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Post by dem bones on Aug 30, 2016 12:04:37 GMT
Your very consciousness will be changed by "The Legs that Walked". Joseph Eberle Finally, finally I got to read Mr. Dowling's masterpiece, and, thanks to those marvellous people at SFFAudio, you can to! Ramsey, if anything you undersold it! Justin Dowling, The Legs That WalkedI hope he had fun researching it.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Aug 30, 2016 13:28:12 GMT
I hope he had fun researching it. Am I alone in detecting a vague, almost imperceptible sexual undertone in this story?
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Post by dem bones on Sept 1, 2016 17:42:02 GMT
Dorothy McIlwraith[ed.] - Weird Tales, November 1953 (UK, Jan 1954) Margaret Brundage Cover scan (of US edition) courtesy of Galactic CentralMary Elizabeth Counselman - Way Station A haunted house is a poor place for a honeymoon.
Justin Dowling - The Legs That Walked ...with every clap of thunder they came marching on.
Q. Patrick - The Red Balloon Something "awfully funny" had happened to those kids.
Harriet A. Bradfield - Suspicion (verse)
Harry W. Currier - The Man Upstairs No one else had seen him, yet the little professor could swear that three times he had been there.
Robert E. Howard - The Black Stone ...some unspeakable monster from the Elder World.
Dorothea Gibbons - The Crying Child It was two hundred years ago the plaything had been lost.
Dorothy Quick - Demon Lover (verse)
G. G. Pendarves - Thing of Darkness A novelette of a Thing of Horror that brought death to Troon House.
August Derleth - The Disc Recorder Can such contrivances be ghost-operated?
The EyrieFor the first and only time in its original run, Weird Tales recycled a cover painting from an earlier issue (January 1945. I believe it depicts a scene from Edmond Hamilton's Priestess of the Labyrinth?). I wonder if that sounded the alarm bells for older readers. The Robert E. Howard and G. G. Pendarves shorts are reprints from the November 1931 and August 1937 issues respectively ( The Black Stone also appeared in Christine Campbell Thomson's nearly superlative Grim Death). In short, were it not for the ever dependable Mary E. Counselman and, especially, Justin Dowling's moment of glory, this issue would not have much going for it.
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Post by ohthehorror on Sept 2, 2016 13:17:31 GMT
Certainly not alone jojo, no. I had a re-read since it cropped up again here and it has to be said, if I could choose the manner of my death, being choked to death by the vengeful shapely legs of beautiful women(or even woman, singular) would be hard to beat.
I always feel like I should put on some jolly, marching music while reading this, or maybe some 70's b-movie music.
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Post by bobby on Sept 3, 2016 13:35:50 GMT
For the first and only time in its original run, Weird Tales recycled a cover painting from an earlier issue (January 1945. I believe it depicts a scene from Edmond Hamilton's Priestess of the Labyrinth?). I wonder if that sounded the alarm bells for older readers. The Robert E. Howard and G. G. Pendarves shorts are reprints from the November 1931 and August 1937 issues respectively. No, the final two issues of the original run, July 1954 and September 1954, also re-used cover art. July 1954 January 1944 September 1954 August 1939 I have both of these 1954 issues and can confirm that both of them also have a couple of reprinted stories from the 1920's and 1930's. (So does the September 1953 issue (the first digest-sized issue), which I also have.)
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Post by dem bones on Sept 3, 2016 14:32:24 GMT
Thanks Bobby, teach me to trust to addled memory! That line should now read "For the first time in it's original run ..."
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Post by bobby on Sept 3, 2016 15:49:50 GMT
And of course the cover art for the January 1944 issue was re-used again for the cover of the anthology Weird Vampire Tales.
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Post by valdemar on Nov 18, 2017 15:35:36 GMT
The lady on the cover of the 'Lamia In The Penthouse' issue - it's Nigella Lawson, isn't it? A bit further down is an advertisement inviting one to: 'Eat anything with false teeth'. No thanks, I'm an omnivore, but I draw the line at pensioners.
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