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Jennifer Morrow's avatar

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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A. B. Frank's avatar

Thank you 😁

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Jessica Maison's avatar

Another great read!

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A. B. Frank's avatar

Glad you're enjoying them 😁

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The Chronicler's avatar

Always an interesting read!

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A. B. Frank's avatar

Thank you 👍

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Maribel's avatar

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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A. B. Frank's avatar

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

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Harold Ember's avatar

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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A. B. Frank's avatar

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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Harold Ember's avatar

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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A. B. Frank's avatar

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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Harold Ember's avatar

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

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A. B. Frank's avatar

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

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Harold Ember's avatar

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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