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Post by dem bones on Feb 20, 2024 12:36:02 GMT
Stephen King - The Monkey: ( Gallery, Nov. 1980: Frank Coffey [ed.], Moden Masters of Horror, 1981). "You can't be here - I threw you down the well when I was nine." A cymbal-clashing clockwork toy with an unnerving idiot grin. When it clashes the symbols together, someone dear to Hal Shelburn dies horribly — family member, friend or pet; the evil simian isn't fussy. Convinced his son Petey is the next target, Hal weights down the furry fiend with rocks, rows out to the deepest point of Crystal Lake. Can he finally get rid of the possessed plaything? Suspenseful with plenty of nasty deaths and a horror comic ending. Anyone read his first fanzine sale, I Was a Teenage Graverobber? Russell Kirk - There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding: (Kirby McCauley [ed.], Frights, 1976). On the eve of his 60th birthday, Frank Sarsfield — hobo, man mountain, ex-con, pilferer of church boxes, devout Roman Catholic (God, is he a devout Roman Catholic), etc. — blows into the derelict town of Anthonyville during a snow blizzard. Starved and freezing, believing himself damned unless he can perform a Signal Act in the short time left to him, Frank takes refuge in Tamarack House, a once magnificent mansion with family graveyard out back. It's soon apparent that the grand old house is haunted by the ghosts of the Anthony family, murdered by jailbreakers back in 1915. As the events of that terrible night are re-enacted before him, Frank, the gentlest of giants, batters the five assailants with a pickaxe handle ... whereupon the ghost family vanish. Stepping out in the garden, Frank stops to read the inscription on a memorial tablet.
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enoch
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Post by enoch on Feb 20, 2024 13:22:01 GMT
Anyone read his first fanzine sale, I Was a Teenage Graverobber? No, never even heard of it, I'm afraid. I am a big fan of his first professional publication though, written when he was just eighteen: "The Reaper's Image."
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