Musings From Oblivion's Vault

Crawl Wood at Sunset, Lower Dinchope, Shropshire 30th October 2011. © John Gale   Just a quick appearance to let you know that Saraband of Sable is now out of print from the publisher, Egaeus Press. I would like to thank everyone who took the trouble to purchase a copy or utter appreciative things about the book. Many, many thanks indeed to you all.

 A Fairy Tale by Arthur Wardle (1864-1949) [Source: Victorianweb.org ] But the most pleasing of the things at the Queen’s palace is the Queen’s garden: be-walled it is and reached by three hundred onyx steps, with admittance via a locked and fragrant gate of carven cedar, with the wood dyed to the hue of jasper: but jasper dark and mournful. A rather late announcement, but available now from the ever-beautiful Egaeus Press is The Book of Flowering edited by Mark Beech. As with all the books published by this press, it is a wonderfully crafted production and I strongly urge anyone interested to swiftly acquire this sumptuous volume before it goes out of print, as I'm sure it will do. My contribution is entitled 'A Garden of Sorrow and Sorcery' and it is a strange and empurpled Faerie Tale. Originally it was to form the centre piece of a different story - and still does, as a synopsis - and act as the key to that story, but unfortunately the tale grew an