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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 22, 2010 9:50:25 GMT
Thanks Stephen and Chris (on the Conan-Doyle thread ). i'm relieved to learn many of you are playing catch-up as, i realise now, the weekend tends to be the graveyard slot. Day 19, and the first of, I hope, two offerings from my dear friend, Franklin Marsh, "the master of the macabre" (© Filthy Creations #4), world's leading authority on the Black Sorcery novels of Gregory Pendennis and - this is where it goes a bit pear shaped - co-founder of Vault, along with Ripper and self. The Morris Men first surfaced in Vault Mk. I's Workshop Of Filthy Creations during the summer of 2006 to much acclaim, and was picked up by Christopher Wood for publication in the following year's 2nd BHF Book Of Horror Stories. What a superb image 'somehow decaying'. Loved the sinister Morris Men.'
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 22, 2010 11:49:23 GMT
Let's see, so far suspicion has been cast upon Mr. Mains, JoJo, Lady P., Ramsey (albeit that last may not have been entirely serious) and Des Lewis - all of them entirely innocent. i'm gonna keep you all in suspenders a while longer, but if i was anonymous, my head would need such a de-swelling right now ... Day 22. When the beyond merely celestial Kate Bush sang December Will Be Magic Again, she knew of which she shrilled! Last night i was wondering how best to approach a certain Black Book contributor re the possibility of their providing a story for this thread. It seemed awful rude, somehow, contacting a body for the first time with "Oh, by the way. I don't suppose you could do me a favour ...?" So, i'm scribbling down and tearing up notes, getting nowhere fast, when a PM arrives in my inbox ... My one slight concern about including this next story is that it's another from the Benedict J. Jones edited Tales From The Smoking Room, but i'm afraid that, once read there was never any question of my not exhuming it for Vault (Ben, if you read this, I hope you don't mind! From the samples we've seen that is one stormer of a zine). For this reader, Stephen Bacon's Room Above The Shop was among the stand-outs in a consistently rewarding Sixth Black Book Of Horror Stories, and The Strangled Garden is another beautifully crafted chiller, completely different in style, approach, intention - you name it - to yesterday's 'live from the butcher shop' offering, but no less unpleasant for all that. Thank you so much for allowing us to run it, Steve! Mr. Bacon has contributed stories to a number of publications including Dark Horizons, Estronomicon, Filthy Creations (#6) and Black Petals. A new story, By the Sea, has made the final cut for the impending Eighth Black Book Of Horror Stories - yet another good reason to get a copy - and his The House Of Constant Shadow appears in the recent, Ross Warren edited Dark Minds (Dark Minds Press, 2010). Other anthology appearances include Gary Fry's Where The Heart Is and Des Lewis's Null Immortalis, Cone Zero and Cern Zoo. Quite a lot of M R James in there Stephen, mazes, spiders, uneducated gardeners - so naturally you won me over instantly.
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Post by Johnlprobert on Dec 22, 2010 12:48:19 GMT
Andre de Lorde - At the Telephone. How marvellous it would be to see this staged! Not sure if Lady P & I could do it as it would require me to ludicrously overact at the end but we may give it a go one of these wintry nights. Iron Box Compendium Party Pack - Both The Iron Shroud & The Iron Coffin are delightful examples of the 'there's no way you're getting out of this one, sonny' sub-sub-genre and they reminded me of the first story of that kind that I read - An Experiment in Choice from an early Pan, where part (almost all, actually) of the fun was knowing there was no way out. Devil of the Marsh - We've not got the ATP collection but this is a nice atmospheric, misty little page turner. Besides, I can never resist Batrachian-themed horror fiction E M Winch a La Tartare - I've saved the best of this bunch for last . This is just superb and everything I could ask for in a horror story. It's definitely Birkin turned up to eleven and I sincerely hope that if I seek out more of Mr Winch he won't disappoint, but it's going to be a hard act to follow - thanks ever so much, Mr D!
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 22, 2010 13:06:53 GMT
Just a quick request. At the end of this thread would it be possible to put the stories in some coherent order (totally antivault conception of course) It's just getting difficult to know which one's I've read.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 22, 2010 13:50:50 GMT
i was thinking of that, Craig. on Christmas Eve i'll list 'em with direct links. Two of the contemporary stories will only remain online until mid-January, so get 'em while they're hot! Andre de Lorde - At the Telephone. How marvellous it would be to see this staged! Not sure if Lady P & I could do it as it would require me to ludicrously overact at the end ! Oh, i'm sure you'd manage somehow .... glad you rated à la Tartare, Lord P. i'm hoping Mr. Diog might be able to shed some light on E. M. Winch as the only info i've been able to find is Wheatley's infuriatingly brief intro to the story in A Century Of HorrorMrs Winch was born in Auckland, New Zealand, 1895, but was educated in England. She published her first story at sixteen, and has had eight novels published since. She has visited Canada, America, Jamaica, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Newfoundland and most of Africa, including the Congo. other than that, she had a story called Buttons in The Third Omnibus Of Crime (a 1942 bastard version of Dorothy L. Sayers' Great Short Stories Of Detection, Mystery & Horror) which may or may not be a contender. At The Telephone - now there's a piece of work! But the André de Lorde i'd love to see staged - preferably by the Vault of Evil players: venue Wilton's Music Hall, Shadwell - is the utterly mindless A Crime In The Madhouse. When FM next logs in, he might like to copy across his super dramatisation of Neville Kilvington's Meshes Of Doom (Birkin's Horrors/ Pan Horror #3), or let me pdf it or something?
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Post by noose on Dec 22, 2010 14:09:57 GMT
i was thinking of that, Craig. on Christmas Eve i'll list 'em with direct links. Two of the contemporary stories will only remain online until mid-January, so get 'em while they're hot! Andre de Lorde - At the Telephone. How marvellous it would be to see this staged! Not sure if Lady P & I could do it as it would require me to ludicrously overact at the end ! Oh, i'm sure you'd manage somehow .... glad you rated à la Tartare, Lord P. i'm hoping Mr. Diog might be able to shed some light on E. M. Winch as the only info i've been able to find is Wheatley's infuriatingly brief intro to the story in A Century Of HorrorMrs Winch was born in Auckland, New Zealand, 1895, but was educated in England. She published her first story at sixteen, and has had eight novels published since. She has visited Canada, America, Jamaica, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Newfoundland and most of Africa, including the Congo. other than that, she had a story called Buttons in The Third Omnibus Of Crime (a 1942 bastard version of Dorothy L. Sayers' Great Short Stories Of Detection, Mystery & Horror) which may or may not be a contender. At The Telephone - now there's a piece of work! But the André de Lorde i'd love to see staged - preferably by the Vault of Evil players: venue Wilton's Music Hall, Shadwell - is the utterly mindless A Crime In The Madhouse. When FM next logs in, he might like to copy across his super dramatisation of Neville Kilvington's Meshes Of Doom (Birkin's Horrors/ Pan Horror #3), or let me pdf it or something? There were two Winches E M Winch whose Buttons first appeared in Pearsons magazine in 1933, and there was also an Edgar Winch who wrote thrillers in the 1920s including one called Hunting of Hilary. One and the same? Hubby and Wife? Brother and sister? What is weird is that both disappeared after the 1930s - no mention of them whatsoever...
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Post by killercrab on Dec 22, 2010 20:19:20 GMT
Loved the sinister Morris Men.'
Always had a soft spot for FM's Morris Men myself - make a decent comic strip ...
KC
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Post by jamesdoig on Dec 22, 2010 21:30:39 GMT
Sounds like Evelyn M. Winch was the writing name of Marie Elspeth Agnes Winch (though Elspeth is sometimes given as Elizabeth) - whose dates are 1895-1939, which would explain why nothing came out after 1939. She wrote ten novels in a hurry in the 1930s, and wrote for popular magazines like The Passing Show and The Detective Magazine. Much of this come from fictionmags www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/0start.htm#TOC, which is a handy resource. Oddly enough there's a novella by her in the Nat Lib of Australia, from the Australian Woman's Weekly dated 194? What throws a spanner in the works is a 1943 article in an Australian newspaper (Adelaide Advertiser) about G.M. Long (ie Gabrielle Margaret Vere Campbell), who was of course Marjorie Bowen, George R. Preedy, John Winch etc. To quote: "In addition to these there are some "doubtfuls"'—books by Evelyn Winch, Edgar Winch. E. M Winch, and Berta Winch, that are believed to have been written by the same prolific author." Go figure.
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Post by noose on Dec 22, 2010 22:11:33 GMT
shit! Brilliant detective work - want to start up an agency?
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Post by jamesdoig on Dec 22, 2010 22:42:44 GMT
Of course! The Noose & Gibbet Holistic Detective Agency.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 22, 2010 23:42:03 GMT
shit! Brilliant detective work - want to start up an agency? This place astounds me sometimes.
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Post by Thana Niveau on Dec 23, 2010 3:12:19 GMT
This place astounds me sometimes. Only sometimes?
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Post by dem bones on Dec 23, 2010 7:19:38 GMT
Sounds like Evelyn M. Winch was the writing name of Marie Elspeth Agnes Winch (though Elspeth is sometimes given as Elizabeth) - whose dates are 1895-1939, which would explain why nothing came out after 1939. She wrote ten novels in a hurry in the 1930s, and wrote for popular magazines like The Passing Show and The Detective Magazine. Much of this come from fictionmags www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/0start.htm#TOC, which is a handy resource. Oddly enough there's a novella by her in the Nat Lib of Australia, from the Australian Woman's Weekly dated 194? What throws a spanner in the works is a 1943 article in an Australian newspaper (Adelaide Advertiser) about G.M. Long (ie Gabrielle Margaret Vere Campbell), who was of course Marjorie Bowen, George R. Preedy, John Winch etc. To quote: "In addition to these there are some "doubtfuls"'—books by Evelyn Winch, Edgar Winch. E. M Winch, and Berta Winch, that are believed to have been written by the same prolific author." Go figure. Many thanks for that juicy tit-bit, James. Not sure what to make of the speculation that 'Marjorie Bowen' and Mrs. Winch were one and the same person! à la Tartare is unpleasant enough for Bowen at her cruellest ( Kecksies in particular, The Folding Doors and some of the The Bishop of Hell stories to an only slightly lesser degree), and it wouldn't have been beyond her to create a back story for her pen-name - "Mrs Winch was born in Auckland, New Zealand, 1895 ...", etc. - but, my spidey sense tells me that Marie Elspeth Agnes Winch was a flesh and blood entity in her own right. What a superb image 'somehow decaying'. Loved the sinister Morris Men.' Always had a soft spot for FM's Morris Men myself - make a decent comic strip ... KC You'll get no arguments from me, gents. i still love in hope of a collection from our resident, if, of late, too seldom spotted 'Master of the Macabre'! Day 23's offering is from the terrifyingly industrious author-anthologist Johnny Mains, the title story from his recent debut collection, With Deepest Sympathy, Obverse Books ( Sept 2010). Those who like their upstanding pillars of the village community as twisted and vindictive as they come are sure to get along famously with the excellent Mrs. Primrose Hildebrande .... Attachments:
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Post by jamesdoig on Dec 23, 2010 7:57:17 GMT
my spidey sense tells me that Marie Elspeth Agnes Winch was a flesh and blood entity in her own right. Dead right - in fact I had a quick look on ancestry.com and there's a few arrival cards for Marie Elspeth Winch born in Auckland, NZ, c.1896 from places like Kingston, New York and Nova Scotia in the early 1920s, confirming Wheatley's short biog. There's always a tendency to ascribe obscure authors to writers who used a lot of psuedonyms, eg E. Charles Vivian/Charles Cannell/Jack Mann.
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Post by David A. Riley on Dec 23, 2010 9:34:48 GMT
"Day 23's offering is from the terrifyingly industrious author-anthologist Johnny Mains, the title story from his recent debut collection, With Deepest Sympathy, Obverse Books ( Sept 2010). Those who like their upstanding pillars of the village community as twisted and vindictive as they come are sure to get along famously with the excellent Mrs. Primrose Hildebrande .... Attachment: With Deepest Sympathy.pdf (46.2 KB) Read more: vaultofevil.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=recent#ixzz18vSk81nF" Brilliantly nasty tale, just right for the Advent Calendar. Agatha Christie's Miss Marple gone badly wrong!
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