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Post by valdemar on Aug 23, 2013 7:11:58 GMT
Yet another slow night at work, and another story I'd like to find again, but have no idea of the title, or the author. I DO know that it's a long short story, if there is such a thing, but the basics are these: A writer, and his young wife, have acquired a house somewhere in France. They are renovating the place, whilst the writer works on a new book. The renovation work uncovers a painting of an unpleasantly evil looking man. The couple are told to destroy it, but perversely [as is common in horror stories], they decide to keep it. various odd things happen, and whilst the writer's wife is reading her husband's manuscript, which is totally different to the book he was going to write, she is made off with by 'something'. Her husband goes looking for her in an old necropolis [as you naturally would], and finds her mangled body by a tomb containing the man in the wall-painting, a vampire. The locals then kick off, and the necropolis is 'sterilised' by the military, if memory serves. Any ideas? I'd really like to read it again, so, if any of you erudite folks out there know, there's a pint in it for them [provided I can get it to stay in the Jiffy Bag this time. The PO's complaints about London Pride in their favourite franking machine were horrendous last time]  Cheers. |
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Post by Dr Strange on Aug 24, 2013 14:20:06 GMT
That's Basil Copper's The Grey House. I think it's been in quite a few anthologies, but I've got it in The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories.
Mine's a Guinness.
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Post by valdemar on Aug 25, 2013 6:38:08 GMT
Excellent, thankyou. Now, as to the Guinness, I'll get that sorted for you in my new kitchen...  |
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Post by Dr Strange on Aug 27, 2013 11:59:46 GMT
While sporting a new era hat?
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Post by valdemar on Aug 27, 2013 19:00:41 GMT
Ha ha ha! well remembered! If they were the only hats available, I'd go bareheaded. I'm a snap-brim Fedora man myself, although in the winter, I favour an old German M43 ski-cap. |
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Cheers.
