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Elizabeth Taylor’s Complete Short Stories (3) - ongoing review
Continued from https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/elizabeth-taylor-stories-2/My previous reviews of older or classic fictions: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/reviews-of-older-books/When I...
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That Glimpse of Truth (4) - ongoing review
THAT GLIMPSE OF TRUTH Part 4PART FOUR, as continued from here: https://etepsed.wordpress.com/1303-2/100 OF THE FINEST SHORT STORIES EVER WRITTEN chosen by David MillerMy previous reviews of older or...
View ArticleTragic Casements by Oliver Onions
This so-called ghost story — as sort-of-Joycean prose, but somehow more osmotically absorbable than Joyce — is its own mentioned “decalcomania” upon the surface whence it is read then onto the...
View ArticleROOUM by Oliver Onions
“Somewhere or other he’d picked up the word ‘osmosis’, and seemed to have some glimmering of its meaning. He dropped the molecules, and began to ask me about osmosis.”I look at words with a sense of...
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The Drover’s Wife and other Stories by Murray Bail
1975When I read this book, my thoughts will appear in the comment stream below…Share this:TwitterFacebookCustomize buttonsRelatedWe’ll Never Have ParisMay 22, 2019In "Adam Roberts"These Long Teeth Of...
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THE MAN WHO WENT TOO FAR by E.F. Benson
“White moths hovered dimly over the garden-beds, and the footsteps of night tip-toed through the bushes.”This in many ways is the apotheosis of a gushing, insufferable, but paradoxically sufferable,...
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The Complete Stories of Mary Butts
When I read these stories by thoughts will appear in the comment stream below…(My previous reviews of older or classic fiction: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/reviews-of-older-books/)Share...
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DECASTROLAND by Andrew Caldecott
DECASTROLAND by Andrew Caldecott“In the middle of the cabin sat a man feverishly painting at an easel. His head moved neither upward, downward, nor aside. There was something sinister, even...
View ArticleThe Rope In The Rafters (1935) by Oliver Onions
“…but always returning to his thought . . . that if a man brought more to a place than he found there he already knew a good deal more about it than anybody else could tell him.”“The thing had already...
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Between Sunset and Moonrise by R.H. Malden
“About thirty yards from her house there was an elbow in the drove.”It is important to closely read and remember the paragraph here about ‘droves’ in the wilds of Norfolk, the nature of these dubious...
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The Closed Window by A.C. Benson
Spoilers!The legend was that the window at the top of the tower was most strictly kept closed because of young Sir Mark de Nort’s late grandfather had made it so. And it seems this is because of some...
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The Honey In The Wall by Oliver Onions
Reviewed here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/08/22/the-rope-in-the-rafters-1935-by-oliver-onions/In more ways than one, ‘The Rope in the Rafters’ is the counterpart puzzle to that in the...
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The Rose Garden by M.R. James
“…the hold ones was the worst:”This disarming M.R. James work seems in mutual synergy with R.H. Malden’s ‘The Sundial’ (reviewed HERE) — the latter’s ‘If you’ll pull, I’ll push’ versus the former’s...
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Coloured Quilts & Grey Velvet
THREE STORIES BY RICHARD MIDDLETONTHE STORY OF A BOOK “The author had nothing to say, and he has said it.”About a novel being written and published, an intentional fallacy of a fiction, where the...
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COULEUR DE ROSE by John Keir Cross
And, so, somehow, after my writing about him HERE about an hour or so ago, the policeman in Richard Middleton’s rose-tinted book eventually improves his chances…An arresting tale involving two...
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THE STEP by E.F. Benson
“…and there was the following step again, neither gaining on him nor falling behind;”…and this story is thus the essence of the paradoxical Zenoist syndrome I have identified for myself in Aickman and...
View ArticleMrs Amworth by E.F. Benson
POSSIBLE SPOILERS“Railway strikes which agitate the country so much leave us undisturbed because most of the inhabitants of Maxley never leave it at all.”This is the famous horror fiction about the...
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The First Sheaf by H. Russell Wakefield
“…and we were driving to Manchester for a Harty Sibelius concert.”…when this story discovery (a true classic!) — read today I think for the first time — was told to ‘me’ in the car by Old Porteous...
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The Rosewood Door by Oliver Onions
About two brothers, Humphrey and Barty (the latter missing in service, presumed dead), and a woman called Agatha. The door central to this novella is explicitly curved, or “rounded” with The Tempest’s...
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Other Stories by L.P. Hartley
My reviews of THE TRAVELLING GRAVE AND OTHER STORIES: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/08/04/the-travelling-grave-and-other-stories-by-l-p-hartley/And THE TWO VAYNES and a few other stories:...
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