Gaslight Digest Monday, October 26 1998 Volume 01 : Number 011 In this issue: Re: The Case of Mr. Lucraft Re: The Case of Mr. Lucraft Re: The Case of Mr. Lucraft Apologies Re: Mount Auburn Cemetery Chat: Re: Apologies Re: Mount Auburn Cemetery Question re:Doyle stories Today in History - Oct. 23 George Patton, Poet? Re: Mount Auburn Cemetery FWD: A Blackwood list scribbles Re: Question re:Doyle stories Re: Question re:Doyle stories Re: Question re:Doyle stories more about Charles Augustus Howell ... Re: Milverton/Howell RE: more about Charles Augustus Howell ... Re: Milverton/Howell Lincoln's doctors Re: Lincoln's doctors Re: Re: Lincoln's doctors question from another list Alien Voices Re: Alien Voices New Story Re: Victorian Crime Conference Re: Old movie Etext avail: Charles E. Van Loan's "Tales of the Midnight Club" Re: Hallowe'en Symbol Today in History - Oct. 26 Re: Hallowe'en Symbol Chat: Hallowe'en Symbol Re: Hallowe'en Symbol ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 18:57:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Kujen(at)aol.com Subject: Re: The Case of Mr. Lucraft
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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 18:57:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Kujen(at)aol.com Subject: Re: The Case of Mr. Lucraft
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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 18:56:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Kujen(at)aol.com Subject: Re: The Case of Mr. Lucraft
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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 19:03:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Kujen(at)aol.com Subject: Apologies Apologies to all the Gassers. I don't know what happened.
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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:15:00 -0500 From: Brian McMillan <brianbks(at)netins.net> Subject: Re: Mount Auburn Cemetery Kevin J. Clement wrote: > If you're scared/interested by HPL's ghouls, try to find any of Clark > Ashton Smith's ghoul stories. Necronomicon Press has recently put out > nice editions of his Zothique & Hyperborea stories for a good price. > ($12 or so is far less than trying to find an old Arkham House book or a > Weird Tales) Brian McNaughton's Throne of Bones is another collection of > similar stories. Thanks Kevin. I'll keep an eye open for McNaughton's work, which I hadn't heard of. Zothique & Hyperborea were also, of course, printed in paperback as part of the excellent Ballantine Adult Fantasy series; I've sold both copies of Zothique that I've found (and recommend) & haven't ever found Hyperborea. Brian McMillan brianbks(at)netins.net
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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:27:48 -0600
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Chat: Re: Apologies
I just figured you didn't have a lot to say about the story. &8-{)
(smiling gently in memory of my own past glitches)
Jerry
gmc(at)libra.pvh.org
>>> <Kujen(at)aol.com> 10/22 5:03 PM >>>
Apologies to all the Gassers. I don't know what happened.
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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:38:36 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com> Subject: Re: Mount Auburn Cemetery > & haven't ever found Hyperborea. Had these ages ago. All I remember of Hyperborea was creeping snow and creeping snow demons. Chaosium is also bringing out a lot of these old stories (and more) now as well. Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 10:20:25 -0700 From: Patricia Teter <PTeter(at)getty.edu> Subject: Question re:Doyle stories Questions regarding Doyle's non-Holmes stories: I know Gaslight has several stories by Doyle, Ring of Troth, The Lost Special, The Horror of the Heights, and Lot No. 249 available on the Gaslight website. Are there any Doyle stories residing on Gaslight which are not yet available on the website? Is anyone aware of a complete list of Doyle's non-Holmes short stories? Many thanks, Patricia Patricia A. Teter PTeter(at)Getty.edu
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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 11:44:48 -0600
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Today in History - Oct. 23
1861
President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus
in Washington, D.C.
for all military-related cases.
1918
President Wilson feels satisfied that the Germans are
accepting his armistice terms and
agrees to transmit their request for an armistice to the
Allies. The Germans have agreed
to suspend submarine warfare, cease inhumane practices such
as the use of poison gas,
and withdraw troops back into Germany.
Born on October 23
1869
John Heisman, American college football coach from 1892 to
1927 who had a trophy
for best college player named after him
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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 14:22:49 -0400 From: "James E. Kearman" <jkearman(at)javanet.com> Subject: George Patton, Poet? The roar of the battle languished The hate from the guns grew still, While the moon rose up from a smoke cloud And looked at the dead on the hill. George S. Patton, Jr. - "The Moon and the Dead" I found this bit of verse at http://members.aol.com/atominfo/death.htm I assume it dates from WW1. Is Patton's verse collected anywhere? Cheers, Jim ------------------------------------------------------------- James E. Kearman mailto:jkearman(at)iname.com
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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 14:16:42 -0400 From: "Kevin J. Clement" <clementk(at)alink.com> Subject: Re: Mount Auburn Cemetery At 08:38 AM 10/23/98 -0700, you wrote: >> & haven't ever found Hyperborea. > >Had these ages ago. All I remember of Hyperborea was creeping snow and >creeping snow demons. Chaosium is also bringing out a lot of these old >stories (and more) now as well. > >Deborah > > >Deborah McMillion >deborah(at)gloaming.com >http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html In case you're interested in Chaosium's upcoming fiction: (I've found a good way to get cheap versions of hard to find stories plus I can get them through my local comic shop as soon as they're released with no shipping worries) http://www.chaosium.com/wizards-attic/coming-soon.shtml Looks like they'll be coming out with an edition of Chamber's Weird Fiction called The Yellow Sign & Other Tales in January, 1999 with stories from The King in Yellow, The Maker of Moons, The Mystery of Choice, The Tree of Heaven, and Police They're also planning a two book Arthur Machen collection as well. from http://www.chaosium.com/cthulhu/fiction/6023.shtml Kevin Clement clementk(at)alink.com
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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 12:59:41 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: FWD: A Blackwood list
Neither Sue nor I can post this message to the Gaslight list without it
bouncing back from the new, censorious mail server. I shall attempt to
trick it by disguising the word "sub scribe".
Stephen
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 21:48:15 +0100
From: "Susan O'Brien" <sue(at)sjob.demon.co.uk>
Subject: A Blackwood list
I have just started a mailing list to talk about the works and life of
Algernon Blackwood.
To subscribble to the list, go to
http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/Blackwood
I look forward to hearing from you !
- --
Sue O'Brien
sue(at)sjob.demon.co.uk
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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 15:17:06 -0400 From: Linda Anderson <lpa1(at)ptdprolog.net> Subject: scribbles Stephen: I think that you and Sue had more tribbles with her address than the scribbles: sue(at)sjob.demon.co.uk Them "demon"'s will get ya if ya don't look out! Linda Anderson
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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 13:15:58 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Re: Question re:Doyle stories
To answer Patricia T.:
in addition to "Ring of Thoth", "The Lost Special", "The Horror of the
Heights", and "Lot No. 249", Gaslight has offered plain ASCII versions of
several Gerard stories, and "A foreign office romance" (perhaps I have not
announced this one, nor linked it on the website, but it is Patricia's own
etext), "The leather funnel", and "The bloodstone tragedy" (which was
temporarily loaned to Gaslight by the Rodens).
There is an incomplete novel, _A desert drama: the tragedy of the
Korosko_, and some non-fiction: "My first book" and "Through the magic
door".
Most of these items can be added to the web ahead of other projects,
if reader interest decrees it.
Stephen
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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 18:14:30 -0500 From: smdawes(at)home.com Subject: Re: Question re:Doyle stories I believe I've got a book of Doyle's non-Holmes short stories; I'll look for it and post a list. Marta Patricia Teter wrote: > > Questions regarding Doyle's non-Holmes stories: > > I know Gaslight has several stories by Doyle, Ring of Troth, > The Lost Special, The Horror of the Heights, and Lot No. > 249 available on the Gaslight website. Are there any Doyle > stories residing on Gaslight which are not yet available on the > website? > > Is anyone aware of a complete list of Doyle's non-Holmes short > stories? > > Many thanks, > Patricia > > Patricia A. Teter > PTeter(at)Getty.edu
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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 13:05:54 -0700 From: Patricia Teter <PTeter(at)getty.edu> Subject: Re: Question re:Doyle stories Thanks to Stephen for reminding Patricia T. that she is losing her mind. Foreign Office Romance....oh, yea... I remember that! Guess the Brigadier Gerard stories slipped my mind as well..... The Bloodstone Tragedy is no longer available? Does anyone know where this story was first printed? or reprinted? Someday it would be interesting to discuss Korosko, along with a history lesson, of course. James R., this story would fit into your Imperialism story group; have you read it? The story goes well alongside a nice gin and tonic with a twist of lime. salute, Patricia Patricia A. Teter PTeter(at)Getty.edu
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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 23:20:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Peter E. Blau" <pblau(at)dgs.dgsys.com>
Subject: more about Charles Augustus Howell ...
With regard to the discussion of Charles Augustus Howell, and for the
benefit of newcomers, I'm happy to repeat an old posting [#9776, from
1996]:
If you would like to know more about this infamous blackmailer (who surely
served as inspiration for the character of Charles Augustus Milverton, who
was described as "the worst man in London" in the Sherlock Holmes story), I
am happy to recommend BELLADONNA: A LEWIS CARROLL NIGHTMARE, by Donald
Thomas (London: Macmillan, 1983), reprinted as MAD HATTER SUMMER (New York:
Viking, 1983). The novel is based on fact, and delightful.
And Conan Doyle would have known about Howell, who was the subject of an
article by "Sigma" [Julian Osgood Field] in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine,
Sept. 1903, pp. 301-318 ("Charles Augustus Milverton" was published in The
Strand Magazine in Apr. 1904). More recently, there are: PRE-RAPHAELITE
TWILIGHT: THE STORY OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS HOWELL, by Helen Rossetti Angeli
(London: Richards Press, 1954), with a facsimile edition (St. Clair Shores:
Scholarly Press, 1971); and THE OWL AND THE ROSSETTIS, edited by C. L. Cline
(University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1978). Plus THE
FOULEST SOUL THAT LIVED, an uncompleted manuscript by Violet Hunt, held in
the Cornell Library.
Violet Hunt's title is from a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne, written on
the death of Howell on Apr. 24, 1890:
The foulest soul that lived stinks here no more.
The stench of Hell is fouler than before!
Howell, like Milverton, was murdered, and deservedly unmourned . . .
|| Peter E. Blau <pblau(at)dgs.dgsys.com> ||
|| 3900 Tunlaw Road NW #119 ||
|| Washington, DC 20007-4830 ||
|| (202-338-1808) ||
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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 08:36:24 -0500 From: Brian McMillan <brianbks(at)netins.net> Subject: Re: Milverton/Howell Deborah McMillion Nering wrote > > To be fair, Howell was authorized by both Rossetti and legal authorities to > resurrect Elizabeth Siddal Rossetti in order to retrieve Rossetti's poems. > It was also largely due to Howell that Rossetti likely finished the > exquisite portrait of Siddal as Beata Beatrix. That he later forged and > stold Rossetti's work is another thing. That he later became a blackmailer > is also another thing. The fact is, Rossetti wanted the poems and Howell > was the only one whom he could trust to retrieve them. Also to be fair, > Howell was extremely discreet in terms of the state of the body and used > great tact to assuage Rossetti's feelings (i.e. he didn't write a > sensationalized account of it for the press). "Much secret preperation took place in which he [Rosetti] enlisted the help of a young man called Howell who, as well as being Ruskin's secretary, had a talent for conspiracy. Through Howell, Rosetti obtained the Home Secretary's permission for an exhumation, and on a night early in October 1869 'the ghastly business' as Rosetti called it was carried out. The deed was done by the light of lanterns and the warmth of a small bonfire watched by Howell, a solicitor and a Camberwell doctor. The receipted bill for two guineas for the workmen is still in existence..." From HIGHGATE CEMETARY-VICTORIAN VALHALLA, Introduction by Felix Barker. Sounds like Howell was well connected. And he probably wasn't just thinking of Rosetti's feelings when he was being discreet. Brian McM. brianbks(at)netins.net
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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 09:35:43 -0500 From: Mattingly Conner <muse(at)iland.net> Subject: RE: more about Charles Augustus Howell ... Thanks, Peter, for the generous info on Howell. While looking for them on http://www.amazon.com, I came across this: Dream Weavers : Short Stories by the Pre-Raphaelite Poet-Painters by John Weeks (Editor) Paperback (January 1979) Woodbridge Pr Pub; ISBN: 0912800739 "First-ever anthology of short stories by the Pre-Raphaelite poet/painters: William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne Jones , and more. Masterful fantasy. Edited and with an introduction by John Weeks." Sure to have 'Hand & Soul' in it, that quiet little manifesto/revolution of Renaissance philosophy popping up at the needed time -- a huge influence on BJ & Morris, reprinted in Yellow Book in '96 to continue to influence the visionary artist (Yeats and the 'Last Romantics' ripening in an atmosphere of 'all things Pre-Raphaelite'). Symbolically, Dorian Gray is almost an inversion of this story. Clever Oscar. Maybe the moral is an artist can only paint his own soul... By my soul, D.Mattingly Conner muse(at)iland.net http://www.iland.net/~muse In the floods of life, in the storm of work...
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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 08:46:59 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com> Subject: Re: Milverton/Howell >"Much secret preperation took place in which he [Rosetti] enlisted the help Much of this was kept secret not necessarily for the press but to prevent his famil, especially his mother, from knowing. He didn't want his mother to be distressed because in order to dig Lizzie up he also had to disturb the grave of his father. If you've ever seen the Rossetti's grave in Highgate it is a small plot that I can only assume the coffins were stacked in deep underground. At the time of Lizzie's exhumation only Gabriele Rossetti, the father, was buried, but later Christina, their mother, and a nephew later joined them. Not Rossetti himself (who wished to be buried no where near Lizzie). >was done by the light of lanterns and the warmth of a small bonfire watched The bonfire was thought to "sterilize" any unsafe gasses from the grave. >Sounds like Howell was well connected. And he probably wasn't just >thinking of Rosetti's feelings when he was being discreet Again, in some sad defense of Howell the paperwork was done by Howell but for Rossetti and it really wasn't that hard to have done. After all, Rossetti was justified by the retrieval of the book. Howell was discreet in his description of Lizzie's physical state to Rossetti, describing her as still perfect when after 7 years we know she couldn't have been, and that her hair filled the coffin. That he was also discreet to the public shows some common sense since it might have queered the prices on Rossetti's art work which Howell also depended on. He never left a written record as to the true state of affairs that night for posterity either. There is a marvelous illustration of Howell and one of his lovers forging work by Rossetti, Howell keeping watch on the door, by Max Beerbohm in ROSSETTI AND HIS CIRCLE. Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 16:27:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Lincoln's doctors
The Discovery Channel?s "Forensic Detectives" is sometimes a hard show to
watch, since it deals at times with corpses, and shows footage of
autopsies?which
to the squeamish is likely to produce a turned stomach. Nonetheless, the
show
is an excellent presentation of how forensic science has made catching
criminals
into a fine art.
An episode of today?s program investigated an old crime, the assassination
of
Abraham Lincoln. The general consensus of the doctors and firearms
experts
who gathered to discuss the issue was that Lincoln could have survived but
that
the action of his doctors almost assured that he would not.
Part of the problem was the doctors? lack of expertise with bullet wounds.
The
first doctor to examine Lincoln--at Ford?s Theatre--was a young man just
out of
medical school, Charles Leal. Dr. Leal tried to probe the wound with his
finger
to discover how deep the bullet had gone into the brain. The show?s
experiments
(on a pig carcass) with the type of gun Booth used to kill the President
showed
that the hole was actually too small to let in the finger beyond the tip.
But, though
this kind of probing was considered good medical practice at the time, it
could
only have harmed the President had Leal been successful. The one
contribution
Leal did make was to perform artificial respiration on the President.
This was a
new technique at the time, and the show?s experts agreed that without it
Lincoln
would have died in the box at Ford?s.
Unfortunately, once Lincoln was moved across the street, he fell under the
care
of the Surgeon General and his own personal physician, Dr. Stone. The
first was a
"medical bureaucrat" who hadn?t touched a patient in years; the second had
very
limited experience with bullet wounds. The Surgeon General, falling back
on an
old practice, introduced a metal probe into the brain, pushing it from the
back of the
President?s head nearly to his eyes, creating considerable damage in the
process. This
was definitely not standard medical practice in the 1860s. The bullet did
not have
to be removed for Lincoln to survive, but the Surgeon General and Stone
did not know
this. However, the weight of influence of the two doctors was such that
other doctors
deferred to them--a case of status overcoming good sense. After the probe
the Surgeon
General, pronounced that Lincoln could not recover. Even at that point,
this wasn?t
true, but the doctors continued making matters worse until finally Lincoln
expired.
The prognosis for recoving would have been much better, the show?s experts
agreed,
if the doctors had simply done nothing.
If Lincoln had recovered, he would have been blind, deaf, and unable to
speak--an
unfortunate outcome indeed. But apparently, in their attempts to save
him, his doctors
were guided by what the show?s experts called "the famous person
syndrome." One
expert, a doctor, remarked that the famous and the very wealthy are often
the victims of poor
medical advice and practice because who and what they are affects a
doctor?s perception
of them and what is need to cure them.
Lincoln, it seems, was as much a victim of his physicians as he was of
John Wilkes Booth.
Bob Champ (who has been off list because of computer problems. Now that I
have a new
hard drive, I hope to continue my regular contributions.)
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rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu
Editor, teacher, anglophile, human curiosity
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little
song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and,
if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable
words."
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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 16:46:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Zozie(at)aol.com Subject: Re: Lincoln's doctors Yay! Gret to see you back on the list... even with a grisly story. Wasn't that also what happened to McKinley? He died, ultimately, of septecemia introduced by doctors fishing around in his wound with their fingers. The "famous person syndrome indeed." best phoebe
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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 17:22:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Kujen(at)aol.com Subject: Re: Re: Lincoln's doctors How about George Washington? One young doctor wanted to perform a tracheotomy but the senior physicians said no, so Washington just died unable to breathe.
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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 17:58:30 -0400 From: Linda Anderson <lpa1(at)ptdprolog.net> Subject: question from another list I know we did some Doyle Challenger stuff. This gentleman has another question: >Reply-To: "The_Baker_Street_E-regulars"<bakerstreet(at)UserHome.com> > >I know this is off-topic, but I would like to know if anybody out there has >any information on any Professor Challenger pastiches. The only one I know >about is "Sherlock Holmes' War of the Worlds" by Wade Wellman and Manly Wade >Wellman in which SH and GEC team up to fight the Martian invasion. > >Sincerely, >Joe Thoms > any takers? Linda Anderson who is very, very! happy to see Bob Champ typing to the world once more!
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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 19:31:56 -0400 From: JDS Books <jdsbooks(at)ameritech.net> Subject: Alien Voices There is an occasional show on the SF Channel, "Alien Voices" in which radio plays of famous stories are taped live. The Halloween show, to be broadcast Sunday at 9:00PM will present three tales of galight interest, Poe's "The Cast of Amontillado", Kipling's "Mark of the Beast", and Oscar Wilde's "The Canterville Ghost". John Squires
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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 20:28:47 -0400 From: Linda Anderson <lpa1(at)ptdprolog.net> Subject: Re: Alien Voices In our TV Guide, the only named annunciated show is the one at 9 pm with Leonard Nimoy and John DeLancie in the "Cask of Amontillado". John is "Q" on the series "Star Trek the Next Generation". And my favorite actor of all time behind Christopher Plummer (who should have been in there somewhere....) Linda Anderson At 07:31 PM 10/24/1998 -0400, you wrote: > >There is an occasional show on the SF Channel, "Alien Voices" >in which radio plays of famous stories are taped live. The Halloween >show, to be broadcast Sunday at 9:00PM will present three tales >of galight interest, Poe's "The Cast of Amontillado", Kipling's >"Mark of the Beast", and Oscar Wilde's "The Canterville Ghost". > >John Squires > > > > >
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Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 21:43:39 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com> Subject: New Story I am all ready for the new story! I'm sure we're all in anticipation for a ghost story this week. We have done "This is my favorite Ghost Story" plenty of times on Gaslight and perhaps it gets into that 100 BEST FILMS thing, i.e. In My Opinion (the only one that counts) classification. How about something simpler to celebrate Hallowe'en--as in, what's your favorite Hallowe'en symbol? Or something else? Suggestions. Deborah (This is also a test message to see if Bob C. is getting his mail from Gaslight properly) Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 14:44:19 +0000 (GMT) From: "P Sharpe, Department of Historical Studies" <Pam.Sharpe(at)bristol.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Victorian Crime Conference WOMEN, WORK AND WELFARE IN TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITAIN The ninth annual workshop of the Women's Committee of the Economic History Society Saturday 14th November 1998 Institute of Historical Research, London Papers and discussion will cover the themes of variations in full and part time paid work across time and space; gender, careers and work; women, health and social policy, including issues relating to the early National Health Service, smoking as a gender issue, the work of Eleanor Rathbone and feminist economics. Speakers include: Susan Pedersen, Catherine Hakim, Tim Hatton, Mike Savage, Virginia Berridge, Kelly Loughlin, Hera Cook Chairs/Commentators include: Pat Thane, Anne Digby, Pat Hudson Organiser: Pat Hudson (on behalf of the Women's Committee of the Economic History Society) Address: School of History and Archaeology, University of Wales - Cardiff, Cardiff, CF1 3XU email: hudsonp(at)cardiff.ac.uk Places are limited - book as soon as possible ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pam Sharpe, Department of Historical Studies University of Bristol, 13-15 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1TB Tel +44 117 928 8394, Fax +44 117 928 8276 Pam.Sharpe(at)bristol.ac.uk
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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 12:18:13 -0500
From: JDS Books <jdsbooks(at)ameritech.net>
Subject: Re: Old movie
Last year there was a brief off topic discussion of "Curse
of the Demon", the movie based on M. R. James' "The
Casting of the Runes". This film is scheduled to be
broadcast on AMC Thursday, Oct. 29 at 10:00 pm
[Eastern time] as part of AMC's Halloween film "Monsterfest".
Pop quiz: Which H. R. Wakefield story is most like
"The Casting of the Runes"?
Extra credit: Which artist associated with "Weird Tales"
illustrated the story for August Derleth?
John Squires
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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 10:57:46 -0700
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Etext avail: Charles E. Van Loan's "Tales of the Midnight Club"
(MIDNIGHT.HTM) (Fiction, Chronos, Scheds)
Charles E. Van Loan's "Tales of the Midnight Club" (1904)
midnight.sht
Here's next week's story for discussion, Charles E. Van Loan's
"Tales of the Midnight Club" (1904). This is the initial entry in
what was to become a series
for Van Loan when he wrote for the _Los Angeles Examiner_, and before
he bacame a
full-time author and screenwriter.
Thanks to Bob Birchard for sending it along.
It is now available on the website and as an ASCII etext
thru FTPmail.
To retrieve the plain ASCII file,
send to: ftpmail(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
with no subject heading and completely in lowercase:
open aftp.mtroyal.ab.ca
cd /gaslight
get midnight.sht
or visit the Gaslight website at:
http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/buckmenu.htm
The reading for this week, which is already upon us, will be H.P.
Lovecraft's "Supernatural horror in
literature", an essay last revised in 1937. This will make its
appearance shortly, but we can begin
discussing it right away.
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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 10:02:08 -0800 From: Patricia Teter <PTeter(at)getty.edu> Subject: Re: Hallowe'en Symbol Deborah McM-N. writes: <<How about something simpler to celebrate Hallowe'en--as in, what's your favorite Hallowe'en symbol? >> I am a pumpkin fanatic. Any color: orange, white, the French red pumpkins...small, large, funny shaped...any and all pumpkins! The minute I see a pumpkin it puts a smile on my face; autumn has arrived, the leaves are turning, a nip is in the air, the smell of burning wood wafts through the countryside. Along with all this, the pumpkin is the best Halloween symbol -- the jack-o- lantern. (Other squash and turnips are used as well in different locations, but the pumpkin tops them all!) Throughout October and November I can't resist pumpkins for cooking as well. Pumpkin cookies, cakes, baked custards inside pumpkins, pies and soups. in the Halloween spirit, Patricia
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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:41:04 -0700
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Today in History - Oct. 26
1825
The first boat on the Erie Canal leaves Buffalo, N.Y.
1881
Three Earp brothers and Doc Holliday get the best of the
Clantons and McLaurys in the
so-called Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona
Territory.
1905
Norway signs a treaty of separation with Sweden. Norway chooses
Prince Charles of
Denmark as the new king; he becomes King Haakon VII.
1918
Germany's supreme commander, General Erich Ludendorff, resigns,
protesting the terms to
which the German Government has agreed in negotiating the
armistice. This sets the stage
for his later support for Hitler and the Nazis, who claim that
Germany did not lose the war
on the battlefield but were "stabbed in the back" by
politicians.
Born on October 26
1800
Count Helmuth Karl Von Moltke, a Prussian Field Marshal, whose
reorganization of the
Prussian Army lead to military victories which allowed the
unification of Germany.
1879
Leon Trotsky, a leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.
1916
French leader Francois Mitterrand.
1919
Mohammed Riza Pahlevi, the Shah of Iran who was overthrown in
1979 and died in the
United States
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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 13:57:06 -0500 From: "Richard L. King" <rking(at)INDIAN.VINU.EDU> Subject: Re: Hallowe'en Symbol Halloween symbols, eh? Well, of course the pumpkin comes immediately to mind, but I would have to say fire is the major autumn symbol for me. Saturday night we had one of those near-perfect evenings with a big bonfire, bourbon and covered dishes on the tailgate of my pickup truck, and friends over on an evening crisp and dark enough to make the fire compelling, and...live music! It was an Irish night (my wife belongs to a session group--several musicians showed up) and darn if those strange fiddle and whistle tunes dancing in the firelight didn't conjure up some deeply-buried segment of my genetic code as we gathered close to the fire under occasional shooting stars. Something inside realized the vegetation is dying, the time for winter's sleep is upon us, the uncountable centuries of our ancestors still live somewhere within us...the seasons, the solstices still happen with a regularity whether our modern age recognizes them or not. After our guests left, we put our daughter to bed and the two of us sat up watching the embers burn low until about 1, the music of the evening still in our thoughts as we bade goodnight to the Goddess. Richard King rking(at)indian.vinu.edu
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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 12:06:53 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com> Subject: Chat: Hallowe'en Symbol >I am a pumpkin fanatic. You should be pretty happy this season, Patricia, for some reason a number of pumpkin books abound. Ranging from just weird faces on pumpkins, to cookbooks of just pumpkins to even Hallowe'en food cookbooks with a lot pumpkin. Even Victoria magazine's OCTOBER issue had a number of wonderful pumpkin things. I like the jackolantern, too. (Though the ghost is really my favorite IMAGE). I have a wonderful book called HALLOWE'EN IN AMERICA that is really a collector's guide to Hallowe'en collectibles, primarily from this century. It really has one of the best histories of Hallowe'en in this country (with a lot of surprises) I've ever read. But even better are the old time cards with jacko'lanterns with entirely different kinds of faces than we're used to anymore. Last year we did several Jacko'lanterns from ghoulish, to Jack Skeleton faces on white pumpkins, to rather pretty ones. But the favorite was the old time face we did with the round eyes and the roundier mouth. It's really different but spooky in a decided old-fashioned way. If you're short of ideas I highly recommend this book for something closer to Gaslight era. Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 14:19:13 -0500 (EST) From: TFox434690(at)aol.com Subject: Re: Hallowe'en Symbol << Halloween symbols, eh? >> Those of us from Texas do not often have the opportunity to smell a nice fire, at least in October so I cannot join in having that symbolize Halloween for me. I would have to cast my vote for a skeleton. I like two colors, black or white and when I see one hanging from a tree or a front door it takes me back to my childhood when such symbols seemed to matter a great deal more. Tom Fox
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