THE DEEP ONES: "Something There Is" by Charles L. Grant
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1semdetenebre
"Something There Is" by Charles L. Grant
Discussion begins November 30, 2022
First published in Tales from the Nightside: Dark Fantasy (1981).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?94740
SELECTED PRINT VERSIONS
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories
Scream Quietly: The Best of Charles L. Grant
ONLINE VERSIONS
No authorized online versions found to date.
ONLINE AUDIO VERSIONS
No authorized online audio versions found to date.
MISCELLANY
https://www.tor.com/2014/07/11/summer-of-sleaze-the-universal-horrors-of-charles...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_L._Grant
https://www.cemeterydance.com/extras/charles-l-grant-part-1-novels-collections/
https://www.cemeterydance.com/extras/charles-l-grant-part-2-short-stories/
https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-2000-04-21-3311175-story.html
https://tinyurl.com/2pnfrdpu
Discussion begins November 30, 2022
First published in Tales from the Nightside: Dark Fantasy (1981).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?94740
SELECTED PRINT VERSIONS
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories
Scream Quietly: The Best of Charles L. Grant
ONLINE VERSIONS
No authorized online versions found to date.
ONLINE AUDIO VERSIONS
No authorized online audio versions found to date.
MISCELLANY
https://www.tor.com/2014/07/11/summer-of-sleaze-the-universal-horrors-of-charles...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_L._Grant
https://www.cemeterydance.com/extras/charles-l-grant-part-1-novels-collections/
https://www.cemeterydance.com/extras/charles-l-grant-part-2-short-stories/
https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-2000-04-21-3311175-story.html
https://tinyurl.com/2pnfrdpu
2semdetenebre
Not easy to do that kind of name-dropping (canonical writers of horror fiction) without intruding on the reader and bringing them out of the story. Instead, it's essential here. And I always love when Grant drops in a line like, "And he was in a place not a time, nor a colour". The end in which his real muse acknowledges him at last is really chilling. The three entities that he meets before all seem very familiar:
"With a white robed man who held a world of choirs and hells of crowds in each massive hand, with golden dirty hair and his smile blinded".
"Another man, short, ugly, fiercesome, a black halo and violet cloak his only dress"/
"A Woman, at last the woman, whose beauty crippled and gave him strength, with roses and ivy and hemlock at her breasts, and deer and hyenas cavorting at her feet. Symphonies and chantings, ditties and solemnities".
I read this out of Scream Quietly. An apt title!
"With a white robed man who held a world of choirs and hells of crowds in each massive hand, with golden dirty hair and his smile blinded".
"Another man, short, ugly, fiercesome, a black halo and violet cloak his only dress"/
"A Woman, at last the woman, whose beauty crippled and gave him strength, with roses and ivy and hemlock at her breasts, and deer and hyenas cavorting at her feet. Symphonies and chantings, ditties and solemnities".
I read this out of Scream Quietly. An apt title!
3paradoxosalpha
I liked this story a lot, especially the visionary bits at the end, and the quotidian part at the Bensons' party played well too.
What's with the title? Is it an allusion to the Robert Frost poem? I don't get it, if so.
What's with the title? Is it an allusion to the Robert Frost poem? I don't get it, if so.
4semdetenebre
>3 paradoxosalpha:
A Google search does lead to "Mending Wall" by Frost:
https://poets.org/poem/mending-wall
I dunno. Have to look a little closer. I guess the title could simply be a reference to a thing that exists, which would align with the ultimate result of the protagonist's agonized search for true inspiration/his missing muse.
A Google search does lead to "Mending Wall" by Frost:
https://poets.org/poem/mending-wall
I dunno. Have to look a little closer. I guess the title could simply be a reference to a thing that exists, which would align with the ultimate result of the protagonist's agonized search for true inspiration/his missing muse.