THE DEEP ONES: Winter 2023 Discussion Schedule

4-Jan The Child That Went with the Fairies, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1870)
11-Jan The Motion Demon, Stefan Grabinski (1919)
18-Jan The Wolves of God, Algernon Blackwood (1921)
25-Jan The Sign-Painter and the Crystal Fishes, Marjorie Bowen (1931)
1-Feb The Thing in the Cellar, David H. Keller (1932)
8-Feb The Other Gods, H. P. Lovecraft (1933)
15-Feb The Stealer of Souls, Michael Moorcock (1962)
22-Feb The Sadness of the Executioner, Fritz Leiber (1973)
1-Mar I, the Vampire, Henry Kuttner (1973)
8-Mar Tainaron: Mail from Another City, Leena Krohn (1985)
15-Mar Black Boots, Robert McCammon (1989)
22-Mar Familiar, China Mieville (2002)
29-Mar The Oram County Whoosit, Steve Duffy (2008)

There were 20 nominations (not counting "The Child That Went with the Fairies," held over from the previous quarter), at least 11 selectors, and 5 nominators. We had a clean cutoff at net-6 votes. "The Wolves of God" was the highest-voted with a unanimous 11, and there were three stories at the bottom of the list with net-3 votes each.

>1 paradoxosalpha:

Thanks, as always, for keeping the wheels turning.

We seem to’ve wholly dodged the late-20C drought this time, with five stories from the ‘60s to ‘80s.

>1 paradoxosalpha:

Many thanks for the results! I think I've read exactly two of those before. Intriguing list, and "The Motion Demon" will give me good cause to crack open my ginormous Grabinski Masters of the Weird Tale tome. And "The Child That Went with the Fairies"...at last!

I've previously read the Moorcock, Lovecraft, and Leiber, but none of them recently. It's funny that the fairies led the child off into the woods, so it was a long time getting here.

One of my nominations came up, and an author I suggested (Steve Duffy). That's nice. Thanks paradoxosalpha for keeping this going.

I think I've read seven of these stories.

The title of the Lovecraft story is “The Other Gods”, not “The Outer Gods”.

For me it’s quite a few new stories by familiar authors this time.

I see there's been a transposition: the correct original publication date of "I, the Vampire" is 1937, not 1973.

Much too late to change the schedule, obviously, but I thought I'd point it out.

Oops.

>8 paradoxosalpha: I suppose now would be a good time to note the McCammon story is "Black Boots", not "Black Roots". Not to pile on or make paradoxosalpha's life difficult.

>7 AndreasJ:, >8 paradoxosalpha:

I'm sort of kicking myself for not noticing it sooner. Not only did I nominate the story (and provide the correct OPD while doing so), I paid enough attention to dates when the schedule went up to comment in >2 AndreasJ: about the number of late 20C stories, obliviously counting this one.