THE DEEP ONES: Autumn 2021 Planning Thread
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1paradoxosalpha
This thread is for nominations and voting on stories for inclusion in the October-December reads in this group. Please feel free to draw on the ongoing brainstorming thread for nominations, but don't limit yourself to items discussed there. There is no further obligation--even to participate in the resulting discussion if a nomination is selected! It's perfectly okay to gamble on stories the nominator has never read, although also welcome for nominators to put up stories they've enjoyed and would like to revisit. In all these years, we've never been known to dog anyone for nominating a story where readers end up taking a dim view of it.
As in past rounds, any story that gets more "No" than "Yes" votes won't make the cut; otherwise they'll be prioritized according to net-yes-minus-no, and the final list will be in OPD sequence. Ties will be broken in favor of author and period variety.
To propose a story for voting, place the title and author between HTML-style angle-bracket tags. The open tag says vote (in brackets); the close tag says /vote (ditto). Multiple polls need multiple posts. If you put the name of the author in double square brackets, it will make it a linked "touchstone" for the LT database, and first publication dates of nominated stories are appreciated. Also welcome are remarks about the story, the author, and your nomination motives, and/or a link to an online version. Here is an example (from the first nomination of this thread):
A useful resource for general bibliography info including OPD and inclusion in collections is ISFDB.
You can see a sortable list of all previous discussions here. The persistent brainstorming thread is here. Nominations repeating old discussions will be disqualified, but revival of dormant discussion threads is always welcome. "That is not dead which can eternal lie," etc.
VOTING is scheduled to END on the Autumn Equinox: Wednesday, September 22.
As in past rounds, any story that gets more "No" than "Yes" votes won't make the cut; otherwise they'll be prioritized according to net-yes-minus-no, and the final list will be in OPD sequence. Ties will be broken in favor of author and period variety.
To propose a story for voting, place the title and author between HTML-style angle-bracket tags. The open tag says vote (in brackets); the close tag says /vote (ditto). Multiple polls need multiple posts. If you put the name of the author in double square brackets, it will make it a linked "touchstone" for the LT database, and first publication dates of nominated stories are appreciated. Also welcome are remarks about the story, the author, and your nomination motives, and/or a link to an online version. Here is an example (from the first nomination of this thread):
A useful resource for general bibliography info including OPD and inclusion in collections is ISFDB.
You can see a sortable list of all previous discussions here. The persistent brainstorming thread is here. Nominations repeating old discussions will be disqualified, but revival of dormant discussion threads is always welcome. "That is not dead which can eternal lie," etc.
VOTING is scheduled to END on the Autumn Equinox: Wednesday, September 22.
2paradoxosalpha
Vote : "Where the Summer Ends" by Karl Edward Wagner (1980)
Pointage actuel: Oui 7, Non 0
3paradoxosalpha
Vote : "The Grey God Passes" by Robert E. Howard (1962)
Pointage actuel: Oui 7, Non 1
4paradoxosalpha
Vote : "The Book" by Margaret Irwin (1930)
Pointage actuel: Oui 10, Non 0
5AndreasJ
Vote : Lisa Tuttle, "Need" (1981)
Pointage actuel: Oui 8, Non 0
6AndreasJ
Vote : Clark Ashton Smith, "Monsters in the Night" (1954)
Pointage actuel: Oui 8, Non 0
7AndreasJ
Vote : Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, "Home is the Hunter" (1957)
Pointage actuel: Oui 10, Non 0
8AndreasJ
Vote : Fritz Leiber, "In the Witch's Tent" (1968)
Pointage actuel: Oui 7, Non 1
Available online.
9AndreasJ
Vote : Michael Shea, "The Horror on the #33" (1982)
Pointage actuel: Oui 10, Non 0
Online here.
(Also published without the # in the title.)
10paradoxosalpha
Vote : "Cold Water Survival" by Holly Phillips (2009)
Pointage actuel: Oui 6, Non 1
Available in a few collections, including good old New Cthulhu.
11semdetenebre
Ok, so this group has 513 members. If you are a Lurker at the Threshold, why not nominate a title or two? Format instructions are up above, and it's pretty easy. You might know of that one story that hardly anyone else does! Frankly, after 10 years (!) of nominating, I'm at about the bottom of my "weird" bag of story suggestions, unless we're going to bring in broader classification horror stories. I just need a breather to recoup. If I do think of something in time, I'll put it up. I'm enjoying the nominations so far, however! So, if you've never nominated a story before, now's your chance!
12housefulsfilmtv
Vote : "The Correspondence of Cameron Thaddeus Nash" 'annotated by' Ramsey Campbell (2012)
Pointage actuel: Oui 8, Non 0
A story told as a series of letters to HPL from one of his more unsettling correspondents.
13housefulsfilmtv
>12 housefulsfilmtv:
Sorry, posted from my "other" account for DVDs & stuff...it's a housefulofpaper nomination...
Sorry, posted from my "other" account for DVDs & stuff...it's a housefulofpaper nomination...
15AndreasJ
I note that elenchus has mentioned quite a few possible stories in the brainstorming thread, but he seems curiously hesitant to actually nominate them.
16elenchus
>15 AndreasJ:
I'm just crushed at work and at home, schedule-wise! I fully support anyone making nominations from my various notes. I still hope to get around to it, but not sure I will given my schedule.
I'm just crushed at work and at home, schedule-wise! I fully support anyone making nominations from my various notes. I still hope to get around to it, but not sure I will given my schedule.
17semdetenebre
Vote : "A Touch of Pan" by Algernon Blackwood (1917)
Pointage actuel: Oui 9, Non 0
Available online and in several AB collections.
http://algernonblackwood.org/Z-files/The_Touch_of_Pan.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiDlqzzqWec
18semdetenebre
Vote : "The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains" by Frederick Marryat (1839)
Pointage actuel: Oui 8, Non 0
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606061h.html#s1
19elenchus
>17 semdetenebre:
>18 semdetenebre:
Thanks for making those nominations, @KentonSem. My schedule is only getting more frantic so I'm pleased these titles get a shot.
>18 semdetenebre:
Thanks for making those nominations, @KentonSem. My schedule is only getting more frantic so I'm pleased these titles get a shot.
21AndreasJ
Vote : E. M. Forster, "The Story of a Panic" (1904)
Pointage actuel: Oui 7, Non 1, Sans opinion 1
isfdb quotes this synopsis: "A young boy appears to go mad on a holiday in Italy after possibly becoming possessed by Pan."
22AndreasJ
Vote : E. F. Benson, "The Man Who Went Too far" (1912)
Pointage actuel: Oui 8, Non 0
Online here.
23paradoxosalpha
Vote : "The Cotillon" by L. P. Hartley (1931)
Pointage actuel: Oui 6, Non 1, Sans opinion 1
"But," protested Marion Lane, "you don't mean that we've all got to dance the cotillon in masks? Won't that be terribly hot?"
24paradoxosalpha
Vote : "The New Rays" by M. John Harrison (1982)
Pointage actuel: Oui 9, Non 0
25AndreasJ
Vote : Stephen Graham Jones, "Xebico" (2014)
Pointage actuel: Oui 6, Non 0, Sans opinion 1
Online here.
26semdetenebre
Bump! Lurkers, are you thinking of voting? Please do! There are just a few days left!
27paradoxosalpha
Last chance to vote; I will tally in the morning.
28paradoxosalpha
Starting the tally now.