Counterparts (short story) youngest son, Tom, to make dinner but as the child lets the fire in the kitchen go out, Farrington's rage explodes and he starts beating the little child with a walking stick. The story ends with Tom pleading for mercy. For Joyce's contemporaneous audience, the term "counterparts" could be expected to suggest (hand-written) duplicate copies of documents concerning the office's business. Counterparts (short story) "Counterparts" is a short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection "Dubliners". The story recounts an evening in the life of a man named Farrington, frequently referred to simply as "the man". Farrington’s difficulties
The Shambler from the Stars (Short Story) The Shambler from the Stars (Short Story) "The Shambler from the Stars" is a horror short story by American writer Robert Bloch, first published in the September 1935 issue of" Weird Tales". It was later included as part of his first published book, "The Opener of the Way" (1945), and his 1994 collection "The Early Fears". A Cthulhu Mythos tale, it introduced the forbidden tome "De Vermis Mysteriis" (Mysteries of the Worm). Later on in 1935, Lovecraft wrote the short story "The Haunter of the Dark" as a sequel and dedicated it to Bloch. Eventually, in 1950, Bloch wrote his