In early 2002 we launched Weirdly Supernatural, an occasional journal.
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Contents Issue Two
* Introduction, and Reminscence On Joan Aiken by Reggie Oliver
* A World Of Shadows: The Novels Of Phyllis Paul by Glen Cavaliero
* Ghost Stories and More Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary
(Bibliographical notes)
* The Dark Fantasies Of L.P. Hartley By Cardinal Cox
* Beyond The Fens By Christopher Barker
* Unpleasant Demons: Violence and Cruelty in the Jamesian Tale
By Christopher Barker
* The Legacy By Joan Aiken
* The Case Of The Annoying Dwarf, A Prince Stenbock Chronicle by An Aesthetical
* The Effort To Rise By Debbie Shayne
* Ghostly Quiz
* Long Service By David G. Rowlands (a variant version)
* The Three Black Cats By the Rev. A.D. Crake [1888]
* The Skins By Reggie Oliver
* Reviews by David Longhorn, Reggie Oliver and the editor.
* Quiz Answers
* Ghost Stories On Cigarette Cards: Hodgson’s The House On The Borderland Adapted by William Burroughs
* Original artwork by Reggie Oliver
Published Spring 2004
Limited to 125 copies, now officially sold out.
Payment: £10 delivered anywhere in the world.
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Contents Issue One
An Afternoon With Robert Aickman By T.E.D. Klein.
The highly respected author reflects upon a 1960s meeting with the late Robert Aickman in vivid style.
The Terror From The Past By Peter Haining.
A short biography on the author Guy Thorne by the leading C20th anthologist & researcher.
The Haunting Of Boscastle Abbey By Jonathan Harker.
A new Sax Rohmer ‘Dream Detective’ mystery written in a distinctly satirical vein.
The Princess Daphne by Edward Heron-Allen By R.B. Russell.
An essay on the multi-talented author known as ‘Christopher Blayre’.
Wolves Wood By Peter Haining.
A punchy 'twist-in-the-tale' illustrated by David Fletcher.
Spotlight On An Obscure Author: Marion Fox By Richard Dalby.
A biography of this little known author plus a review of tpe’s-Face by Christopher Barker together with excerpts from the text.
Sapphire & Steele Have Been Assigned.
A revisitation of the psychic sleuths played by David McCallum and Joanna Lumley, a neglected masterpiece of television weirdness.
Two Weird Tales by Remy du Gourmont By Brian Stableford.
Two new translations from the French plus introduction by the world-famous author and genre expert.
Gravesend And Other Myths By Douglas Walters.
Bizarre artwork depicting the infamous artist Richard Dadd, notorious for having committed patricide.
Death Of An Author By Glen Cavaleiro.
A new ghost story by the author of Gothic verse and genre critiques.
The Attic Clock A Stoneground Ghost Tale.
Perhaps the closing chapter on the Stoneground Ghost Tales,
"Herbert Ellison Rhodes James: the ghost-story writing brother of M.R. James" and "James McBryde – a dedication that rings hollow?"
An essay hypothesising that M.R. James’ brother aas the author of ghost stories and that MRJ was a possible collaborator on previously unknown ghost projects. Also, proof that ‘Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary’ was not a memorial to James McBryde
Ghost Stories On Cigarette Cards: The White People by Enid Blyton.
A heavily condensed version of the Machen classic by one of our in-house hacks, the late Enid Blyton.
The Dreams Of Cardinal Vittorini By Reggie Oliver.
An excellent C16th tale of inquisitional horror told by the accomplished translator, playwright and biographer.
Reviews:
Ramsey Campbell & Modern Horror Fiction - S.T. Joshi Liverpool University Press, 2001.
New analysis of Campbell’s work reviewed by David Longhorn.
The Haunted Grange Of Goresthorpe - Arthur Conan Doyle. The Arthur Conan Doyle Society, 2001.
Debut publication of a very sub-standard Conan Doyle MS that the author had wanted destroyed.
The Attempted Rescue - Robert Aickman. Tartarus Press, 2001.
Reprint edition of Aickman’s autobiography reviewed by David Longhorn.
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