![]() And, of course, when you have a cat that can reason, that narrates long sections of the story, that reads the Bible, well, you know that you have a weird story that will twist around itself again and again. The secrets have secrets, and each narrator is deeply disturbed, unreliable, broken in an essential and violent way. Nothing is as it seems in The Last House on Needless Street. She remembers her past, where she came from, and she wants to get out. Lauren, for her part, hates both Ted and the cat. She brings discord, and when Lauren is there, Olivia has to hide in the broken freezer. She thinks about Ted, about her story, about Ted’s daughter and the fact that something is wrong with the child, something that causes Ted to lock her up. She watches for a neighborhood cat, and she thinks. Meanwhile, Ted’s cat stares out the one chink of window that hasn’t been boarded-up. She’ll finally have the answers she needs to survive. Years ago Ted was the only suspect in her sister’s death, but no one could prove his innocence or his guilt. You see, Dee knows there is something about Ted, a secret lurking in the old home, behind the closed drapes. Sometimes his daughter, Lauren, visits him. ![]() ![]() Here There Be Monsters – Just Not the Monsters You Expect ![]()
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![]() Returning to New York, Young spent the summer of 1930 devising a new strip. ![]() Connolly agreed, provided Young could come up with an acceptable creation. When Connolly wired, pleading him to return, Young consented-but only for a bigger piece of the action and ownership of the new strip he would concoct. So Young packed himself and his wife off to the French Riviera to make his point. Young threatened to quit Connolly still resisted. Connolly, King's energetic and imaginative general manager, who was not inclined in the direction of salary increases. ![]() Dora proved popular enough to last longer than its forerunners, and when the 1929 stock market crash wiped out his savings, Young, thinking he had leverage, lobbied for more money.īut he met immediately a parsimonious obstacle in Joseph V. for six months until Maand then he'd come to New York and done Beautiful Bab for Bell Syndicate for almost a year (JApril 14, 1923) before joining the King Features art department in 1923 and, after a suitable apprenticeship, creating Dumb Dora on June 30, 1924. ![]() ![]() This was Young's fourth pretty girl strip: starting October 31, 1921, he'd done The Affairs of Jane at N.E.A. Blondie, Chic Young’s monument to syndicated newspaper comics, began as a "flapper" strip about a dizzy young blonde named, with unrelenting perspicacity, Blondie. ![]() ![]() ![]() At his family’s behest, in 1894 he married Maria Antonietta Portulano, the daughter of another family of Agrigento sulfur merchants. He definitively turned down the opportunity to join his father’s business a few years later, choosing instead to study Philology at the Universities of Palermo, Rome, and Bonn (Germany), where he finished his degree in 1891 with a dissertation on his hometown’s Sicilian dialect. After moving with his family to the Sicilian capital of Palermo at age 13, he turned to poetry. ![]() Born to a wealthy and politically active merchant family near the Sicilian city of Girgenti (now called Agrigento), Luigi Pirandello quickly rejected the idea of following in his father’s footsteps and, inspired by the ghost stories told to him by one of the servants who worked in his house, began writing fiction at a young age. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gomez is an evil man, the very stereotype of the white oppressor. They stop to rest at an outpost run by a man named Gomez. Set on Borneo, the unnamed narrator and his companion, Martin Gow, are traveling upriver to join a museum expedition. It is available in the collection of the same name. It was the cover story for the March 1934 issue of Weird Tales. He passed away shortly after his autobiography, Cave of a Thousand Tales, was published.įor his birthday, I read “The Black Gargoyle”. Cave was experiencing something of a renaissance in the early 2000’s, with collections of his pulp stories from Fedogan and Bremer and Ash-Tree Press, among others, in addition to a steady output of novels. ![]() This opened the door to him returning to weird fiction. Karl Edward Wagner’s Carcosa published some of Cave’s stories from the horror and fantasy in Murgunstrumm and Others in the 1970’s. During this period his writing shifted from the pulps, which were fast on their way out, to writing for the slicks, primarily what would be called “women’s fiction” today and was considered romance at the time. After the war he bought a coffee plantation in Jamaica. He was prolific enough that he used multiple pen names, the most famous being Justin Case. Cave wrote for a variety of pulps in the 1930s, including Black Mask and Weird Tales. Cave (1910-2004) was born on this date, July 11. ![]() |