"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
Continues from yesterday CHAPTER II. As she received no further news of Sir Philip, whether directly or indirectly, his unfortunate lady began now to feel a sort of consolation even in those careless habits which had so often given her pain. "He is so thoughtless," she repeated...
Continues from yesterday. THE MIRROR. CHAPTER I. You are fond (said my aunt) of sketches of the society which has passed away. I wish I could describe to you Sir Philip Forester, the "chartered libertine" of Scottish good company, about the end of the last century. I never...
“My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror” is a short tale by Sir Walter Scott, first published in The Keepsake for 1828, an annual gift book. It belongs to Scott’s later experiments with short fiction and combines family reminiscence, historical anecdote, and supernatural suspense. "There are timesWhen Fancy plays...
Guy de Maupassant’s The Hand (La Main, 1883) is a short Gothic tale built around a Corsican vendetta. First published as La Main in Le Gaulois on December, 23rd 1883 (merry Christmas, I guess), it's a reworking of Maupassant’s earlier 1875 story La Main d’écorché...
“Twilight” is a short supernatural story by Marjorie Bowen, an author I often featured in these seasonal events, and it blends a ghostly atmosphere with a historical setting. It first appeared in Bowen’s 1913 collection God’s Playthings. Three women stood before a marble-margined pool in the...
“A Bottle of Perrier” is a short suspense story by Edith Wharton, first published in 1926 in The Saturday Evening Post under the title “A Bottle of Evian.” It was later collected in Certain People (1930). The title was changed because of commercial concerns surrounding...
The novel is a short maritime horror story by the French writer Georges-Gustave Toudouze (often listed in English as George G. Toudouze). It first appeared in French in 1927 under the title “La tour d’épouvante” (“The Tower of Terror”), and its first English publication was...
Ladies and gentlemen, here we are! And yes, I know, the banner appeared a little too soon, this year, but I'm abroad without my computer and I knew I wasn't going to be able to bring it up. But I've got you covered. All month long,...
So, aside from these last few entries, I did a summer reading list for architects with hardly any book about architecture, didn't I? Loads of them were poetry, some were non-fiction on anthropology and personal reflections, there have been novels on ruins, memory, rooms. I want...
This is another book that was foundational in my intellectual development and it's actually at the crossroads between architecture, level design and user experience. Francesco Careri, its author, trained as an architect in Rome and finished in Naples with a doctoral thesis titled "Il percorso," the...
