#stephen gilbert

[unspiritedsoul]

A while back I made art with Stephen in his casual clothes - now it's with his jester outfit!

[hearts4pearlescentmoon]

HAHA!!! I FINALLY FUCKING GOT IT LETS GOOOOOOO

[johnnie-lynne]

🐀night seven🐀

[ratmans-notebooks]

willard stiles/ratman playlist.. meow

[bracketsoffear]

Caterpillars (E.F. Benson) "In the beautiful Villa Cascana on the Italian Riviera, all is not as it seems. Why does the hostess leave a perfectly charming bedroom unoccupied? Why does Arthur Inglis present our nameless narrator with a caterpillar in a cardboard pill-box one lunchtime? And rather more bizarrely, why do luminous, bloated and gigantic versions of this creature haunt his dreams? Or could it possibly be that he is wide awake?"

SPOILERS BELOW CUT

Ratman's Notebooks (Stephen Gilbert) "When his nagging mother discovers a rat infestation, the anonymous writer of these notebooks sets out to drown the pests, but finds himself unable to go through with it. Instead, he befriends the rats, learning to train and communicate with them.

Before long he has the idea of using the rats for revenge against a world in which he has been a failure. His target is his hateful boss, Mr. Jones, who treats him with supreme disrespect and plans to fire him and replace him with someone less expensive. The narrator records his plans in chilling detail as his campaign for vengeance progresses from vandalism to robbery to the most horrific of murders…"

Corruption Leitner Bracket Round 1 Bout 8

Caterpillars (E.F. Benson)

Ratman's Notebooks (Stephen Gilbert)

Voting ended onApr 23, 2024

At the end of the story, the narrator is visiting the Stanleys in England. It turns out that Inglis is riddled with cancer. No operation is possible to save him. Mrs. Stanley can’t help but thinking he caught it at the villa even though she took precautions to clean that vacant room and have no one stay there. It seems that someone had died of cancer in that room a year before. The notion of cancer as something infectious may, given the state of medicine at the time, been prevalent (and some cancers are caused by infectious agents).

I don't think that I need to explain why caterpillars either supernaturally spreading a lethal disease or being a metaphor for said disease is peak Corruption.

[haveyoureadthishorrorbookpoll]

Have you read...

Ratman's Notebooks by Stephen Gilbert

Yes, I liked it

Yes, I had a neutral or complicated opinion

Yes, I didn't like it

No, but I want to

No, I have a neutral or complicated opinion

No, I don't want to

No, but I have consumed other media for it (movie, show, etc.)

I haven't even heard of this book

Partly/did not finish

I am currently reading

See results

Voting ended onDec 12, 2023

note: If you did not finish but feel you read enough to form an opinion, you may choose a ‘Yes’ option instead of 'Partly' (e.g., Yes, I didn’t like it). Interpret "neutral or complicated" however you like, I intended this category to be a broad option between like and dislike.

When his nagging mother discovers a rat infestation, the anonymous writer of these notebooks sets out to drown the pests, but finds himself unable to go through with it. Instead, he befriends the rats, learning to train and communicate with them. Before long he has the idea of using the rats for revenge against a world in which he has been a failure. His target is his hateful boss, Mr. Jones, who treats him with supreme disrespect and plans to fire him and replace him with someone less expensive. The narrator records his plans in chilling detail as his campaign for vengeance progresses from vandalism to robbery to the most horrific of murders...

submit a horror book!

[movie-titlecards]

Willard (1971)

My rating: 7/10

I was going to say "Willard did nothing wrong", but then he went pulled a Victor Frankenstein on his rat army, and after that he pretty much had it coming.

[psikonauti]

Stephen Gilbert

Untitled ,1948

Oil paint on canvas