Marni Scofidio
Never Throw Anything Out: From Saturn to Clarke and Back Again
Rider-Waite-Coleman Tarot Card illustrated by Pamela Coleman Smith “The feeding of the Muse, then… seems to me to be the continual...
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Marni Scofidio
- May 26
- 1 min
Hiraeth in Hollywood
This article appeared last year in North Wales Magazine.
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Marni Scofidio
- Mar 30
- 1 min
Painting in My Watercolour Sketchbook (Just For Fun!)
I like to relax by making art. Drawing watercolour, pen and ink on Stillman & Burn watercolour paper, from a photograph by Feyza Nur...
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Marni Scofidio
- Oct 21, 2023
- 4 min
Stories I Have Tried To Write: Thoughts and Observations on the Writing of Ghost Stories
The 1929 essay written by the English antiquarian Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) which has inspired countless writers for nearly a...
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Marni Scofidio
- Aug 17, 2023
- 1 min
New D.F. Lewis Ghost Stories Now Available
'The only critics worth reading are the critics who practice, and practice well, the art of which they write.' ---T.S. Eliot The New...
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Desmond Bullen
- Jun 27, 2023
- 2 min
'This Knife Has Opened My Eyes'
Doctor Knife: Review by Desmond Bullen
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Desmond Bullen
- Jan 24, 2023
- 3 min
Dead Keys Review by Desmond Bullen
Dead Keys: Typewritten Tales Of Terror Edited by Richard Polt, Frederic S. Durbin, and Andrew V. McFeaters Loose Dog Press, Cincinnati,...
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Marni Scofidio
- Nov 1, 2022
- 1 min
Wise Typewriters
Photo Courtesy Charlie Foxtrot Vintage Photo Courtesy Suzy Hazelwood at Pexels
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Marni Scofidio
- Oct 31, 2022
- 1 min
Croeso - Welcome
So pleased to see you here, on this website, the culmination of 38 years of blood, sweat, and tears - thank you for your interest and I...
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Marni Scofidio
- Aug 17, 2022
- 1 min
The Necessity of Unsophisticated Art
As Roger Corman's 'entertainment' films are just as important as his serious ones, and the director Ed Wood Jr is more famous than many...
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Marni Scofidio
- May 3, 2022
- 2 min
Lifesavers: My Favourite Books on Creative Writing
Photo by Alexander Grigorian on Pexels.com Nail Your Novel by Roz Morris A pro who knows whereof she speaks and when she speaks, ignore...
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Marni Scofidio
- Feb 26, 2022
- 4 min
Don Marquis and the Underwood Bard
This piece first appeared on the Charlie Foxtrot Vintage website journal in 2021. ‘Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal...
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Marni Scofidio
- Dec 26, 2021
- 3 min
The Next Same Thing
There. I've done what I try not to. I've supported a ‘must'. ‘You must like solitude or being a writer isn't for you.’ I recently stopped...
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Marni Scofidio
- Nov 16, 2021
- 3 min
Fear And Loathing In Llanfairfechan
I woke up in terror today. The climax of my current novel loomed like tax-day: a police shoot-out set in a hotel in Llanfairfechan. I...
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