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Post by ghoulschool on May 12, 2015 18:08:43 GMT
There's a great little short story I recall reading in an anthology... American I think, probably 1960s/70s... has a feel of The Stepford Wives and The Most Dangerous Game... a couple move into a rather exclusive neighbourhood in the countryside... and the husband is rather peeved because he hasn't been invited to join the local hunt - which is a mark of having made it on the social scene... finally he gets an invite to join the hunt and... {Spoiler} the morning of the hunt he is roused early, stripped off, and given a head start before the huntsmen and hounds chase him down!
Any ideas of the title or author... I thought it was called something like The Hunt, or The Invitation... and it might be someone quite well known who wrote it... it feels like it was Matheson, or Bloch, or Nolan or William Harrison... it's bugging me! |
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Post by dem bones on May 13, 2015 8:45:51 GMT
That's George Hitchcock's wonderfully nasty An Invitation To The Hunt. You'll find it in Alfred Hitchcock's Stories My Mother Never Told Me, and August Derleth's When Evil Wakes, probably several other anthologies. Welcome to black Vault! |
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Post by ghoulschool on May 13, 2015 9:05:33 GMT
Thanks so much Demonik - I knew I could rely on the Vault!
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Post by dem bones on May 13, 2015 9:21:20 GMT
Thanks so much Demonik - I knew I could rely on the Vault! Funny enough, we had a question about the same story only a few weeks back so it stayed in my head. It's included in Mary Danby's Realms of Darkness, too. Seems to be George's only horror story (?). If so, at least it's a good one. |
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Post by ghoulschool on May 13, 2015 14:52:21 GMT
It seems he was better known as a poet. Invitation really is terrific - it reminds me of Jackson's The Lottery... and has a grim black humour... well worth revisiting
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