Pipe Smoking & Shivering, It's That Time Of Year Again!

[Chasing Embers]

I’ll PM you my mom’s address down in NC. If she can’t put weight on you it can’t be done.

Now, I’m not saying that weight won’t be 100% cholesterol, but dammit, it’s weight!

I burn that too. I've got 0% body fat and a near non existent LDL.

 

[BarrelProof]

I burn that too. I've got 0% body fat and a near non existent LDL.

She’ll fix you up. She used to butter my cracklins.

 

[shanez]

Settle in and get comfy because tonight's tale is long but a treat for sure. This is the first story I ever read by Algernon Blackwood and instantly hooked me. HP Lovecraft called it "the single finest tale in wired literature". Gives me shivers to listen to and recall canoe trips from when I was younger.

The Willows:

 

[Chasing Embers]

Algernon Blackwood

Big fan, just finished reading "The Woman's Ghost Story" earlier.

 

[shanez]

For those of us in warmer climates:

 

[aquadoc]

Ive been reading through the complete Poe. Check out Mask of the Red Death if you haven’t read it.

A favorite. And a remarkably perfect read for these times.

 

[shanez]

First up tonight is a creepy story by Herman Wright called "The Specter Priestess of Wrightstone".

 

[shanez]

Now a twisted tale by French master of horror Guy de Maupassant called "The Devil". This is another author I enjoy quite a bit.

 

[shanez]

Couple of pics for the thread:

 

[shanez]

Tonight's first story is part of a larger collection called "The King in Yellow" by Robert Chambers which I highly recommend reading if you have the chance. Some of the stories in the collection are really more romantic tales set against war-torn France and are more romantic in a classical sense and not some tawdry garbage.

Here's "The Yellow Sign" which is probably considered the scariest of the collection. It's certainly the most supernatural.

 

[weezell]

Doctors have tried programs to put weight on me an have failed miserably.

I walk by a cheeseburger and I put on weight. But I'm a Fat Bastid that don't sweat when it's 90 degrees...

 

[Chasing Embers]

I walk by a cheeseburger and I put on weight. But I'm a Fat Bastid that don't sweat when it's 90 degrees...

I tend to eat six Big Macs when I go to McDonalds.

 

[shanez]

This is from another author I greatly enjoy, Arthur Machan, and is one of many profound stories he wrote. Indeed he ranks among Poe, Lovecraft, Blackwood and others. Here is"The Great God Pan":