"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."

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

#Spooktober 4: The Spectre Bride

“The Spectre Bride” by Friedrich August Schulze comes from German Stories (1826), translated by Robert Pearse Gillies. You can read it today and tomorrow on my Patreon.

 
Advent Calendar

Anna Katharine Green — Florence Flannery

She who had been Florence Flannery noted with a careless eye the stains of wet on the dusty stairs, and with a glance ill used to observance of domesticities looked up for damp or dripping ceilings. The dim-walled staircase revealed nothing but more dust, yet

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December 6, 2025 9:00 am
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Frank Herbert’s Dune

Does it count as a re-read if you didn’t originally read it in English? And does it count if your memory was so overwritten by the movie adaptations and, by extension, by people commenting on them in comparison to the original material? I don’t think

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December 5, 2025 9:00 am
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Mary E. Braddon — At Chrighton Abbey

The Chrightons were very great people in that part of the country where my childhood and youth were spent. To speak of Squire Chrighton was to speak of a power in that remote western region of England. Chrighton Abbey had belonged to the family ever

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December 5, 2025 9:00 am
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