You no longer have surrogate designating powers. You lost them in my previous post. Sorry bout that.

*grumble grumble*...all this damned chitchat...*grumble*...just put up a damned quote...*grumble*

All right, I'll put one up. Seasonally appropriate, dontcha think?

"The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be. "

Didn't someone do a quote from this book earlier? If not, I'm almost positive this author has been used. Good quote though.

The author has definitely been used. I believe it was a different book, however.

I've read that, maybe twice, and I still couldn't remember what it was from without Googling it. Arrgh!

I don't have a clue. Then again, I guess it's rare that I do have a clue.

It was made into a very scary movie, starring, I think Deborah Kerr (mark f? is that right?) althought they used a name different from the book's. The Christmas in the title is a complete red herring, since the book is really a suspense or psychological thriller. The book was written at the fin de siecle.

The Turn of the Screw, right?

Yes yes yes!

Aha!
so....

"Hot, thought the Parisians. The warm air of spring. It was night, they were at war and there was an air raid."

Great first line. Great book. Unfortunately, it was done on the first one or two pages of this thread!

Suite Francaise. But, go ahead and put up another one.

Oh, before my time. Very well then.... Take 2

"During the autumn of 18__, while on a tour through the extreme southern provinces of France, my route led me within a few miles of a certain Maison De Sante or private madhouse, about which I had heard much, in Paris, from my medical friends."

Got to be Victor Hugo, and it's not Les Miserables.

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Originally posted by kendo"snow miser"cubano:
Got to be Victor Hugo, and it's not Les Miserables.

I'm afraid not, KC. I got lucky in that I literally just read this for the first time on Tuesday. I'll wait to see if anyone else knows it.

Goddamn Patrick, one day I'll get ya!

clue for others: old US author

A US author? Well, that throws me off. Knowing your penchant for genre, Ishter, is it sci-fi or horror?

oooo...it be horror....creeping, gothic horror

Assuming the "18__" is not affectation, the only 19th or early 20th century US authors I can think of off of the top of my head who might be described as gothic horror would be Poe or, maybe Lovecraft.

You are on the money with E.A.Poe.

You will be tarred and feathered if you can't get the title....

Alright dammit, let's get this party started again.

Ish's quote is from the story The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether by E.A. Poe.

I'll pick something easy to get things rolling.

"Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo."