On further reflection, I was privileged in many ways in the earlier days of my writing and reading activities, e.g. I went to school with Michel Parry and, later, I socialised with Mark Samuels as a friend before he had started writing seriously.
Also another tragic premature death happened in 2013 of someone else I got to know during our mutual early days: Joel Lane: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/1479-2/
The beautiful St Paul’s reference echoes the appearance of its dome in my first published story and some other stories when I knew Mark face to face in late 1980s. Mark was then a mentor of me as an older person, not vice versa.
And another that followed the quote below in the same thread:
“Before you go to into the final slumber my old friend, I hope you will once more tell me a tale in person. Something along the lines we had many years ago.
Mark S.”
Re: Eventernal Slumber
“Perhaps the phrase infected my dream last night, from which I awoke early this morning with the afterglow lingering in my consciousness. It was of a roofscape of thousands of books. I was drawn to one in particular and opening it I discovered it consisted of a series of technicoloured photographs of gatherings I had attended in the past, with all my old friends (including DFL) dressed in the costumes of a masquerade, haunting attic rooms and themselves poring over books.”
—- Mark Samuels in 2014
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On further reflection, I was privileged in many ways in the earlier days of my writing and reading activities, e.g. I went to school with Michel Parry and, later, I socialised with Mark Samuels as a friend before he had started writing seriously.
Also another tragic premature death happened in 2013 of someone else I got to know during our mutual early days: Joel Lane: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/1479-2/
STYGIAN DREAMHOUSE:
https://vaultofevil.proboards.com/post/3697
Just rediscovered what I said in 2003 about the WHITE HANDS collection before many people had heard of it!
https://web.archive.org/web/20120528161338/http://nightshadebooks.com/discus/messages/8/752.html?1227381699
Quentin S. Crisp on Mark Samuels:
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/24343153-dedicated-to-the-weird-a-tribute-to-mark-samuels
The beautiful St Paul’s reference echoes the appearance of its dome in my first published story and some other stories when I knew Mark face to face in late 1980s. Mark was then a mentor of me as an older person, not vice versa.
Quoted from here: https://www.ligotti.net/showthread.php?p=102796#post102796
And another that followed the quote below in the same thread:
“Before you go to into the final slumber my old friend, I hope you will once more tell me a tale in person. Something along the lines we had many years ago.
Mark S.”
Re: Eventernal Slumber
“Perhaps the phrase infected my dream last night, from which I awoke early this morning with the afterglow lingering in my consciousness. It was of a roofscape of thousands of books. I was drawn to one in particular and opening it I discovered it consisted of a series of technicoloured photographs of gatherings I had attended in the past, with all my old friends (including DFL) dressed in the costumes of a masquerade, haunting attic rooms and themselves poring over books.”
—- Mark Samuels in 2014
Tim Lebbon was one of the people who shared our tours of London with Mark in the 1990s …
I am proud to have been part of these stories as written in the 1990s and they were made available in the form shown here around ten years ago… https://dflcollaborations.wordpress.com/collaborations-with-tim-lebbon/