Horror

Gathering Evidence — Martin MacInnes

First published 2020. Atlantic Books paperback, 2021, pp313, c.70,000 words. This is a Scott of the Antarctic or a Titanic of a book: a magnificent try in so many ways, but ultimately a failure. I had high hope for it as the predecessor of MacInnes’s superb In Ascension, but the later coheres where this does […]

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Women and Ghosts — Alison Lurie

First published 1994. Minerva, paperback, 1994, pp 211, c.70,000 words. I’m not a fan of ghost stories, but I do love Alison Lurie’s writing, and as this is the only fiction of hers I haven’t read… well it was time. There are ten unconnected stories in this collection, and they average about twenty pages apiece.

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