THE DEEP ONES: Summer 2022 Planning Thread
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1paradoxosalpha
This thread is for nominations and voting on stories for inclusion in the July-September 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. Here is an example (from a previous thread):
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. The 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 Summer Solstice: Tuesday, June 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 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. Here is an example (from a previous thread):
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. The 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 Summer Solstice: Tuesday, June 21.
2paradoxosalpha
Vota: "The Interloper" by Ramsey Campbell (1973)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 5, No 1, Incerto 1
3paradoxosalpha
Vota: "The Aleph" by Jorge Luis Borges (1954)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 10, No 1
4AndreasJ
Vota: H.P. Lovecraft, "The Statement of Randolph Carter" (1920)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 9, No 0
Online in sundry places, incl Wikisource.
5AndreasJ
Vota: Ambrose Bierce, "The Death of Halpin Frayser" (1891)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 8, No 0
Online at Wikisource and undoubtedly elsewhere.
6semdetenebre
Vota: "Dracula's Guest" by Bram Stoker (1897)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 6, No 1, Incerto 1
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10150/10150-h/10150-h.htm
7semdetenebre
Vota: "Man-Size in Marble: by E. Nesbit (1887)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 9, No 0
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Grim_Tales/Man-size_in_Marble
8semdetenebre
Vota: "Morag-of-the-Cave" by Margery Lawrence (1925)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 7, No 0
https://pseudopod.org/2021/01/08/pseudopod-739-morag-of-the-cave/
9RandyStafford
Vota: "The Horror from the Mound" by Robert E. Howard (1932)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 6, No 2
10AndreasJ
Vota: Joan Aiken, "Cold Flame" (1969)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 7, No 2
Online here.
11AndreasJ
Vota: Lord Dunsany, "Bethmoora" (1908)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 9, No 0
Online here (scroll down).
12AndreasJ
Vota: Lafcadio Hearn, "The Dream of Akinosuke" (1904)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 10, No 0, Incerto 1
Online in the Gutenberg edition of Kwaidan.
13paradoxosalpha
Vota: "A Vintage from Atlantis" by Clark Ashton Smith (1933)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 7, No 1, Incerto 1
14paradoxosalpha
Vota: "Violence, Child of Trust" by Michael Cisco (2010)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 6, No 0, Incerto 1
15paradoxosalpha
Vota: "The Devil in Manuscript" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1835)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 8, No 0
16paradoxosalpha
Vota: "The Tenants of Broussac" by Seabury Quinn (1925)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 6, No 1, Incerto 1
17paradoxosalpha
>5 AndreasJ:
housefulofpaper writes: "Have we skipped over this one because no one really knows for certain what happens in it? (We can lean on M.Grant Kellermeyer's essay on his Oldstyle Tales Press website now!)" (Bibliography here, and doubtless available online.)
housefulofpaper writes: "Have we skipped over this one because no one really knows for certain what happens in it? (We can lean on M.Grant Kellermeyer's essay on his Oldstyle Tales Press website now!)" (Bibliography here, and doubtless available online.)
18paradoxosalpha
Vota: "The Return of the Lloigor" by Colin Wilson (1969)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 5, No 1, Incerto 1
19AndreasJ
>17 paradoxosalpha:
Funnily enough, I already nominated Halpin Frayser in >5 AndreasJ:.
I'm pleased to see, BTW, that the number of nominations is up again.
Funnily enough, I already nominated Halpin Frayser in >5 AndreasJ:.
I'm pleased to see, BTW, that the number of nominations is up again.
21paradoxosalpha
I added a bunch of nominations last night so that people would have a couple of weekdays and a full weekend to vote before the deadline. I'm encouraged by the response to the Cisco story so far. It would be nice to know that Black Wings of Cthulhu has the sort of availability to and interest among the group we've established in the past for New Cthulhu and The Weird.
22semdetenebre
Vota: "The Lake" by Ray Bradbury (1944)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 6, No 1
23semdetenebre
Vota: "Commencement" by Joyce Carol Oates (2001)
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 3, No 2, Incerto 1
24housefulofpaper
Thanks paradoxsalpha for plucking my suggestions of out limbo.
25papijoe
Vota: “The Walker in the Night” by Jason C. Eckhardt (2018) From Black Wings of Cthulhu V, Eckhardt grew up in Providence, and has a New Englander’s fearful reverence for the unnamed hurricane of 1938 which is the setting of this story. Told with historical authenticity and affectionate detail of character for personalities that likely no longer exist. One of the best tributes I’ve read of HPL.
Corrispondenza attuale: Sì 4, No 0, Incerto 1