THE DEEP ONES: Winter 2021 Planning Thread
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1paradoxosalpha
This thread is for nominations and voting on stories for inclusion in the January-March reads in this group. Please feel free to draw on the ongoing brainstorming thread for nominations, but don't limit yourself to items discussed there.
As in past rounds, any story that gets more "No" than "Yes" votes won't make the cut; otherwise they'll be prioritized according to net-yes-minus-no, and the final list will be in OPD sequence. Ties will be broken in favor of author and period variety.
To propose a story for voting, place the title and author between HTML-style angle-bracket tags. The open tag says vote (in brackets); the close tag says /vote (ditto). Multiple polls need multiple posts. If you put the name of the author in double square brackets, it will make it a linked "touchstone" for the LT database, and first publication dates of nominated stories are appreciated. Also welcome are remarks about the story, the author, and your nomination motives, and/or a link to an online version.
A useful resource for general bibliography info including OPD and inclusion in collections is ISFDB.
You can see a sortable list of all previous discussions here. A persistent brainstorming thread is here. Nominations repeating old discussions will be disqualified, but revival of dormant discussion threads is always welcome. "That is not dead which can eternal lie," etc.
VOTING is scheduled to END on the Winter Solstice: Monday, December 21.
As in past rounds, any story that gets more "No" than "Yes" votes won't make the cut; otherwise they'll be prioritized according to net-yes-minus-no, and the final list will be in OPD sequence. Ties will be broken in favor of author and period variety.
To propose a story for voting, place the title and author between HTML-style angle-bracket tags. The open tag says vote (in brackets); the close tag says /vote (ditto). Multiple polls need multiple posts. If you put the name of the author in double square brackets, it will make it a linked "touchstone" for the LT database, and first publication dates of nominated stories are appreciated. Also welcome are remarks about the story, the author, and your nomination motives, and/or a link to an online version.
A useful resource for general bibliography info including OPD and inclusion in collections is ISFDB.
You can see a sortable list of all previous discussions here. A persistent brainstorming thread is here. Nominations repeating old discussions will be disqualified, but revival of dormant discussion threads is always welcome. "That is not dead which can eternal lie," etc.
VOTING is scheduled to END on the Winter Solstice: Monday, December 21.
2paradoxosalpha
Stem: Tanith Lee, "Yellow and Red" (1998)
Nuværende optælling: Ja 9, Nej 0
3paradoxosalpha
Stem: "The Letters of Cold Fire" (1944) by Manly Wade Wellman
Nuværende optælling: Ja 7, Nej 1
Online in a Google books version of the Price anthology as well as a transcript of the Weird Tales debut.
The WT editor provides this tease in the TOC: "A strange solitary education — once a day a hand shaggy with dark hair thrusts in food to the scholar."
4AndreasJ
Stem: Darrell Schweitzer, "The Dead Kid" (2002)
Nuværende optælling: Ja 8, Nej 0, Ved ikke 1
5semdetenebre
Stem: "Mr. Justice Harbottle" (1872) by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Nuværende optælling: Ja 9, Nej 0, Ved ikke 2
6semdetenebre
Stem: "My Dear Emily" (1962) by Joanna Russ
Nuværende optælling: Ja 6, Nej 2, Ved ikke 1
7AndreasJ
Stem: H. P. Lovecraft, "Polaris" (1920)
Nuværende optælling: Ja 9, Nej 0, Ved ikke 1
Online a Wikisource.
8RandyStafford
Stem: "The Lusitania Waits", by Alfred Noyes (1918)
Nuværende optælling: Ja 7, Nej 0
This one was published in 1918's Walking Shadows which is available at Project Gutenberg.
9paradoxosalpha
Stem: "The Colossus of Ylourgne" (1934) by Clark Ashton Smith
Nuværende optælling: Ja 7, Nej 0
10paradoxosalpha
Stem: "The Mine on Yuggoth" (1964) by Ramsey Campbell
Nuværende optælling: Ja 7, Nej 1
11paradoxosalpha
Stem: "The Warder of Knowledge" (1992) by Richard F. Searight
Nuværende optælling: Ja 7, Nej 0
12paradoxosalpha
Stem: "The Sign of the Beast" (2018) by Joyce Carol Oates
Nuværende optælling: Ja 6, Nej 2
13paradoxosalpha
Stem: "The Inmost Light" (1894) by Arthur Machen
Nuværende optælling: Ja 8, Nej 0
14paradoxosalpha
Stem: "The Black Dog" (1892) by Stephen Crane
Nuværende optælling: Ja 5, Nej 1
PDF link: https://loa-shared.s3.amazonaws.com/static/pdf/Crane_Black_Dog.pdf
16paradoxosalpha
Since we have so few nominees right now, a late nomination isn't hopeless!
I'll be tallying the votes on Monday.
I'll be tallying the votes on Monday.
17semdetenebre
>15 paradoxosalpha:
That one is actually this week's read! At least, according to the posted schedule...
That one is actually this week's read! At least, according to the posted schedule...
18AndreasJ
Let's throw in a couple more stories from The Weird:Apparently published posthumously (Carter died in 1992), I haven't read this, but the Vandermeers characterize it as "perhaps the most evocative expression of the weird in her short fiction".
Stem: Angela Carter, "The Snow Pavilion" (1995)
Nuværende optælling: Ja 9, Nej 0
19AndreasJ
Stem: Georg Heym, "The Dissection" (1913)
Nuværende optælling: Ja 8, Nej 0
21paradoxosalpha
Totting up now.