In a story from this collection, a group of four people tell stories after a flood traps them in a granary. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Isak Dinesen collection which contains the stories “The Deluge at Norderney” and “The Supper at Elsinore.”
ANSWER: Seven Gothic Tales
[10e] Dinesen’s Seven Gothic Tales also contains a story in which a Prioress is revealed to be one of these creatures. A paw from one of these creatures grants three twisted wishes in a story by W.W. Jacobs.
ANSWER: monkey [accept “The Monkey’s Paw”]
[10h] An impotent prince fails to get his friend to impregnate his wife in a story from Seven Gothic Tales titled for this city. While in this city, one poet wrote a section of a poem that repeats the line “pull down thy vanity.”
ANSWER: Pisa [accept “The Roads Round Pisa”] (The other clue refers to Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos.)
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