{"id":57155,"date":"2022-10-28T08:20:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T08:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=57155"},"modified":"2022-10-28T08:24:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T08:24:09","slug":"at-the-river-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/10\/28\/at-the-river-gates\/","title":{"rendered":"At the River-Gates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S.T. Joshi&#8217;s blog <a href=\"http:\/\/stjoshi.org\/news2022.html\">has updated<\/a>. He now has just 12 volumes in which the table of contents still need to be identified, for his forthcoming <em>Horror Fiction Index<\/em>. This book will give the TOCs for all known single-author weird \/ macabre \/ horror story collections. In fact he may only need 11 more. Since I had already emailed him the TOCs, back in August, for&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>PHILIPPA PEARCE. At the River-Gates and Other Stories of the Supernatural. London: Puffin, 1996.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After some research I found it to be a child-sized &#8220;60 pence&#8221; (about $1) pocket-money &#8216;taster&#8217; paperback, from the children&#8217;s division of Penguin. There were many sold in this format here in the UK in the late 1990s, being the publisher&#8217;s experiment in the popularisation of reading. Only 54 pages in paperback with pulpy paper. It had three stories which were taken from the larger collection <em>The Shadow-Cage and Other Supernatural Tales<\/em>. The title and back-cover blurb as seen on eBay, combined, enabled my identification of the three stories inside.<\/p>\n<p>PHILIPPA PEARCE. <em>At the River-Gates: And Other Supernatural Stories<\/em>. London: Puffin, 1996.<\/p>\n<p>1. &#8220;At the River-Gates&#8221;.<br \/>\n2. &#8220;The Shadow Cage&#8221;.<br \/>\n3. &#8220;Her Father&#8217;s Attic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve re-sent the information to S.T. Presumably it got lost in the shuffle of an August break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S.T. Joshi&#8217;s blog has updated. He now has just 12 volumes in which the table of contents still need to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/10\/28\/at-the-river-gates\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57155"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57160,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57155\/revisions\/57160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}