![]() ![]() So yesterday the subject of Witches Three came up. (That said, I haven’t read my separate copy of The Blue Star, nor, I suspect, this version of “There Shall Be No Darkness.” (It was collected in The Best of James Blish but I believe that’s an earlier, shorter, version of the story.) But while I’ve leafed through it before, I haven’t read it, partly because I already had copies of the other stories. ![]() I have an ongoing interest in Twayne Triplets*, even though only two were ever published, so I grabbed my used copy of Witches Three eagerly many years ago. It’s a strong book – Conjure Wife, Leiber’s first novel, is an established classic of horror-tinged contemporary fantasy, and The Blue Star, which became the first entry in the classic Ballantine Adult Fantasy series, is widely regarded as Pratt’s best novel. The novella is “There Shall Be No Darkness” by James Blish. The novels are Conjure Wife, by Fritz Leiber and The Blue Star, by Fletcher Pratt. This is a “Twayne Triplet,” featuring three long stories (two novels and a novella) on the same subject - witchcraft. I just made a wonderful discovery inside my copy of Witches Three. You never know what you might find inside an old used book. ![]()
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By James Tissot – Online Collection of Brooklyn Museum Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2007, 00.159.143_PS2.jpg, Public Domain, Matthew 22: 23-33Ģ3 The same day some Sadducees came to him, saying there is no resurrection and they asked him a question, saying, 24 “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies childless, his brother shall marry the widow, and raise up children for his brother.’ 25 Now there were seven brothers among us the first married, and died childless, leaving the widow to his brother. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then, in case all this passed you by, along comes Cujo: and in the giant, slobbering, seemingly unstoppable dog, we find the bluntest metaphor for addiction yet presented in King's oeuvre (a title it would hold until Misery and The Tommyknockers). 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A well-written, episodic, dense, at times infuriatingly complex historical saga of Russia by the author of the similarly massive Sarum, which tries-often quite successfully-to re-create the evolution of a mysterious and backward nation riddled with war, political confusion, and religious upheaval. ![]() ![]() When I opened it up to start reading, it got my attention in another way - a sweep-you-away-in-the-story kind of way. First, it got my attention because the titles of our books are so similar. But one title REALLY caught my eye: Miss Spitfire by Sarah Miller. I heard from wonderful writers - some whose works I knew and some who were new to me. Last spring, I issued an invitation to authors of historical fiction, to send me information about their books for a presentation I’m doing this fall at the New York State Reading Association Conference. ![]() So begins one of the chapters in Sarah Miller‘s debut novel Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller, and her quote from Annie Sullivan describes just how I felt when I finished this magical book. Anne Sullivan to Sophia Hopkins, March 1887 ![]() “My heart is singing for joy this morning.” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Oates wrote a new introduction for The Folio Society edition of The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoyevskyin 2021. Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco on December 14, 1916. In 2010 she was presented with the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama. Together with her first husband she founded and edited a literary magazine, the Ontario Review, and an associated publishing house. Oates taught writing at Princeton University from 1978 to 2014. ![]() Her best-received fictions include the Wonderland Quartet (1967–71) – the third volume, Them, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1970 – and Blonde (2000), a fictional treatment of the life of Marilyn Monroe, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. It is without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope (24). It is a house that hates and is always on guard it is evil. Oates read widely in 19th-century fiction as a girl – and has cited Dostoyevsky as an early influence – before encountering classic works of modernism as a student at Syracuse University, all of which helped to shape her own writing. Its lines, angles, and corners are unexpected and odd. Since then, she has published a further 57 novels as well as many books of short stories, poems, plays and nonfiction. Widely considered one of the scariest books ever written, The Haunting of Hill House is the terrifying grandmother of all modern haunted house tales. Joyce Carol Oates’ first novel, With Shuddering Fall, was published in 1964 when she was still in her twenties. ![]() |