Comments on: Dreadful Thoughts: Distractions, Apologies, Crawford

By: fústar

fústar — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:44:35 +0000

Aishwarya, If you click below you’ll find the archive:

http://www.fustar.info/category/dreadful-thoughts/

But here it is anyway:

1) Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad (M. R. James)
2) The Willows (Algernon Blackwood)
3) Sredni Vashtar/The Tell-Tale Heart (Double Bill)
4) Kerfol (Edith Wharton)
5) The Monkey’s Paw (W. W. Jacobs)
6) Green Tea (Le Fanu)
7) The Man Who Went too Far (E. F. Benson)
The Vampyre (Polidori)
9) Gabriel Ernest (Saki)
10) The Inmost Light (Arthur Machen)

Love “The Shadow” too. If you can find it, we’ll do it.

By: Aishwarya

Aishwarya — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:34:29 +0000

Is there a list anywhere of stories that have been covered before so we don’t just keep suggesting the same things?

I’m trying to find an online version of Nesbit’s “The Shadow” – I think it’s one of her best.

By: fústar

fústar — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:50:47 +0000

By the way, I’m very keen to tackle a few more women authors (we’ve only had Edith Wharton so far). Was thinking of Elizabeth Gaskell, Edith Nesbit, Gertrude Atherton, Marjorie Bowen, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Riddell (aka J. H. Riddell), May Sinclair, Amelia Edwards etc, etc. Really wanted to look at Nesbit’s jaw-droppingly miserable “From the Dead” but can’t find an e-text for it.

Suggestions welcome.

By: fústar

fústar — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:48:10 +0000

Sinead, I will, of course, be putting up a separate post for discussion – as per usual practice. Sorry again. I know you were ready, willing and able this evening!

By: fústar

fústar — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:50:09 +0000

Gah! Sorry. I fucked up.

I meant to say that the discussion was opening on Monday 13th of April – i.e. NEXT Monday, and running for a week. Previous experience has taught me that it’s best to give people plenty of time to read the tales. Balls. Sorry again.

Anyway, come back next Monday at 9.00 and we’ll be ready to roll!

By: Jo

Jo — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:28:13 +0000

Sumthin’s not right here.

By: Jo

Jo — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:36:50 +0000

Hello. I can’t seem to keep my husband’s shoes outside the door. Despite tying them to the hall radiator by the laces. And there’s a mysterious and terrible smell of feet…

By: Sinéad

Sinéad — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:07:00 +0000

Am I in the right place? Or are you putting up a seperate post?

By: A Doubtful Egg

A Doubtful Egg — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:00:11 +0000

There was a collection of Onions’ (chuckle) called Widdershins, which contained some good stuff, and which may be online. I recall an odd story called ‘Benlian’, about a mad sculptor, I think, that was quite interesting. Will have a gander.

By: fústar

fústar — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:26:02 +0000

“Have you done Oliver Onions yet?”

Might there be a shorter Onions (snigger) tale we could look at. I know The Beckoning Fair One is generally considered his finest, but I seem to recall some of his other, shorter efforts being pretty good too.

By: fústar

fústar — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:16:41 +0000

Hmmm. Comments seem to be randomly disappearing. Weird.

By: fústar

fústar — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:18:00 +0000

Haven't done Mr. Onions (snigger) yet. Think Beckoning Fair One is getting toward novella (Turn of the Screw) length isn't it? Would happily do it, but would people read it?

By: A Doubtful Egg

A Doubtful Egg — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:10:31 +0000

Have you done Oliver Onions yet? (Sorry, I'm too lazy to go trawling through your archives!) The Beckoning Fair One is a bit long, but it's a great story by my recollection. Plus we can always have a laugh at his name (something that really annoyed him, apparently; he claimed it was pronounced Oh-ny-ons.)

By: fústar

fústar — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:54:06 +0000

We can of course, if a) you can find a free version online, and, b) you can transform it from a novel into a short story! All within your powers I’m sure.

By: Jo

Jo — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:41:15 +0000

So can we do ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ then?

Hee.