NO TALK! NO BORINGNESS! STRAIGHT TO THE STORIES!!! (Except that the opening quote is from Celebrant by Michael Cisco. He’s awesome. He has nothing at
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Podcast: Christmas Past, American Xmas Literary History with Thomas Ruys Smith
I chat with Thomas Ruys Smith, editor of Christmas Past: An Anthology of Seasonal Stories from Nineteenth Century America and Professor of American Literature and
Podcast! Ghost Stories, Weird Poetry, and All Manner of Old Xmas Weirdness with Christopher Philippo
I chat with Christopher Philippo, editor of Volumes 4 and 5 of the Valancourt Books of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories. But we also talk about
In Which I Undermine My Entire Premise
Loads of people are asking me that all important question this year: “Why are all these old cards so weird?” So many have asked, in
Xmas at the Natural History Museum (De La Rue Company)
A couple of folk have asked for these, so time to put them all in one place. One year, the de la Rue company, which
All Dem Dead Birds for Christmas
I found YET ANOTHER dead bird card the other day. Here ’tis: But I’ve got enough now that I need to put them all in
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