NEW POETRY
Diet by Joshua Alan Sturgill
New Interview with Jesse Keith Butler, the author of The Living Law.
Absolutely My Last Word on the Subject: So, I really think that Mr. Taylor has used Mr. Begbie harshly. He should not take Mr. Begbie’s instances and Mr. Begbie’s methods, and then tell Mr. Begbie that he has wasted his time and energy.
Darkly Bright Press is pleased to announce the upcoming publication of When I Forget The Words, the first poetry collection by Linda Lobmeyer. The book will be released on November 1st. Advance copies will be available for purchase at the 2024 Inklings Festival. During the weekend event, Lobmeyer will give a poetry reading.
NEW POETRY
The Skeptic Contemplates A Landscape by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Those Angels … I refrain from discussing certain, topics which he has elaborated in the course of his book. These are: My own failure to realise human suffering, my “rather sinister genius,” the judgement of the Christ on the “posturings and abasements of the Jewish temple” my “pitiable depths,” my paltriness, my pomposity, and the views of the author on God, Life, and Immortality.
Machen Study No. 50 Update: Added audio and imagery. Thanks to David Llewellyn Dodds for pointing out this information.
NEW POETRY
That House by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Selling the Angels: Through primary sources, we explore how Bowmen and Angels were sold to a hopeful public. It pairs nicely with—
Great Demand for “The Bowmen” Story: To be issued in book form.
NEW POETRY
Answering the Fool by Joshua Alan Sturgill
The Bowmen on the Battlefield: It was written as a tale. It was frank fiction. It did not pretend to be a narrative of anything that has occurred on the battlefield. There was no more reason for taking it to be descriptive of an actual experience than there is for regarding “The Great God Pan,” or any other of Mr. Machen’s famous stories as a string of plain facts that any lawyer would put into an affidavit.
NEW POETRY
Waiting by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Sixty Years of Photographs: I looked round the pictures on the walls and found that it was so. Here were photographs of “the best people,” and in many cases they stood, full-length, amidst “accessories”—the old tables and balustrades and pillars and curtains that I had thought of as vanished for ever.
NEW POETRY
Circle of Animals by Joshua Alan Sturgill
No Escape from The Bowmen: Frankenstein made a monster to his sorrow. I have forgotten what happened to this unfortunate inventor in the end: but I begin to sympathise with him, though my creation was a more benevolent kind than his.
MACHEN STUDY No. 49
The Monstrance & Karl Heinz: Featuring an integrated text, noted Arthurian scholar David Llewellyn Dodds explores the inspirations behind Machen’s enigmatic war story. Dodds is a contributor to the upcoming Darkly Bright edition of THE TERROR.
NEW POETRY
The Law of Inversion by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Some Novels at the Moment: What is a thesis? It is a proposition, a statement which you lay down and support by argument. For example, anybody who says that black is white, or that the moon is made of green cheese, or that by night all cats are grey, and that he can prove it, is a man with a thesis; and he is bound to be good fun.
NEW POETRY
The Unpuzzling by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Mr. Conrad’s Latest: I have been reading the three tales in the volume very carefully, and I find I do understand my friend’s criticism; and I cordially agree with it. Judging from “Twixt Land and Sea,” I would say that though Mr. Conrad is undoubtedly an admirable craftsman, he is not a great artist: he is a very good writer, but he is not a very good author. This sounds paradoxical; I will try to explain.
MACHEN STUDY No. 48
Thomas Kent Miller examines Arthur Machen’s war story, “The Story of Sergt. Richard Haughton” in a new essay: Making Supernatural Ecstasy. Miller is a contributor to the upcoming Darkly Bright edition of THE TERROR.
The Gondola of London: It cannot be helped, and London being London, one must get about in it as quickly as possible; but do not let us imagine that nothing lost. There was a gaiety about the old hansoms that the taxicab quite misses. The drivers were sometimes surly and insolvent and swindling rascals, but often they were merry fellows, with glittering hats and a glittering style of speech, and a bright flower in their buttonholes that went well with the smart turn-out before them.
MACHEN MISCELLANEA
NEW POETRY
The City Without A Center by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Why We Should Go To The Play: Day by day there sounds in our ears the wail of women and children, and, answering, the heroic voices of our seamen who went down into the deep cheering, as the waves closed over the torpedoed ships. One can understand the feelings of those who say that in such tremendous and tragical times the theatre is out of place. This point of view is understandable; but it is altogether mistaken.
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