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- The Buckross Ring
- and Other Stories of the Strange and
Supernatural
- 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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- 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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- The
Buckross Ring is a sewn hardback book of 237+ xii pages
with silk ribbon marker, head and tailbands, and
d/w.
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- Limited
to 300 copies. ISBN 978-1-905784-13-4.
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- £32.50/$55 inc. p&p.
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- Reviews
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- "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
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