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Cover design by Philip Gough.<\/em><\/p>\n Ghosts, Spooks and Spectres<\/em> (1972 reprint). Editor Charles Molin collected nineteen ghost stories by writers including Oscar Wilde (The Canterville Ghost<\/em>), Charles Dickens (The Signal-Man<\/em>), J. Sheridan Le Fanu (Madame Crowl’s Ghost<\/em>) and HG Wells (The Inexperienced Ghost<\/em>). This was one of my favourite books when I was ten-years old. There’s nuffin like a Puffin<\/a>. Puffin Books’ parent company, Penguin, is 75 this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 The good people at the Outer Alliance have posted an interview with me here<\/a> in which I talk about the subversive sexualities of sf in the 1970s and also admit to writing fiction.<\/p>\n \u2022 There’s just time to mention It Came From Pebble Mill<\/a>, an event which includes another screening of David Rudkin’s Penda’s Fen<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 “In our society, there has tended to be a very strong compartmentalization of different experiences, different cultural forms, different genres. We can talk in a very broad sense and say art is separate from science, for example, or body is separate from mind, or we can talk in a specific sense and say one certain form of dance music is separate from one form of, say, heavy metal. I don’t really buy those compartmentalizations. I understand why they exist, how they’ve come into being and why they’re convenient, but it’s not the way I think, it’s not the way I experience the world, it’s not the way I believe things should be.” From an interview by Colin Marshall<\/a> with David Toop at 3QD. Toop’s latest book is Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Kingdom of the Pearl<\/a> by L\u00e9onard Rosenthal, illustrated by Edmund Dulac.<\/p>\n \u2022 Ghost Stations<\/a> by Dollboy, a CD package. And then there’s the Ghostly Bento<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 7 Inch Cinema<\/a> are Birmingham-based cultural historians.<\/p>\n \u2022 Mark Pilkington’s Mirage Men<\/em><\/a> now has its own site.<\/p>\n \u2022 Borges on Pleasure Island<\/a>: JLB and his love of RLS.<\/p>\n \u2022 RIP Arne Nordheim<\/a>, Norwegian composer.<\/p>\n \u2022 Charlie Visnic’s Modular Ghost Synth<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 On the trail of Tutankhamen’s penis<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Photos by Thom Ayres<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Ghosts<\/em><\/a> by Japan | Spooky Rhodes<\/em><\/a> by Laika | Purple Dusk<\/em><\/a> by Spectre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cover design by Philip Gough. Ghosts, Spooks and Spectres (1972 reprint). Editor Charles Molin collected nineteen ghost stories by writers including Oscar Wilde (The Canterville Ghost), Charles Dickens (The Signal-Man), J. Sheridan Le Fanu (Madame Crowl’s Ghost) and HG Wells (The Inexperienced Ghost). 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