James Dickie (1) (1934–)

Funny thing - when I was entering the ISBN-10 (0330237977) for this book, my phone suggested a couple of words it thought I might have meant to type instead of this string of numbers: precarious; perpituity. Now, it struck me as particuarly apposite that an existence of precarious perpituity should be associated with the undead, simultaneously hovering, as they are, between immortality and the danger of a stake-and-garlic induced oblivion. I'm not sure what it means that I am receiving such message via my phone's software.

While I haven't yet read the book [I have done do since writing this], it does contain a few anthlogical 'usual suspects', such as Stoker's Dracula's Guest and a couple of E.F. Benson's and H.P. Lovecraft's. Nice that there's a couple by the less anthologised, but nonetheless wonderfully weird, Clark Ashton Smith. Outside of those stories I've already read, there are three or four new-to-me offerings which I look forward to getting around to one dark night.… (altro)