Those with more than a passing familiarity of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are aware of his interest in the supernatural. Perhaps mostly famous is his publication of the Cottingley Fairies photographs. Aside from theosophy, he also sought out mediums, ever hopeful that the dead can speak to those still living and perhaps he could reach…
REVIEW: THE UNSEEN by Katherine Webb
This is the first novel I have read by Ms. Webb but when she started with an epigraph page with quotes from William Wordsworth, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Rudolph Steiner, I knew I was in for a well-wrought story. She certainly knows her literary stuff. The novel straddles the span of a century —…
REVIEW: THE WOMAN IN BLACK (2012)
A crumbling manor, a mysterious curse, a sea mist and creepy deaths. How could I (of all people) resist? I am completely unfamiliar with the book (of the same name) by Susan Hill, which is rather unlike me. And I was unable to see the staged version while in London this summer. So I came…