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Post by andydecker on Aug 9, 2020 16:04:00 GMT
I hazily remember an episode of the cop-show Numbers which featured Russian Roulette. It was quite clever in places (if you ignored the implausibility of the plot) and graphic for prime time tv.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Aug 9, 2020 16:31:05 GMT
I hazily remember an episode of the cop-show Numbers which featured Russian Roulette. It was quite clever in places (if you ignored the implausibility of the plot) and graphic for prime time tv. I vividly remember 13 TZAMETI, a 2005 film. (Which has apparently had an American remake since, that I have not seen.)
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Post by dem bones on Aug 9, 2020 17:49:35 GMT
Would Russian Roulette count as sport? Though I've not yet had too close a look at it, I recently came across the novel Death Game (1982, Methuen hardback, Magnum paperback) by Stuart White, that seems to be about a TV producer with a rather good wheeze for a new show... Thanks Mr. Tomb! Must investigate this Death Game. While it's unlikely Russian Roulette will gain Olympic recognition any time soon, it surely qualifies as an extreme sport which is good enough for this thread.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 9, 2020 18:10:39 GMT
And how's about Robert Sheckley's The Prize of Peril for a classic futuristic death sports story? Everyman Jim Raeder has fought his way to the top of a world of legalised murder on television. The ultimate game? The Prize of Peril, to be hunted across the country by mob assassins, helped (or hindered) by the public. Intercut with Jim's final flight are his adventures to the top, including bullfighting, and a competitive dive to the death for the most perfect treasure you can imagine in the circumstances. Satirical sci fi thriller, really, but certainly horror friendly, and, hailing originally from 1958, probably among the earliest/most prescient such stories. Emsh ( MFSF, May 1958) An action-packed suspense thriller ... an acute satiric extrapolation on current trends in TV programing ... a brief and bitter essay on man - Robert Sheckley has managed adroitly to write all three of these art once, in one of his most forceful stories to date.The Prize of Peril would be equally at home on the snuff thread. I'm guessing that's also the case with Death Game?
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Post by dem bones on Aug 19, 2020 13:31:36 GMT
Liver de Poche edition, 1990. Brooks Stanwood - The Glow: (Futura, 1990). Keepfit conspiracy. Affluent young New York couples fall foul of chummy elderly joggers in matching powder blue tracksuits. Never trust a fit bastard bearing bean sprout casserole. Commentary
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Post by dem bones on Jun 2, 2021 14:20:39 GMT
Skin 'em Alive: ( Mysterious Adventures #18, Feb. 1954). Tad Reynolds, the Chicago Blue Devils' star kicker, has never loused up a bonus point in three years of pro ball. Some sore losers on the St Louis Tigers team resolve to discover the secret of his "good luck" ball. Bill Savage Foul Ball: ( Fight against Crime #16, Nov. 1953). "And so you became one of the ballyhooed bonus babies." Hank Jackson, loud-mouthed punk college kid and baseball prospect, signs for New York Bears, where he wastes no time in making enemies of teammates and opponents alike. When his trademark foul pitch kills Stan Potter in a game versus the Brooklyn Blue Devils, the dead man's team mates take gruesome revenge. As you already guessed, strip is an outrageous rip off of Jack Davis classic Foul Play in Vault of Horror. Andrew Lang - The Chelah’s Round: (R. Barclay [ed.], A Batch of Golfing Papers, 1892: Peter Haining [ed], Hole in Fun, 1988). When Mr. M'Gummidge, golf novice and all round hopeless sportsman, enters the Medal, the bookies offer a generous, 10,000 - 1 against his emerging as victor. They reckon without his secret weapon - a North Hindustan mystic for a caddie. Sam Dawson - The Village Green Preservation Society: (Darrell Buxton [ed], The Fifth BHF Book of Horror, 2021). A country cricket team exploit an opposing player's weakness for the ladies to settle a bitter grudge from decades before any of them were born. The waylaid Casanova comes to a juicy end
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Post by helrunar on Jun 2, 2021 18:26:30 GMT
Old balls getting worn out... Vault is so often oracular, even when one doesn't necessarily want to hear the message.
Extraordinary finds Dem! You never cease to astound me.
cheers, Hel
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Post by dem bones on Oct 3, 2021 8:36:42 GMT
Illustrated Police News, Sat. 15 April, 1899 G. F. Marson - "Drop With The Left": ( Ghosts, Ghouls & Gallows, 1946). The first post-WWII England versus Wales rugby international is staged at the home of the Leicester Tigers, whose star player, Read junior, puts on a man-of-the-match performance. Read is inspired by the presence of his father on the touchline, roaring the hosts to victory. It's only after he scores the winning try that our hero learns of Read senior's death at home that afternoon.
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Post by dem bones on Feb 18, 2022 16:19:57 GMT
Jock Ewart (right of picture): Bradford City FC's first choice ghoul-keeper. Image via Cartophilic Info Exchange, to whom grateful thanks.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 14, 2022 18:07:51 GMT
Robert Neubecker Thomas Sullivan - The Death Runner: ( Twilight Zone, April 1981). His bowels were awash to see so many images of himself lunging across the finish with silent gaping mouths. But the real horror was that final runner. Each dawn, come rain, shine or wife's doomy prediction that he'll get mugged, Cy Harvey sets out for the deserted Barker High School track. As he runs, he wishes he could try out against his younger, fitter self. His wish is granted. Soon thirty versions of Cy compete to be first across the line.
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Post by dem bones on May 25, 2022 17:55:50 GMT
"I'll take you over, Miranda. I'll take your nerve for myself." Anon - The Takeover ( Misty Holiday Special, 1979). Miranda Maton, athletic wonder of the school and darling of her peers, makes the worst mistake of her young life when she rescues "lame duck" Louise from drowning. Miranda takes pity on the wretched, least popular girl in the school - who secretly loathes her. The golden girl coaches Louise to become an accomplished sporting all-rounder, so much so that the headmistress insists she drop her and concentrate on winning a place at the sports academy. It's too late. As Miranda falls ill from a mystery wasting disease, Louise usurps her on track and field, steals her former friends and achieves the scholarship. Miranda on her death bed. Surely it can't end on so gloomy a note?
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Post by cauldronbrewer on May 26, 2022 11:27:13 GMT
Anon - The Takeover ( Misty Holiday Special, 1979). Miranda Maton, athletic wonder of the school and darling of her peers, makes the worst mistake of her young life when she rescues "lame duck" Louise from drowning. Miranda takes pity on the wretched, least popular girl in the school - who secretly loathes her. The golden girl coaches Louise to become an accomplished sporting all-rounder, so much so that the headmistress insists she drop her and concentrate on winning a place at the sports academy. It's too late. As Miranda falls ill from a mystery wasting disease, Louise usurps her on track and field, steals her former friends and achieves the scholarship. Miranda on her death bed. Surely it can't end on so gloomy a note? This one sounds interesting! I don't suppose anyone has ever published a collection of Misty fiction...
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Post by dem bones on Dec 26, 2022 19:52:51 GMT
Nancy Spain - The King of Spades: (Cynthia Asquith [ed.], The Third Ghost Book. 1955). Our narrator is engaged to Dorothy, the girl next door, whom he loves despite her indifference to sporting pursuits. A tennis player of some talent, the young man strikes up a successful mixed doubles partnership with a sexy free spirit named Janice, until, tragically, on the eve of their big match, she drowns in the swimming pool at the King of Spades under strange circumstances. Perhaps it is for the best, as Dorothy has good news for her fiancée; he is going to be a father! A hasty marriage is arranged on the eve of WWII. Narrator joins the RAF. Furloughed during the summer, he comes home to a wife overcome with sudden enthusiasm for the game she so despised. It is almost as though she has been possessed by her late rival. Alan Hann - Just One Game: (Stuart Hughes [ed.], Peeping Tom #25, Jan. 1997). Ghost of a former pupil, William Carriss, assists Michael with his maths studies. All that he asks in return is to play in Saturday's football match versus the league leaders. Alive, William loved the game, but a metal leg brace prevented meaningful participation. William Fryer Harvey - The Fourteenth Hole: The Misadventures of Athelstan Digby 1920). Discharged from the infirmary, Digby, now sixty, follows Sir Samuel Travers' advice and joins the Lingmoor Golf Club. He registers just in time to discover the corpse of Jacob Cardwell in a quarry, head smashed and bleeding as though battered with a rock ...
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Post by humgoo on Jul 25, 2023 7:13:15 GMT
Sam Dawson - Wild Water: ( Supernatural Tales#52, Spring 2023). Don't go wild swimming in a freezing tarn where a pike is awaiting. H. Russell Wakefield - Old Man's Beard: ( Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories). Don't go swim when your fiancé has a guilty conscience. Frederick Cowles - The Thing from the Sea: ( Spectral Tales#1). Don't go swim when you've murdered your wife.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 25, 2023 11:48:30 GMT
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