Not After Midnight and Other Stories

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Not After Midnight and Other Stories

Not After Midnight and Other Stories

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I would like to thank my wonderful guests, Zachary Hagen and Tommy Schnurmacher, for putting up with my shenanigans and being on the show. We had a conversation that was both entertaining and meaningful. But here is a monster story with an exciting bait-and-switch, whose heart bleeds slowly like “ Blue Valentine.” If the emotions don’t hit you, if the conversations don’t look like previous crossroads you’ve faced with a long-time partner, at least the ambition behind them will. And the final scenes are punchy, with a legitimate, winning jolt. The balance that "After Midnight" strikes between a two-hander and a monster story warrants a Valentine's Day weekend look, and maybe even a scary conversation. Short Fiction: Come Wind, Come Weather, 1940; Happy Christmas, 1940; The Apple Tree, 1952; Kiss Me Again, Stranger, 1952; Early Stories, 1955; The Breaking Point, 1959; The Treasury of du Maurier Short Stories, 1959; Not After Midnight, 1971; Echoes from the Macabre, 1976; The Rendezvous and Other Stories, 1980; Classics from the Macabre, 1987. No después de medianoche (****). Un profesor viaja a Creta en busca de descanso y para poder pintar. El hecho de que le asignen una cabaña cuyo anterior huésped murió ahogado, tendrá sus consecuencias. Muy buen relato. Well, you have a lot of company, Many people find the ending cryptic, confusing, obscure. Its intended by the author to be that way. The underlying theme of 'distorted vision' which runs throughout the tale, is used by DuMaurier to disrupt normal, straightforward, linear, A-B-C storytelling. Thus, we feel a little bit of the same queasy disorientation which the characters in the story do; when they realize that 'what they see' is not trustworthy. The author is reminding us how much we are slaves to our strongest sense: vision, often at the cost of every other faculty.

I would like to thank my wonderful guests, Dorothy Husen and Dr. George & Vanessa Naum, for putting up with my shenanigans and being on the show. We had a wonderful conversation you will enjoy and benefit from. Written by Gardner, who co-directed with Christian Stella, “After Midnight” channels this state of mind for half a movie, and it can feel relatively narrow. The timing is padded out with some kooky monologues by his dopey, not-so-helpful friend Wade ( Henry Zebrowski), who drinks from the mat at Hank's bar, and an appearance by Justin Benson as an old-fashioned cop and sibling to Abby. The movie is almost so proud of its monster metaphor that it doesn’t dig into it; instead it’s more images of Abby, juxtaposed with Hank’s grungy shield. And despite the progressive physical wear that comes from Gardner's beat performance, like whenever the monster pops up, “After Midnight” appears to be limited and let itself stay that way. At its worse, it risks losing the viewer with Hank's shallow sulking and aimless bangs of the monster in the night.It makes sense that this story is the one that had a movie made from it. It had great buildup and the ending was one that the reader wouldn’t expect. We are then subject to a really awkward scene. Hank grabs the mixtape alluded to earlier and puts it in the karaoke machine. He dedicates the next song to Abby and the girl he made the mixtape for. He then sings the entirety of Lisa Loeb’s Stay (I Missed You). Anyone who grew up in the 90s will remember this song. It was, literally, everywhere and a massive sleeper hit. Now, all of a sudden, it is appearing in horror movies. It’s like a meme that I somehow missed. Daphne du Maurier was obsessed with the past. She intensively researched the lives of Francis and Anthony Bacon, the history of Cornwall, the Regency period, and nineteenth-century France and England. Above all, however, she was obsessed with her own family history, which she chronicled in Gerald: A Portrait, a biography of her father; The du Mauriers, a study of her family which focused on her grandfather, George du Maurier, the novelist and illustrator for Punch; The Glassblowers, a novel based upon the lives of her du Maurier ancestors; and Growing Pains, an autobiography that ignores nearly 50 years of her life in favour of the joyful and more romantic period of her youth. Daphne du Maurier can best be understood in terms of her remarkable and paradoxical family, the ghosts which haunted her life and fiction.

stand out to high heaven. One couldn't fail.''That gang of Americans masked them,' said John, 'and the bearded manWhile contemporary writers were dealing critically with such subjects as the war, alienation, religion, poverty, Marxism, psychology and art, and experimenting with new techniques such as the stream of consciousness, du Maurier produced 'old-fashioned' novels with straightforward narratives that appealed to a popular audience's love of fantasy, adventure, sexuality and mystery. At an early age, she recognised that her readership was comprised principally of women, and she cultivated their loyal following through several decades by embodying their desires and dreams in her novels and short stories. A group of people make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, led by a young, inexperienced vicar. The disparate group includes a snobby upper-class couple and their unnerving, precocious grandson, a middle-class couple with slight delusions of grandeur, an elderly spinster and two dissatisfied newlyweds. Numerous mishaps befall them on the trip, some amusing and others rather more macabre. Timothy Grey, a preparatory school headmaster, takes a holiday to the Greek island of Crete with the intent of finding some solitude in which to paint. On arrival at his hotel, he asks to move his accommodation to a better chalet, near the water's edge, which the hotel management agrees to with some reluctance. The reason becomes clear when he discovers that the chalet's previous occupant had drowned while swimming at night. Also staying at the hotel is Stoll, a drunken and obnoxious American, and his silent and apparently deaf wife. They spend every day out in a small boat, ostensibly fishing. Kingston Falls is a small, economically depressed town in the northeastern U.S. that had been hit hard by the loss of jobs in the 70s and 80s. Many of the people were out of work. One such person was Rand Peltzer, a middle-aged man who we see in Chinatown in New York looking for a Christmas present for his son Billy as the movie opens. Rand had become an inventor of dubious skills. He made a little money selling his usually-unreliable inventions, but it was Billy, who had a job as a bank teller, who was keeping the family just barely above water. As a result, it’s no surprise that the writing did occasionally give me pause. It is never, strictly speaking, bad writing; though I don’t think there were more than a handful of sentences that I actually enjoyed for their look or their sound. Rather, it has a tendency to the functional, and this amplifies the datedness of some of it. In particular, a lot of the dialogue feels stilted, old-fashioned, unrealistic. It is a cosy, Victorian sort of style. But in all honesty, this was not much of a problem for me – the prose did its job, and was obviously not what the reader was meant to be there for.



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