#edward parnell

[contremineur]

Always the ghosts.

Edward Parnell, opening and final line to Ghostland (William Collins 2019)

image from here

[a-life-in-books]

Edward Parnell

"Midway between sleep and awareness I remember the look in his eyes: like the gaping whites of a bullock being loaded onto the slaughterhouse lorry. The stare bores through me until I force it to stop and make better thoughts come."

The Listeners

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1886 – Home Rule Bill introduced in English Parliament by William Gladstone.

The Acts of Union 1800, united the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland (previously in personal union) to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. At various intervals during this time, attempts were made to destabilise Anglo-Irish relations. Rebellions were launched in 1803, 1848, 1867, and 1916 to try to end British rule over Ireland. Daniel O’Connell in the…

[ghoulfuckersincorporated]

Do you think you’ll ever write for other ghouls like Hancock or Charon? I would love to see how you write them!!

110%. I've got quite the backlog of requests and already-extant ideas, currently (obviously most of them Fallout TV show based, since it seems like a lot of people are currently watching/finishing it), so I've been sort of planning to approach things in waves.

I've been making my way through some drabble and headcanon-type stuff, since it's easier to get out, and I've got a couple long-form pieces after that, but I've got multiple requests for other ghouls (Which I am stoked to see! Welcome, fans of the games!) and will definitely be getting to them ASAP. For several, I have half-cocked pieces of various lengths that I've had gathering dust on my computer for a while, but since I wrote them just for my own funsies, they need finishing/redressing before they go up.

After my current batch of fics is done (which should include pieces for Prewar!Cooper Howard and Norm Maclean), I'm planning to have pieces out for:

Gob (headcanons/eventual long-form, request)

Charon (long-form, request)

Hancock (long-form, request)

Edward Deegan (headcanons/eventual long-form...no request, but *I* love that big, underutilized motherfucker)

Raul Tejada (headcanons, request)

Nick Valentine (headcanons were requested, so I'll post some, but I also have a secret long-form piece I wrote about Nick ages ago that I feel like unleashing onto the world because I want to Fuck the old robot man as well)

Also, as weird as it feels to say it...upon rewatching season one of the Prime show...why is Chris Parnell's Overseer Benjamin weirdly fuckable??? Do I have a TBI?

Thanks for reading, and thank you SO much for 500 followers! I can't wait to get more stuff out for you guys!

[spiralhouseshop]

Hellebore Yuletide Hauntings 2023 issue! Now in stock at the Spiral House!

A Christmas Cauldron of Folklore and Fiction - Yuletide Hauntings Brews Spellbinding Tales

As winter nights grow long and crackling fires ignite, delve into the spectral heart of Britain with Yuletide Hauntings. This A5 magazine, bathed in the tradition of Christmas ghost stories, unveils 96 silk-coated pages overflowing with chilling delights.

Join renowned authors as they conjure tales of phantom Roman armies on modern motorways, mournful grey ladies in ancient halls, and headless coachmen galloping through moonlight. Luxuriate in evocative artwork and bask in the essence of folklore, history, and the very spirit of Britain itself.

Embrace the Yuletide Hauntings. Order your copy now and let it whisper forgotten secrets on a winter's breath.

Words by Verity Holloway, Edward Parnell, Maria J. Pérez Cuervo, John A. Riley, Julia Round, Katy Soar, and Alice Vernon. Cover by Courtney Brooke. Art direction by Nathaniel Hébert. Edited by Maria J. Pérez Cuervo.

[todaysdocument]

Letter from Ordway Hilton to Robert Stripling Regarding Alger Hiss

Record Group 233: Records of the U.S. House of RepresentativesSeries: Investigative Name Files

[letterhead] Elbridge W. Stein Examiner of Questioned Documents - Handwriting and Typewriting 2301 Park Row Building, 15 Park Row New York 7 5 December 1948 Robert E. Strping, Esquire Chief Investigator House Committee on Un-American Activities Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. Stripling: I have made a careful examination of three specimens of typewriting submitted to me by Mr. C.E. Owens and compared them with the typewriting on various copies of government records which had been previously submitted to this office. The three specimens of typewriting are: 1. A photographic copy of a letter to Mr. Edward W. Case, 211 E. Main St., Westminster, Md., dated May 28 1936 and bearing the signature Alger Hiss. 2. Letter to Mr. J. Parnell Thomas dated August 18, 1948 and bearing the signature Alger Hiss. 3. A sheet of mimeographed questions, ten in all, without further identification. The typewriter used to prepare letter 1. is a machine equipped with elite type, i.e. it writes 12 letters to the inch. From the design of the typefaces it appears to be either a Remington standard, Remington Noiseless or Underwood Noiseless typewriter. In any event the design of letters eliminates the possibility of this typewriter having been used to write any of the material which had been previously submitted. The typewriter used to write letter 2. is also an elite type machine, but from the design of the letters it is clearly a typewriter built by the Remington Noiseless factory since 1946. Some of these machine are sold as Underwood Noiseless typewriters. This typeface design eliminates the machine as having been used to write any of the 1938 material. The machine used to prepared the third specimen of typewriting is equipped with pica type, the large size type which spaces 10 letters per inch. From the design of the typefaces I am able to eliminate this machine from any further consideration as it is equipped with a style of type used on Noiseless typewriters, either Remington Robert E. Stripling, Esq. 5 December 1948 2. Remington or Underwood, which was first put into use around 1946. From the design of the typefaces and their size I am able to state positively that all three specimens of typewriting, letters 1, 2, and 3, were written on different typewriters. Very truly yours, [handwritten signature] Ordway Hilton [typed signature] Ordway Hilton OH:3

[witchyfashion]

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE 2020

‘A uniquely strange and wonderful work of literature’ Philip Hoare

‘An exciting new voice’ Mark Cocker, author of Crow Country

In his late thirties, Edward Parnell found himself trapped in the recurring nightmare of a family tragedy. For comfort, he turned to his bookshelves, back to the ghost stories that obsessed him as a boy, and to the writers through the ages who have attempted to confront what comes after death.

In Ghostland, Parnell goes in search of the ‘sequestered places’ of the British Isles, our lonely moors, our moss-covered cemeteries, our stark shores and our folkloric woodlands. He explores how these landscapes conjured and shaped a kaleidoscopic spectrum of literature and cinema, from the ghost stories and weird fiction of M. R. James, Arthur Machen and Algernon Blackwood to the children’s fantasy novels of Alan Garner and Susan Cooper; from W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn and Graham Swift’s Waterland to the archetypal ‘folk horror’ film The Wicker Man…

Ghostland is Parnell’s moving exploration of what has haunted our writers and artists – and what is haunting him. It is a unique and elegiac meditation on grief, memory and longing, and of the redemptive power of stories and nature.

https://amzn.to/3EZk2of

[ghostresidues]

november media <3

books

completed

girlhood by melissa febos ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (READ THIS - one of the best essay collections I've ever read)

near death (domestic) by maggie sullivan ⭐⭐⭐ + 1/2 (poetry collection)

the year of magical thinking by joan didion - ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (my first didion!)

ongoing

lots of elena ferrante - at the moment i'm around two thirds of the way through the story of the lost child, and have just begun troubling love

recollections of my non-existence by rebecca solnit - scared to finish this because it's just been so brilliant. I need to read more of her work because i loved a field guide to being lost a lot too

ghostland: in search of a haunted country by edward parnell

music

top ten songs! (in no particular order)

lullaby - the cure

pogo - digitalism

automation - desireè duvringe

crooked teeth - death cab for cutie

brutal - olivia rodrigo

love letters - metronomy

paper bag - fiona apple

the art teacher - rufus wainwright

not (live at the bunker studio) - big thief

there is a light that never goes out - dum dum girls (cover)

check out my full november playlist for more :0

lines that stuck in my head

'that is the fear that every addict, every person who hates themselves, shares... what torments you, what you loathe in yourself, is the truest part of you - the singed and poisonous centre that can never be scraped out' - girlhood, febos, p.280.

'beauty often requires a kind of devastation. maybe the saddest landscapes are always the most beautiful.' - girlhood, febos, p.309.

'[women] die all the time to avoid being killed' - recollections of my non-existence, solnit, p.68.

'everything is my mother but my mother' - recollections, p.92.

'i loved my friend / he went away from me. / there's nothing more to say / the poem ends, / same as it began - / i loved my friend.' - poem, langston hughes

'something that doesn't die can't be beautiful' - danez smith

'this wound had been unimaginable, this madness, but it had lain before us, undetectable as a landmine.' - white oleander, janet fitch, p.4.

'the heart remains a child' - ???

'if you're gone, i'm not. the love goes on. it has its own life, eating through the heart.' - bourbon with petrarch, wendy battin

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

I fucking hate the American justice system!

TIL that a man named Kenneth Parnell, with the help of Edward Murphy, once kidnapped a 7-year-old boy named Steven Stayner. Parnell told Steven that his parents couldn't afford to keep him and didn't want him. Over the years, Parnell told people Steven was his son, Dennis, and he repeatedly sexually assaulted Steven.

At one point, Parnell lived with the mother (Barbara Mathias) of one of Steven's friends, and she joined in on the abuse. She also tried to help Parnell kidnap another boy, but thankfully failed.

This went on for 7 years. Even though Steven did go to school, no one recognized him. The school district had actually received a missing child poster with Steven's picture but had thrown it out instead of distributing it to the district's schools. (I don't know if this was intentional or accidental.) Steven didn't run away or ask for help because at first he didn't know he'd been kidnapped. He had been told his family didn't want him. Then later, I guess it was just too hard to imagine asking for help. I think he had probably lived so long as a captive that he didn't think he could leave or get help.

But when Steven got older, Parnell started trying to get Steven to help him kidnap younger kids. Steven knew he couldn't say no without risking being killed, so he went along with it but tipped the other kids off so they wouldn't go with him. Then one day, Parnell enlisted the help of one of Steven's classmate's to help him kidnap 5-year-old Timmy White.

Steven didn't want Timmy to go through what Steven had gone through, so he waited until Parnell was working, took Timmy, and hitchiked to a city. They told a police officer who they were and who had kidnapped them.

You would think this would be enough to send Parnell away for life, but no. Parnell was sentenced to 7 years for the kidnapping of Timmy White. But because law didn't allow kidnapping sentences to be served consecutively, the judge was only able to sentence him to 20 months for the kidnapping of Steven Stayner. Murphy, who had no contact with Steven after kidnapping him, got a lesser sentence of 5 years. Absolutely no charges for Mathias.

What's worse, despite numerous allegations of sexual abuse against other children and the sexual abuse Parnell committed against Steven, the D.A. at the time, Richard Finn, decided not to look into Parnell for those. His successor, Joe Allen, declined to prosecute Parnell.

Both Murphy and Parnell got out early on good behavior. Authorities tried to prosecute for the sex crimes at this point, but the new D.A., Vivienne Ricorcus (might be spelling that wrong), declined to prosecute!

Parnell was allowed to go free. After completing his parole, he still managed to get a job as a security guard at a boys' home. He was fired when his employer found out about his criminal history through a documentary.

He was later arrested for trying to buy a child. He had tried to get his caretaker's sister to kidnap one for him and sell Parnell the boy, but instead she pretended to agree and then went to the police, helping them with a sting operation. He told her that if all went well with the boy, he might also want to buy a girl, but he "couldn't manage 2." This time, he was sentenced to 25 to life on a three strikes policy. And he died in prison.

But why on Earth did he get three chances!?! Why did the people who wrote the laws think 7 years was enough for kidnapping? And who in hell decided to let a kidnapper and child rapist out on good behavior!?!

Had the caretaker's sister been someone like Barbara Mathias, Parnell may have been allowed to victimize two more kids! Who knows whether he had any victims at the boys' home.

Our justice system is a fucking trainwreck. People can go to jail for life over a nonviolent offense, but kidnappers can get off with a slap on the wrist.

[spellboundpictures]

producer/songwriter/writer by Pamela Edwards McClafferty Via Flickr: Sounds of Black and White Rapper CLASH Songwriter/producer. Pamela Edwards McClafferty Sound Engineer. Michael Parnell. https://open.spotify.com/track/0SVdjoSn0ZqVgBkprxOqSW shadeshttps://open.spotify.com/track/5mbHVpup3QtnGNuxHuT0jB reflections

[leanstooneside]

(Edward) the Black Prince

FLESH

UNDISCOVERED

CHILD OF NATURE

TIMES

EPES

CALIBAN

CONN

EAR

PRAED

VILLAGE

PRODUCE

IMPUDENCE

GAIT

EVENING

BROOKSIDE

CONSOLATION

YE

AFFECTIONS

PERSISTING

VOICES

CORRUPTION

BARD

ENGLAND

INJURED

STONE

WILLIAM

CIRCA

SIR JOHN

HENRY

THY SPIRIT

FOOTPRINTS

MONSTER

GREECE

COMPASS

LOWELL

APPARITIONS

DUNGEON

HOPE'S

INCESSANT BATTERY

ISLE

RESORT OF LOVE

LOVER

APPEARANCES

PARNELL

MEN'S SOULS

CHARM

OPENING CHAMBERS OF

EAR OF DEATH

FOLLY

NETTLE

MILTON

HERE

ANGELS

INDUSTRY

JURIES

VERDICT

CREATION'S

ARTIST

EMBATTLED

ILLUSED

DELIGHTS

D. CLIFTON

ADOPTION

HOUSE

TARA'S HALLS

JEST

BOURN

TENNYSON

B. SURREY

B. YORK

AGES

COMMANDMENTS

CARAVANSERAI

CROWNED

BISHOP THOMAS

LOVERS

D. LEASOWES

SALTFISH

PRAYER

CINCINNATUS HINER

BEAMS

OFFENDING

HAND

CONSTANCY

ROMAN

VA

CITIES

HIGHLAND MARY

RICHARD BRINSLEY BUTLER

HEIGHT

BOSTON

EXPECTATION

ASTERS

SCOT

DEEDS

FROST

CONTEST

CLOUD

HAMSTRING

[lbeth1950]

Bumps in the Road Part 12

“Is he tired of me already? What did I do wrong?  Is he going to leave me.  Do I want a man who drinks and gambles?  Decent men don’t act like this!  What have I gotten myself into?  …and his brothers?  They’re awful!  I wouldn’t trust that Edward as far as I could throw him.  Parnell isn’t even ashamed he’s running around on his wife and blowing his pay on a trashy woman while his mama’s taking…

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1881 – Irish Land League organiser, Michael Davitt, is arrested again for his outspoken speeches when he had accused chief secretary of Ireland W. E. Forster of ‘infamous lying’.

Davitt’s ticket of leave was revoked and he was sent to Portland jail. Parnell protested loudly in the House of Commons and the Irish members protested so strongly that they were ejected from the House. The government passed the Irish Coercion Bill. On Gladstone’s return to office in 1880, William Edward Forster was made Chief Secretary for Ireland. He carried the Compensation for Disturbance…

[loscerritoscommunitynews]

1st CEB Honors Meritorious Marine

SUPPORT: 1st CEB members and family with Corporal Jarod Crisman from (l-r) Chris Tierheimer, Barbara Winkler, Councilman Vo, Connie Edwards (1st CEB Treasurer), George Ray, Kammie Ngo, Diane Searer (Pres. of the 1st CEB), Laurie Forward (VP), Elizabeth Kelley, Janet Beach, Mayor Pro-Tem Solanki, L/Cpl Crisman, Scott and Bev Demoray-releatives of Cpl Crisman, SSgt Gianmarco Parnell and his wife…

[tumsozluk]

Alan Garner: The magical master of British literature

Alan Garner: The magical master of British literature

The novel captured the imagination of author Edward Parnell, whose autobiographical journey around places associated with British folklore, Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country, was published in 2019. “For me, it was first of all the setting: this claustrophobic Welsh valley, seemingly almost cut off from the rest of the world – when I visited the actual place Garner based it on, it felt a…

[folkhorrorrevival]

Ghostland: Review and Interview with Edward Parnell

Ghostland: Review and Interview with Edward Parnell

Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country by Edward Parnell is a beautifully strange and important book. That someone had not previously wrote of a pilgrimage to the wandering grounds of some of Britain’s most significant authors of the supernatural (least not to my knowledge) seems unusual – it would seem a logical step that writers who have previously written about writers who have haunted the…