THE DEEP ONES: "Her Bounty to the Dead" by John Crowley

"Her Bounty to the Dead" by John Crowley.

Discussion begins November 13, 2024.

First published as "Where Spirits Gat Them Home" in Shadows (1978).



BIBLIOGRAPHY

https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?57785

SELECTED PRINT VERSIONS

Novelties & Souvenirs: Collected Short Fiction

ONLINE VERSIONS

https://www.cpboyko.com/crowley-herbountytothedead.html

ONLINE AUDIO VERSIONS

No online audio versions currently available.

MISCELLANY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Crowley_(author)
https://johncrowleyauthor.com/
https://wonderbooknow.com/interviews/john-crowley/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zgyir0xbFc
https://tinyurl.com/musfevjn

This didn't strike me as a truly weird story, but I enjoyed it nevertheless.

It's built around a serious theological theme.

For those of us who feel exiled from the beloved places of our youth, it captured that longing well as well as the awkwardness of making contact with relatives we have had no interaction with for years.

I don't automatically regard ghost stories as weird stories, but I thought the combination of a time loop to a ghost story was unusual and innovative.

He "bought the farm" in the usual sense, but with an added one.

Possibly the first time I’ve encountered the word ”heresiarch” outside a history book. I enjoyed the theological theme, though.

The time loop is enough to make it weird in my book.