# The Walking Sticks *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 20 May 2001* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Nicholas Gevers *20 May 2001, 08:19* I asked Pete Crowther if he could provide some information on Wolfe's recent story "The Walking Sticks", to be found in the (rather expensive) anthology TAPS AND SIGHS. His response: "I don't know that there's much info I can provide about 'The Walking Sticks' save that it's around 6,000 words (as I recall) and is a somewhat dark first-person murder mystery with undertones of Poe and Bloch, with maybe an undertone or two reminiscent of King's short work. I hope that sounds sufficiently intriguing to persuade people to rush out and buy the book." Anyone tempted? --Nick Gevers. ---