THE DEEP ONES: Spring-Summer 2026 discussion schedule
Talk The Weird Tradition
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1paradoxosalpha
1-Apr "The Ouroboros Apocrypha" by Jayaprakash Satyamurthy (2012)
6-May "Kiss Me Again, Stranger" by Daphne du Maurier (1953)
3-Jun "The Hungry House" by Robert Bloch (1951)
1-Jul "Metastasis" by Dan Simmons (1988)
5-Aug "Calcutta, Lord of Nerves" by Poppy Brite (1992)
2-Sep "Impermanent Mercies" by Kathe Koja (1991)
The apparent number of selectors was down this time around--to seven from ten in the fall. We had only four nominators.
The lowest two vote-getting nominations were from a couple of authors I'm quite fond of: Peter Straub and Fritz Leiber. Those stories had only net 2 votes each, but they were both posted late in the nomination period. There was a clean cutoff at net 4 votes.
Discussion start dates are the first Wednesday of each month.
6-May "Kiss Me Again, Stranger" by Daphne du Maurier (1953)
3-Jun "The Hungry House" by Robert Bloch (1951)
1-Jul "Metastasis" by Dan Simmons (1988)
5-Aug "Calcutta, Lord of Nerves" by Poppy Brite (1992)
2-Sep "Impermanent Mercies" by Kathe Koja (1991)
The apparent number of selectors was down this time around--to seven from ten in the fall. We had only four nominators.
The lowest two vote-getting nominations were from a couple of authors I'm quite fond of: Peter Straub and Fritz Leiber. Those stories had only net 2 votes each, but they were both posted late in the nomination period. There was a clean cutoff at net 4 votes.
Discussion start dates are the first Wednesday of each month.
2AndreasJ
As always, thanks for keeping the wheels spinning.
du Maurier, Bloch and Koja are authors I've read before but the particular stories are new to me. Satyamurthy, Simmons, and Brite are wholly new to me.
du Maurier, Bloch and Koja are authors I've read before but the particular stories are new to me. Satyamurthy, Simmons, and Brite are wholly new to me.
3gwendetenebre
Excellent- thanks, paradoxosalpha! :)
4paradoxosalpha
I realized belatedly that I failed to sequence these by publication date. Sorry!
10AndreasJ
Thread now up.
I incidentally see I made a mistake above; I've actually read one story by Simmons before, namely "The River Styx Runs Upstream", which we did as a Deep Ones read back in 2019. Now to see if I can get my hands on "Metastasis".
I incidentally see I made a mistake above; I've actually read one story by Simmons before, namely "The River Styx Runs Upstream", which we did as a Deep Ones read back in 2019. Now to see if I can get my hands on "Metastasis".
