Silent Snow, Secret Snow

Silent Snow, Secret Snow

"Silent Snow, Secret Snow" (1934) is Conrad Aiken's best-known short story, often included in anthologies of classic American horror and fantasy short fiction.

It tells of a normal boy's descent into schizophrenia, [Lavery, D. L. (1983). "The Delicious Progress": Whiteness as an Atavism in Conrad Aiken's "Silent Snow, Secret Snow," "Psychoanalytic Review", 70 (2), 235-239.] in this case a dream world of snow that he finds preferable to the "dirty," mundane world. The story can also be thought of as a Symbolic rejection of reality.

Adaptations

In 1951 the story was adapted for radio and broadcast on "". In the early 1970s, it was dramatized as an episode of "Night Gallery", starring Radames Pera (young "Grasshopper" from the original "Kung Fu" television series) and narrated by Orson Welles.

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