Joan Aiken, on stories:

Stories ought not to be just little bits of fantasy that are used to wile away an idle hour; from the beginning of the human race stories have been used - by priests, by bards, by medicine men - as magic instruments of healing, of teaching, as a means of helping people come to terms with the fact that they continually have to face insoluble problems and unbearable realities.
– Joan Aiken.

Introvert insight:

I don’t mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I’m good at. I do what I do and that’s it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.
– Henry Rollins.

I think a lot, but I don't say much.
– Anne Frank.

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

– Euripides.

 

We introverts love to wander.

Our favorite destination for quiet explorations is our imagination.

No matter where we are, we feel called away by our own thoughts.

– from The Irresistible Introvert, by Michaela Chung.

Recommended reading - The Gutter and the Grave (1958)

 

The Gutter and the Grave

by Ed McBain.

 
Hard Case Crime.
Complete and Unabridged.
 
ISBN-10: 0857683675
ISBN-13: 978-0857683670
 
Description:
 

Detective Matt Cordell was happily married once, and gainfully employed, and sober. But that was before he caught his wife cheating on him with one of his operatives and took it out on the man with the butt end of a .45.

Now Matt makes his home on the streets of New York and his only companions are the city’s bartenders. But trouble still knows how to find him, and when Johnny Bridges shows up from the old neighborhood, begging for Matt’s help, Cordell finds himself drawn into a case full of beautiful women and bloody murder. It’s just like the old days – only this time, when the beatings come, he may wind up on the receiving end...

Born on this day – Jane Darwell:

Jane Darwell

Actress

October 15, 1879 – August 13, 1967

Credits:

Mary Poppins (1964); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962); Burke's Law (1963); Follow the Sun (1961); Lassie (1954); Wagon Train (1957); The Real McCoys (1957); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958); New Comedy Showcase (1960); Hound-Dog Man (1959); Buckskin (1958); The Last Hurrah (1958); Matinee Theatre (1955); Maverick (1957); Studio One (1948); The Eighty Yard Run: Playhouse 90 (1956–1957); Circus Boy (1957); The Sheriff of Cochise (1956); Schlitz Playhouse (1951); Cavalcade of America (1952); Girls in Prison (1956); My Friend Flicka (1955); The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1954); Screen Directors Playhouse (1955); There's Always Tomorrow (1956); Studio 57 (1954); Climax! (1954); The Ford Television Theatre (1952); Willy (1954); A Life at Stake (1955); Hit the Deck (1955); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1953); The Loretta Young Show (1953); Fireside Theatre (1949); The Bigamist (1953); Affair with a Stranger (1953); It Happens Every Thursday (1953); The Sun Shines Bright (1953); Hollywood Opening Night (1952); We're Not Married! (1952); The Red Skelton Hour (1951); Personal Appearance Theater (1951); Journey Into Light (1951); Excuse My Dust (1951); The Lemon Drop Kid (1951); Father's Wild Game (1950); The Second Face (1950); Three Husbands (1950); Redwood Forest Trail (1950); Surrender (1950); Caged (1950); Wagon Master (1950); The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady (1950); Red Canyon (1949); 3 Godfathers (1948); Train to Alcatraz (1948); The Red Stallion (1947); Keeper of the Bees (1947); My Darling Clementine (1946); Three Wise Fools (1946); The Dark Horse (1946); Captain Tugboat Annie (1945); A Yank in London (1945); Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944); She's a Sweetheart (1944); Music in Manhattan (1944); The Impatient Years (1944); Reckless Age (1944); Tender Comrade (1943); Government Girl (1943); Family Feud (1943); Stage Door Canteen (1943); The Ox-Bow Incident (1943); Gildersleeve's Bad Day (1943); The Great Gildersleeve (1942); Highways by Night (1942); The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942); Men of Texas (1942); It Happened in Flatbush (1942); Small Town Deb (1942); On the Sunny Side (1942); Young America (1942); All Through the Night (1942); All That Money Can Buy (1941); Private Nurse (1941); Thieves Fall Out (1941); Chad Hanna (1940); Youth Will Be Served (1940); Brigham Young (1940); Untamed (1940); The Grapes of Wrath (1940); Miracle on Main Street (1939); Gone with the Wind (1939); 20,000 Men a Year (1939); The Rains Came (1939); Grand Jury Secrets (1939); Unexpected Father (1939); The Zero Hour (1939); Inside Story (1939); Jesse James (1939); Up the River (1938); Five of a Kind (1938); Time Out for Murder (1938); Little Miss Broadway (1938); Three Blind Mice (1938); Battle of Broadway (1938); The Jury's Secret (1938); Change of Heart (1938); Dangerously Yours (1937); Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937); The Singing Marine (1937); Slave Ship (1937); Fifty Roads to Town (1937); The Great Hospital Mystery (1937); Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937); Love Is News (1937); Laughing at Trouble (1936); Ramona (1936); Craig's Wife (1936); Star for a Night (1936); White Fang (1936); Poor Little Rich Girl (1936); Private Number (1936); Little Miss Nobody (1936); Captain January (1936); The First Baby (1936); The Country Doctor (1936); Paddy O'Day (1936); We're Only Human (1935); Metropolitan (1935); Navy Wife (1935); Curly Top (1935); Wig-Wag (1935); Life Begins at 40 (1935); McFadden's Flats (1935); One More Spring (1935); Bright Eyes (1934); Gentlemen Are Born (1934); The White Parade (1934); The Firebird (1934); Tomorrow's Youth (1934); Happiness Ahead (1934); Wake Up and Dream (1934); Desirable (1934); One Night of Love (1934); Million Dollar Ransom (1934); Embarrassing Moments (1934); Blind Date (1934); Most Precious Thing in Life (1934); Let's Talk It Over (1934); Change of Heart (1934); The Scarlet Empress (1934); Finishing School (1934); Once to Every Woman (1934); Journal of a Crime (1934); David Harum (1934); Wonder Bar (1934); Heat Lightning (1934); Fashions of 1934 (1934); Cross Country Cruise (1934); King for a Night (1933); Roman Scandals (1933); Design for Living (1933); Only Yesterday (1933); Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men (1933); Ann Vickers (1933); One Sunday Afternoon (1933); He Couldn't Take It (1933); Before Dawn (1933); Bed of Roses (1933); Good Housewrecking (1933); Jennie Gerhardt (1933); Emergency Call (1933); The Girl in 419 (1933); Bondage (1933); Murders in the Zoo (1933); Child of Manhattan (1933); The Past of Mary Holmes (1933); Air Hostess (1933); Women Won't Tell (1932); Hot Saturday (1932); Washington Merry-Go-Round (1932); Back Street (1932); The Strange Case of Clara Deane (1932); Young America (1932); No One Man (1932); Ladies of the Big House (1931); Huckleberry Finn (1931); Fighting Caravans (1931); Tom Sawyer (1930); Little Church Around the Corner (1923); The Restless Sex (1920); The Reform Candidate (1915); The Rug Maker's Daughter (1915); After Five (1915); The Goose Girl (1915); Hypocrites (1915); Rose of the Rancho (1914); Ready Money (1914); The Man on the Box (1914); The Only Son (1914); The Master Mind (1914); Brewster's Millions (1914); The White Squaw (1913); War of the Cattle Range (1913); In the Coils of the Python (1913); When Sherman Marched to the Sea (1913); The Head Hunters (1913); At Shiloh (1913); The Capture of Aguinaldo (1913).

Born on this day – P. G. Wodehouse:

P. G. Wodehouse

Writer

October 15, 1881 – February 14, 1975

Born on this day – S. S. Van Dine:

S. S. Van Dine

Writer

October 15, 1888 – April 11, 1939

Credits:

Books:

The Benson Murder Case (1926); The Canary Murder Case (1927); The Greene Murder Case (1928); The Bishop Murder Case (1928); The Scarab Murder Case (1929); The Kennel Murder Case (1933); The Dragon Murder Case (1934); The Casino Murder Case (1934); The Garden Murder Case (1935); The Kidnap Murder Case (1936); The Gracie Allen Murder Case (aka The Smell of Murder) (1938); The Winter Murder Case (1939); Murder Plus (1992).

Movies and television:

Calling Philo Vance (1940); El cuerpo del delito (1930); Murder in the Pullman (1932); Night of Mystery (1937); Philo Vance (1974); Philo Vance Returns (1947); Philo Vance's Gamble (1947); The Benson Murder Case (1930); The Bishop Murder Case (1929); The Campus Mystery (1932); The Canary Murder Case (1929 / 1935); The Clyde Mystery (1931); The Cole Case (1932); The Crane Poison Case (1932); The Dragon Murder Case (1934); The Garden Murder Case (1936); The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939); The Greene Murder Case (1929 / 2002); The Kennel Murder Case (1933); The President's Mystery (1936); The Scarab Murder Case (1936); The Side Show Mystery (1932); The Skull Murder Mystery (1932); The Studio Murder Mystery (1932); The Symphony Murder Mystery (1932); The Trans-Atlantic Mystery (1932); The Wall Street Mystery (1931); The Week End Mystery (1931).

Born on this day – Burt Gillett:

Burt Gillett (left) and Walt Disney (right)   

Burt Gillett

Director

Writer

Animator

October 15, 1891 – December 28, 1971

Born on this day – Ina Claire:

Ina Claire

Actress

October 15, 1893 – February 21, 1985

Born on this day – Mervyn LeRoy:

Mervyn LeRoy

Director

Producer

October 15, 1900 – September 13, 1987

Born on this day – Victoria Spivey:

Victoria Spivey

Blues singer

Songwriter, October 15, 1906 – October 3, 1976

Born on this day – Mario Puzo:

Mario Puzo

Writer

October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999

Born on this day – Virginia Leith:

Virginia Leith

Actress

October 15, 1925 – November 4, 2019

Born on this day – Tony Hart:

Tony Hart

Artist

Children's Television Presenter

October 15, 1925 – January 18, 2009

Born on this day – Jean Peters:

Jean Peters

Actress

October 15, 1926 – October 13, 2000

Born on this day – Ed McBain:

Ed McBain

Writer

October 15, 1926 – July 6, 2005

Credits:

The 87th Precinct novel series: Cop Hater (1956); The Mugger (1956); The Pusher (1956); The Con Man (1957); Killer's Choice (1957); Lady Killer (1958); Killer's Wedge (1958); Killer's Payoff (1958); King's Ransom (1959); 'Til Death (1959); Give the Boys a Great Big Hand (1960); The Heckler (1960); See Them Die (1960); Lady, Lady, I Did It! (1961); The Empty Hours (1962); Like Love (1962); Ten Plus One (1963); Ax (1963); He Who Hesitates (1965); Doll (1965); Eighty Million Eyes (1966); Fuzz (1968); Shotgun (1968); Jigsaw (1970); Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here! (1971); Sadie When She Died (1972); Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (1973); Hail to the Chief (1973); Bread (1974); Blood Relatives (1975); So Long as You Both Shall Live (1976); Long Time No See (1977); Calypso (1979); Ghosts (1980); Heat (1981); McBain Brief (1982); Ice (1983); Lightning (1984); And All Through The House (1984); Eight Black Horses (1985); Poison (1987); Lullaby (1989); Vespers (1989); Tricks (1989); Widows (1991); Kiss (1992); Mischief (1993); Romance (1995); Nocturne (1997); The Big Bad City (1998); The Last Dance (1999); Money, Money, Money (2001); Fat Ollie's Book (2002); The Frumious Bandersnatch (2003); Hark! (2004); Fiddlers (2005). The Matthew Hope novel series: Goldilocks (1976); Rumpelstiltskin (1981); Beauty And The Beast (1982); Jack and the Beanstalk (1984); Snow White and Rose Red (1985); Cinderella (1986); Puss in Boots (1987); The House That Jack Built (1988); Three Blind Mice (1990); Mary, Mary (1991); There Was A Little Girl (1994); Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear (1996); The Last Best Hope (1998). Transgressions Books: Terror's Echo: Novellas from Transgressions (2005); Transgressions (2006); Transgressions, Vol. 2 (2006). Stand alone novels: Rocket To Luna (1953); Don't Crowd Me (1953); Danger: Dinosaurs! (1953); Cut Me In (1954); Runaway Black (1954); The Blackboard Jungle (1954); Death of a Nurse (1955); Murder in the Navy (1955); Tomorrow's World (1956); Second Ending (1956); Vanishing Ladies (1957); The Spiked Heel (1957); I'm Cannon--For Hire (1958); Strangers When We Met (1958); Even the Wicked (1958); The Gutter and the Grave (1958); Big Man (1959); A Matter of Conviction (1959); Buddwing (1964); The Sentries (1965); The Paper Dragon (1967); A Horse's Head (1967); Last Summer (1968); Sons (1969); Nobody Knew They Were There (1971); Every Little Crook and Nanny (1972); Seven (1972); Come Winter (1973); Streets of Gold (1974); Doors (1975); Where There's Smoke (1975); Guns (1976); The Chisholms (1976); Love Dad (1981); Far from the Sea (1982); Lizzie (1984); Another Part of the City (1986); Downtown (1989); Gangs! (1989); Scimitar (1992); Criminal Conversation (1994); Privileged Conversation (1995); Driving Lessons (1998); Candyland (2000); The Moment She Was Gone (2002); Alice In Jeopardy (2004); So Nude, So Dead     (2015); Runaway (2016); Find the Feathered Serpent (1952); The Remarkable Harry (1961); The Wonderful Button (1961); Me and Mr. Stenner (1976); Let's Talk (2005); The McBain Brief (1982); Barking at Butterflies (2000); Running from Legs and Other Stories (2002); Learning to Kill (2006); Transgressions (2006); Keller's Adjustment; Forever (2006); I Like 'Em Tough (2016); The Jungle Kids (2016); I Like 'Em Tough (2016); The Sunday Pigeon Murders (1942); The Thursday Turkey Murders (1943); The April Robin Murders (1958); Great Stories of Mystery and Suspense (1981); Mammoth Book of Short Crime Novels (1986); The Mammoth Book of Private Eye Stories (1988); The Second Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction (1988); City Sleuths and Tough Guys (1989); Crimes of Passion (1993); The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1996 (1995); Murder For Love (1996); Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories (1996); The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories (1996); Crime After Crime (1999); The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 (1999); The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1 (2000); The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 (2000); Writers on Writing (2001); The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology: Celebrating 25 Years (2001); The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 (2002); The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction (2004); Dangerous Women (2005); Transgressions (2005); Price of Desire (2005); Transgressions vol. 4 (2006); Transgressions, Vol. 2 (2006); Masters of Noir, Volume One (2010); Masters of Noir, Volume Three (2010); Books to Die For (2012).

Movies and television:

87. revír (1970); 87th Precinct (1961–1962); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957–1959); All About 'the Birds' (2000); Blackboard Jungle (1955); Blood Relatives (1978); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1966–1967); Brokovnice (1992); Case Reopened (1999); CBS Afternoon Playhouse (1981); Climax! (1958); Columbo (1992–1994); Cop Hater (1958); Dream West (1986); Dzungle pred tabulí (1980); E! True Hollywood Story (1999); Ed McBain möter Ulf Örnkloo (1988); Ed McBain: Satsui (2005); Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Heatwave (1997); Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Ice (1996); Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Lightning (1995); Every Little Crook and Nanny (1972); Fallen Angels (1995); Fuzz (1972); General Electric Theater (1958); High and Low (1963); I Am Alfred Hitchcock (2021); Ironside (1968); Kao no nai onna: Kurushima keiji no hôkokusho yori (2007); Koho si vybral vrah (1974); Kraft Theatre (1958); La soupe aux poulets (1963); Last Summer (1969); Le cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques (1971); Le Dernier Tour (2002); Living Famously (2003); Lonely Heart (1981); Midnight Journal (1990); Mike Hammer (1958); Mister Buddwing (1966); Of Men and Women (1973); Panenka (1980); Plus rien à perdre (1968); Read All About It (1979); Reputations (1999); Skládacka (1991); Spin (2012); Sposob ubiystva (1993); Strangers When We Meet (1960); Tanin no kankei (1989); Tengoku to jigoku (2007); The Birds (1963); The Bob Braun Show (1981); The Chisholms (1979–1980); The Culture Show (2005); The David Frost Show (1972); The Horror Hall of Fame II (1991); The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (1956); The Legend of Walks Far Woman (1980); The Mugger (1958); The Pusher (1960); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1959); The Trouble with Marnie (2000); The Write Stuff (1989); The Young Savages (1961); Three Blind Mice (2001); Walk Proud (1979); Without Apparent Motive (1971); Wogan (1986); Zabiják (1972).

Born on this day – Penny Marshall:

Penny Marshall

Actress

Director

Producer

October 15, 1943 – December 17, 2018

Born on this day – Tanya Roberts:

Tanya Roberts

Actress

October 15, 1949 – January 4, 2021

Credits:

27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2021); 68th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade (1999); A View to a Kill (1985); A View to a Kill: Deleted Scenes with Introductions by John Glen (2006); A View to a Kill: Featurette (1985); A View to a Kill: Film '85 BBC Report (1985); A View to a Kill: The Royal Premiere (1985); Almost Pregnant (1992); Barbershop (2005); Biography (2000); Body Slam (1986); Bond Exhibit (2008); Burke's Law (1994); California Dreaming (1979); Charlie's Angels (1980–1981); Charlie's Angels: TV Tales (2002); Deep Down (1994); Designing Bond: Peter Lamont (2000); E! True Hollywood Story (2002–2006); Entertainment Tonight Presents: Charlie's Angels – Uncovered (1999); Eve (2005); Evening (1983); Eye on L.A. (1985); Famous Homes & Hideaways (2000); Fantasy Island (1982); Favorite Deadly Sins (1995); Fillmore! (2003); Fingers (1978); Greatest Heroes of the Bible (1979); Happy Hour (1999); Hearts and Armour (1983); High Tide (1997); Hollywood '84 (1984); Hollywood Squares (2001–2004); Hot Line (1994–1996); Hour Magazine (1981); I Can't Believe I Wore That (2005); Inner Sanctum (1991); Inside 'A View to a Kill' (2000); Inside TV Land (2000); Investigating Tarzan (1997); James Bond 007 at the Movies (1986); James Bond: Licence to Thrill (1987); Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater (1994); Legal Tender (1991); Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder (1987) / Britain's Favourite Detectives (2014); Murder Me, Murder You (1983); Na sowas! (1985); Night Eyes (1990); Off Centre (2002); Pajama Party (2000); Pleasure Cove (1979); Politically Incorrect (2001); Purgatory (1988); Racquet (1979); Sheena (1984); Silk Stalkings (1995); Sins of Desire (1993); TCM Remembers 2021 (2021); That '70s Show (1998–2004); The Alan Thicke Show (1981–1982); The Angry Beavers (1998); The Beastmaster (1982); The Beastmaster Chronicles (2020); The Blues Brothers Animated Series (1997); The Geraldo Rivera Show (1992); The Insider (2013); The John Davidson Show (1981); The Last Victim (1976); The List (2000); The Love Boat (1982); The Martin Short Show (1999); The Men Behind the Mayhem: The Special Effects of James Bond (2000); The Merv Griffin Show (1985); The Mike Douglas Show (1980); The Pandora Directive (1996); The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977); The Saga of 'the Beastmaster' (2005); The Test (2001); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1981–1982); The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (2008); The Yum Yum Girls (1976); Time & Again (2000); Tourist Trap (1979); TV Land Confidential (2007); Twisted Justice (1990); UnConventional (2004); Vega$ (1980); Waikiki (1980); Zuma Beach (1978).

On this day in movie history - Badlands (1973)

Badlands

directed and written by Terrence Malick,

was released in the United States on October 15, 1973.

Inspired by the true Charles Starkweather case (1957-58).

Music by George Tipton, Carl Orff and James Taylor.

Cast:

Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri, Alan Vint, Gary Littlejohn, John Carter, Bryan Montgomery, Gail Threlkeld, Charles Fitzpatrick, Howard Ragsdale, John Womack Jr., Dona Baldwin, Ben Bravo, Emilio Estevez, Li Po Lung, Terrence Malick, Charlie Sheen.

On this day in movie history - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

 

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

directed by Marcus Nispel,

written by Scott Kosar,

based on the 1974 screenplay by Kim Henkel and Tobe Hooper,

was released in the United States on October 15, 2003.

Music by Steve Jablonsky.

Cast:

Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Erica Leerhsen, Mike Vogel, Eric Balfour, Andrew Bryniarski, R. Lee Ermey, David Dorfman, Lauren German, Terrence Evans, Marietta Marich, Heather Kafka, Kathy Lamkin, Brad Leland, Mamie Meek, John Larroquette, Scott Martin Gershin, Harry Jay Knowles.

On this day in movie history - Brave New Jersey (2016)

Brave New Jersey

directed by Jody Lambert,

written by Michael Dowling and Jody Lambert,

was released at the Austin Film Festival in the United States on October 15, 2016.

Music by Dennis Lambert, Matthew Logan Vasquez and Kelly Winrich.

Based on Orson Welles’ dramatized radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds,

in turn based on the novel by H. G. Wells,

broadcast as part of the CBS Radio series The Mercury Theatre on the Air, on October 30, 1938.

Cast:

Anna Camp, Tony Hale, Erika Alexander, Sam Jaeger, Heather Burns, Evan Jonigkeit, Raymond J. Barry, Dan Bakkedahl, Grace Kaufman, Mel Rodriguez, Matt Oberg, Sandra Ellis Lafferty, Noah Lomax, Leonard Earl Howze, Adina Eady, Blaque Fowler, Helen Ingebritsen, Jack Landry, Roy Hawkins Jr., Bill Coelius, Michael Dowling, Antoinette Cancelliere, Harp Sandman, David Lundgren, Bruce Boone, Kerry D. Watson, Dean Allen Jones, Anna Claire Watson, Kerry Watson, Jennifer Cooke Turnage, Daniel Debouver, Wes McGullion, Leilani Stephens, Nancy Potts, Chelsea Summerlin, Brian Keith Huggins, Robin Wilson, Gabriel Landis, Kathy Winchell, Dustin Wilson, Brianna Stephens, Melissa Dawn Roberts, Travis Smith, Lynda Austin, Ricky Wilson Jr., Mitch Norville, Stephanie Watson, Patrick Miller.