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Sonnedragon Serialization, Part 14
Front pages: maps, illustrations, family trees, etc. Dafythe was often credited with shaping the pax normania of this century, but in truth most of it had been Kharles’s work. He had merely served as...
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Sonnedragon Serialization, Part 15
Front pages: maps, illustrations, family trees, etc. Once Duke, Mara would answer only to her liege lord Kharles and to God. Dafythe found no comfort here. Mara believed now that God meant her to kill...
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DVD Review: Whistle, and I’ll Come To You
From the 1960s, the BBC presented a television series on Christmas Eve titled A Ghost Story for Christmas. Just recently, I picked up a set of episodes from this series on DVD, most of them based...
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Sonnedragon Serialization, Part 16
Front pages: maps, illustrations, family trees, etc. syx Pendaunzel anxiously awaited news from Europe. In May, the Emperor summoned Juan Maria to London, where the renegade swore his fealty. Before...
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Dark Shadows: Angelique’s Ashes
Witchy Cassandra/Angelique Collins was banished to some kind of spiritual limbo by the Reverend Trask’s successful exorcism of her. She’s not only disappeared from Collinwood, but her portrait has...
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Sonnedragon Serialization, Part 17
Part 17 Front pages: maps, illustrations, family trees, etc. The death of Penelope and the increasing infirmity of Marianne forced him to consider the end of his own existence. He might live a few...
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DVD Review: The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral
Continuing with my reviews of the BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas based on the stories of M.R. James, I’m going to look at “The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral.” The story, written in 1911, is online at...
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Dark Shadows: How Barnabas Became a Vampire Again
Or maybe not. The dream curse that’s been going around among the main characters has finally reached Vicky. Since Barnabas is the next person–and the last person–who will have it and it will destroy...
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DVD Review: A Warning to the Curious
Legend has it that three silver crowns were buried somewhere along the East Anglian coast in Anglo-Saxon times to ward off invasion. These three crowns can still be seen on coats of arms around Norfolk...
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Sonnedragon Serialization, Part 18
Front pages: maps, illustrations, family trees, etc. Andemyon’s remarkable beauty had already excited too much attention. Silent and solemn, blond and cherubic, he stood out among the other...
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Dark Shadows: The End of Angelique?
Young David Collins has finally listened to the late Dr. Lang’s recorded message regarding the connection between Barnabas and his creation, Adam: the gist of it is that if Adam dies, Barnabas will...
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Sonnedragon Serialization, Part 19
Front pages: maps, illustrations, family trees, etc. After the tumultuous summer of 1953, autumn began placidly. Rumors proved themselves true when Guenithyre gave birth to a son; the infant was...
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DVD Review: Lost Hearts
“Lost Hearts,” one of M.R. James’s early stories, is a more conventional type of ghost story, in which the dead seek revenge against a wrong done against them. But the ghosts are not the horror here....
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Sonnedragon Serialization, Part 20
Front pages: maps, illustrations, family trees, etc. Prince Juan and his bride went to Paris at Christmas and, in January, Juan’s son Eduarde was sent to serve as a page in Kharles’ court. Pendaunzel...
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Dark Shadows: Bride of the Monster
Adam has fallen in love with Carolyn. Unfortunately, he decides to take Nicholas’s insidious advice about being a man and taking what he wants, and he grabs her. Carolyn, fortunately, is able to fend...
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Sonnedragon Serialization, Part 21
Front pages: maps, illustrations, family trees, etc. sen War! Dafythe made his announcement that evening and the court hummed with the news by late morning. From Pendaunzel, word spread quickly to the...
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DVD Review: The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas, written by M.R. James in 1904, is a tale in which his usual type of protagonist, an antiquary scholar, discovers and solves a series of puzzles that lead him to find a...
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Sonnedragon Serialization, Part 22
Front pages: maps, illustrations, family trees, etc. The heralds milled about the state hall, waiting for Dafythe to emerge. The eldest boys diced against the wall. Others were engaged in some childish...
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DVD Review: The Ash Tree
M.R. James’s story, on the Gaslight site at http://gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca/jamesX05.htm, is about a 17th-century gentleman who accuses a woman of witchcraft. Unfortunately for him, the accusation isn’t...
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Sonnedragon Serialization, Part 23
Front pages: maps, illustrations, family trees, etc. The War in the Marches 1954 heyghte “It’s her! That’s the Prince!” The crowd in the Huitelm murmured excitedly as Mara and her Shieldmaid companions...
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