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Post by dem bones on Dec 12, 2010 10:01:53 GMT
from tomorrow, it will be the turn of the contemporary authors to take to the stage and i am delighted with the contributions secured so far! aggressive begging letters will be pm'd to certain luckless individuals over coming days so now is a good time to hide behind the couch. today's mouldering classic is from The Torture By Hope man, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, whose collection Cruel Tales really should have featured on Vault by now. This one procured from San Francisco's larry-bob. Attachments:
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Post by dem bones on Dec 13, 2010 10:02:06 GMT
i suspect that many of us will have had our first taste of Thana Niveau's macabre fiction via The Pier, the outstanding opening story to the recent Seventh Black Book Of Horror. Thana has since contributed to at least three anthologies, two forthcoming and this year's Never Again, the Joel Lane & Alison Bird edited selection of anti-fascism horrors. On December 12th last year, it was announced that Lady Probert had won The Whitechapel Society 1888's short story competition with From Hell To Eternity. Many thanks to her magnificence for allowing me to spruce up this dreadful thread with an amended, author's cut of the story. If you have only read The Pier up until now, you could be in for a culture shock! Thana has also written a little something about her work in an entertaining guest blog for Simon Marshall-Jones's Ramblings Of A Tattooed Head. Please note: i've included this upload as an rtf file to keep the formatting and lose that rotten 'file:///C:/Documents and Settings/ Owner/ My Documents/ Blah Blah' that has defaced many of the enclosures to date, but if this is problematic for Mac users, provided Thana agrees, i could always upload a PDF version? Attachments:
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Thana Niveau
Devils Coach Horse
We who walk here walk alone.
Posts: 109
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Post by Thana Niveau on Dec 13, 2010 10:26:43 GMT
Oh, I'd assumed you were PDF-ing it anyway, so yes, fine with me! And thanks for that really lovely intro!
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Post by David A. Riley on Dec 13, 2010 11:31:00 GMT
I know what I'll be reading this lunchtime. David
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Post by David A. Riley on Dec 13, 2010 12:38:10 GMT
Just read that story and it's bloody good. Robert Bloch would have been proud of it. I'm not surprised it won the contest.
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Post by Johnlprobert on Dec 13, 2010 15:29:53 GMT
Just read that story and it's bloody good. Robert Bloch would have been proud of it. I'm not surprised it won the contest. It's a cracking piece of work isn't it? Just the kind of story for a Christmas evening...
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Post by dem bones on Dec 13, 2010 17:08:32 GMT
Oh, I'd assumed you were PDF-ing it anyway, so yes, fine with me! And thanks for that really lovely intro! you deserve it, Thana! it hadn't crossed my mind before, but it strikes me that Mr. Riley's Robert Bloch observation is very astute. seems to me you've had a memorable year, and the Criswell in me predicts 2011 will be an even bigger one for you. have enclosed a pdf version with this (sorry, i think we were at cross purposes on the format! ) Attachments:
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Post by marksamuels on Dec 13, 2010 17:08:58 GMT
Just read that story and it's bloody good. Robert Bloch would have been proud of it. I'm not surprised it won the contest. It's a cracking piece of work isn't it? Just the kind of story for a Christmas evening... Yes, a Christmas in Ripper Hell! Very well done Lady P ... Mark S.
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Thana Niveau
Devils Coach Horse
We who walk here walk alone.
Posts: 109
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Post by Thana Niveau on Dec 14, 2010 7:27:53 GMT
Thanks for your kind words, everyone!
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Post by dem bones on Dec 14, 2010 10:12:46 GMT
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Post by David A. Riley on Dec 14, 2010 10:29:12 GMT
I just want to know who some of the characters in Cannibal Kings are based on. I have some suspicions, but...
A great story, though.
David
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Post by David A. Riley on Dec 14, 2010 10:35:52 GMT
And how about a sequel: The Cannibal Queens of Horror?
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Thana Niveau
Devils Coach Horse
We who walk here walk alone.
Posts: 109
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Post by Thana Niveau on Dec 14, 2010 16:29:27 GMT
Delightfully nasty one, Mark!
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Post by marksamuels on Dec 14, 2010 17:15:34 GMT
Thanks Lady P David: it's not so much that the characters in it were based on particular individuals, they tended more towards the composite and generic. It's been done innumerable times before by other authors. Not that that has stopped certain folk playing the "I have every right to be offended!" game with me. Yawn. When it comes to horror fiction, give me satirical over bien-pensant political commentary every time... I'm sure if I did dare write the sequel you suggest I'd imagine Ed Bertrand's fate would be mild compared to what'd happen to me Mark S.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 14, 2010 18:39:08 GMT
It's likely that most of you will already be familiar with The Devil Of The Marsh but i make no excuses for including it. H. B. "Ethel" Marriott-Watson's eerie masterpiece remains a personal favourite and so affected me when i first read it (in Hugh Lamb's classic Victorian Nightmares) that i had to sample more macabre fiction, and more macabre fiction, and ... you can see what happened. It's among several neat tales you'll find at R. J. Warren's The Amalgamated Brotherhood Of Spooks, which, if you've not already done so, you really should consult as a matter of some urgency! The story was also recently exhumed by James Doig for his Australian Ghost Stories (Wordsworth Editions, 2010). And, though he's never seen fit to mention it, James edits and introduces the Marriott-Watson collection, The Devil of the Marsh and Other Stories, (Ash Tree Press, 2004)! Keith Minnion Just caught up with this one. Like the 'Blight me...' bit. Nothing like going along blithely with the devil's minion's when it's clear you're in for a bad end anyway.
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