As a rule, his mornings were filled with bouts of energetic roaring

My only really long-term subscriptions are to the Literary Review, which I first started as an undergraduate, and to the Early English Text Society, which oddly enough I joined as a sixth-former. Otherwise I tend to try a subscription but not renew. Still, every now and then The Believer comes up with something like this, about the man after whom the venerable Warburg Institute is named: Ghost stories for the very adult, by Leland de la Durantaye: so maybe I'll stick with it.