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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 09-2010
Posted From: 86.140.213.156
Posted on Monday, September 24, 2012 - 05:17 pm:   

In my current re-reading — first read by me in the 1970s — of ‘The Glastonbury
Romance’ (1933) by John Cowper Powys, I think I have discovered a genuinely
scary and substantial ghost story within the chapter entitled ‘Mark’s Court’. Mr
Geard is made a bet to sleep in a haunted room where nobody previously could
sleep….
A discrete classic.

Here’s a quote from it:
“But he clenched his hands together stubbornly, and stared at the red fire,
resolute, in his massive way to beat down this fear, to beat it down and hold it
down, so that it should not grow into panic; so that it should not get into his
legs.
So far it was only in his heart and in his throat. But he could feel it
descending. It ran down a funnel . . . the fear-funnel it was that it ran down .
. . inside his ribs . . . no, between his spine and his stomach.”

PS: For any interested, here are all my quotes so far from this book:
http://weirdtongue.wordpress.com/quotations-from-the-glastonbury-romance-by-john -cowper-powys/
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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 09-2010
Posted From: 86.140.213.156
Posted on Wednesday, October 03, 2012 - 07:02 pm:   

THOUGHT-EIDOLA
Further to my earlier post above, here is another ghost story related
post relating to 'The Glastonbury Romance' (1933) by John Cowper Powys, i.e. a
quoted passage from it:

"Human thoughts, those mysterious projections from the creative nuclei of living
organisms, have a way of radiating from the brain that gives them birth. Such
emanations, composed of ethereal vibrations, take invisible shapes and forms as
they float forth. Thus to any supermaterial eye, endowed with psychic
perception, the atmosphere of Mrs. Legge's front parlour that night must have
been a strange scene. The secret thoughts of her guests rose and floated,
hovered and wavered, formed and reformed, under those glittering candelabra,
making as it were a second party, a gathering of thought-shapes, that would
remain when all these people had left the room. All thought-eidola are not of
the same consistency or of the same endurance. It is the amount of life-energy
thrown into them that makes the difference. Some are barely out of the body
before they fade away. Others -- and this is the cause of many ghostly phenomena
-- survive long after the organisms that projected them is (sic) buried in the
earth."

Earlier such quotes shown here:
http://weirdtongue.wordpress.com/quotations-from-the-glastonbury-romance-by-john\
-cowper-powys/
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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 09-2010
Posted From: 86.129.35.144
Posted on Monday, October 20, 2014 - 02:51 pm:   

I have now read aloud THE FEAR FUNNEL as linked from here: http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/dfl-readings-aloud/

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