“There is, however, another good work that is done by detective stories,” G. K. Chesterton wrote in 1901. “While it is the constant tendency of the Old Adam to rebel against so universal and automatic […]
Fiorella De Maria is an award-winning author who was born in Italy of Maltese parents and grew up in Wiltshire, England. She received a BA in English Literature and a Masters in Renaissance Literature from […]
A woman stands alone on a quiet street. A police officer approaches and begins questioning her as to her business. She answers politely that she is standing there. Finally, he asks her if she is […]
Dear Readers, Almost exactly a year ago, I used this space to tell the tale of moving many books into my newly converted “shoffice” in the wilderness near Elmira, Oregon (pop. 546). Admittedly, it’s not […]
Doctors are called to save lives. There is surely nothing controversial about this statement. Indeed, it more or less sums up the purpose of medicine and the major reason why anyone would put themselves through […]
Dear Readers, “Of making many books,” wrote the author of Ecclesiastes (as he produced, yes, a book), “there is no end” (Eccl 12:12). He says nothing at all, however, about the moving of many books. […]
During the late seventeenth and eighteenth century, a major outbreak of vampiric hysteria exploded across Eastern Europe. Documentation of purported vampiric incidents was erratic and hysterically exaggerated. This great vampire fright came upon the heels […]
Readers seeking out an existential horror story might not look to Catholic authors and a Catholic publishers. But that is precisely what Fiorella De Maria and K.V. Turley have delivered in This Thing of Darkness, […]
A number of notable events have taken place in Britain over the past couple of weeks. Lockdown regulations have eased to allow indoor venues to open and ‘cautious hugs’ to be exchanged; in Scotland, a […]
Dear Readers, “No man can be called friendless,” wrote Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “who has God and the companionship of good books.” This year has been marked by many troubles, strains, and trials. It has been […]
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