I'm reading Mostly by Moonlight, an old Gothic novel by Dorothy Daniels. Published in 1965. I love old traditional Gothic novels.

It has some funny and MAJOR blunders I've never seen in any book (fiction or nonfiction) before. Besides a handful of typos:

1. "Elizabeth Tuttle, wife of Elisha Tuttle." Wrong. Elizabeth is Eve's deceased aunt by marriage; last name Warren. Elisha is one of Eve's love interests (and he never met Elizabeth).

2. Amanda Hartley is nuts, attacks Eve. Later Eve recalls "Amanda Blake" attacking her.

Amanda Blake of course was an actress who played Kitty on Gunsmoke. Whoever typeset the manuscript back then must have had Gunsmoke in mind, lol.

Catching these blunders adds to the enjoyment.

Another fun thing about these old drug-store Gothic novels: The bestsellers have no advertisements inside. The others have 1 ad in the middle, always for cigarettes.

I can visualize a woman back then with hair in green curlers and hair net, sitting in a laundromat smoking a cigarette while reading one of these as the dryers tumble...

Fiction that has lines like "The sun was setting in the west and Venus was rising in the east."
The DaVinci Code had this error and Farthing by Jo Walton also has the error. The latter was a bit snarky when I pointed it out which is a shame because Farthing was an okay story.

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When Stephen King was putting out The Green Mile part by part, there was a scene where a guy in a straight jacket reaches up and wipes the sweat from his brow. It was corrected when it was reprinted as a single book.