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Sat, Oct 07

31 HORROR STORIES -- "Quest for Blank Claveringi" (1967)

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Patricia Highsmith wrote STRANGERS ON A TRAIN and the Ripley novels. She also wrote SPY SMASHER and CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT comics for Fawcett. And she loved animals and bugs.

I don't think she thought bugs liked us too much. At least, the giant snails in this reasonable, matter-of-fact freak show of a story don't seem to friendly.

What's worse -- drowning or being eaten alive? Read this story and find out.

Posted by: MLO @ 1:57 PM on 8.28.2010

Small world.

I Googled the title of the story that is the subject of this post, soon after reading the book "The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating", in which it is mentioned. That book was recommended to me because I keep a snail I almost stepped on as a pet.

The result? I'm led to the blog of my favorite comic (or a remarkably good tribute blog).

As a thank you, here is a link to someone, with much more time on their hands than I, who hunted down the original version of this story...published in the Saturday Evening Post under the title "The Snails"
http://www.imnotintrouble.com/?p=3

And here's a Google Book link to (I think) the original:
http://bit.ly/aTOPx1

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	Posted by: Gomro Morskopp @ 7:38 AM on 6.12.2012
	I am that someone who hunted down "The Snails". Alas, Imnotintrouble.com is gone, but the story of The Quest for The Quest for Blank Claveringi still remains, right HERE: https://www.facebook.com/#!/notes/jb-lee/this-is-how-most-of-lovecrafts-narrators-get-in-trouble/146342999795

Posted by: Hequet @ 3:51 PM on 5.17.2013

I read this story in the 3rd grade- our elementary school library had it in a Hitchcock collection of short horror tales...

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