Bloomsbury Library

M.R. James: The Haunted Doll's House

"Mr Dillet was startled out of a very pleasant slumber by a bell tolling One."

Dec 21 •

Victoria K. Walker

William Caine: The Pensioner

"He had expected Miss Crewe to die any day during the past thirteen years."

Nov 21 •

Victoria K. Walker

Algernon Blackwood: The Empty House

"They stood there on the threshold of their ghostly adventure."

Oct 21 •

Victoria K. Walker

Virginia Woolf: An Unwritten Novel

"The best thing to do against life was to fold the paper."

Aug 21 •

Victoria K. Walker

Katherine Mansfield: A Cup of Tea

"It was like something out of a novel by Dostoevsky, this meeting in the dusk."

Jul 21 •

Victoria K. Walker

James Joyce: Araby

"Her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood."

Jun 21 •

Victoria K. Walker

D.H. Lawrence: Things

"All one wishes to do is to live a full and beautiful life."

May 21 •

Victoria K. Walker

Arthur Conan Doyle: How it Happened

"Even in the gloom I could see that he was smiling."

Apr 21 •

Victoria K. Walker

Dylan Thomas: A Child's Christmas in Wales

"It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas."

Dec 21, 2023 •

Victoria K. Walker

Saki: The Open Window

"One would think he had seen a ghost."

Oct 21, 2023 •

Victoria K. Walker

Virginia Woolf: The Mark on the Wall

"What an accidental affair this living is."

Jul 21, 2023 •

Victoria K. Walker

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