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Check out The Lovecraft eZine tribute issue to A Night in the Lonesome October.

Here's that article on Jack the Ripper referenced by Lackey.

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Anonymous

I just finished reading H. G. Wells' Island of Doctor Moreau, which turned out to be much more of a horror story than I thought it'd be. Moreau's a vivisectionist -- that's how he creates his dog-people and pig-people and all the rest. That naturally made me think of that chapter in Lonesome October when Jack rescues Snuff, definitely the only moment I can think of when I was glad that Jack the Ripper showed up -- and, guys, so, so often while reading Island I wanted Jack, his knife gleaming in the light, to show up in Moreau's little operating room of terrors. I don't hate characters in stories very often, but I HATE Doctor Moreau.

Jeremy Impson

I'm so glad Chris enjoyed my description of Ball's Out. I do need to make a minor but oh-so-important correction, in case civilization collapses and this Patreon feed becomes one of the only references available to enable reconstruction: I said that when the balls are down thanks to gravity, the valve is closed, and opens in the presence of steam. This is incorrect. When the balls are down, the valve is open, and steam can move from the boiler to the pistons. The pistons spin the wheels (or whatever the load is) and also the balls. The faster the balls spin, the further up and out they go. The further up and out they go, the more they restrict the flow of steam to the pistons. This a negative feedback mechanism, providing an upper limit to the speed that the engine will turn the wheels/drive the load. The engineer can adjust the balls along the length of the valve lever, changing the amount of leverage required to close the valve, thus adjusting max speed.

Thunk

All we need to know now is what a 'balls up' is, and then we'll be covered. I think.