The Hill in the Dark Grove by Liam Higginson endsoftheword.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy #bookreview endsoftheword.blogspot.com/2025/12/wild...

The Witching Hour: Ghostly Tales for the Darkest Nights #bookreview #ChristmasGothic endsoftheword.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

Vytautas Miškinis: Seven O Antiphons: I. O Sapientia · The Choir of Royal Holloway · Rupert Gough #Advent #OAntiphons youtu.be/MFfz7WKzPfY?...

Arvo Pärt : Seven Magnificat Antiphons #Advent #OAntiphons youtu.be/a-RYaN-08FU?...

Peteris Vasks: Castillo Interior #StTheresaofAvila youtu.be/Z2pwKm15_mQ?...

Here's my review of Ian McEwan's latest novel, "What We Can Know" endsoftheword.blogspot.com/2025/10/what...

Arvo is 90 years old... #arvopaert youtu.be/H69x14qPHG4?...

A review of the first issue of Gozitan literary journal "Mgħawġin" endsoftheword.blogspot.com/2025/08/Mgha...

Bluff by Francine Toon #bookreview endsoftheword.blogspot.com/2025/08/bluf...

Uncertain Stories, a new Edinburgh-based publishing house focused on illustrated volumes of new short fiction for adults, has been launched by Rob Redman, founding editor of The Fiction Desk, and artist Lucy Scott 👇

Michelle Paver returns to historical "explorer horror" with her forthcoming novel "Rainforest" endsoftheword.blogspot.com/2025/07/rain...

Saltwash by Andrew Michael Hurley, philosophical folk-horror with a riff on Shirley Jackson. endsoftheword.blogspot.com/2025/07/salt...

#nightmusic Born-again Romantic...US composer George Rochberg (1918-2005) was #botd. Here are his lyrical "Variations (on Pachelbel)" from String Quartet 6 youtu.be/tFxryoy2-d4?...

Clean by Alia Trabucco Zeran, translated by Sophie Hughes #bookreview endsoftheword.blogspot.com/2025/06/clea...

Somebody is Walking on Your Grave : My Cemetery Journeys by Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell #bookreview endsoftheword.blogspot.com/2025/06/some...

Camille Pépin : Inlandsis youtu.be/bU1eibUNRzQ?...

#nightmusic Judith Bingham #botd in 1952: The Drowned Lovers youtu.be/Yta1ngEOZek?...

Martha Theuma AKA Das Birthday Girl, featuring Luke Scerri AKA Fake Ophelia: "Image" What a hauntingly Gothic music video... youtu.be/oZfA_A7nICE?...

#nightmusic Mark-Anthony Turnage #botd in 1965: Two Baudelaire Songs Harmonie de Soir; L'invitation au voyage youtu.be/LxX2dVuOy-g?...

Just in time for Whitsun, a new recording of the Cantata for Pentecost by Calvin Hampton, a composer I only heard about yesterday.... #art by Giotto youtu.be/PdDNTOablZ8?...

Heap Earth Upon It by Chloe Michelle Howarth #bookreview #Gothic #Histfic endsoftheword.blogspot.com/2025/06/heap...

Samy Moussa #botd in 1984: Orpheus in Nunavut youtu.be/xv_YdWxrczk?...

"The Homecoming" by Zoë Apostolides. An atmospheric reworking of the Gothic, haunted house novel. endsoftheword.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-... #BookReview #debutnovel #SaltPublishing #zoeapostolides #horrorfiction #Gothicfiction

"Lotería : Stories" by Cynthia Pelayo #bookreview #horror #folkhorror endsoftheword.blogspot.com/2025/05/lote...

The Empusium, a Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk. This is a fever dream of a book, and the simmering female rage beneath its surface is powerfully conveyed in Antonia Lloyd-Jones’s translation. #bookreview endsoftheword.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...

#nightmusic Judith Weir #botd in 1954: "Still, Glowing". Weir's own note states: "Still, Glowing (2008) for an orchestra of strings, flutes, clarinets and keyboard percussion, is my one and (so far) only attempt at writing 'ambient music'." youtu.be/ApK3iv2Sfbc?...

"Good and Evil and Other Stories" by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell. Injecting the weird into the ordinary. #bookreview endsoftheword.blogspot.com/2025/04/Good...

James MacMillan: "The World's Ransoming" - having some holy fun playing "spot the chant" (and the chorale....) youtu.be/nt_HUQPV92w?...

"Greater Sins" by Gabrielle Griffiths: historical fiction firmly rooted in gritty realism, combined with a fable-like sense of mystery #debutnovel #bookreview endsoftheword.blogspot.com/2025/03/grea...

Ordinary Saints by Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin #bookreview #debutnovel endsoftheword.blogspot.com/2025/03/ordi...

Elizabeth Maconchy born OTD in 1907. You can hear her marvellous 'Dialogue for Piano and Orchestra' here with Martin Jones and the BBC Concert Orchestra: www.resonusclassics.com/products/mac...

Mexican horror treats: Bernardo Esquinca's "The Secret Life of Insects" translated by James D. Jenkins (Valancourt Books) #bookreview endsoftheword.blogspot.com/2025/03/Secr...

Struck Down, Not Destroyed: Keeping the Faith as a Vatican Reporter by Colleen Dulle #bookreview endsoftheword.blogspot.com/2025/03/Stru...

Ordinary Saints by Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin #bookreview #debutnovel endsoftheword.blogspot.com/2025/03/ordi...

Remembering Sofia Gubaidulina with one of her apocalyptic, explosive works "The Rider on the White Horse". The blazing organ portrays "the transfiguration and ascension of Christ into heaven (where everything is consumed by fire and light)." 1931- 2025 youtu.be/-K_lGIwU_S4?...

#nightmusic Dobrinka Tabakova : "Longing", second movement from Cello Concerto. What a luminous and ecstatic piece. youtu.be/Rv0EvERYsQI?...

#Ravel150 Maurice Ravel #botd in 1875: "L'Aurore" for tenor, choir and orchestra youtu.be/u66RecLACuI?...

Scottish painter Jack Vettriano, best known for his painting The Singing Butler, has died at the age of 73. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #art

#nightmusic "Dawn...Chacony for orchestra at any distance" by Thomas Adès #botd in 1971 youtu.be/3ZCS9g4Iktg?...

Happy birthday George Frideric Handel #botd in 1685 youtu.be/mYJm2_GHvlo?...

James MacMillan: Tu es Petrus youtu.be/rDyr_YA5q7Q?...

"I Hear You" by Paul McVeigh - well-crafted stories originally written for radio #bookreview endsoftheword.blogspot.com/2025/02/i-he...

"Old Soul" by Susan Barker. A protagonist to die for? horror #suprenaturalfiction endsoftheword.blogspot.com/2025/02/old-...

Arturo Toscanini said of Italian composer Licinio Refice (#botd in 1883): "He'd be the greatest living opera composer were he not a priest". Renata Tebaldi sings "Grazie Sorelle" from opera Cecilia youtu.be/4XKavTfpVEM?...

Guillaume d'Aquitaine, troubadour,is the first known poet in the Occitan language. He died #OTD in 1126 youtu.be/KpWljqUDd14?...

Lotta Wennäkoski #botd in 1970 : Verdigris youtu.be/Za-QRTUVPh4?...