CC Spin: Stories of Walter de la Mare
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Short Stories, vol. 1, by Walter de la Mare When will I learn not to read giant collections of short stories all at once? I regret it every time. Walter de la Mare sure wrote a whole lot of short stories. They were for an adult audience and published in magazines at the turn of the century, when there was an endless demand for them. Volume I covers 1895 - 1926, so a good bit more than just the turn of the century. These stories are mostly somewhat spooky. They're not outright scary or horror; they're gently unsettling, or creepy, or disturbing, but they're not usually obvious about it. Some of them are rather thematic. There were four or five stories in a row featuring characters inspecting gravestones for interesting, amusing, or pathetic epitaphs, which I sincerely hope were real epitaphs de la Mare had collected himself. One story, one of the more obviously spooky ones called "The Riddle," had a detail that I believe may well have made its wa