If you like that sort of thing, The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959, Gary Cooper and Charlton Heston) sounds like it's going to be a high seas survival adventure film but most of the screen time is a dull-as-dirt marine salvage rights courtroom drama

A) Frozen peas ($1.5/lb) + bouillon. Boil & puree. Dress w olive oil. Great soup, nothing like split pea

B) Any pumpkin pie recipe makes a dinner entree if you halve the sugar. (Healthy variety: carrot, squash, sweet potato, pumpkin are interchangeable. Cube and roast.) Cheap, kid-friendly veg.

The theme of the sermon was overalls? 👖 We're doing backwoods stereotypes now?? Didn't you just say they were wearing suits??? (It was all ok, the sentence went in a different direction but the misreading made me laugh.) /end

OK finally one thing I want to quote because misreading it made me laugh. The dead mother's funeral reception. Here's the pastor. I got to the sentence beginning "The overall theme" and pulled up short. 12/

Quick read; friendly characters, lots of sex, not gory, and vast (but, notably, not incomprehensibly vast) horrors. 11/

Those are my Thoughts Prompted By. Should YOU read it? The narrative voice is getting on towards noir; jaded, confident, grouchy. (Could hardly be more different than The Twisted Ones, which may as well have been narrated by Cathy Guisewhite. Cthulhu AACK!) 10/

I grew up watching little developments/subdivisions spring up in fields around me. The fact that 20 years can take you from "empty field" to "weird new street" to "lived-in place" is so familiar IRL. Children of Solitude's setting is exactly this, maybe the first time I've seen it in fiction. 9/

"... surrounded by" <author selects "clone" tool in Photoshop> "more suburb I guess? Whatever. Back to Our Character." If a building's origin is mentioned at all it's because of some distant-past anomaly, a curse, a graveyard. The built environment is never *new*. Usually. 8/

your realtor probably used it for comps. Eldritch comps. Anyway! It made me think about how built environments usually show up in fiction? Usually pretty static? "Here's our character, in an environment consisting of Familiar Suburb ..." 7/

but has to journey into an alienatingly rurality. The house Reginald returns to has upended its ruralness; a hilariously dorky subdivision has been carved out of its former front lawn. Not a parody-subdivision masking an eldritch horror (at least not mostly that), just a regular ol' subdivision; 6/

I wouldn't have thought you could write a hopepunk horror novel, but there's something hopepunk about it. The first comparison that comes to mind is T Kingfisher's The Twisted Ones---Appalachian ancestral-homestead horror, right? Kingfisher's protagonist was doing OK in her city home life ... 5/

So: Williams' protagonist Reginald runs from an eldrich horror. Run home alone, American style? No! He gets help from the neighboorhood watch. (Later Reginald pulls the Junji Ito public-horror lever, a surprising twist I enjoyed, although it didn't really pivot the story too far.) 4/

just you and a Babadook. The first batch of Junji Ito comics I read surprised me by being the opposite. The infestation of angry balloon heads is a public event the whole town is talking about. Community horror. (Made me wonder if lonely-sufferer horror is specifically American.) 3/

I noticed once how, in American horror fiction (books & movies) a haunting is an intensely private thing. One person, or one family, one carload of roadtrippers. Phone's out. Cops don't believe you. No help, no advice, 2/

(it keeps getting blurbed as "queer Appalachian cosmic horror", which it is, but there's more going on than that. 1.5/

Also useful if an audience member zones out for a minute---not a bad thing! Maybe you prompted them to think about something!---and if they can glance up and read a bit of text they can often get re-oriented. Just a bit though.

(My grad-school notebook archive confirms this! October 2000. Problem Set 2, Question 7 was to solve an n-3/2 polytrope numerically by shooting. I have a printout of my Fortran code.)