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The Passerby by Joshua Alan Sturgill
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The fourth installment of Gossip About Books and Authors: “Bhoys,” he said, “I am an old soldier myself, and I could give you a few wrinkles in drill.” The Sinn Fein army accepted his offer, and for two Sundays he “Drilled the hell out of them”– to use his own idiom. On the third Sunday there was no rebel army: it had got tired.
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“Beauty must be linked again with life, and art given back its true service.” Ralph Adams Cram
Darkly Bright Press is pleased to present a new limited chapbook edition of Ralph Adam Cram’s Ordeal by Beauty, a challenging indictment of modernity, which describes the antidote to its sterility and decadence. As the recovery of beauty remains a vital concern for the twenty-first century, an era of re-enchantment, this needful essay is now being offered to the modern reader.
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A third installment of Gossip About Books and Authors: “The Anchor,” by M. T. H. Sadler (Constable), is not perhaps a very good novel. But it is a very interesting experiment. There is a newness in the author’s vision of things which seems to me to promise that he will experiment and experiment again, and that he will find gold in his crucible at last.
“Beauty must be linked again with life, and art given back its true service.” Ralph Adams Cram
Darkly Bright Press is pleased to present a new limited chapbook edition of Ralph Adam Cram’s Ordeal by Beauty, a challenging indictment of modernity, which describes the antidote to its sterility and decadence. As the recovery of beauty remains a vital concern for the twenty-first century, an era of re-enchantment, this needful essay is now being offered to the modern reader.
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Which I? by Joshua Alan Sturgill
The first Gossip About Books and Authors: It this a true statement? Is humanity in the mass deaf and blind and insensible to all that is beautiful in art? I am afraid that this or something very like this is the truth.
Darkly Bright Press is pleased to present a new limited chapbook edition of Ralph Adam Cram’s Ordeal by Beauty, a challenging indictment of modernity, which describes the antidote to its sterility and decadence. As the recovery of beauty remains a vital concern for the twenty-first century, an era of re-enchantment, this needful essay is now being offered to the modern reader.
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In the sudden and egregious disillusionment that has overtaken us we revolt against the current order of things, so arduously and so proudly built up, because it reveals itself now as illogical and incompetent, as fostering injustice rather than equity, as tending towards selfishness, oppression, the destruction of liberty, the exaltation of ignorance, vulgarity and venality, and because it has engendered fear, jealousy, cruelty and hatred instead of love, fellowship and compassion. . . .
Beauty must be linked again with life, and art given back its true service.
Darkly Bright Press is pleased to present a new limited chapbook edition of Ralph Adam Cram’s Ordeal by Beauty, a challenging indictment of modernity, which describes the antidote to its sterility and decadence. As the recovery of beauty remains a vital concern for the twenty-first century, an era of re-enchantment, this needful essay is now being offered to the modern reader.
Available for purchase on October 6, 2025.
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Because Love, Too by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Gossip About Books and Authors: It is to be noted that these meaningless strings of words are supposed to be complete sentences. And as similar meaningless string of words are to be found in every other page of the book, we must assume that the author has written them down deliberately and in protest against the outworn dogmas of the grammarians.
Pamela Bruns returns with a new fairy tale: Ice Lilies, A Story About the Seasons.
Huns in Holy Places: It is not a matter that can be argued. It is a question of decency, of respect for holy things, for a religious place, that in a sense, is to be named with Canterbury and Glastonbury, to be reckoned amongst the noble founts and wells whence the stream that is England has flowed forth. Stratford-on-Avon stands for things that make England glorious and precious.
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Why They Say by Joshua Alan Sturgill
The New Village: Here is the true horror; the denial in brick and slate, in door and window, in street after street, of that thirst for difference or originality which, as I have said, is the source and root of all human delight.
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A Question for Chicago by Joshua Alan Sturgill
We Could Have Won the War in 1915: We live on beef which has been ten or eleven years in a cask, and on biscuits which makes your throat cold in eating it, owing to the maggots, which are very cold when you eat them—like calf’s foot jelly—being very fat indeed!
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The Iron Bridge by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Bertie’s Banging Ghost: Arthur Machen ends his investigation into the Hornsey saga.
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AD1685 by Joshua Alan Sturgill
The Racketty Ghost Breaks Out Again: Machen returns to investigate the poltergeist case.
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