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Post by dem bones on Oct 28, 2008 19:02:15 GMT
Zacherley(ed.) - Vulture Stew (Ballatine, August 1960) L. Ron Hubbard - He Didn't Like Cats Mindret Lord - Dr. Jacobus Meliflore's Last Patient Manly Wade Wellman - The Devil Is Not Mocked Donald A. Wollheim - Bones Charles Tanner - Out Of The Jar A. E. Van Vogt - The Witch Anthony Boucher - They Bite E. Everett Evans - The Shed James Blish - There Shall Be No Darkness
Boucher's They Bite is maybe the most horrible - arguably finest - of his stories, featuring the voracious Carker clan, a family of undesirables who even the army are loathe to take on: Share Alike sees a vampire and a human cast adrift in a lifeboat and trying to make the best of it: Wellman's ripping yarn pulp pits Dracula versus the Nazi's. A mummy is resurrected in Bones, but the professor - obviously a colleague of Lory's Damien Harmon - has overlooked a slightly glaring, decidedly fatal probability ... Zacherley (or his ghost scribe) saves perhaps the very finest 'til last: the lengthy werewolf story, There Shall Be No Darkness, and maybe the best pulp treatment of the theme to date.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 15, 2021 19:38:48 GMT
E. Everett Evans - The Shed: (Avon Science Fiction & Fantasy Reader, Jan. 1953). Set during the first decade of the 20th century. Children use the old railway shed at Coolwater, Michigan as a clubhouse. It is also home to the sinister entity behind a recent epidemic of pet disappearances. Where did the shadow come from? Nobody knows. Now young Heck Osbun is missing presumed absorbed. The youths investigate the local abattoir ...
When you think about it, this story has one of the nastiest quiet endings in horror fiction.
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