# wyrdwednesday

Day 18 of features haunted house stories by Norah Lofts collected in HAUNTINGS: IS THERE ANYBODY THERE? (1975).

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2021-10-19

Day 17 of is Katharine S. Macquoid's "A Night at Ouseley Manor," published in Harper’s Magazine in January 1890. While visiting relatives at a country house, a mother and son experience nightmares and ghostly attacks.

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2021-10-18

Day 27 of is Leonora Carrington (1917-2011). Her fantastical, macabre, and weird stories are collected in The House of Fear (1938) and The Seventh Horse (1988), among others, and are perfect companions to her surrealist paintings.

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2020-10-27

For and day 21 of we have Margaret Brundage (1900-1976). She was an artist for Weird Tales and created many of the magazine's iconic covers in the 1930s-40s.

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2020-10-21

Day 15 of is Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989). Her weird/supernatural stories include "The Happy Valley," "Escort," "The Apple Tree," "The Pool," and "The Doll," about another Rebecca and her mechanical (ahem) "friend" named Julio.

https://t.co/EoRHpJFgrm

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2020-10-15

Day 29 of brings us Edith Nesbit (1858-1924). Most of Nesbit’s supernatural fiction is collected in GRIM TALES (1893) and FEAR (1910).

https://t.co/tR6iPdKZZP

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2019-10-29

For Day 28 of we have Alice Perrin (1867-1934). She wrote numerous supernatural tales set in Anglo-India, most of which are collected in EAST OF SUEZ (1901), RED RECORDS (1906), TALES THAT ARE TOLD (1917), and ROUGH PASSAGES (1926).

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2019-10-29

Day 26 of is Marjorie Bowen (1885-1952). Bowen wrote many supernatural tales and some of her best are found in THE LAST BOUQUET: SOME TWILIGHT TALES (1933) and THE BISHOP OF HELL AND OTHER STORIES (1949).

https://t.co/Xjujeco3ty

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2019-10-26

Day 7 of is Olivia Howard Dunbar (1873–1953). An active member of the women's suffrage movement, she wrote “The Shell of Sense” (1908) & “The Long Chamber” (1914), as well as criticism on the ghost story in her 1905 essay “The Decay of the Ghost in Fiction.”

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2019-10-07

For Day 5 of we have Mary Elizabeth Counselman (1911-1995). She wrote 30 stories for WEIRD TALES, including "The Black Stone Statue," "Mommy," "Seventh Sister," "The Unwanted," and "The Three Marked Pennies," one of the magazine's most popular stories.

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2019-10-05