(psssst - I write ghost stories.....)

Le duh. This is so in the future, since, hey, not teaching yet, but it would be so cool to have my students reading a book, and possibly be able to talk with the author of the book about process and ideas...It's the kind of thing that really gets them involved -- "I talk to a REAL LIVE AUTHOR!"

Kristen, I tagged you and Kat when I was thinking about this, and laster this summer, I'm going to put in a blurb in Announcements. I'm also going to troll the web for sites, and see what I can find from various message boards, like NCTE.

actually have a side reading list is a great idea -- if even for future papers down the road that the kids need to do.

"We Can Get Them For You Wholesale" is the title, Dana; isn't there also a Philip K. Dick story with a very similar title? I really love "Murder Mysteries" as well.

isn't there also a Philip K. Dick story with a very similar title?

Yeah, must be. I knew the title was very close to something famous.

I remember the "Wholesale" story vaguely; I need to recheck the book out.

Oh, gee, what onerous homework for this weekend! What's the name of the collection -- is it "Smoke and Mirrors?"

I've glad you guys like the idea for the site, although I'm nervous: the only coding I've done is the tags on here! But I suppose I can do Dreamweaver or something; there are plenty of juicy Buffista brains to pick in August.

I have to take a Stats class this summer. I will not be thinking about fall classes until after I ride THAT dragon. Ugh.

Maybe the one...it's called something like "We Can Get It For You Wholesale", but I think I'm conflating it.

I love that one. It's in my copy of Neverwhere.

isn't there also a Philip K. Dick story with a very similar title

"We Can Remember It for You Wholesale," upon which Total Recall was based.

What's the name of the collection -- is it "Smoke and Mirrors?"

Yes.

There's a short story collection I have, with young adult short stories of the supernatural variety. It's called Short Circuits. "Ethan Unbound," by Gary L. Blackwood, might work. It takes place in a library.

M.F.K. Fisher's "The Lost, Strayed, Stolen" is my ultimate ghost story. When I went to see if it was available, I found it was in The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories, which has some other great stuff. There's also Poe ("The Fall of the House of Usher" and "Masque of the Red Death"), Ray Bradbury and M.R. James, pretty much the father of modern ghost story.

"The Supernatural in Literature."

Gothic novels, e.g., The Monk, The Mysteries of Udolpho, or The Italian.

Poe is on my list -- the one that's written down at home, not the malfunctioning one ni my head. Cool.

BB, if I do a novel, it would have to be a short one. The unit would be about 6 weeks long.

BB, if I do a novel, it would have to be a short one.

Is Dracula too long? Because there's the whole Victorian terror of female sexuality as a subtext.