Posts tagged with 'Dreadful Thoughts Story Club'
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...
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...
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"...
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...
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 9: Gabriel-Ernest
Misanthrope? Misogynist? Satirist? Supernaturalist?
Tonight, on Dreadful Thoughts, we're not only getting out the club magnifying...
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 8: The Vampyre
Poor Polidori. That's the title of D. L. MacDonald's (critical) biography of the sometime author and physician we turn our attentions...
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 7: The Man Who Went Too Far
"Oh that Aleister Crowley", my (fictional) grand-aunt usedn't to say, "He was an awful man entirely!"
"Wicked, he was", she usedn't...
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 6: Green Tea
I believe that everyone who sets about writing in earnest does his work, as a friend of mine phrased it, on something – tea,...
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 5: The Monkey’s Paw
From god-like ferrets, to ghostly doggies, and on (this evening) to a "cursed" & withered simian extremity – our mammalian...
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 4: Kerfol
Welcome ye night wanderers, ye fumblers in the deep & fear-filled dark. Welcome to the fourth instalment of the interweb's dreadfulest...
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 3: Sredni Vashtar / Tell-Tale Heart
Evenin' all.
Given that one of very short stories up for discussion tonight ("Sredni Vashtar") concerns a great ferret god who lays...
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 2: The Willows
Welcome, once more, dear friends to the second meeting of our most dreadful story club. Though tomorrow may be (for some) a good Friday,...
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 1: It begins…(again)
I say:
Come, dear friends. Come and pull your chairs, stools and (noncombustible) beanbags closer to our fire – for tonight...
