Donald Hounam

Author of three novels featuring forensic sorcerer Frank Sampson: Gifted (US title A Dangerous Magic), Pariah and Mortal; and of a ghost story, Those Who Wait

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Still the greatest comic strip ever—George Herriman's Krazy Kat

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@Michael_J_Matt Beiged out to the point of banality

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@imetatronink Probably not a sailor – more likely Wilmer:

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@ZubyMusic @realpeteyb123 Pretty much anywhere you look on X. And while you’re fixating on the plate-spinner down at the footlights, the stagehands are preparing the big surprise behind the curtain…

Ask yourself: #whynow?

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@JacquiDeevoy1 @OlooneyJohn @favouritetowin I don’t know *anybody* who didn’t take the shot multiple times. Obviously moving in the wrong circles…

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Diversity cuts both ways, so looking forward to Lent down my local PureGym...

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@JamesMelville Jings!

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@BGatesIsaPyscho It would, I suppose, be out of order to suggest that the real issue is the absence of such lines outside Catholic churches…

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Intimations of mortality. 'After Death', my latest but not necessarily newest, novel.
https://t.co/8H6PAMDC9n

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Lovers of Shirley Jackson may appreciate my new novel 'After Death', a heady mix of bereavement, ghosts, memory, terror, betrayal, murder, judgment (human and divine) and resurrection...
https://t.co/8H6PAMDC9n

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Bernard Morton is dead. Clocks stop. Electrical items fail. Crushed by grief, his widow and children search desperately for meaning. Bernard has to have died for something. He could even have died in vain. What is unacceptable is for him just to have died. https://t.co/8H6PAMDC9n

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@imetatronink Yeah, I guess I’d distinguish between rock’n’roll and rock. Bit of a pedant, me.

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@Jenny_1884 Better yet, I helped him deliver – by horse and cart

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RIP Tchéky Karyo — here with Pascale Ogier in Eric Rohmer’s wonderful Les Nuits de la pleine lune (A Full Moon in Paris), 1984

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@thecoastguy They’re sending a message. But to whom…?

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@freedom_007__ Maybe Andrew is just the piece of paper upon which the message is written. And the real question is: to whom is that message addressed...?

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Just what the world needed: another Halloween freebie. Those Who Wait—ghosts, ritual magic, inline skating and quantum physics. What's not to like? A free Kindle download over the weekend
https://t.co/sZlhB6DkRu

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@Peston Andrew, I suspect, is merely the scrap of paper upon which the message is written. The interesting question is: to whom is that message addressed...?

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...and it gets worse when the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross falls on a Sunday. It took me 40 minutes with a slide rule, but I think I'm safe in saying that next Sunday, September 21, is the 15th after Pentecost...
...or is it the 16th...?

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Getting well dug into that magical time of the year when you're scrabbling for a calculator to work out how many Sundays it is after Pentecost...