Strange Tales from the Strand
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Containing twenty-nine stories of the weird and uncanny, all originally published in the Strand, this collection is an enthralling mix of horror and the supernatural, unnatural disasters, madness, and revenge. We read of a germ that turned the world blind in Edgar Wallace's "The Black Grippe." In "A Sense of the Future," the world supply of oil gives out, cars become obsolete, and after three months we have returned to the days of horse-drawn carriages. In other tales, a camera takes pictures of the future, and a 1971 newspaper is pushed through a mail slot forty years earlier. With spine-tingling stories from the likes of Sapper, Graham Greene, D.H. Lawrence, and Arthur Conan Doyle, and a comic fantasy by H.G. Wells, as well as two tales from the children's writer E. Nesbit, Strange Tales from the Strand provides a rich collection for all lovers of the macabre.
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How this bookray works:
* Someone will PM you for your address, PM them back and provide your address
* When you receive the book, please make a journal entry letting everyone know that you received it
* Put the book at the top of your TBR pile (under other rings/rays that arrived first)
* Read the book (take your time and enjoy the book, don't feel rushed to finish it but try to pass it on within a couple of months - others are waiting!)
* When the end is in sight, check the book's journal and PM the next person to get their address
* Finish the book, make another journal entry and let everyone know what you thought of the book
* Send the book to the next person on the list (please use the cheapest shipping method available), make release notes (Controlled Release) or journal entry to let everyone know that it's in the mail
* END OF THE RAY, The last person on the ray could try and continue the ray or just give/mail the book to someone else who might like to read it, perhaps a RABCK - look at wish lists, or release it into the wild.
Please feel free to PM me at any time with questions
Ray participants:
sarkiegirl US prefer US will do International
Shimmy-crazy UK anywhere
flambard UK anywhere
ArabellaFigg UK Anywhere
Bug2004 US
Released 15 yrs ago (3/2/2009 UTC) at By hand, by hand -- Controlled Releases
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Mailed today. Delivery Confirmation Number: 0308 2690 0000 4648 9241
Mailed today. Delivery Confirmation Number: 0308 2690 0000 4648 9241
The book is here!! I will start reading it right away!
I wanted to like it more. Maybe this is why it took me a little over a month. There were a handful of stories that I liked; but right now, the titles escape me. I guess I was looking forward to the sci-fi types, like the story where there is no gas left, and people go back to using horses, and the one where the camera takes a picture of the future. It's also because I don't normally read these types of stories, but I wanted to try.
Thanks nmreader, for including me in your ray! :)
Thanks nmreader, for including me in your ray! :)
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I'm going to be sending this to Shimmy-crazy today!! I hope you receive it soon!!
I'm going to be sending this to Shimmy-crazy today!! I hope you receive it soon!!
Journal Entry 7 by Shimmy-crazy from Finchley, Greater London United Kingdom on Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Arrived last week, have put it next on my TBR pile
Journal Entry 8 by Shimmy-crazy from Finchley, Greater London United Kingdom on Monday, June 15, 2009
These stories were all very twee and the twists at the end were often quite predictable but were fairly enjoyable none the less.
Posted off to flambard today (15/06/09)
Posted off to flambard today (15/06/09)
Waiting for me when I got home from holiday. Wonderful! Thanks NMReader and Shimmy-crazy!
Mostly rather pedestrian and predictable stories, particularly the two about waxworks. "The Fog" is a real stinker and plumbed the depths of poor story-telling, but there were a couple of gems. I enjoyed the HG Wells one, and the one about the train carriage crash. The others were just forgetable.
I have ArabellaFigg's address, so it will be off to her shortly.
I have ArabellaFigg's address, so it will be off to her shortly.
Journal Entry 11 by Flambard at sent to the the next bookcrosser, Bookray -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Released 14 yrs ago (7/8/2009 UTC) at sent to the the next bookcrosser, Bookray -- Controlled Releases
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Book arrived this morning, thank you flambard. I have a few bookrings to read but will start this as soon as possible.
Journal Entry 13 by ArabellaFigg from Hull, East Yorkshire United Kingdom on Thursday, July 30, 2009
I tried to read this a couple of times but it didn't really grip me so decided to post it on. Sent on it's way to Bug2004 this morning.
Re'cvd today. Will get to it soon and pass it on as soon as I'm done. Thanks for sharing!