Writer and software engineer in the US Midwest. I enjoy poetry, horror, some f/sf, some mystery, some literary fiction (but not the kind where the main character is a professor and nothing happens).
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An enjoyable (for those who find body horror enjoyable) set of connected tales. Could have used another round of proofreading. Or maybe the merging of two different versions of some sentences is deliberate, form mirroring content? Nonetheless, I would recommend it.
There’s a list of content warnings at the end of the book, if you need them. It leaves out “landlords.”
Selected Short Fiction of Leonid Andreyev (Paperback, Rusalka Books)
Leonid Andreyev (1871-1919) was a novelist whose best work has a place in Russian literature for its evocation of a …
Leonid Andreyev (1871-1919) was a novelist whose best work has a place in Russian literature …
Uneven, but the good stories are very good. CW for racism, sexism, antisemitism, animal cruelty, suicide, violence, religious fanaticism.
Leonid Andreyev (1871-1919) was a novelist whose best work has a place in Russian literature …
It seemed to her that, in dying upon the scaffold, she was making a pretentious show that was in bad taste. (“The Seven Who Were Hanged”)
Middle English lyrics (1974, Norton)
I had thought my Middle English was pretty good for someone who never studied it, but now I realize it’s only Chaucer’s Middle English I’m comfortable with, doubtless thru repeated exposure.
"Believing that something is wrong with us is a deep and tenacious suffering," says Tara Brach at the start of …
