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1paradoxosalpha
This thread is for nominations and voting on stories for inclusion in the October-December weekly discussion reads in this group.
As in past rounds, any story that gets more "No" than "Yes" votes won't make the cut; otherwise they'll be prioritized according to net-yes-minus-no, and the final list will be in OPD sequence. Ties will be broken in favor of author and period variety.
To propose a story for voting, place the title and author between HTML-style angle-bracket tags. The open tag says vote (in brackets); the close tag says /vote (ditto). Multiple polls seem to need multiple posts. If you put the name of the author in double square brackets, it will make it a linked "touchstone" for the LT database, and first publication dates of nominated stories are appreciated. Feel free to include remarks about your nomination motives, and/or a link to an online version.
VOTING WILL END ON THE FIRST DAY OF FALL: September 23.
The summer reading schedule runs through September, and fall will pick up on Wednesday, October 7.
As in past rounds, any story that gets more "No" than "Yes" votes won't make the cut; otherwise they'll be prioritized according to net-yes-minus-no, and the final list will be in OPD sequence. Ties will be broken in favor of author and period variety.
To propose a story for voting, place the title and author between HTML-style angle-bracket tags. The open tag says vote (in brackets); the close tag says /vote (ditto). Multiple polls seem to need multiple posts. If you put the name of the author in double square brackets, it will make it a linked "touchstone" for the LT database, and first publication dates of nominated stories are appreciated. Feel free to include remarks about your nomination motives, and/or a link to an online version.
VOTING WILL END ON THE FIRST DAY OF FALL: September 23.
The summer reading schedule runs through September, and fall will pick up on Wednesday, October 7.
2paradoxosalpha
Vote: "Remnants" by Fred Chappell (2010)
Current tally: Yes 6, No 2, Undecided 2
3paradoxosalpha
Vote: "Buried in the Sky" by John Shirley (2003)
Current tally: Yes 5, No 3, Undecided 2
4paradoxosalpha
Vote: "The Thing on the Doorstep" by H.P. Lovecraft (1937)
Current tally: Yes 11, No 0
5semdetenebre
Vote: "A Witch Shall Be Born" by Robert E. Howard (1934)
Current tally: Yes 9, No 2
6semdetenebre
Vote: "Pages from a Young Girl's Journal" by Robert Aickman (1975)
Current tally: Yes 10, No 0, Undecided 1
7semdetenebre
Vote: "Blackwood's Baby" by Laird Barron ((2011)
Current tally: Yes 11, No 0
8semdetenebre
Vote: How the Day Runs Down" by John Langan (2008)
Current tally: Yes 8, No 1, Undecided 1
9semdetenebre
Vote: "The Birds" by Daphne du Maurier (1952)
Current tally: Yes 12, No 0
10paradoxosalpha
Vote: "The Big Fish" by Kim Newman (1993)
Current tally: Yes 10, No 1
Ubiquitously reprinted in, e.g. Cthulhu 2000, The Book of Cthulhu II, Shadows over Innsmouth, etc.
ETA: Also online, evidently.
11paradoxosalpha
Vote: "The Death of Ilalotha" by Clark Ashton Smith (1937)
Current tally: Yes 11, No 0
http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/38/the-death-of-ilalotha
12RandyStafford
Vote: "Lazarus" by Leonid Andreyev (1921)
Current tally: Yes 9, No 1
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?66662
13RandyStafford
Vote: "The Man Who Made Friends with Electricity" by Fritz Leiber (1962)
Current tally: Yes 7, No 1, Undecided 2
Available several places: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?74494
14artturnerjr
Vote: "The House and the Brain" (aka "The Haunted and the Haunters") by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1859)
Current tally: Yes 8, No 2, Undecided 1
Suggested by our discussion of Fitz-James O'Brien's "What Was It?" (http://www.librarything.com/topic/192931).
15artturnerjr
Vote: "The Mark of the Beast" by Rudyard Kipling (1890)
Current tally: Yes 10, No 0, Undecided 1
Weird fiction from the Nobel laureate. "Rudyard Kipling has often approached {the weird}; and has... handled it with indubitable mastery in such tales as... “The Mark of the Beast”... which no reader is ever likely to forget." (HPL, Supernatural Horror in Literature)
16artturnerjr
Vote: "Sensible City" by Harlan Ellison (1994)
Current tally: Yes 6, No 4, Undecided 1
The acclaimed author's tale is also included in Eternal Lovecraft: The Persistence of H. P. Lovecraft in Popular Culture and several other collections.
17paradoxosalpha
Vote: "The Ring of Thoth" by Arthur Conan Doyle (1890)
Current tally: Yes 10, No 1
(Not a Sherlock Holmes story, but rather a Victorian Egyptological horror story.)
18artturnerjr
>4 paradoxosalpha:
Peter Straub called that HPL's masterpiece:
https://www.loa.org/images/pdf/LOA_Straub_Interview_AFT.pdf
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Online versions:
>5 semdetenebre:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42227
>10 paradoxosalpha:
http://tinyurl.com/pxzfj9r
Peter Straub called that HPL's masterpiece:
https://www.loa.org/images/pdf/LOA_Straub_Interview_AFT.pdf
***
Online versions:
>5 semdetenebre:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42227
>10 paradoxosalpha:
http://tinyurl.com/pxzfj9r
19paradoxosalpha
>18 artturnerjr:
But S.T. Joshi and many other authors pan it. Let's read and discuss.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_on_the_Doorstep#Reaction
But S.T. Joshi and many other authors pan it. Let's read and discuss.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_on_the_Doorstep#Reaction
20artturnerjr
>19 paradoxosalpha:
Yeah, you won't get an argument from me. Controversial stories are always more fun, anyway. :)
Yeah, you won't get an argument from me. Controversial stories are always more fun, anyway. :)
21paradoxosalpha
Vote: "Down by the Sea Near the Great Big Rock" by Joe R. Lansdale (1984)
Current tally: Yes 7, No 2, Undecided 1
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?62618
22RandyStafford
Vote: "The Striding Place" by Gertrude Atherton (1896)
Current tally: Yes 8, No 1
24paradoxosalpha
Vote: "The Shadow on the Doorstep" by James P. Blaylock (1986)
Current tally: Yes 6, No 2, Undecided 3
Repeatedly collected: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?42552
25paradoxosalpha
Vote: "My Boat" by Joanna Russ (1976)
Current tally: Yes 5, No 3, Undecided 1
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?50399
26paradoxosalpha
Vote: "The Haunted Chair" by Richard Marsh (1902)
Current tally: Yes 10, No 1
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37966/37966-h/37966-h.htm#div1_haunted
27elenchus
Vote: "Bird of Prey" by John Collier (ca 1952)
Current tally: Yes 7, No 1, Undecided 2
The Collier story is online here:
http://faculty.uml.edu/bmarshall/John%20Collier%20-%20Bird%20of%20Prey.pdf
28RandyStafford
>27 elenchus: I understand Collier was quite popular in his day. There seem to be a lot of tv adaptations of his work.
29paradoxosalpha
Just five days left to vote on these.
30semdetenebre
Two days left to vote!
31paradoxosalpha
Voting closed. Results momentarily!
32paradoxosalpha
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