Christopher Tuthill
@christuthill.bsky.social
Writer, librarian, posting about books, boardgames, and tabletop rpgs https://christuthill.wordpress.com/
Star Wars: Rebellion
Strike from your hidden base as the Rebels—or find and destroy it as the Empire.
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November 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Friendship and The Chair Company christuthill.com/2025/11/09/f...
Friendship and The Chair Company
Friendship, with Tim Robinson, was great fun; if you enjoy the over-the-top characters and situations in his sketch comedy, you’ll find plenty to enjoy of this tale of a misfit who can’t seem to ac…
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November 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Halloween Reading List christuthill.com/2025/11/01/h...
Halloween Reading List
Starting Octber 1, I wrote short reviews and thoughts about 31 different Gothic tales that I have enjoyed through the years. I did this in no particular order, choosing a new one every day from my …
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November 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Halloween Reading List christuthill.com/2025/11/01/h...
Halloween Stories christuthill.com/2022/10/25/h...
Halloween Stories
I’ve shared these before, but here are a few of my short stories that are right for this time of year. The Touch is the story of a young girl with strange powers who must stand up to cruelty …
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October 31, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Halloween Stories christuthill.com/2022/10/25/h...
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft (1936) christuthill.com/2025/10/31/a...
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft (1936)
“It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth’s dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and …
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October 31, 2025 at 2:50 PM
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft (1936) christuthill.com/2025/10/31/a...
The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers (1989) christuthill.com/2025/10/30/t...
The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers (1989)
“Crawford felt drops of sweat run down his ribs under his shirt as he slowly forced the muscles of his neck to tilt his head up; he saw the upper slope, bristling with trees that obstructed a…
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October 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers (1989) christuthill.com/2025/10/30/t...
The Cask of Amontillado christuthill.com/2025/10/29/t...
The Cask of Amontillado
Today, I’m again doing some brief thoughts on a few horror stories I’ve enjoyed over the years and which deserved inclusion on this reader’s guide to Halloween. You could probably pick 31 stories b…
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October 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Something Wicked This Way Comes... christuthill.com/2025/10/27/s...
Something Wicked This Way Comes…
I was quiet the past few days due to a campout, which was a bracing seasonal treat. It was a gorgeous weekend, the foliage was on full display, we heard owls at night as we enjoyed the fire, saw tu…
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October 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Something Wicked This Way Comes... christuthill.com/2025/10/27/s...
Ghost Story by Peter Straub (1979) christuthill.com/2025/10/23/g...
Ghost Story by Peter Straub (1979)
Ghost Story was a great success for Peter Straub when it was published in 1979, and it’s easy to see why. The novel has all kinds of unsettling stories within, enough to keep any reader up late at …
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October 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Ghost Story by Peter Straub (1979) christuthill.com/2025/10/23/g...
The Refugee by Jane Rice (1943) christuthill.com/2025/10/22/t...
The Refugee by Jane Rice (1943)
Jane Rice wrote many science fiction and horror tales during the Golden Age of science fiction; The Refugee is one of them, first published in Unknown Worlds, a magazine edited by the legendary Joh…
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October 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The Refugee by Jane Rice (1943) christuthill.com/2025/10/22/t...
The Phantom Coach, by Amelia Edwards (1864) christuthill.com/2025/10/21/t...
The Phantom Coach, by Amelia Edwards (1864)
In the grand tradition of Victorian Christmas ghost stories, Amelia Edward’s The Phantom Coach first appeared in The December, 1864 issue of Charles Dickens’ literary journal, All the Year Ro…
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October 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The Phantom Coach, by Amelia Edwards (1864) christuthill.com/2025/10/21/t...
The Moonstone Mass by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1868) christuthill.com/2025/10/20/t...
The Moonstone Mass by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1868)
Harriet Prescott Spofford was a prolific writer of short stories—this gothic tale, The Moonstone Mass, predates HP Lovecraft’s tales of madness in the arctic by a good half century or more, but wou…
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October 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The Moonstone Mass by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1868) christuthill.com/2025/10/20/t...
Ma'ame Pelagie by Kate Chopin (1894) christuthill.com/2025/10/19/m...
Ma’ame Pelagie by Kate Chopin (1894)
“Ma’ame Pelagie,” they called her, though she was unmarried, as was her sister Pauline, a child in Ma’ame Pelagie’s eyes; a child of thirty-five. Kate Chopin is well k…
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October 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Ma'ame Pelagie by Kate Chopin (1894) christuthill.com/2025/10/19/m...
Jeff Shaara in Poughkeepsie christuthill.com/2025/10/19/j...
Jeff Shaara in Poughkeepsie
Yesterday my son and I were lucky to see Jeff Shaara, the historian and novelist, speak on his book Rise to Rebellion, the first of his two novels of the American Revolution. The books are terrific…
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October 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Jeff Shaara in Poughkeepsie christuthill.com/2025/10/19/j...
In Dark New England Days by Sarah Orne Jewett (1890) christuthill.com/2025/10/18/i...
In Dark New England Days by Sarah Orne Jewett (1890)
Sarah Orne Jewett is a Maine writer known for tales that bring the region to life, such as A Country Doctor, a novel that brought to life her father’s career as a physician, as well as books like I…
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October 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
In Dark New England Days by Sarah Orne Jewett (1890) christuthill.com/2025/10/18/i...
Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice (1976) christuthill.com/2025/10/17/i...
Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice (1976)
“God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately He takes the richest and the poorest, and so shall we; for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves, dark angels not confine…
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October 18, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice (1976) christuthill.com/2025/10/17/i...
Coheed and Cambria christuthill.com/2025/10/17/c...
Coheed and Cambria
I’m an old RUSH fan super excited by their recent reunion announcement, and so I’m the perfect audience for a band like Coheed and Cambria. A friend of mine has been raving about them f…
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October 17, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Coheed and Cambria christuthill.com/2025/10/17/c...
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor (1953) christuthill.com/2025/10/16/a...
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor (1953)
“You can do one thing or you can do another, kill a man or take a tire off his car, because sooner or later you’re going to forget what it was you done and just be punished for it.” One of th…
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October 16, 2025 at 9:18 PM
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor (1953) christuthill.com/2025/10/16/a...
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892) christuthill.com/2025/10/15/t...
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892)
“I really have discovered something at last. Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally found out. The front pattern does move – and no wonder! The woman behind sha…
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October 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892) christuthill.com/2025/10/15/t...
The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James (1898) christuthill.com/2025/10/14/t...
The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James (1898)
“The summer had turned, the summer had gone; the autumn had dropped upon Bly and had blown out half our lights. The place, with its gray sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered de…
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October 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James (1898) christuthill.com/2025/10/14/t...
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818) christuthill.com/2025/10/13/f...
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)
‘Hateful day when I received life!’ I exclaimed in agony. ‘Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beauti…
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October 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818) christuthill.com/2025/10/13/f...
"Minivan broke down, again"
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
“The tapes wouldn’t start”
“The tapes wouldn’t start”
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
“Translate 'yoroshiku onegai shimasu'”.
“Translate 'yoroshiku onegai shimasu'”.
October 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"Minivan broke down, again"
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (1954) christuthill.com/2025/10/12/i...
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (1954)
Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend is a book that may be overlooked by fans of vampires and zombies, but it’s one of the originals of the genre, inspiring three direct adaptations in addition to an ent…
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October 12, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (1954) christuthill.com/2025/10/12/i...
The Body, by Stephen King (1982) christuthill.com/2025/10/09/t...
The Body, by Stephen King (1982)
“It’s hard and painful for you to talk about these things … and then people just look at you strangely. They haven’t understood what you’ve said at all, or why you almost cr…
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October 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
The Body, by Stephen King (1982) christuthill.com/2025/10/09/t...
Fevre Dream (1982) by George RR Martin christuthill.com/2025/10/08/f...
Fevre Dream (1982) by George RR Martin
George RR Martin is known for his groundbreaking fantasy novels, but back in 1982 he wrote this gem of a vampire book, about a down on his luck steamship captain, Abner Marsh, who makes a bargain w…
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October 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Fevre Dream (1982) by George RR Martin christuthill.com/2025/10/08/f...