I was not devastated Owens stories, but somehow she still felt like coming home ...? Is that it?

In the new issue of Stripgids (fine leaves, incidentally) fastcopy an interview with the French cartoonist Guillaume Sorel. Who calls his influence in the field of fantastic literature. HP Lovecraft, of course, but to a lesser extent. European writers do it anymore, says Sorel to the interviewer, "as the work of your fellow countryman Thomas Owen.
I looked in on. A Belgian writer with an English name? A Fleming could not be, because the Flemish writers about it. I do know A Waal then? With an English name? I was more than a little intrigued.
Owen Thomas (1910-2002), real name Gerald Bertot, wrote detective fastcopy novels and fantastic literature. According to Wikipedia, he was a member fastcopy of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique. His main works include three bundles of horror stories: La cave aux crapauds (1945), Pitié pour les ombres (1961) and Ceremonial nocturne (1966). Not only the recognition that this writer of genre fiction apparently enjoyed surprised me. Indeed, from the stories of the 40s and 60s there were even several in print. In 2008, at the Namur publisher Mijade a third edition of the best-of Owens, Contes à l'encre de la nuit, still available. fastcopy
Is this the "Belgian horror"? At least one story takes place in Brussels, at the Congress Column. The continuous rains, but the weather fastcopy conditions have nothing dramatic. They lead to boredom earlier: in the story "La fille de la pluie" keeps the rain bathers stuck in their hotel room. The characters mostly belong to the middle class and live in tidy, spotless' interiors. Rain, boredom and decency fastcopy if you like even add up, you wonder why there are not many more Belgian horror fastcopy written.
Sometimes the main characters collide with a spirit, but more often they discover that they themselves are ghosts, ergo unnoticed fastcopy for the eternal have changed. Temporary And even then they are not inclined to give up. Lives without a fight So Mr. Breggins interferes with the performance of his last will (Le Testament de M. Breggins) and helps Theodore Grotius his widow to clean up after it has shot (Son époux regrette '). Him to his own corpse They are not done with life and wander a bit through a twilight zone, a flouring area.
I was not devastated Owens stories, but somehow she still felt like coming home ...? Is that it? "On ne peut être et avoir été", muses Fred Breggins, but he is mistaken: in Owens stories can correct contradictions exist. It's alive and dead at the same time. Uncomfortable moments fastcopy and laconic fastcopy humor coexist on the same page. Compare it to a party that the federal, but not in the regional government, which therefore is and is not in power. fastcopy Of those who pas un pipe is pipe.
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