Short Story 3 title correction: The Grave Secret

Marc Aramini · 01 May 2012, 23:17 · from 2012-May.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at yahoo.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 16:17:51 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Short Story 3 title correction: The Grave Secret
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I agree completely.  my allusion section read:

ALLUSIONS:  Clark Ashton Smith in such necromantic works as The Return of the Sorcerer and HP Lovecraft are channeled directly here

oh yeah. [Hi C man busts through wall]

--- On Tue, 5/1/12, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote:

> From: David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: (urth) Short Story 3 title correction: The Grave Secret
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2012, 3:14 PM
> A Cthulhu Mythos story by Clark
> Ashton Smith, THE RETURN OF THE SORCERER, may have been the
> origin of this one. Working as a translator for a John
> Carnby, the narrator reads from the original Arabic
> Necronomicon:
> 
> 'It is verily known by few, but is nevertheless no
> attestable fact, that the will of a dead sorcerer hath power
> upon his own body and can raise it up from the tomb and
> perform therewith whatever action was unfulfilled in life.
> And such resurrections are invariably for the doing of
> malevolent deeds and for the detriment of other's. Most
> readily can the corpse be animated if all its members have
> remained intact; and yet there are cases in which the
> excelling will of the wizard hath reared up from death the
> sundered pieces of a body hewn in many fragments, and hath
> caused them to serve his end, either separately or in a
> temporary reunion. But in every instance, after the action
> hath been completed, the body lapseth into its former
> state.'
> 
> This is of course exactly what happens to the protagonist of
> The Grave Secret.
> 
> On 4/4/2012 2:03 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> > That must have been before science fiction was able to
> afford editors. ;)
> > 
> > On 4/4/2012 1:43 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> >> "The Grave Secret" is basically a good _Weird
> Tales_ entry for the
> >> classic 30s/40s incarnation of that magazine.
> >> 
> >> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:38 AM, David
> Stockhoff<dstockhoff at verizon.net>?
> wrote:
> >>> The Grave Secret is not a serious story, and
> yet is not so bad in some ways.
> >>> Detailed, but clumsy. I'd be proud of it if it
> were mine, but I'd clean it
> >>> up first. And it could be funnier; it gestures
> toward humor but does not
> >>> achieve it.
> >>> 
> >>> And silly too. How did the ghost perform the
> necessary magic? Best not to
> >>> think about it.
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> On 3/25/2012 1:03 AM, Marc Aramini wrote:
> >>>> My apologies, the third story is "the Grave
> Secret"
> >>>> 
> >>>> Story #4 is "The Dead Man"
> >>>> 
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> did not please let me know.
> >>>>
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