A short film about my book collecting, that also goes some way to explaining the genesis of Tartarus Press...
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Correspondence between Robert Aickman and Edith Tyler, March 1937 to August 1940
One of the great loves of Robert Aickman’s life was Edith Tyler, whom he called ‘Eve’ in The Attempted Rescue , presumably to hide her ident...
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AI Artwork for boards, Literary Hauntings , Tartarus Press, 2022. Artificial Intelligence is likely to revolutionise a wide variety of h... -
One of the great loves of Robert Aickman’s life was Edith Tyler, whom he called ‘Eve’ in The Attempted Rescue , presumably to hide her ident... -
In The Third Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (Fontana/Collins, 1966) Robert Aickman wrote: Of ‘The Beckoning Fair One ’ [by O...
I too collected books just to collect at one time but am now also only buying books I intend to read. Space, time and finances are my primary drivers. Space is the most serious problem forcing me to store lots of less valuable books in storage boxes. Finding a climate controlled environment to keep them is a challenge.
ReplyDeleteGreat piece on the allure of real books Ray. Makes you wonder what ebook readers will have to look back on in the future.
ReplyDeleteWatching this silently at the mo, will go home and watch properly - but how wonderful to see Miss H in the original cover! I hadn't seen it before.
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