“The Yellow Wallpaper”, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. One of those stories that made me want to crawl into the pages and smack the men.
Still no guesses on my last one?
Dammit…you took mine.
How about this one?
“Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.”
Nathanael West, “Day of the Locusts” ?
Just in case anyone doesn’t know, it’s George Orwell’s 1984.
jsc1953, you took my answer – although the correct title is the singular Day of the Locust.
Here’s my contribution:
“There Will Come Soft Rains”, from The Martian Chronicles, by the ever-popular Ray Bradbury.
I don’t the story but is the author Hemingway?
Mine shouldn’t be too difficult:
“‘Like a dog!’ he said; it was as if the shame of it must outlive him.”
Not creepy in the usual sense of this thread, but it gets me every time.
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“They were already beginning to design weapons to use against each other.”
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“He never saw Molly again.”
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“He was very hungry that season.”
“The Star” - Arthur C. Clarke
Second Variety by Philip K. Dick, which was the basis for the film Screamers, but also has a pretty good claim to inspiring some of The Terminator, I think.
The ending of this book certainly creeped me out.
A Canticle for Leibowitz?
Regards,
Shodan
From a creepy hard-boiled novel made into a famous film noir:
“The moon.”
I’d have loved to seen that ending in the Disney cartoon!
Of course, the skeletons would either be singing a sad love song or cracking jokes.
Actually, I’d love to see that ending in ANY movie version of NOTRE-DAME. I thought I’d seen a TV movie in the late 1970s in which she does get hanged but I can’t locate it.
“Not both of us. Only one of us,” said the girl, and before his eyes she passed straight through the door, and vanished.
(it’s an obscure story, but it’s frightened the hell out of me ever since)
Not one of the author’s best-known works.
Right! And here’s a longer version of the other one (note: the caps are in the original):
Double Indemnity by James Cain.
Shodan, you were correct on this one.
No, but I can certainly see why you’d think so. It was Norman Mailer - I think it was called The Advance.