THE DEEP ONES: Spring 2021 Planning Thread
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1paradoxosalpha
This thread is for nominations and voting on stories for inclusion in the April-June reads in this group. Please feel free to draw on the ongoing brainstorming thread for nominations, but don't limit yourself to items discussed there. There is no further obligation--even to participate in the resulting discussion if a nomination is selected! It's perfectly okay to gamble on stories the nominator has never read, although also welcome for nominators to put up stories they've enjoyed and would like to revisit. In all these years, we've never been known to dog anyone for nominating a story where readers end up taking a dim view of it.
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 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.
A useful resource for general bibliography info including OPD and inclusion in collections is ISFDB.
You can see a sortable list of all previous discussions here. A persistent brainstorming thread is 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 Spring Equinox: Saturday, March 20.
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 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.
A useful resource for general bibliography info including OPD and inclusion in collections is ISFDB.
You can see a sortable list of all previous discussions here. A persistent brainstorming thread is 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 Spring Equinox: Saturday, March 20.
2AndreasJ
Vota: H. P. Lovecraft, "The Moon-Bog" (1926)
Recuento actual: Sí 8, No 0
3paradoxosalpha
Vota: "The Black Stone Statue" by Mary Elizabeth Counselman (1937)
Recuento actual: Sí 9, No 0
First published in Weird Tales and variously collected.
Online at https://archive.org/stream/wt_1937_12/wt_1937_12_djvu.txt
4paradoxosalpha
Vota: "A Garden of Blackred Roses" by Charles L. Grant (1980)
Recuento actual: Sí 7, No 1
5paradoxosalpha
Vota: "Tempting Providence" by Jonathan Thomas (2010)
Recuento actual: Sí 6, No 1
6semdetenebre
Vota: "Kecksies" by Marjorie Bowen (1925)
Recuento actual: Sí 6, No 1
7elenchus
Vota: "The Black Dog" by Stephen Crane
Recuento actual: Sí 9, No 0
https://loa-shared.s3.amazonaws.com/static/pdf/Crane_Black_Dog.pdf
8elenchus
Vota: "Let Loose" by Mary Cholmondley
Recuento actual: Sí 9, No 0
Cholmondley’s tale is that of a keenly naive academic releasing an ancient evil from its prison in an “exceedingly dank” ossuary crypt, the story slowly building to a chilling and brutal climax. Without knowing any better, based on these narrative elements, a reader would likely assume the story owes a huge debt to the eerie work of MR James. Yet, as Edmundson reminds us, ‘Let Loose’ was first published in 1890, fourteen years before James’ Ghost Stories of an Antiquary.
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605331h.html
9semdetenebre
Vota: "The Gods of Bal-Sagoth" by Robert E. Howard (1931)
Recuento actual: Sí 7, No 1
Much anthologized and found online at http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0608081.txt
10semdetenebre
Vota: "The Black Tome of Alsophocus" by H.P. Lovecraft and Martin S. Warnes (1969)
Recuento actual: Sí 4, No 1, Sin decidir 2
11RandyStafford
Vota: "The Happy Children", Arthur Machen (1920)
Recuento actual: Sí 7, No 2
12RandyStafford
Vota: "The Feather Pillow", Horacio Quiroga (1907).
Recuento actual: Sí 7, No 0, Sin decidir 1
English translation available at https://blogicarian.blogspot.com/2012/02/translation-feather-pillow-by-horacio.h... though I can't speak to the quality of it.
13AndreasJ
Vota: Dennis Etchison, "It Only Comes Out at Night" (1967)
Recuento actual: Sí 6, No 0, Sin decidir 1
14AndreasJ
Vota: Gahan Wilson, "The Sea was Wet as Wet can be" (1967)
Recuento actual: Sí 7, No 1
15semdetenebre
Vota: "The Most Beautiful Dead Woman in the World" by Darryl Schweitzer (2003)
Recuento actual: Sí 4, No 2, Sin decidir 2
16paradoxosalpha
Reminder: I'll be tallying these votes on Saturday.
17elenchus
Vota: "The Meat Garden" by Craig Padawer (1996)
Recuento actual: Sí 5, No 0
A quick internet search didn't find any other places to read, either online or in a book anthology. Originally published in Conjunctions number 26.