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Post by dem on Nov 28, 2012 6:29:53 GMT
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Post by dem on Dec 1, 2012 5:18:57 GMT
A selection of oldies first, and to get this party started, spicy menace maestro Robert Leslie Bellem's Blood for the Vampire Dead, ( Mystery Tales, March 1940). By Bellem standards, a model of restraint and, incredibly, nary a reference to the heroine's luscious globes, but don't let that put you off. Attachments:
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Post by noose on Dec 1, 2012 11:22:06 GMT
The best month of the year...  |
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Post by dem on Dec 2, 2012 10:58:42 GMT
A bone-shuddering change of pace with this Women Of 'Weird Tales' contender. For several years, Peter Haining had most of us believing that The Vow On Hallowe'en was the work of Dorothy ' Uneasy Freehold' Macardle, until Doug Anderson outed Lyllian Huntley Harris as the culprit on Wormwoodania (see The Werewolf Scrapbook thread). Lyllian's creepy story first appeared in the Weird Tales for May-July 1924, the issue allegedly banned for it's inclusion of C. M. Eddy's celebrated necrophiliac shocker, The Loved Dead. Attachments:
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Post by jamesdoig on Dec 2, 2012 20:07:06 GMT
and to get this party started, spicy menace maestro Robert Leslie Bellem's Blood for the Vampire Dead, ( Mystery Tales, March 1940). we-uns liked dat story. |
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Post by dem on Dec 3, 2012 11:04:23 GMT
Urgh. Still groggy after supremely over the top celebration of Wealdstone's scrappy 2-1 victory versus the Hendon horrors to move us within a point of league leaders Whitehawk with two games in hand. An advertisement for the beautiful game it was not, but sub Nathan Webb's super individual clincher was straight from planet Vault! After that personal Ghost Hunt, here's H. R. Wakefield's lesser known (perhaps not to our readers, for which apologies, etc) sequel to the justly famous The Red Lodge. Think a low budget version of The Stone Tape,  Attachments:
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Post by David A. Riley on Dec 3, 2012 11:31:17 GMT
That's my lunchtime reading sorted.  |
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Dec 3, 2012 16:59:42 GMT
and to get this party started, spicy menace maestro Robert Leslie Bellem's Blood for the Vampire Dead, ( Mystery Tales, March 1940). we-uns liked dat story. That's my lunchtime reading sorted. I read "Blood for the Vampire Dead" over lunch and was impressed, if that's the right word, by how much lurid detail Bellem packed into just a few pages. But then, I would expect nothing less from "the author of 'The Curse of the Lovely Torso' etc." |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 4, 2012 3:29:24 GMT
Urgh. Still groggy after supremely over the top celebration of Wealdstone's scrappy 2-1 victory over the Hendon horrors to move us within a point of league leaders Whitehawk with two games in hand. An advertisement for the beautiful game it was not, but sub Nathan Webb's super individual clincher was straight from planet Vault! After that personal Ghost Hunt, here's H. R. Wakefield's lesser known (perhaps not to our readers, for which apologies, etc) sequel to the justly The Red Lodge. Think a low budget version of The Stone Tape, Good to see Wealdstone climbing back up. I've an awful feeling Hearts might end up with similar problems in the future - as far as I can see almost everything in football is based on literally having control of the ground on which you play. |
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Post by andydecker on Dec 4, 2012 9:59:08 GMT
Great work, Dem!
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Post by dem on Dec 4, 2012 20:42:50 GMT
Apologies for the delay, but it's been one of those .... in the meantime, rats versus lighthouse in George G. Toudouze's Three Skeleton Key. Attachments:
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Post by dem on Dec 5, 2012 10:11:42 GMT
Day five and a conte cruel from the treasure trove that is John Gawsworth's Crimes, Creeps & Thrills. Norah C James was a prolific novelist whose works include Strap-hangers and Hospital, about which I can tell you nothing. Will be starting on the contemporary stories on the twelfth and there are still a number of vacancies, so please send those ghastly tales this way! Attachments:
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Dec 5, 2012 12:32:04 GMT
Apologies for the delay, but it's been one of those .... in the meantime, rats versus lighthouse in George G. Toudouze's Three Skeleton Key. I read "Three Skeleton Key" in Waugh et al.'s Lighthouse Horrors, and it's a good one. By the way, that anthology is well worth a look. As you noted in the thread about it, it includes a number of relatively obscure pre-WWII stories--the gem being Robert W. Sneddon's "On the Isle of Blue Men" (according to Waugh et al., it was originally published with a "seemingly bowdlerized ending," so they restored [?] what they believed to be its original darker ending). |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 5, 2012 12:42:16 GMT
Day five and a conte cruel from the treasure trove that is John Gawsworth's Crimes, Creeps & Thrills. Norah C James was a prolific novelist whose works include Strap-hangers and Hospital, about which I can tell you nothing. I do not know what to say about this one, really. It was actually published in a book, you say? |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 5, 2012 13:18:40 GMT
Day five and a conte cruel from the treasure trove that is John Gawsworth's Crimes, Creeps & Thrills. Norah C James was a prolific novelist whose works include Strap-hangers and Hospital, about which I can tell you nothing. I do not know what to say about this one, really. It was actually published in a book, you say? The bar has definitely been lowered to Limbo dancing level. Naturally, I'm pleased. Wakefield's Ghost Hunt is a strange little tale as well. |
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