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Wiki: "..."What hymns did you have?" she demanded. "I like 'You in your small corner and I in mine,' " she said. "It's my favourite but it's not suitable for summer. It's a cosy sort of one; it makes me think of winter and dark nights and going to bed with a hot water bottle."

Wiki: "Quartermain looked around at the railings, the boxes of geraniums, and the wicker rockers that he and the boy sat still in.
‘Appomattox. You ever heard of that?’
‘In school once.’
‘The thing is, which one is me, which one is you?’"

Word: "Douglas started to back away.
‘Don’t back off, son,’ said Grandpa. ‘I’m not royalty. Just turn around and skedaddle.’
‘Skedaddle. Was that originally French, Grampa?’
‘Hell.’ The old man reached for a book. ‘When you get back, let’s look it up!’"

1. to move or run away quickly

Wiki: "Here the lion and the hartebeest lay together, here the jackass became unicorn..."

Word: "Now we gotta figure the first sock-dolager thing to do."

1. a hard hit, a knockout or finishing blow
2. something exceptional, a whopper

Wiki: "Come on, Anna, you’re beginning to sound like Bette Davis in Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte."

12. Vaster than Empires and More Slow, 4 stars. Surveyors ostracize unpleasant colleague.
13. The Stars Below, 3 stars. Astronomy is also taboo, but not mining.
14. The Field of Vision, 2 stars. Sensory/religious overload.
15. Direction of the Road, 1 star. Tree's perspective.
16. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, 3 stars. [2014]
17. The Day Before the Revolution, 3 stars. Revolutionary becomes old hat.

Wiki: "He turned left, and presently passed a big stope in three levels."

07. Winter's King, 3 stars. Monarch is brainwashed, seeks help with serious consequences.
08. The Good Trip, 2 stars. Hallucinating man misses wife.
09. Nine Lives, 4 stars. Remote employees struggle to understand new co-workers.
10. Things, 3 stars. Man makes a boat out of bricks.
11. A Trip to the Head, 2 stars. Hallucinating England & centipedey sexual encounters.

Wiki: "I told her and she exclaimed ecstatically: ‘Oh! You must live near Elizabeth Jane Howard!' I calmly told her just how near Jane Howard I lived."

03. Franchise, 3 stars. [2016]
09. Satisfaction Guaranteed, 5 stars. [2016]
13. Jokester, 5 stars. [2016]
15. Someday, 3 stars. [2017]

01. Semley's Necklace, 4 stars. Wife envies wealthier relatives, goes on journey to reclaim heirloom.
02. April in Paris, 2 stars. A functional summoning spell.
03. The Masters, 3 stars. Math is taboo.
04. Darkness Box, 2 stars. Prince fights endless battle with sibling.
05. The Word of Unbinding, 3 stars. Escaping from a wizard's trap.
06. The Rule of Names, 4 stars. Dodgy wizard called out by unwanted visitor.

Melania
Esmeralda
Phyllis
Pyrrha
Euphrasia
Odile
Margara
Getullia
Adelma
Eudoxia
Moriana
Clarice
Eusapia
Beersheba
Leonia
Irene
Argia
Thekla
Trude
Olinda
Laudomia
Perinthia
Procopia
Raissa
Andria
Cecilia
Marozia
Penthesilea
Theodora
Berenice

Diomora
Isadora
Dorothea
Zaira
Anastasia
Tamara
Zora
Despina
Zirma
Isaura
Maurilia
Fedora
Zoe
Zenobia
Euphemia
Zobeide
Hypatia
Armilla
Chloe
Valdara
Olivia
Sophronia
Eutropia
Zemrude
Aglaura
Lalage
Octavia
Ersilia
Baucis
Leandra

Wiki: "...always cautious to evade the spying sycophants and the Janissaries' mass arrests..."

Wiki: "...the other fauna was coming back to the light from the library’s basements where the incunabula were kept..."

Wiki: "The stevedores climbed the steps in a line, bent beneath demijohns and barrels; their faces were hidden by sackcloth hoods; “Now they will straighten up and I will recognize them,” I thought, with impatience and fear."

Wiki: "...he dreamed of pomegranate groves, the fruit so ripe it burst its skin, zebus browning on the spit and dripping fat, veins of metal surfacing in landslips with glistening nuggets."

Wiki: "Against the sky a lavabo’s white stands out, or a bathtub, or some other porcelain, like late fruit still hanging from the boughs."

Wiki: "When I saw Eudora floating towards me in the lobby of the courthouse I thought of Actaeon and how he must have felt to see the goddess Artemis naked in her bath, all light and the petals of every white flower on the water."

Wiki: "I told her that Saul’s story about the death-dog reminded me of Black Shuck."

Wiki: "I met other veterans there, too; the Chalice Well called the walking wounded to it."

Chalice Well > Glastonbury Thorn

06. The Man Dogs Hated, 4 stars. Exclusive neighborhood encourages people who don't fit in to leave peacefully.
07. Sick Leave, 4 stars. Teacher returns to work still ill, kids act super shifty.
08. Drones, 3 stars. Drone operator gets PTSD, maybe.
09. Public Interest Story, 4 stars. Man scorns trashy tabloids until he turns up in one.
10. Epilogue: A Dream about Robert Aickman, 3 stars. Never-ending book.

Wiki: "The next might have writing in all the alphabets of the world, or diagrams that drew themselves, or colourful illustrations like the Book Of Kells, or brand new periodic tables, or anatomical drawings of imaginary creatures."

Book of Kells > Celtworld

01. Falling Over, 4 stars. Student is suspicious about injured crush's identity.
02. Fate, Destiny, and a Fat Man from Arkansas, 3 stars. Friends rob a house, share bad dream.
03. Haunted, 3 stars. Paranormal investigation.
04. New Boy, 4 stars. Manager makes no effort to know his staff, despite the incident.
05. The Time Of Their Lives, 4 stars. Boy explores dumpy hotel while on holiday with his grandparents.

05. Lonelyache, 4 stars. Soon to be divorced man has nightmares, drowns his sorrows in pussy.
06. Delusion For A Dragon Slayer, 2 stars. Unpleasant personality traits revealed in heroic fantasy.
07. Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes, 2 stars. Sultry ghost in a slot machine.

Wiki: "There are even a couple of people in Pocatello who’ve never heard of me, but mostly, they just stand around looking at the sky hoping to see another of them great silver birds go fly–fly to the sunset."

01. I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream, 4 stars. Computer with a sadistic streak tortures people.
02. Big Sam Was My Friend, 4 stars. Circus finds new talent with girl issues.
03. Eyes Of Dust, 3 stars. Ugly parents make an ugly son with an ugly curse.
04. World of the Myth, 2 stars. A rapist, a tryhard, and a tease crash on a planet full of alien ants.

Wiki: "As he rode, even though it was drowned out by the roar of the engine, he started humming “Black Ghost Blues” again, totally unaware that he was doing it."

Wiki: "A dirk’s a sort of sword, isn’t it, or poniard? Anyway, it sounds very keen and cruel and fatal—Dirk."