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Post by Swampirella on Dec 15, 2021 22:07:18 GMT
I assumed you were being sarcastic. I found all Onion's ghost stories too long & lacking in a satisfying ending. So if you need something soporific, I recommend him. The Beckoning Fair One is his most famous, from what I can tell. I didn't realise Oliver Onions is notorious for being boring. I started The Beckoning Fair One but, and I'm not saying it was the fault of the story, I got tired and went to sleep. I should keep going to see what it is like. I don't think he's notorious at all, he seems highly regarded, but unfortunately I've found him to be boring....
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Dec 15, 2021 22:21:12 GMT
I didn't realise Oliver Onions is notorious for being boring. I started The Beckoning Fair One but, and I'm not saying it was the fault of the story, I got tired and went to sleep. I should keep going to see what it is like. I don't think he's notorious at all, he seems highly regarded, but unfortunately I've found him to be boring.... I looked at other comments on here and you aren't alone.
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 15, 2021 22:25:35 GMT
I don't think he's notorious at all, he seems highly regarded, but unfortunately I've found him to be boring.... I looked at other comments on here and you aren't alone. I'm glad it's not just me, then. I thought I was too low-brow to appreciate him.
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Post by Swan on Dec 16, 2021 14:11:45 GMT
Lord Sepulchrave's library in Titus Groan contained many rare texts, including a set of the Martrovian dramatists bound in gold fibre, and the works of the Sonian Poets. Fuchsia owned a picture-book filled with poems.
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Dec 29, 2021 16:21:47 GMT
There are books and writers mentioned in The House of Sounds by M.P. Shiel. Like the Poe books in The Fall House of Usher most are real. Shiel mentions Hugh Gascoigne's Chronicle of Norse Families.
This is quoted from and is probably made up. Other books and references mentioned that are worth examining in greater detail: Quevedo's TacañoGeorge Hakewill 's Power and Providence of GodBaron Verulam's account of the dead man who was heard to utter words of prayer. The Baron Verulam is a peerage title, and the first to be given it was the philosopher statesman Francis Bacon. George Hakewill was an English clergyman the book is Apologie ... of the Power and Providence of God (1627) Quevedo existed, and actually wrote a book with almost the same title as Shiel gives to the Hakewill - La providencia de Dios (1641; The Providence of God) Tacano must be (wiki here) El Buscón (full title Historia de la vida del Buscón, llamado Don Pablos, ejemplo de vagamundos y espejo de tacaños (literally: History of the life of the Swindler, called Don Pablos, model for hobos and mirror of misers); translated as Paul the Sharper or The Scavenger and The Swindler). A picaresque novel. Francisco de Quevedo. 1580 – 1645 Spanish nobleman and writer. He is wearing spectacles, I wonder about the quality of the lenses.
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Dec 29, 2021 17:45:46 GMT
I think we have the makings of a fine library to drive any reader mad, which is the most important thing. In terms of the books themselves some mildew and mold should be present for that old library feel. Perhaps with the occasional page being stained with what appears to be dried blood to get the reader in the mood. I feel the walls of our library should also have old woodcuts hanging from them, with unholy and strange scenes that seem to move as you stare at them. Please suggest some possible woodcuts below.
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 29, 2021 17:51:17 GMT
I think we have the makings of a fine library to drive any reader mad, which is the most important thing. In terms of the books themselves some mildew and mold should be present for that old library feel. Perhaps with the occasional page being stained with what appears to be dried blood to get the reader in the mood. I feel the walls of our library should also have old woodcuts hanging from them, with unholy and strange scenes that seem to move as you stare at them. Please suggest some possible woodcuts below.
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Dec 29, 2021 19:39:55 GMT
While browsing our library I've come upon two interesting books: Remnants of Lost Empires by Otto Dostmann. (German, published in Berlin, 1809, "Der Drachenhaus" Press). And a rare collection of Poetry. "They say foul things of Old Times still lurk In dark forgotten corners of the world. And Gates still gape to loose, on certain nights. Shapes pent in Hell." Justin Geoffrey seems to have died young in an asylum in the 1920s. (Can you name the story these come from?)
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Dec 29, 2021 20:01:10 GMT
They lumber through the night With their elephantine tread; I shudder in affright As I cower in my bed. They lift colossal wings On the high gable roofs Which tremble to the trample Of their mastodonic hoofs.
—Justin Geoffrey: Out of the Old Land
My long research into the night in our strange library has led me to another poet who sounds peculiar and of value: Edward Pickman Derby. I believe I have tracked down a copy of his rare collection Azathoth and Other Horrors, which we must have for our shelves! The dealer in question is a small out of the way shop in Budapest. I'll keep you updated.
Soon, all being well, it will sit alongside The People of the Monolith and Fungoids on our creaking warped (in more ways than one) poetry shelves!
(Name the story too, and the link to the last post about Justin Geoffrey).
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Post by enoch on Dec 29, 2021 21:14:00 GMT
One of my favourite authors I've never read has one! The Revelations of Glaaki by Ramsey Campbell. I've no idea what it is about, or what story it appears in. I'm pretty sure it first appeared in "The Inhabitant of the Lake," though it's mentioned in other stories. There's a lot more about it in the story "Cold Print," which also mentions the most shuddersome, the most terrifying, the most mind-bendingly horrific fictional book ever -- The Secret Life of Wackford Squeers.
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Dec 30, 2021 0:35:07 GMT
Message coming in over telegraph:
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Dec 30, 2021 23:59:01 GMT
For my continued adventures tracking down the Derby book see my Princess Tuvstarr at Home thread.
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Jan 12, 2023 1:09:39 GMT
My mention of The Horla by Guy de Maupassant reminds me that it included a reference to Dr. Herrmann Herestauss's treatise on the unknown inhabitants of the ancient and modern world.
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