Easily Distracted
Notes on the genre literature of 1760-2020
Saturday, May 20, 2017
The old fashion in ghosts: The Four-Fifteen Express By Amelia B. Edwards
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" The Four-Fifteen Express " (1867) by Amelia B. Edwards strikes the modern reader as an example of the pre-modern history of the ...
With water filling your mouth, and looking up to the little patch of sky above: The Well by W.W. Jacobs
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Amazing the number of wells in supernatural fiction. "A School Story," "Wailing Well," and "Treasure of Abbott Tho...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Valley of the Angel/Satyr: L.T.C. Rolt's Cwm Garon
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“Cwm Garon” in one of the short stories in L.T.C. Rolt’s collection Sleep No More (1948). The central section of the story takes place on ...
Sunday, May 14, 2017
That very day: Randalls Round by Eleanor Scott
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Randall Round is a 1929 collection by Eleanor Scott. In her prefatory note she says the stories were all suggested by dreams. The short st...
Saturday, May 13, 2017
Mender of destinies: Oppenheim's General Besserly
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Oppenheim's stories about General Besserly changed over time. In the early stories of volume one , he lives in a Monte Carlo hotel and ...
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