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Book Review: Doctor Who: Shirley Jackson and the Chaos Box by Kalynn Bayron
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Mabs Drawlloween Club: Day 4 - Haunting
I think it's time to start my annual rewatch of this modern horror classic. I'm still a little sore that netflix aren't giving us a new 'haunting' series every year. Wonder if I'll be able to spot all the ghosts this time around.https://www.blockforest.co.uk/products/open-edition-linocut-print
#drawlloween #halloween #print #linocut #illustration #spooky #horrorart #printmaker #hillhouse #shirleyjackson #mikeflanagan #hauntingofhillhouse
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Happy #ReadABookDay. 📖 I’m currently rereading this brilliant gem before I teach it again next month. I find something new in it each time I revisit it. #Hangsaman #ShirleyJackson #Books #Read #Bookstodon
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Two years after her death, a biopic on Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor is in the works https://www.byteseu.com/1293948/ #Entertainment #IrishSinger #JosephineDecker #ProductionCompany #ShirleyJackson #SinéadO’Connor #StaceyGregg
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On my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the #StarShipSofa podcast (Episode 760), I discuss the new book On Edge: #Gender and #Genre in the Work of #ShirleyJackson, #PatriciaHighsmith, and #LeighBrackett by #AshleyLawson.
Here is the link: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-ax3zr-26648ea9
#ScienceFiction #SFF #CrimeFiction #Gothic #SpeculativeFiction #Books #Bookstodon
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Here’s a new book I’m looking forward to devouring with relish.
#ShirleyJackson #PatriciaHighsmith #LeighBrackett #Gender #Genre #AshleyLawson #Books #Bookstodon -
I Waked One Morning From a Dream: What Is Gothic Literature?
There have been many nights when I’ve laid awake wondering: What makes a book Gothic? Who decides what is and isn’t Gothic fiction? And why, why, why do I keep reading them?
It’s time to reveal the truth about Gothic literature. Together, we’ll unravel the fragments, falsehoods and frame narratives to separate fact from fiction. Interrogate Gothic literature’s most renowned writers – including Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis. And find out why this obscure, 200-year-old genre is still haunting us today.
#18thCentury #19thCentury #20thCentury #AnnRadcliffe #AnneRice #BramStoker #Falsehood #Fragment #FrameNarrative #HoraceWalpole #MarkZDanielewski #MaryShelley #MatthewLewis #MaxBrooks #ShirleyJackson #StephenKing
https://gothicdispatch.com/what-is-gothic-literature-introductio/
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I Waked One Morning From a Dream: What Is Gothic Literature?
There have been many nights when I’ve laid awake wondering: What makes a book Gothic? Who decides what is and isn’t Gothic fiction? And why, why, why do I keep reading them?
It’s time to reveal the truth about Gothic literature. Together, we’ll unravel the fragments, falsehoods and frame narratives to separate fact from fiction. Interrogate Gothic literature’s most renowned writers – including Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis. And find out why this obscure, 200-year-old genre is still haunting us today.
#18thCentury #19thCentury #20thCentury #AnnRadcliffe #AnneRice #BramStoker #Falsehood #Fragment #FrameNarrative #HoraceWalpole #MarkZDanielewski #MaryShelley #MatthewLewis #MaxBrooks #ShirleyJackson #StephenKing
https://gothicdispatch.com/what-is-gothic-literature-introductio/
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I Waked One Morning From a Dream: What Is Gothic Literature?
There have been many nights when I’ve laid awake wondering: What makes a book Gothic? Who decides what is and isn’t Gothic fiction? And why, why, why do I keep reading them?
It’s time to reveal the truth about Gothic literature. Together, we’ll unravel the fragments, falsehoods and frame narratives to separate fact from fiction. Interrogate Gothic literature’s most renowned writers – including Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis. And find out why this obscure, 200-year-old genre is still haunting us today.
#18thCentury #19thCentury #20thCentury #AnnRadcliffe #AnneRice #BramStoker #Falsehood #Fragment #FrameNarrative #HoraceWalpole #MarkZDanielewski #MaryShelley #MatthewLewis #MaxBrooks #ShirleyJackson #StephenKing
https://gothicdispatch.com/what-is-gothic-literature-introductio/
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Robert Wise's The Haunting (1963) is an object lesson in how to do subtle horror and it's one of the great haunted house movies. Superbly atmospheric and ambiguous. Much better than Shirley Jackson's overrated source novel.
My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-haunting-1963.html
#60smovie #60smovies #1960smovie #1960smovies #gothichorror #RobertWise #ghosts #ghoststory #ghoststories #ghostmovie #ghostmovies #RichardJohnson #ClaireBloom #ShirleyJackson
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Robert Wise's The Haunting (1963) is an object lesson in how to do subtle horror and it's one of the great haunted house movies. Superbly atmospheric and ambiguous. Much better than Shirley Jackson's overrated source novel.
My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-haunting-1963.html
#60smovie #60smovies #1960smovie #1960smovies #gothichorror #RobertWise #ghosts #ghoststory #ghoststories #ghostmovie #ghostmovies #RichardJohnson #ClaireBloom #ShirleyJackson
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Robert Wise's The Haunting (1963) is an object lesson in how to do subtle horror and it's one of the great haunted house movies. Superbly atmospheric and ambiguous. Much better than Shirley Jackson's overrated source novel.
My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-haunting-1963.html
#60smovie #60smovies #1960smovie #1960smovies #gothichorror #RobertWise #ghosts #ghoststory #ghoststories #ghostmovie #ghostmovies #RichardJohnson #ClaireBloom #ShirleyJackson
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Robert Wise's The Haunting (1963) is an object lesson in how to do subtle horror and it's one of the great haunted house movies. Superbly atmospheric and ambiguous. Much better than Shirley Jackson's overrated source novel.
My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-haunting-1963.html
#60smovie #60smovies #1960smovie #1960smovies #gothichorror #RobertWise #ghosts #ghoststory #ghoststories #ghostmovie #ghostmovies #RichardJohnson #ClaireBloom #ShirleyJackson
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Robert Wise's The Haunting (1963) is an object lesson in how to do subtle horror and it's one of the great haunted house movies. Superbly atmospheric and ambiguous. Much better than Shirley Jackson's overrated source novel.
My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-haunting-1963.html
#60smovie #60smovies #1960smovie #1960smovies #gothichorror #RobertWise #ghosts #ghoststory #ghoststories #ghostmovie #ghostmovies #RichardJohnson #ClaireBloom #ShirleyJackson
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Today we have a new story for you that Barb wrote, about Sam's mother from our SONG TO THE SIREN series-- based on a writing prompt by Shirley Jackson... it's entitled "I Hate Asparagus" https://wickermanstudios.com/2024/09/04/i-hate-asparagus-a-story-set-in-the-song-to-the-siren-series/
If you want to know more about SONG TO THE SIREN, please visit this page: https://wickermanstudios.com/song-to-the-siren/
#story #shortstory #asparagus #women #periodpiece #shirleyjackson
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Triangle Trope of Vermont: Bennington
Vermont’s Bennington Triangle is my first stop on the Triangle Trope Trip this year. See also I Survived the Bermuda Triangle. And for a deep dive into the history of how these places became known, check out Paranormal Vortex Areas.
Glastenbury Mountain
On my way back from Vermont earlier this year, we passed Bennington and its infamous Glastenbury mountain, which has accrued a reputation as a spooky area hosting an array of supernatural and generally weird phenomena.
This reputation was boosted by real life tragedies, but also by writers and media producers who lumped events together, exaggerated some, made up others, and molded a contrived narrative. Their efforts enhanced and popularized the legends, eventually consolidating the package as the ‘Bennington Triangle.’
I did not have the chance to stop and explore Glastenbury, a lost village and rugged mountain that is likely named after Glastonbury, Somerset, England, though not spelled the same. The tiny town, now abandoned, had poor rocky soil and harsh winters, though it did manage to eek out an existence for a while in the mid 1800s. The railroad carried lumber and charcoal from the location to Bennington. But Glastenbury, Vermont only lasted 103 years, until 1937 when the trees had all been cut and last ditch efforts at tourism failed. The village lost its railroad line to flooding which scuttled any remaining potential and heralded its turn into a “ghost town”. It was unincorporated for lack of residents. (See also Glastenbury: A history of a Vermont ghost town by Tyler Resch, 2008)
Part of the Appalachian Trail, called The Long Trail through Vermont, passes over the Glastenbury mountain. From what I’ve gathered, trails through the old town and the mountain are not well-marked and a traveler could easily become lost. Haunted Hikes writer Andrea Lankford labels the 21-mile Glastenbury Loop as a ‘strenuous’ route today rising 2000 ft in elevation, not recommended for amateurs, with primitive roads and few rough shelters for bad weather. It’s a rugged environment, so, it’s not a wonder that several people have disappeared in the area, never to be found. The several disappearances, which were never fully explained, contributed mightily to the manufactured idea that the area, and the mountain in particular, was cursed and dangerous.
The Disappearances
In 1946, Paula Welden, a student of Bennington College, which was an all-women’s school at the time, disappeared after going for a hike one December day. She was never found. Welden’s disappearance was the most famous one of six supposed incidents. It was preceded by the vanishing of experienced but elderly outdoorsman Middie Rivers in 1945, and followed by a cluster of mysterious missing persons in 1950: eight-year old Paul Jepson went missing from a truck, Frances Christman and Frieda Langer disappeared within days of each other. Langer’s body was later discovered seven months later in an area around her campsite that had been previously thoroughly searched. Her cause of death was never determined. In November of 1950, Martha Jones disappeared after supposedly hitchhiking. One of the weirdest tales is that of James Tetford who was said to have vanished from a bus from St. Albans to Bennington in 1949. That is, he got on but never got off. This story has been greatly exaggerated, as it was many days before it was noticed that he didn’t return home. You won’t hear that part on paranormal media because it ruins the mystery.
It seems plausible that the disappearances in this localized area of Vermont inspired various fictional tales of haunted mountains. Weldon’s story, in particular, was loosely tied to the novel Hangsaman by author Shirley Jackson. Jackson lived in Bennington where her husband was a professor; she later became renowned for her uncanny tales including the shocking short story The Lottery and the short novel Haunting of Hill House, which was made into movies and a series. I recently finished a biography of Jackson (Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin) in which little mention was made of any unsettling characteristics of the Bennington area except for the way she was treated by the insular community.
Mystery mongers
In 1992, author and storyteller Joseph Citro described the area around Glastenbury mountain and Bennington where the disappearances and other strange tales had been reported as the “Bennington Triangle”. He admitted in the book Weird New England (p. 74) that he “swiped” the term Triangle because of the mysterious association (presumably with the Bermuda Triangle). Citro, who is not a trained folklorist, also popularized other spooky tales such as that of UFOs, hauntings, hairy monsters, portals to other dimensions, and man eating rocks. (I will try and treat that Spooky Geology topic at another time.) Reading Citro’s writing, he plays at mystery mongering, a characteristic that genuine folklore scholars would not exhibit. If the disappearances were not supernatural, he suggests, perhaps they were the work of a serial killer dubbed the Bennington Ripper or Mad Murderer of the Long Trail. There is no solid evidence for this but became a popular idea for discussion for armchair true-crime fans.
As happens with difficult or unique places, insinuations were made that the natives claimed the mountain was cursed and that unexplained lights and sounds emanated from it. The origins of such tales are dubious, but often repeated, nevertheless. The strange stories are often connected directly to Glastenbury mountain and town, which did have some history of violent crimes and murders. However, many of the publicized incidents didn’t happen on the mountain.
Monster tales
Man-like monster stories also became attached to the area. Numerous residents reported a “wild man” terrorized the people of Bennington and Glastenbury around 1867. Witnesses reported an unkempt naked man in a coat flashed residents and waved a pistol before hiding in the forest. Rumor was that he existed among the boulder caves. Incredibly, this story later seemed to morph into Bigfoot lore. There is considerable reason not to read this as a Bigfoot tale but that didn’t stop people conflating the story and creating the Bennington Monster. Various internet and book sources reference an account of a stagecoach in the 1800s halted by a washed out road. The coach was attacked by a large creature with glowing red eyes. Another tale was popularized by Ripley’s Believe It or Not (so I am rather inclined towards “not”) where a man named Carol Herrick was found dead in the woods in 1943 having been “squeezed to death and his body surrounded by huge footprints.” This was also associated with the Bennington Monster. I’d be grateful if people who knew anything about that story could supply a credible source. A few people have also claimed to have heard animal screams in the woods at night or having seen the typical hair-covered tall bipedal creatures as recently as the early 2000s
None of these claims, however, stand up to any scrutiny. In my admittedly cursory searches for legitimate sources of these accounts, I found the usual copy-paste efforts of paranormal web pages replete with mistaken spellings and attributions. The intent of the stories is to feed into the paranormal spirt of place and to bolster the lore of a paranormal “Triangle” area. Some exaggerated and poorly researched YouTube features even compare the Bennington Triangle to areas in the Western US known as supernatural hot spots like the Uinta Basin in Utah, home of Skinwalker Ranch.
The Bennington “square”?
Other than the fact that some people did actually disappear and were presumed dead, very little evidence supports the overreaching paranormal and monstrous claims made by mystery mongers promoting the Bennington Triangle. The events from 1945 to 1950 and those fore and aft were connected and judged to be significant by one person, Joe Citro, who sensationalized the events and native legends. Heck, it’s not even close to being a triangle!
As with other paranormal “triangle” areas, we can see the accretion of additional reports and facts that are added simply due to proximity. In this case, the abandonment of Glastenbury along with unfortunate human and natural events that seem to be due to social and environmental circumstances, fed into the supernatural themes that became popular fodder for the TV shows, podcasts and self-made videos from the late 90s to the present. Notably, the events of the Bennington Triangle are mostly in the past, as no recent events are attributed to it. However, we can guarantee that the preexisting framing allows any strange event that takes place in the vicinity to be conveniently hanged onto the body of tales and add to its mystique.
Here is Part 1 & 2 of a short documentary featuring local historians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdyysF0VC20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBPMp8H3x3w
More:
#BenningtonTriangle #Bigfoot #folklore #ghostTown #GlastenburyMountain #mysteriousDisappearances #Paranormal #paranormalVortex #ShirleyJackson #unsolvedMysteries #vermont #windowArea
https://sharonahill.com/?p=8701
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Triangle Trope of Vermont: Bennington
Vermont’s Bennington Triangle is my first stop on the Triangle Trope Trip this year. See also I Survived the Bermuda Triangle. And for a deep dive into the history of how these places became known, check out Paranormal Vortex Areas.
Glastenbury Mountain
On my way back from Vermont earlier this year, we passed Bennington and its infamous Glastenbury mountain, which has accrued a reputation as a spooky area hosting an array of supernatural and generally weird phenomena.
This reputation was boosted by real life tragedies, but also by writers and media producers who lumped events together, exaggerated some, made up others, and molded a contrived narrative. Their efforts enhanced and popularized the legends, eventually consolidating the package as the ‘Bennington Triangle.’
I did not have the chance to stop and explore Glastenbury, a lost village and rugged mountain that is likely named after Glastonbury, Somerset, England, though not spelled the same. The tiny town, now abandoned, had poor rocky soil and harsh winters, though it did manage to eek out an existence for a while in the mid 1800s. The railroad carried lumber and charcoal from the location to Bennington. But Glastenbury, Vermont only lasted 103 years, until 1937 when the trees had all been cut and last ditch efforts at tourism failed. The village lost its railroad line to flooding which scuttled any remaining potential and heralded its turn into a “ghost town”. It was unincorporated for lack of residents. (See also Glastenbury: A history of a Vermont ghost town by Tyler Resch, 2008)
Part of the Appalachian Trail, called The Long Trail through Vermont, passes over the Glastenbury mountain. From what I’ve gathered, trails through the old town and the mountain are not well-marked and a traveler could easily become lost. Haunted Hikes writer Andrea Lankford labels the 21-mile Glastenbury Loop as a ‘strenuous’ route today rising 2000 ft in elevation, not recommended for amateurs, with primitive roads and few rough shelters for bad weather. It’s a rugged environment, so, it’s not a wonder that several people have disappeared in the area, never to be found. The several disappearances, which were never fully explained, contributed mightily to the manufactured idea that the area, and the mountain in particular, was cursed and dangerous.
The Disappearances
In 1946, Paula Welden, a student of Bennington College, which was an all-women’s school at the time, disappeared after going for a hike one December day. She was never found. Welden’s disappearance was the most famous one of six supposed incidents. It was preceded by the vanishing of experienced but elderly outdoorsman Middie Rivers in 1945, and followed by a cluster of mysterious missing persons in 1950: eight-year old Paul Jepson went missing from a truck, Frances Christman and Frieda Langer disappeared within days of each other. Langer’s body was later discovered seven months later in an area around her campsite that had been previously thoroughly searched. Her cause of death was never determined. In November of 1950, Martha Jones disappeared after supposedly hitchhiking. One of the weirdest tales is that of James Tetford who was said to have vanished from a bus from St. Albans to Bennington in 1949. That is, he got on but never got off. This story has been greatly exaggerated, as it was many days before it was noticed that he didn’t return home. You won’t hear that part on paranormal media because it ruins the mystery.
It seems plausible that the disappearances in this localized area of Vermont inspired various fictional tales of haunted mountains. Weldon’s story, in particular, was loosely tied to the novel Hangsaman by author Shirley Jackson. Jackson lived in Bennington where her husband was a professor; she later became renowned for her uncanny tales including the shocking short story The Lottery and the short novel Haunting of Hill House, which was made into movies and a series. I recently finished a biography of Jackson (Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin) in which little mention was made of any unsettling characteristics of the Bennington area except for the way she was treated by the insular community.
Mystery mongers
In 1992, author and storyteller Joseph Citro described the area around Glastenbury mountain and Bennington where the disappearances and other strange tales had been reported as the “Bennington Triangle”. He admitted in the book Weird New England (p. 74) that he “swiped” the term Triangle because of the mysterious association (presumably with the Bermuda Triangle). Citro, who is not a trained folklorist, also popularized other spooky tales such as that of UFOs, hauntings, hairy monsters, portals to other dimensions, and man eating rocks. (I will try and treat that Spooky Geology topic at another time.) Reading Citro’s writing, he plays at mystery mongering, a characteristic that genuine folklore scholars would not exhibit. If the disappearances were not supernatural, he suggests, perhaps they were the work of a serial killer dubbed the Bennington Ripper or Mad Murderer of the Long Trail. There is no solid evidence for this but became a popular idea for discussion for armchair true-crime fans.
As happens with difficult or unique places, insinuations were made that the natives claimed the mountain was cursed and that unexplained lights and sounds emanated from it. The origins of such tales are dubious, but often repeated, nevertheless. The strange stories are often connected directly to Glastenbury mountain and town, which did have some history of violent crimes and murders. However, many of the publicized incidents didn’t happen on the mountain.
Monster tales
Man-like monster stories also became attached to the area. Numerous residents reported a “wild man” terrorized the people of Bennington and Glastenbury around 1867. Witnesses reported an unkempt naked man in a coat flashed residents and waved a pistol before hiding in the forest. Rumor was that he existed among the boulder caves. Incredibly, this story later seemed to morph into Bigfoot lore. There is considerable reason not to read this as a Bigfoot tale but that didn’t stop people conflating the story and creating the Bennington Monster. Various internet and book sources reference an account of a stagecoach in the 1800s halted by a washed out road. The coach was attacked by a large creature with glowing red eyes. Another tale was popularized by Ripley’s Believe It or Not (so I am rather inclined towards “not”) where a man named Carol Herrick was found dead in the woods in 1943 having been “squeezed to death and his body surrounded by huge footprints.” This was also associated with the Bennington Monster. I’d be grateful if people who knew anything about that story could supply a credible source. A few people have also claimed to have heard animal screams in the woods at night or having seen the typical hair-covered tall bipedal creatures as recently as the early 2000s
None of these claims, however, stand up to any scrutiny. In my admittedly cursory searches for legitimate sources of these accounts, I found the usual copy-paste efforts of paranormal web pages replete with mistaken spellings and attributions. The intent of the stories is to feed into the paranormal spirt of place and to bolster the lore of a paranormal “Triangle” area. Some exaggerated and poorly researched YouTube features even compare the Bennington Triangle to areas in the Western US known as supernatural hot spots like the Uinta Basin in Utah, home of Skinwalker Ranch.
The Bennington “square”?
Other than the fact that some people did actually disappear and were presumed dead, very little evidence supports the overreaching paranormal and monstrous claims made by mystery mongers promoting the Bennington Triangle. The events from 1945 to 1950 and those fore and aft were connected and judged to be significant by one person, Joe Citro, who sensationalized the events and native legends. Heck, it’s not even close to being a triangle!
As with other paranormal “triangle” areas, we can see the accretion of additional reports and facts that are added simply due to proximity. In this case, the abandonment of Glastenbury along with unfortunate human and natural events that seem to be due to social and environmental circumstances, fed into the supernatural themes that became popular fodder for the TV shows, podcasts and self-made videos from the late 90s to the present. Notably, the events of the Bennington Triangle are mostly in the past, as no recent events are attributed to it. However, we can guarantee that the preexisting framing allows any strange event that takes place in the vicinity to be conveniently hanged onto the body of tales and add to its mystique.
Here is Part 1 & 2 of a short documentary featuring local historians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdyysF0VC20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBPMp8H3x3w
More:
#BenningtonTriangle #Bigfoot #folklore #ghostTown #GlastenburyMountain #mysteriousDisappearances #Paranormal #paranormalVortex #ShirleyJackson #unsolvedMysteries #vermont #windowArea
https://sharonahill.com/?p=8701
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Triangle Trope of Vermont: Bennington
Vermont’s Bennington Triangle is my first stop on the Triangle Trope Trip this year. See also I Survived the Bermuda Triangle. And for a deep dive into the history of how these places became known, check out Paranormal Vortex Areas.
Glastenbury Mountain
On my way back from Vermont earlier this year, we passed Bennington and its infamous Glastenbury mountain, which has accrued a reputation as a spooky area hosting an array of supernatural and generally weird phenomena.
This reputation was boosted by real life tragedies, but also by writers and media producers who lumped events together, exaggerated some, made up others, and molded a contrived narrative. Their efforts enhanced and popularized the legends, eventually consolidating the package as the ‘Bennington Triangle.’
I did not have the chance to stop and explore Glastenbury, a lost village and rugged mountain that is likely named after Glastonbury, Somerset, England, though not spelled the same. The tiny town, now abandoned, had poor rocky soil and harsh winters, though it did manage to eek out an existence for a while in the mid 1800s. The railroad carried lumber and charcoal from the location to Bennington. But Glastenbury, Vermont only lasted 103 years, until 1937 when the trees had all been cut and last ditch efforts at tourism failed. The village lost its railroad line to flooding which scuttled any remaining potential and heralded its turn into a “ghost town”. It was unincorporated for lack of residents. (See also Glastenbury: A history of a Vermont ghost town by Tyler Resch, 2008)
Part of the Appalachian Trail, called The Long Trail through Vermont, passes over the Glastenbury mountain. From what I’ve gathered, trails through the old town and the mountain are not well-marked and a traveler could easily become lost. Haunted Hikes writer Andrea Lankford labels the 21-mile Glastenbury Loop as a ‘strenuous’ route today rising 2000 ft in elevation, not recommended for amateurs, with primitive roads and few rough shelters for bad weather. It’s a rugged environment, so, it’s not a wonder that several people have disappeared in the area, never to be found. The several disappearances, which were never fully explained, contributed mightily to the manufactured idea that the area, and the mountain in particular, was cursed and dangerous.
The Disappearances
In 1946, Paula Welden, a student of Bennington College, which was an all-women’s school at the time, disappeared after going for a hike one December day. She was never found. Welden’s disappearance was the most famous one of six supposed incidents. It was preceded by the vanishing of experienced but elderly outdoorsman Middie Rivers in 1945, and followed by a cluster of mysterious missing persons in 1950: eight-year old Paul Jepson went missing from a truck, Frances Christman and Frieda Langer disappeared within days of each other. Langer’s body was later discovered seven months later in an area around her campsite that had been previously thoroughly searched. Her cause of death was never determined. In November of 1950, Martha Jones disappeared after supposedly hitchhiking. One of the weirdest tales is that of James Tetford who was said to have vanished from a bus from St. Albans to Bennington in 1949. That is, he got on but never got off. This story has been greatly exaggerated, as it was many days before it was noticed that he didn’t return home. You won’t hear that part on paranormal media because it ruins the mystery.
It seems plausible that the disappearances in this localized area of Vermont inspired various fictional tales of haunted mountains. Weldon’s story, in particular, was loosely tied to the novel Hangsaman by author Shirley Jackson. Jackson lived in Bennington where her husband was a professor; she later became renowned for her uncanny tales including the shocking short story The Lottery and the short novel Haunting of Hill House, which was made into movies and a series. I recently finished a biography of Jackson (Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin) in which little mention was made of any unsettling characteristics of the Bennington area except for the way she was treated by the insular community.
Mystery mongers
In 1992, author and storyteller Joseph Citro described the area around Glastenbury mountain and Bennington where the disappearances and other strange tales had been reported as the “Bennington Triangle”. He admitted in the book Weird New England (p. 74) that he “swiped” the term Triangle because of the mysterious association (presumably with the Bermuda Triangle). Citro, who is not a trained folklorist, also popularized other spooky tales such as that of UFOs, hauntings, hairy monsters, portals to other dimensions, and man eating rocks. (I will try and treat that Spooky Geology topic at another time.) Reading Citro’s writing, he plays at mystery mongering, a characteristic that genuine folklore scholars would not exhibit. If the disappearances were not supernatural, he suggests, perhaps they were the work of a serial killer dubbed the Bennington Ripper or Mad Murderer of the Long Trail. There is no solid evidence for this but became a popular idea for discussion for armchair true-crime fans.
As happens with difficult or unique places, insinuations were made that the natives claimed the mountain was cursed and that unexplained lights and sounds emanated from it. The origins of such tales are dubious, but often repeated, nevertheless. The strange stories are often connected directly to Glastenbury mountain and town, which did have some history of violent crimes and murders. However, many of the publicized incidents didn’t happen on the mountain.
Monster tales
Man-like monster stories also became attached to the area. Numerous residents reported a “wild man” terrorized the people of Bennington and Glastenbury around 1867. Witnesses reported an unkempt naked man in a coat flashed residents and waved a pistol before hiding in the forest. Rumor was that he existed among the boulder caves. Incredibly, this story later seemed to morph into Bigfoot lore. There is considerable reason not to read this as a Bigfoot tale but that didn’t stop people conflating the story and creating the Bennington Monster. Various internet and book sources reference an account of a stagecoach in the 1800s halted by a washed out road. The coach was attacked by a large creature with glowing red eyes. Another tale was popularized by Ripley’s Believe It or Not (so I am rather inclined towards “not”) where a man named Carol Herrick was found dead in the woods in 1943 having been “squeezed to death and his body surrounded by huge footprints.” This was also associated with the Bennington Monster. I’d be grateful if people who knew anything about that story could supply a credible source. A few people have also claimed to have heard animal screams in the woods at night or having seen the typical hair-covered tall bipedal creatures as recently as the early 2000s
None of these claims, however, stand up to any scrutiny. In my admittedly cursory searches for legitimate sources of these accounts, I found the usual copy-paste efforts of paranormal web pages replete with mistaken spellings and attributions. The intent of the stories is to feed into the paranormal spirt of place and to bolster the lore of a paranormal “Triangle” area. Some exaggerated and poorly researched YouTube features even compare the Bennington Triangle to areas in the Western US known as supernatural hot spots like the Uinta Basin in Utah, home of Skinwalker Ranch.
The Bennington “square”?
Other than the fact that some people did actually disappear and were presumed dead, very little evidence supports the overreaching paranormal and monstrous claims made by mystery mongers promoting the Bennington Triangle. The events from 1945 to 1950 and those fore and aft were connected and judged to be significant by one person, Joe Citro, who sensationalized the events and native legends. Heck, it’s not even close to being a triangle!
As with other paranormal “triangle” areas, we can see the accretion of additional reports and facts that are added simply due to proximity. In this case, the abandonment of Glastenbury along with unfortunate human and natural events that seem to be due to social and environmental circumstances, fed into the supernatural themes that became popular fodder for the TV shows, podcasts and self-made videos from the late 90s to the present. Notably, the events of the Bennington Triangle are mostly in the past, as no recent events are attributed to it. However, we can guarantee that the preexisting framing allows any strange event that takes place in the vicinity to be conveniently hanged onto the body of tales and add to its mystique.
Here is Part 1 & 2 of a short documentary featuring local historians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdyysF0VC20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBPMp8H3x3w
More:
#BenningtonTriangle #Bigfoot #folklore #ghostTown #GlastenburyMountain #mysteriousDisappearances #Paranormal #paranormalVortex #ShirleyJackson #unsolvedMysteries #vermont #windowArea
https://sharonahill.com/?p=8701
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Triangle Trope of Vermont: Bennington
Vermont’s Bennington Triangle is my first stop on the Triangle Trope Trip this year. See also I Survived the Bermuda Triangle. And for a deep dive into the history of how these places became known, check out Paranormal Vortex Areas.
Glastenbury Mountain
On my way back from Vermont earlier this year, we passed Bennington and its infamous Glastenbury mountain, which has accrued a reputation as a spooky area hosting an array of supernatural and generally weird phenomena.
This reputation was boosted by real life tragedies, but also by writers and media producers who lumped events together, exaggerated some, made up others, and molded a contrived narrative. Their efforts enhanced and popularized the legends, eventually consolidating the package as the ‘Bennington Triangle.’
I did not have the chance to stop and explore Glastenbury, a lost village and rugged mountain that is likely named after Glastonbury, Somerset, England, though not spelled the same. The tiny town, now abandoned, had poor rocky soil and harsh winters, though it did manage to eek out an existence for a while in the mid 1800s. The railroad carried lumber and charcoal from the location to Bennington. But Glastenbury, Vermont only lasted 103 years, until 1937 when the trees had all been cut and last ditch efforts at tourism failed. The village lost its railroad line to flooding which scuttled any remaining potential and heralded its turn into a “ghost town”. It was unincorporated for lack of residents. (See also Glastenbury: A history of a Vermont ghost town by Tyler Resch, 2008)
Part of the Appalachian Trail, called The Long Trail through Vermont, passes over the Glastenbury mountain. From what I’ve gathered, trails through the old town and the mountain are not well-marked and a traveler could easily become lost. Haunted Hikes writer Andrea Lankford labels the 21-mile Glastenbury Loop as a ‘strenuous’ route today rising 2000 ft in elevation, not recommended for amateurs, with primitive roads and few rough shelters for bad weather. It’s a rugged environment, so, it’s not a wonder that several people have disappeared in the area, never to be found. The several disappearances, which were never fully explained, contributed mightily to the manufactured idea that the area, and the mountain in particular, was cursed and dangerous.
The Disappearances
In 1946, Paula Welden, a student of Bennington College, which was an all-women’s school at the time, disappeared after going for a hike one December day. She was never found. Welden’s disappearance was the most famous one of six supposed incidents. It was preceded by the vanishing of experienced but elderly outdoorsman Middie Rivers in 1945, and followed by a cluster of mysterious missing persons in 1950: eight-year old Paul Jepson went missing from a truck, Frances Christman and Frieda Langer disappeared within days of each other. Langer’s body was later discovered seven months later in an area around her campsite that had been previously thoroughly searched. Her cause of death was never determined. In November of 1950, Martha Jones disappeared after supposedly hitchhiking. One of the weirdest tales is that of James Tetford who was said to have vanished from a bus from St. Albans to Bennington in 1949. That is, he got on but never got off. This story has been greatly exaggerated, as it was many days before it was noticed that he didn’t return home. You won’t hear that part on paranormal media because it ruins the mystery.
It seems plausible that the disappearances in this localized area of Vermont inspired various fictional tales of haunted mountains. Weldon’s story, in particular, was loosely tied to the novel Hangsaman by author Shirley Jackson. Jackson lived in Bennington where her husband was a professor; she later became renowned for her uncanny tales including the shocking short story The Lottery and the short novel Haunting of Hill House, which was made into movies and a series. I recently finished a biography of Jackson (Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin) in which little mention was made of any unsettling characteristics of the Bennington area except for the way she was treated by the insular community.
Mystery mongers
In 1992, author and storyteller Joseph Citro described the area around Glastenbury mountain and Bennington where the disappearances and other strange tales had been reported as the “Bennington Triangle”. He admitted in the book Weird New England (p. 74) that he “swiped” the term Triangle because of the mysterious association (presumably with the Bermuda Triangle). Citro, who is not a trained folklorist, also popularized other spooky tales such as that of UFOs, hauntings, hairy monsters, portals to other dimensions, and man eating rocks. (I will try and treat that Spooky Geology topic at another time.) Reading Citro’s writing, he plays at mystery mongering, a characteristic that genuine folklore scholars would not exhibit. If the disappearances were not supernatural, he suggests, perhaps they were the work of a serial killer dubbed the Bennington Ripper or Mad Murderer of the Long Trail. There is no solid evidence for this but became a popular idea for discussion for armchair true-crime fans.
As happens with difficult or unique places, insinuations were made that the natives claimed the mountain was cursed and that unexplained lights and sounds emanated from it. The origins of such tales are dubious, but often repeated, nevertheless. The strange stories are often connected directly to Glastenbury mountain and town, which did have some history of violent crimes and murders. However, many of the publicized incidents didn’t happen on the mountain.
Monster tales
Man-like monster stories also became attached to the area. Numerous residents reported a “wild man” terrorized the people of Bennington and Glastenbury around 1867. Witnesses reported an unkempt naked man in a coat flashed residents and waved a pistol before hiding in the forest. Rumor was that he existed among the boulder caves. Incredibly, this story later seemed to morph into Bigfoot lore. There is considerable reason not to read this as a Bigfoot tale but that didn’t stop people conflating the story and creating the Bennington Monster. Various internet and book sources reference an account of a stagecoach in the 1800s halted by a washed out road. The coach was attacked by a large creature with glowing red eyes. Another tale was popularized by Ripley’s Believe It or Not (so I am rather inclined towards “not”) where a man named Carol Herrick was found dead in the woods in 1943 having been “squeezed to death and his body surrounded by huge footprints.” This was also associated with the Bennington Monster. I’d be grateful if people who knew anything about that story could supply a credible source. A few people have also claimed to have heard animal screams in the woods at night or having seen the typical hair-covered tall bipedal creatures as recently as the early 2000s
None of these claims, however, stand up to any scrutiny. In my admittedly cursory searches for legitimate sources of these accounts, I found the usual copy-paste efforts of paranormal web pages replete with mistaken spellings and attributions. The intent of the stories is to feed into the paranormal spirt of place and to bolster the lore of a paranormal “Triangle” area. Some exaggerated and poorly researched YouTube features even compare the Bennington Triangle to areas in the Western US known as supernatural hot spots like the Uinta Basin in Utah, home of Skinwalker Ranch.
The Bennington “square”?
Other than the fact that some people did actually disappear and were presumed dead, very little evidence supports the overreaching paranormal and monstrous claims made by mystery mongers promoting the Bennington Triangle. The events from 1945 to 1950 and those fore and aft were connected and judged to be significant by one person, Joe Citro, who sensationalized the events and native legends. Heck, it’s not even close to being a triangle!
As with other paranormal “triangle” areas, we can see the accretion of additional reports and facts that are added simply due to proximity. In this case, the abandonment of Glastenbury along with unfortunate human and natural events that seem to be due to social and environmental circumstances, fed into the supernatural themes that became popular fodder for the TV shows, podcasts and self-made videos from the late 90s to the present. Notably, the events of the Bennington Triangle are mostly in the past, as no recent events are attributed to it. However, we can guarantee that the preexisting framing allows any strange event that takes place in the vicinity to be conveniently hanged onto the body of tales and add to its mystique.
Here is Part 1 & 2 of a short documentary featuring local historians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdyysF0VC20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBPMp8H3x3w
More:
#BenningtonTriangle #Bigfoot #folklore #ghostTown #GlastenburyMountain #mysteriousDisappearances #Paranormal #paranormalVortex #ShirleyJackson #unsolvedMysteries #vermont #windowArea
https://sharonahill.com/?p=8701
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Triangle Trope of Vermont: Bennington
Vermont’s Bennington Triangle is my first stop on the Triangle Trope Trip this year. See also I Survived the Bermuda Triangle. And for a deep dive into the history of how these places became known, check out Paranormal Vortex Areas.
Glastenbury Mountain
On my way back from Vermont earlier this year, we passed Bennington and its infamous Glastenbury mountain, which has accrued a reputation as a spooky area hosting an array of supernatural and generally weird phenomena.
This reputation was boosted by real life tragedies, but also by writers and media producers who lumped events together, exaggerated some, made up others, and molded a contrived narrative. Their efforts enhanced and popularized the legends, eventually consolidating the package as the ‘Bennington Triangle.’
I did not have the chance to stop and explore Glastenbury, a lost village and rugged mountain that is likely named after Glastonbury, Somerset, England, though not spelled the same. The tiny town, now abandoned, had poor rocky soil and harsh winters, though it did manage to eek out an existence for a while in the mid 1800s. The railroad carried lumber and charcoal from the location to Bennington. But Glastenbury, Vermont only lasted 103 years, until 1937 when the trees had all been cut and last ditch efforts at tourism failed. The village lost its railroad line to flooding which scuttled any remaining potential and heralded its turn into a “ghost town”. It was unincorporated for lack of residents. (See also Glastenbury: A history of a Vermont ghost town by Tyler Resch, 2008)
Part of the Appalachian Trail, called The Long Trail through Vermont, passes over the Glastenbury mountain. From what I’ve gathered, trails through the old town and the mountain are not well-marked and a traveler could easily become lost. Haunted Hikes writer Andrea Lankford labels the 21-mile Glastenbury Loop as a ‘strenuous’ route today rising 2000 ft in elevation, not recommended for amateurs, with primitive roads and few rough shelters for bad weather. It’s a rugged environment, so, it’s not a wonder that several people have disappeared in the area, never to be found. The several disappearances, which were never fully explained, contributed mightily to the manufactured idea that the area, and the mountain in particular, was cursed and dangerous.
The Disappearances
In 1946, Paula Welden, a student of Bennington College, which was an all-women’s school at the time, disappeared after going for a hike one December day. She was never found. Welden’s disappearance was the most famous one of six supposed incidents. It was preceded by the vanishing of experienced but elderly outdoorsman Middie Rivers in 1945, and followed by a cluster of mysterious missing persons in 1950: eight-year old Paul Jepson went missing from a truck, Frances Christman and Frieda Langer disappeared within days of each other. Langer’s body was later discovered seven months later in an area around her campsite that had been previously thoroughly searched. Her cause of death was never determined. In November of 1950, Martha Jones disappeared after supposedly hitchhiking. One of the weirdest tales is that of James Tetford who was said to have vanished from a bus from St. Albans to Bennington in 1949. That is, he got on but never got off. This story has been greatly exaggerated, as it was many days before it was noticed that he didn’t return home. You won’t hear that part on paranormal media because it ruins the mystery.
It seems plausible that the disappearances in this localized area of Vermont inspired various fictional tales of haunted mountains. Weldon’s story, in particular, was loosely tied to the novel Hangsaman by author Shirley Jackson. Jackson lived in Bennington where her husband was a professor; she later became renowned for her uncanny tales including the shocking short story The Lottery and the short novel Haunting of Hill House, which was made into movies and a series. I recently finished a biography of Jackson (Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin) in which little mention was made of any unsettling characteristics of the Bennington area except for the way she was treated by the insular community.
Mystery mongers
In 1992, author and storyteller Joseph Citro described the area around Glastenbury mountain and Bennington where the disappearances and other strange tales had been reported as the “Bennington Triangle”. He admitted in the book Weird New England (p. 74) that he “swiped” the term Triangle because of the mysterious association (presumably with the Bermuda Triangle). Citro, who is not a trained folklorist, also popularized other spooky tales such as that of UFOs, hauntings, hairy monsters, portals to other dimensions, and man eating rocks. (I will try and treat that Spooky Geology topic at another time.) Reading Citro’s writing, he plays at mystery mongering, a characteristic that genuine folklore scholars would not exhibit. If the disappearances were not supernatural, he suggests, perhaps they were the work of a serial killer dubbed the Bennington Ripper or Mad Murderer of the Long Trail. There is no solid evidence for this but became a popular idea for discussion for armchair true-crime fans.
As happens with difficult or unique places, insinuations were made that the natives claimed the mountain was cursed and that unexplained lights and sounds emanated from it. The origins of such tales are dubious, but often repeated, nevertheless. The strange stories are often connected directly to Glastenbury mountain and town, which did have some history of violent crimes and murders. However, many of the publicized incidents didn’t happen on the mountain.
Monster tales
Man-like monster stories also became attached to the area. Numerous residents reported a “wild man” terrorized the people of Bennington and Glastenbury around 1867. Witnesses reported an unkempt naked man in a coat flashed residents and waved a pistol before hiding in the forest. Rumor was that he existed among the boulder caves. Incredibly, this story later seemed to morph into Bigfoot lore. There is considerable reason not to read this as a Bigfoot tale but that didn’t stop people conflating the story and creating the Bennington Monster. Various internet and book sources reference an account of a stagecoach in the 1800s halted by a washed out road. The coach was attacked by a large creature with glowing red eyes. Another tale was popularized by Ripley’s Believe It or Not (so I am rather inclined towards “not”) where a man named Carol Herrick was found dead in the woods in 1943 having been “squeezed to death and his body surrounded by huge footprints.” This was also associated with the Bennington Monster. I’d be grateful if people who knew anything about that story could supply a credible source. A few people have also claimed to have heard animal screams in the woods at night or having seen the typical hair-covered tall bipedal creatures as recently as the early 2000s
None of these claims, however, stand up to any scrutiny. In my admittedly cursory searches for legitimate sources of these accounts, I found the usual copy-paste efforts of paranormal web pages replete with mistaken spellings and attributions. The intent of the stories is to feed into the paranormal spirt of place and to bolster the lore of a paranormal “Triangle” area. Some exaggerated and poorly researched YouTube features even compare the Bennington Triangle to areas in the Western US known as supernatural hot spots like the Uinta Basin in Utah, home of Skinwalker Ranch.
The Bennington “square”?
Other than the fact that some people did actually disappear and were presumed dead, very little evidence supports the overreaching paranormal and monstrous claims made by mystery mongers promoting the Bennington Triangle. The events from 1945 to 1950 and those fore and aft were connected and judged to be significant by one person, Joe Citro, who sensationalized the events and native legends. Heck, it’s not even close to being a triangle!
As with other paranormal “triangle” areas, we can see the accretion of additional reports and facts that are added simply due to proximity. In this case, the abandonment of Glastenbury along with unfortunate human and natural events that seem to be due to social and environmental circumstances, fed into the supernatural themes that became popular fodder for the TV shows, podcasts and self-made videos from the late 90s to the present. Notably, the events of the Bennington Triangle are mostly in the past, as no recent events are attributed to it. However, we can guarantee that the preexisting framing allows any strange event that takes place in the vicinity to be conveniently hanged onto the body of tales and add to its mystique.
Here is Part 1 & 2 of a short documentary featuring local historians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdyysF0VC20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBPMp8H3x3w
More:
#BenningtonTriangle #Bigfoot #folklore #ghostTown #GlastenburyMountain #mysteriousDisappearances #Paranormal #paranormalVortex #ShirleyJackson #unsolvedMysteries #vermont #windowArea
https://sharonahill.com/?p=8701
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Given the current election season, this seems timely. “Democracy and the American Gothic” by Michael J. Blouin is #OpenAccess for the next two weeks from #CambridgeUniversityPress.
#Democracy #Gothic #GothicStudies #Horror #HorrorStudies #CharlesBrockdenBrown #EdgarAllanPoe #ShirleyJackson #StephenKing
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Shirley Jackson’s Local Legacy
This presentation features Jamie Franklin, #BenningtonMuseum's Director of Collections and Exhibitions, and #LaurenceHyman, the son of #ShirleyJackson, in a conversation about Jackson's literary legacy, focusing on items from the museum’s collection.
#Gothic #Horror #Bennington #Books -
We were just discussing #AnAdventure (1911) in class! #ShirleyJackson found it inspiring while writing #TheHauntingOfHillHouse.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/time-travel-oxford-versailles
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Next week I begin teaching my March module on A Haunting on the Hill by #ElizabethHand in SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education #online with #SignumUniversity). I’m really looking forward to returning to Hill House with my students! 📖
#Gothic #Books #Bookstodon #GothicStudies #Horror #HorrorStudies #AHauntingOnTheHill #ShirleyJackson
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Save the Date! “Reading Shirley Jackson in the 21st Century” 3 will take place this 4th of July. It should be a hybrid event. Expect a #CFP in the coming weeks, with information at https://shirleyjackson21stcentury.wordpress.com/.
#ShirleyJackson #Gothic #GothicStudies #OnlineEvent #OnlineConference #Horror
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This year I've been delighted to join SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) #online with #SignumUniversity. Last week I wrapped up teaching my first module, which was on The Haunting of Hill House by #ShirleyJackson. It was so much fun!
Currently my March module candidate is up for vote until 2/1/24: A Haunting on the Hill by #ElizabethHand. I hope you'll join me!
https://youtu.be/N3n7LyNDGDw?si=JvEVWkuPgCWvlUPG
For more information on my offered modules, please visit http://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/r/DFQwln
#Gothic #Books #Bookstodon #GothicStudies #Horror #HorrorStudies #AHauntingOnTheHill
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Current mood: listening to #ShirleyJackson’s daughter sing the #MurderBallad “The Grattan Murders,” which appears in Jackson’s novel #TheHauntingOfHillHouse, as her mother sang it to her. #Gothic #Music
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2023 in Review: Essays!
This year I published two peer-reviewed essays in academic anthologies and one pedagogical article online.
🖖 "Beyond the Wilds and the Waves: Reevaluating Archer, the Armory, and Enterprise" in Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier
💀 "Dark Arts and Secret Histories: Investigating Dark Academia" in Potterversity
📚 "Teaching Shirley Jackson's Hangsaman" at Reading Shirley Jackson in the 21st Century here: https://shirleyjackson21stcentury.wordpress.com/2023/01/27/teaching-shirley-jacksons-hangsaman-1951-by-amy-h-sturgis/
#2023InReview #StarTrek #StarTrekEnterprise #Enterprise #DarkAcademia #Gothic #ShirleyJackson #Hangsaman #Books #Bookstodon #Scholarship #ScienceFiction #Academics
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Perhaps my last Shirley Jackson audio story for the night, this is a weird trippy beauty. Jackson's writing is so specific, so descriptive, that it lends itself well to audio. In all the stories I listened to tonight, there is a common theme of travel, of going into the unknown, and a realization of one's precarious existence in the midst of a foreign situation. I highly recommend them all. 🖤 #AmListening #audiostory #ShirleyJackson
https://youtu.be/OypmpGEbfp8?si=bLrBTAt1Uc38kfG9 -
Só agora me apercebi que este livro foi traduzido para PT em setembro. Falei sobre ele, mas não muito (não quero estragar a leitura a ninguém), apenas para dizer que está nos meus livros favoritos, aqui https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2022/10/28/book-recommendations-for-halloween-my-assortment-for-a-perfect-weekend-booktwt/
Está à venda na GATAfunho (link abaixo)
Sempre Vivemos no Castelo – GATAfunho
https://gatafunho.com/collections/graudos/products/sempre-vivemos-no-castelo
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The #corn is up about seven feet now, the young cobs maybe twice the width of a man’s thumb. Time to read Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Lottery’ again—an annual ritual.
#cycling #gravelbike #Stratford #Ontario #Canada #photography #shirleyjackson #thelottery #embro
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Thanks #MartinCounty for helping me figure out what book to read next. I was going to follow up #PercivalEverett's #Erasure with #ShirleyJackson's #TheBirdNest, but I guess it'll be #Picoult's #TheStoryteller. #litstudies https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/10/ron-desantis-book-bans-martin-county-jodi-picoult/
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Thanks #MartinCounty for helping me figure out what book to read next. I was going to follow up #PercivalEverett's #Erasure with #ShirleyJackson's #TheBirdNest, but I guess it'll be #Picoult's #TheStoryteller. #litstudies https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/10/ron-desantis-book-bans-martin-county-jodi-picoult/
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How Great Storytelling Lingers in the Mind: Shirley Jackson's ominous foreboding; thought stickiness; living rent-free in your head; Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom; introspection; meaning
https://brainpizza.substack.com/p/lingering-narratives-capturing-the
#storytelling #ShirleyJackson #ominous #foreboding #thoughts #livingrentfree #Amanitaphalloides #death #introspection #meaning
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Grasping at straws here but does anyone know why #ShirleyJackson used the name #Harris so frequently in her stories? There must be a reason. #literature #classiclit #notClassiClit #americanlit
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Grasping at straws here but does anyone know why #ShirleyJackson used the name #Harris so frequently in her stories? There must be a reason. #literature #classiclit #notClassiClit #americanlit
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Vinterspøgelser, Shirley Jackson og tidssløjfer
Lidt inspirationslinks til julelæsningen.
#horror #shirley-jackson #solvej-balle #spoegelser #spoegelseshistorier #tidsrejser #tidssloejfer
https://superkultur.dk/2022/12/16/vinterspoegelser-shirley-jackson-og-tidssloejfer/
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Vinterspøgelser, Shirley Jackson og tidssløjfer
Lidt inspirationslinks til julelæsningen.
#horror #shirley-jackson #solvej-balle #spoegelser #spoegelseshistorier #tidsrejser #tidssloejfer
https://superkultur.dk/2022/12/16/vinterspoegelser-shirley-jackson-og-tidssloejfer/
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Vinterspøgelser, Shirley Jackson og tidssløjfer
Lidt inspirationslinks til julelæsningen.
#horror #shirley-jackson #solvej-balle #spoegelser #spoegelseshistorier #tidsrejser #tidssloejfer
https://superkultur.dk/2022/12/16/vinterspoegelser-shirley-jackson-og-tidssloejfer/
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Vinterspøgelser, Shirley Jackson og tidssløjfer
Lidt inspirationslinks til julelæsningen.
#horror #shirley-jackson #solvej-balle #spoegelser #spoegelseshistorier #tidsrejser #tidssloejfer
https://superkultur.dk/2022/12/16/vinterspoegelser-shirley-jackson-og-tidssloejfer/
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Vinterspøgelser, Shirley Jackson og tidssløjfer
Lidt inspirationslinks til julelæsningen.
#horror #shirley-jackson #solvej-balle #spoegelser #spoegelseshistorier #tidsrejser #tidssloejfer
https://superkultur.dk/2022/12/16/vinterspoegelser-shirley-jackson-og-tidssloejfer/
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4 ghost movies you need to see.
The Uninvited (Lewis Allen, 1944)
The Innocents (Jack Clayton, 1961)
The Haunting (Robert Wise, 1963)
Immortal Love AKA Hellish Love (Chûsei Sone, 1972)
#ghostmovies #horrormovies #horror #FilmMastodon #classicmovies #cultmovies #LewisAllen #JackClayton #RobertWise #ChuseiSone #RayMilland #DeborahKerr #ClaireBloom #ShirleyJackson #ghosts #ghoststories
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4 ghost movies you need to see.
The Uninvited (Lewis Allen, 1944)
The Innocents (Jack Clayton, 1961)
The Haunting (Robert Wise, 1963)
Immortal Love AKA Hellish Love (Chûsei Sone, 1972)
#ghostmovies #horrormovies #horror #FilmMastodon #classicmovies #cultmovies #LewisAllen #JackClayton #RobertWise #ChuseiSone #RayMilland #DeborahKerr #ClaireBloom #ShirleyJackson #ghosts #ghoststories
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4 ghost movies you need to see.
The Uninvited (Lewis Allen, 1944)
The Innocents (Jack Clayton, 1961)
The Haunting (Robert Wise, 1963)
Immortal Love AKA Hellish Love (Chûsei Sone, 1972)
#ghostmovies #horrormovies #horror #FilmMastodon #classicmovies #cultmovies #LewisAllen #JackClayton #RobertWise #ChuseiSone #RayMilland #DeborahKerr #ClaireBloom #ShirleyJackson #ghosts #ghoststories
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4 ghost movies you need to see.
The Uninvited (Lewis Allen, 1944)
The Innocents (Jack Clayton, 1961)
The Haunting (Robert Wise, 1963)
Immortal Love AKA Hellish Love (Chûsei Sone, 1972)
#ghostmovies #horrormovies #horror #FilmMastodon #classicmovies #cultmovies #LewisAllen #JackClayton #RobertWise #ChuseiSone #RayMilland #DeborahKerr #ClaireBloom #ShirleyJackson #ghosts #ghoststories
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4 ghost movies you need to see.
The Uninvited (Lewis Allen, 1944)
The Innocents (Jack Clayton, 1961)
The Haunting (Robert Wise, 1963)
Immortal Love AKA Hellish Love (Chûsei Sone, 1972)
#ghostmovies #horrormovies #horror #FilmMastodon #classicmovies #cultmovies #LewisAllen #JackClayton #RobertWise #ChuseiSone #RayMilland #DeborahKerr #ClaireBloom #ShirleyJackson #ghosts #ghoststories
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Loving the 7 favourite author posts. I'm not sure I can name 7!
#KirstyLogan
#SarahWaters
#ShirleyJackson
#DaphneDuMaurierNope can't name 7 so here are some fave books I've read in recent years:
📚 Things We Lost in the Fire by #MarianaEnriquez
📚 The Mercies by #KiranMillwoodHargrave
📚 Woman, Eating by #ClaireKohda#BookToot #bookstadon #CurrentlyReading #BookRecs #BookTwitter
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@bookstodon 7 favorite authors in no particular order...
Susanna Clarke #susannaclarke
Nnedi Okorafor #NnediOkorafor
Sarah Gailey #sarahgailey
Shirley Jackson #shirleyjackson
Marie Brennan #mariebrennan
Diana Wynne Jones #DianaWynneJones
Yoshihiro Togashi #yoshihirotogashiI think I did this right? But still new to do this #bookstodon
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Hashtags for today. Some favourite #books and #authors
#bookstadon#stephenking
#terrypratchett
#neilgaiman
#jamesherbert
#angelacarter
#richardlaymon
#clivebarker
#lewiscarroll
#piersanthony
#dansimmons
#ianrankin
#iainbanks
#irvinewelsh
#agathachristie
#mrjames
#shaunhutson
#hgwells
#leechild
#arthurconandoyle
#shirleyjackson
#douglasadams
#raymondchandler
#richardayoade
#tomsharpe
#ramseycampbell
#peterstraub
#meddlingkids
#thehobbit and many more I look forward to discovering.