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Me and my elbows in 1959…
And it is the terraced housing behind me that bears the second face.
DF Lewis (1948 -)
Published Writer, Publisher of others & Fiction Reviewer
Amateur Photographer (iPhone)
Main site:
Scenic photos:
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Highly delightful meet-up with
@NicholasRoyle
upon the signing ceremony of my forthcoming
@NightjarPress
‘two-hundreder’, here with its publisher seen standing within the ZigZag Slopes of
#HollandOnSea
that feature in it!
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I am pleased to announce I have accomplished my literary Everest, by completing personal reviews of all 108
#ElizabethBowen
stories….
@bowensociety
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Very pleased that Eibonvale Press will be re-publishing my out of print novel NEMONYMOUS NIGHT in their own inimitable way. But not only that! Also in a separate book or books, they will be republishing my two novellas THE APOCRYPHAN and YESTERFANG...
Still processing this news!
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This is a major artwork by Dave Mitchell that I keep looking at and finding more and more within it.
I feel proud to have it as the front cover of my new book to which it increasingly seems a highly relevant complement, a book from Incunabula Media.
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A new book by me!
I am most honoured to be published for a second time by INCUNABULA MEDIA.
Please consider all their books, not only mine.
HERE:
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Completed my review of this latest BEST BRITISH SHORT STORIES anthology…
@saltpublishing
@nicholasroyle
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As I get older, I can’t review my favourite living authors as much as I used to do. If I have reviewed your work before, send me an electronic version of one of your latest published stories, I shall be pleased to review it in my customary manner and state where it can be found.
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“During a strained little silence, between two gusts of wind, Mrs Vermont observed that an angel must be passing over the house; she wanted them to listen for its wings.”
—
#ElizabethBowen
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Just started
#GestaltRealTimeReviewing
the massive
#TheBigBookOfModernFantasy
edited by
@AnnVanderMeer
and
@JeffVanderMeer
for
@vintagebooks
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Just received from
@nightjarpress
#NIGHTJARpress
The Keeper / David Rudkin — Tower Block Ghost Story / TSJ Harling
Two Degrees of Freedom / Simon Okotic — The Elevator / Imogen Reid
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SHADOW LINES by NICHOLAS ROYLE (the one who “wrote the good ones”)
“…trains and trams were inconvenient, and I don’t like buses, so I started walking in…”
I have read the first two numbered chapters in this book, a compelling and enjoyably idiosyncratic audit trail within an
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An anthology that truly inspired me....
#BestBritishShortStories
2020
@HelenMort
@AndrewHookUK
@adrianslatcher
@IrenosenOkojie
@amanthiharris
@MyBiggestLuke
@soniamhope
@Hanifkureishi
@jeffnoon
@diana_p_writer
@saraheschofield
@njstallard
@RobertJStone2
@ss_thompson
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“…all movies are ghost stories, frozen slices of time, endlessly replayed.” — The ghost sequences indeed.
My ongoing review of this
#ACWise
collection from
@UndertowPubs
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Did you know you can now obtain an independently published digital version of this old book of ghost stories written in collaboration with my late father?
Details here:
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I am thinking of asking permission to use this photo to also promote my
@Eibonvale
Press chapbook entitled ‘The Big-Headed People’! :)
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The the most inspiring fiction anthology, level by level, storey by storey, toward basement seas to which we have all sunk …then horror-genre imaginatively bouncing right back at me with the puckish gusto of a new literature.
#Nightscript7
#Nightscript
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The cover is by Dave Mitchell and I feel it equally depicts works in the book such as the novella LADIES, and a particular scene in SHUMBLE HALL, and the quote “…pulled out, like long-eared rabbits from hats, every year…” from GRANDFATHER CLOCK!
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How about them apples?
Finished my review of the remarkably substantial and yet pervasive anthology that acts as the latest edition of The Literary Journal:
#VASTARIEN
@GrimscribePress
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The BIG REVEAL
David Rix’s unbelievable cover for the new published version from Eibonvale Press of my only novel NEMONYMOUS NIGHT. And when I say unbelievable, I connote all manner of positive emotions! This has been an artistic work on his part that has literarily evolved; it
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In recent months, if not weeks, I have re-read every single
#RobertAickman
story and gestalt-reviewed and collated them…
Linked here:
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Completed my review of this enormously inspiring book: THE GHOST SEQUENCES of A.C. Wise, rounded off at link below.
@UndertowPubs
2021
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I have completed my review of this awakening anthology…
BEST BRITISH SHORT STORIES 2022
@nicholasroyle
@saltpublishing
#BestBritishShortStories
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I still think this is the only review of the major literary horrorganza by Robert Shearman that you can follow or search alphabetically by story title.
Unless you know different?
@ShearmanRobert
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Mine was the first review of these classic books by Robert Shearman
@ShearmanRobert
that detailed my thoughts about all the stories in alphabetical order by title!
Conducted a few months ago.
@pspublishinguk
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In all absurd humility…
The Four Ages of D.F. Lewis:-
(0.) 1948-1985 — Poems / Zeroist Group (1960s), The Visitor (Novel) 1973, Agra Aska (novella) 1983.
(1.) 1986-2000 – Over 1000 fiction publications in magazines and anthologies, some selected for the Prime Books D.F. Lewis
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See below for the BEST BRITISH SHORT STORIES (2011 – 2022) edited by Nicholas Royle linked and listed to my real-time reviews of them…
Looking forward to the 2023 edition!
@nicholasroyle
@saltpublishing
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Completed my review of this landmark book from
@SeanBirnie
Seán Padraic Birnie and
@UndertowPubs
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FINISH
Dedicated to the “silence of Järvenpää”
Gibbon Moon Books 2023
I am very pleased to announce a ‘fractious novel’ in psyche and size.
Available in Kindle and Paperback:
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Although I have retired from most reviewing after 15 years of doing it, I am keeping up with my regular relationships, such as whole Vastariens, and with new single stories in anthologies and collections by writers whom I have reviewed before. Please keep me informed of the
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Just received
#Interzone
@TTApress
A lovely colourfully designed book. See the face on the back cover?
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Just finished my review of the fiction in
#BlackStatic
76:
@cooketim2
@AbiFaro
@HargadonStephen
@TTApress
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Just completed my review of Among the Lilies by
#DanielMills
@UndertowPubs
An experience and a half.
And half of that again and again.
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enough is enough!
time to get back to proper gestalt real-time reviewing?
well, I anticipate not being able to choose a better book than this one to get my mind straightened out! Or made more skewed?
DREAM FOX and Other Strange Stories by Rosalie Parker
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I sometimes need some love or hate — even indifference — for my real-time reviews.
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I believe
#IWISHIWASLIKEYOU
by
@SPMiskowski
is worthy of much attention as a modern literary novel as well as Crime/Horror Fiction. My gestalt real-time review of it:
@JournalStone
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Congratulations to Andy Cox for INTERZONE, awarded Best Magazine by British Fantasy Society. Andy was its publisher and editor with
@TTAPress
from 2004 until 2022.
And good luck with this great magazine to MYY Press (Gareth Jelley) who has since published two issues. And thanks
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Gradually
#GestaltRealTimeReviewing
THE BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR Volume Ten
@KaaronWarren
@EllenDatlow
@SPMiskowski
@PhilipFracassi
@ac_wise
@onasteamer
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Just finished
#gestaltrealtimereviewing
THE FIG GARDEN & OTHER STORIES by Mark Valentine
@TartarusPress
#TartarusPress
#MarkValentine
#RedLion
#FigGarden
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This huge book that flops across one’s lap like a favourite pet is likely to be 99% brilliant!
My ongoing
#GestaltRealTimeReviewing
as a labour-of-love:
#thebigbookofmodernfantasy
@JeffVanderMeer
@AnnVanderMeer
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Finally finished
#GestaltRealTimeReviewing
a truly great comic novel by
#EleyWilliams
#TheLiarsDictionary
THE LIAR’S DICTIONARY
@WmHeinemann
NO SPOILERS:
FAO
@nicholasroyle
@andrewgallix
@leerourke
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My review of THE JUNCTION by Alison Moore published as a newly signed Nightjar…
@nightjarpress
@alimooreauthor
Here:
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Ahem.
A list of the books I read in 2023 with each of them thus earning my 2023 Gestalt Reviewing Awards simply because of my judicious, almost preternatural gift of choosing them to review in the first place! -
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I have finished my *current* series of ghost stories, all 30 of them in a week or two of writing them!
They can be read separately, but I recommend them to be read one by one in the order written and linked here:
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The Art of Writing…
“Well, there is only one recipe I have ever heard of: take a quart or more of life-blood; mix it with a bottle of ink, and a teaspoonful of tears; and ask God to forgive the blots.”
— Walter de la Mare (Memoirs of a Midget)
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Just finished
#GestaltRealTimeReviewing
#famished
by
#annavaught
Anna Vaught
@BookwormVaught
@Influxpress
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The Weirdmonger’s Abacus Shop
Simply because it was there to be found.
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If bad things happen, why do people point to this being the 21st century when such things should not happen? They obviously ignore humanity’s cycles of challenge and response.
No recurrently ‘modern’ era is ever immune.
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Me around 1950.
I note I had a five o’clock shadow as I seem to have since!
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This book makes me feel like an eleven year old boy again…
THE BLACK LOCOMOTIVE by Rian Hughes
Picador Books 2021
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Just received …
AMONG THE LILIES by
#DanielMills
, an author who I once published in my Classical Music horror anthology…
@UndertowPubs
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“; strangers were running to each other and hugging and kissing, […] part of something magical and it could never be taken from them […] like a cry against the dark, against an uncertain future, and whatever the world might have in store for us,…”
—- Robert Shearman
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#VASTARIEN
@GrimscribePress
A fine ending to this book with this work’s words transported by means of semantic meanings and graphical look of configured letters and structural stringing together and phonetic sound when read aloud…
Review here:
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Did I hear this right?
#BorisJohnson
did not deny on the Marr Show that he received £160,000 from a Russian woman so that she could play tennis with him?
#boris
#marr
#boristennis
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A Lightjar of Nightjar: The Photosynthesis of Fiction
@nightjarpress
… soon to be reviewed here:
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“I saw Elvis at the mall last night. He was eating pizza with DF Lewis. Can’t think why they’d ordered anchovies.”
–Karl Edward Wagner: ‘The View from Carcosa’ (Deathrealm 1993)
#ElvisPresley
#DFLewis
#KarlEdwardWagner
@ElvisPresley
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Am I the first individual reviewer so far who has critiqued, as an overview and in detail, all the stories contained in the three volumes of this singular book ?
#robertshearman
@pspublishinguk
@ShearmanRobert
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My re-reading during 2021 of Aickman — revealing new discoveries for me within specific
#RobertAickman
Robert Aickman stories, as linked from here:
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My
#GestaltRealTimeReviewing
of the COMPLETE canon of short stories of William Trevor
#WILLIAMTREVOR
reaches towards its end...
@StevenIsserlis
@karlahilliard
@thepainterflynn
@MarshaOM
@IrishLitTimes
@JacquiWine
@fergalkeane47
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I have completed my review of the final
@TTAPress
#Interzone
here:
@Dango_Ramen
@TamikaThompson
@intrmultivrsal
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Just received
THE GHOST SEQUENCES by A.C. Wise, an author who once appeared in
#Nemonymous
@ac_wise
@UndertowPubs
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Only just realised (remembered?) that
#Nemonymous
5 (2005) has a blank story, a story of three pages headed, in turn, MEMO, NEMO and OMEN.
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