The Black Dog of the Hanging Hills

rich richard.romeo at gmail.com
Thu Jan 21 23:30:08 UTC 2021


strong Algernon Blackwood vibes in that story, other worldly spectral
mysterious nature. good stuff

rich

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 8:50 AM Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Erik. This is great!
>
> Laura
>
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 3:28 AM Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >  The story is written by W. H. C. Pynchon, grandfather of acclaimed
> author
> > Thomas Pynchon, and was clearly labeled as fiction by *The Connecticut
> > Quarterly*, which published poems, fiction and nonfiction. The elder
> > Pynchon was 31 and a Harvard-educated scientist working as a professor at
> > Trinity College in Hartford. Over the years, perhaps because of the
> > similarities between Pynchon and his fictional narrator, the story came
> to
> > be taken as truth rather than fiction.
> >
> >
> >
> https://www.connecticutmag.com/the-connecticut-story/the-legend-of-the-black-dog-of-the-hanging-hills-has-its-roots-in-literary/article_76dae24c-56a5-11eb-a582-c71c835cb573.html
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