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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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Watching A War by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Two Unsigned Articles on the Hornsey Saga: These unidentified works will serve to bridge the gap between Arthur Machen’s certain involvement at the beginning and at the end of this ghostly tangle of a tale.
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A Sidereal Catechism by Joshua Alan Sturgill
The Rackety Ghost Still Busy: The mystery of the bewitched house in Ferrestone-road, Hornsey, is to be investigated immediately by the Society for Psychical Research. Within a few hours of the first publication of the facts in The Evening News, a prominent member of the society placed himself in communication with the distracted household and his services have been gratefully accepted.
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The Living Law by Jesse Keith Butler has been featured in Autumn Sky Poetry.
Hornsey House of Nightmares: If we say, briefly, that all Poltergeists are frauds, we are confronted by the questions: “But how on earth is it done?” If we accept the theory of an unknown force, then we have to admit the utter want of purpose or meaning in the manifestations. But this lack of meaning may well be an argument in favour of their genuineness.
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Seven Sea Haiku by Joshua Alan Sturgill
The Shirt: The men who wore the lace ruffles and the grave wigs and the bloom-coloured silks and satins had got so tired of wig and lace and silk that they were ready to believe that happiness was to be found by getting rid of all those things and of all the institutions symbolised by them. That was Rousseau’s doctrine of the bliss of savagery, that was the French Revolution in a nutshell.
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Sarah, Do Not Be Surprised by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Notes on The Place of the Lion by Charles Williams: Dale Nelson returns for a meditation on the Apostle of Wonder and the Oddest Inkling.
Literature for the Boy at the Tail of the Van: But, note, it is not the trashiness of the novelette that pleases; it is the thrill—of mystery and sensation, of battle and murder and sudden death. And in these things there is nothing unliterary—unless the “Odyssey” be unliterary. The story of the One-Eyed Monster and the Cave, of the Cannibal Feast, the Glowing Stake, and the Escape under the Ram’s Belly—all that is “hot stuff.
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A Place And A Name by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Unanimity Among the Conversationalists: Well, it won’t do. When a thing happens, it cannot be unnatural, though it may well be unusual. But that is a very different thing. The critics of whom we are talking are requested to remember for the future that secret societies of murderers, mystic signs cut on murdered men’s bodies, furious battles in London streets are all as natural as cups and saucers and that which is called “psychotic.”
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The Confession of Maximos by Joshua Alan Sturgill
The Rare Gift of Literary Individuality: I do not share all the aversions; I like all cats and am willing enough to discuss the Great Rebellion; I bar the Bacon business, and don’t care whether the world is flat or no. But anything rather than that old occult scandal about the Pyramid!
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A Simple Way by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Having posted Machen’s entire output for The Daily Express, we return with him to The Evening News with Looking Backward.
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