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The [Usborne] Book of Ghosts!
William Hope Hodgson in Wales!
Is Nessie an Eel?
maximus otter
William Hope Hodgson in Wales!
Is Nessie an Eel?
maximus otter
Amazing! I mean what time does your post come?
I visited the Chase Vault about 10 or 11 years ago. I’ve some photos of me in the vault as I was thinking of doing a piece for FT at the time. Must dig them out and post a couple here.I have just been reading about the Barbados moving coffins in a book today lol
Must dig them out and post a couple here.
I visited the Chase Vault about 10 or 11 years ago. I’ve some photos of me in the vault as I was thinking of doing a piece for FT at the time. Must dig them out and post a couple here.
I was thinking that but decided against it, I mean it's very childish..... I know I will get it sooner or laterLovely article on the Usborne book, very tempted to order a copy now.
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I was thinking that but decided against it, I mean it's very childish..... I know I will get it sooner or later
It’s only hit the shops today so try again tomorrow but yes the WH Smith’s Hunt the FT is a bit annoying!Anyone else having trouble finding the latest issue? My usual vendor - a train station WH Smith's- doesn't have any, and I had a very thorough look for it (which I usually need to do since they seem to shelve it in a different place each month).
It’s only hit the shops today so try again tomorrow but yes the WH Smith’s Hunt the FT is a bit annoying!
I’m picking mine up tomorrow, I’ll report back if it’s actually there.Usually they have it on a Thursday, they're usually putting their magazines on the shelves when I'm on my way to work in the morning, but for some reason it's always in a different place: it's been in with the politics magazines, tucked in behind Nexus, in the comics section, and next to Viz over the past year.
the WH Smith’s Hunt the FT is a bit annoying!
This ongoing phenomenon surely deserves an article in FT!but for some reason it's always in a different place
This ongoing phenomenon surely deserves an article in FT!
Yes it was there, several copies in my local newsagent.I’m picking mine up tomorrow, I’ll report back if it’s actually there.
I'm glad to see Muriel Spark get an, albeit tangential, mention in The Haunted Generation section.
Spark's spookier stories can be disconcerting in a way which reminds me just a little of Aickman. Often overlooked within the genre - possibly because she didn't write that many ghost stories, or didn't deliberately attempt to align herself with the type - her ghost stories are well worth looking out for.
Which ones would you recommend as spooky? Memento Mori certainly has that effect.
I suspect the thing with Phenomenonix this month.... anyone who has read Pyramids by Terry Pratchett will have a head-start here; this deals with how a civilization suspiciously like Ancient Egypt came to be, how it consumed the resources of a potentially very rich state in something as expensive and labour intense as pyramid-building, and most crucially why. Pyramids sees the beginning of, er, Djelibeybi in an authoritarian-minded wannabe High Priest wandering in what was then a desert, pondering exactly how to make himself the most important person in the land, and how to get a people predisposed to scepticism to say something other than "Get stuffed!", and to join in a Great Venture. Which has himself at or pretty near the top. Not for personal aggrandisment, oh no, perish the thought, but for the Good of the People and in order to do the bidding of the Gods.Yea, Phenomenomix went over my head as well, can anyone put it in idiot language for me please?
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Imma big TP fan lol need to read that one again, thanks, i do remember bits of itI suspect the thing with Phenomenonix this month.... anyone who has read Pyramids by Terry Pratchett will have a head-start here; this deals with how a civilization suspiciously like Ancient Egypt came to be, how it consumed the resources of a potentially very rich state in something as expensive and labour intense as pyramid-building, and most crucially why. Pyramids sees the beginning of, er, Djelibeybi in an authoritarian-minded wannabe High Priest wandering in what was then a desert, pondering exactly how to make himself the most important person in the land, and how to get a people predisposed to scepticism to say something other than "Get stuffed!", and to join in a Great Venture. Which has himself at or pretty near the top. Not for personal aggrandisment, oh no, perish the thought, but for the Good of the People and in order to do the bidding of the Gods.
in Pyramids, Dios (the intense-minded wanderer in the desert) claims the miracle of striking the ground with his staff, to make a mighty river appear where previously there was none (Actually, it's a temporal anomaly resolving itself - the river was really there all along, but temporarily hidden three thousand years in the future and was due to reappear all on its own anyway. He just claims the credit - and the People of the Djel go along with the Great Work of building Pyramids to glorify the Gods. Who Dios makes up - but this being the Discworld, god-energy comes along to fill the shapes he creates. It all makes sense in context).
Same sort of thing here - the power-minded dreamer is there when the meteorite falls. Then the very tiny pyramid-shaped entity (you know, the one with the Eye in the Triangle) hidden within takes his, or her, opportunity.... and thus the Egyptian people are suckered into spending the next few millenia raising up the Phaoronic and Priestly class to rule over them. And spending their days dragging piles of stone around to stack up in an aestheitically pleasing and pointy sort of way.
Now go read Pratchett's Pyramids, if you have not already done so.