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Post by dem bones on Dec 23, 2009 13:03:27 GMT
Jessica Amanda Salmonson (ed.) - Tales By Moonlight (Tor Books, 1985)  Mark E. Rogers
Dale C . Donaldson - The Nocturnal Visitor
Nina Kiriki Hoffman - A Night Out
Jeffrey Lant - Flames
Richard Lee-Fulgham - An Egg For Ava
George Florance-Guthridge - See The Station Master
Austelle Pool - A Tulip For Eulie
Jody Scott - Cobwebs
Phyllis Ann Karr - The Toymaker And The Musicrafter
Janet Fox - Witches
Gordon Linzner - Jaborandi Jazz
Ron Nance - A Wine Of Heart's Desire
Eileen Gunn - Spring Conditions
Steve Rasnic Tem - The Sky Came Down To Earth
Mary Ann Allen (Rosemary Pardoe) - Joan
Elinor Busby - The Night Of The Red Red Moon
William H. Green - Dog Killer
Bruce McDonald - The Mourning After
John D. Berry - The Hill Is No Longer There
Linda Thornton - The Inhabitants Of The PondBlurb: “The energy displayed in this book approaches megaton levels..."
From the introduction by STEPHEN KING
A pond full of dead bodies and, perhaps, something infinitely worse...
A child parting with reality
A jazzman who plays the greatest drum solo of all time...
One of the strangest deaths in the hlstory of time travel...
All await you in Tales By Moonlight.includes; Dale C. Donaldson - The Nocturnal Visitor; Delightfully pulpish and the only thing I've seen of his beyond his ultra-gory werewolf classic Pia!. Joe and Barbs take up residence at a remote farm which, unknown to them, is also the home of a cycloptic tentacled giant which lives at the bottom of the well. On its nightly jaunts it tears apart the two mongrels, then Sam the horse, and, inevitably, poor Barbs. We leave Joe as he descends into the seemingly bottomless well to do battle with the seemingly invincible monster. I always liked Dale C. Donaldson's story Pia in Coven 13 (and later Brian Frost's Book Of The Werewolf and this one's cut from the same pulpy cloth. Must look out for some more of his stuff. Nina Kiriki Hoffman - A Night Out; Terry, a werecat, began her war on hunters after they shot dead her brother: "what's left of him probably lies in camphor and mothballs all summer in somebodys attic." Come the end of the story, Terry conceeds that she no longer persecutes humans to avenge Emelya but because she enjoys it. "I think I'm responding to the call of my human nature". Think this may well have been NKH's first published story? Gordon Linzner - Jaborandi Jazz; Voodoo drummer Carlos of the Slaughterhouse Five plays the greatest solo of all time, then tops it by vanishing in a puff of sulphur or similar. Jeffrey Lant - Flames; Traverne house, Devon, 189-. Sir D'Isle approaches our unnamed narrator to investigate the mystery of the flames which sporadically flare up in the fields where the victims of the Bloody Assizes met their dooms. It transpires that a girl was burnt there in 1763 after she'd attempted to elope with her lover rather than be forced into an arranged marriage. Before she fled she'd started a small fire in the wing where her JP father was sleeping, thus sealing her unhappy fate. Bruce McDonald - The Mourning After; A sinister variation on Agatha Christie's The Last Seance: M. Dubrai produces ectoplasms from the body of her little daughter, Christine, who is concealed behind a screen in a box room. When the Saxton's visit her seeking an audience with their lost daughter, Vikki, Christine weakens with each session while the image of the dead girl grows progressively more powerful. Inevitably, Mrs. Saxton runs off with the ectoplasm and Christine dies. But Madame Duvrai is far from downhearted at this outcome. Linda Thornton - The Inhabitant Of The Pond; The deformed Edward befriends a huge bug which lives in the mouth of the carved ornamental cherub adorning the garden pond. After the latest savage beating at the hands of his father, Edward at last gives the bug free reign: "Father's going to get ripped" he tells his sister. "You won't be able to see him. He'll crash through the bushes and tear father's head off!" Tense, grim and undeniably horrid, this was singled out for praise by Stephen King. He's no bad judge.
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Post by jamesdoig on Apr 4, 2010 23:20:59 GMT
Love this cover art - "crude, but I like it!" as Monty Burns says:   A nice specialty press job by W. Paul Ganley, the guy who edited Weirdbook for years. Published in 1989. Contents The two Devils The Thrilling Princess Five Cents a Look I Can't Lose A Haunted Tale of Justice Pit None The Day the Slaves were Freed The Rental Agreement The Fabulous Sea Below Biology Class Precidely What happened Wander The Clown Beckoner of the Nightwatch Patrons Quadrival The Truth about Mrs Chauncey and Her TV Set Under the House The Garbage Dispose-All Come the Eaters Carmanda Voice The Evil Jinn The Apple Boy Youngin Angela's Love Author's Notes From the back flap: Jessica Amanda Salmonson needs little introduction to the dedicated weird fantasy fan. She was a vital force in the development of the fantasy small press in the seventies. She still edits a small press magazine, Fantasy Macabre, and even now her work appears in such "little" magazines as Weirdbook, Grue, and Eldritch Tales. She is probably best known as a fine editor. Tales by Moonlight nearly won a World Fantasy Award; and Amazons! did. Her novels have appeared in hard covers and in paperback. While they tend toward swords and sorcery (mostly in a parallel-world version of Japan), her short stories range more widely, as demonstrated thoroughly in this variegated collection. She was born in Seattle, washington, and currently resides there. |
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Post by dem bones on Jul 25, 2010 14:12:23 GMT
Jessica Amanda Salmonson (ed.) - The Haunted Wherry And Other Rare Ghost Stories (The Strange Company, 1985)  Wendy Wees
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - The Presence
Robert Howard Syms - A Phantom Of The Mines
Francis Roman Oliphant - The Ghost Baby
Esther Serle Kenneth - The Haunted Wherry
Linda Thornton - Mother's Boy
Walter Blackburn Harte - The Ghosts' Ordinary
Phyllis Bottome - The Waiting Room
Georgina Wood Pangborn - Bixby's Bridge
Frank Cowper - The Eve Of St. John In A Deserted Chalet
Helen C. Smith - The Queen Anne Farthing
Georgina Wood Pangborn - The Gray Collie
Anonymous - Fisher's Ghost
Fleta Campbell Springer - We Who Do Not See Ghosts
Richard Le Gallienne - The Apparition Of Youth
Vincent O'Sullivan - The Burned House
Phyllis Leonard - The Brooch
Jessica Amanda Salmonson - The Apartment
Artwork: Wendy Wees, Nancy Howland, Harry O. Morris, jr. The format is just plain odd - not sure if it's a book or an outsize booklet - while the content is a suitably strange mix of the harrowing and the benign, the vintage and the bang up to date. The version of Fisher's Ghost reprinted here is from the May 1853 issue of Harper's New Monthly. The Jessica A Salmonson and Linda Thornton stories are original to the collection. These first two in particular certainly work for me. Vincent O'Sullivan - The Burned House: A village in the Vermont Hills. The commendably surly landlord of the Tavern sets his guest to finding his own firewood for the night. Our man wanders into the middle of nowhere until he comes apon a large timber house. A furtive young man appears from the woods, torches the building, and hangs himself from a bridge nearby. A terrified woman in a nightdress and her lover appear at the window. The roof caves in. But why can the witness feel no heat from the flames? Jessica Amanda Salmonson - The Appartment: As a young woman recently divorced, she decided to commit romantic suicide in the bathtub of her grim appartment, only to pull back at the brink, escaping with just a superficial cut to her wrist. Some years later she learns that three of the young women who took the room after her made a more successful job of ending their lives. She returns to find Betty, the sister of the latest victim, packing her belongings. Five ghosts but only three dead. If H. G. Wells' The Red Room is haunted by fear then The Apartment is haunted by depression. Helen C. Smith - The Queen Anne Farthing: Fleet Street is the setting for this next, very gentle offering. The Deacon of St. Anthony's, Lost Lane, dies on the afternoon of Christmas Eve, but nothing will stand in the way of him taking the carol service. The narrator is press-ganged into attending when the old fellow collars him at the bus stop, but the solemn characters in powdered wigs and fancy dress need no such heavy-handed persuasion.
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Post by dem bones on Jun 30, 2014 17:58:10 GMT
Jessica Amanda Salmonson (ed.) - Tales by Moonlight II (Tor, 1989)  Jill Bauman
Marion Zimmer Bradley - Proem: The Haunted Street (The Nekromantikon #2 , 1950) Thomas Ligotti - Dream Of A Mannikin, or the Third Person (Eldritch Tales #9, 1983) Ruth Berman - Marilyn And The King (Grimoire #4, 1983) Stefan Grabinski [trans. by Miroslaw Lipinski] - The Area (The Grabinski Reader, Summer 1986) Michael Bullock - The Return Of Noire (Sixteen Stories As They Happened, 1987) Jules Faye - A Light from Out of Our Heart (Fantasy Macabre #9, 1987) Thomas Wiloch - Mr. Templeton’s Toyshop (David D. Deyo [ed.] - All the Devils Are Here,,1986) Daniel Defoe - The Devil Frolics with a Butler (1726) H. P. Lovecraft - The Cats of Ulthar (The Tryout, Nov 1920) Denis Tiani - Dead Dogs (Fantasy and Terror #5, 1985) David Starkey -“W.D.” (Grue #2, 1986) Stephen Gresham - The Drabbletails (Eldritch Tales #7, 1980) Mary Ann Allen (Rosemary Pardoe) - The Gravedigger and Death (Ghosts & Scholars #5, 1983) Janet Fox -Taking Care of Bertie (Eldritch Tales #11, 1985) Gustav Meyrink - Cardinal Napellus [trans. by Michael Bullock], (Fantasy Macabre #8, 1986) Théophile Gautier [ trans. by Phyllis Ann Karr] - The Coffeepot (Fantasy Macabre #5, 1985) Stephen-Paul Martin - Seven (Asylum, June 1987) Wendy Wees - Chocolate (Fantasy and Terror #3, 1984) Wendy Wees - Mousewoman (Fantasy and Terror #10, 1987) Steve Rasnic Tem - Mother Hag · (Grue #5, 1987) W. Paul Ganley - Good Thoughts (Moonbroth #10, 1973) Jody Scott - Shirley Is No Longer with Us (Windhaven #3, 1978) Michel Tremblay; [trans. by Michael Bullock] - The Ghost of Don Carlos (1977) Spider Robinson - Live on Tape (Stardock, Summer 1977) Carol Reid -The Head of the Hydra Flower John Varley - The Manhattan Phone Book (Abridged) (Westercon Program Book #37, 1984) Charles L. Grant - An Image in Twisted Silver (World Fantasy Convention Program Book,, 1986;) Nina Kiriki Hoffman - What Used to Be Audrey (Arcane #1, 1984) David Madison -The Day (1969) Jayge Carr - A Thief in the Night ·(Room of One’s Own v6 #1&2, 1981) D. Beckett - Silhouette (Paradise Plus: Tales of Another Life, 1985) John Domini - Laugh Kookaberry, Laugh Kookaberry, Gay Your Life Must Be (1985) Archie N. Roy - Azrael’s Atonement (Fantasy Macabre #9, 1987) L. Frank Craftlove - The Eldritch Horror of Oz (Ozania, 1981) Jessica Amanda Salmonson & W. H. Pugmire - O, Christmas Tree (Space & Time, Jan. 1979) Grant Fjermedal - The Pacific High (Fantasy Macabre #10, 1988) Ramsey Campbell - Jack in the Box (Dark Horizons #26, 1983) Joseph Payne Brennan - Envoy: The Scythe of Dreams (Sixty Selected Poems, 1985) Peggy Nadramia - Appendix I: How to Publish Your Own Shoestring Horror Magazine
Appendix II: Current Small Press Horror Magazines JAS's celebration of the "small horror press." As eclectic a selection as we've come to expect from our lady of Fantasy Macabre and, to date (have read the two articles and nine of the stories) it's been a joy. Not "pulp" by any stretch, but neither, mercifully, is it wall-to-wall pretentious crap (although in a 37 story late 'eighties collection, you're sure to tread in some 'D*rk F*nt*sy' sooner or later). Jody Scott - Shirley Is No Longer with Us: Our heroine visits Bloomingdale's in her lunch break to purchase a new bra. She is trapped in the rotating doors for so long, the store honour her memory with a commemorative plaque. Stefan Grabinski - The Area: My first experience of "the Polish Poe" and it is a struggle for me to do his deliciously weird tale justice. Wrzesman, celebrated author of "original, insanely strange" stories, turns his back on the craft, disillusioned with the limitations of literature. He wants to CREATE. Eventually, Wrzesman realises his masterpiece by populating the crumbling mansion opposite with self-manufactured vampires with arms like Mr. Tickle. (Told you I wasn't up to it) W. Paul Ganley - Good Thoughts: An impoverished young waitress visits demon-assisted doom on the local Hooray Henries, a seven-strong gang of rapists and tramp-killers who call themselves 'the Wolf Pack'. Thomas Wiloch - Mr. Templeton’s Toyshop: The proprietor - either the Devil incarnate or a rotter of similar stripe - destroys every one of his customers in the most horrible fashion. A real joy, told in a series of vignettes but not the least wanky. David Starkey -“W.D.” : Matthew's brutal mother will not tolerate any depravity under her roof, and beats him with a serpent-headed cane whenever he has a "W.D." Tonight Matt creeps down to the basement with sheets and pyjama bottoms to scrub away the evidence, but Ma is ever-vigilant and almost kills him. As God has never answered his prayers, this time he calls upon Satan who is happy to assist.
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Post by redbrain on Jun 30, 2014 23:19:02 GMT
Jody Scott - Shirley Is No Longer with Us: Our heroine visits Bloomingdale's in her lunch break to purchase a new bra. She is trapped in the rotating doors for so long, the store honour her memory with a commemorative plaque. Read more: vaultofevil.proboards.com/posts/recent#ixzz36ARUnjirCrumbs! I have a genuine horror revolving doors. I haven't passed through one for years, and sincerely hope that I'll never have to use one again. |
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Post by redbrain on Jun 30, 2014 23:28:23 GMT
John Collier and Fredric Brown Went Quarrelling Through My Head is a very interesting title. As a teenager, perhaps my two favourite books were Of Demons and Darkness by John Collier and Nightmares and Geezenstacks by Fredric Brown. Both books were published by Corgi. I'd never heard of either author before buying the books, and bought them because I liked the covers.
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Post by dem bones on Jul 1, 2014 14:16:41 GMT
Archie N. Roy - Azrael’s Atonement: The Angel of Death comes crashing to earth to land in Archie's attic. Azrael has been dismissed from his post for dereliction of duty and is keen to make amends. Mr. Roy assists him in sacrificing the city. Far as I have been able to establish (i.e., by guessing), this Archie Roy is the son of the Devil In The Darkness great. Spider Robinson - Live on Tape: Narrator discovers the terrifying truth behind his (and everyone else's) lengthy episodes of writers block. Stephen Gresham - The Drabbletails: My favourite from the book to date. Mr. John Carmody, the new art teacher at Longfellow High, Masonville, Kansas, is almost universally popular with his class of misfits, the exception being Albert Werner, the official school weirdo who is always reading horror and murder mags. This week the class are working with plaster of Paris, and Mr. Carmody challenges Albert to create a life-size figurine, even if it has to be one of his beloved monsters. The class approach the project with gusto. When little Alice, Elaine and Terry-Lynn name their impressive sculpture 'the Ladies of the Night,' Albert retaliates with a knife-flashing Jack the Ripper. Terror stalks the school halls, etc.
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Post by dem bones on Feb 19, 2016 20:27:26 GMT
Just been rummaging through junkyard in search of pack of NME playing cards (no joy), dug up some forgotten treasures including this pair. All grist to the mill! Jessica Amanda Salmonson (ed.) - Fantasy Macabre #12 (1989) Editorial
W. H. Green - Luna
Richard H. Fawcett - Alone
Colleen Drippe - Heritage
Bobby G. Warner - Persuasive
Theodore Pelton - Me And Walt
Valery Bryusov - By the Canal
Robert J. Howe - Last Tango In Brooklyn
K. Huebner - No Final Sanctuary
Augustus Jessopp - An Antiquary's Ghost Story
Alfred de Sauveniere - The Inexplicable
Jules Faye - Two Pastels In Prose
Denis Tiani - A Strange Place To Hide
Michael Bullock - The Forest Pool
Jessica Amanda Salmonson - Death Of Elveron
Franklin Hoke - Class Ring
Scott H. Urban - The Sons Of Negative" ....All of which is to say that Fantasy Macabre is now, as it has been in the past, an ongoing market for stories of unusual merit, especially those which may be slightly off the "popular" market which is currently slanted toward splatterpunk influenced by B-horror movies, not fine writing. One of my tests of a good macabre tale is this: would it make a good story, even a great story, for Eerie Comics? If so, then it is not sufficiently complex to qualify as a short story of merit." - Jessica A. Salmonson, Fantasy Macabre #12, 1989) That's setting your stall out! From memory, Fantasy Macabre was not the exercise in lit bore excess you might fear from such a manifesto. Doubt if I read either issue cover to cover first time round and probably won't this, but am looking forward to revisiting the Grabinski,Bryusov and Jessopp oldies and sampling the contemporaries to see how we get on. Jessica Amanda Salmonson (ed.) - Fantasy Macabre #14 (1992)  Denis Tiani
Stefan Grabinski; [trans. by Miroslaw Lipinski] - Fumes
Jessica Amanda Salmonson - Bone Wings (verse)
Carol Reid - The Brothers Dobbs
Jules Remedios Faye - The Bull
Richard Shelton - The Bus To Veracruz
Jules Remedios Faye - Scorpion
William H. Green - Cynthia
Mary Elizabeth Counselman - Flashflood
Nesta Sawyer - The Woman With the Crooked Smile
Nesta Sawyer - A Legend
Sarah Claghorn - Lamia in Windsor (verse)
Jessica Amanda Salmonson - Folk Tales from the City
Erckmann-Chatrian [trans. by Phyllis Ann Karr] - My Cousin’s Dream
Jules Remedios Faye - The Bevy
W. H. Pugmire - Dust to Dust
Steve Rasnic Tem -The Snow People
Jules Remedios Faye - Little White Skeleton
Andrew Lang - Love the Vampire (verse)We really do need an old school fanzine revival ... |
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Post by jamesdoig on Feb 20, 2016 5:32:16 GMT
Some more covers of these - I'll add contents later. It started life as Fantasy and Terror:  Fantasy and Terror, #1, ed Jessica Amanda Salmonson, publisher - Richard Fawcett - 1984 ContentsDarroll Pardoe, A Brief Reflection Sara Teasdale, Sprin Torrent (verse) Yikou Yamata, The Whale (trans by J & S.F. Mills Whitham) Polish Traditional, The Warrior Princess (verse, trans Maud Karpeles) Thomas Wiloch, Unnatural Formation (verse) Sarojini Naidu, In the Bizaars of Hyderabad (verse) Sherri L. File, History Lesson (verse) Mike Ashley, Cele Goldsmith's Years at Fantastic (article) Elizabeth Terrell, The Moon King's Question Kikou Yamata, Harakiri Sara Teasdale, Since There is no Escape (verse) Anon. (1838), Mother Nokes Mary Arrington, Marsh Lilies (verse) Thomas Wiloch, The Tribute Thomas Wiloch, Once Long Ago Mary Ann Allen, The Hatchment Bruce Boston, At Madame Tarot's Audrey Wurdeman, The Wolf (verse) Jessica Amanda Salmonson, The Patriotic Harlot Jody Scott, Closeness (verse) K.L. Cobbe, Anima Two (verse) Phyllis Ann Karr, New Mythi for Horror Tales Mark McLaughlin, Pet Show (verse) Robert Walser, The Man With the Pumpkin Head Darroll Pardoe, Morning Encounter Eric Barker, In a Dark House (verse) Jane Yolen, The Girl Who Loves a Tree (verse) Jane Yolen, Sings Astoreth (verse) Jane Yolen, Dryad's Lament (verse)  Fantasy and Terror, #2, ed Jessica Amanda Salmonson, publisher - Richard Fawcett - 1984  Fantasy and Terror, new series #3, ed Jessica Amanda Salmonson, publisher - Richard Fawcett - 1984  Fantasy Macabre, #5, ed Jessica Amanda Salmonson, publisher - Richard Fawcett - 1985  Fantasy Macabre, #6, ed Jessica Amanda Salmonson, publisher - Richard Fawcett - 1985 |
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Post by ropardoe on Apr 6, 2016 17:31:33 GMT
Jessica Amanda Salmonson (ed.) - Tales By Moonlight (Tor Books, 1985)
Stephen King - Introduction
Linda Thornton - The Inhabitant Of The Pond; The deformed Edward befriends a huge bug which lives in the mouth of the carved ornamental cherub adorning the garden pond. After the latest savage beating at the hands of his father, Edward at last gives the bug free reign: "Father's going to get ripped" he tells his sister. "You won't be able to see him. He'll crash through the bushes and tear father's head off!" Tense, grim and undeniably horrid, this was singled out for praise by Stephen King. He's no bad judge. It's pretty obvious to me that, when Stephen King in his intro says "Well, I thought several of [the stories] were most exquisitely awful", he's referring to Mary Ann Allen's "Joan". Cruel but fair. |
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Post by jamesdoig on Apr 7, 2016 8:34:24 GMT
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Post by ropardoe on Apr 7, 2016 10:17:34 GMT
It was pretty bad! I'm fond of spooky tales inspired by nursery rhymes, and "Little Jumping Joan" offers great possibilities in the hands of a better fiction writer than Mary Ann Allen. |
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Post by Michael Connolly on Apr 8, 2016 11:15:56 GMT
Mary Ann Allen's "The Sheelagh-na-gig" is her best story. M.R. James would faint if he could read it.
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Post by ropardoe on Apr 8, 2016 15:27:42 GMT
Mary Ann Allen's "The Sheelagh-na-gig" is her best story. M.R. James would faint if he could read it. I think I agree. It's not especially well written but it does depend for its denouement on a fairly original idea. It was that single idea which first inspired Mary Ann Allen to write the stories. She's especially fond of apocalypses (who doesn't like a good apocalypse?) so this, and also "The Cambridge Beast", probably rank as her favourites. |
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Post by dem bones on Sept 5, 2017 20:36:07 GMT
Ramsey Campbell - Jack In The Box: ( Dark Horizons #26, 1983). As referenced on Short Fiction in Fifties Horror thread. A soldier crushed beneath a tank during jungle conflict returns to the city but is unable to switch off and adapt to civilian life. All he sees is the red. He takes to the poor districts to murder indiscriminately with less chance of capture: "It was worse than a jungle ambush because here your people wouldn't praise you if you succeeded, they'd arrest you." Or even force you into a straitjacket, imprison you in a padded cell, which is what happens when he's eventually caught. After an attack on a nurse he's belatedly declared dead and committed to the soil. Awakening in his coffin, he struggles to claw his way out, until .... At least, that's how it reads to me. Couldn't decide if the protagonist is a zombie or a vampire, the latter seems most likely. Ruth Berman - Marilyn And The King: A little girl grows so infuriated with her uncooperative puppet of the Elf King that she pulls him to pieces. The King, who was carved from a cedar in the garden of what is now her home, has the last evil laugh.
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