Susan Hill, author of the classic modern British ghost story The Woman In Black, and the novels The Man In The Picture and The Mist In The Mirror, has a new ghost book coming out,.the eerie-sounding The Small Hand. (She clearly has a thing for “The…” titles…) It’s published by Profile Books and due out [...]
Apparently Christopher Lee, the high priest of horror cinema, is also a fan of ghost stories. Not only did he play M.R. James in a BBC adaptation of four of the stories, but he also actually met James. He was examined by him whilst he was a scholar studying at Cambridge.
I gleaned this snippet from [...]
Apparently, the first story to claim this title appeared in the December 1948 edition of Thrilling Wonder Stories, one of those brilliant pulp sci fi mags with garish bug eyed monsters and big breasted space maidens on the cover. Fredric Brown’s two sentence story goes:
“The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There [...]
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