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I have just received my contributor's copies of Wormwood 13, and very fine they look too. My contribution is a close reading of Robert Aickman's story "Bind Your Hair"; other attractions include the first English translation of an early and disreputable jeu d'esprit by Guy de Maupassant; a discussion of M P Shiel's story "Vaila" in terms of Walter Pater's conception of life as a "strange, perpetual, weaving and unweaving of ourselves"; a look at the work of G G Pendarves, one of Weird Tales' very few female pulp writers; and a very interesting and enjoyable piece by Brian Stableford about Anatole France's rather bumbling brand of literary Satanism. You never know when this sort of thing might come in handy.