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	New Articles in Rue Morgue #102: "Classic Cut: The Horla", plus reviews of Quentin S. Crisp's "Remember You're a One-Ball!" and R.B. Russell's Literary Remains. In 1887 French writer Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) published his terrifying tour de force "The Horla". H.P. Lovecraft described the story as a "tense narrative [without] peer in its particular department", and it is considered by E.F. Bleiler to be "one of the classics of psychopathology". Since its initial publication, "The Horla" has become a favourite amongst anthologists, making it the best known of Maupassant's macabre stories. More...
	New Bram Stoker Series Booklet — Collected here are a selection of reviews of Stoker's works that are generally classified under the broad heading of Gothic: Under the Sunset (1882), The Snake's Pass (1890), The Mystery of the Sea (1902), The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903), The Lady of the Shroud (1909), and The Lair of the White Worm (1911). Assembled from the list provided by Richard Dalby and William Hughes in their Bram Stoker: A Bibliography (Essex: Desert Island Books, 2004), these reviews appeared in many of the leading publications of their day, including The Spectator, Punch, The Academy, and The Athenaeum as well as in more specialised journals such as The Dial, The Bookman, The Reader Magazine. More...
	In the spirit of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's "Ghost Stories of Chapelizod", Brian J. Showers' The Bleeding Horse and Other Ghost Stories infests his own Dublin neighbourhood with an authentic population of ghosts, ghouls, and goblins. Showers has filled each story with fascinating regional history, local atmosphere, and architectural details that are clearly visible today. While this gives the stories a factual flavour, the supernatural elements are entirely fictional. The result is a realistic and shadow-filled portrait of a modern neighbourhood, written in the traditional style of the classic literary ghost story. More... Winner of the 2008 Children of the Night Award. Read Nightmare Revue's interview with Brian J. Showers.
	Newsletter: October 2009. A new booklet will soon be released published by The Swan River Press in conjunction with the Bram Stoker Society. Thirty Years A-Going: A History of the Bram Stoker Society by Albert Power. "It was on a raw January evening in 1980, at a public meeting held in the darkling pile of Trinity College Dublin's graduates memorial building, with its ample expanse of grey frontage, high windows and maw-like entrance led up to by a flight of stone steps, that the sturdy first steps to set up the Bram Stoker Society were taken. The date was January 10th and the event had been organised by the college Philosophical Society, of which Bram Stoker had been President in the session for 1869-1870." More...
	Literary Walking Tours of Gothic Dublin is a new guidebook from Nonsuch Publishing Ireland that reconstructs the lives of Charles Maturin, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker as walking tours with the help of maps, photographs and excerpts from their works. Ideal for tourists who have come to explore Ireland's 1200 year old capital, native Dubliners who want to learn more about their city's spectral past, and those who just want a mind's eye tour of haunted Dublin. Written by Brian J. Showers, Illustrated by Duane Spurlock, Foreword by Pat Liddy and Cover Art by Meggan Kehrli. More...