Oh lord.... how innocent I was back then!
Sep. 22nd, 2004 11:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darth_stitchMade a pleasant discovery yesterday.
I once read this fabulous OLD book that was called Fifty Great Ghost Stories and had all these spine-tingling stories of haunted castles and famous ghost stories etc. I was in high school then and it was obvious that this particular book was out of print.
I missed it years years later when they started showing "the Scariest Places on Earth" on the TV and I distinctly remembered some of the featured places were once stuff I read in that book.
So you can imagine I was delighted to find the book in print again at our bookstore and sold at a really low price as well. Whee! I spent some pleasant hours before bedtime getting reacquainted (and scaring myself silly) with an old friend.
One thing. Being as this book was first published in the 1960s and most of its stories were set or written during the Victorian era, they made much mention of gentlemen who were, in the book's own words "more than intimate" with their dearest male friends. Innocent convent-educated high school girl that I was, I didn't GET that when I first read it.
Now, having been educated in "subtext" and slash and whatnot, I do. Snerkity-snerk.
Hee. *blushes*
Methinks I see much fodder to use for my poor long-suffering Muses in this book. I mean, Severus wouldn't scream like a little girl in a drafty cold haunted castle but I'm SURE Harry would find a GREAT excuse to turn up in Severus'' bed, if they should spend a night in said drafty cold haunted castle...
Never mind if Hogwarts, their usual home, IS a drafty cold haunted castle to begin with. :P
I once read this fabulous OLD book that was called Fifty Great Ghost Stories and had all these spine-tingling stories of haunted castles and famous ghost stories etc. I was in high school then and it was obvious that this particular book was out of print.
I missed it years years later when they started showing "the Scariest Places on Earth" on the TV and I distinctly remembered some of the featured places were once stuff I read in that book.
So you can imagine I was delighted to find the book in print again at our bookstore and sold at a really low price as well. Whee! I spent some pleasant hours before bedtime getting reacquainted (and scaring myself silly) with an old friend.
One thing. Being as this book was first published in the 1960s and most of its stories were set or written during the Victorian era, they made much mention of gentlemen who were, in the book's own words "more than intimate" with their dearest male friends. Innocent convent-educated high school girl that I was, I didn't GET that when I first read it.
Now, having been educated in "subtext" and slash and whatnot, I do. Snerkity-snerk.
Hee. *blushes*
Methinks I see much fodder to use for my poor long-suffering Muses in this book. I mean, Severus wouldn't scream like a little girl in a drafty cold haunted castle but I'm SURE Harry would find a GREAT excuse to turn up in Severus'' bed, if they should spend a night in said drafty cold haunted castle...
Never mind if Hogwarts, their usual home, IS a drafty cold haunted castle to begin with. :P
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Date: 2004-09-22 09:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-22 09:53 am (UTC)*again*
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Date: 2004-09-22 11:04 am (UTC)It really was pornographic.
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Date: 2004-09-29 03:02 am (UTC)Oh. My. Word.
Really??
Who was the author/editor? Please? Because if it's even in the slightest suggesting Victorian!slash, I. Must. Have. It. I am an addict, I tell you. You wouldn't deprive a poor, helpless addict of her fix, right? :D