News from the Microcosm

  “It’s a fairytale town, isn’t it?” To misappropriate a quote from In Bruges.   Almost a year ago, the beloved Sheila and myself took a t...

And so we move onto the next book in the series with Crowley’s occult novel, here called Moonchild but also known as The Butterfly Net and...

Phil Baker’s excellent 2011 biography of the gloriously eccentric artist/magician Austin Osman Spare should hopefully revive interest in a...

I notice that in my writing I am often very specific about places. The train stops at Craven Arms; he navigates from Glasgow Central to Glas...

So here I am posting a  second   E. F. Benson story! I first came across this in an anthology of those stories that H. P. Lovecraft had said...

Good review of a classic horror novel Horror Novel Reviews Written by: David Blackthorn Every genre has definitive works that se...

A word of warning – don’t go!  Well, don’t go on your own at night.  And don’t go without reading this first. 1) Highgate Cemetery , Londo...