Karavansara

East of Constantinople, West of Shanghai


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Spicy

61ijN1LocqL._SX373_BO1,204,203,200_As I think I mentioned already, I’ve found that giving myself little prizes when I close or I reach a way-point in a project.
Sort of a Pavlovian conditioning.
It’s easy to find some interesting, cheap reads that work quite nicely, and cost me as much (or as little) as a chocolate.

Tying up a minor project yesterday, landed on my Kindle Wildside’s The Spicy Adventure Megapack which collects 25 stories, you guessed it, from the spicy pulps.

For the uninitiated, the spicy pulps were an infamous sub-genre in the days of old – racy stories, risqué situations, naughty bits.
So far, I had a very limited experience with the spicy pulps, and this is a good opportunity for learning something new.

No, wait… not in that sense.
Goodness!


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24 hours hiatus

When tragedy strikes, words are useless.
Karavansara takes the day off, because it’s hard talking about adventure and far off lands in the face of meaningless atrocity and death.

We’ll be back online tomorrow – because adventure and dreams of far off lands and silliness might help someone take their mind off the horror.

Later.

Peace.


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Famous Modern Ghost Stories

17408014662_1a0e70e2e9_oWhat’s Halloween without a good ghost story, or five?

In 1921, Texas-born Dorothy Scarborough, lecturer in English at the Columbia University, edited a selection of spooky tales, and called it Famous Modern Ghost Stories.
The book includes works both familiar (Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen), and less obvious choices (Anatole France, Olivia Howard Dunbar).
One hundred years on, the volume is still a wonderful selection of ghostly narratives, and is highly recommended.

Here’s the full index… Continue reading