At nothing you'll wake and be back in your bodies

[sovay]

Happy equinox! Of course it is in the high eighties and will thunder later this afternoon, but all the same it is autumn. The ghosts turn with the light.

In just over a week, I will be in NYC for Monstrous Birth: Tales from the Haunted Womb, the group reading at Q.E.D. to benefit Planned Parenthood. If you live in Astoria, or even if you don't, come and hear! I will be reading from a story no one's heard.

Boris Karloff had such a beautiful voice. I think it was disguised for me by years of How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966), where I grew used to the music without thinking of it as belonging to anyone. He could speak like he was singing.

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[teenybuffalo]

He had a voice like a cello. (I seem to recall that so does Gojira. You can wring a lot of sounds from a cello -- it's a versatile instrument.) What made you think about his voice? I'm always happy to have it brought to my mind.

You are likely very much aware that the Harvard Film Archive is doing B-Fest, but are you aware that one of the films is "The Man They Could Not Hang"? It's like an elaborate dream from the subconscious of a film student who has a crush on Karloff and watches a lot of gangster movies. It is gentle and sad and weird, and I could not recommend it more highly if you haven't already seen it.

[sovay]

What made you think about his voice? I'm always happy to have it brought to my mind.

Bedlam (1946).

You are likely very much aware that the Harvard Film Archive is doing B-Fest, but are you aware that one of the films is "The Man They Could Not Hang"?

Yes! I was just there tonight for the Lewton double feature and wondering if you were aware that one of the films is The Face Behind the Mask (1941).

I have an apple-picking engagement on the day of The Man They Could Not Hang, but if we are back in time I am hoping to make it. Also it's backed with The Crime of Dr. Crespi (1935) and that has Dwight Frye.