doctor3
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Post by doctor3 on Mar 2, 2013 5:10:01 GMT
Dragons are he most widespread, ancient and powerful of monsters. They are found in every culture on earth but they turn up in very few horror stories. I know of Stoker's frankly unreadable Lair of the White Worm (great film though), an inventive story of dragons in modern times called Lethal Perspective by Alan Dean Foster, F Murray Gillcrist's lack luster Basilisk and, naturally Guy Endor's brilliant Day of the Dragon (in which he massively underestimates crocodiles). Any more out there?
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Post by dem bones on Mar 2, 2013 8:32:49 GMT
Hi Doc. Thanks for posting those jungle romps! There's a collection edited by Byron Priess & Co., The Ultimate Dragon, but haven't been anywhere near it yet. Would not be too surprised to learn it is more fantasy-orientated than horror. From what I can remember of it, that's much the case with Robert Bloch's The Eager Dragon, too. Again from memory, William Seabrook's The Salamander is close, but, i'm guessing, not quite what you're after?
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Mar 2, 2013 13:14:37 GMT
Fairly or not, I automatically associate dragons with fantasy rather than horror (but then I like both genres).
Tanith Lee's "Draco, Draco" and Lucius Shepard's "The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule" are original takes on dragons by sometimes-horror writers.
I'm a huge Bloch fan, but I'd suggest avoiding "The Eager Dragon" unless you're after painfully wacky hijinks.
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doctor3
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Post by doctor3 on Mar 2, 2013 18:13:29 GMT
Thanks guys I've read the Ultimate Dragon and several other dragon anthologies. They are mostly fantasy (which is great but i'm looking for dragons in horror). The dragons storiesset in modern day tend to be light hearted and a bit sill or just not scary. The dragon if done in the horror genre should make the demons look like Andy Pandy. I recall reading the Bloch story and thinking it was silly.Not read William Seabrook's The Salamander i'll give it ago. I wrote my own modern day dragon horror story Drake's Brier for one of my anthologies.
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Post by antosang11 on Jun 3, 2013 9:28:59 GMT
I for the dragon in the deepest impression than the "Jurassic Park", is really very terrible creatures. I remember having seen the 3D documentary, is about the origin of life, in the Cambrian period pieces, there are a lot of dinosaurs, every kind of, very realistic electric rc boats
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Post by Chuck_G on Jun 14, 2013 13:36:37 GMT
In 'Night Visions: The Hellbound Heart', Lisa Tuttle has a story 'The Dragon's Bride'. It was probably my least favorite of the three stories she contributed.
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Post by thecoffinflies on Jun 26, 2014 8:55:36 GMT
SPOILER ALERT:
The Ceremonies, by TED Klein, is not entirely unrelated to dragons. Don't forget - if you ever knew it - that lingering final sentence... Not to mention the coils at the climax, and the fingernail in the subway tunnel.
It's not really about dragons, though. But still, it's a dragon-ish horror (as opposed to fantasy) novel.
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Post by dem bones on Jun 30, 2014 10:20:35 GMT
If you're up for a bizarre but, I thought, entertaining variation on the theme but this one should see you alright. : Draco The Dragon Man
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