Not just Sherlock Holmes
William Hope-Hodgson created the character of Thomas Carnacki, who investigated possible supernatural hauntings and the like in a series of adventures – all too few, given the author’s skill in producing atmospheres of horror and mystery, together with rational explanations of some of the phenomena. Continue reading “Carnacki the Ghost-Finder”
John Linwood Grant and I have been friends on Facebook for some time now. We share a love of books, of the late Victorian and early Edwardian eras, and a sense of the surreal and absurd, and he has interviewed me on the subject of Sherlock Holmes pastiches, and been kind enough to write things about another of my books. He, however, has lurchers and a beard, as the biography at the end of his latest book, The Assassin’s Coin, reveals – I have neither.
I was going to buy the ebook edition of this book, but since the only ebook edition appears to be in Kindle format, and I don’t own a Kindle, I went for the printed paperback, and I’m glad I did. It’s a nicely produced slim volume, with no glaring typos or other print-based infelicities, and it’s of a length to be read in one sitting. However, I took a couple of evenings to finish it – it was a book that made me put it down, think, and then take it up again.
Continue reading “The Assassin’s Coin – John Linwood Grant – Review”