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10. The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace, 3 stars. Bertie unsuccessfully chaperones his twin cousins last night in the country, introducing them to an actress that makes them linger.
11. Bingo and the Little Woman, 4 stars. Bingo's latest and greatest love will be his last, a seeming waitress makes an honest man out of him.

07. The Great Sermon Handicap, 3 stars. Everyone flocks to the country for summer, the gents are so bored they start betting on Reverends.
08. The Purity of the Turf, 3 stars. Now they all bet on the local fair, and cheat outrageously.
09. The Metropolitan Touch, 3 stars. Bingo tries to romance country good girl, bungles Christmas play.

04. Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch, 3 stars. Bertie's unwanted fiancé's father checks on his mental health.
05. Jeeves and the Chump Cyril, 3 stars. Bertie is tasked with babysitting a would-be actor.
06. Comrade Bingo, 3 stars. Bingo wears a false beard and gives rousing communist speeches against his uncle.

01. Jeeves in the Springtime, 3 stars. Jeeves carefully manipulates a happier love life for most of the involved parties, sorry Bingo.
02. Aunt Agatha Takes the Count, 3 stars. Bertie's aunt is taken in by conartists so thoroughly that she tries to marry him off to one.
03. Scoring off Jeeves, 3 stars. Bertie tries his hand at Jeeves-style romantic plotting on behalf of Bingo.

08. Joy Bells for Walter, 3 stars. Lover boy tries to hide his terrible temper from fiance during a golf tournament.
09. A Tithe for Charity, 3 stars. Ukridge's misguided efforts to be charitable backfire thrice.
10. Oofy, Freddie and the Beef Trust, 3 stars. Oofy goes all in on a wrestling scheme, smooches an ugly niece.

Wiki: "Overlooking codfish faces and adenoids, they allow their affections to be ensnared by the succulent steak, the cunningly handled veg. the firm, white, satisfying rolypoly pudding with raisins in it."


Spotted dick roly poly.

05. The Word in Season, 3 stars. Bingo steals from his baby again, then goes gambling with a redhead.
06. Big Business, 3 stars. Trusting young man comes into a chunk of change, fiancé's uncle promptly scams him out of it.
07. Leave it to Algy, 3 stars. Oofy convinces Bingo to rig a baby beauty contest.

01. The Fat of the Land, 3 stars. Rich man tries to rig a fat uncle contest in his favor.
02. Scratch Man, 3 stars. Publisher works on improving his golf game to impress a girl.
03. The Right Approach, 3 stars. Young man tries to impress girl with his purity, but she wants an egg tosser.
04. Jeeves Makes an Omelette, 3 stars. Bertie is roped into stealing a painting for the benefit of his favorite aunt.

07. A Bit of Luck for Mabel, 4 stars. Good ol' Ukridge competes with a baronet for a lady's love, can't afford a hat of his own.
08. Buttercup Day, 4 stars. Ukridge is charged with protecting his aunt's valuables during a charity bazaar, he doesn't steal any.
09. Ukridge and the Old Stepper, 3 stars. Mysterious Australian uncle shacks up with Ukridge while he's wooing a rich girl.

04. Sonny Boy, 3 stars. Becoming a father hasn't cured husband's desire to gamble (or his rotten luck), this time he even loses the baby's money.
05. Anselm Gets His Chance, 3 stars. Poor curate has the opportunity to deliver the sermon of his life after a burglary.
06. Romance at Droitgate Spa, 3 stars. Young man seeks wealthy uncle's permission to marry a lovely young lady with an undignified job.

01. All's Well with Bingo, 3 stars. Skint husband's wealthy wife sends him on an info gathering (NOT gambling) trip to Monte Carlo.
02. Bingo and the Peke Crisis, 4 stars. Husband loses cash, a job opportunity, and a dog in one afternoon.
03. The Editor Regrets, 3 stars. Husband loses cushy editor job after being rude to famous author, tries to romance her back incognito.

Wiki: "... said Bingo, still about six parasangs from getting the gist."

Word: "There was a frowst in the Rooms which you could have cut with a knife, but he drew it into his lungs as if it had been the finest ozone."

1. intr. To take pleasure in staying in a warm, close, ‘fuggy’ atmosphere. Hence ˈfrowster.

2. The close and fusty air of a room, etc., which is over-warm or over-crowded and without adequate ventilation.

08. The Winds of Marble Arch, 4 stars. Reunion of old friends is haunted by bad news, husband feels and smells death on the wind in subway tunnels.
09. All Seated on the Ground, 3 stars. Aliens turn up, seem to cooperate but never responding other than to glare.
10. The Last of the Winnebagos, 4 stars. Photojournalist on assignment is shaken by roadkill, gets tangled in red tape and memories of his dog's death.

05. Fire Watch, 4 stars. Time traveling history student goes unprepared to London during the blitz.
06. Inside Job, 4 stars. Psychic debunking magazine writers encounter medium seeming to channel the spirit of infamous debunker.
07. Even the Queen, 4 stars. In the future, women have whatever level of control over their reproduction system they desire, even absolute morons have a right to be stupid.

01. A Letter from the Clearys, 3 stars. Teenage girl resents family, reads them a letter from the past.
02. At the Rialto, 3 stars. Chaos reigns at a science conference, Hollywood is magic.
03. Death on the Nile, 3 stars. Group tour of Europe gets bumpy on the way to Egypt, wife is aware of affair.
04. The Soul Selects Her Own Society, 2 stars. A theory that Dickinson's corpse was reanimated by alien invasion.

15. Hugh Fleetwood - Something Happened, 3 stars. Brother and fellow employees of absent boss scorn a slow man.
16. Hugh Walpole - The Tarn, 3 stars [2018]
17. Gerald Kersh - The Gentleman All in Black, 2 stars. Homeless man claims in his youth he heard an important man sell his soul to the devil.

12. M.G. Lewis - The Grim White Woman, 2 stars. Poem: spurned woman curses her lover and his progeny.
13. Charles Birkin - The Terror on Tobit, 3 stars. Headstrong young ladies insist on staying overnight on tiny island, despite warnings.
14. Forrest Reid - Furnished Apartments, 2 stars. As a young man, man was a lodger at an overly friendly fat woman's house for less than a day.

Wiki: "The cottage was one of the dozen modest dwellings that comprised the village of St Mark’s on one of the smaller of the Scilly Islands – relics of that lost land of Lyonesse."

Wiki: "Six more volumes would follow over the course of the decade, mostly consisting of contes cruels rather than supernatural tales."

09. Bernard Taylor - Out of Sorts, 3 stars. Housewife loses her patience with husband's latest string of affairs.
10. Christopher Priest - The Head and the Hand, 4 stars. Crippled dismemberment artist returns for his final performance.
11. Florence Marryat - The Ghost of Charlotte Cray, 3 stars. Publisher leads on ugly spinster for years, then marries a pretty young thing.

05. Stephen Gregory - The Progress of John Arthur Crabbe, 3 stars. Retarded boy has healing hands.
06. John Trevena - The Frozen Man, 2 stars. Dog sledders with a sick passenger get creeped out by aurora.
07. Michael Blumlein - California Burning, 4 stars. Father dies after a brief illness, bones will not burn.
08. Mary Cholmondeley - Let Loose, 4 stars. Visiting architect frees something while sketching in a tomb.

Wiki: "Setting down some of my things with a trembling hand on a rough stone shelf hard by, which had evidently been a credence table, I examined the work more closely."

01. John Blackburn - Aunty Green, 4 stars. Bitter millionaire plots his revenge on abusive foster mother.
02. Michael McDowell - Miss Mack, 4 stars. Insecure man is jealous of meek woman's new friendship.
03. Francis King - School Crossing, 4 stars. Resentful ex-teacher hallucinates a busy school crossing.
04. Richard Marsh - A Psychological Experiment, 2 stars. Cowardly murderer threatened by husky guy with newts.

05. Grave, 3 stars. Man feels compelled to bury someone alive, teen boy sniffs him out.
06. Voice, 3 stars. Younger sister of murdered girl listens to recordings of her made by her killer.
07. Morino's Souvenir Photo, 3 stars. Teen girl plans to take selfies at murder site, meets very willing photographer instead.

01. Goth, 4 stars. Two teen sociopaths become friends, track down local serial killer.
02. Wristcut, 3 stars. Teen boy intuits that teacher is responsible for infamous maimings, verifies.
03. Dog, 3 stars. Girl & dog kill weaker animals to train for killing a large abusive one.
04. Memory/Twins, 3 stars. Teen girl bemoans her lack of sleep, shares how her twin sister died.

01. Green Tea, 3 stars. Reverend is plagued by visions of a little black monkey.
02. Squire Toby's Will, 3 stars. Grouch leaves everything to his youngest son, regrets it from the grave.
03. The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh, 2 stars. Rumors vs. Facts re: the death of a wealthy man.
04. Sir Dominick's Bargain, 2 stars. Greedy man runs from debts, sells his soul, learns nothing.

Wiki: "...and I thought what a scene of Redgauntlet revelries it might disclose at midnight."

Redgauntlet > Devil's Beef Tub

08. June, 1987. Hitchhiking. Mr. Norris., 3 stars. Hitchhiker regrets getting in shabby old man's car.
09. Mother of Stone, 3 stars. Professor digs into the local legends surrounding the headless statue of a pregnant woman.