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Wiki: "It was like those at Medjugorje who had regular appointments with the Virgin: not only absurd but petty, if true."

Wiki: "It began early with Lowther practicing ‘The Song of the Birds,’ a mournful piece that cast a spell on the day: quiet, as the sun rose in the faded blue sky, no clouds, the morning smelling of a warm rhubarb compote Lowther served at breakfast."


Pau Casals - Song of the Birds/El cant dels ocells

Wiki: "Mrs. Young, for instance, after she had watched him eat a piece of her macaroni pie, quietly asked what he thought of adultery."

Wiki: "...a gorse bush put under his pillow..."

Gorse > Bombay phenotype

Wiki: "Just go straight on this road, and then when you reach the Outer Gate to the Hachiman Shrine turn left and stop."

Wiki: "The two-page spread for Mt Mihara had two aerial shots and one photo taken from a nearby hilltop."

Mount Mihara > Basalt > Pāhoehoe

Wiki: "Hanging about thirty centimeters from the ceiling was a fist-sized mask, of a hannya - a female demon."

Wiki: "...and playing several hands of bourre (Sam won five dollars and change) we were all ready to see someone new."

11. The Festival, 3 stars. Taking part in an unknown yuletide festival.
12. He, 3 stars. Wanderer meets an old gent with similar taste in architecture.
13. Cool Air, 3 stars. Doctor with mystery ailments must stay cold.
15. The Colour Out of Space, 3 stars. [2017]
18. The Haunter of the Dark, 3 stars. Curious man explores unholy church.

Wiki: "It was the Yuletide, that men call Christmas though they know in their heads it is older than Bethlehem and Babylon, older than Memphis and mankind."

06. The Picture in the House, 4 stars. Sheltering from a storm, man stumbles across unusual book.
07. The Outsider, 3 stars. Ugly guy goes to a party.
08. Herbert West - Reanimator, 3 stars. Blonde creep (and pal) experiment with reanimating the dead.
09. The Hound, 3 stars. Silly goth graverobbers get their comeuppance.
10. The Rats in the Walls, 3 stars. Man goes to the motherland to restore ancestral home.

Wiki: "We were genuinely perplexed at the presence of rats, and Norrys lent me some traps and Paris green, which I had the servants place in strategic localities when I returned."

Wiki: "And then had come the scourge, grinning and lethal, from the nightmare caverns of Tartarus."

Wiki: "For them are the catacombs of Ptolemais, and the carven mausolea of the nightmare countries."

Ptolemais > Crocodilopolis > Sobek > Fayum mummy portraits

01. Dagon, 3 stars. Guy in canoe washes up in goop, sees something praying.
02. The Statement of Randolph Carter, 3 stars. Late night trip to the cemetery doesn't end well.
03. Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family, 2 stars. Researching family legends reveals unpleasant truths.
04. Celephaïs, 3 stars. Man becomes obsessed with dream city.
05. Nyarlathotep, 3 stars. Egyptian has a disturbing act.

Wiki: "What you have instead are periodic gusts laden with incendiary material – lapilli, tiny bits of volcanic material that are too big to inhale easily but are still burning as they come down."

Lapilli > Tuff

Wiki: "In a volcano, what you’re seeing would be called an eruption column, but the Rifting is not just some solitary vent."

Eruption column > Pyrocumulonimbus > Fire tornado > Firestorm

Wiki: "The Old Man’s Pucker is a sommian – a caldera inside a caldera."

Wiki: "Old local song about a nurse who stopped a sudden eruption and pyroclastic flow by turning it to ice."

Wiki: "When General Nogi committed ritual suicide soon after the emperor’s funeral, stating that he was following his lord into death, my father was the first to learn of it from the newspaper."

Wiki: "Next to it stood a stupa with a quotation from the sutras..."

Word: "...and I have never bothered to lean out of my window and empty my skoramis on some poor hack’s pate."

Wiki: "...he’d sit like a king there, and like Marat bleed."



Jean-Paul Marat > The Death of Marat

Wiki: "Of the historical names, we recognized only one: the impostor-wizard Smerdis, and he was invoked, really, as a metaphor."

01-20. The Philip K. Dick Reader, 4 stars. [2017]
21. Misadjustment, 4 stars. Powerful man panics about routine psychic evaluation.
22. A World of Talent, 3 stars. Psychic politics, unknown talents discovered.
23. Psi-Man Heal My Child!, 3 stars. Leaving the commune to visit a healer.

21. We Can Remember it for You Wholesale, 5 stars. Buried memories and hidden desires are restored. Total Recall.
22. The Minority Report, 3 stars. [2015]
23. Paycheck, 3 stars. Man with erased memories leaves clues for his future self.
24. Second Variety, 4 stars. The remaining warring factions on the ruined earth meet for matters of great urgency.

18. Pay for the Printer, 4 stars. Alien race gives us the metaphorical fish, we become (more) useless.
19. War Veteran, 4 stars. Sick old man finally finds someone interested in his old war stories.
20. The Chromium Fence, 4 stars. World politics revolve around whether or not you stink.

13. The Crawlers, 4 stars. Radiative glow worm babies!
14. Sales Pitch, 3 stars. Robot advertising gets aggressive.
15. Shell Game, 3 stars. Crash survivors face unseen dangers on a hostile planet.
16. Upon the Dull Earth, 3 stars. Girl & boyfriend try to correct her mistake, backfires spectacularly.
17. Foster, You're Dead, 4 stars. The hot new thing every family needs, civil defense!

Wiki: "When I was a child, my mother read to me about St. Bernadette. Remember where her cave was? Near a hospital. They were hovering there and she saw one of them."

Wiki: "The gypsy filled their canteens and brought them each a liter of red wine with the corks half pulled and a saucisson which they stowed in their haversacks."