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To: WXRGina

Me too. I’ve always enjoyed the scary stuff.


24 posted on 10/02/2011 5:42:18 PM PDT by steelyourfaith (If it's "green" ... it's crap !!!)
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To: steelyourfaith
Me too. I’ve always enjoyed the scary stuff.

SteelYourFaith, since I assume you're a reader, this may interest you. I much prefer creepy written stories to pictures. It is just a coincidence that yesterday I picked up a compilation of "scary" short stories that I have in my collection to re-read one story in particular.

The compilation was done by Marvin Kaye. The title is Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural from 1985. This guy collects stuff from the Victorian era through the 1980s, but there is one story in particular that haunts me like no other story I have ever read. It is a short story by Robert Aickman (1914--1980) called The Hospice.

I would be very interested (if you ever cared to) in your finding a copy of either the compilation book or the story itself, reading it, and then giving me your opinion of it (I would gladly send you my copy, if you were interested). It is a story that needs at least two readings to absorb the strange hints and subtleties. I have read it, probably, four or more times. Haunting is the best description that I can give of it, as does Marvin Kaye in his short introduction to the story.

I have a couple of Kaye's compilations. He's good at collecting the chilling stories. I really like the ones from the 1800s. Just a thought, SteelYourFaith.

28 posted on 10/02/2011 7:26:47 PM PDT by WXRGina
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