Showing posts with label Mildred A. Wirt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mildred A. Wirt. Show all posts

Monday, January 23, 2023

Green doors and close shaves with barbed wire

I am, for obvious reasons, reading Behind the Green Door (1940) by Mildred A. Wirt, a prolific author with many pseudonyms and best known now as the main ghostwriter behind the Nancy Drew stories.

In the Desert Portal Death Cult story I posted about on Saturday, James recounts how, running away from said cult and its sinister “green portal,” he nearly clotheslined himself on a strand of barbed wire but miraculously escaped injury.

In Behind the Green Door, our plucky heroine, girl reporter Penny Parker, is staying at a ski resort and trying to sleuth out what is going on behind the mysterious Green Door at one of the other hotels there. She takes a wrong turn on the ski slopes and nearly clotheslines herself on a strand of barbed wire, but manages to jump over it just in time, escaping injury.

I Am the Most Thinking Religious Beast

This dream had the feel of a nature documentary, with a voice-over narrating what I was seeing. An old bobcat had long commanded a large hil...