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16. Miss Braddon - The Cold Embrace, 3 stars. Unfaithful lover can't be bothered to end his secret engagement, fiancé kills herself rather than be married to another.
17. Amelia B. Edwards - How the Third Floor Knew the Potteries, 2 stars. Kind man loses his young sweetheart to a wily Frenchman.
18. Rosa Mulholland - Not To Be Taken At Bed-time, 3 stars. Vengeful man puts a love curse on his enemy's pretty daughter.

13. J. Sheridan Le Fanu - Narrative of the Ghost of a Hand, 3 stars. Household is disturbed by a plump disembodied hand knocking at all hours.
14. J. Sheridan Le Fanu - An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street, 3 stars. Flatmates are driven out by a ghost in a red bathrobe.
15. E. & H. Heron - The Story of the Spaniards, Hammersmith, 3 stars. Ghost hunter investigates a lumpy tapping apparition.

Wiki: "I did as he asked me, and robing himself like Granuaile in one of my blankets, he seated himself close beside my bed."

10. The Monster in the Buckwheat, 3 stars. Man attempts to guard his crops from a monster, gets his forehead chomped for his troubles.
11. The Haunted House, 3 stars. Homeowner is creeped out by fleshy bench, other men Witnesses tiny funeral.
12. Stealing a Peach, 3 stars. Father sends his son up a magical rope, he comes back in parts.
13. Growing Pears, 3 stars. Monk pulls a switcheroo on a miserly fruit vendor.

06. The Painted Wall, 3 stars. Man admires a beautiful girl in a painting, thinks himself into the wall and shows her a good time.
07. The Troll, 2 stars. Troll visits a man at night, rips up his sheets on departure.
08. Biting a Ghost, 2 stars. Man bites a sniffing ghost, gets stinky ghost juice in the bed.
09. Catching a Fox, 2 stars. Man ties a ribbon around a shapeshifter, it escapes while he's distracted.

07. Ambrose Bierce - The Damned Thing, 3 stars. [2016]
08. Evelyn Nesbit - Man-Size in Marble, 3 stars. [2021]
09. Bram Stoker - The Judge's House, 2 stars. [2021]
10. Amelia B. Edwards - The Phantom Coach, 3 stars. [2021]
11. Wilkie Collins - The Dream Woman, 2 stars. [2019]
12. F. Marion Crawford - The Upper Berth, 3 stars. [2021]

01. Perceval Landon - Thurnley Abbey, 3 stars. [2019]
02. Amyas Northcote - Brickett Bottom, 3 stars. [2019]
03. Evelyn Nesbit - John Carrington’s Wedding, 4 stars. [2018]
04. J. Sheridan Le Fanu - Sir Dominick’s Bargain, 2 stars. [2020]
05. J. Sheridan Le Fanu - Carmilla, 3 stars. [2014]
06. Oscar Wilde - The Canterville Ghost, 4 stars. [2015]

Wiki: "Of course I went out to the tea field to sketch, but it was only for the first hour or so that I saw it as rows of tea bushes."

Wiki: "Oki was going to Kyoto to hear the New Year’s Eve bells."

Wiki: "Clarence Mundy, our taxicab driver, who had taken the part of the Hobbyhorse in the Bishop’s Lacey Horn Dance — and had done so since time immemorial, except for his war service as a flying-boat pilot..."

Poem: "I knew, of course, the poem by Mr. de la Mare in which a traveler knocks at the door of an abandoned house by night."

Wiki: "Since it isn’t, it is no more phony to do it this way than it is to use a tickler file in order not to forget a friend’s birthday..."

Wiki: "That was how low my fortunes had ebbed: reduced to sleeping in a coin-operated cubicle."

01. Miss Lonelyhearts, 2 stars. Wastrel with a christ complex sleeps around indiscriminately, drinks to excess, occasionally does his job giving useless advice to desperate letter writers.
02. The Day of the Locust, 2 stars. Artist joins a long line of men sniffing around a beautiful heartless teenager, watches her take advantage of a bumpkin.

Art: "To Joanna Neborsky: the moment I saw “A Partial Inventory of Gustave Flaubert’s Personal Effects” was the first time I could imagine what this book could look like, and the moment I saw Theodore Dreiser with his hot dogs I knew I was right."

Wiki: " Boggs made a provocative conceptual career out of attempting to pay for goods and services with his own drawings of money, which meticulously matched the details of an official bill on one side but usually left the other side blank."

17. The Invested Libido, 2 stars. Depressed man takes drug cocktail, self-identifies with a turd.
18. The Nuse Man, 3 stars. Salesman finds too much automation makes people of any time cranky.
19. An Old-Fashioned Bird Christmas, 2 stars. Anti-electricity preacher makes powerful enemies, gets old time religion.
20. Wryneck, Draw Me, 2 stars. Supercomputer goes insane with unrequited love, tries to seduce itself.

13. Brenda, 3 stars. Girl discovers she has a sadistic streak, finds a smelly man exciting.
14. Short In The Chest, 3 stars. Robot therapist urges a woman to solve her libido problem with extreme violence.
15. Horrer Howce, 4 stars. Inventor tries to sell his scares to a skeptical horror huckster.
16. The Wines Of Earth, 3 stars. Wine tasting aliens take pity on a passionate vinter, let him try the good stuff.

09. The Causes, 4 stars. Drunk man listens to various theories about why the world has gone to hell lately.
10. An Egg A Month From All Over, 4 stars. Creepy loner hatches eggs for fun, receives an unusual misidentified bird instead of a lizard.
11. Prott, 3 stars. Man establishes contact with alien lifeforms, can't make them shut up.
12. New Ritual, 3 stars. Wife is disappointed with her older disinterested husband.

05. The Pillows, 3 stars. People are being used to by cute little alien rocks for nefarious purposes.
06. The Listening Child, 2 stars. Deaf/mute boy can sense pain ahead of time, man uses him as a heart watchdog.
07. Brightness Falls From The Air, 3 stars. Humans steal planets from the alien natives, force them to fight to the death for our entertainment.
08. The Man Who Sold Rope To The Gnoles, 4 stars. [2018]

01. Idris' Pig, 3 stars. Man gets roped into making two unexpected deliveries, both fraught with complications.
02. The Gardener, 4 stars. Pushy bureaucrat cuts down a sacred tree for funsies, faces homicidal arboreal consequences
03. Child Of Void, 2 stars. Hostile alien egg makes country life uncomfortable for a family.
04. Hathor's Pets, 3 stars. Family resents their new owner's obedience training practices.

Wiki: " Mr Gregory (or, as he was formally announced, Mr Maundy Gregory) proved to be a plump, rubicund, middle-sized man in the fifties, with an expensive flower in his buttonhole, an air of constant good-living, an affable smile, a glittering watchchain, good clothes and (as I noticed when he sat down) very beautiful boots."

Wiki: "Do you know that even a special dish of angelica was provided for my Christmas dessert?"

Word: "...will enable him to pitch some such elaborated, and delicately distinguished, yarn into his hebdomadal confessor, as will justify his treachery to me..."

1. Consisting of or lasting seven days.

2. Changing every week; fickle, changeable.

3. Meeting, taking place, or appearing once a week; weekly.

04. The Old People, 3 stars. Boy's first hunting trip is a success, sees a majestic (spiritual?) buck.
05. The Bear, 2 stars. More hunting trips, becoming a man, magical natives, cursed land, unofficial family genealogy.
06. Delta Autumn, 2 stars. Old man's last hunting trip, gets outraged by a mixed race child.
07. Go Down, Moses, 2 stars. Town pays to bring an executed man's body home out of respect for his mother.

Word: "...he thought she was crying now at first, into the tossed and wadded pillow, the voice coming from somewhere between the pillow and the cachinnation ..."

1. Loud or immoderate laughter.

01. Was, 2 stars. Slave chasers fall into a scheming neighbor's marriage trap, settle their issues with a card game.
02. The Fire and the Hearth, 3 stars. Father's plan to get his daughter's lover arrested backfires spectacularly, comes down with treasure fever.
03. Pantaloon in Black, 3 stars. Grieving man is deranged by the sudden death of his wife, gets drunk and kills a man well-known for cheating at dice.

Wiki: "A Savannah merchant had bankrolled the first steamship ever to cross the Atlantic, the Savannah, which made its maiden ocean voyage from Savannah to Liverpool in 1819."

Wiki: "It was Mercer House, one of the last of Savannah’s great houses still in private hands."

Wiki: "Richard Chopping, commissioned to paint a toad for the original cover of Ian Fleming’s You Only Live Twice, reported back to Fleming’s editor that [...] he had spent the previous day trudging through the swamps of Suffolk to find a suitable specimen, which now lived on mealworms under a glass dome in his studio."