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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 9442665" data-attributes="member: 85555">My Halloween reading begins now. So going to start simple with the Penguin classics American Supernatural Tales. Read a number of the stories before but I enjoy re-reads for Halloween anyways. Thinking of reading Dracula and The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde again as well. Finished the first book in the destroyer series recently after it came up in a discussion about the monk and its influence on it. Also I finally got a copy of The Remarkable Life of John Murray Spear: Agitator for the Spirit Land. Ordered it ages ago but it never arrived. So finally made a point of getting it delivered. I've been fascinated by the New Motive Power since I learned about it when I interned at the Lynn Museum. The supreme motive power is a bizarre mechanical messiah Spear tried to create, and the events around it are like Frankenstein with a bunch of spiritualists thrown in. This book looks like it doesn't just dwell on this one event but really gets into other things (he was an abolitionist for example and that was one of the reasons he may have created the new motive power----it is described as a kind of perpetual motion machine, but looks like an antique version of the robot from Lost in Space). I used to live right around the corner from the site where it all happened too so really looking forward to reading this and maybe going back there as well</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 9442665, member: 85555"] My Halloween reading begins now. So going to start simple with the Penguin classics American Supernatural Tales. Read a number of the stories before but I enjoy re-reads for Halloween anyways. Thinking of reading Dracula and The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde again as well. Finished the first book in the destroyer series recently after it came up in a discussion about the monk and its influence on it. Also I finally got a copy of [I]The Remarkable Life of John Murray Spear: Agitator[/I] for the Spirit Land. Ordered it ages ago but it never arrived. So finally made a point of getting it delivered. I've been fascinated by the New Motive Power since I learned about it when I interned at the Lynn Museum. The supreme motive power is a bizarre mechanical messiah Spear tried to create, and the events around it are like Frankenstein with a bunch of spiritualists thrown in. This book looks like it doesn't just dwell on this one event but really gets into other things (he was an abolitionist for example and that was one of the reasons he may have created the new motive power----it is described as a kind of perpetual motion machine, but looks like an antique version of the robot from Lost in Space). I used to live right around the corner from the site where it all happened too so really looking forward to reading this and maybe going back there as well [/QUOTE]

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