that was till this morning - when outside the house where there is a very large tree a large number of crows started to form and yes they sounded exactly like that. I later found out they were hounding a Red Kite which was circling but still it did bring that school house scene to mind.

My review of Borges last year has forced me to think about how to score short story collections, as I think I was rather too hard on him. This, I think, is because I judged the collection as though it were a novel – but many people will not read it in one sitting. So perhaps a collection’s value is more about the value of the individual stories. Or to put it more directly: I think that that ‘in total’ view effectively weighted all the stories equally to find an ‘average’ score, when in fact, when it comes to our opinions of a collection, we tend to weight the good bits higher. We’re more likely to recommend a collection with one genius story and four rubbish ones than one with five mediocre stories – at least, I am. Hank jokes telling Abby that he is not sure that she isn’t the monster. This is said in jest but actually hints at the potential metaphorical meaning of the monster. We learn that Abby left to go to her college reunion. Hank worries that she was spending time with her ex boyfriend. This turns out to not be true. She had told Hank she wanted to go to the reunion. She had invited him but he refused. Hank seemingly has something of an inferiority complex. He didn’t want to have to dress up and interact with her old friends just to be looked down on. Hank remarks that that accounts for about 9 hours. What about the rest of the time? After Midnight – How Long Was Abby Gone? Be sure to listen in and share the show with others who might enjoy or benefit from it. The show will also be available on YouTube and Facebook.

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Short Fiction: Come Wind, Come Weather, 1940; Happy Christmas, 1940; The Apple Tree, 1952; Kiss Me Again, Stranger, 1952; Early Stories, 1955; The Breaking Point, 1959; The Treasury of du Maurier Short Stories, 1959; Not After Midnight, 1971; Echoes from the Macabre, 1976; The Rendezvous and Other Stories, 1980; Classics from the Macabre, 1987. SPOILER] I started to realise I'd been to that part of Crete when I saw mention of the island of Spinlonga. It's in the bay surrounded by the town of Elounda, and you can get boat trips to Spinalonga, which was a leper colony. I thought then that Grey had somehow caught leprosy, maybe from drinking the barley water from the old pot discovered there... which would have been silly, and, probably not very amusing.

I would like to thank my wonderful guests, Randi-Lee Bowslaugh and Uma Ojeda, for putting up with my shenanigans and being on the show. We had a conversation that was both entertaining and meaningful. stand out to high heaven. One couldn't fail.''That gang of Americans masked them,' said John, 'and the bearded man Du Maurier’s work is… peculiar, to say the least. The stories defy easy genre classifications, and indeed that seems to be a large part of their design: placing her plots on the fine edge between supernatural and mundane, romantic and prosaic, tragic and hopeful (though mostly tragic), she gives the reader no warnings, no time to get comfortable. Some stories will seem realistic, only to veer into fantasy; others will appear to aim for the supernatural, only to slide into the perfectly ordinary. These are stories of suspense – but to a large degree, what we are suspended by is not concern for the characters, but concern for the story itself: the reader is in the position of watching a literary game of three card monte, sometimes not knowing what sort of story they have been reading until the concluding paragraphs. I would like to thank my wonderful guests, Andrea Faye Christians and Kim Lengling, for putting up with my shenanigans and being on the show. We had a conversation that was both entertaining and meaningful. I would like to thank my wonderful guests, Dorothy Husen and Dr. George & Vanessa Naum, for putting up with my shenanigans and being on the show. We had a wonderful conversation you will enjoy and benefit from.

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Things are not going so well for Hank anymore. Abby has left him alone with no word on where she has gone. She left a simple note saying “I have to go away for awhile.”. Abby was tired of Hank refusing to commit to her. She has given up a lot to be with him. Yet he refuses to get married or to have children. Hank now sits alone drinking on his couch. Ever since Abby left. Each night a creature appears at his door and torments him.