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PhD in Victorian lit. Editor/researcher/lecturer. Women’s ghost stories & the supernatural. Lots of tweets about books. And ghosts. And Margery Lawrence.
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Day 15 of is Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989). Her weird/supernatural stories include "The Happy Valley," "Escort," "The Apple Tree," "The Pool," and "The Doll," about another Rebecca and her mechanical (ahem) "friend" named Julio.

https://t.co/EoRHpJFgrm

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Reading Elinor Mordaunt’s autobiography & so far she’s:

Designed gardens in Melbourne
Lived on Mauritius
Survived the Spanish flu
Survived the zeppelin bombings in London
Sailed around the world on cargo ships
Trekked across Honduras
Been proclaimed queen of Papua New Guinea

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Oh, and the excellent cat episode in Torture Garden (1967). Kitsey particularly enjoyed this one with a fellow tortie in the starring role.

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I've discovered a new favorite thing: cat revenge films!

The Shadow of the Cat (1961)
Eye of the Cat (1969)
The Night of 1000 Cats (1972)
The Uncanny (1977)

🐈🐈🐈

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My Peter Cushing film festival continues...

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Elisabeth Bruce Adams’s My Cat Prospero: A Pioneer Who Bridged the Gulf between the “Seen” and the “Unseen” (1922). These illustrations!

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New arrival! Even more special because it was previously owned by Richard Dalby.

Tweedale’s second book documenting her psychic experiences (following Ghosts I Have Seen, 1919).

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Day 29 of brings us Edith Nesbit (1858-1924). Most of Nesbit’s supernatural fiction is collected in GRIM TALES (1893) and FEAR (1910).

https://t.co/tR6iPdKZZP

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For Day 28 of we have Alice Perrin (1867-1934). She wrote numerous supernatural tales set in Anglo-India, most of which are collected in EAST OF SUEZ (1901), RED RECORDS (1906), TALES THAT ARE TOLD (1917), and ROUGH PASSAGES (1926).

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