Not sure if Wilkie Collins falls in the “weird fiction” category, but “Lady in White” is definitely unsettling. And if anyone has opinions about “Moonstone”, we can talk after I finish reading it!
Nice find on the Goodbye Stranger cover video! I love Dave's guitar lead image "Ponging" around the screen! Talented musicians skillfully and creatively cover a great song.
Oh, boy oh, boy, you’ve mentioned ALL my favorite “scary story” writers! I revel in works by Lovecraft, Blackwood, James and Machen! And Lord Dunsany! And Hawthorne, Bierce and Poe! For quite a few years now, I’ve preferred reading books from about 1850-1940. So many later authors seem unable to capture my interest the way the earlier authors do. A big part of it for me is the language. Then that sense of place and period, which has a mystery and spell all its own. And the unpredictability of the stories! Great stuff. Thanks for this little treat this morning. Just finished a few Blackwood short stories in an omnibus book. Going back for more with my morning tea. 🫖
Let's add King Crimson's 'The Mincer' (1974) to your list of weird tracks. I was an early and often Lovecraft fan, but the most intimate portrait comes from a collection of correspondence with Willis Conover, who was a major radio personality in adult life but in the interwar period a young person attracted to 'Weird Tales', the now highly collectible serial. https://www.amazon.com/Lovecraft-Last-Master-Horror-Words/dp/0815412126 Stephen King has often acknowledged Lovecraft as his literary avatar, but mine , H.G. Wells, was also someone who put a creepy tale together quite well himself. Wells' creep was in some ways even more disturbing, as it always inveigled itself into the quite human condition, implying that we humans are, after all, the scariest of creatures in existence. 'The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes', 'The Plattner Story', 'The Inexperienced Ghost', and 'The Stolen Body' are all good examples of authentic weirdness, to which Wells' preferred the phrase 'the unexpected'.
Weirdest playlist yet.
Not sure if Wilkie Collins falls in the “weird fiction” category, but “Lady in White” is definitely unsettling. And if anyone has opinions about “Moonstone”, we can talk after I finish reading it!
Nice find on the Goodbye Stranger cover video! I love Dave's guitar lead image "Ponging" around the screen! Talented musicians skillfully and creatively cover a great song.
Oh, boy oh, boy, you’ve mentioned ALL my favorite “scary story” writers! I revel in works by Lovecraft, Blackwood, James and Machen! And Lord Dunsany! And Hawthorne, Bierce and Poe! For quite a few years now, I’ve preferred reading books from about 1850-1940. So many later authors seem unable to capture my interest the way the earlier authors do. A big part of it for me is the language. Then that sense of place and period, which has a mystery and spell all its own. And the unpredictability of the stories! Great stuff. Thanks for this little treat this morning. Just finished a few Blackwood short stories in an omnibus book. Going back for more with my morning tea. 🫖
Let's add King Crimson's 'The Mincer' (1974) to your list of weird tracks. I was an early and often Lovecraft fan, but the most intimate portrait comes from a collection of correspondence with Willis Conover, who was a major radio personality in adult life but in the interwar period a young person attracted to 'Weird Tales', the now highly collectible serial. https://www.amazon.com/Lovecraft-Last-Master-Horror-Words/dp/0815412126 Stephen King has often acknowledged Lovecraft as his literary avatar, but mine , H.G. Wells, was also someone who put a creepy tale together quite well himself. Wells' creep was in some ways even more disturbing, as it always inveigled itself into the quite human condition, implying that we humans are, after all, the scariest of creatures in existence. 'The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes', 'The Plattner Story', 'The Inexperienced Ghost', and 'The Stolen Body' are all good examples of authentic weirdness, to which Wells' preferred the phrase 'the unexpected'.