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jayrothermel's review
4.0
Summoning Knells and Other Inventions by A. F. Kidd (Ash-Tree Press, 2012) is a collection of fifty supernatural stories. Told with brevity and a graceful clarity, they are uniformly outstanding work. So far I have only read the first half of the book, the stories collected under "Ghost Stories of a Campanologist."
Like the stories of David G. Rowlands, about whom I have written here, Kidd's tales wed a few guiding Jamesian rules to modern circumstances of work or hobby. For Rowlands it was adventures of men who ran pest control businesses or played in Hawaiian music bands. For Kidd it is men and women from various walks of life who are united by a passion for change ringing.
Full review:
http://jayrothermel.blogspot.com/2021/02/summoned-by-bells-f-kidds.html
Like the stories of David G. Rowlands, about whom I have written here, Kidd's tales wed a few guiding Jamesian rules to modern circumstances of work or hobby. For Rowlands it was adventures of men who ran pest control businesses or played in Hawaiian music bands. For Kidd it is men and women from various walks of life who are united by a passion for change ringing.
Full review:
http://jayrothermel.blogspot.com/2021/02/summoned-by-bells-f-kidds.html
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