A Midwinter Entertainment

An entertainment consisting of 288 pages; dedicated to short, yellowish days and long nights, to heavy curtains and the cracks and pops of burning logs, to frost-encroached byways and sturdy old inns, to skeletal trees and hungry black birds; and to the ghosts of Ernest Nister & Ernest Dowson.Featuring many curious pieces, including several newly written stories (amongst them a brand new Connoisseur tale by Mark Valentine & John Howard), a smattering of rarely collected obscurities, a couple of never before translated artefacts and much more.The full contents are as follows...Meet Me at the Frost Fair by Alison LittlewoodThe Monkey & Basil Holderness by Vincent O’SullivanA Matter of Fact by Marion FoxThe Ruddy-Cheeked Boy (A Tale in Homage to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘The Snow-Image’) by Sheryl Humphrey Drebbel, Zander & Zervan by Ron Weighell Second Master by Mark Valentine Window Widows by Avalon Brantley The Secret by Anatole Le Braz (first English translation, by George Berguño)The Longing for Which by Sara Rich Barefoot Withouten Shoon by Tina Rath A Winter’s Night by Arthur Symons How Shall Dead Men Sing? (The Supernatural Affair of Lord Alfred Douglas & Oscar Wilde) by Nina Antonia Better Than Borley Rectory by Jane Fox The Harmony of Death (A Pianist's Most Terrible Experience) by Havelock Ettrick Il va neiger... by Francis Jammes (first English translation, by George Berguño)The Celestial Tobacconist by Mark Valentine & John Howard Finvarragh by Nora Hopper From the Mouth of Mad Pratt by Ross Smeltzer In St. James’s Park by Hubert Crackanthorpe Aut Diabolus Aut Nihil by X.L.Somewhere snow by Jonathan Wood