Welcome to Ghost Month on Fantasy Reads. This October I’m recommending From Out of the Silence: Seven Stange Stories (1920). This is the only published collection of stories by Bessie Kyffin-Taylor (1869?-1922), a rather mysterious British author whom I find as haunting as her fiction. It has been republished in paperback and ebook formats by… Continue reading
This month I’m keeping a promise by recommending a Cozy Fantasy novel set in a fortune-telling tearoom in 19th century Chicago. The Crescent Moon Tearoom by American author Stacy Sivinski was published in 2024 and is readily available in all the usual formats. It was the first volume in a series to be known as… Continue reading
October is Ghost Month on Fantasy Reads and this year I’m recommending the subtle ghost stories of the American author, Edith Wharton (1872-1937). Although she is more famous for literary classics such as The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence, Wharton wrote on supernatural themes throughout her career and her last published book… Continue reading
October is Ghost Month on Fantasy Reads. This year I’ve chosen to celebrate the ghostly fiction of one of my heroines – author, suffragist and Egyptologist Amelia B. Edwards (1831-1892). Edwards has become so famous as an intrepid traveller and the Godmother of British Egyptology (see her bestselling A Thousand Miles Up the Nile 1877)… Continue reading
October is Ghost Month on Fantasy Reads and this year I’m recommending the supernatural fiction of D.K.Broster (1877 -1950). Broster was an historical novelist, best known for her Flight of the Heron trilogy, but she also published two collections of short fiction – A Fire of Driftwood (1932) and Couching at the Door (1942) –… Continue reading