![]() ![]() Akin to the literate pagan chillers of Arthur Machen and set in a near-supernatural landscape such as Algernon Blackwood wrote of, Ringstones is an eerie, understated rumination on the ability of history to insinuate itself into the present in terrible ways. First published in 1951, it was written by British diplomat John William Wall (1910-1989), under his pen name Sarban, by which also wrote two other genre novels, The Sound of His Horn and The Dollmaker ( all published Stateside by Ballantine Books in the early 1960s). ![]() ![]() It's not even past." So goes one of Faulkner's great quotes and it applies to Ringstones completely. ![]()
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