Quirk Classics

[bendk]

What do you think about the Quirk Classics idea? It looks fun. If this book makes it to my library, I might give it a try. I'll have to ponder what other classics can be reworked. Maybe Wuthering Heights with Werewolves. Any ideas?

Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly reviewed it and gave it an A- !

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20267705,00.html

 

[G. S. Carnivals]

Tender Is the Nightgaunt by F. Scott Fitzgerald and H. P. Lovecraft.

 

[waffles]

Robert Bloch would've had a field day with this.

 

[Jezetha]

Charles Dickens, Great Exhumations

 

[G. S. Carnivals]

"The Gold-Bug Infestation" by Edgar Allan Poe and Brian W. Aldiss.

 

[G. S. Carnivals]

The Magic Mountains of Madness by Thomas Mann and H. P. Lovecraft.

 

[G. S. Carnivals]

Sister Carrie Goes to the Prom by Theodore Dreiser and Stephen King.

 

[Russell Nash]

Stained Glass Elegies by Shusaku Endo, "Blood Stained Glass Elegies".
Games at Twilight by Anita Desai, "Morbid Games at Twilight".
The Cave by Saramago, "The Cave of Unborn Gargoyles".

 

[G. S. Carnivals]

Oliver Twisted by Charles Dickens.

 

[G. S. Carnivals]

"The Celebrated Giant Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain which was produced as the little-known film Attack of the Amazing Airborne Amphibian in 1957.

 

[G. S. Carnivals]

Not to be forgotten is the more contemporary classic The Horse Whisperer in Darkness by Nicholas Evans and H. P. Lovecraft.

 

[Spotbowserfido2]

I like this game. I am quite fond of the poem "Daddy and Mummy" by Sylvia Plath, the ancient Egyptians, and Universal Studios.

 

[Odalisque]

Swallowing the Amazons by Arthur Ransom-Note

 

[G. S. Carnivals]

Swallowing the Amazons by Arthur Ransom-Note

If you ever hope to see this thread again, you will put forty million quid in a brown paper bag(s) and send it to me via PM.

Sincerely,
Your Quidnapper

P.S. I mean it.

 

[bendk]

Bloch would definitely have excelled at this game, but I doubt if he could top GSC. Funny stuff, Phil. Magic Mountains of Madness. lol

 

[G. S. Carnivals]

Notes from Underground in the House of the Worm by Fyodor Dostoevsky and Gary Myers.

 

[Jezetha]

D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Zombies

 

[Bleak&Icy]

Howard's Unspeakable End by E. M. Forster and H. P. Lovecraft

 

[Bleak&Icy]

The Heart is a Loathsome Hunter by Carson McCullers and H. P. Lovecraft

 

[Bleak&Icy]

The Last of the Mannequins by J. Fenimore Cooper and Thomas Ligotti