My picks for entertainment ~ suggested movies, TV shows, music, and books ~ so you can enjoy some quality ME time! (ATTN Korean drama addicts! This blog has lots of K-drama love.)
TODAY (Sep 4): In 1919, F. Scott Fitzgerald gives the manuscript of This Side of Paradise to his friend Shane Leslie to deliver to Maxwell Perkins, editor at Charles Scribner’s Sons in New York.
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"The upside to the cult of Fitzgerald dying out is that new readers, if he’s to have any, might be able to see his work with fresh eyes." Andrew Martin and Benjamin Nugent discuss F. Scott Fitzgerald (on his birthday). https://t.co/jrnWL2FkT9
Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning writer. He’s a poet, a biographer, a historian, and a mystery writer. He is prolific. He even writes ghost stories! The English Ghost: Spectres Through Timeis one of his most popular writings.
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CHARLES DICKENS
Almost everyone knows "A Christmas Carol" is the most famous ghost story written by Charles Dickens. But did you know he wrote lots of other ghost stories?
"Throughout his literary career, he wrote more than two dozen ghost stories, many of which appearing as smaller tales tucked into larger novels, including The Pickwick Papers, Bleak House, and Nicholas Nickleby." (Source)
The publishers of Oldstyle Tales Press describe their blog as "The Classic Horror Blog". They published a list of "7 Best Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens (Not Including 'A Christmas Carol')". But none on this list were buried inside another story. There is one Dickens' tale that is credited with inspiring Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart.
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