Bad People Abuse Animals: Nearly all the Openers are shown being cruel to animals at some point. One attempts to poison Snuff. Another attempts to drown Greymalk in a well. The main villain hunts Needle with a crossbow and tries to get Snuff done in by vivisectionists. Everyone Luuuuurved It But Me Now that's a Surprise Buddy Read (ELIBMNtaSBR™) with Evgeny (aka The Culprit), Tadiana, Choko, Layla, Maria and Robin • About 150 posts as we dissected the book to find all the allusions & sources Zelazny drew from. Wow! A few times a century, on a night in the lonesome October, when the moon shines full on Halloween, the way may be opened for the return of the Elder Gods to Earth. Some people will assist in the opening of the way for them, while others will strive to keep the way closed. For ages, the closers have won... Often, just barely. And there are stories of a shadowy man, half mad, a killer, a wanderer -- and his dog -- who always show up to attempt the closing."

Friendly Enemy: The players start out cordial and sometimes willing to cooperate on mutually beneficial projects, but mostly because at that point nobody knows yet who's an ally and who's an enemy; once everybody knows for sure who's on their side they start getting properly adversarial. The only friendship durable enough to fit the trope is Snuff and Gray (and their respective masters) who continue to be on friendly terms, even after the battle lines have been drawn and they've established that neither is willing to join the other's side.Master of Your Domain: Snuff finds Larry deep in a meditative trance in a zen garden on the day before the full moon, which is implied to be part of the man's efforts to retain self-control during his upcoming moon-change. It was apt that the sun was setting as I finished my second reading of this book. October 31, chapter 31, Halloween. The light was quite magical, a deep orange glow, offset by the steel gray clouds.

He won the Nebula award three times (out of 14 nominations) and the Hugo award six times (out of 14 nominations). His papers are housed at the Albin O. Khun Library of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).

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Larry Talbot has gained a measure of control over his condition, and can transform into a wolf at will at any time of month (although he still has to endure an uncontrolled transformation at full moon).

P.P.S. Only 334 days to go until we ritually rereread this book and stuff. The countdown has begun and stuff. Not that I look forward to it and stuff. Just stating a fact and stuff. Obviously and stuff.Read it for the 2nd time and absolutely loved it again. The literature recycling is a thing Zelazny was great in and here he did it in a funny and inventive way. He borrowed some best characters the modern classic literature gave us, sparkled it with the cameo of Elder Gods and played it all with great humour and a tad of twist to it. The dialogues are brilliant. And you just have to love Snuff. Whoever he is... 5 Stars again, and I'm willing to re-read it in future. Every once in a while- when the moon is full on a Halloween night- a group gathers and a game begins...The game of saving the world from evil and destruction- who is on the right side and who is on the wrong one??? I guess you will have to read it to find out... Underneath the spell-preparing graveyard shenanigans is the building of a potentially deadly conflict. Preparations make for strange bedfellows, and Snuff finds himself relying on Ms. Greymalk the cat. He also interacts with a variety of other animal companions to the primary, somewhat questionably human, players.

Non sono la prima a venire qui oggi. Chi mi ha preceduta ha lasciato delle tracce. Lo sapevi, fedele guardiano?" Prophecy Twist: In the Dreamlands, Snuff and Greymalk meet the High Purring One, a cat god, who makes a remark to Snuff that seems at the time to be just a bit of cat-vs-dog banter. At the climax of the story, Snuff realizes that it was a bit of prophetic advice designed not to make sense until the moment comes to act on it. Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: Halloween night plays a very important role in the story. This time around loved it again and even more because of the fun buddy read with October Shenanigans! :) During the entire month of October, in the late 1800s, in a year when the full moon falls on Halloween, strange forces gather in a village outside of London.Graymalk, the cat, and her human, Crazy Jill (probably based on one of the witches from Shakespeare’s MacBeth) The Third thing I enjoyed about this set up is that nothing is told to you. Everything is shown and the story teases out a little at a time with hints here and there but nothing overt. Which leads to some pretty big surprises at the end and a twist I really didn’t see coming. Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1993, e candidato al prestigioso Premio Nebula, Notte d'ottobre, ultimo racconto scritto dall'autore Roger Zelazny prima della sua prematura scomparsa, è un delizioso pastiche lovecraftiano che vede come protagonisti gli animali al servizio di alcuni tra i più famosi personaggi della letteratura e cinematografia, ormai vere e proprie icone dell'immaginario collettivo con innumerevoli racconti a loro dedicati, e la cui fama supera di gran lunga quella dei loro creatori. P.P.P.S.S.S. Gahan Wilson's illustrations for this book are slightly awesome. And you are slightly welcome. Come on!" it said. "I’m almost strong enough to break out of here on my own now. It won’t go well with you if you keep me til I do."