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Stephen Jones - Dancing With The Dark « Thread Started on Feb 2, 2008, 10:32am »
Stephen Jones (ed.) - Dancing With The Dark: True Encounters With The Paranormal By Masters Of The Macabre (Vista, 1997)
Cover by Splash: Photography by Simon Marsden
Stephen Jones - Introduction: Dancing with the Dark
Joan Aiken - My Feeling about Ghosts Sarah Ash - Timeswitch Mike Ashley - The Rustle in the Grass Peter Atkins - Take Care of Grandma Clive Barker - Life After Death Stephen Baxter - The Cartographer Robert Bloch - Not Quite So Pragmatic . Ramsey Campbell - The Nearest to a Ghost Hugh B. Cave - Haitian Mystères R. Chetwynd-Hayes - One-Way Trip A. E. Coppard - The Shock of the Macabre Basil Copper - The Haunted Hotel Peter Crowther - Safe Arrival Jack Dann - A Gift of Eagles Charles de Lint - The House on Spadina Terry Dowling - Sharing with Strangers Lionel Fanthorpe - Hands on the Wheel Esther M. Friesner - That Old School Spirit Gregory Frost - Twice Encountered Neil Gaiman - The Flints of Memory Lane Stephen Gallagher - In There Ray Garton - Haunted in the Head John Gordon - The House on the Brink Ed Gorman - Riding the Nightwinds Elizabeth Goudge - ESP Simon R. Green - Death is a Lady Peter Haining - The Smoke Ghost Joe Haldeman - Never Say Die James Herbert - Not Very Psychic Brian Hodge - Confessions of a Born-Again Heathen Nancy Holder - To Pine with Fear and Sorrow M. R. James - A Ghostly Cry Peter James - One Extra for Dinner Mike Jefferies - A Face in the Crowd Nancy Kilpatrick - Raggedy Ann Stephen King - Uncle Clayton Hugh Lamb - Go On, Open Your Eyes... Terry Lamsley - Moving Houses John Landis - Inspiration Stephen Laws - Norfolk Nightmare Samantha Lee - Not Funny Barry B. Longyear - The Gray Ghost H. P. Lovecraft - Witch House Brian Lumley - The Challenge Arthur Machen - World of the Senses Graham Masterton - My Grandfather’s House Richard Matheson - More Than We Appear To Be Richard Christian Matheson - Visit to a Psychic Surgeon Paul J. McAuley - The Fall of the Wires Anne McCaffrey - Unto the Third Generation Thomas F. Monteleone - Talkin’ Them Marble Orchard Blues Mark Morris - A Shadow of Tomorrow Yvonne Navarro - The House on Chadwell Drive William F. Nolan - The Floating Table and the Jumping Violet Edgar Allan Poe - Mesmeric Revelation Vincent Price - In the Clouds Alan Rodgers - Clinic-Modern Nicholas Royle - Magical Thinking Jay Russell - De Cold, Cold Décolletage Adam Simon - The Darkness Between the Frames Guy N. Smith - The Mist People Michael Marshall Smith - Mr Cat S. P. Somtow - In the Realm of the Spirits Brian Stableford - Chacun sa Goule Laurence Staig - The Spirit of M. R. James Peter Tremayne - The Family Curse H. R. Wakefield - The Red Lodge Lawrence Watt-Evans - My Haunted Home Cherry Wilder - The Ghost Hunters Chet Williamson - A Place Where a Head Would Rest Paul F. Wilson - The Glowing Hand Douglas E. Winter - Finding My Religion Gene Wolfe - Kid Sister
A Spectral vision .... The sound of phantom footsteps ... An experiment in astral projection ..... A childhood premonition of disaster .... Possession by a voodoo god .... An Ouija board that predicted death ... A body kept alive by force of will ..... A cursed family name ...
Such tales as these are more usually associated with horror books and movies. However, these anecdotes are absolutely true! They are ,just a sample of the real-life experiences recounted by some of the world's most famous frighteners, from such bestselling authors as Stephen King and James Herbert, to actor Vincent Price and director John Landis.
Collected together for the very first time, many or the most successful and well-known exponents, along with rising stars of the horror field, relate their fascinating encounters with the supernatural, revealing how such unique experiences have affected their lives and influenced their works.
Even for the experts, when it comes to Unexplained phenomena, fact can be much more frightening than fiction ...
Few of the entries run past the three page mark making this an ideal bedside companion. The first account I turned to (because the book fell open on that page) was Ray Garton's encounter with .... our old friends Ed & Lorraine Warren, ghost-hunters extraordinaire! Talk about 'spooky'! Ray had been commissioned to write a book on the terrifying 'Snedeker case' you see, and the Warrens had invited him to explore their museum. Evidently, one of the haunted exhibits followed him home from the macabre shrine. In other words: "I couldn't get out of it unless I could afford a lot of legal fees ... So, I was stuck with writing a 'non-fiction' book that I'd been told to make up, and make scary". I'm sure they can't all be as wonderful as this, but .... more when I've had a proper delve.
From the first, I set myself against "literature"; the story was the thing, and no amount of style could persuade me to select a story that lacked genuine, unadulterated horror. For those who wanted something high-brow there was plenty.
- Christine Campbell Thomson
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Re: Stephen Jones - Dancing With The Dark « Reply #1 on Feb 3, 2008, 5:49pm »
H. R. Wakefield - The Red Lodge: How HRW was inspired to write the enduring classic of the same name (one of the nastiest ghost stories it's been my delight to encounter) after "two weekends spent in a superficially charming and harmonious Queen Anne about a mile and a half from Richmond Bridge" in 1917.
R. Chetwynd-Hayes - One Way Trip: The author elaborates on his solitary experience of astral projection, as first mentioned in his introduction to Fontana Ghost #13. A passage in our old sauce & sorcery friend Dennis Wheatley's classic Strange Conflict sparked RCH's curiosity and soon he was floating on the bedroom ceiling looking down at his slumbering form.
Samantha Lee - Not Funny: By far the grimmest so far, this would easily stand up as an excellent short-short horror story. The author, holidaying with her husband on an island off Ibiza, is terrified awake by a white figure at the end of her bed. She's convinced it's a signal that a friend suffering from MS has just died ....
Guy N. Smith - The Mist People: The crab-master's experiments with a pendulum draw the ghost of a beautiful Brazilian woman he thinks of as 'Makita' into his home where she bothers son Angus and his mate as the watch the box. Mild poltergeist activity, handled with a commendable absence of sensationalism.
Peter Haining - The Smoke Ghost: The Hainings' pet ghost hails from the Napoleonic wars when a long-haired french prisoner was burnt to death in an accidental house fire at Peyton House, Boxford.
Lionel Fanthorpe - Hands On The Wheel: A touching account of how the Reverend believes his dead friend Bill - an excellent driver - saved his life when his Granada was sent hurtling over the hard shoulder by a Juggernaut on the M4. Fanthrope was returning home from the funeral at the time.
From the first, I set myself against "literature"; the story was the thing, and no amount of style could persuade me to select a story that lacked genuine, unadulterated horror. For those who wanted something high-brow there was plenty.
- Christine Campbell Thomson
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Re: Stephen Jones - Dancing With The Dark « Reply #2 on May 17, 2008, 4:48pm »
Clive Barker - Life After Death: His view on it all. Clearly only included because Jones wanted something, anything from his hero.
Jay Russell - De Cold, Cold Décolletage: " ... the couple were dressed in costumes like something out of the eighteenth century, powdered wigs and all. The man was tall and stocky with puffy, chipmunk cheeks, wearing a silk brocade jacket and knee-length pants with high stockings. The woman wore some fancy, floor-length silvery ball gown, cut low on her considerable chest. Not to sound like a perv or a sexist, but I believe it was precisely this look for which the word 'décolletage' was coined. We're talking wonderbra-plus here, no fooling".
This is more like it - a ghost with big tits! Jay finishes his detested job early and heads for a beer in a Greenwich Village bar. It's early evening on a bitterly cold day and, as he rushes through the courtyard it's with some surprise he chances upon a couple dressed in Victorian duds waltzing calm as you please to non-existent musical accompaniment. Of course, when he gets inside and asks the barman if there's some filming going on outside, the courtyard is empty. Then he notices a badly-executed painting of a ballroom scene hung near the gents ...
Hugh Lamb - Go On, Open Your Eyes ...: Having recently moved into his new home, Hugh has a Thurnley Abbey moment when something comes stomping up the stairs in the dead of night. Can he raise his head from the pillow and confront what could be his first authentic spectre or will he keep his eyes screwed shut, praying it will go away? As he asks at the end: what would you have done?
Stephen Laws - Norfolk Nightmare: Stephen and two mates messing about on the river back in the seventies. Lost in the fens, they moor their boat in a spooky spot overlooked by a ruined windmill and get pissed. One gent has a terrific idea: let's improvise a Ouija board ....
Stephen Gallagher - In There: Gallagher explains his optimistic belief/ hope that there is something beyond this existence, partly via a disquieting little girl he met in a Moravian Church in North Carolina. "Where her eyes should have been ... there were just these two deep holes. And in those holes I could see worms and maggots". Give or take Ray Garton's run in with dear old Ed and Lorraine, the scariest entry in the book so far.
From the first, I set myself against "literature"; the story was the thing, and no amount of style could persuade me to select a story that lacked genuine, unadulterated horror. For those who wanted something high-brow there was plenty.
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