Errata

I've just noticed a couple of rather annoying mistakes in my collection Rule Dementia! They occur on pages 46 and 47 of that book, in the middle of 'The Haunted Bicycle'. The first of them is as follows: There should be no break in text between "This was not just an isolated spooky bicycle in an otherwise normal world" and "Is it just us?"

Secondly, the following line should be inserted between "After a number of exchanges of this sort we gave up" and "This suggestion was taken up very enthusiastically by Les":

“Perhaps we have to ride the bike first,” I suggested.

Sorry about that.

If anyone out there has puzzled over any similar omissions or mistakes in any of my books, please let me know and I shall do my best to supply the omissions and correct the mistakes.

Hi Quentin,

I just want you to know, as no one else has said anything, that I appreciate you listing the Errata here. I've already printed and clipped it and placed it in my copy of Rule Dementia! for future reference.

nomis said:

Hi Quentin,

I just want you to know, as no one else has said anything, that I appreciate you listing the Errata here. I've already printed and clipped it and placed it in my copy of Rule Dementia! for future reference.

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Hello Simon.

Thank you. Do let me know if there any other textual anomolies you'd like cleared up.

other textual anomolies you'd like cleared up.

anomalies.
des ;-)

DF Lewis said:

other textual anomolies you'd like cleared up.

anomalies.
des ;-)

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Another error corrected. Thank you. By the way, I recently bought Elizabeth Bowen's Collected Works.

Thanks, Quentin.
I've been feelin guilty in case my joke had misfired! You've now set my mind at rest.

Do you mean EB's 'Collected *Stories*'?
If so, there are certain stories you should read from the standpoint of a student of Weird Fiction and others from a more acceptably literary point of view. But they are all great,
even the early ones.
des

DF Lewis said:

Thanks, Quentin.
I've been feelin guilty in case my joke had misfired! You've now set my mind at rest.

Do you mean EB's 'Collected *Stories*'?
If so, there are certain stories you should read from the standpoint of a student of Weird Fiction and others from a more acceptably literary point of view. But they are all great,
even the early ones.
des

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The church of my reading is a very broad church. I'm sure I'll enjoy them, weird or otherwise. I think it's the Vintage edition I have. Very attractive, anyway.

Hope you enjoy them, Quentin, and would eventually be interested in your views.

Re broad churches of reading, I think she suits such a church more than any other writer.

Sorry, 'you' was a generic 'you' not a you 'you', btw.
des