Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.

Lilah ,'Destiny'


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."


DavidS - Oct 27, 2018 8:53:37 am PDT #25188 of 28497
"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 28497
"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 28497
"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.


DavidS - Oct 27, 2018 6:21:21 pm PDT #25191 of 28497
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Phew! Glad you found it!


Connie Neil - Oct 31, 2018 7:36:47 am PDT #25192 of 28497
brillig

Boy, this author, Fran Wilde, who was just recommended by my Book Bub email this morning looks interesting!


EpicTangent - Oct 31, 2018 7:54:32 am PDT #25193 of 28497
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

*Runs to Deleted folder where she sent her Bookbub email this morning without looking at it because it's such a hectic day*


hippocampus - Oct 31, 2018 9:43:31 am PDT #25194 of 28497
not your mom's socks.

wait what


Connie Neil - Oct 31, 2018 9:58:33 am PDT #25195 of 28497
brillig

Fran was listed in my email of recommended authors from Book Bub.


hippocampus - Oct 31, 2018 10:15:38 am PDT #25196 of 28497
not your mom's socks.

That's really cool - will let her know!


javachik - Nov 01, 2018 10:26:06 pm PDT #25197 of 28497
Our wings are not tired.

LOL!