Category Archives: Charles Dickens

Reading Report, August/September 2025 from Jeff Baker

Posted on September 21, 2025 by jeffbaker307

Image courtesy of J. Scott Coatsworth Read Joe R. Lansdale’s “The Shadows In the Rock,” in the anthology “Scaring and Daring.” A fine homage to Mark Twain and Huckleberry Finn. The dialogue is perfect. (“You listen right smart, that river … Continue reading →

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Reading Report Extra! Horror MAYhem: Decades Of Dread! Jeff Baker, May 30, 2025

Posted on May 30, 2025 by jeffbaker307

Reading Report Addenda: “Horror MAYhem 2025” For fun, I’m participating in “Horror MAYhem: Decades Of Dread” a Book Tube event where they read horror stories from several decades. I’m not on Book Tube so I’m just posting the results here, … Continue reading →

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“Upon the Midnight Queer.” ‘Nathan Burgoine’s New Collection, Reviewed By Jeff Baker. (October 29, 2024)

Posted on October 29, 2024 by jeffbaker307

NOTE: A version of this review first appeared on Goodreads. —-jeff “Upon The Midnight Queer” ‘Nathan Burgoine’s New Collection Reviewed by Jeff Baker ‘Nathan Burgoine’s second short fiction collection “Upon the Midnight Clear,” features a group of short Christmas tales … Continue reading →

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Reading Report: September/October 2024, from Jeff Baker

Posted on October 20, 2024 by jeffbaker307

Reading Report, September/October 2024 Jeff Baker Grabbed a lot of time to read this month! Started reading Dave Musson’s “Once More Round the Sun.” Read the stories “Start As You Mean To Go On,” “The Strange Phenomenon of Epping Manor,” … Continue reading →

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“Our Life Exempt from Public Haunt,” a Special Friday Flash Fics by Jeff and William Baker, February 11, 2022.

Posted on February 11, 2022 by jeffbaker307

Our Life Exempt From Public Haunt By Jeff Baker & Wm. R. Baker I was there late that evening in the old Lopresti Library because the books I needed weren’t online and I couldn’t check them out. Somehow the guard … Continue reading →

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Words for our time:

Posted on March 18, 2020 by jeffbaker307

Here are some words for our current surreal times:   “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”   Franklin D. Roosevelt said this during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Fear and panic are running rampant these … Continue reading →

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Short-Story Month, Day #14, Sharing the World.

Posted on May 15, 2019 by jeffbaker307

By Jeff Baker This one’s going to be short—This post is supposed to be about my favorite shared-world anthologies. I really haven’t read many of these! I’ve written a story for one but that was three years and three jobs … Continue reading →

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