s newest poem: Disparate
Fugues and Fish Heads by Dale Nelson: When Machen wrote of “a highly elaborate and elaborated piece of work, full of the strangest and rarest things,” he was referring to a great romance that he never managed to compose. But he could have been referring to compositions by Bach.
Marvels of To-Day’s Flower Show: Here was a bank of the richest purple, brilliant to the point of crudity; here were the trumpet notes of scarlet and bright yellow; and opposed to these daring tones were groups of poppies, not only suggesting sleep and quiet and long dreams by their nature, but by those languorous petals that looked like faded ancient silks that had hung for a hundred years in a forgotten cupboard.
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Long into Night by Joshua Alan Sturgill
St. Sebastian in the Kitchen by Linda Lobmeyer
Chasing the Burr by Bryn Homuth is now available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, the Book Depository and fine bookstores such as Eighth Day Books. Our friends in Canada and the UK may purchase the book here. Australia: Booktopia. And, of course, you may purchase it from the Darkly Bright Catalog.
Jesse K. Butler has published two poems in the latest edition of THINK Journal.
The Joy of London III: And the sight of the map of London always leaves me with a sense of a kind of lesser infinitude—if the phrase may be allowed. Thus does London make for us a concrete image of the eternal things of space and time and thought.
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After a brief hiatus, Joshua Alan Sturgill returns with The Archangel Contemplates A Buddha.
Dale Nelson digs into Walter De La Mare’s On the Edge, a book read and reviewed by Arthur Machen.
In Memory of Edith Cavell: The last verse swells into sonorous triumph; the sunlight pours in golden rays down from the dome, the painted saints and martyrs glow in the windows. Then the Paternoster, which is a prayer for quick and dead alike, is said, and after the versicles and responses, they sing the Antiphon: I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet he shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die.
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