Thanks for reading this! And I agree with your assessment that the first pitch is the strongest.
This pitch is actually influenced by the HP Lovecraft short story "The Rats in the Walls," which is the one where an American inherits an isolated castle in England only to find that it has a secret sub-basement that leads to an underground world of horrors. It's a really good story, not to mention extremely well-written, but it has also the dubious distinction of the being the story in which the narrator's black cat has a truly unfortunate name.
I don't think the cat's name was meant maliciously, but older fiction sure does how its age in strange ways. It's actually kind of amazing to me that Jane Austen and her cohort have aged as well as they did.
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This pitch is actually influenced by the HP Lovecraft short story "The Rats in the Walls," which is the one where an American inherits an isolated castle in England only to find that it has a secret sub-basement that leads to an underground world of horrors. It's a really good story, not to mention extremely well-written, but it has also the dubious distinction of the being the story in which the narrator's black cat has a truly unfortunate name.
I don't think the cat's name was meant maliciously, but older fiction sure does how its age in strange ways. It's actually kind of amazing to me that Jane Austen and her cohort have aged as well as they did.