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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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DVD Review: The Stone Tape
The Stone Tape, written by Nigel Kneale, aired on the BBC on Christmas day 1972 and again the following Halloween, then disappeared into the BBC archives for decades. But it wasn’t forgotten. For many...
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Dark Shadows: Barnabas Collins: Fearless Vampire Hunter
It starts when Angelique bites Joe Haskell’s cousin Tom, who then dies in the hospital after Joe, who has also been bitten and is in thrall to Angelique, leaves the window open so that she can get at...
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Sonnedragon Serialization, Part 24
Front pages: maps, illustrations, family trees, etc. Adyna Alekeep consented reluctantly. She didn’t wish her young daughter to go so far away with the armies, but she acknowledged that Ren was growing...
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Sonnedragon Serialization, Part 25
Front pages: maps, illustrations, family trees, etc. They approached the old fortress. The walls were thirty feet tall, huge piles of mortared stone, enormously thick to support their own weight and...
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Dark Shadows: Back to the Bride
Even though he’s forcing Dr. Hoffman et al to make him a new girlfriend, Adam still pines for Carolyn. In his hiding place in the abandoned west wing of Collinwood, his education continues to improve....
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Sonnedragon Serialization, Part 26
Front pages: maps, illustrations, family trees, etc. The Marchion’s frontier manners were more direct than Mara and Kat were used to, but neither took the young man for an ill-bred rustic. Mara quickly...
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DVD Review: Casting the Runes
Casting the Runes is perhaps M.R. James’s most famous story, certainly his most influential. Its central concept of having a curse you can pass to someone else–or have it rebound back upon you with...
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Dark Shadows: Evil Eve
Since she had apparently died after participating in the create-a-girlfriend-for-Adam project, Barnabas is astonished to find Carolyn Stoddard alive and well at Collinwood after all. Carolyn says that...
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Congratulations to Megan Feldman on her new book!
Congrats to Megan Feldman Bettencourt on the publication of Triumph of the Heart: Forgiveness in an Unforgiving World. Read the Publisher’s Weekly review and order your copy here:...
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Sonnedragon Serialization, Part 27
Front pages: maps, illustrations, family trees, etc. nyne Six weeks later, the armies of the Northlands began to cross the Shieldwall. They had mobilized with astonishing swiftness; Mara had deployed...
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DVD Review: Mr. Humphreys and His Inheritance
This short feature is an extra on the DVD for Casting the Runes, also made by ITV Yorkshire Television in the 1970s. It is very short, only about 15 minutes, and appears to be part of an educational...
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Sonnedragon Serialization, Part 28
Front pages: maps, illustrations, family trees, etc. After the last of her party had gone, Mara kicked out her bedroll by the dying fire. She didn’t expect to sleep. How could she with the dawn only a...
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DVD Review: Quatermass & the Pit, Pt. 1
I’ve been meaning to review the 1967 Hammer film version of this story, aka Five Million Miles to Earth, since last October; that was the one I grew up with on late-night television and affectionately...
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DVD Review: Quatermass & the Pit, Pt. 2
Episode 2: The Ghosts The story picks up just where it left off at the end of Part 1. Is the object discovered in the pit of the Hobbs End construction site by Dr. Roney’s archaeological team more than...
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DVD Review: Quatermass & the Pit, Pt. 3
Episode 3: Imps and Demons The young soldier who was hysterical at the end of Part 2 is conveyed into the shack that Dr. Roney uses as an office. He’s still in shock over the thing he saw inside the...
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Dark Shadows: More Evil Eve
After Adam and the newly created but dressed up for an evening out Eve disappear from the old Collins house, Professor Stokes goes over to the abandoned west wing of Collinwood in hopes of finding them...
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DVD Review: Quatermass & the Pit, Pt. 4
Dr. Roney and Barbara Judd gather up the specimens and rush to get them preserved and sent to the institute for study. Now that the sealed forward section of the spaceship has been breached and filthy...
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DVD Review: Quatermass & the Pit, Pt. 5
Episode 5: The Wild Hunt The story picks up shortly after the end of Part 4, inside the church where the drillman (whose name, by the way is Sladden) collapsed after his mad, possessed, bunny-hop dash...
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Excerpt from “Cousin Wilfrid”
From The Abrupt Disappearance of Cousin Wilfrid: On Monday morning while he breakfasted at a little table in the bow window of his room, there was knock at the door. Freddie looked up from his plate of...
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