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I would never have guessed that a phrase such as "taking a dirt nap" went that far back. Really interesting post!

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Thank you 😁

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Another great read!

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Glad you're enjoying them 😁

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Always an interesting read!

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Thank you 👍

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Oct 11, 2023·edited Oct 11, 2023Liked by A. B. Frank

Very interesting how so many of these phrases we use to today can be sourced back to Victorian times! Victorians and their obsession with death was a great read! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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Thank you 😁 yeah it was such a fascinating time back then!

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I like "The Tomb," that's a good one. Always like a Lovecraft reference or mention.

This was very interesting, thank you.

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I liked it too! I've been reading Lovecraft over the last couple of years and I really like him, hopefully there'll be plenty more references 📚

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I wouldn't mind that. I got the complete fiction a couple years ago and managed to read it in a year, wish I hadn't so I would have more to read. He has a couple with other authors that I haven't read though. He's good. Some I wouldn't recommend to others you know, fooooooor example, The Reanimator, while I find it interesting, is grisly and morbid, and then there is The Rats in the Walls with his infamous cat. I have the complete Poetical works of H.P. Lovecraft coming so I do have more Lovecraft, yay!

I have the complete Poe, but I find his stuff so hard to read, the famous ones, the ones mentioned on the back, were good, but I've finished those . . . I love The Raven though, thank you Simpsons.

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I have the two annotated Lovecraft volumes by Leslie S Klinger 👌 I believe he ghost wrote a lot of stories as well - it migh be Library of America that published them in one book.

The Raven is a masterpiece! My favourite Poe story so far is The Tell-Tale Heart, but you're right about Poe being hard to read

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I'll have to check that out, thanks. Yeah, I have, or had, The Raven memorized. So good.

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It's really short but also really good. Best short story ever written ✍️

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Another good one, not horror, but still really good is The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson, if you haven't read that one.

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