#frank stockton

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"The Lady, or the Tiger" is available to read here

[momoguido]

I just noticed that Frank Stockton died in 1902. His stories always felt so modern to me that I assumed he was a 20th Century writer. The plain-spokenness and understated self-awareness are not something I associate with the Victorian era.

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A Special Kind Of Mirage

The truth behind the Flying Dutchman and its link with Arthurian legend #mirage #science #KingArthur

Those imbued with a less romantic spirit, though, sought to provide a rational explanation of the phenomenon of The Flying Dutchman. An early attempt appeared in Frank Stockton’s Round-About Rambles (1870) in which he tells of a captain’s reaction when some of his crew reported a sighting. “This strange appearance”, he explained, “was caused by the reflection of some ship that was sailing on the…

[fictionz]

New Horror 2023 - Day 25

"My situation was now one of extreme delicacy and embarrassment."

"The Transferred Ghost" by Frank Stockton (1882)

I'm glad some of these spooky stories can have a laugh with it.

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"I only knew that I should not be."

"The Muck Monster" by Bernie Wrightson (1975)

That's an impressive comic! Wrightson was clearly building up to his grand take on Frankenstein with these earlier explorations of existential nightmares. It looks amazing and the story's nice and somber.

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"Are you in favor of filth coming into Pottsville?"

The Being dir. Jackie Kong (1983)

A neat low-budget monster movie, and impressive given it's the director's first work. But I also can't says you gotta see it. If you watch it for anything, watch it for the monster effects.

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"From the moment he first SPIED-her, he wanted to make that girl his naturally WEBBED wife!"

Tales from the Cryptkeeper - Seasons 2 & 3 (1994 & 1999)

You know, this show is most definitely for KILL-dren, but I still really enjoyed more dead-PUN humor from the Cryptkeeper and the occasional spooky GORY that punched way above its Saturday MOURNING weight class.

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Publishers’ Binding Thursday

This week’s Publishers’ Binding is The Floating Prince and Other Fairy Tales by American writer Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902). This edition was published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in New York in 1881. It consists of humorous fairytales, one of which includes a girl riding a bear! The illustrations are by American artist and illustrator E.B. Bensell (1842-1894), who also illustrated a few other books by Stockton. At the back of the book are advertisements for other books in the Scribner’s series for “Young Folks.” This book is part of our Historical Curriculum Collection.

The book is bound in gold- and black-stamped cloth with green and brown notes. The front cover is decorated with black-stamped scenes and characters from the text and the edges of the cover are beveled. Our copy also features some lovely green mending tape that a thoughtful owner used to “fix” the spine of the book, which is unfortunate because it was likely also nicely decorated. 

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

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THE ASSOCIATE HERMITS by Frank R. Stockton. (New York: Harper, 1899). Illustrated by A.B. Frost

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Short Story Tournament

THE LADY, OR THE TIGER? by Frank R. Stockton (1882) (link) - tw: death mentions

If he opened the one, there came out of it a hungry tiger, the fiercest and most cruel that could be procured, which immediately sprang upon him and tore him to pieces as a punishment for his guilt. But, if the accused person opened the other door, there came forth from it a lady, the most suitable to his years and station that his majesty could select among his fair subjects, and to this lady he was immediately married, as a reward of his innocence.

NKÁSHT ÍÍ by Darcie Little Badger (2014) (link) - tw: death

Great-grandmother taught me everything she knew about death before it took her. Never sleep under a juniper tree. They grow between this world and the place below. Bury the dead properly, lest their ghosts return. A ghost is a terrible thing. Someday, we will all be terrible things. Great-grandmother, you were right.

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Literature Moodboards // The Lady, or the Tiger? by Frank R. Stockton

Would it not be better for him to die at once, and go to wait for her in the blessed regions of semi-barbaric futurity? And yet, that awful tiger, those shrieks, that blood!  

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A short story that I recommend is Recitatif by Toni Morrison. It's a story about two girls and their friendship from the time they are eight to the time they are about in their fifties. The two girls are of different races, one is black and the other is white, but Toni Morrison never makes clear which girl is which race. She did this in order to make it so the audience can decide who is which race based on their own personal biases. I like stories that are left up to the interpretation of the audience as a sort of social experiment and the only other story that I have read that does something like this is The Lady, or The Tiger? by Frank R. Stockton. You can read Recitatif online for free and it is only 20 pages long.

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THE BARBADOS PROJECT (2022) Reviews of found-footage creature feature

THE BARBADOS PROJECT (2022) Reviews of found-footage creature feature

The Barbados Project is a 2022 found-footage horror film about a journalist investigating a social media video showing a giant creature. Her story uncovers a multi-nation government conspiracy that will forever change the face of Barbados… Previously known as The Trident -The Land We Call Home Directed by Thomas Burke and Stockton Miller from a screenplay by the latter. Produced and edited by…

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Art by Frank Stockton  

[momoguido]

Every Frank Stockton story I read delights me in just a slightly different way than every other. He's a master of fables and fairy tales, someone who understands that they are simultaneously sublime and ridiculous, and never lets either aspect detract from the other.

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Roy W. Allen opened a roadside root beer stand in Lodi, California, in 1919, using a formula that he had purchased from a pharmacist. He soon opened stands in Stockton, as well as five stands in nearby Sacramento - where "tray boys" pioneered drive-in curbside service. In 1920, Allen partnered with Frank Wright, birthing the A&W brand name.

Allen bought Wright out, obtained a trademark, and began selling restaurant franchises - creating one of the first restaurant chains in the United States. Franchise owners could use the A&W name and logo and purchase concentrated root beer syrup from Allen. There was no common menu, architecture, or set of procedures, and some chose to also sell food. By 1933, there were 170 A&W franchises.

Franchises struggled with labor shortages and sugar rationing during World War II, but following the war, GI loans helped, in part, the number of A&W outlets to triple. The proliferation of the automobile and the mobility it offered resulted in more than 450 A&W Root Beer stands operating by 1950. That year, Allen retired and sold the business to Nebraskan Gene Hurtz, who formed the A&W Root Beer Company. The first A&W Root Beer outlet in Canada opened in 1956.

By 1960, the number of A&W restaurants swelled to more than 2,000.

Today, the rights to the A&W brand are owned by Keurig Dr Pepper, which in turn licenses the brand to the U.S.-based A&W Restaurant chain.

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Favorite First Time Film Watches of 2022 (in no particular order):

His Motorbike, Her Island (1986) dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi Ashik Kerib (1988) dir. Sergei Parajanov Passing Strangers (1974) // Forbidden Letters (1976) dir. Arthur J. Bressan, Jr. Visitor Q (2001) dir. Takashi Miike Born in Flames (1983) dir. Lizzie Borden Habeas Corpus (1986) dir. Jorge Acha Blues Harp (1998) dir. Takashi Miike The Meatrack (1970) dir. Richard Stockton Tokyo Decadence (1992) dir. Ryū Murakami Taxi zum Klo (1981) dir. Frank Ripploh

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Books Read In 2023

Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley (1/3/23)

East by Edith Pattou (1/4/23)

Midnight on the Moon by Mary Pope Osbourn (1/16/23)

The Lady or The Tiger?, and The Discourager of Hesitancy by Frank R. Stockton (1/17/23)

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1/21/23)

Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti (1/22/23)

Tiger Queen by Annie Sullivan (1/22/23)

The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (1/26/23)

Batgirl, vol. 1: The Silent Knight (1/27/23)

Batgirl, vol. 2: To The Death (1/27/23)

Batgirl, vol. 3: Point Blank (1/28/23)

The Female of the Species by Rudyard Kipling (2/17/23)

Batgirl: Stephanie Brown, vol. 1 by Bryan Q. Miller (2/19/23)

Batgirl, Stephanie Brown, vol. 2 by Bryan Q. Miller (3/4/23)

Christmas in Noisy Village by Astrid Lindgren (3/4/23)

The Queen’s Blade by T C Southwell (3/5/23)

Sacrifice, The Queen’s Blade #2 by T C Southwell (3/9/23)

The Invisible Assassin, The Queen’s Blade #3 by T C Southwell (3/13/23)

Mermaids by Patty Dann (3/14/23) X

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám translated by Edward FitzGerald (3/19/23)

The Mirror Visitor by Christelle Dabos (3/21/23) X

The Missing of Clairedelune by Christelle Dabos (3/22/23) X

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jeannette McCurdy (3/24/23) X

Ronia, The Robber’s Daughter by Astrid Lindgren (3/27/23)

Kiki’s Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono (3/30/23)

Brine and Bone by Kate Stradling (4/10/23)

Green Arrow: Quiver by Kevin Smith (4/17/23) X

Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, translated by Stanley Mitchell (4/22/23)

When Patty Went to College by Jean Webster (4/23/23)

The Princess and The Pea by Hans Christian Anderson (4/23/23)

Deathmark by Kate Stradling (4/25/23)

Without Blood by Alessandro Baricco (5/5/23)

River Secrets by Shannon Hale (5/6/23)

The Fairy’s Return and Other Princess Tales by Gail Carson Levine (5/8/22)

Batman Adventures: Cat Got Your Tongue? by Steve Vance (5/14/23)

Batman Adventures: Batgirl — A League of Her Own by Paul Dini (5/17/23)

The Girl From The Other Side: Siúil a Rún, Vol. 1 by Nagabe (5/19/23)

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda. Translated by W. S. Merwin (5/26/23)

Other-Wordly: Words Both Strange and Lovely from Around the World by Yee-Lum Mak (6/21/23)

A Bride’s Story, vol. 1 by Kaoru Mori (6/25/23) X

La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils (7/17/2023)

Storefront Church by William Waring Cuney (7/24/23)

Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers (1941), compiled by Arnas Bontemps (7/28/23)

Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo (7/29/23)

Strawberry’s New Friend (Flower Fairy Friends series) by Pippa Le Quesne (7/29/23)

Clementine by Sara Pennypacker (8/11/23)

The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman (8/18/23)

Convent Boarding School by Virginia Arville Kenny (9/05/23)

The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis (09/18/23)

The Betsy Tacy Treasury by Maud Hart Lovelace (09/27/23)

Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (09/27/23)

Skylark (Sarah, Plain and Tall #2) by Patricia MacLachlan (09/27/23)

Caleb’s Story (Sarah, Plain and Tall #3) by Patricia MacLachlan (09/27/23)

Maelyn by Anita Halle (10/06/23)

Imani All Mine by Connie Porter (10/15/23)

The Perilous Gard (10/22/23)

Enemy Brothers by Constance Savery (10/29/23)

Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr (11/19/23)

Gone By Nightfall by Dee Garretson (12/02/23)

The Dragon’s Promise by Elizabeth Lim (12/08/23)

A Lion to Guard Us by Clyde Robert Bulla (12/10/23)

The Thirteenth Princess by Diane Zahler (12/23/23)

The Hollow Kingdom by Clare B. Dunkle (12/26/23

The Wasteland by T. S. Eliot (12/31/23)