Another story from the anthology: Algernon Blackwood’s The Empty House: Inside the house the silence became awful; awful, he thought, because any minute now it might be broken by sounds portending terror. The strain of waiting told more and more severely on the nerves; they talked in whispers when they talked at all, for their …
I first read Man-size in Marble in an anthology of ghost and horror stories called The Haunted Looking Glass. What makes the anthology special is that the stories were selected and illustrated by Edward Gorey. Here’s the description of the setting: The church was a large and lonely one, and we loved to go there, …
Among players in the baseball playoffs, the Phillies’ Chase Utley is the one whose name would have fit right in with The Great Gatsby.
Grantland Rice is better known for his sportswriting than for his poetry, but he worked for the nascent Stars and Stripes newspaper in Europe during WW I. He wrote this in the ’20s, I think. I found it at Poetry of the First World War. Two Sides of War All wars are planned by older …