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  • Jan 2020
    • Sphinx by Oscar Wilde
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    • Scared Stiff by Ramsey Campbell
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  • Dec 2019
    • The Sound of His Horn by Sarban
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    • Lilith by George MacDonald
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  • Nov 2019
    • Phantastes by George MacDonald
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    • Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly
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  • Oct 2019
    • We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
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    • A Glastonbury Romance by John Cowper Powys
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  • Sep 2019
    • The Institute by Stephen King
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    • The Chocky Trilogy
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    • Memory: The Origins of Alien
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  • Aug 2019
    • Camelot 3000
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    • Daphne du Maurier’s weird fiction
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    • That Hideous Strength by C S Lewis
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  • Jul 2019
    • Perelandra by C S Lewis
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    • Out of the Silent Planet by C S Lewis
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  • Jun 2019
    • Citadel of Fear by Francis Stevens
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    • Future City
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    • Chariots of the Gods? by Erich von Däniken
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  • May 2019
    • Game of Thrones
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    • Tolkien
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    • Uncanny Stories by May Sinclair
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  • Apr 2019
    • Demian by Hermann Hesse
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    • The Lifted Veil by George Eliot
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  • Mar 2019
    • Dark Companions by Ramsey Campbell
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    • Symbolist Art
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    • Codename Icarus
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  • Feb 2019
    • The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
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    • Blade Runner 2049
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  • Jan 2019
    • Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti
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    • The Witch-Cult in Western Europe by Margaret Murray
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  • Dec 2018
    • Meddie, and other poetry updates
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    • Lovecraft and Trauma
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    • The Way of the Worm by Ramsey Campbell
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  • Nov 2018
    • Carrie by Stephen King
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    • The Hollowing by Robert Holdstock
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  • Oct 2018
    • Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter
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    • Stranger Things
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  • Sep 2018
    • A Voyage to Arcturus as an allegory of life
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    • Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came by Robert Browning
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    • Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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  • Aug 2018
    • The Morrow Books by H M Hoover
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    • You’re All Alone/The Sinful Ones by Fritz Leiber
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  • Jul 2018
    • Devoured by Anna Mackmin
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    • The Palace of Morgana by John Sterling
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  • Jun 2018
    • The Haunted Woman by David Lindsay
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    • Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth Exhibition
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    • Quantum by Manjit Kumar
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  • May 2018
    • The Unlimited Dream Company by J G Ballard
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    • Ice by Anna Kavan
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  • Apr 2018
    • The Nameless by Ramsey Campbell
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    • Year King by Penelope Farmer
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  • Mar 2018
    • The Death of Grass by John Christopher
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    • A Castle of Bone by Penelope Farmer
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    • Vertigo
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  • Feb 2018
    • The Shape of… What? Er…
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    • After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
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    • The Light Maze by Joan North
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  • Jan 2018
    • Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed
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    • The Angel of the West Window by Gustav Meyrink
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  • Dec 2017
    • From Ritual to Romance by Jessie L Weston
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    • Axël by Villiers de l’Isle-Adam
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  • Nov 2017
    • Born to the Dark by Ramsey Campbell
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    • Even Stranger Things: A Night for Robert Aickman
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    • The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
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  • Oct 2017
    • Play for Today: Z for Zachariah
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    • The World Broke in Two by Bill Goldstein
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    • A Voyage to Arcturus — the Séance
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  • Sep 2017
    • The Birds
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    • The Belgariad by David Eddings
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  • Aug 2017
    • The Invisibles
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    • The Doll Who Ate His Mother by Ramsey Campbell
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  • Jul 2017
    • The House on the Brink by John Gordon
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    • The Hashish Eater by Clark Ashton Smith
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    • The Authentic Voice of Wizardry
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  • Jun 2017
    • Providence by Alan Moore
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    • Hello World
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    • Walkabout
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  • May 2017
    • Alien: Covenant
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    • English Gothic by Jonathan Rigby
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  • Apr 2017
    • Lavondyss by Robert Holdstock
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    • Break in the Sun
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  • Mar 2017
    • A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
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    • Sphinx by David Lindsay, Sphinx by Cyril Scott
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  • Feb 2017
    • Blow-Up and Performance
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    • The Height of the Scream by Ramsey Campbell
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    • Spacewreck
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  • Jan 2017
    • Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
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    • Flowers
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  • Dec 2016
    • Pan’s Labyrinth
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    • The Visitor by Josephine Poole
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    • Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson
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  • Nov 2016
    • The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien
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    • The Searching Dead by Ramsey Campbell
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  • Oct 2016
    • Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
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    • Stag Boy by William Rayner
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  • Sep 2016
    • Timeslip
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    • Electric Eden by Rob Young
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  • Aug 2016
    • The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
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    • Astercote, The Whispering Knights, The Wild Hunt of Hagworthy by Penelope Lively
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  • Jul 2016
    • The Worm Ouroboros by E R Eddison
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    • Frank Frazetta
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    • The Loch Ness Monster
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  • Jun 2016
    • The Atrocity Exhibition by J G Ballard
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    • Living Alone by Stella Benson
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  • May 2016
    • Night Visitors by Julia Briggs
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    • The Other Wind by Ursula Le Guin
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  • Apr 2016
    • Tales from Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
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    • Mewsings began 10 years ago!
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    • Tehanu by Ursula Le Guin
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    • The Television Crossover Universe podcast interview
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  • Mar 2016
    • The Farthest Shore by Ursula Le Guin
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    • The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula Le Guin
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  • Feb 2016
    • A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
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    • The Adventures of Alyx by Joanna Russ
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  • Jan 2016
    • Devil’s Tor by David Lindsay
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    • Sky
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    • H P Lovecraft's dark city muse
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  • Dec 2015
    • Visions from Brichester by Ramsey Campbell
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  • Nov 2015
    • Three Types of Ghost Story
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    • Mary Rose by J M Barrie
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    • The Fantasy Reader
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  • Oct 2015
    • The Prisoner
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    • The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
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    • More updates
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    • Peeping Tom
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  • Sep 2015
    • Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
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    • The Omega Factor
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  • Aug 2015
    • The Whispering Swarm by Michael Moorcock
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    • The Outsider by Colin Wilson
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  • Jul 2015
    • A new look, and other updates
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    • Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand
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    • High-Rise by J G Ballard
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  • Jun 2015
    • The Gods of Pegana by Lord Dunsany
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    • Pinhead & The Scarlet Gospels
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  • May 2015
    • Dragon Under the Hill by Gordon Honeycombe
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    • Twin Peaks
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    • Neither the Sea nor the Sand by Gordon Honeycombe
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  • Apr 2015
    • Space: 1999, Series 1
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    • The Western Canon by Harold Bloom
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  • Mar 2015
    • The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
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    • Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
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  • Feb 2015
    • The Night-Watchmen by Helen Cresswell
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    • A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
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  • Jan 2015
    • Stepping from the Shadows by Patricia McKillip
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    • Modern Fantasy by C N Manlove
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  • Dec 2014
    • Yes, You ARE A Monster
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    • The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
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    • The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish
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  • Nov 2014
    • Demons by Daylight by Ramsey Campbell
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    • Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
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  • Oct 2014
    • The Laughing Ghost
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    • An English Ghost Story by Kim Newman
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    • The Language of the Night by Ursula K Le Guin
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  • Sep 2014
    • Obsession by Ramsey Campbell
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    • The War Films Podcast
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    • Threshold by Ursula Le Guin
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  • Aug 2014
    • Wizardry and Wild Romance by Michael Moorcock
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    • Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
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    • The Crystal World by J G Ballard
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    • The Conversation
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  • Jul 2014
    • Mr Mercedes by Stephen King
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    • Marianne Dreams and Paperhouse
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  • Jun 2014
    • The Damned
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    • The Insanity of Jones and other tales by Algernon Blackwood
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  • May 2014
    • Jirel of Joiry by C L Moore
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    • The Thing
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  • Apr 2014
    • The Hill of Dreams by Arthur Machen
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    • Cat Girl
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  • Mar 2014
    • Picnic at Hanging Rock
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    • The Cold Flame by James Reeves
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    • IT by William Mayne
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  • Feb 2014
    • A Game of Dark by William Mayne
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    • The Moon Stallion
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  • Jan 2014
    • Secret Gardens by Humphrey Carpenter, Inventing Wonderland by Jackie Wullschläger
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    • Ralph Bakshi’s The Lord of the Rings
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  • Dec 2013
    • John Wyndham and The Catastrophe of Cosiness
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    • The Chrysalids and The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
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    • The Day of the Triffids and The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham
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  • Nov 2013
    • What is Doctor Who?
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    • "David Lindsay's The Violet Apple" in Wormwood 21
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    • Oliver Onions' Ghost Stories
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  • Oct 2013
    • It's easy to summon a demon
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    • I Walked with a Zombie
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    • Curse of the Cat People
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    • Cat People
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  • Sep 2013
    • The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A McKillip
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    • William Gibson's Alien3
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  • Aug 2013
    • Neuromancer by William Gibson
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    • Hawkwind 1976-1979: The Calvert Years
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  • Jul 2013
    • IT by Stephen King
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    • The Earliest English Poems, translated & edited by Michael Alexander
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  • Jun 2013
    • Hawkwind 1970-1975
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    • Skallagrigg by William Horwood
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    • Kingdoms of Elfin by Sylvia Townsend Warner
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  • May 2013
    • Salem's Lot, the 1979 TV mini-series
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    • Star Wars day...
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  • Apr 2013
    • Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake
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    • Carmilla, and other spooky writings, by J S Le Fanu
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  • Mar 2013
    • Boy in Darkness by Mervyn Peake
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    • Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
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    • Tolkien and the Great War by John Garth
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  • Feb 2013
    • Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
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    • Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
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  • Jan 2013
    • Peter Pan and Wendy
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    • Jacob's Ladder
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  • Dec 2012
    • New Grub Street by George Gissing
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  • Nov 2012
    • DC Comics' Sword of Sorcery
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    • Happy birthday, Robert Louis Stevenson
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    • Edward Gorey
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  • Oct 2012
    • Two Faerie Novels
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    • Swords and Deviltry by Fritz Leiber
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  • Sep 2012
    • Boneland by Alan Garner
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    • Thursbitch by Alan Garner
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    • Strandloper by Alan Garner
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    • Faeries by Brian Froud & Alan Lee
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    • The Stone Book Quartet by Alan Garner
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  • Aug 2012
    • Red Shift by Alan Garner
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    • Elidor by Alan Garner
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  • Jul 2012
    • Weaveworld by Clive Barker
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    • The Moon of Gomrath by Alan Garner
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  • Jun 2012
    • The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner
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    • Prometheus
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    • On Writing Well by William Zinsser
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  • May 2012
    • Conan the Hero
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    • Why I Like... Doctor Who
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  • Apr 2012
    • Drive & Tyrannosaur
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    • Videodrome
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    • The Rainbow Orchid volume 3 out tomorrow
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  • Mar 2012
    • The Owl Service by Alan Garner
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    • Alice at R'lyeh on YouTube
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    • Mills & Barsoom
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  • Feb 2012
    • The Realm of Lost Things in ASIM 53, and Gene Wolfe being honoured
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    • Fallacies of Wonderland
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    • Dragonslayer
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  • Jan 2012
    • A letter between writers
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    • That Alien Aesthetic
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    • Le Morte Darthur
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  • Dec 2011
    • Should we bowdlerize Lovecraft?
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    • 1Q84
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  • Nov 2011
    • Disney's Robin Hood
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    • Why I Like... Theodore Sturgeon (in three stories)
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  • Oct 2011
    • Toby - a Halloween rhyme
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    • To Live Again by Robert Silverberg
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    • Pilgrimage by Zenna Henderson
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  • Sep 2011
    • Full Fathom Forty
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    • Lovecraftian Doctor Who
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    • Strange Evil by Elizabeth Gaskell
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  • Aug 2011
    • The Big Sleep
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    • Robin of Sherwood
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    • Moving Zen by C W Nicol
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  • Jul 2011
    • Flow and story
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    • Full Fathom Forty lineup
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    • Jonathan Miller's Alice in Wonderland
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    • The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories by Joan Aiken
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    • The Film That Changed My Life, by Robert K Elder
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    • Children of the Stones
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  • Jun 2011
    • Count Dracula (1977)
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    • 40th Birthday Giveaway!
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    • The Terror & Drood by Dan Simmons
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    • LA Noire
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  • May 2011
    • The Adventure Films Podcast
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    • What's the point of Renfield?
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    • Two more Doctors
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    • The Wicker Man
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    • Unknown Magazine
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  • Apr 2011
    • The Usborne Book of the Future
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    • The Influence by Ramsey Campbell
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    • "A Night as a Scarecrow" in BFS Journal, Spring 2011
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    • "So you're my replacements! A dandy and a clown!"
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  • Mar 2011
    • In which I track down intelligent life
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    • Spock
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    • Flashman, and other reprobates
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    • What books do best
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  • Feb 2011
    • A Plague of Scanspellos
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    • Matt Fox's Wendigo
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    • Star Trek
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    • "Zathotha" in Cyäegha issue 4
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    • Arthur Machen's The White People, Jo Walton's Among Others
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  • Jan 2011
    • The Magician's Book by Laura Miller
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    • Michael Powell's Wizard of Earthsea
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    • In which I mingle with rock stars and academics...
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    • BioShock 1 & 2
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    • Tom Baker's other doctor
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  • Dec 2010
    • Who cares what characters in books look like?
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    • The Films That Time Forgot
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  • Nov 2010
    • Lovecraft Black & White
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    • Farewell, Book & Magazine Collector
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    • Michael Moorcock's Doctor Who novel — The Coming of the Terraphiles
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    • Tom Baker's Rasputin
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  • Oct 2010
    • Teach Yourself Terror!
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    • Dean Spanley
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    • The Clash of the Clash of the Titans
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    • Happy birthday, Oscar Wilde
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    • Fantasy Music
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  • Sep 2010
    • Bob Johnson & Pete Knight's The King of Elfland's Daughter
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    • The Roar of Love
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    • The Secret to Reading Gene Wolfe
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  • Aug 2010
    • The Devil Had a Mobile Phone
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    • The Adventures of Monsieur de Mailly by David Lindsay
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    • Witch Wood by John Buchan
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    • Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly
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    • The Indifferent Beast
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  • Jul 2010
    • The Alice at R'lyeh Report, part 2
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    • Black Wings: Tales of Lovecraftian Horror
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    • The Alice at R'lyeh Report, part 1
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  • Jun 2010
    • The Doctor Who Adventure Game - City of the Daleks
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    • Sunglider
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  • May 2010
    • Goodbye, South Bank Show!
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    • Trying not to be a collector of David Lindsay
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    • A boy called Sue and a boy called Yellow
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    • Marginalia
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    • Philip Pullman's The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
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  • Apr 2010
    • And sometimes balloons go pop...
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    • House (the Japanese film, not the US TV series)
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    • What makes a damned good read?
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    • The Changes
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    • Brighton Shock! World Horror Convention 2010
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  • Mar 2010
    • Me & Horror: Proper Horror Novels At Last
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    • Me & Horror: Three Attempts at Dennis Wheatley
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    • Me & Horror: Lovecraft
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    • Me & Horror: My first horror story
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    • Me & Horror: Why I didn't read it
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    • Conspiracy '87
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    • A novel is a sequence of words, one after the other — how do you improve on that?
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  • Feb 2010
    • Alice at R'lyeh for your ears
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    • The Transformation of E F Benson
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  • Jan 2010
    • Stephen Fry and Alan Moore: They Got Rhythm
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    • Seeing Things by Oliver Postgate
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  • Nov 2009
    • Colin Wilson
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    • Elric versus Dalek
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  • Oct 2009
    • When do you give up reading a book?
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    • King of the Castle
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    • Alice at R'lyeh
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  • Sep 2009
    • BSG: The Final Question
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    • Why I Like... Alfred Hitchcock
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    • Gnomic verses (part 2)
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  • Aug 2009
    • Why I like... Clark Ashton Smith
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    • Gnomic verses
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    • The Rainbow Orchid book launch
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  • Jul 2009
    • Anvil — The Story of Anvil
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    • Giovanni Battista Piranesi and the Three-Dimensional Labyrinth
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    • Vampires, vampires everywhere...
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    • What adventures they'll have...
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    • Queen's Queen II
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    • Hawkwind's Chronicle of the Black Sword
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  • Jun 2009
    • Uriah Heep's The Magician's Birthday
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    • Mandalaband's The Eye of Wendor
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    • Jon Anderson's Olias of Sunhillow
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    • Pixie Post, or Phantasy Philately
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    • ElvenQuest and Krod Mandoon
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  • Feb 2008
    • Mister B Gone by Clive Barker
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    • J G Ballard
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  • Jan 2008
    • Citymusic
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  • Nov 2007
    • On Re-Reading Books
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    • Spacewreck moved, Citymusic coming
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  • Oct 2007
    • Not dead but sleeping... and stirring...
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  • Aug 2007
    • Flicker by Theodore Roszak
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  • Jul 2007
    • Heroes and Shaggy Dogs
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    • Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch
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    • Little Miss Sunshine & The Host
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  • Jun 2007
    • After Dark by Haruki Murakami
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    • Tideland
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    • The Future Goes Bleep
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    • In Search of a Distant Voice by Taichi Yamada
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  • May 2007
    • The Angry Years by Colin Wilson
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    • M Night Shyamalan's The Lady in the Water
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    • The Grin of the Dark by Ramsey Campbell
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  • Apr 2007
    • Whistle Down The Wind
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    • Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
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    • Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
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    • The Bookshop, or two of them anyway
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  • Mar 2007
    • Hype by Robert Calvert
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    • The Blue Öyster Cult
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  • Feb 2007
    • Two Films About Childhood
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    • Shadow of the Colossus
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    • Circulus
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    • The Innocents
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  • Dec 2006
    • A literary anecdote (not mine)
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    • Murakami noodling
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    • Fantastic Planet
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  • Nov 2006
    • The Prestige
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    • Persian Fire by Tom Holland
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  • Oct 2006
    • Haze
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    • Joe Meek: I Hear A New World
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  • Sep 2006
    • Kwaidan
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    • The Creature from the Blue Lagoon
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    • Lord of War
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  • Aug 2006
    • MirrorMask
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    • Ico
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    • The Flaming Lips: Zaireeka
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    • Alan Moore: The Complete Future Shocks
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    • The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
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    • Tony Takitani
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  • Jul 2006
    • Zathura
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    • Capote, The Libertine, Munich
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    • William Gibson's Burning Chrome
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    • DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore
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    • The Sun
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    • Pulse
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    • Sophie Scholl
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  • Jun 2006
    • My rant about the new series of Doctor Who
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    • Richard Matheson's I Am Legend
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    • Hilary Mantel's Beyond Black
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    • A Rough Guide to Asian Horror
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  • May 2006
    • Stuart Gordon's Dreams in the Witch House
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    • Godzilla
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    • The Arctic Monkeys — Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
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    • The first time that ever I saw your face... hugger
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    • Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans
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    • Broken Flowers
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  • Apr 2006
    • George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London
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    • Blue Jean Blues
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    • John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns
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