Weird Bathtub-Algernon Blackwood's Dr. John Silence Stories: RGBIB 422

[@nickdolan3741]

Hey Scott, I just finished reading Christopher Priest's The Affirmation on your recommendation. I enjoyed it. A while ago I also read Disch's The Priest on your rec. Practically making my way through the late 20th c. Bradfield canon. You're a gem!

[@excelsiorathletic]

Me too. Finished Harry Crews' biography of a place, about to start Yates' Easter Parade. The librarians have to delve deep into their vaults to get my books!

[@Scottmbradfield]

Thanks for the suds, Nick, and glad you enjoyed those fab books. I especially love THE PRIEST. The Catholic Church deserves us having so much fun at their expense! Stay safe. s

[@GarySwafford-p2f]

I've been a fan of Blackwood ever since Anne Rice recommended him to me about 30 years ago. The couple of episodes of his late life BBC series reading his stories are on KZbin and are fabulous. Thanks, Scott!

[@GarySwafford-p2f]

This is Gary Swafford, btw. My KZbin account is messed up.

[@GypsyRoSesx]

That’s strange - I too work in a powered milk factory. Ok, I don’t, but it sounds like an oddly interesting day job. 🤭 I must sample some Blackwood soon..

[@timmclain375]

Always loved Blackwood's stories, for that very sense of unease they evince. The Willows remains one of my favorite weird tales. Reminds me of another writer whose finest work carries the same strange charge, Robert Aickman, though I've found a number of his pieces damn near opaque. I'm heading back to the bathtub with Algy.

[@Scottmbradfield]

Thanks, Tim. Yeah I wrote a piece about Aickman in my last book of reviews and essays, he's fab! s

[@reaganwiles_art]

Thanks Scott, I'm already too weird. Have fallen in love. It hurts. Can't seem to get right in any way,no normalcy, little balance. Typical fertile ground for painting the type of pictures that I burp out.

[@Scottmbradfield]

Oh no! Hang in there, Junga! s

[@larrycarr4562]

I’ve gone back to reading Len Deighton, bk2 of 9 in Bernard Sampson series…Mexican Set. Having read some time ago bk1 London Match and bk3 Berlin Game… seems like whole in the 🛁 that needed plugging. Something about reading Cold War spy novels, I find calming and much simpler than the incoherence of current geopolitics, which is perilously leaning towards tilt. Highly recommend Deighton, stay safe in the tub.

[@larrycarr4562]

And weird for sure 😅👍🛁

[@davebrzeski]

There are six John Silence stories, but the last one wasn't in the John Silence collection. 'A Victim of Higher Space' is in the collection, Day and Night Stories (2017). There's a complete John Silence collection from Dover Books, edited by Joshi. Simon Callow is still alive. I'm currently editing an anthology of new John Silence stories for Belanger Books.

[@Scottmbradfield]

Cool, thanks for the clarifications/corrections. s

[@stephenwalker2924]

Simon Phillip Hugh Callow CBE is very much alive and well, thank goodness!

[@Scottmbradfield]

Oh good to know, maybe I was thinking of Anthony Sher... s

[@freddydurbin6778]

algernon blackwood is henry james on acid

[@Sven_E07]

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