I (once again) read through the new Anne Rice book in one day. And was ready to flip every table in the world over a plot line, but she fixed it. This means I don't have to sulk in a nest of grief made from my velvet frock coats.
Yeah, we're building a race of frog-people. It's a good time
Xander ,'Selfless'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Atropa - Oct 02, 2018 6:02:43 pm PDT #25181 of 28197
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Calli - Oct 08, 2018 4:09:23 am PDT #25182 of 28197
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I just finished The Essex Serpent, by Sarah Perry, and I really enjoyed it. The prose was beautiful, and I enjoyed the character development.
msbelle - Oct 11, 2018 3:49:54 pm PDT #25183 of 28197
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Posting in here and in literary. I volunteer at my local library putting out donated books and discarded library books for sale. We are kinda over run with juvie and teen books and so if anyone has favorite authors and will cover 50cent pb or $1 hc, I am happy to look through and send you all you want. Also if anyone just in general has a book or books they are looking for, I am happy to keep and eye out.
sj - Oct 12, 2018 8:42:37 am PDT #25184 of 28197
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I'm still volunteering at my local library bookstore too (which carries a bit of everything), and am happy to look around for people.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 26, 2018 6:57:26 am PDT #25185 of 28197
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Can the hivemind help me track down a Halloween-themed short story? I read it a few years ago in an anthology of horror or generally scary stories. It's about a children's scary book author (female, middle aged or elderly) who gives a Halloween reading at a library and then seems to be ambiguously haunted by the unseen fictional mischievous boy character she's famous for. It's told in first person, had a feel that vaguely reminded me of Thomas Ligotti's work. Sadly I cannot recall title, author, or any of the proper names in the story.
I'd thought it might be in one of Ellen Datlow's Year's Best Horror collections, but I haven't been able to turn it up in any of the ones at my library and it would have to be in some book I ran across there at one point.
sj - Oct 26, 2018 7:26:09 am PDT #25186 of 28197
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
It doesn't sound familiar, Matt.
DavidS - Oct 27, 2018 8:51:34 am PDT #25187 of 28197
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It's about a children's scary book author (female, middle aged or elderly) who gives a Halloween reading at a library and then seems to be ambiguously haunted by the unseen fictional mischievous boy character she's famous for. It's told in first person, had a feel that vaguely reminded me of Thomas Ligotti's work. Sadly I cannot recall title, author, or any of the proper names in the story.
That is a Ligotti story. I just read it this last year in his reissued collection with Penguin.
Let me see if I can find the title.
DavidS - Oct 27, 2018 8:53:37 am PDT #25188 of 28197
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
These are the story titles. It's one of these.
Dreams for Insomniacs --The Christmas Eves of Aunt Elise --The Lost Art of Twilight --The Troubles of Dr. Thoss --Masquerade of a Dead Sword: A Tragedie --Dr. Voke and Mr. Veech --Professor Nobody's Little Lectures on Supernatural Horror
Dreams for the Dead --Dr. Locrian's Asylum --The Sect of the Idiot --The Greater Festival of Masks --The Music of the Moon --The Journal of J. P. Drapeau --Vastarien
Grimscribe
--Introduction
The Voice of the Damned --The Last Feast of Harlequin --The Spectacles in the Drawer --Flowers of the Abyss --Nethescurial
The Voice of the Demon --The Dreaming in Nortown --The Mystics of Muelenburg --In the Shadow of Another World --The Cocoons
The Voice of the Dreamer --The Night School --The Glamour
The Voice of the Child --The Library of Byzantium --Miss Plarr
The Voice of Our Name --The Shadow at the Bottom of the World
DavidS - Oct 27, 2018 8:57:47 am PDT #25189 of 28197
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I think it's either the Christmas Eves of Aunt Elise or Professor Nobody's Little Lectures.
Let's see if I can get a synopsis...
It's not in Grimscribe, I just read a synopsis of all the stories.
Still looking on Ligotti.net...
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 27, 2018 2:57:33 pm PDT #25190 of 28197
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Got it! It's "Alice's Last Adventure" from Songs of a Dead Dreamer. Thanks David, your certainty that it actually was Ligotti rather than someone with a reminiscent style made me go back and take a closer look at his bibliography.