CLNolan

#CLNolan Writer of Strange Stories from #Hookland

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#CLNolan drew many sketches in his notebooks. Most were awful. Here is one that isn't.

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@maximpetergriff King glorious.

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When people say ‘weird’ what they usually mean is rubbing against the unseen borders of the other realms. - #CLNolan

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A rare photograph of the younger #CLNolan

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I call it my ghost machine, but I must not speak of its part in my writing process, - #CLNolan, 1908

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We so often talk of deep winter, but much less often of deep autumn, which is much closer to the truth of the season. - #CLNolan

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King of the liars - the local historian. King of the lies - the picture postcard. #CLNolan, 1933 BBC radio talk

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The words ascended from the book’s pages in a column of light, arranging themselves in rotating circles. - #CLNolan

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To lose one's sense of direction can be dangerous, but to lose one's sense of place - that's a terrible thing. - #CLNolan

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Our eyelids become curtains we cannot hold up. They close on the command of ether and it begins. – #CLNolan, 1888

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I've lived long enough to know Death's favourite home is the battlefield. - #CLNolan

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A shiver of terror is a thing both terrible and delicious. It teases the skin and soul in most remarkable ways. - #CLNolan #Horror

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Nolan often doodled on his manuscripts, one recurring character was Mr. Pots the barman. #CLNolan

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The tale often tells us more about the teller than itself. Fiction is always slippery like that. - #CLNolan #Writing

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@dedbutdrmng Have you introduced him to the eggbox challenge yet?

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If anyone offers to sell you the secrets of great writing, they are a fraud. There are no trade secrets to sell. - #CLNolan, 1897 #writing

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The ghosts of the waking dead scratched insects from their skulls and whispered. It was a chorus of dust. - #CLNolan, 'Solstice Bells', 1903

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Enjoy #folklorethursday with a new instalment of the@HooklandGuide, a Hookland wordsearch, and some @GhostofCLNolan extracts!

Wyrd Daze One: https://t.co/aTcZWPyLZE

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A small town with more shadows than it should have. A city idiot come to the county. Soil where superstition grows. These are the ingredients of #horror. #CLNolan

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#Horror is the skitter just beyond the stretch of eye. The sudden stutter of movement from a thing we know to be lifeless. - #CLNolan