Are you concerned that your proboscis may be unsightly? That your nose may not pass muster in the best company? Never fear! Victorian science is coming to your rescue!
Monday 9 May 2016
Sunday 8 May 2016
Ship's Figureheads
Saturday 7 November 2015
Crime and the Crystal ( 1909 )
It is only fair to warn the reader that one of the witnesses to the phenomena mentioned here - Miss
Ada Goodrich Freer - has been posthumously accused of plagiarism and fraud, though not in connection with any of the 'crystal' cases.
Monday 12 October 2015
Monday 17 November 2014
The Best Accredited Ghost Stories (Strand Magazine. 1908)
Beckles Willson was a noted Canadian historian. He was the author of 'Occultism and Common-Sense' which you can read or download from the Internet Archive.
Wednesday 29 October 2014
A Map of Precious Stones (Strand Magazine, 1902)
Nothing succeeds like excess, said Mr Wilde; and when you're a Czar, excess comes cheap. Let's hear it for the most impressive bijou of them all.
Friday 24 October 2014
The Monster of Partridge Creek (Strand Magazine, 1908)
This is probably the most unlikely story ever to appear in The Strand. Originally published in a French magazine called 'Je Sais Tout' (I Know All) in April 1908, it was picked up around the world. The shaggy dinosaur, sadly, was never reported again. However, a thought occurs to me. One of the Strand's most popular contributors was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, whose tales of Sherlock Holmes and Brigadier Gerard were mainstays of the magazine. Could this yarn of a dinosaur surviving in a remote corner of the world have served as the inspiration for Conan Doyle's 'The Lost World' which was published four years later?
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