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The Myth It Was Seeking

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Subtle Bodies: A Fantasia on Voice, History and René Crevel, by Peter Dubé, Lethe Press

by Eleanor Brown
06.02.2011

André wants to hear the disembodied voices, but cannot. He must rely instead on men like René, who began a séance by faking it. But now René cannot make the voices stop. The conversations continue even as he turns on the gas oven in his apartment, and awaits sleep. The dying medium is René Crevel, [...]

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Goes Best with Thunder and Lightning

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Unearthly Asylum, by P.J. Bracegirdle, Simon & Schuster Inc.

by Eleanor Brown
05.12.2010

It was a dark and stormy night. Or, as P.J. Bracegirdle writes, “The night was wretched. Rain clattered and wind howled. Gates banged and screeched as garbage cans blew down driveways and crashed into garage doors. Swollen black rivers rushed along gutters, roaring down through sewer grates.”

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