Performativizing Papyrocentricity #81

Papyrocentric Performativity Presents…

• Slopwith Pilot – Biggles Breaks the Silence, W.E. Johns (1949)

• Di Another Day – Diana: The People’s Princess, Nicholas Owen, foreword by Trevor MacDonald (Welbeck 2020)

• Short-Changed at Sea – The Lonely Sea: Collected Short Stories, Alistair MacLean (1985)

• The Hyper-Heretical Hum of Horror… – The Definitive Guide to Horror Movies: 383 Films to Scare You to Death, edited by Kim Newman and James Marriott (Welbeck 2025)

• Vinum Verborum — Valorizing the Verbiviniculture of Clark Ashton Smith

• InS(p)ect(er)s and Others — The Snow Ghost and Other Tales: Classic Japanese Ghost Stories, translated by Lafcadio Hearn et al (Viking Classics 2023)

• Slayers on the Slate, Huh? – 21st Century Psychos: The Most Horrifying Killers of the Modern Era, Al Cimino (2025)

• Rock’n’Road – Lipstick and Leather: On the Road with the World’s Most Notorious Rock Stars, Kim Hawes (Sandstone Press 2023)

• Writefade – Nightshade, Michael Connelly (Orion 2025)

• Veer’d Tales… – S.H.A.D.O.W. Over Innsmouth, H.P. Liebeskraft

• Parabolic Papyrocinematicity – Needful Things, Stephen King (1991)

• Princess Di-Vid… – Shadows Of A Princess: An Intimate Account by Her Private Secretary, Patrick Jephson (2000)


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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #78

Papyrocentric Performativity Presents…

• Moist and Marvellous – The Hidden World of Mosses, Neil Bell (Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh, 2023)

• Mutton Ju: The Balls-Up in Brideshead

• Little Littérateur – Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited, Philip Eade (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2016)

• Vegetarian Villan – Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath and Beyond, Geezer Butler (HarperCollins 2023)

• Blood Triangle – Blood Work, Michael Connelly (1998)

• Haute Coltour – The World According to Colour: A Cultural History, James Fox (Penguin 2021)

• Heil Halitosis! – Bad Breath, David Britton (Savoy Books 2022)

Performativizing Papyrocentricity #77

Papyrocentric Performativity Presents…

• Bestial at the Festival – The Festival, D.M. Mitchell (2021)

• Linkin’ Lawyer – Resurrection Walk, Michael Connelly (2023)

• Mini Miki – Maximal Mikita: The Mostly Morbid Memoirs of Mikita Brottman, Mikita Brottman (2024)

• Spider Guider – Britain’s Spiders: A Field Guide, Lawrence Bee, Geoff Oxford and Helen Smith (2020)

• Gnostalgie du Perdu – Gnosticism: An Anthology, ed. Robert M. Grant (1961)


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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #76

Papyrocentric Performativity Presents…

• Tight-Trope Man – The Tightrope Men, Desmond Bagley (1973)

• Primal Scheme – The Boy Who Was Afraid, Armstrong Sperry (1941)

• Verre If On N’est – Mots d’Heures: Gousses, Rames: The d’Antin Manuscript, edited and annoted by Luis d’Antin van Rooten (1967)

• Grim Pickings – Desert Star, Michael Connelly (2022)

• Leaves on the Life-Tree – The Seduction of Solitude, Kim Dallesandro (Incunabula Media 2022)

• Thirsk for Knowledge – A Yorkshire Vet Through the Seasons, Julian Norton (Michael O’Mara 2017)

• In League with Spandex – Denim and Leather: The Rise and Fall of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, Michael Hann (Constable 2022)


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