The Dusty Bookcase

A JOURNEY THROUGH CANADA'S FORGOTTEN, NEGLECTED AND SUPPRESSED WRITING

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Showing posts with label Horror. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Horror. Show all posts

19 October 2024

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Barnabas, Quentin and the Crystal Coffin Marilyn Ross [W.E.D. Ross] New York: Paperback Library, 1970 157 pages The back cover poses a quest...

13 November 2017

Twenty-three Centuries of Freaky Fridays

Grandma's Little Darling Stephen R. George New York: Zebra, 1990 320 pages Horror hasn't much figured here, yet the genre d...

23 October 2017

Our Stephen

In anticipation of All Hallow's Eve, five favourite Stephen R. George covers, beginning with 1989's Nightscape . As with all oth...

17 February 2016

The Strange Satanic Canada of a Future Past

For My Country [ Pour la patrie: roman du XXe siecle ] Jules-Paul Tardivel [Sheila Fischman, trans] Toronto: University of Toronto...

12 July 2011

Ontario Gothic Romance (with the scent of Brut)

Satan's Bell Joy Carroll Markham, ON: Pocket Books, 1976 190 pages This review now appears, revised and rewritten, i...

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About Me

Brian Busby: A writer, ghostwriter, écrivain public, literary historian and bibliophile, I'm the author of Character Parts: Who's Really Who in CanLit (Knopf, 2003), and A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Translator, Memoirist and Pornographer (McGill-Queen's UP, 2011; shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize). I've edited over a dozen books, including The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of John Glassco (Véhicule, 2013) and George Fetherling's The Writing Life: Journals 1975-2005 (McGill-Queen's UP, 2013). I currently serve as series editor for Ricochet Books and am a contributing editor for Canadian Notes & Queries. My most recent book is The Dusty Bookcase (Biblioasis, 2017), a collection of revised and expanded reviews first published here and elsewhere.

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