TALES OF THE DARK GOAT O' PENN'S WOODS, NIGHT TWENTY THREE

aetris posted a pic said Tue, Oct 22nd 2019 at 8:02pm ET

MIDNIGHT!

~~(Hmmm… It appears that “Weird Tales” is now out-of-copyright… This will be good for the thread!)~~

[[PIC]]Die TotenInsel

This isn’t my favorite story by Manly Wade Wellman, but it’s apparently out of copyright… I love Wellman’s “Silver John” stories, and a lot of his other scare stories are pretty decent. I like his occult detective series too, but his line of Appalachian occult stories are his best, imho.

MANLY WADE WELLMAN

The Golgotha Dancers

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32580/32580-h/32580-h.htm

Arnold Böcklin

The Isle of the Dead

… just 'cause it’s mentioned in the story. Not bad though, eh?

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mediocrebot said Tue, Oct 22nd 2019 at 8:02pm ET:

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- Looks like @mediocrebot is ready to party!
  
  therealjrn said Tue, Oct 22nd 2019 at 8:50pm ET
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- Okaayyyy, I get the Rocky Horror part… ?
  
  aetris said Tue, Oct 22nd 2019 at 9:08pm ET
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- @aetris
  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  
  therealjrn said Tue, Oct 22nd 2019 at 10:13pm ET
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- @mediocrebot - Ah, ok, so - “Smashing, my dear poppet.”
  
  Blargh.
  
  aetris said Wed, Oct 23rd 2019 at 7:05am ET
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- @aetris @mediocrebot Good bit of detective work. I guess I don’t watch Nickelodeon enough.
  
  therealjrn said Wed, Oct 23rd 2019 at 7:40am ET
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mehcuda67 said Wed, Oct 23rd 2019 at 1:13am ET:

A horror story and a love story! And it’s ahead of its time. He was the first to fall in love with Dolby.

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UncleVinny said Fri, Oct 25th 2019 at 11:01am ET:

@aetris there’s also this spooky orchestral piece by Rachmaninov that’s inspired by Böcklin’s painting:

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- @UncleVinny - Hmmm… Interesting, it didn’t occur to me to include spooky soundtracks…
  
  aetris said Fri, Oct 25th 2019 at 12:14pm ET
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