The Dead OnesWhen night fell
he put on a long black gown
and when the last stroke of the clock faded
he cried out with a loud shrill voice,
"Behold, the dead ones!
Gather their bones together.
Come, come crawl into the graveyard.
Your desire, I'll follow."
- from The Master Thief in The Complete Fairy Tales of The Brothers Grimm – Page 604
Mary’s eerie tales inspire in readers the urge to double-check the deepest, darkest closets, to peer anxiously under the creakiest of beds, and to always sleep with the lights on.
That was pretty cool. I don’t think I have read that before.
It’s a spectacular volume and many of the tales are short-shorts.
If you want to give it a try, here is the full text of The Master-Thief: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/135.txt
These are just brilliant.
Thank you, thank you! They are fun to do!
I love when you do these– there’s something odd and transcendental about it.
Yes, I did mean that word. Transcendental. Seriously.
Eee! It makes me so happy that people are enjoying them! And Grimm is a large book so I think I’ll have enough source material for at least the next year