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Discovered below from the web archives of my old DFL website, i.e. from Rhys Hughes in 2000. Reprinted here because I think it is hilarious and vintage arch-Rhys-Hughesian.I hope he doesn't mind: In an ocean of fi

Pillowghost

Thursday, 29 October 2009 8:19 P GMT+01

Pillowghost (coined as an expression here) can often sound like 'poltergeist' but is in fact something quite different and far more dangerous because its name seems sweeter than poltergeist – more appealing to parents who like telling s

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Karim Ghahwagi's Real-Time Review of NEMONYMOUS TWO

Thursday, 29 October 2009 11:53 A GMT+01

A remarkable review of NEMONYOUS TWO (2002) still on-going here:http://www.knibbworld.com/campbell-cgi/discus/show.cgi?tpc=1&post=39403#POST39403One of the stories inspired Joel Lane's acclaimed novella: "The Witnesses Are Gone".&nb

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The Last Balcony

Tuesday, 27 October 2009 8:58 P GMT+01

I have just written a short-short entitled THE LAST BALCONY that can be read here: http://www.ligotti.net/showthread.php?t=3552I am hoping that 'The Last Balcony' as a title may be at least the 'working title' of the DFL B

All Gods Angels, Beware! - Quentin S Crisp (Part 2)

Sunday, 25 October 2009 11:56 A GMT+01

CONTINUED FROM HERE: http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/all_gods_angels_beware__quentin_s_crisp.htmA Cup of Tea"I would read a section like this before I had to rest myself by looking up, only to find myself in a world of the 'dull smoke-colou

All God's Angels, Beware! - Quentin S Crisp

Friday, 23 October 2009 4:50 P GMT+01

I’m starting another of my real-time reviews on this page, i.e. of "ALL GOD'S ANGELS, BEWARE!" by Quentin S. Crisp (Ex Occidente Press 2009). I shall attempt to draw out all the fiction's leitmotifs and mould t

DFL's Last Bow

Friday, 23 October 2009 11:24 A GMT+01

I am very pleased to report that it is planned that the ultimate all-encompassing last-bow DFL fiction collection will be published during 2010 by Ex Occidente Press.

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Black Static - issue 13

Wednesday, 21 October 2009 8:36 P GMT+01

I’m starting another of my real-time reviews. This time it is of the fiction stories in TTA Press's ‘BLACK STATIC’ - Issue 13 (October / November 2009). I shall attempt to draw out all the fiction's leitmotifs an

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The Ozymandias Site

Tuesday, 20 October 2009 10:10 A GMT+01

A story in the CERN ZOO book. The Ozymandias Site"Our Five were on the verge of all-out civl war..."This is a substantial SF story. Well-written. Significant, too. How significant, I'm not sure, as I am not a curre

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CERN Zoo - A DFL Real-Time Review (Part 3)

Monday, 19 October 2009 3:04 P GMT+01

CONTINUED FROM HERE: http://weirdmonger.blogspot.com/2009/10/cern-zoo-dfl-real-time-reiew-part-two.html Turn The Crank"Jonas was standing outside what had been Woolworth's plucking a quiet tune out of his acoustic guitar."But

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Shoals

Monday, 19 October 2009 10:23 A GMT+01

If the future speaks to us we are truly the Dead who Speak back to it.Above quote from 'Cern Zoo' review HERE. "Most of all the dead, from mortuaries, from under cataracts of rubble, made their anonymous presence – not a

CERN Zoo - a DFL real-time review

Saturday, 17 October 2009 6:26 P GMT+01

I shall be starting another of my real-time reviews on this page. This time it is of the stories in Megazanthus Press's CERN ZOO - Nemonymous Nine (June 2009). This review will be written here ... slowly, savou

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The Cern Zoo book post-predicted the Collider's sabotage of itself from the future

Friday, 16 October 2009 7:37 P GMT+01

Has anyone been following the latest news on the Hadron Collider that it's sabotaging itself from the future?http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/science/space/13lhc.html?bl This is indeed predicted or post-predicted by th

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Early template for blogging

Friday, 16 October 2009 6:47 P GMT+01

Pre-internet, I had masses published 1987 - 1995. Please see partial bibiography HERE as evidence. So, was I the first inkling of an 'Internet' junkie - by, almost at will it seemed, during that early period, h

Women with their backs to us

Wednesday, 14 October 2009 10:33 A GMT+01

There was an exhibition of paintings of women with their backs to us. I, as a woman, wondered why anyone would think to paint these paintings or arrange such a display of mixed motives: scornful watchfuless, loving care at a distance, stalking, pinin

Pirate (two)

Monday, 12 October 2009 12:51 P GMT+01

There was a book on my bookcase – among an eclectic collection of other books – entitled ‘Pirate’ that I cannot recall seeing there before. That seemed strange as it was at the level of the bookcase to where

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Nostalgia

Saturday, 10 October 2009 10:06 P GMT+01

Nostalgia is intellectualisation of an earlier self within the setting of an alien self that one has since become.

Text Not Textpectation - Part 2

Friday, 9 October 2009 8:33 P GMT+01

Interesting thoughts by Jason Van Hollander (on authorial story-notes as printed within fiction books) from a discussion forum, i.e. thoughts that he has agreed I can quote here:<<The experience of reading is affected

Text not Textpectation

Thursday, 8 October 2009 5:09 P GMT+01

An interesting discussion of Shakespeare and prejudice (interesting so far: 5.05 pm British Summer Time):http://www.knibbworld.com/campbell-cgi/discus/show.cgi?tpc=1&post=37916#POST37916

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alogos on 'The Hawler' reading

Tuesday, 6 October 2009 11:10 P GMT+01

Here is an extract from a public post by 'alogos' on a Thomas Ligotti Online thread HERE:<<All that said I am currently listening to the D. F. Lewis' the Hawler, and have some thoughts on it already that I have been

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The Apocryfan (read aloud)

Tuesday, 6 October 2009 7:09 P GMT+01

I speak weirdtongue... I am reading aloud the novella THE APOCRYFAN (2007). Please click on 'chapters' below.The reading of 'The Apocryfan' is another real-time stumble-through that is authentic to its plot and to the

Yesterfang (read aloud)

Monday, 5 October 2009 7:08 P GMT+01

I speak weirdtongue... I am reading aloud the novella YESTERFANG (2007). Please click on 'chapters' below.The reading of 'Yesterfang' is another real-time stumble-through that is authentic to its plot and t

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Different Skins - by Gary McMahon

Sunday, 4 October 2009 2:29 P GMT+01

I’m starting another of my real-time reviews. This time it is of ‘Different Skins’ by Gary McMahon (Screaming Dreams 2009). [My previous reviews are linked from here: http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/recent_reviews_o

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Ellen Datlow's Honourable Mentions

Sunday, 4 October 2009 11:37 A GMT+01

Shown here: http://www.nightshadebooks.com/discus/messages/233/31565.html?1254591491Those HMs applicable to 'Cone Zero' (Nemonymous Eight): Clements, Dominy “Angel Zero,”Kirby, A. J. “How to Kill an Hour,&rd

I speeka the Weirdtongue

Saturday, 3 October 2009 2:08 P GMT+01

Do others feel there is any mileage in reading their fiction aloud for the Internet...better than e-books? Better even than real books?? My readings aloud so far: http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/summary_of_dfl_readings.htm

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