Who wrote the story to which Something in the Walls was a slight variation?
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Something in the Walls "Something in the Walls" is the fifty-fourth episode (the nineteenth episode of the third season (1988–89) of the television series "The Twilight Zone". The episode is a variation of the 1892 short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
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The Yellow Wallpaper "The Yellow Wallpaper" (original title: "The Yellow Wall-paper. A Story") is a 6,000-word short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in "The New England Magazine". It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's health, both physical and mental.
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L'Inondation L'Inondation ("The Flood") is an 1880 novella by Émile Zola. Set in the village of Saint-Jory, several miles up the Garonne from Toulouse, it is the story of a family tragedy, told by its patriarch, seventy-year-old Louis Roubieu.
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Paste (story) "Paste" is a 5,800-word short story by Henry James first published in "Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly" in December, 1899. James included the story in his collection, "The Soft Side", published by Macmillan the following year. James conceived the story as a clever reversal of Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace".
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Something Childish But Very Natural Something Childish But Very Natural is a 1914 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published posthumously in the "Adelphi", though it was written in 1914. It was republished in "Something Childish and Other Stories" (1924).
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Life in the Iron Mills Life in the Iron Mills is a short story (or novella) written by Rebecca Harding Davis in 1861, set in the factory world of the nineteenth century. It is one of the earliest American realist works, and is an important text for those who study labor and women's issues. It was immediately recognized as an innovative work, and introduced American readers to "the bleak lives of industrial workers in the mills and factories of the nation."
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The Toynbee Convector (short story collection) The Toynbee Convector is a short story collection by American writer Ray Bradbury. Several of the stories are original to this collection. Others originally appeared in the magazines "Playboy", "Omni", "Gallery", "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine", "Woman's Day", and "Weird Tales".
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Lessness (short story) "Lessness" is a short story by Samuel Beckett originally written in French as "Sans" in 1969, and later translated into English by the author. It was partly inspired by John Cage and the experimental music of the 1960s. The story was included in a book of short stories under the title "Friendship" launched in 1990 to coincide with the fourth anniversary of the kidnapping in Beirut of the British television journalist John McCarthy.
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Variation on a Theme (play) Variation on a Theme is a 1958 play by the British writer Terence Rattigan. It is a reworking of Alexandre Dumas, fils's nineteenth century novel and subsequent play "La Dame aux Camélias".
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In a Glass Darkly In a Glass Darkly is a collection of five short stories by Sheridan Le Fanu, first published in 1872, the year before his death. The second and third are revised versions of previously published stories, and the fourth and fifth are long enough to be called novellas.
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A Cuckoo in the Nest A Cuckoo in the Nest is a farce by the English playwright Ben Travers. It was first given at the Aldwych Theatre, London, the second in the series of twelve Aldwych farces presented by the actor-manager Tom Walls at the theatre between 1923 and 1933. Several of the cast formed the regular core cast for the later Aldwych farces. The plot concerns two friends, a man and a woman, who are each married to other people. While travelling together, they are obliged by circumstances to share a hotel bedroom. Everyone else assumes the worst, but the two travellers are able to prove their innocence.
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Little Women Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the books rapidly over several months at the request of her publisher.
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Little Things (short story) "Little Things" is a short story by American writer Raymond Carver. It was originally title "Mine", but was first published in "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" under the title "Popular Mechanics." It was then republished with the title "Little Things" in Carver's 1988 collection "Where I’m Calling From: New and Selected Stories".
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In the Cage In the Cage is a novella by Henry James, first published as a book in 1898. This long story centers on an unnamed London telegraphist. She deciphers clues to her clients' personal lives from the often cryptic telegrams they submit to her as she sits in the "cage" at the post office. Sensitive and intelligent, the telegraphist eventually finds out more than she may want to know.
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Songs of Stars and Shadows Songs of Stars and Shadows is the second short story collection by author George R.R. Martin. The collection was first published by Pocket Books on July 1, 1977 and contains nine short stories.
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William Tell Told Again William Tell Told Again is a retelling of the William Tell legend in prose and verse, with illustrations. The main prose element was written by P. G. Wodehouse, while Philip Dadd supplied the frontispiece and 15 full-page illustrations, all in colour. The 15 illustrations were accompanied by verses written by John W. Houghton.
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MS. Found in a Bottle "MS. Found in a Bottle" is an 1833 short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The plot follows an unnamed narrator at sea who finds himself in a series of harrowing circumstances. As he nears his own disastrous death while his ship drives ever southward, he writes an "MS.", or manuscript, telling of his adventures which he casts into the sea. Some critics believe the story was meant as a satire of typical sea tales.
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One Christmas "One Christmas" is an autobiographical short story by Truman Capote, portions of which were originally published in a 1982 issue of the "Ladies’ Home Journal" magazine. It was shortly thereafter published in 1983 as a book by Random House, Inc and was the final work published by Capote before his death in 1984. The story is an emotional childhood tale about the nature of deception and alcoholism. It is Capote’s last short story and a sequel to "The Thanksgiving Visitor".
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Something Happened Something Happened is Joseph Heller's second novel (published in 1974, thirteen years after "Catch-22"). Its main character and narrator is Bob Slocum, a businessman who engages in a stream of consciousness narrative about his job, his family, his childhood, his sexual escapades, and his own psyche.
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The Seven Who Were Hanged The Seven Who Were Hanged (Russian: Рассказ о семи повешенных ) is a 1908 short story by Russian author Leonid Andreyev. The novel was adapted for film in 1920.
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His Chance in Life "His Chance in Life" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in the first Indian edition of "Plain Tales from the Hills" (1888), and in subsequent editions of that collection. The story is illuminating about Kipling's attitudes to race, which are less cut-and-dried than is often thought. Kipling is interesting, if not very detailed, on people of mixed race and the snobberies involved. (For some detail, see the Kipling Society notes.)
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Time and Again (short story) "Time and Again" is a short story by American writer Breece D'J Pancake, first published in 1977. This American Gothic tale tells the story of an aging murderer, a farmer who feeds the bodies of his victims to his hogs. The short story appears in Pancake's only book, "The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake" (1983). It can also be found in the anthology "American Gothic Tales", edited by Joyce Carol Oates.