Masefield #AScareADay Alone in a house filled with portraits of long dead people hanging on the walls, the protagonist feels their presence around him. Are supernatural beings haunting the house? Or is the protagonist himself doing the haunting, out of place amid the memories & relics of the past?

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#AScareADay Reading Challenge 2026 – Day 18: “The Red Crown” by Mikhail Bulgakov (1922) Here are my thoughts on today's A Scare A Day story, paired with a film - I went a bit… https://cmrosens.com/2026/10/18/ascareaday-reading-challenge-2026-day-18-the-red-crown-by-mikhail-bulgakov-1922/

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#AScareADay Day 18: The Red Crown by Mikhail Bulgakov (1922) Today's story takes us back to our theme of vows. Somewhat gruesome and entirely heartbreaking.

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Day 18 of #AScareADay is “The Red Crown” by Mikhail Bulgakov. This is a story of madness brought on by the trauma of war and is set in Russia during the Civil War—not an area of history I know much about! 1/

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Our narrator is in a mental institution, tormented nightly by visions of his younger brother Kolya. Their mother asked the narrator to bring Kolya home but he lets him participate in one last engagement. “What could happen in just an hour?” In war, plenty. #AScareADay 2/

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