I heard the wings beat on the streets tonight

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I went to Porter Square Books and bought the recent Penguin collection of Arthur Machen, The White People and Other Weird Stories. I drank herbal chai and read two stories out of S.T. Joshi's American Supernatural Tales (2013), which is for the record a beautifully designed hardcover. Tim Kendall's Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology (2013) is the first such I've seen that includes female poets: Charlotte Mew, Mary Borden, Margaret Postgate Cole, May Wedderburn Cannan. I had heard of none of them beyond Mew and I wonder how many more I don't know about.

I walked home with my book when I ran out of chai. I met derspatchel for dinner at Hana Sushi and ate slightly more fish than I was expecting. (No regrets. More sushi should include both spicy salmon and chopped apple.) I want to watch Mark Gatiss' The Tractate Middoth (2013), but I can't find it anywhere online.

Frances Hardinge writes what she calls "Lovecraftian culinary fiction" (I thought it was more like ecology by Mervyn Peake). Daniel José Older writes about Lovecraft.

I want to know why I become ambitious only when I am too stupid to get anything done.

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I missed The Tractate Middoth too, which really annoyed me.

Link if you find it! I'm relying on you, finder of The Cicerones.

Thanks for the link to the Hardinge! It looks great. I'll read that later.

Enjoy! I don't think she writes very much short fiction. We were actually in the same issue of Alchemy in 2006, which didn't quite register until I was reading Fly by Night (2005) a few years ago.

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I'll let you know if I find it!

(ETA: I did!)

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(ETA: I did!)

You rock!