Friday, 31 December 2021

Wednesday, 29 December 2021

Leggende e Credenze delle Alpi Piemontesi by Enrico Bertone

 

Leggende e Credenze delle Alpi Piemontesi:
Storie di Demoni e di Santi, di Despoti e di Amanti, 
di Belve e di Spiriti

by Enrico Bertone

Tuesday, 28 December 2021

The Villa and the Vortex: Supernatural Stories, 1914 - 1924 by Elinor Mordaunt

 

The Villa and the Vortex: 

Supernatural Stories, 1914 - 1924

by Elinor Mordaunt

edited with an introduction and notes by Melissa Edmundson 

Monday, 27 December 2021

Friday, 24 December 2021

Monday, 13 December 2021

La Bellezza della Nuova Musica by Emanuele Arciuli

 

La Bellezza della Nuova Musica

by Emanuele Arciuli

Saturday, 11 December 2021

"Jien - Noti - Jien : Ħsejjes u Stejjer" by Immanuel Mifsud and Toni Sant

Jien - Noti - Jien : Ħsejjes u Stejjer

by Immanuel Mifsud and Toni Sant

The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights

The Haunting Season

Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights

Saturday, 4 December 2021

They by Kay Dick

 

They - A Sequence of Unease

by Kay Dick

with an introduction by Carmen Maria Machado


Sunday, 21 November 2021

A Good Year by Polis Loizou

 

A Good Year

A novella by Polis Loizou

Monday, 15 November 2021

Sunday, 14 November 2021

Wednesday, 10 November 2021

Monday, 1 November 2021

Black Drop by Leonora Nattrass

Black Drop

by Leonora Nattrass

A book review

Tuesday, 26 October 2021

Trust by Domenico Starnone

Trust

by Domenico Starnone

translated by Jhumpa Lahiri

Sunday, 24 October 2021

Monday, 11 October 2021

The Art of Space Travel and Other Stories by Nina Allan

The Art of Space Travel and Other Stories

by Nina Allan

Saturday, 9 October 2021

The Tale of the Tailor and the Three Dead Kings by Dan Jones

 


The Tale of the Tailor and the Three Dead Kings

a medieval ghost story

by Dan Jones

Tuesday, 28 September 2021

The Neighbourhood by Mario Vargas Llosa

The Neighbourhood

by Mario Vargas Llosa

Translated by Edith Grossman 

Saturday, 25 September 2021

Saturday, 11 September 2021

Sunday, 5 September 2021

The Castle by Chuck Valentine


The Castle

by Chuck Valentine 

Book 6 in the Eden Book Society Series


"From Another World" by Evelina Santangelo


 From Another World

by Evelina Santangelo

translated from the Italian by Ruth Clarke

 

Monday, 16 August 2021

Sunday, 15 August 2021

"The Leviathan" by Rosie Andrews

The Leviathan

by Rosie Andrews


She is awake. And I must remind myself of how it began. The end of all things. It was a time of witches, it was a time of saints, a time when rabbits hunted foxes, when children came into the world without their heards, and kings lost theirs on the scaffold. The world was turned upside down, or so some said… now, less than a hundred years after men and magic began to drift apart, we walk a new earth. We have become reasonable, and cleave to our certainties as once we cleaved to our kings. Now, the buried stories are dismissed as old wives’ tales, exaggerations, falsehoods. But still they bubble through the cracks, clinging on, refusing to go down into the dark. They develop strange qualities, words stored for too long. In the dim light of my small study, never bright enough now, I lay them down in honest black ink, but they are past their bloom…

Thursday, 12 August 2021

Tuesday, 10 August 2021

Burntcoat by Sarah Hall

Burntcoat

by Sarah Hall

A book review

Wednesday, 4 August 2021

Dog Park by Sofi Oksanen

Dog Park

by Sofi Oksanen 

translated by Owen F. Witesman

A book review

Saturday, 31 July 2021

Gaito Gazdanov: An Evening with Claire


An Evening with Claire

by Gaito Gazdanov

translated by Bryan Karetnyk

Sunday, 25 July 2021

"When Things Get Dark: Stories inspired by Shirley Jackson" edited by Ellen Datlow

 

When Things Get Dark: 

Stories inspired by Shirley Jackson

Edited by Ellen Datlow

A book review

Sunday, 18 July 2021

Sunday, 11 July 2021

Lemon by Kwon Yeo-Sun

 

Lemon

by Kwon Yeo-Sun

translated by Janet Hong

Monday, 5 July 2021

Sunday, 4 July 2021

"Castillo" by Clare Azzopardi

 

Castillo

by Clare Azzopardi

A book review

Sunday, 27 June 2021

Saturday, 26 June 2021

"The Enchanted Night: Selected Tales" by Miklós Bánffy

 

The Enchanted Night: Selected Tales

by Miklós Bánffy

Translated by Len Rix 


Saturday, 19 June 2021

The Hummingbird (Il Colibri) by Sandro Veronesi

 

The Hummingbird

by Sandro Veronesi

translated by Elena Pala

Sunday, 6 June 2021

Blue Postcards by Douglas Bruton

 

Blue Postcards 

by Douglas Bruton

A "Fairlight Moderns" novella 

Saturday, 5 June 2021

We Run the Tides by Vendela Vida

 

We Run the Tides

by Vendela Vida

A book review

The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell

The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War

by Malcolm Gladwell

Saturday, 15 May 2021

Lean Fall Stand by Jon McGregor

 

Lean Fall Stand
by Jon McGregor

A book review

People Like Them by Samira Sedira

 

People Like Them
by Samira Sedira

Translated by Lara Vergnaud

Sunday, 9 May 2021

The Mad Women's Ball by Victoria Mas

 

The Mad Women's Ball

by Victoria Mas

(Translated from the French by Frank Wynne)

Sunday, 2 May 2021

"The Life of Music: New Adventures in the Western Classical Tradition" by Nicholas Kenyon

The Life of Music: 
New Adventures in the Western Classical Tradition

by Nicholas Kenyon

Magma by Thóra Hjörleifsdóttir

 

Magma 

by Thóra Hjörleifsdóttir

Translated from the Icelandic by Meg Matich

Saturday, 24 April 2021

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut

When We Cease to Understand the World

by Benjamín Labatut

(Translated by Adrian Nathan West) 

A book review

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Walking with Bohr, Heisenberg had his first intuition of the radical otherness of the subatomic world. “If a mere particle of dust contains billions of atoms,” Bohr said to him as they were scaling the massifs of the Harz range, “what possible way is there to talk meaningfully of something so small?”  The physicist – like the poet – should not describe the facts of the world, but rather generate metaphors and mental connections. From that summer onwards, Heisenberg understood that to apply concepts of classical physics such as position, velocity and momentum to a subatomic particle was sheer madness. That aspect of nature required a completely new language.

Saturday, 17 April 2021

To Drown in Dark Water by Steve Toase

 
To Drown in Dark Water

A book review of Steve Toase's debut horror story collection

Sunday, 11 April 2021

At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop


At Night All Blood is Black

by David Diop

(translated by Anna Moschovakis)