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@chartier
The author Lord Dunsany wrote a very short story on that topic at the time:THE FOOD OF DEATH
Death was sick. But they brought him bread that the modern bakers make, whitened with alum, and the tinned meats of Chicago, with a pinch of our modern substitute for salt. They carried him into the dining-room of a great hotel (in that close atmosphere Death breathed more freely), and there they gave him their cheap Indian tea. They brought him a bottle of wine that they called champagne. Death drank it up. They brought a newspaper and looked up the patent medicines; they gave him the foods that it recommended for invalids, and a little medicine as prescribed in the paper. They gave him some milk and borax, such as children drink in England.
Death arose ravening, strong, and strode again through the cities.
- "Fifty-One Tales" (1915), by Lord Dunsany
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/lord-dunsany/fifty-one-tales
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*You would think that "the mud of the Thames" would be Britain's most boring and mundane writerly topic, but if you've got enough transformational potency in your verbal mystifications, you can make any everyday thing intensely weird #EverydayWeird #Dunsany sacred-texts.com/neu/dun/adta...
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Continuing our look at weird works in translation on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein this month, we review "Donde suben y bajan las mareas" (1978) by Alberto Breccia and Carlos Trillo - one of the rarer comic adaptations of Lord Dunsany's fiction.
#comic #Dunsany #weirdfiction #adaptation #review #translation #fantasy #Breccia
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In a 1921 essay on #Dunsany, #Lovecraft gives a list of terrible Modernist writers of whom, he feels, his beloved Dunsany is the direct opposite. It includes James Branch #Cabell, who is often mentioned as one of the few writers who are really similar to Dunsany.