Mark Samuels

So much “openness, diversity, tolerance and inclusion” on display for another point of view.

Alas, it’s just the same old TLO Doctor Locrian guff. Viz:

NOT A (crypto-) MARXIST (sympathiser) = A (crypto-) NAZI (sympathiser).

Mark S.

Meh. I stopped listening to Billy Bragg twenty years ago. When he bought a mansion in Devon or somewhere. Still, amusing.

Mark S.

No newcomers will now be able to sign up to my Patreon feed! A terrible shame, because at the end of this month I’ll begin posting my memoir Confessions of An Author of Weird Fiction on there. Still, it’s only going to be Volume One (1967 to 2003) so please don’t grind your teeth too much in frustration. It’ll see publication eventually. Possibly. Maybe not.

Mark S.

Here’s a very, very generous and welcome review brought to my attention by someone who was doubtless searching for more Jethro Tull videos.

https://thebedlamfiles.com/fiction/the-age-of-decayed-futurity/

On the less positive side, in said review the ghastly events of the story “Apartment 205” seem to have been moved two hundred doors along to “Apartment 405”. And, as much as I, too, share the love for The Man Who Collected Machen, I think you’ll find that four stories from it (“The Black Mould”, “Thyxxolqu”, “Regina vs. Zoskia”, and “The Age of Decayed Futurity”) and not just a mere two (that distinction belongs alone to Written in Darkness) were included in the book The Age of Decayed Futurity.

Mark S.

Behold, this new Zagava edition is now available for pre-order! With a superlatively wonderful cover painting by Joseph Dawson of Arthur Machen (in Monkish mode) from the 1890s!

The Man Who Collected Machen

This stunningly beautiful edition of the most fully-up-to-date texts will also feature an introduction by my very dear old friend, Godfrey Brangham, acknowledged Welsh master of Machenology.

Mark S.

Mark S.