Danse Macabre XXIX

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DM 21 Christmas in January
DM 22 Frühlingsstimmen
DM 23 Une Nuit à l'Opéra
DM 24 Hauptfriedhof
DM 25 Symphonie Fantastique
DM 26 Stonewall
DM 27 Totentanze
DM 28 All Saints' Evening

 

DM XXIII

 une nuit à l'opéra

 

 

répertoire des artistes 

 

The Son Who Bears

Gale Acuff

 

How Carophorus Did It

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

 

The Mezzo

Eric Basso

 

Bizet

Bruce Bond

 

Opera

RDM Cerello

 

Duke Bluebeard's Castle

Peter Czipott

 

It's Showtime Now

Writing Vaudeville * A Few Things of Consideration

Nabina Das

 

Wakerunners

Tom Foster

 

The Moon is New , but Love is Old

Kristin Fouquet

 

A Bohemian City of Skinny Lattes and Sweet Anarchies * Bookstore Windows Gathered Each Story

From the Book of Miracles and Odd Events

Tom Gribble

 

The Founding of Salt Lake

Ray Hadley

 

On Bad Days * Open Window

Ed Higgins

 

The Third Garden of Eden * The Maidservant

Janie Hofmann

 

Mum's the Word * A Red Feather's Song

Roxanne Hoffman

 

Radio Rat

David Hughes

 

Gaïffer-Jorge, Duke of Aquitaine

Victor Hugo

 

Ex Nihilo * Bather

Rose Hunter

 

The Marionette

Ani Kachbalian

 

The Everlasting Sorrow of Silence

Michael Keith

 

Carmilla

Sheridan le Fanu

 

Midnight Anthem for a Chicago Alley * Caseworker's Tune

Donal Mahoney

 

Success Story in Three Acts

Luigi Monteferrante

 

The Vampyre

John Polidori

 

Para el Amor

Anna Maria Pluas

 

Densen Grey

Randall W. Pretzer

 

Swan Song

Bob Priest

 

The Camel in Aida * Warm Milk and La Boheme

Elizabeth I. Riseden

 

Red Sex * The Space Through the Brain

Matteo Spinetti

 

Schumann & Brahms at Stravinsky's Tavern

Dick Strawser

 

Clouds and Clorox * Secrets of Dusty Housewives

Shannon Thomas

 

Nights at the Opera

Levi Wagenmaker

 

A Girl for Ronald

Jeffrey Wallmann

 

The Dancing Bear

Etienne Barsony

 

Woodblocks

Joseph Domjan

 

 
 
 
 
 

Thanks for joining us on this, our twenty-third voyage into online letters.

 

Here, we continue our proud tradition of presenting the best in new poetry and fiction from around the world, including exclusive translations of noted international writers. Plus, we're happy to re-introduce the finest in supplémentaires classique du macabre (including the latest in our Hungarian Mystery Stories series, Etienne Barsony's The Dancing Bear) to new audiences across the web. 

 

In an era of almost extreme orthodoxies - cultural, commercial, academic, and literary - it appears more and more crucial to stand athwart these remorseless barriers. Yet, what we (think, hope) we  know is cold comfort compared to the thrill of exploring unknown places of body, mind, and soul...with our imaginations at the vanguard.

 

We hope to make every issue of Danse Macabre your go-to page for coloratura lettura and exciting kunst und künstler; a grand electronic closet, if you will, of enduring prose treasures, keepsakes, gee-gaws, knick-knacks, and manorial wordsmith palaces; a gallimaufry of dainty devices, poetical torrents and cultural objets d'art.

 
Let's beat our collective brains and discover if we can't shake loose anything but sawdust, cobwebs and post-modernist platitudinizings. Allons, enfants de la patria! Marchons, marchons...!
 
May une nuit à l'opéra help earn the privilege of your continuing readership.
 

  Danse Macabre

An Online Literary Magazine

une nuit à l'opéra

Volume Four, Number Three

Copyright © MMVI-MMIX

by

Adam Henry Carrière / Stonesthrow Publishing LLC.

All Rights Reserved.

ISSN pending.

 
 
D.H. Lawrence
 
 
Down the stone stairs
Girls with their large eyes wide with tragedy
Lift looks of shocked and momentous emotion
up at me.
And I smile.
 
Ladies
Stepping like birds with their bright and pointed feet
Peer anxiously forth, as if for a boat to carry them out
of the wreckage,
And among the wreck of the theatre crowd
I stand and smile.
 
They take tragedy so becomingly.
Which pleases me.
 
But when I meet the weary eyes
The reddened aching eyes of the bar-man with thin
arms,
I am glad to go back to where I came from.
 
David Herbert Richards Lawrence (1885 – 1930) was an English writer of novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, and literary criticism. In his obituary notice, E. M. Forster described Lawrence as, "The greatest imaginative novelist of our generation."