Tag archive: Dreadful Thoughts Story Club
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 16: Pigeons from Hell
Right. It has been pointed out to me, by morbid sorts, that the last two authors this club has fixed its gorgon-like gaze on both exited our weary world by means of suicide. Charlotte Perkins Gilman deciding on an overdose… continue reading »
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 15: The Yellow Wallpaper
Right. Littlest one curled up in bed with much-loved teddy and Minnie Mouse blanket? Check. Tasty mid-range Merlot decanting on the worktop? Check. Curry bubbling away satisfactorily? Check. Tube of Pringles on standby (in case of vino-induced munchies)? Check. The… continue reading »
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 13: The Nature of the Evidence
Suffragette. Modernist innovator. Paddler in the turbulent “stream of consciousness” (a phrase she allegedly coined). May Sinclair was once “one of the most successful and widely known of British women novelists”. And then? Disappearance down that well-trodden path into obscurity.… continue reading »
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 12: “The Shadow” & “Man-Size in Marble”
In the build up to this week’s E. Nesbit-fest, several punters (childhood Nesbit fans all) have mentioned to me that they were barely aware (if aware at all) of Edith’s contribution to the spooky story canon. This is not entirely… continue reading »
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 11: The Upper Berth
Though he was (in his day) prolific,1 popular, and commercially successful – F. Marion Crawford’s posthumous “literary star” appears to have faded quite quickly.2 For the next seven days, however, Dreadful Thoughts will be waving a ragged Crawford-ian flag and… continue reading »
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 10: The Inmost Light
Welsh Anglo-Catholic occultist. Member (briefly) of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Avowed anti-materialist. Inspirer of everyone’s favourite pathologically racist horror grandmaster: H.P. Lovecraft. Sometime scandaliser of (an easily scandalised) Victorian society. Fearer/Lover of fauns who gambolled oftentimes in… continue reading »
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 9: Gabriel-Ernest
Misanthrope? Misogynist? Satirist? Supernaturalist? Tonight, on Dreadful Thoughts, we’re not only getting out the club magnifying glass to squint at the werewolf myth (through the prism of “Gabriel Ernest”), but also asking (in strong, but non-judgmental, terms) what Hector Hugh… continue reading »
