# dave eggers (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover dave eggers. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Specter in the New Hotel](https://multoghost.wordpress.com/2026/08/19/the-specter-in-the-new-hotel/) _2026-08-19 · Nina Zumel · Multo (Ghost)_ The next piece in The Supernatural Writings of Stuart Palmer is also supposed to be a non-fiction article. In actuality, it’s a fanciful embellishment of a real set of events that occurred at an elegant New York residence hotel in 1903. The Specter in the New Hotel, tells the ABSOLUTELY TRUE! story of a sinister \[…\] ## [How a Spirit Corrected the Standard Dictionary](https://multoghost.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/how-a-spirit-corrected-the-standard-dictionary/) _2026-08-12 · Nina Zumel · Multo (Ghost)_ The latest contribution to The Supernatural Writings of Stuart Palmer is an ostensibly non-fiction article, from the June 1929 issue of Ghost Stories. In How a Spirit Corrected the Standard Dictionary, Palmer relates how the ghost of Henry Ward Beecher sent a message to his friend Isaac Funk, during a seance. Funk was co-founder of \[ \] ## [The Red Curse of the Mummy](https://multoghost.wordpress.com/2026/08/04/the-red-curse-of-the-mummy/) _2026-08-04 · Nina Zumel · Multo (Ghost)_ I ve posted the next story in my Supernatural Writings of Stuart Palmer project. In The Red Curse of the Mummy, Ted Orchards joins a family friend, Professor Beames, on an expedition to the Valley of the Kings. The object: to unearth the tomb of the Pharoah Amenophis. But something out there seems to have other \[ \] ## [A Budget of Book Reviews: The Uncanny in Translation Edition](https://multoghost.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/a-budget-of-book-reviews-the-uncanny-in-translation-edition/) _2026-07-29 · Nina Zumel · Multo (Ghost)_ It’s been a while since I’ve done a Budget of Book Reviews! So for this post, I’ll be discussing three anthologies that I’ve recently read: translations of non-Anglophone uncanny stories. Nordic Visions: The Best of Nordic Speculative Fiction edited by Margrét Helgadóttir Solaris Books, 2023 The term “Finnish Weird” used to be a thing some \[ \] ## [There is Only One of You](https://multoghost.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/there-is-only-one-of-you/) _2026-07-27 · Nina Zumel · Multo (Ghost)_ I ve been keeping a sort of commonplace book for a while now. It s almost entirely for my online reading, a place to keep quotes from blog posts and articles that strike a chord with me, along with links to the entire article. The very first quote that I entered was not an online quote, but \[ \] ## [Seven Gray Wolves](https://multoghost.wordpress.com/2026/07/22/seven-gray-wolves/) _2026-07-22 · Nina Zumel · Multo (Ghost)_ I ve just posted the next story in my series The Supernatural Writings of Stuart Palmer, over at Dark Tales Sleuth. In Seven Gray Wolves, Frank Meadock runs a small sheep ranch in a remote area of Montana. It s a dangerous life, both for Frank s family and for his flock. But Frank s beloved collie Duke stands \[ \] ## [Two Short Mexican Folktales](https://multoghost.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/two-short-mexican-folktales/) _2026-06-26 · Nina Zumel · Multo (Ghost)_ Here are a couple of short folktales from Max Leopold Wagner s 1927 paper Algunas Apuntaciones Sobre el Folklore Mexicano. As usual, I ve posted my translations to Ephemera. The Innocent Little Old Lady (La viejecita inocente): Shades of Jack and the Giant Beanstalk! A little old lady climbs a cabbage stalk all the way to heaven, \[ \] ## [A Sleeper Bewitched](https://multoghost.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/a-sleeper-bewitched/) _2026-06-23 · Nina Zumel · Multo (Ghost)_ The next entry in my Supernatural Writings of Stuart Palmer series is the first of two (possibly three) stories about Max Brandt, “ghost layer.” A Sleeper Bewitched: Mr. Crane has been asleep for a month. No one knows why; no one can wake him up. And there’s a strange, disembodied hand hovering over his bed. Mrs. Crane \[ \] ## [The Supernatural Writings of Stuart Palmer](https://multoghost.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/the-supernatural-writings-of-stuart-palmer/) _2026-06-11 · Nina Zumel · Multo (Ghost)_ Announcing a new literary excavation project: ghost stories, articles, and an occult investigator mini-series! (A version of this article also posted at Dark Tales Sleuth.) Stuart Palmer (1905-1968) was a prolific writer, active in the crime fiction community from the 1930s into the 1960s. He was a well-regarded practitioner of the detective story, even serving \[ \] ## [Figures of Speech from Folktales](https://multoghost.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/figures-of-speech-from-folktales/) _2026-06-01 · Nina Zumel · Multo (Ghost)_ Not too long ago, I translated/retold a Mexican fairy tale called “Ya mero la besa un pobre” (A Poor Man Nearly Kissed Her). As I mentioned when I introduced the translation, Ya mero la besa un pobre is a Mexican saying similar in meaning to the English expression So close, and yet so far…. You \[ \] ## [Unlimited Mobile Internet, One V-SIM (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/E9G9iJUfo23R) _2026-06-01 · **Sponsored**_ Automatically switches across T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon; no throttling, no contract. ## [How Hummingbird Brought Fire: An Ohlone Folktale](https://multoghost.wordpress.com/2026/05/30/how-hummingbird-brought-fire-an-ohlone-folktale/) _2026-05-30 · Nina Zumel · Multo (Ghost)_ After a decade, I m adding another tale to my Hummingbird Folklore series. Yesterday, I caught one of the last days of an excellent exhibition at the Oakland Museum of California: Good Fire: Tending Native Lands. The exhibit explored cultural burning, i.e. the traditional controlled burn practices of the Native Communities of Northern California, and discussed \[ \]