{"id":2546,"date":"2016-07-30T13:27:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T13:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/?p=2546"},"modified":"2016-08-01T08:48:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T08:48:56","slug":"something-for-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/something-for-the-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Something for the Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE FOR OUR DEAR LISTENERS – WE’RE ON HOLS WITH THE LONGDOGSES UNTIL NEXT WEEKEND!<\/span><\/h2>\n

Today, a little of everything – horror and weird writing, weird art and audio, plus sad doggie news. We regularly get snippets on all sorts of interesting things, but don’t have time to construct a full feature. We’re also powering down \u2013 we’ve been doing greydogtales<\/em> continually for about a year, with up to four features a week, and we’re having a few days off soon. So we’ll give a nod here to some of those snippets before we start locking up the kennels.<\/p>\n

Sad part:<\/strong> Some of you will know that we lost Twiglet<\/strong>, our sixteen plus years old chocolate labrador, recently. Not going to talk about it here, although we might have a celebratory post for her later in the Summer, as she was an extraordinary dog. After nearly sixteen years with us, that loss has lead to some breaks in our normally positive vibes, and a lot of tears, but the obstinate old bear always had a major impact on life. No change there, then.<\/p>\n

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twiglet (l) with django in better times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We are due a major longdog and lurcher post, but losing Twiglet has dampened us a bit, so we’ll do that later on as well. Apologies.<\/p>\n

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Onto the weird. We can’t cover everything, and we’re not a news channel, so these are plucked from the front of our brains as we write\u2026<\/p>\n

Not long ago we covered Fritz Leiber’s<\/strong> The Pale Brown Thing<\/em>, which has been re-released sumptuously by Swan River Press<\/em>. As we wrote, we drifted into the question of Our Lady of Darkness and her sisters, originally from Thomas de Quincey<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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swan river press edition 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then, a few days later, we were sorting through old copies of the 2000AD<\/em> comic, and lo and behold, we came across de Quincey’s opium-inspired Ladies again in a strip called Tyranny Rex<\/em> \u2013 Prog 879, from March 1994. Which was unexpected, as it quotes directly from de Quincey in some detail. Who says comics aren’t educational?<\/p>\n

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john smith (script), richard elson marshalll\/cox (art). c. fleetway editions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And for audio buffs, we note that our old friend Morgan Scorpion<\/strong> has recorded this section of de Quincey’s Suspiria de Profundis<\/em> here:<\/p>\n