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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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Only Other Gods by Joshua Alan Sturgill
How We Lost Our Tails: I would say that the truth is that we are, somehow, the sons of God. This truth primitive man apprehended; but to make it intelligible to himself he had to put it in the form of a picture story. His symbols are not our symbols, but it is doubtful whether the highest truth can be communicated to man or apprehended by him save through symbols of some kind.
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Arthur Machen on MIDSUMMER
No Cattle Shows: At one show I was discussing bacon with a man from Cheshire, whose face was as round and red and jocund as a harvest moon. The round man wishes me to understand exactly what he meant; and in an instant he had twirled me round and cut me up—theoretically, with his forefinger—into “sides” and “back” and “belly” in the admiration of a learned audience.
Demand has outpaced our on-hand stock of Ben Dolan’s new novel, Spirit Lake! Thank you to all those who have purchased copies. Orders are still being accepted – please allow two weeks for delivery.
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Omnia Lux by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Wasted Van Power: Economy is the word of the moment—economy in food, economy in dress, economy in coal and lighting, economy in everything, to feed the guns and husband labour. Why not, therefore, economy in traffic?
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