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Post by dem bones on Sept 25, 2009 19:43:52 GMT
C. A. Dawson Scott & Ernest Rhys (eds.) - Twenty And Three Stories: By Twenty And Three Authors (Thornton Butterworth, 1924) Introduction: Ernest Rhys & C. A. Dawson Scott
Edith Wharton - Kerfol L. de Bra - A Life - A Bowl Of Rice W. B. Yeats - The Crucifixion Of The Outcast The Marquess Curzon Of Kedleston - The Drums Of Kairwan T. F. Powys - Alleluia A. E. W. Mason - Hatteras Elinor Mordaunt - Hodge Thomas Burke - The Chink And The Child Robert Hichens - The Nomad Cutcliffe Hyne - The Ransom Edwin Pugh - The Other Twin Morley Roberts - Grear's Dam Ward Muir - The Reward Of Enterprise H. de Vere Stackpoole -The King Of Maleka Algernon Blackwood - Violence A. Conan-Doyle - Captain Sharkey Arthur Lynch - The Sentimental Mortgage Ellis Roberts - The Narrow Way Louis Golding - The Call Of The Hand Walter De La Mare - The Creatures W. Somerset Maugham - The Taipan John Masefield - Davy Jones' Gift W. W. Jacobs - The Monkey's Paw "The New Terror is apt to be more psychical, more psychological perhaps, than the old. The method of the latter is based on EDGAR POE and the writers for Blackwoods Magazine, while the former is akin to the Russians, to SOLOGUB and TCHEKKOV." Strong mixed bag of Ghost stories, mysteries and thrillers - "stories of sensation" as the authors put it - with enough of a horror bent to be included here. A companion piece to their Thirty And One Stories of the previous year which is more diverse in its approach. C. A. Dawson Scott & Ernest Rhys (eds.) - Thirty And One Stories: By Thirty And One Authors (Thornton Butterworth, July 1923) Foreword
I. Zangwill - The Sabbath Breaker Mary E. Mann - The Blue Beads H. G. Wells - The Door In The Wall Catherine Wells - Fear Ernest Bramah - The Story Of Chang Tao E O.E. Somerville & Martin Ross - The Whiteboys Arnold Bennett - The Fortune Teller May Sinclair - The Collector A. T. Quiller-Couch - Statement Of Gabriel Foot, Highwayman Grace Rhys - Destiny And A Dog H. D. Lowry - The Man In The Room E. Colburne Mayne - The Turret Room John Gawsworthy - A Strange Thing Jane Findlater - The Pictures W. W. Jacobs - Fine Feathers C. A. Dawson Scott - My Honoured Master A. E. Coppard - Clorinda Walks In Heaven Rebecca West - In A City That Is Now Ploughed Fields R. B. Cunninghame Graham - Mertub George E. Malloch - The Flower E. R. - The Mare Without A Name F. Tennyson Jesse - Why Senath Married Perceval Gibbon - The Connoisseur Clemence Houseman - The Drawn Arrow Stacy Aumonier - The Great Unimpressionable E. M. Goodman - The Last Lap E. Grant Watson - Out There Violet Hunt - His Widows John Russell - The Price Of The Head Mary Webb - Blessed Are The Meek G. K. Chesterton - The Invisible Man
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Post by dem bones on Nov 19, 2012 23:16:09 GMT
L. de Bra - A Life: A Bowl Of Rice: (Blue Book Magazine, June 1922). Fa'ng, the once revered number one assassin of the small Cantonese village, has been usurped by younger, sneakier hired killers and reduced to starvation. Bow Sam, mourns the passing of the old traditions and provides the destitute Fa'ng his first meal in days. In return, Fa'ng launches a kamikaze mission versus an upstart who called Bow Sam a son of a turtle!
Edwin Pugh - The Other Twin: Bibi or Bobo? - Franker doesn't know which identical twin he killed during a fight in that Sudanese gambling den, just that the remaining one will pursue him relentlessly cross-continent to avenge the death of his brother. Reduced to a shambling, twitching tramp, Franker confesses to his part in a massive opium transaction and is sentenced to two years. Surely he'll be safe in prison.
The Marquess Curzon Of Kedleston - The Drums Of Kairwan: (Tales of Travel, 1923). Not so much a story as what purports to be an eyewitness account of an Assyrians religious ceremony in which the congregation work themselves into a frenzy of self-torture, all loving described by the Marquess who, fortunately, faints before they get to work on the sheep.
R. Ellis Roberts - The Narrow Way: (The Other End, 1923). Was it a black miracle, or did Father Lascelles poison his congregation and single-handedly "convert" the parish of Uny to Catholicism in August 1912? According to Lascelles, he prayed to the Lord on All Souls Night to visit the community as the Grim Reaper and, as a result, a plague decimated the population. To Lascelles, the end justifies the means as "all of those who died were reconciled to the Holy Church before death. Of those who remain, nearly all have adhered to the church." He has even converted Mr. Trengrowse of "the primitives." Dr. Marlowe and Sir Joshua confront the fanatic and he assures them there'll be no more deaths as he has prayed for them to cease.
Arthur Lynch - The Sentimental Mortgage: Callously spurned as a half-caste by the girl he loves, Miss Trafford, Blantyre has himself transferred to the Indian battalion where he distinguishes himself with several acts of reckless bravery. Idolised by his men as "The Sabre Prince", Blantyre rises through the ranks to become a Colonel.
Seven years later, aged thirty-five, he returns home to London minus an arm, and is féted on the society scene as "the lion of that particular season." Even Miss Trafford has changed her opinion to the point where she'll stop at nothing to land the most eligible bachelor in town. Initially delighted, Blantyre jilts her when she reveals herself as the most ruthless gold-digger. Miss Trafford, humiliated, sues him for breach of promise. Blantyre cheerfully hands over all his worldly goods, leaving the house until last. He imposes on a friend to present her with a box containing the deeds and a morbid novelty keepsake.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 17, 2019 5:15:21 GMT
Twenty & Three Stories cont. Dying for a pint ..... date with a strait-waistcoat .... shark attack! T. F. Powys - Alleluia: A charismatic young preacher arrives in Wallbridge, wooing the congregation from the Rev. John Sutton, who is not best pleased at being upstaged. Even the local beauty, Lily Tapper, takes a shine to him - her beau, Tom Wakely plays too rough - and the attraction is mutual. When Lily is murdered and thrown into the chalk pit, her beer-monster father gives evidence against 'Alleluia,' who duly hangs. Twelve years later, the real culprit makes a deathbed confession. Algernon Blackwood - Violence: ( The New Witness, May 22, 1913). Mr. Leidall, author of that miserable masterpiece The Gulf of Darkness, has a terrible secret that nobody must discover. Trouble is, he suspects that kindly Dr. Hancock, a fellow patron of the club on Dover Street, has already done so. It can only end in .... Ward Muir - The Reward of Enterprise: ( McClure's Magazine, Jan. 1913). On reflection, Harborough realises that the tragedy in the mid-Atlantic was the best thing that ever happened to him, though, of course, he didn't think so at the time.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 17, 2019 17:26:01 GMT
Warwick Goble Cutliffe Hyne - The Ransom: ( Pearsons, May 1896) Calvert and Methuen, English mercenaries fighting with the Chilean army, are captured by Garcia's Peruvian guerilla band. Garcia despises soldiers of fortune, while his men could use some amusement, So: "I shall string one of you up by the neck, to dangle there between heavan and earth. The other man shall have a rifle and cartridges, and if, standing where he does now, he can cut with a bullet the rope with which his friend is hanged, then you shall both go free." Warwick Goble Louis Golding - The Call of the Hand: ( English Review, Nov. 1919). Serbia. Peter and Ivan Kupreloff brothers are conjoined twins, "the tiny right hand of the one ... inexorably seized by the left hand of the other." The boys are the best of friends until, on the death of their father, they take a holiday in Salonika and fall out over English songstress Mary Weston at le Théâtre des Variétés . Crazed with jealousy, Ivan slays his brother with an axe, severs his own arm at the wrist and cauterising the wound in a brazier. No suspicion falls upon him, only sympathy; his fellow woodsmen have long predicted such an accident. Free at last! Free to scour Europe for the woman he loves. Ivan eventually tracks Mary to a shabby nightclub in Athens, and wins her hand. They wed, but Peter is compelled to return to the shallow grave of his brother by the call of the hand!.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 20, 2019 10:37:22 GMT
John Masefield - Davy Jones's Gift: (Country Life, 11 Nov. 1905). Tiger Bay, Cardiff. Jones and the Devil play dice for souls, the former generally winning those of seafaring folk, the Devil, landlubbers. When the King of the Seven Seas wins a Bishop, his opponent throws a strop, so Jones gifts him the soul of Bill Harker, sea-dog and dandy, to placate him. But ....
Elinor Mordaunt - Hodge: Hemerton village, Somerset. The rector's adventure-loving children, Rhoda, 17, and thirteen-year-old Hector Thane, discover an enchanted, prehistoric forest far out on the marshland. The plucky teens lead a hirsute ape-man back to the rectory where it makes home among the trees. It's all very spiffing until the primitive decides he'd rather like to get up close and personal the comely Rhoda, whereupon the situation takes a nightmarish turn. Decent, suspenseful fantasy, this one; had me wondering just how far author was prepared to take us into potentially distasteful territory.
W. Somerset Maugham - The Taipan: He’s the head of a major China-based company. Today he walks past the cemetery, congratulating himself that he has not gone the way of his fellows who made a fortune and drank themselves to death before they reached thirty. Presently he encounters three Chinese digging a fresh grave. But surely if anyone had died recently he’d have been informed …?
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