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Post by dem bones on May 7, 2008 20:44:05 GMT
Stephen Jones (ed.) - The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 15 (Robinson, 2004)  Les Edwards
Ramsey Campbell - Fear The Dead
Steve Nagy - The Hanged Man Of Oz
Michael Chislett - Mara
Marc Laidlaw - Cell Call
Pauline E. Dungate - In The Tunnels
Dale Bailey - Hunger: A Confession
Christopher Fowler - Seven Feet
Susan Davis - The Centipede
Jay Lake - The Goat Cutter
Michael Marshall Smith - Maybe Next Time
John Farris - Story Time With The Bluefield Strangler
Gene Wolfe - Hunter Lake
Scott Emerson Bull - Mr. Sly Stops For A Cup Of Joe
Steve Rasnic Tem - The Bereavement Photographer
Gemma Files - Kissing Carrion
Mark Samuels - The White Hands
Caitlin R. Kiernan - Waycross
Charles Coleman Finlay - Lucy, In Her Splendour
Christopher Barzac - Dead Boy Found
Joyce Carol Oates - The Haunting
Glen Hirshberg - Dancing Men
Neil Gaiman - Bitter Grounds
Paul McAuley - Child Of The Stones
Mike O'Driscoll - The Silence Of The Falling Stars
Simon Clark & Tim Lebbon - Exorcizing Angels
Stephen Jones & Kim Newman - Necrology: 2003Includes: Marc Laidlaw - Cell Call: "It's raining where I am and I'm looking at your car." A driver breaks down at night. Lost, he calls his wife on his despised cell phone and she grudgingly comes out to find him. But she can't ... Scott Emerson Bull - Mr. Sly Stops For A Cup Of Joe: If you're going to hold up the local Quik Stop convenience store, make sure none of your hostages is a 350 lb. thrill-killer ... Mark Samuels - The White Hands: More fun and games in Highgate Cemetery featuring the undead Victorian authoress Lilian Blake, whose The Reunion & Others is "supreme in the field of supernatural literature" according to her obsessive literary executive, creepy Alfred Muswell (we later learn he's been banned from visiting her grave by the FOHC because he's become such a nuisance. Now there's a touch of social realism if ever there was!). Murder, grave robbing, a book that drives people insane (the as yet unpublished The White Hands & Other Tales) ... as Ade would say: what is there not to like? Susan Davis - The Centipede: A gigantic, extremely poisonous one with an amber strike. Annie's obnoxious sister-in-law and benefactor Elsa informs her that a friend was attacked by one in the shower. Had to chop it into three pieces and they still kept squirming. Annie lives in the certain knowledge that the centipede will get her and it does, possibly with much assistance from Elsa who is evidently a psychic vampire. ******** VictoriaSteve Nagy - The Hanged Man Of Oz: Totally trippy tale based around the urban legend if you slow down the film "The Wizard Of Oz" it's possible to see a man hanging himself from one of the stage set trees. Michael's latest love Denise is obsessed with the movie and the myth, and Michael finds himself drawn into her obsession with terrifying consequences.
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Post by Johnlprobert on May 7, 2008 21:04:49 GMT
Some good stuff in this one. Besides a rather splendid tale by one M Samuels Mark Laidlaw's is great, Steve Nagy's is worth a read and Mike O'Driscoll's is one of those stories that is weird, unsettling, and inexplicable. Usually I don't like that sort of thing but this is very very good. And the Clark / Lebbon novella rounds things off nicely
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Post by benedictjjones on May 8, 2008 11:14:06 GMT
alas another i do not own, guess i'll add it to the list =O)
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Post by PeterC on May 8, 2008 19:05:27 GMT
Scott Emerson Bull - Mr. Sly Stops For A Cup Of Joe: If you're going to hold up the local Quik Stop convenience store, make sure none of your hostages is a 350 lb. thrill-killer ...
I absolutely loved this gripping yet funny story. Does anyone know if any more of SEB's work has been published?
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Post by dem bones on May 15, 2008 17:34:00 GMT
I think his work has mostly appeared in the Small presses up until now, but that will surely change soon enough. Here's his site: Scott Emerson Bull |
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Post by PeterC on May 15, 2008 21:55:26 GMT
Demonik,
You are a genius and a gentleman.
Onceagainaithangyou
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Post by sean on May 16, 2008 11:43:57 GMT
The hanged Man of Oz: good story, that. Shame it is only a bird, though. A crane or a flamingo or something. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3FIljj1o2Y'The Bereavment Photogorapher' was pretty damn creepy, and 'The White Hands' by that Mark S chap was a good'un too. |
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