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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 18, 2021 20:28:24 GMT
Sorry. My fault we wandered off. I'm very bad. I'm terrible for wrecking threads. I'll behave in future. I can't think of one. The German books that supply five of those stories are the Gespensterbuch ones of Apel and Laun, but they have only two authors. I'm not sure that counts does it? What is the allowed number? Poetry was much more popular back in those days. Like border ballads. It was bad Mr. Byron reading Coleridge's poem Christabel that made Shelley faint back in that summer in Geneva, before he later drowned. All three are great poets, two died sad deaths, and Coleridge was an actual mental genius, but I wouldn't want to be alone in a room with Byron if you see what I mean.
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Post by Swampirella on May 18, 2021 20:49:04 GMT
It's fun to track the original versions of these tales down. Some are easier than others. A bit of detective work and I bet you can find most of them. The Tobias Smollett was easy, it is from The Adventures of Ferdinand, Count Fathom. Published in 1753. A pre-battered, modern edition of which was groaning mournfully from bookshelf in the charity shop this morning ... Tobias Smollett - The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom (Penguin 1990; originally 1753) William Hogarth Blurb: Edited with an introduction by Paul-Gabriel BoucƩ
"The subject and characters ... are, in general, exceedingly disgusting ... but there is more power of writing occasionally in it than in any of his works" - William Hazlitt
Ferdinand Count Fathom ranks alongside Samuel Richardson's Lovelace in the rogues' gallery of despicable villains; and his talents are given full reign in a novel which has betrayals, seductions, swindles and denouements succeeding each other with breathtaking speed and brio. Smolett is as subversive as ever, his comic irony undermining the prevailing literary conventions and his characters ā particularly Joshua Manassch, the first benevolent Jew in English fiction ā defy pious assumptions. The Adventures thus occupies a distinctive place in the history of the eighteenth-century novel, as well as being a thoroughly gripping read.#serendipity #thesupernaturalatwork #theterrifyingworldofvault #isittheIlluminati? As "Library Priestess", I'm obliged to tell you that it's available on archive; the 1911 edition any time, the one pictured here for an hour at a time only. But perhaps an hour a day of his adventures is enough; or perhaps not.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 26, 2021 12:53:17 GMT
Thank you, Princess. Am gonna have to try get back into reading novels sooner or later and this sounds v. much my kind of thing. Trouble is, there are five ahead of it in the queue, so .... Maybe I'll cheat and cut straight to the tomb of Mominia for time being. Getting back to thread opener - were there any recognisable supernatural/ horror anthologies published before Tales of the Dead (UK, 1813), or rather the source for most of it's content, Fantasmagoriana (France, 1812)? I forgot to post the chapters for the two episodes I mentioned. Terrible of me. Celinda is Ch. xxxiv. Monimia is Ch. lxii. I don't know if they are stand alone. I haven't looked.
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Post by dem bones on May 26, 2021 20:51:18 GMT
Thank you - I'm still psyching myself up to plunge back into novels. Ferdinand Count Fathom is fifth in queue. Re the Weird Tales series: Archive.org has Weird Tales: Scottish available for free download.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 26, 2021 21:08:42 GMT
Thank you - I'm still psyching myself up to plunge back into novels. Ferdinand Count Fathom is fifth in queue. Re the Weird Tales series: Archive.org has Weird Tales: Scottish available for free download. What are the other four? Or isn't it safe to ask? You can tell me, I'm very modern and not easily shocked. I believe a woman can save another woman in perilous situations. Though it is difficult in the heavy skirts we have to wear. I won't mention the other unmentionables we have under them. Edited to say I wonder if Dr Strange regrets ticking like, now that I have added a reference to unmentionables. Which I keep mentioning even though they are unmentionable.
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Post by Dr Strange on May 26, 2021 21:27:39 GMT
I wonder if Dr Strange regrets ticking like, now that I have added a reference to unmentionables. Which I keep mentioning even though they are unmentionable. Not at all. There's nothing I like more than a mention of the unmentionable.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 26, 2021 21:36:30 GMT
I wonder if Dr Strange regrets ticking like, now that I have added a reference to unmentionables. Which I keep mentioning even though they are unmentionable. Not at all. There's nothing I like more than a mention of the unmentionable. Even though I'm thoroughly modern, and once smoked a cigar and coughed a lot, I'm still shocked that a man mentioned unmentionables. What is the world coming to!
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Post by Dr Strange on May 27, 2021 1:58:37 GMT
In that case I will apologize and move the conversation on to a less risque topic: I see the Scottish volume of Weird Tales includes the story of Sir Walter Scott's Wandering Willie.
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