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	<title>A Passion For Horror</title>
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	<description>Book Reviews, audiobook and DVD Reviews. Also some classic horror movies to watch online.</description>
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	<pubDate>Thur, 08 May 2014 00:06:06 +0100</pubDate>
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		<title>Movie Review: House on Straw Hill (1976)</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/movie-reviews/house-on-straw-hill-1976.htm</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[House on Straw Hill is a British horror movie from the mid 70s starring Udo Kier, Linda Hayden and Fiona Richmond. With its generous helpings of sex and violence House on Straw Hill is very much an exploitation movie and was originally...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Review: I Don't Want to Be Born (1975)</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/movie-reviews/i-dont-want-to-be-born-1975.htm</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[I Don't Want to Be Born is 1970s horror movie about a woman who gives birth to a demonic baby. The script is weak and boasts too many absurd scenes to mention, but the production benefitted from a capable cast, and that was a big plus that offered some compensation for the movies many negatives...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Review: Trilogy of Terror (1975)</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/movie-reviews/trilogy-of-terror-1975.htm</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[Trilogy of Terror is a TV horror movie from 1975. The movie is an anthology of three short stories produced under the direction of Dan Curtis. It was first aired on March 4, 1975, on US TV as the ABC movie of the week. The movie was initially produced as a...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Review: Dead of Night (1977)</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/movie-reviews/dead-of-night-1977.htm</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[Dead of Night is horror anthology movie produced and directed by Dan Curtis, who many horror fans may best remember for his work on the cult TV show Dark Shadows and The Night Stalker and the 70s cult horror movie Trilogy of Terror...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Review: Night of Bloody Horror (1969)</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/movie-reviews/night-of-bloody-horror-1969.htm</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[Night of Bloody Horror is a 1960s slasher movie. Gerald McRaney stars as Wesley Stuart. A disturbed young man with a long history of mental illness, Wesley has a dangerous temper and is strangely reluctant to talk about his father or younger brother. In fact, just the mention of them causes Wes to...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Review: Cello (2005)</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/movie-reviews/cello-2005.htm</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[Cello is a Korean horror movie about a former award-winning cello player who has turned her back on her instrument of choice and taken up a teaching position instead. Hyeon-a Seong stars as Mi-ju Hong...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Review: The Seasoning House (2012)</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/movie-reviews/the-seasoning-house-2012.htm</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[The seasoning House is a British horror movie set in Europe during the Yugoslav Wars. The movie was directed by Paul Hyett, who is better known for his...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Review: Spiral (2000)</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/movie-reviews/uzumaki-2000.htm</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[Spiral is a Japanese horror movie based on a story from a manga comic book. The movie's original Japanese title is Uzumaki, but although it is commonly marketed under the title Spiral, Vortex is the ...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Review: Zoltan Hound of Dracula (1978)</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/movie-reviews/zoltan-hound-of-dracula.htm</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[Zoltan Hound of Dracula is a 70s horror movie produced by Crown International Pictures. The movie was originally released under the title Dracula's Dog, and in certain parts of the world it is still marketed under that name, but...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Review: Warm Bodies (2013)</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/movie-reviews/warm-bodies-2013.htm</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[Warm bodies might best be described as a romantic comedy with zombies. It's a case of zombie meets girl, they fall in love, and then the zombie throws a spanner in the works by admitting he ate her former boyfriend...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Midnight: Harry (Old Radio Show) </title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/old-time-radio/beyond-midnight/harry.htm</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[This episode of Beyond Midnight begins with Mrs James sharing her fears with the listener, and explaining that the most ordinary things fill her with dread: sunshine, sharp shadows on grass, white roses, children with red hair, and the name 'Harry'...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Review: A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/movie-reviews/a-tale-of-two-sisters-2003.htm</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[A Tale of Two Sisters is a Korean horror movie based on the folk tale 'Janghwa Hongryeon jeon'. The movie offers an unusual blend of family drama, mystery, and supernatural horror that some viewers might struggle to appreciate because of the slow moving nature of the movie...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Review: The Rats (1982)</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/movie-reviews/the-rats-1982.htm</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[The Rats is a Canadian horror movie based on the bestselling novel by James Herbert. There are many differences between the movie and the book, the most obvious of which is probably the setting (Herbert's original story is set in the UK, but the movie is set in Toronto)...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Midnight: The Phantom Coach (Old Radio Show) </title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/old-time-radio/beyond-midnight/the-phantom-coach.htm</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[This episode of Beyond Midnight is a dramatization of Amelia B. Edward's short story 'The Phantom Coach'. The year is 1864. Barrister, James Murray, is out on the moors making the most of the last day of the grouse shooting season. When the weather takes a turn for the worse ...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Review: Hour of the Wolf (1968)</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/movie-reviews/hour-of-the-wolf-1968.htm</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[Hour of the Wolf is a Swedish horror movie written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. With a title like Hour of the Wolf, you can be forgiven if you expect this to be movie about a werewolf, but the monsters in this movie are of a different kind...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Dark Fantasy: Funeral Arrangements Completed (Old Radio Show) </title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/old-time-radio/dark-fantasy/funeral-arrangements-completed.htm</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[Alf Daniels and Eleanor Naylor Corin star as Richard and Emily Longacre. Richard recently received a letter informing him of his Aunt Patricia's death. This was quite a surprise for him because he had no idea he even had an Aunt Patricia...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Review: Hansel and Gretel: Warriors of Witchcraft (2013)</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/movie-reviews/hansel-and-gretel-warriors-of-witchcraft-2013.htm</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[Hansel & Gretel: Warriors of Witchcraft is a straight to DVD movie that was released in January 2013, just a few days before the movie Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters made its big screen premiere. Although the two movies may sound very similar...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>e-book Review: The Restless Dead by Steven Savile</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/book-reviews/the-restless-dead.htm</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[The Restless Dead is a short horror story, written by Steven Savile and available in eBook format. I bought a kindle copy, but the story is also available to download in other formats, including nook and Kobo. It's a decent tale that most readers should be able to finish in about an hour....<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Midnight: The House was a Sphinx (Old Radio Show) </title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/old-time-radio/beyond-midnight/the-house-was-a-sphinx.htm</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[A locked door can cause a great deal of curiosity, but some doors are locked for very good reasons. The central character in this story learns this the hard way when the turn of a forbidden handle sends him on a journey into and beyond midnight...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Midnight: The Paxton's House (Old Radio Show) </title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/old-time-radio/beyond-midnight/the-paxtons-house.htm</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[The Paxton's House is a dramatization of Amyas Northcote's short story 'Brickett Bottom'. It is the tale of a hard-working city clergyman who swaps parsonages with a fellow clergyman who has a less demanding parish in the countryside...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Public Domain Online Text: Brickett Bottom by Amyas Northcote</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/public-domain-texts/amyas-northcote-brickett-bottom.html</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[The Reverend Arthur Maydew was the hard-working incumbent of a large parish in one of our manufacturing towns. He was also a student and a man of no strong physique...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Audiobook Review: The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/audiobook-reviews/the-cask-of-amontillado.htm</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Cask of Amontillado was first published in 1846. The story is often included in horror anthologies, and it has also inspired several TV dramatizations. This audio dramatization was produced by The Wireless Theatre Company as part of their 3D Horror-fi series ...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Public Domain Online Text: The Toll-House by W. W. Jacobs</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/public-domain-texts/w-w-jacobs-the-toll-house.html</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA['It's all nonsense,' said Jack Barnes. 'Of course people have died in the house; people die in every house. As for the noises--wind in the chimney and rats in the wainscot are very convincing to a nervous man...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Review: Beast of the Alamo (2013)</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/movie-reviews/beast-of-the-alamo-2013.htm</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[Beast of the Alamo is the UK DVD title for the TV movie Chupacabra vs. The Alamo. The movie was produced for the Syfy Channel and first aired...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Audiobook Review: The Passenger by Nick Hewson</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/audiobook-reviews/the-passenger.htm</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[The passenger is an audio dramatization of a short story written Nick Hewson. It was produced by the Wireless Theatre Company and recorded in binaural stereo as part of their short-lived 3D Horror-fi series...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Review: The Wicked (2013)</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/movie-reviews/the-wicked-2013.htm</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[The Wicked is a straight to DVD indie horror movie that pits a handful of late teens against the terrible powers of a witch. The story is set in the small US town of Summerville, where stories of the witch...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Public Domain Online Text: The Silver Key by H. P. Lovecraft</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/public-domain-texts/h-p-lovecraft-the-silver-key.html</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams. Prior to that time he had made up for the prosiness of life by nightly excursions to strange and ancient cities beyond space, and lovely, unbelievable garden lands across ethereal seas...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Public Domain Online Text: The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/public-domain-texts/h-p-lovecraft-the-dream-quest-of-unknown-kadath.html</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[Three times Randolph Carter dreamed of the marvelous city, and three times was he snatched away while still he paused on the high terrace above it. All golden and lovely it blazed in the sunset, with walls, temples, colonnades and arched bridges of veined marble...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Review: Trick or Treat (1986)</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/movie-reviews/trick-or-treat-1986.htm</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[Trick or Treat is an 80s horror movie that should appeal to anyone who loves rock 'n' roll and prefers supernatural horror over blood and gore. The central character is a high school student named Eddie Weinbauer (Marc Price)--Ragman to his friends, but he doesn't have many of these...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Public Domain Online Text: Ex Oblivione by H. P. Lovecraft</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/public-domain-texts/h-p-lovecraft-ex-oblivione.html</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small drops of water that torturers let fall ceaselessly upon one spot of their victim's body...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>DVD Review: The Cabin at Sorrow Creek</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/dvd-reviews/the-cabin-at-sorrow-creek.htm</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[The Cabin at Sorrow Creek DVD was released in the UK on August 2013, but the movie is much older than that. It premiered at the Twin Cities Underground Film Festival in August 2007, under the original title of The Legend of Sorrow Creek...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Review: Road Train (2010)</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/movie-reviews/road-train.htm</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[Road Train is an Australian horror movie about two young couples who go camping in the outback, but find themselves at the mercy of sinister forces when a road train runs them off the road. The movie starts off quite well, with some nice views of the Australian wilderness, but tries too hard to impress by...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Public Domain Online Text: Azathoth by H. P. Lovecraft</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/public-domain-texts/h-p-lovecraft-azathoth.html</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[When age fell upon the world, and wonder went out of the minds of men; when grey cities reared to smoky skies tall towers grim and ugly, in whose shadow none might dream of the sun or of Spring�s flowering meads...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Public Domain Online Text: Pickman's Model by H. P. Lovecraft</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/public-domain-texts/h-p-lovecraft-pickmans-model.html</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[You needn't think I'm crazy, Eliot -- plenty of others have queerer prejudices than this. Why don't you laugh at Oliver's grandfather, who won't ride in a motor? If I don't like that damned subway, it's my own business...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>The Sealed Book: My Beware of Tomorrow (Old Radio Show) </title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/old-time-radio/sealed-book/beware-of-tomorrow.htm</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many tales in the Great, Sealed Book. Most of them are very strange and this one is no exception. It is the story of scientist, Dick Dale, who is contacted by his mentor, Professor Clark, who wishes to see him...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Public Domain Online Text: The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/public-domain-texts/h-p-lovecraft-the-call-of-cthulhu.html</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Public Domain Online Text: The Descendant by H. P. Lovecraft</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/public-domain-texts/h-p-lovecraft-the-descendant.html</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing on what my doctor tells me is my deathbed, my most hideous fear is that the man is wrong. I suppose I shall seem to be buried next week, but...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Public Domain Online Text: Cool Air by H. P. Lovecraft</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/public-domain-texts/h-p-lovecraft-cool-air.html</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[You ask me to explain why I am afraid of a draught of cool air; why I shiver more than others upon entering a cold room, and seem nauseated and repelled when the chill of evening creeps through the heat of a mild autumn day. There are those who say I respond to cold as others do to a bad odour, and I am the last to deny the impression...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Public Domain Online Text: In the Vault by H. P. Lovecraft</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/public-domain-texts/h-p-lovecraft-in-the-vault.html</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[There is nothing more absurd, as I view it, than that conventional association of the homely and the wholesome which seems to pervade the psychology of the multitude. Mention a bucolic Yankee setting, a bungling and thick-fibred village undertaker, and a careless mishap in a tomb, and no average reader can be brought to expect more than a...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Public Domain Online Text: The Horror at Red Hook by H. P. Lovecraft</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/public-domain-texts/h-p-lovecraft-the-horror-at-red-hook.html</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[Not many weeks ago, on a street corner in the village of Pascoag, Rhode Island, a tall, heavily built, and wholesome-looking pedestrian furnished much speculation by a...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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		<title>Public Domain Online Text: H. P. Lovecraft - Essay on Literary Composition</title>
		<link>http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/public-domain-texts/h-p-lovecraft-essay-on-literary-composition.html</link>
		<author>Steve.calvert@ymail.com (Steve Calvert)</author>
		<description><![CDATA[In a former article our readers have been shewn the fundamental sources of literary inspiration, and the leading prerequisites to expression. It remains to furnish hints concerning expression itself; its forms, customs, and technicalities, in order that the young writer may lose nothing of force or charm in presenting his ideas to the public...<BR><BR>]]></description>
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