tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728909293998777391.post3197679254443727839..comments2024-03-28T04:15:00.814-07:00Comments on Jerry's House of Everything: SHORT STORY WEDNESDAY: THE DANCE ON THE BEEFSTEAKJerry Househttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09482856733981933159noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728909293998777391.post-51432427768691359402021-01-20T18:51:47.654-08:002021-01-20T18:51:47.654-08:00I only know E. F. Benson from the Mapp and Lucia s...I only know E. F. Benson from the Mapp and Lucia series. Another astute choice!Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04546161337366365635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2728909293998777391.post-21833649931104759802021-01-20T15:35:12.279-08:002021-01-20T15:35:12.279-08:00Perhaps TEMPLE BAR failed to pay, or pay sufficien...Perhaps TEMPLE BAR failed to pay, or pay sufficiently. Or it was some odd oversight. (I'm often puzzled as to why short fiction collections often think it unnecessary to credit the magazines that have published the stories previously, most often among contemporary-mimetic magazines...little magazines, often the sources, can use all the references they can get, all too often. THE NEW YORKER often seems to be credited, perhaps by demand, perhaps to be a sort of brag that for some reason THE GEORGIA REVIEW or BOULEVARD is not seen to be. (TNY presumably pays better, to be sure. Though not better than some of the slick giants up through the '50s and into the '60s, whose circulations dwarfed TNY's in those years...and, alas, have almost uniformly given up on fiction.)<br /><br />I have heard of Margaret Benson before, but couldn't've named her if you hadn't reminded us. The brother I've read for their horror fiction, and have meant to read some of the MAPP AND LUCIA series, but have yet to do so...the Bensons, and of course particularly E. F., were, along with "Saki" and M. R. James and a small slew of others (including that James fellow) among the Edwardians who set the standard for modern horror, along with such fellow travelers as Bierce.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com