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The author Lord Dunsany wrote a very short story on that topic at the time:
THE FOOD OF DEATH
Death was sick. But they brought him bread that the modern bakers make, whitened with alum, and the tinned meats of Chicago, with a pinch of our modern substitute for salt. They carried him into the dining-room of a great hotel (in that close atmosphere Death breathed more freely), and there they gave him their cheap Indian tea. They brought him a bottle of wine that they called champagne. Death drank it up. They brought a newspaper and looked up the patent medicines; they gave him the foods that it recommended for invalids, and a little medicine as prescribed in the paper. They gave him some milk and borax, such as children drink in England.
Death arose ravening, strong, and strode again through the cities.
- "Fifty-One Tales" (1915), by Lord Dunsany
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/lord-dunsany/fifty-one-tales
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Tip 2/6: Bring a friend who's a magpie ✨
The lovely nails of #FashionHistorian [IG]seekthehistoric there, browsing the #VintageJewellery and shiny things at the [IG]pillohotelashbourne on the border between #meath & #dublin, #ireland.
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#VintageBrooch #VintageBrooches #VintageCostumeJewellery #AntiqueJewellery
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➕ #ashbourne #duleek #balbriggan #dunshaughlin #dunsany #kells #trim #swords #ratoath
The treasure trove side to antiques and #vintage fairs - you never know what you’ll find in a box!
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#Ashbourne #Meath #MeathHistory #Dunsany #Kells #Navan #Balbriggan #Ratoath #Dublin #Swords #Leinster
Continuing our look at weird works in translation on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein this month, we review "Donde suben y bajan las mareas" (1978) by Alberto Breccia and Carlos Trillo - one of the rarer comic adaptations of Lord Dunsany's fiction.
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Sasturain: Mais mesure un peu l’influence que peut avoir un regard critique sur ton oeuvre: dans les années 1960, tu as tout laissé tomber jusqu’à ce qu’apparaissent des gens qui te lisaient, te su…
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What a beautiful old place!
How I wish to be there and have a tasteful tea while I read to #Lovecraft, #Poe, #Dunsany and other writers from 1800s and early 1900s!
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This month on Her Letters to Lovecraft, we look at Alice M. Hamlet and the connections between Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany, and amateur journalism.
https://deepcuts.blog/2023/10/28/her-letters-to-lovecraft-alice-m-hamlet/
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