First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami (ongoing review)
First Person Singular by Haruki MurakamiApril 17, 2021Uncategorizednullimmortalis2 HARVILL SECKER 2021My previous reviews of this author: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/haruki-murakami/ and...
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O. HENRY StoriesFebruary 17, 2020Uncategorizednullimmortalis28 .Edited by Guy DavenportMy previous reviews of older or classic books HEREWhen I read these O. Henry stories, my thoughts will appear in...
View ArticleThomas Hardy Stories (ongoing review)
Collected Short Stories – Thomas HardyMarch 15, 2020Uncategorizednullimmortalis31 When I read these stories, my thoughts will appear in the comment stream below…(My previous stories of older or...
View ArticleThe 2nd Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories, as edited by Robert Aickman...
The 2nd Fontana Book of Great Ghost StoriesMarch 25, 2021Uncategorizednullimmortalis10 Edited by Robert Aickman (1966)My previous reviews regarding this book’s editor:...
View Articlefrostsigils (ongoing review)
frostsigilsApril 28, 2021Uncategorizednullimmortalis4 A compendium of forgotten heresies, myths, art and death poems, in homage to PAYSAGE D’HIVERMOUNT ABRAXAS PRESS MMXXIMy previous reviews of this...
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The 4th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories, edited by Robert AickmanMay 4, 2021Uncategorizednullimmortalis2 I wrote this during my review of the 2nd book: “…the bringing of all these stories together...
View ArticleThe Keeper / David Rudkin — Tower Block Ghost Story / TSJ Harling
The Keeper / David Rudkin — Tower Block Ghost Story / TSJ HarlingMay 4, 2021Uncategorizednullimmortalis The Keeper / David Rudkin — Tower Block Ghost Story / TSJ Harling3 NIGHTJAR PRESS 2021My...
View ArticleTwo Degrees of Freedom / Simon Okotie — The Elevator / Imogen Reid
Two Degrees of Freedom / Simon Okotie — The Elevator / Imogen ReidMay 4, 2021Uncategorizednullimmortalis3 NIGHTJAR PRESS 2021My previous reviews of this publisher:...
View ArticleThe Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
THE QUEEN OF SPADESTranslated by T. Keane from the Russian of Alexander Pushkin“Hairpins fell in showers around her.”Hermann, who is “not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of...
View ArticleThe Way to Read old DF Lewis Thingies
Please see links below… The Way To ReadMay 8, 2021Uncategorizednullimmortalis0 I have written here before about the way to look at paintings in a gallery or in an art book. You simply need to imagine...
View ArticleThe Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino (ongoing review)
The Devotion of Suspect X – Keigo HigashinoMay 7, 2021Uncategorizednullimmortalis2 2005When I read this book, my thoughts will appear in the comment stream below….Share this:TwitterFacebookCustomize...
View ArticleCarlton’s Father by Eric Ambrose
nullimmortalis May 10, 2021 at 8:32 am CARLTON’S FATHER by Eric Ambrose“Oh, yes, he understood all about the ‘middle third’…”…as I have long understood all about the ‘shadowy third’! Here, naturally,...
View ArticleThe 6th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories, edited by Robert Aickman...
The 6th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories, edited by Robert AickmanMay 12, 2021Uncategorizednullimmortalis3 I wrote this during my review of the 2nd book: “…the bringing of all these stories...
View ArticlePRESENT TENSE (So very late at half-past eight)
PRESENT TENSE (So very late at half-past eight)May 13, 2021Uncategorizednullimmortalis0 Late in the day, Edward King remembered rhymes from old childhood times:One potato, two potato, three potato,...
View ArticleTHE DOOR IN THE WALL by H.G. Wells
nullimmortalis May 14, 2021 at 8:43 am EditTHE DOOR IN THE WALL by H.G. Wells“Poor little wretch I was! — brought back to this grey world again,”This classic story, a very apt follow-up to the...
View ArticleSorworth Place by Russell Kirk
SORWORTH PLACE by Russell Kirk“She carried herself with a dignity that seems to be dying from modern life, looking straight ahead, as if in some reverie that walled her away from the grossness of...
View ArticleOke of Okehurst by Vernon Lee
“Then she unlocks the toad’s dire head,Within whose cell is treasuredThat pretious stone, which she doth callA noble recompence for all,And to her lar doth it present,Of his fair aid a monument.”—...
View ArticleThe 8th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories, edited by Robert Aickman
The 8th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories, edited by Robert AickmanMay 16, 2021Uncategorizednullimmortalis2 I wrote this during my review of the 2nd book: “…the bringing of all these stories...
View ArticleKissing As The Art of Marking Victims
, That was my job.The wave was huge, a tsunami of humani, each with its hand raised and wavering in unison. They told me to watch out for any of the many wavering out of tune, so that each could then...
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