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White Threshold: July 2014
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A Cult Fiction Blog. Saturday, 12 July 2014. I was led to Carnival. By my enjoyment of another Compton Mackenzie novel, The Monarch of the Glen. Was the basis of an Ealing comedy film; that was the next book of his I read, finding it slightly disappointing after the very funny Monarch. Which was a big surprise in all sorts of ways. For a start, where was the Scottishness? Sarcastically, to imply that she sees through an obvious attempt to deceive), 'you date! And 'Hark at him! She called out, 'May! Next ...
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White Threshold: Intermission
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A Cult Fiction Blog. Friday, 2 March 2012. White Threshold is taking a break. I hope to be back with more news shortly. My other literary blog, Starling City. Is still up and running, or at least ambling. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Poet, novelist, short-story writer. Reader in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University. I live in Ceredigion on the west coast of Wales with my wife, Creina. View my complete profile. The Book of the Needle. Novel, due out from Cinnamon Press. Singing a Man to Death.
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White Threshold: Compton Mackenzie: Carnival
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A Cult Fiction Blog. Saturday, 12 July 2014. I was led to Carnival. By my enjoyment of another Compton Mackenzie novel, The Monarch of the Glen. Was the basis of an Ealing comedy film; that was the next book of his I read, finding it slightly disappointing after the very funny Monarch. Which was a big surprise in all sorts of ways. For a start, where was the Scottishness? Sarcastically, to imply that she sees through an obvious attempt to deceive), 'you date! And 'Hark at him! She called out, 'May! Next ...
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White Threshold: May 2014
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A Cult Fiction Blog. Sunday, 4 May 2014. It is the first of November 1993, a significant date in Britain's history: we have just become part of the European Union. On this day, in a trope reminiscent of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. For a start, where is all this happening? It is the first of November 1993 and somewhere in the Kingdom, in Quarndon or Northampton or Newry or York, in Kircaldy or Yeovil or Lincoln or Neath, a baby girl is born. Has a writer been so upfront about it. This method, wh...
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White Threshold: January 2014
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A Cult Fiction Blog. Thursday, 2 January 2014. Robert Aickman: Cold Hand in Mine. The book that has prompted the revival of this blog is a collection of short stories called Cold Hand in Mine. Hence the generic-looking cover in the image shown here). I am a bit slow catching on to the Aickman cult. You can find a lot about him on the web, including a bibliographical database. And a recent radio programme on him by the writer Jeremy Dyson on BBC iPlayer. And a novella The Model: A Novel of the Fantastic.
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White Threshold: March 2014
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A Cult Fiction Blog. Saturday, 22 March 2014. Lud-in-the-Mist is the capital of the free state of Dorimare, "scattered about the banks of two rivers, the Dapple and the Dawl":. We are in a Fantasyland, then, and an almost excessively charming one, whose inhabitants drink wild thyme gin and flower-in-amber, eat Moongrass cheese and smoked ham with pickled cowslips, and swear oaths like "Busty Bridget! The central image of the book must owe something to Christina Rosetti's Goblin Market. Part fairy story, ...
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White Threshold: Hope Mirrlees: Lud-in-the-Mist
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A Cult Fiction Blog. Saturday, 22 March 2014. Lud-in-the-Mist is the capital of the free state of Dorimare, "scattered about the banks of two rivers, the Dapple and the Dawl":. We are in a Fantasyland, then, and an almost excessively charming one, whose inhabitants drink wild thyme gin and flower-in-amber, eat Moongrass cheese and smoked ham with pickled cowslips, and swear oaths like "Busty Bridget! The central image of the book must owe something to Christina Rosetti's Goblin Market. Part fairy story, ...
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White Threshold: Robert Irwin: The Arabian Nightmare
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A Cult Fiction Blog. Wednesday, 18 January 2012. Robert Irwin: The Arabian Nightmare. One of my most fruitful sources of cult fiction is The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. Edited by John Clute and John Grant. It's much more than a reference work; you can spend hours browsing among its articled under such imaginative headings as Fimbulwinter. The Norse myth of an unending winter has many modern offshoots, including the opening scenes of The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. Or Into the Woods. Calls a Taproot Text.
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White Threshold: March 2012
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A Cult Fiction Blog. Friday, 2 March 2012. White Threshold is taking a break. I hope to be back with more news shortly. My other literary blog, Starling City. Is still up and running, or at least ambling. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Poet, novelist, short-story writer. Reader in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University. I live in Ceredigion on the west coast of Wales with my wife, Creina. View my complete profile. The Book of the Needle. Novel, due out from Cinnamon Press. Singing a Man to Death.
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White Threshold: February 2012
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A Cult Fiction Blog. Sunday, 19 February 2012. Jan Potocki:The Manuscript Found in Saragossa. The princess ordered the skeletons to return to the chest, then said, 'Romati, never forget as long as you live what you have seen here.'. As she said this she grasped my arm. I felt it burn to the bone and I fainted. Is nothing if not intertextual, an anthology of weird, comic and sensational tales from across Europe. Like its modern British descendant, Robert Irwin's The Arabian Nightmare. Is an important char...
