Bulwer-Lytton is a guilty pleasure for me; he's nowhere near as good a writer as some of his Victorian contemporaries, but I love his silly, pompous coinages based on Latin and Greek roots, and if you just go with the flow when he goes off on some lengthy philosophical or moral tangent, sometimes wh...
This was a good haunted house story but seemed a bit dated with several elements of the Spiritualism movement that was in its infancy at the time of publication. The author also went on several long missives expressing his ideas on the origins of hauntings and also displaying some considerable disbe...
wonderfully spooky older horror and supernatural tales by both familiar and less familiar authors. highly recommended.
Money Samuel West will make his radio directorial debut with a new adaptation of Money by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, a production forming part of a Radio 3 season of plays called Money Talks....blurb - The play was recorded on location at Knebworth House, Hertfordshire, the stately home of Edward Bulwer-...
My copy published in 1903. Fascinating tale written in a Shakespearian style.
I read this perhaps 25 years ago, but just downloaded a copy, not remembering that I'm already familiar with it. The opening lines reminded me. Of course, being so long ago, I don't remember a lot about the reading (good reason to revisit the book,) but it did make quite an impression on me. Since I...
We were talking about ghost stories the other evening, and the Spouse mentioned this one as a particular favorite. It is a good 'un. Funny, it seems like it should have been one of E F Benson's. All the details about the house being up for lease, in particular, since Benson's ghost stories are mu...
If you never read another horror anthology, if you even hate horror, you should read this one anthology just to make sure you round out your literary background. The one essential classic anthology that has NEVER been bettered since it was first published. Cannot really be compared to anything els...
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