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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2021-05-22 10:05 pm

Got a kitten, kitten, kitten, kitten in my hair

It is the seventh anniversary of Kittening Day, when the children of golden-eyed Hera left their fosterage with the family of [personal profile] a_reasonable_man and came to live with us. We celebrate them constantly.



Hestia, presiding over the remains of her scratch box. One of her cult titles is Death to Cardboard.



Autolycus, sacked out on my shoulder. A few nights ago he chased a plastic bottlecap through the apartment at exactly the hour we wanted to be asleep.

I learned tonight that in 1930, John Steinbeck wrote, shelved, but did not destroy an unpublished werewolf novel called Murder at Full Moon. "Its characters include . . . an eccentric amateur sleuth who sets out to solve the crime using techniques based on his obsession with pulp detective fiction." Take my money, please.
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[personal profile] moon_custafer 2021-05-23 11:42 am (UTC)(link)
Raymond Chandler did a couple of supernatural short stories, and Tennessee Williams first published work (as Thomas Lanier Williams) was in Weird Tales when he was sixteen. It’s set in ancient Egypt and involves incestuous siblings (so, sort of a Williams theme) and mass slaughter (less so): https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Vengeance_of_Nitocris
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[personal profile] moon_custafer 2021-05-23 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Of the Chandlers, I’ve only read “The Bronze Door”: https://onlinereadfreenovel.com/raymond-chandler/39229-the_bronze_door.html

It’s pretty good, quietly bleak: a “man discovers supernatural means to commit the perfect murder” story (I think the other one is as well).
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[personal profile] kore 2021-05-25 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
There were like three, right? Prof Bingo's Snuff, the Bronze Door, and one that was supposed to be a Gothic? I don't remember.... Bronze Door got reprinted in F&SF in the fifties! Also was reprinted in a paperback with a cover that is like the definition of "lurid": https://www.librarything.com/work/2191716