Martin Davies
They were easy words to speak, simple commonplaces that were almost without meaning except as a charm to reassure.
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The Joy of Sorcery (2020)
Sten Nadolny
First Letter: The Long Arm
Read books page by page, unless it’s an emergency. And don’t make a text magically appear on paper—write or type it out carefully, letter by letter, then you’ll weigh every word. All weight, like gravity itself, leads to effort, but it grounds you.
More Deadly than the Male: Masterpieces from the Queens of Horror (2019)
Edited by Graeme Davis
Introduction
Wharton is not alone. Many of the authors in this collection wrote across a range of genres, and here, perhaps, is the greatest contrast with their male counterparts. Writers like Poe, Lovecraft, and M. R. James tended to stay within their genre, assiduously feeding the audiences who brought them fame and fortune; on the other hand, many of the the ladies whose work graces these pages wrote whatever they pleased, crossing boundaries and blending genres as each story required. If they refused to be confined by social ideas of feminine gentility, they were queally reluctant to embrace the literary restrictions of genre and market. They just wrote damned good stories.