[Project] Blackwood Anthology / groupings

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The character John Silence gives his name to a collection of 5 stories (1908). I don’t think these form chapters of an encompassing story but still are numbered as Case I-V with each story also having a name. There is a fifth John Silence story published (1914). It has a name but no Case #.

The character Jim Shorthouse appears in 4 stories (so far): one from 1900 and three from 1906 but his name appears only in the text. There may be 1-2 other groupings like this. I don’t know of secondary characters crossing over between stories and I don’t think these comprise a “universe” in the contemporary sense.

When different novels form a series, built around a common character, that relationship gets captured in the metadata which has an effect on how they are presented. Does this series relationship among short stories get captured in some way?

The relevant stories are labeled with “john-silence” and “jim-shorthouse”.

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Do you mean there are other novels featuring both characters? If so then
yes; if not and these characters only appear in this short story
omnibus, then it's not necessary to add collection information because
they don't exist elsewhere.

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Bruce, can you manage this with Weijia reviewing?

The repository is here:
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B Keith

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Sure. I am leaving town for 2 days but hopefully I can manage remotely if anything comes up :-)

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Sure, I can review anything coming out of this.

Paul King

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46 complete of 192 titles (found so far, in the 'short' category, pre-1927). Variable quality/availability of sources/transcripts. Researching sources for existing titles turns up new titles.

Some shorter ones, I've transcribed by hand. Some, including some pulled together from archive.org OCR text, were added to Wikisource. Trying to keep the list clear, as to what is what.

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Looks like your work is cut out for you!

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Now that I've read more of his work, I think this image better reflects the author's writing which also regularly seeks to "convey a sense of awe before nature" as the Met says of the painting. The tone is dark, maybe a little spooky. Also, his surname works as a description of the scene.

The Forest in Winter at Sunset, Théodore Rousseau, ca. 1846–67

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438816

Hoping it has not been used.

There is a good drawing of the author in profile that is PD, and better photographs, but no painting; though apparently "artists' model" was one of the many lines of work he pursued.

Presently about 626K words, 93 works collected of 216 known titles. "The Never Ending Stories"; good stuff, though.

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That works, thanks!

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> Now that I've read more of his work, I think this image better reflects
> the author's writing which also regularly seeks to "convey a sense of
> awe before nature" as the Met says of the painting. The tone is dark,
> maybe a little spooky. Also, his surname works as a description of the
> scene.
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> The Forest in Winter at Sunset, Théodore Rousseau, ca. 1846–67
> https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438816
> Hoping it has not been used.
>
> There is a good drawing of the author in profile that is PD, and better
> photographs, but no painting; though apparently "artists' model" was one
> of the many lines of work he pursued.
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> Presently about 626K words, 93 works collected of 216 known titles. "The
> Never Ending Stories"; good stuff, though.
> On Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 1:23:35 PM UTC-5 Alex Cabal wrote:
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> Looks like your work is cut out for you!
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> On 10/20/22 12:26 PM, Paul King wrote:
> > 46 complete of 192 titles (found so far, in the 'short' category,
> > pre-1927). Variable quality/availability of sources/transcripts.
> > Researching sources for existing titles turns up new titles.
> >
> > Some shorter ones, I've transcribed by hand. Some, including some
> pulled

> > together from archive.org <http://archive.org> OCR text, were

> added to Wikisource. Trying to
> > keep the list clear, as to what is what.
> >
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Presently at 109 titles (750K words) complete of 227 known titles with 73 more seen as doable, but we'll see. Only 3 were added for 1927. A very diverse and yet coherent body of work, materials drawn from diverse sources, some obscure. Getting better at producing titles that don't have proper transcripts, so long as they're not too long, but the long novellas seem to be on Gutenburg. The word "prolific" is used in many descriptions and I'm sure I haven't found all the titles, though I have some that I don't see named in any other places. If anyone has a source for scans of "The Westminster Gazette" or the collection "Tongues of Fire and Other Sketches", which I don't expect, please share.

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Great!

Are you able to wrap up Pirates?

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I've responded to all the issues that were raised. Pirates has many moving parts and I expect there may be more issues. But, it's good-to-go as best I know.