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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 14, 2010 18:47:12 GMT
Just leaped a bit ahead to 'From Hell to Eternity'. My God what are they teaching girls at school nowadays? This is disgracefully nasty! No wonder Lord P is a stickler for the chains and the cellar. Who'd be safe otherwise. Bloody good story.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 14, 2010 19:12:03 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 last conference I go to. Great story Mark. No holds barred.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 14, 2010 19:14:01 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. personally, up until now i've filed Cannibal Kings ... under "non-fiction" and see no reason to cease doing so.
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Post by David A. Riley on Dec 14, 2010 22:40:25 GMT
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. That was a bit of a seditious suggestion, I know. I think your estimation of what your fate would be if your were ever to have the insane temerity to try such a story wouldn't bear thinking about. David
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Post by dem bones on Dec 15, 2010 10:03:05 GMT
Today's lesson. Never get involved in other people's dark sorcery domestics! The Shadow by the Altar first appeared in Stuart Hughes's now legendary Peeping Tom #5 in 1992 and, to the best of my knowledge, has not been seen since. It's not included among the contents of David A. Riley's Rileys long very long awaited Midnight House collection, The Lurkers in the Abyss, so Vault can congratulate ourselves on landing a bit of a scoop. Mr. Riley, as most of you will be aware, currently edits the British Fantasy Society's Prism magazine, is the proprietor of the excellent Riley Books and his blogspot is one of my serious lurks. Earlier this year, he allowed me permission to publish the results of our accidental interview online as The Curse Of Beyond. I am struggling to think of anyone who has suffered more for this board! Thank you for putting yourself through the agony again, Mr. R.! Attachments:
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Post by Thana Niveau on Dec 15, 2010 14:41:50 GMT
A most excellent bit of nastiness, Mr Riley!
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Post by marksamuels on Dec 15, 2010 17:13:42 GMT
Great stuff David, with an especially vivid ending. Avatar of Chaugnar Faugn?
Mark S.
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Post by jamesdoig on Dec 15, 2010 20:59:18 GMT
Much enjoyed Cannibal Kings - laughed out loud in several places.
I've been to one convention - a small speculative fiction gathering in Canberra called Conflux. I was on a couple of horror panels that attracted crowds of between 3 and 6 people. Amusing stuff and a fine time was had by all. I even won a gargoyle for a spirited reading of Ernest Favenc's 1903 classic, "What the Rats Brought," in which a plague decimates Australia and giant vampire bats from Asia take over.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 15, 2010 23:06:06 GMT
My guess is there's more than a little of the Gerald Suster's about Edmund Bertrand as he cultivated a similar reputation among the Occult Society scene due to his *ahem* uncompromising behaviour toward his fellow black/ white sorcerers. On one occasion, Suster was at loggerheads with the publishers of Chaos International over an uncomplimentary article. The feud escalated, various factions reputedly came to blows, until some bright spark suggested the best way to settle the dispute would be to hold a Quiz Night between the Odin Worshippers, Creepy Crowleys, Druids, Droods, Witches and sundry Pagan groups at The Black Horse in Rathborne Place. We only have the word of journalist Jon Ronson ( The Joy Of Hex, Time Out, Oct.30th-Nov. 6th 1991) for what transpired that evening but it sounds ten times livelier than the hocus pocus mumbo jumbo shindigs i would later experience at the Princess Louise. Sample quote from the splendid Suster. "Some people here are so petty, so spiteful, so incapable of seeing beyond the end of their own dirty little a*******s that they make the extreme left of the Labour Party look like an old ladies knitting club." He was only on his first lager at the time. Great stuff David, with an especially vivid ending. Avatar of Chaugnar Faugn? Mark S. I was pleased that David answered my SOS for a story with The Shadow by the Altar because it's one i'd not read, and now i'm surprised it didn't made the cut for (the now even longer overdue than it was this morning) Lurkers in the Abyss. It shares a similar atmosphere of menace to Mr. Riley's 'seventies Black Magic classics and i particularly like that you just know it's not going to end on a cheerful note.
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Post by marksamuels on Dec 15, 2010 23:48:56 GMT
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Post by dem bones on Dec 16, 2010 7:23:09 GMT
Sixteen days in and a twin-pronged attack from the Right Hon. Lord John Llewellyn Probert! Attached to this post, Steve Upham's attractive pdf promo-pack for Against The Darkness ( Screaming Dreams, 2010) including the full text of Bother In The Belfry featuring flamboyant phantom fighter Mr Massene Henderson and his glamorous sidekick, Miss Samantha Jephcott. A slight departure, this one, in that virtually everything included on the calendar to date has been a right old wrist-slitter, but as John explained on our Against The Darkness thread Far from the cruel and sadistic 'proper horror' that I relish writing the most, these stories are indeed a lot lighter, and are more a mix of 'The Avengers' and R Chetwynd-Hayes' Francis St. Clare & Frederica Masters adventures"As a bonus. For those of you who've yet to do so, once you've done reading Bother In The Belfry, head over to Gray Friars Press for a sample of Lord P.'s favoured "cruel and sadistic 'proper horror' in the delectable form of Ophelia, as since published in his appropriately entitled collection, Wicked Delights (Atomic Fez, 2010)! Attachments:
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Post by noose on Dec 16, 2010 8:40:40 GMT
Consequently I agree with all your criticisms of this shithouse.That's set me up for the day... Enjoyed your story Mark - it is rather a good one... Still got David's to read - maybe over a nice cup of brains...
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 16, 2010 14:02:03 GMT
For me, The Crimson Blind had all the necessary qualities except for a bit of a tame ending
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 16, 2010 14:11:51 GMT
Today's lesson. Never get involved in other people's dark sorcery domestics! The Shadow by the Altar first appeared in Stuart Hughes's now legendary Peeping Tom #5 in 1992 and, to the best of my knowledge, has not been seen since. It's not included among the contents of David A. Riley's Rileys long very long awaited Midnight House collection, The Lurkers in the Abyss, so Vault can congratulate ourselves on landing a bit of a scoop. Mr. Riley, as most of you will be aware, currently edits the British Fantasy Society's Prism magazine, is the proprietor of the excellent Riley Books and his blogspot is one of my serious lurks. Earlier this year, he allowed me permission to publish the results of our accidental interview online as The Curse Of Beyond. I am struggling to think of anyone who has suffered more for this board! Thank you for putting yourself through the agony again, Mr. R.! Not quite The Crimson Blind, as in it was proper horror as we know it, but plenty of red. Excellent story, David. There's something about that juxtaposition of the occult and those red brick houses that gets me every time.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 16, 2010 15:06:47 GMT
Bother in the Belfry - loved it. Lord P at his humorous best. Twisted and turned and had me fooled at various points.
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