Challenge 927

Stones Upturned

1. In John Rossi’s The Adventures of Dead Dan: The Old Religion, part 4: What advantages does Dan Collins have that other forms of the undead do not?

2. In Kjetil Jansen’s A Handy Stone: What might have happened if the old man had not left his cellphone at home?

3. In L. B. Zinger’s Migraines and Metamorphosis: Do migraines explain or excuse the narrator’s pathological behavior?

4. In Albin Zollinger’s The Maze of the Past: Why is it significant to know that the author was Swiss?

5. In Bertil Falk’s Beyond Journey’s End: What connection can you find between the old lady’s epitaph and the author’s review of Leigh Brackett’s Lorelei of the Red Mist: Planetary Romances?

6. In Bill Bowler’s Klunk:

   1. Why might readers suspect that Caspar Klunk knows more than he lets on about Rector Egon and the temple?
   2. Does Egon’s epigraph at the beginning of part 1 give the story away in advance?
   3. How might Pushkin’s Boris Godunov relate to the story of Egon and Caspar Klunk?



Responses welcome!


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