This was my exact (slightly disgruntled) thought!

Also unique is the fact that the house moves locations. The same two men keep unexpectedly coming across it, then witnessing the death of a new companion.
I had been unfamiliar with SF's history of relocating houses, but found this interesting article: www.sfgate.com/local/articl...

2/ #AScareADay

I feel like I can confidently say that if someone says this to you (anyone), you should back away slowly. Or with a seemly haste.

A very cool and normal response to your friend speaking.

Keep it together, man. Play it cool.

New genre: sad galvinism

Catching up on the readings from #AScareADay that I couldn't get to while I was on vacation.

October 6th - "And now the house dog stretched once more" by Emily Brontë

I enjoyed the vagueness of the creepy, unsettling "something in his face... And something in his voice's tone."

#AScareADay="text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400">#AScareADay – Day 11 – An Itinerant House by Emma Frances Dawson

#AScareADay - Day 11 - A cursed room in a house... a lady scorned by her lover who marries someone else... it's all very dramatic. I enjoyed the galvanism aspect, used here as a form of early defibrillation. Today, I've written a…

#AScareADay Day 11 – An Itinerant House by Emma Frances Dawson.

Her eyes were open! We were alarmed as if doing wrong and
silently watched her. Fifteen minutes later her lips formed one word:
“Idiots!”

I pretty much have the same reaction every time someone in a story raises the dead 😂

Yep. I really appreciate her.

There are parts of this story that I didn't get the references or the contemporary science so take my reading with a pinch of salt! I'm just reacting to what I saw or enjoyed in the tale. 6/6

A poetic punishment for the crime of making her live against her will, dragging her back into life through horrors they helped create but can't imagine.

I also appreciate that she got some practical revenge on the man partly responsible for her first death. 5/

I also think the fact that it leaves them alone but takes those around them, creating delirious excesses of emotion and creativity, driving people to despair, but leaving those heedless boys and men to their fate as hunted, living, victims of vengeance. 4/

Suddenly, they're stupid boys, playing with things they shouldn't because they're heedless, cruel and just generally being dickheads. They don't get to be all tortured or Romantic about it.

The haunting familiarity of the room as it stalks them is creepy as hell. 3/

I love the resurrection scene where all these absolute assholes are busy doing what they know is wrong and she wakes up and just simply says 'Idiots'. It's such a frustrated response and punctures the 'over-reacher' mythos that clings to that kind of experimentation in fiction. 2/

Day 11 of #AScareADay and we were reading 'An Itinerant House' by Emma Frances Dawson

There is so much going on here with intertextual references, historical allusions, detailed musical commentary. It's the kind of story that needs research and time to really open all its petals but it's enjoyable.

I cannot spell. What a day.

I love it too. Much more creepy than trying to put it in words 'or telling you verbosely it is 'indescribable' xD)

I guess 'galvinism as early difebrillation is another through note this year...

Probably!

His cross-dressing as a woman from a persecuted minority community (I mean other guests literally suggest locking 'her' up on sight and he only digs into the negative steretypes in his portrayal) is just more of his assholery in my opinion!

I never got over how he treats Adele, ever since my first read.

All's well that ends well!

I was just enjoying the debate and then was like... wait, I just parachuted in to someone else's conversation again.

I am fascinated by the premise of Melmoth which is essentially incredibly theologically tolerant (all those denominations with salvations to lose) at the same time as blasting the state church as a persecuting church.

Oh sorry thought you were replying to me!

Anyway, Killeen is useful onthe Anglican/Catholic rappreochement in theface of increasingly English (London)control and it is useful to read Maturin in that context.