Monthly Archives: October 2019
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Book-tober 13: The Yellow Wallpaper
Leave a commentOctober 17, 2019 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
(Sorry for the premature posting of this one – the phone app for WordPress isn’t quite as handy as the …
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Book-tober 12: The Prophet’s Paradise
Leave a commentOctober 14, 2019 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
Around the same time I was dissecting “The Colour Out of Space”, I decided to expand Mythos readings outside of …
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Book-tober 11: The Colour Out of Space
Leave a commentOctober 13, 2019 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
Lets skip ahead a few years to graduate school. I am living in Iowa working on my Masters degree and …
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Book-tober 10: Strawberry Spring
Leave a commentOctober 11, 2019 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
While I did not enjoy “Jerusalem’s Lot” there were many other stories in Night Shift that I found much more …
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Book-tober 9: Jerusalem’s Lot
3October 10, 2019 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
In college I worked in a small restaurant on campus – a glorified kitchen to one side of the main …
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Book-tober 8: À rebours
Leave a commentOctober 10, 2019 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
At my High School graduation I won a small writing prize which was wholly unexpected but pleasant surprise. I took …
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Book-tober 7: The Screwfly Solution
Leave a commentOctober 8, 2019 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
If “The Smell of Cherries” drew me into A Treasury of American Horror Stories, it was “The Screwfly Solution” (which …
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Book-tober 6: The Smell of Cherries
Leave a commentOctober 7, 2019 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
One of the side effects of taking college classes while in high school (other than saying things that alienate strangers …
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Book-tober 5: The Greasy Lake
Leave a commentOctober 6, 2019 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
When I was in high school, there was a newly-instituted program where a small number of students could, in lieu …
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Book-tober 4: The Outsider
Leave a commentOctober 4, 2019 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
I first heard of H. P. Lovecraft indirectly, though ads for the Call of Cthulhu RPG I had seen in …
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