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Continue reading →: Encounters on the RoadWe were just ready to depart from Papingo this morning when a green bus with a UK plate pulled up next to me. This was Nige, a climber from the Isle of Harris, and his wife from Sweden, and their two children, about 8 and 10 years old. Nige had…
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Continue reading →: Aunt Jeanne by Georges Simenon
translated from the French by Geoffrey Sainsbury Jeanne is a plus-sized fifty-seven year old widower, recently returned from almost forty years working overseas, in Turkey, in Egypt, but mainly in Argentina. For most of the novel we don’t know exactly why she returned, just that there was some sort of…
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Continue reading →: A Journey to a Sacred GroveOne of the restaurants in the village was open last night. I arrived and ordered a beer. They were quite happy for Roja to go inside, preferable to the tables outside, which were a bit cold at 10C. I was invited to join a group of three at the neighbouring…
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Continue reading →: Papingo, Vikos Aoos National ParkThere were storms overnight, with rain drumming so hard on the roof that I struggled to hear the film I was watching and had to turn on the subtitles. After a few nights of watching stuff from the horror genre I can recommend only one film at the moment, an…
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Continue reading →: A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand
The jacket notes proclaim this to be the ‘authorised’ sequel to [book:The Haunting of Hill House|89717]. Authorised by whom I wonder, not Jackson herself who died in 1965. Rather, I think the queen of literary horror fiction would revolve in her grave if she read this, or even knew about…
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Continue reading →: Elefthero, beneath the Tymfi massif, the northern Pindos
I was blown off my perch this morning. Overnight the wind had got up, as of course, the van was facing the wrong way, the side door into the teeth of the gale. A quick swivel through ninety degrees, and the morning routine could take place. The pass has a…
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Continue reading →: Vasilitsa Pass (1750 metres)Monday morning matters: take out the trash, recycle the beer bottles and cans, replenish the water supply, sweep the dog hair away. But then more pleasurably, I drove back up from the gorge through the narrow streets of Spileo which at the weekend had been busy with visitors at its…
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Continue reading →: When Evil Lurks
or, Cuando acecha la maldad In a remote village, two brothers find an infected man, but infected by what, a virus, or something demonic. They decide to get rid of the man but merely succeed in spreading the chaos. It’s a possession movie at its heart, but with plenty of…
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Continue reading →: The Friends of Eddie Coyle
1973 starring Robert Mitchum I’ll start by saying that if this is of interest, I’d urge to read the book first, by George V Higgins, it is excellent. Elmore Leonard calls it the best crime novel ever written.. But the film is well worth the effort also, with a wonderful…
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Continue reading →: It Waits in the WoodsI’ve borrowed the title from a short book (by Josh Malerman) I read this morning before heading out. It’s from a series of six released for this time of year. It promised a lot, but didn’t really deliver. Nonetheless, it was entertaining enough. It concerned a student, who after a…
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SafeReturnDoubtful is my alias. Rua is my fox red labrador pup, born 14 Feb 2026 and learning fast..
Where is Rua?
I was so much older then…
Quote of the Week
Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, ‘What road do I take?’ The cat asked, ‘Where do you want to go?’ ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it really doesn’t matter, does it?’
Lewis Carroll
