tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106928.post6421345409208735517..comments2024-02-29T02:37:34.896-06:00Comments on Ivebeenreadinglately: "It was only during the age of candlelight that the race of ghosts really flourished," or, Edmund Wilson as uncanny anthologistLevi Stahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11094919454842047688noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106928.post-69302215774841851282011-09-01T06:37:01.542-05:002011-09-01T06:37:01.542-05:00Mr. Stahl, you should try the great belgian author...Mr. Stahl, you should try the great belgian author Jean Ray, a kind of Simenon of the supernaturalC. Ranciohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03847280554113733832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106928.post-36252729780877000512009-10-28T09:16:29.326-05:002009-10-28T09:16:29.326-05:00I was pleased to see John Collier getting respect ...I was pleased to see John Collier getting respect in the new Library of America <a href="http://semcoop.booksense.com/NASApp/store/Search?s=results&initiate=yes&typ=FQ&kwd=9781598530476" rel="nofollow">Fantastic Tales sets</a>. The second volume begins with his "Evening Primrose."<br /><br />I'm a sucker for the ghost stories of Walter de la Mare and L. P. Hartley. (Thankful that I can still get the shivers of a 10-year-old reading a good ghost story.)<br /><br />I can second everything Amateur Reader recommends. I wish someone would release a full book by Tieck.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05799869059793681283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106928.post-78212262705218799132009-10-28T09:12:13.463-05:002009-10-28T09:12:13.463-05:00Myanthology would be far more German. Ludwig Tieck...Myanthology would be far more German. Ludwig Tieck's "Fair Eckbert," as much ETA Hoffmann as I'm allowed to stuff in, Jeremia Gotthelf's <a href="http://wutheringexpectations.blogspot.com/2008/04/jeremias-gotthelfs-black-spider-long.html" rel="nofollow">"The Black Spider,"</a> unquestionably; Annette von Droste-Hülshoff’s <a href="http://wutheringexpectations.blogspot.com/2008/04/annette-von-droste-hlshoff-and-jews.html" rel="nofollow">"The Jews' Beech Tree."</a> Something by Gustave Meyrink. <br /><br />Plenty of Weird France. Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Théophile Gautier, Gérard de Nerval. And why just stories - who's stranger than Baudelaire? Wait, how about William Blake?Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.com