Bibliopolitan: Brief Notes on Books

The ingredients used to make this novel promise something delectable. There is a deceased and disreputable writer, Cyril Heldman, who wrote weird and occultish tales and who died under very strange circumstances. His literary executor, …

Novelist Andrew Michael Hurley has published what is basically a thirteen story collection, centered around a fictional border town between Yorkshire and Lancashire called Barrowbeck. This provides a thin skein that connects the stories, and …

This book looked interesting. Two college associates secretly experiment with extra-sensory perception, and one encounters some old mirrors of obsidian of a type associated with Dr. Dee, Edward Kelly and ancient Aztec worship. But any …