What was that one?!

What is the title of a book containing similar image as book cover.  All I can remember is that the author of the book is spelled with foreign characters.  A caret here, an umlaut there, etc. The book starts off with father & son dynamic. 

Okay; this one has been causing me a nagging itch in the brain. I recall having seen—probably on some incarnation of Scans Daily on another platform—a U.S. romance comic from the 1940’s or 1950’s that had an anthology host—something more characteristic of horror comics. He was a Zorroesque Masked Lover who narrated love stories throughout history (and may have been an immortal or time-traveler who’d personally witnessed/taken part in them); the specific story featured a girl who was concealing her blindness—which she felt made her unfit to marry.

Even after specifying romance, the sheer number of masquerade balls, highway robbers, masked vigilantes, and tragic disfigurements in the genre has made this a royal pain in the kazoo to Google.

ETA: FOUND: Jon Juan#1, with the help of superfangirl1 on scans_daily, who directed me to https://comicbookplus.com/, an online archive of public domain comics; there I found Great Lover Romances #1 (Toby/Minoan, 1951)—an anthology including a story starring a character called Jon Juan: https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=41…

That, in turn, gave me the search term I needed to track down Jon Juan’s own comic (under One Shots rather than Romance):

https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=18…

Shout-out as well to the helpful folks at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books: https://smartbitchestrashybooks.co…

Jon Juan was an immortal from Atlantis who went swashbuckling through history, dallying with history’s legendary beauties and rescuing damsels from Durance Vile, only to ride off into the sunset as wandering adventurers are wont to do; this didn’t stop him from archiving cherished memories of all his paramours (housed in his own Inner Sanctum, the Secret Archives of Love.)

The story I remembered was “Lady in the Dark”, pp. 27-35; the setting is (19th-century?) Spain, and Jon Juan is dressing and comporting himself very much as a capa y espada adventurer—but it’s the titular Lady who wears a mask/veil, to disguise her condition; the Reveal, coming abruptly from her duenna, has the air of an ableist punch line: sorry, Carmelita has a ding in her, and that’s that.

It’s easy to see what doomed  Jon Juan to be a one-off experiment: Spicy Adventure is a genre that Siegel and Schomberg couldn’t do justice to under the restrictions of 1950’s US comics, and romance readers tend to want commitment as a payoff. It’s still an exercise in delightful cracktacular weirditude.

And here’s the Scans_Daily post, from 14 January 2011: https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org…

You're my last hope! 

Years and years ago, I wrote down a line from a fanfic that stuck with me. I found the piece of paper a couple of years ago and went searching for the fic. I finally found it, and I remember texting my friend about it. Now I'm thinking of it again (why didn't I favorite it?! Who knows!). 

Here's what I know: 

It's Pride & Prejudice

Elizabeth/ Darcy (even Austen shipped them!)

The line is something very similar to "She was lost to him, in houses he had never been in, whose addresses he had never known".  I don't think that's exactly it because I've tried extensive googling and can't find anything. 

I believe I first wrote this line down before AO3 even existed, so I would have been reading this here or on FFN. 

If I remember the storyline correctly (and this is sketchy at best), E&D were together or at least romantically interested, and then she went away or he pushed her away or something, and that was when this line was used. Darcy was being a sad!boi (Jane Austen would have loved that modern-day commentary). 

This is a super longshot, since I don't remember the exact wording but hopefully this rings a bell with someone!