"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

#AdventCalendar – Day 5: The Dance of the Gnomes

Today’s feature on my Patreon is the translation of a fairytale originally published in an Italian magazine in 1911 as a selection of tales by Guido Gozzano. This is the tale that gave the title to the collection: it has recently been gifted to me by an Italian author I follow, and I try and gift the same gift to you. Yes, it means it’s free to read. Drop by!

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Arthur Machen’s Ornaments in Jade

Arthur Machen (1863–1947), born Arthur Llewellyn Jones, was an influential Welsh novelist and essayist widely regarded as a forerunner of 20th-century Gothic science fiction and a pioneer of “weird fiction,” so it’s a man after my own heart. Machen lived most of his life in

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Arthur Machen’s Ornaments in Jade

Arthur Machen (1863–1947), born Arthur Llewellyn Jones, was an influential Welsh novelist and essayist widely regarded as a forerunner of 20th-century Gothic science fiction and a pioneer of “weird fiction,” so it’s a man after my own heart. Machen lived most of his life in

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