THE DEEP ONES: Winter 2022 Discussion Schedule

5-Jan "The Spectre Bridegroom" by Washington Irving (1819)
12-Jan "The Crab Spider" by Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian (1860)
19-Jan "Dionea" by Vernon Lee (1890)
26-Jan "When the Green Star Waned" by Nictzin Dyalhis (1925)
2-Feb "A View from a Hill" by M. R. James (1925)
9-Feb "The Planet of the Dead" by Clark Ashton Smith (1932)
16-Feb "Lorelei of the Red Mist" by Leigh Brackett and Ray Bradbury (1946)
23-Feb "The Grey God Passes" by Robert E. Howard (1962)
2-Mar "The Enemy" by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1980)
9-Mar "The End of the Garden" by Michal Ajvaz (1991)
16-Mar "The Cage" by Jeff VanderMeer (2002)
23-Mar "After Moreau" by Jeffrey Ford (2008)
30-Mar "Clockatrice" by Tanith Lee (2009)

Although we only had 4 nominators (a new low?) we still had sufficient nominations to make voting worthwhile. There were at least 11 selectors. Although the 19th century is well represented, the top vote-getters were "New Weird" bannermen Ford and VanderMeer. The cutoff was net 7 votes.

I voted but dropped my nominator role this quarter, which is indicative of my 2021 reading struggles generally. I'm pleased with the resulting reading schedule, though!

Cheers as always for keeping the gears turning, paradoxosalpha.

Cheers seconded.

A bit surprised to see “Herbert West” not make it, HPL nominations tend to be safe. Maybe I’ll re(!)-nominate it in a season or two.

New authors for me would be Dyalhis, Singer, Ajvaz, and, as far as fiction is concerned, VanderMeer.

Three Interwar stories this time. If one did the math, I suspect one’d find that the proportion of such stories has been trending downwards over the decade(!) we’ve been at this.

Thanks and cheers from me as well.

"Herbert West" is quite a long one, maybe that counted against it.

I think I've read a Nictin Dyalhis in an anthology. Jeff Vandermeer and Michal Ajvaz are the new authors for me.

1> Thanks for taking chair of our electoral matters again.

I hope we can get the number of nominators up next quarter.

Thanks, paradoxosalpha! Intriguing list. I've only read the Irving and James stories. I just received the new Kino Lorber blu-ray of THE LONG GOODBYE (1973), with Elliott Gould as my favorite cinematic Philip Marlowe - and with a screenplay by Leigh Brackett.

Yes, Brackett handed off the incomplete "Lorelei of the Red Mist" to Ray Bradbury so she could take the screenwriting gig for The Big Sleep!