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 The Buckross
Ring
- and Other Stories of the Strange and
Supernatural
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- by L.A.G. Strong
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- Edited and with an Introduction by
Richard Dalby
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- L.A.G.
Strong may be little-known today, but in the mid
twentieth century he was considered one of the most
popular, versatile and acclaimed writers of his
generation. The author of novels, plays, poems,
criticism, biography and film scripts, he wrote short
stories with 'the passion of a poet' in a closely-knit
style with brilliant bursts of description.
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- Throughout his life Strong was a firm
believer in the paranormal, experiencing many psychic
phenomena, which inevitably inspired much of his
supernatural fiction. He took his own strange and vivid
dreams and transcribed them into enigmatic narratives and
characters like the unearthly Bibi in 'The Buckross
Ring'.
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- The
supernatural is a recurring theme in Strong's varied
œuvre, and his short stories in the genre can be found in
his own collections from Doyle's Rock in 1925 through to
Lady Cynthia Asquith's Second and Third Ghost
Books (1952 and 1955). In The Buckross Ring
and Other Stories of the Strange and
Supernatural L.A.G. Strong's atmospheric, strange and
supernatural stories are collected together in one volume
for the first time.
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- The
Buckross Ring is a sewn hardback book of 237+ xii pages
with silk ribbon marker, head and tailbands, and d/w.
Limited to 300 copies.
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- £32.50/$55 inc. p&p.
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- ISBN
978-1-905784-13-4.
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- Publication: 2nd April 2009.
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- Contents:
- 'Introduction' by Richard Dalby
- 'The
Buckross Ring'
- '
"Splidges" '
- 'Mr
Tookey'
- 'The
Farm'
- 'Tea at
Maggie Reynolds's'
- 'Breakdown'
- 'The
Gates'
- 'Crabtree's'
- 'Death
of the Gardener'
- 'Orpheus'
- 'Sea
Air'
- 'Lobsters'
- 'The
Doll'
- 'Let Me
Go'
- 'Danse
Macabre'
- 'The
House That Wouldn't Keep Still'
- 'Light
Above the Lake'
- 'Afterword: The Short Story'
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- Reviews
- "LAG was
particularly interested in the supernatural, though,
being fascinated by the paranormal and this is reflected
in the odd and genuinely chilling tales in
The Buckross Ring. In 'The Doll',
there's voodoo in the kind of quiet country setting that
makes these kinds of things even more shuddery and
abnormal, and the prose at the end of the story achieves
a kind of bleak and affecting poetry." - Ian McMillan,
Yorkshire
Post
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- "...the
author manages to achieve remarkable results thanks to
his graceful and skilled narrative style." Mario
Guslandi, The SF
Site.
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Page updated
19th August 2009
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