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Post by dem bones on Oct 9, 2008 3:05:53 GMT
Leo Margulies (ed.) - The Ghoul Keepers (Pyramid, October 1961)  John Schoenherr
Theodore Sturgeon - The Martian And The Moron
Edmond Hamilton - The Isle Of The Sleeper
Helen W. Kasson - Please Go 'Way And Let Me Sleep
Ray Bradbury - The Lake
Harry Altshuler - The Witch In The Fog
L. Sprague De Camp & Fletcher Pratt - When The Night Winds Howl
Seabury Quinn - Clair De Lune
Henry Kuttner - Spawn Of DagonBlurb: Who knows
- the secret of the Wizard of Atlantis?
- what messages come from outer space?
- how to catch a vampire?
- the thing ghosts want most?
- how to really saw a woman in half?
- what evil lurks in the hearts of men? *
The Ghoul Keepers know
and have written the answers as part of the nine stories of horror and laughter - and something in between - presented here.
*The Shadow knows that one, too, but he isn't in the book. Another winner from the Goolies! I would have picked this up for the title alone (who could resist), but this is also the place I first read one of my all-time favourite Robert Bloch stories! The Seabury Quinn saga of the vampire actress will be familiar to many from Pan Horror #5 and I seem to recall the Hamilton and Kuttner efforts were particularly strong. The Lake is the story that convinced Ray Bradbury he could become a writer. Robert Bloch - The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Hugo, a simple-minded, squinty-eyed hunchback, runs away from the orphanage when he learns that he's about to be committed to the local asylum. Famous stage magician the Great Sadini finds him starving to death out back of the theatre and takes him on as his props man. All is well until the kindly Sadini's wife and onstage assistant Isobel embarks on an affair with a handsome crooner. When Hugo catches them at it, Isobel persuades him that Sadini is the Devil and all his supposed 'tricks' - including the neat one when he power-saws her in half - are real. She's only with him because he has her under a spell. But if Hugo were to kill him ....
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Oct 9, 2008 7:42:49 GMT
Great cover Dem
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Post by dem bones on Oct 26, 2016 13:11:24 GMT
Harry Altshuler - The Witch In The Fog: (Weird Tales, Sept. 1938, as by Alexander Faust). A brief tale of thuggee - and a beautiful English girl. Elise Mayrines returns to London intent on murdering Blenheim Oranger, the conniving swine who sold her to a sadistic Indian Prince. She is armed with a grey silk handkerchief, which doesn't sound very intimidating but is lethal as a swinging chainsaw in the hands of a Kali worshipper. But it looks like Elise may have to wait her turn in a queue, as Oranger is also under threat from a pair of jailbirds he fitted up following a jewel raid. Asian sorcery prevails.
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