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New Horror 2022 – Day 27

“A Ghost Story” by Mark Twain (1870)
“Then it occurred to me to come over the way and haunt this
place a little.”

Twain does it again with a welcome satirical break in the so serious streak of short stories I’d been reading.

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“Chemical 13!” by Michael Woods & Saskia Gutekunst (2009)
“Everything is fine.”

Comeuppance stories about Nazis getting the wrath they deserve don’t hit the same anymore, not when they are just still around in daily life.

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The Mafu Cage dir. Karen Arthur (1978)
“Do not smile during a sacred ritual.”

Whoa, Carol Kane. I mean I know she has horror chops from last year’s viewing of Office Killer, but that was still leaning into her comedic sensibilities. This is before Taxi and Kane gets to stretch more in this intense story about familial obsession.

Must be nice.

Must be nice.

He ketched a frog one day, and took him home, and said he cal’klated to edercate him; and so he never done nothing for three months but set in his back yard and learn that frog to jump.

“The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain (1867)

Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Mark Twain (via road-twitch)

Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Mark Twain (via road-twitch)

He is just as good and sweet and lovable and unpretending as a man can be, but he doesn’t know enough to come in when it rains. Now that is absolutely true. He is the supremest ass in the universe; and until half an hour ago nobody knew it but himself and me.

“Luck” by Mark Twain

He is just as good and sweet and lovable and unpretending as a man can be, but he doesn’t know enough to come in when it rains. Now that is absolutely true. He is the supremest ass in the universe; and until half an hour ago nobody knew it but himself and me.

“Luck” by Mark Twain