1paradoxosalpha
This thread is for nominations and voting on stories for inclusion in the October-December weekly discussion reads in this group. Please feel free to draw on the ongoing brainstorming thread for nominations.
As in past rounds, any story that gets more "No" than "Yes" votes won't make the cut; otherwise they'll be prioritized according to net-yes-minus-no, and the final list will be in OPD sequence. Ties will be broken in favor of author and period variety.
To propose a story for voting, place the title and author between HTML-style angle-bracket tags. The open tag says vote (in brackets); the close tag says /vote (ditto). Multiple polls seem to need multiple posts. If you put the name of the author in double square brackets, it will make it a linked "touchstone" for the LT database, and first publication dates of nominated stories are appreciated. Also welcome are remarks about the story, the author, and your nomination motives, and/or a link to an online version.
You can see a sortable list of all previous discussions here. Nominations repeating old discussions will be disqualified, but revival of dormant discussion threads is always welcome. "That is not dead which can eternal lie," etc.
VOTING is scheduled to END on the Fall Equinox: Friday, September 21.
As in past rounds, any story that gets more "No" than "Yes" votes won't make the cut; otherwise they'll be prioritized according to net-yes-minus-no, and the final list will be in OPD sequence. Ties will be broken in favor of author and period variety.
To propose a story for voting, place the title and author between HTML-style angle-bracket tags. The open tag says vote (in brackets); the close tag says /vote (ditto). Multiple polls seem to need multiple posts. If you put the name of the author in double square brackets, it will make it a linked "touchstone" for the LT database, and first publication dates of nominated stories are appreciated. Also welcome are remarks about the story, the author, and your nomination motives, and/or a link to an online version.
You can see a sortable list of all previous discussions here. Nominations repeating old discussions will be disqualified, but revival of dormant discussion threads is always welcome. "That is not dead which can eternal lie," etc.
VOTING is scheduled to END on the Fall Equinox: Friday, September 21.
2paradoxosalpha
Vote: "Professor Pownall's Oversight" by H. Russell Wakefield (1928)
Current tally: Yes 9, No 1, Undecided 1
3paradoxosalpha
Vote: "Splinters" by R.A. Lafferty (1978)
Current tally: Yes 6, No 2, Undecided 2
4elenchus
Vote: "Countess Otho" by Reggie Oliver (2009)
Current tally: Yes 9, No 1, Undecided 2
Available in a couple collections, including Oliver's omnibus Mrs Midnight and Other Stories. Tartarus Press includes an eBook version from their site. No online versions found unless the "peek inside" function works from the Amazon site.
5semdetenebre
Vote: "Blood Disease" by Patrick McGrath (1988)
Current tally: Yes 8, No 1, Undecided 1
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/blood-disease/
6semdetenebre
Vote: "The Refugee" by Jane Rice (1943)
Current tally: Yes 9, No 1
http://storyoftheweek.loa.org/2011/03/refugee.html
7RandyStafford
Vote: "In Memoriam" by David H. Keller (1962)
Current tally: Yes 5, No 4, Undecided 1
8semdetenebre
Vote: "At the Mountains of Madness" by H.P. Lovecraft (1936)
Current tally: Yes 10, No 1
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx
9semdetenebre
Vote: "They Bite" by Anthony Boucher (1943)
Current tally: Yes 10, No 0, Undecided 1
http://www.unz.com/print/Unknown-1943aug-00127/
10semdetenebre
Vote: "The Daemon Lover" by Shirley Jackson (1949)
Current tally: Yes 9, No 2, Undecided 1
11AndreasJ
Vote: "The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles" by Clark Ashton Smith (1958)
Current tally: Yes 10, No 0
12paradoxosalpha
Vote: "Lull" (2002) by Kelly Link
Current tally: Yes 5, No 3, Undecided 2
13semdetenebre
>4 elenchus:
"Countess Otho". I think the complete story is there in the Amazon preview. Any way to confirm based on a print copy?
"Countess Otho". I think the complete story is there in the Amazon preview. Any way to confirm based on a print copy?
14elenchus
>13 semdetenebre:
It's difficult for me to know how it works generally. My view of the story online is incomplete, but I strongly suspect Amazon tailors its access to individual users. So while I only see part of the story, others might see the full story. Is my access based on my general profile with Amazon? Or my recent access to the title, or if I purchased something on Amazon recently? Without insight into how it works, for now I do not to consider the "peek inside" as a viable online option.
It's difficult for me to know how it works generally. My view of the story online is incomplete, but I strongly suspect Amazon tailors its access to individual users. So while I only see part of the story, others might see the full story. Is my access based on my general profile with Amazon? Or my recent access to the title, or if I purchased something on Amazon recently? Without insight into how it works, for now I do not to consider the "peek inside" as a viable online option.
15semdetenebre
>14 elenchus:
I was trying to glimpse at the last paragraph without actually reading it, so it might well be incomplete. I agree that it's not a viable choice for our purposes.
I was trying to glimpse at the last paragraph without actually reading it, so it might well be incomplete. I agree that it's not a viable choice for our purposes.
16RandyStafford
Vote: "The Crimson Weaver" by R. Murray Gilchrist (1895)
Current tally: Yes 8, No 2
Seemingly a vampire tale.
18semdetenebre
Vote: "A Home in the Dark" by David J. Schow (2013)
Current tally: Yes 7, No 2, Undecided 1
http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/a-home-in-the-dark/
19semdetenebre
Vote: "Mysterium Tremendum" by Molly Tanzer (2013)
Current tally: Yes 9, No 1
http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/mysterium-tremendum/
20elenchus
Vote: "The Man Who Sold Rope To The Gnoles" by Margaret St. Clair (1951)
Current tally: Yes 11, No 0, Undecided 1
Appears to be available online here, but the site is blocked at work so I can't confirm at the moment.
21AndreasJ
>20 elenchus:
That appears to be a complete story, yes. The Dunsany story being referenced is "How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon the Gnoles", which we discussed back in Summer 2012.
That appears to be a complete story, yes. The Dunsany story being referenced is "How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon the Gnoles", which we discussed back in Summer 2012.
22housefulofpaper
>13 semdetenebre:
I didn't get to see the entire story using Amazon preview. The last paragraph as printed in Mrs Midnight and Other Stories begins "Today at Sotheby's".
>20 elenchus:
This story is collected in The Weird.
I didn't get to see the entire story using Amazon preview. The last paragraph as printed in Mrs Midnight and Other Stories begins "Today at Sotheby's".
>20 elenchus:
This story is collected in The Weird.
23paradoxosalpha
Vote: "Lean Times in Lankhmar" by Fritz Leiber (1959)
Current tally: Yes 10, No 1, Undecided 1
24paradoxosalpha
Nominations made this weekend still have a fine chance of making the list for fall. Voting ends Friday!
25AndreasJ
Almost forgot I said I'd nominate this:A prose poem, very short even by our standards, but, I think, interesting. Online e.g. at Wikisource.
Vote: "Memory" by H. P. Lovecraft (written 1919, published 1923)
Current tally: Yes 6, No 2, Undecided 1
26paradoxosalpha
Vote: "The Crimson Weaver" by R. Murray Gilchrist (1895)
Current tally: Yes 4, No 0, Undecided 1
A piece of decadence that vanished for over a century until it was collected at least three times since the millennium.
Available online.
Edited to add: Duplicate nomination; sorry about that. Go vote at >16 RandyStafford:
27elenchus
Vote: "Incident in Moderan" by David R. Bunch (1967)
Current tally: Yes 5, No 3, Undecided 1
Included in Dangerous Visions, no online versions found as yet.
30paradoxosalpha
Vote: "The Watcher by the Threshold" by John Buchan (1900)
Current tally: Yes 12, No 0
31semdetenebre
>27 elenchus:
A few years ago, a friend gave me a copy of Moderan, along with some other obscure titles. I never read it, but still have it somewhere. I shall begin excavation tonight.
A few years ago, a friend gave me a copy of Moderan, along with some other obscure titles. I never read it, but still have it somewhere. I shall begin excavation tonight.
32elenchus
>31 semdetenebre:
I've not read any Moderan story (that I recall), but the description puts me in mind of the film Tetsuo.
I've not read any Moderan story (that I recall), but the description puts me in mind of the film Tetsuo.
33paradoxosalpha
I'll tally votes tomorrow. Please get your voting done today.
34paradoxosalpha
I won't get to the count until this evening, sorry.
So there's still a little window left for voting.
So there's still a little window left for voting.
35elenchus
Both for new voters, and for others who may have skipped or missed individual nominations. (For whatever OCD reasons, it bothers me if I have not voted for each nomination so I like to go back and ensure my vote is cast.)
36semdetenebre
>34 paradoxosalpha:
No problem - the autumnal equinox isn't until tomorrow. :)
>35 elenchus:
And if you're a lurker at the threshold - please vote! You're not committing to anything, although I encourage you to join in on the discussions - even if it's just for a favorite story. Also, if you voted "undecided", you can still change your vote.
No problem - the autumnal equinox isn't until tomorrow. :)
>35 elenchus:
And if you're a lurker at the threshold - please vote! You're not committing to anything, although I encourage you to join in on the discussions - even if it's just for a favorite story. Also, if you voted "undecided", you can still change your vote.
