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Post by dem bones on Oct 17, 2008 11:11:03 GMT
Alden H. Norton ("With special notes by Sam Moscowitz") - Horror Times Ten (Berkley Medallion, 1967) Alden H. Norton
Ray Bradbury - The Trunk Lady
H. P. Lovecraft - Cool Air
August Derleth - The Lonesome Place
Robert E. Howard - The Dead Remember
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Captain Of The Polestar
Max Brand - That Receding Brow
W. C. Morrow - His Unconquerable Enemy
Ralph Adams Cram - The Dead Valley
Gertrude Bacon - The Gorgon's Head
Robert Bloch - The Skeleton In The Closet
With notes by Sam Moscowitz
Blurb Be prepared for horrorincludes: W. C. Morrow - His Unconquerable Enemy: Calcutta. Neranya is a loyal servant of the Rajah but prone to cruelty and outbursts of temper. When he fatally stabs a dwarf, the Rajah orders that his right arm be severed as punishment. Neranya despises him thereafter and plots to destroy him. First he butchers his only son, for which crime his legs are sliced off (he's already lost the second arm for an earlier misdemeanor). The quadruamputee is shoved in a cage ten feet off the floor in the Grand Hall where the Rajah can pop in for a quick gloat whenever he likes. That should keep the armless, legless one out of mischief! Shouldn't it ....? That poor bastard in Kowlongo Plaything should have read this one! H. P. Lovecraft - Cool Air: “You ask me to explain why I am afraid of a draught of cool air; why I shiver more than others upon entering a cold room, and seem nauseated and repelled when the chill of evening creeps through the heat of a mild autumn day”. New York. Why is the brilliant Dr. Munoz holed up in a decrepit boarding house and how comes his room is always icy cold and reeks of ammonia? All is revealed when the refrigeration pump gives up the ghost and there is not enough ice in the local shops to keep him chilled. Lovecraft’s very own The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar. Gertrude Bacon - The Gorgon’s Head: Greek islands. Captain Brander relates the story of how The Hasler ran aground on Zante and he and Travers sneaked ashore to explore the cavern shunned by the local peasants on account of its being haunted. Like so many before him Travers is transformed into a column of black stone. Brander catches sight of Medusa’s awful reflection in a pool of water and runs screaming from the cave.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 2, 2021 15:26:00 GMT
Robert E. Howard - The Dead Remember: ( Argosy, August 15, 1936: Fantastic, Dec. 1961). The dead cannot forget their vengeance. Jim Gordon, Texas cowboy, stops by Old Joel's place at Zavala Creek to demand a meal. Once fed and drunk on Joel's liquor, Gordon rashly insists they play cards. Losing heavily, the cowboy accuses the old black of cheating and shoots him dead, whereupon Jezebel, Joel's now widow and a reputed witch, curses him; "by the big snake and the black swamp and the white cock. Before this day rolls around again, you'll be branding the devil's cows in Hell." He kills her, too. From that day forth, until they find most of him plastered across the alley by the Big Chief saloon, Gordon's life is a haunted Hell on earth. Story told via Gordon's last letter, various police statements and the coroner's verdict.
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Post by Swampirella on Sept 2, 2021 15:29:51 GMT
Robert E. Howard - The Dead Remember: ( Argosy, August 15, 1936: Fantastic, Dec. 1961). The dead cannot forget their vengeance. Jim Gordon, Texas cowboy, stops by Old Joel's place at Zavala Creek to demand a meal. Once fed and drunk on Joel's liquor, Gordon rashly insists they play cards. Losing heavily, the cowboy accuses the old black of cheating and shoots him dead, whereupon Jezebel, Joel's now widow and a reputed witch, curses him; "by the big snake and the black swamp and the white cock. Before this day rolls around again, you'll be branding the devil's cows in Hell." He kills her, too. From that day forth, until they find most of him plastered across the alley by the Big Chief saloon, Gordon's life is a haunted Hell on earth. Story told via Gordon's last letter, various police statements and the coroner's verdict. Found here:
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