The third who always walks beside you
Who is the third who always walks beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together. But when I look ahead up the white road There is…
Category: uncanny
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyaltov Pass Incident, Donnie Eichar
I first came across the Dyaltov Pass incident some time ago on Wikipedia, probably by following a link on the Wiki page “List of unusual deaths” The incident saw the…
Sleep and dreams
One of my interests is sleep. Some of this is personal; I used to think I was a “bad sleeper”, until I discovered that thinking you are a bad sleeper makes…
“The Invention of Morel” Adolfo Bioy Cesares, Reviewed Nthposition 2003 / SF Site 2011
This review was originally published here at Nthposition.com and some years later, with Val Stevenson of Nthposition’s permission of course, a slightly reworked version was published on SF Site Even pieces I have…
On Borges’ Discovery of the Internet Before it Existed
This is a fantastic post which manages to marry my interests in Borges and sleep/insomnia very effectively! Borges’ “The Library of Babel” is usually cited as a conceptual precursor to…
The Casebook of Carnacki, The Ghost-Finder by William Hope Hodgson. SF Site 2014
I came across this book in a Clonmel bookshop, and it became one of the pieces I submitted to SF Site based on my own reading, rather than a book…
Séamus Sweeney 