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Jamie
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I’m a storyteller: spoken, written, pantomime, whatever. Human library catalog. Queen of the non sequitur. Fuelled by caffeine and cognitive dissonance. she/her
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Hey #comics people! I’m looking for gothic fiction in comic or graphic novel form. I’ve read Graveneye and everything Emily Carroll has released, plus several adaptations of gothic classics (Frankenstein, Dracula, Carmella, etc.) but I need MORE.

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Still from Jean Cocteau’s 1946 film La Belle et la Bête, showing Josette Day as Belle. Belle is wearing a white dress and holding a candelabra, approaching a door. There’s a lot of shadows and a suspenseful tone to the image.
March 9, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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This excerpt from Donald Westlake’s The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany makes that an even more interesting choice. Granted, this book was published 3+ years after the audio adaptation came out but Westlake definitely has a point about the text.
Screenshot of a tumblr post with an excerpt of Donald Westlake’s The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany (2014): Chandler also brought in another new element, a smothered, un-acknowledged homosexuality. Story forms on male preserves--the Western again, sea stories, war stories, God knows prison stories--are always open to this potential, and the tougher, the more overtly he-man, the genre is, the more the tension inevitably is created by this addition of homosexuality. In Chandler, it created a dark chiaroscuro that furnishes much of the fascination of his stories, particularly the novels. The world in which Philip Marlowe moves seems more than usually murky, with dark and unexplained patches, with an overriding sense of solitude and sadness unrelated to the plots. The social attitudes of the first wave of the writers--their belief in social disconnectedness, of general untrustworthiness relieved by isolated examples of comrade-ship--become both more mysterious and more poignant when given a homosexual coloring. About the closest this homosexual content ever came to the surface in Chandler's work is in the first five chapters of The Long Goodbye. Marlowe's relationship with Terry Lennox, from the moment he picks Lennox up--literally and figuratively- in front of a bar and restaurant called "The Dancers," is inexplicable in any other way. If this is not a homosexual relationship, what on earth is it? I am not suggesting that Chandler was or was not homosexual, only that a homosexual content was one of the elements--along with lit-erariness and world-weariness-that gave his hardboiled stories their texture and fascination, and make them still alive today, more than forty years after they began.
January 23, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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The only hold that’s come in so far is Chandler’s The Big Sleep, which certainly has more moving parts than the audio drama.

BUT when Marlowe throws Carmen out in the book Chandler doesn’t specify what she calls him:
Quote from Chandler’s The Big Sleep: She called me a filthy name. I didn’t mind that. I didn’t mind what she called me, what anybody called me. But this was the room I had to live in. It was all I had in the way of a home. In it was everything that was mine, that had any association for me, any past, anything that took the place of a family. Not much; a few books, pictures, radio, chessmen, old letters, stuff like that. Nothing. Such as they were they had all my memories. I couldn’t stand her in that room any longer. What she called me only reminded me of that.
January 23, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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Day 19/20
Sharp Teeth, by Toby Barlow
January 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Day 18/20
A Murder for Her Majesty, by Beth Hilgartner
January 6, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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There was a YA series that was Dracula in WWI. I only read the first book but vampires + trench warfare was mindblowing at the time and I’ve been meaning to find a copy again. Bloodline, by Kate Cary. Also the Thriller episode “Masquerade”
Elizabeth Montgomery and Tom Poston in Thriller episode “Masquerade”
January 5, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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Day 17/20
The Lays of Beleriand: The History of Middle-earth, Volume 3, by J.R.R. Tolkien
January 4, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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Day 16/20
Tam Lin, by Pamela Dean
January 2, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Day 15/20
The Bloody Chamber, by Angela Carter
January 1, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Day 14/20
Thorn Ogres of Hagwood, by Brian Jarvis
December 31, 2024 at 1:51 AM
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Day 13/20
The Wicked Day, by Mary Stewart
December 29, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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Day 12/20
Blue Moon Rising, by Simon R. Green
December 28, 2024 at 4:21 AM
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Day 11/20
Firebirds, edited by Sharyn November
December 23, 2024 at 5:53 AM
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This was also my reaction to the flashbacks in Soul Taken. I guess I just crave vampire intrigue.
December 23, 2024 at 5:51 AM
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Day 10/20
Swordspoint, by Ellen Kushner
December 22, 2024 at 5:04 AM
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Day 9/20
Maledicte, by Lane Robins
December 20, 2024 at 11:51 PM
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Day 8/20
Pearls of Lutra, by Pearls of Lutra
December 19, 2024 at 9:52 PM
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Day 7/20
Sunshine, by Robin McKinley
December 16, 2024 at 11:44 PM
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Day 6/20
December 16, 2024 at 2:31 AM
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Day 5/20
Perloo the Bold, by Avi
December 14, 2024 at 6:34 PM
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Day 4/20
Taran Wanderer, by Lloyd Alexander
December 13, 2024 at 7:30 AM
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Day 3/20
Tithe, by Holly Black
December 12, 2024 at 2:44 AM
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Day 2/20
December 10, 2024 at 2:06 AM
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Day 1/20
Photo of a hardback edition of John Collier’s Fancies and Goodnights
December 8, 2024 at 9:30 AM