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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...
Marni Scofidio
Jun 30, 20245 min read
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Hiraeth in Hollywood
This article appeared last year in North Wales Magazine.
Marni Scofidio
May 26, 20241 min read
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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...
Marni Scofidio
Mar 30, 20241 min read
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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...
Marni Scofidio
Oct 21, 20234 min read
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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...
Marni Scofidio
Aug 17, 20231 min read
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'This Knife Has Opened My Eyes'
Doctor Knife: Review by Desmond Bullen
Desmond Bullen
Jun 27, 20232 min read
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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,...
Desmond Bullen
Jan 24, 20233 min read
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Wise Typewriters
Photo Courtesy Charlie Foxtrot Vintage Photo Courtesy Suzy Hazelwood at Pexels
Marni Scofidio
Nov 1, 20221 min read
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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...
Marni Scofidio
Oct 31, 20221 min read
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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...
Marni Scofidio
Aug 17, 20221 min read
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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...
Marni Scofidio
May 3, 20222 min read
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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...
Marni Scofidio
Feb 26, 20224 min read
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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...
Marni Scofidio
Dec 26, 20213 min read
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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...
Marni Scofidio
Nov 16, 20213 min read
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