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Post by dem bones on Aug 11, 2021 8:43:51 GMT
to Dem-bones : Julio Cortazar - uruguayan writer I thought he was considered more as an Argentinian author? Fact remains, it seems he was born in Brussels.
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Post by Middoth on Aug 11, 2021 8:47:09 GMT
OK the main thing is for person to be a nice
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Post by Swan on Aug 11, 2021 13:29:07 GMT
Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola. He gained fame for his first novel The Palm Wine Drunkard, written in Pidgin English, and praised by Dylan Thomas. His book My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, tells of a young boy's encounters with the spirit world. He took his inspiration from Yoruba folk tales and myth.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 11, 2021 19:15:50 GMT
Scandinavian interlude
Sweden: John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let The Right One In, 2007
Finland: Aino Kallas, The Wolf's Bride: A Tale from Estonia, 1930
Denmark: Signe Toksvig, The Devil's Martyr (Weird Tales, June 1928: reprinted in C. Campbell Thomson's By Daylight Only, 1929).
Norway: Jonas Lie, Weird Tales from the Northern Seas from the Danish of Jonas Lie, 1893.
Iceland: Yrsa Sigurđardóttir, I Remember You (2010). Anyone read this? Reviews seen suggest it's worth doing so?
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Aug 11, 2021 19:39:55 GMT
Scandinavian interlude Sweden: John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let The Right One In, 2007 Finland: Aino Kallas, The Wolf's Bride: A Tale from Estonia, 1930 Denmark: Signe Toksvig, The Devil's Martyr ( Weird Tales, June 1928: reprinted in C. Campbell Thomson's By Daylight Only, 1929). Norway: Jonas Lie, Weird Tales from the Northern Seas from the Danish of Jonas Lie, 1893. Iceland: Yrsa Sigurđardóttir, I Remember You (2010). Anyone read this? Reviews seen suggest it's worth doing so? I enjoyed the Lie book. I've always been curious about Signe Toksvig's novel The Last Devil. I like the name Signe so much that I gave it to a haunted parasol girl. For my take on I Remember You, see this thread. After I told my stepmother-in-law about the novel, she picked it for her book club--a first for me.
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Post by Swan on Aug 11, 2021 19:49:46 GMT
I read a collection of Lithuanian literature that was mostly stories set against the backdrop of the monstrous crimes of the N**i and Soviet regimes. Horror in every sense. I'd have to look up the book to supply authors names though.
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Post by andydecker on Aug 13, 2021 11:04:20 GMT
France: Donatien Alphonse François de Sade - Les Cent Vingt Journées de Sodome Joris-Karl Huysmans - Là-bas, 1891
Maurice Limat - Mephista (and countless other pulps), 1969 Marc Agapit - Agence tous crimes, 1958 B. R. Bruss - Le bourg envoûté, 1964 Peter Randa - L'escalier de l'ombr, 1955
Belgium: Raymundus Joannes de Kremer (Jean Ray)
Czechoslovakia: Leo Perutz
Hungary: Mária Szepes - A Vörös Oroszlán (The Red Lion), 1946
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Post by Middoth on Aug 13, 2021 12:37:58 GMT
Congo
Ngando the Crocodile by Paul Lomami-Tshibamba
Kongono, slave of the dwarf-demons of the forest by Maurice Kasongo
Guinea
Dramouss by Camara Laye
Ivory Coast
The black loincloth by Bernard Dadié
Lesotho
Evening Stories by J.G. Mocoancoeng
Sad and Jocular Stories by Z.L. Hoeane
In the Depths of Hell by D.P. Lebakeng
Nigeria
The Deeps Where Olokun Reigns Supreme by J. Ogunsina Ogundele
Daughters of the Sun and Other Stories by Obi Egbuna
The Great Ponds by Elechi Amadi
Juju, Secret Society, Revenge of the Medicine Man, Godfathers of Voodoo by Dillibe Onyeama
Adaora Lily Ulasi
The Rape of Shavi by Buchi Emechata
Senegal
Birago Diop
Tounka by Abdoulaye Sadji
Silence cemetery by Nabil Ali Haïdar
Sierra Leone
The Second Round by Lenrie Peters
South Africa
I.D. du Plessis
Maria Elizabeth Rothmann
They Walk By Night by Eric Rosenthal
Senkatana (play) by S.M. Mofokeng
Vos by Anna M. Louw
to be continued...
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Post by Middoth on Aug 13, 2021 13:35:56 GMT
continuation:
Ghana The Messenger of Death by Yemoh Ofoli
Kenya
Kadosa by David G. Maillu
Mission to Gehenna by Karanja we Kang’ethe
Libya The Bleeding of the Stone by Ibrahim Kuni
Mauritania
City of Winds by Moussa Ould Ebnou
Mauritius
The Lady of the Coffin,” “The Grave-Diggers,” and “Baboo the Joker” by C.S. Mahadoo
I am terribly afraid that I could forget someone.
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Post by helrunar on Aug 13, 2021 16:48:38 GMT
Another good Belgian author of the fin-de-siecle era is Georges Eekhoud. There's an English edition of his strange novel Escal-Vigor, originally published 1899. The themes include the persistence of ancient Pagan energies and practices in a remote area, homoerotic passions, and blood sacrifice. One has to read it almost in a state of trance, which I think may have been how it was written.
H.
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Aug 13, 2021 21:07:30 GMT
Everyone has done well. I'll update when I can get to my computer.
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Aug 16, 2021 16:06:06 GMT
Currently updating.
It's a very boring thing to do.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 16, 2021 17:45:43 GMT
Currently updating. It's a very boring thing to do. I dare say, but it's much appreciated. Have more names to add, but, while they all belong on listing, they're from countries already covered. Belgium: Jean Muno, The Voice of Blood, The Ghoul Czech: Jan Neruda, the VampireFrance. Marcel Schwob, Bloody Blanche, The King in the Golden Mask, etc. Erckmann-Chatrian, The Man-Wolf, The Child Stealer, The Three Souls, etc, etc. India: Rabindranath Tagore, The Hungry Stones Italy: Luigi Capuana, A VampireItalo Calvino, The Tale of the Vampire's KingdomPoland: Ingrid Pitt, Hisako San (in Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women Russia: Alexis Tolstoy, Vampires: Stories of the SupernaturalUkraine: Val Lewton, born in what is now Ukraine. The Bagheeta, Weird Tales (July 1930).
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Aug 16, 2021 17:50:30 GMT
Oh Rabindranath Tagore, I know him:
On the Seashore of Endless Worlds
On the seashore of endless worlds children meet.
The infinite sky is motionless overhead
and the restless water is boisterous.
On the seashore of endless worlds
the children meet with shouts and dances.
They build their houses with sand
and they play with empty shells.
With withered leaves they weave their boats
and smilingly float them on the vast deep.
Children have their play on the seashore of worlds.
They know not how to swim,
they know not how to cast nets.
Pearl fishers dive for pearls,
merchants sail in their ships,
while children gather pebbles and scatter them again.
They seek not for hidden treasures,
they know not how to cast nets.
The sea surges up with laughter,
and pale gleams the smile of the sea-beach.
Death-dealing waves sing
meaningless ballads to the children,
even like a mother while rocking her baby's cradle.
The sea plays with children,
and pale gleams the smile of the sea-beach.
On the seashore of endless worlds children meet.
Tempest roams in the pathless sky,
ships get wrecked in the trackless water,
death is abroad and children play.
On the seashore of endless worlds
is the great meeting of children.
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Aug 16, 2021 17:55:05 GMT
Currently updating. It's a very boring thing to do. I dare say, but it's much appreciated. Have more names to add, but, while they all belong on listing, they're from countries already covered. I'll do it fully tomorrow. When i have more time.
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