The original source for "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"

I especially like the final line where someone reprimands the storytellerfor telling stories that will give kids nightmares--good to know spooky stories at bedtime is a timeless tradition.
http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/the-masters-tools.php

Did my LiveJournal account get purged?

I just saw this message when I attempted to look at my LiveJournal account. I guess I will be officially moving to DreamWidth.

I'm also on Dreamwidth

Just to clear up any confusion: I am already on DW, under the same name, and have been cross-posting to LJ for months now and, as a matter of fact, I am using the DW post form with the link to cross-post to LJ automatically.

I would be pleased to friend any of my LJ friends who wish to friend me on DW. If you have already friended me on DW and I haven't friended you back yet, please post a comment on DW and I will do that. I also intend on fixing my Facebook feed at some point this week--LJ dropped it at some point and I know someone sent me a post on how to create a Fb feed on DW, but I need to go find that info in my inbox.

When I referred to giving DW my money, I was talking about where my paid account will be, but the DW presence should already be established.

Comments to my LJ will now be funneled to DreamWidth

I hope.

What's in a name?

So, while using Bookshare.Org's search engine to find out if it had any books by Lucian, the Roman writer, I discovered that Roman writers named Lucian are pretty much non-existent on Bookshare, but it does possess a quite significant pile of paranormal romances with a character named Lucien. Actually, just yesterday I read an Ellis Peters mystery set at a folk music seminar in some English gothic pile, and the bad boy folk musician was named Lucien. My brain did just experience a blip at the phrase "bad boy folk musician," but the mystery was written in the mid-1960s, so those were more innocent days, I guess.

Anyway, now I am pondering if anyone has compiled a list of the most-used names for sexy bad boys in paranormal romance, and if anyone will ever write a paranormal romance with a bad boy names something like Kevin, or Frank, although I think one of the prerequisites for bad boy names is that they need to be able to be speeled with some sort of ominous darkly-shaded spelling like...help me out here, what are some gothy bad boy names? I just know there is a lot of territory for satiric fan fic here.