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Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories Brian Moore [Belfast]: Turnpike, 2020 102 pages Brian Moore was first and foremost a novelist. He rece...

'Nemesis Wins' Grant Allen Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual London: Haddon, 1894 I often start the New Year with so...

No Pattern for Life Frances Shelley Wees The Star Weekly, 11 December 1955 Not so much novel as novella, No Pattern for Life came a...

Five glimpses of Leonard Cohen's short story "Barbers and Lovers", from the Spring 1971 issue of  Ingluvin . ...

The Montrealer. vol. 32, no. 5 (May 1958) I don't remember much of  The Montrealer . I was in elementary school when it folded and...

Dundas Street, London, Ontario, c. 1905 The Smart Set , May 1903 Related post: An Old Poem for the New Year by Arthur Stringer...

The editor of this mag, John Sutherland, is a very decent chap, about 30, a pretty good drinker too... – John Glassco, letter to R...

The Soul Eater Thomas P. Kelley Uncanny Tales, vol. 2, no. 17 (May 1942) Thomas P. Kelley bragged that when sitting down to write a...

Purchased just last week, a century or so after it arrived at the news agent, the December 1911 edition of The Canadian Magazine was har...