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He is a good story-teller, and Leah has the idea of writing down his stories and publishing them. Each story has a prologue, added to the original story that appeared in Household Words . In the prologue of this story, now entitled "The Traveller's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed", Kerby is in a hotel in Liverpool, making a portrait in chalk of ...
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories is an anthology of weird fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. Published on 30 Oct 2011, [ 1 ] it contains 110 short stories, novellas and short novels.
This edition is the third in Penguin Classics' series of paperback collections. It collects the "definitive" editions of Lovecraft's popular stories as edited by S. T. Joshi. Its companion volumes from Penguin Classics are The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (2001), and The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories (2001).
The dream as a revelatory crisis. In the case of the Ridiculous Man it is a vision through which an entirely new reality for human beings becomes possible. So-called 'real life' was something empty, something he fully intended to snuff out, but his dream revealed to him "another life, a great, renewed and powerful life."
"The Dream of Akinosuke" (あきのすけの夢, Akinosuke no Yume) is a Japanese folktale, made famous outside Japan by Lafcadio Hearn's translation of the story in Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. The story is said to bring together several strands of Japanese folklore, including the fact that even insects can manipulate the ...
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) The German silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari isn’t only one of the first landmark films of the horror genre, but it’s also one of the first to involve ...
The story is based on a letter dated November 24, 1927 from H. P. Lovecraft to Donald Wandrei [1] describing one of Lovecraft's dreams. The story was prepared for publication by Miske, who filled in the story surrounding the description of the dream. In places, the letter and published story are identical to Lovecraft's style.
1. The Dream: Random Sex with a Stranger. So your promiscuous side came out to play with a total stranger while you were sound asleep and you’re wondering what this risky business was all about.