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Post by andydecker on Oct 10, 2016 14:04:16 GMT
I've just remembered that there was an episode of Criminal Minds, (nearly as good as the episode in which the equally wonderful Brad Dourif played a man who was making living string puppets out of people). This one was an absolute horror-show. I couldn't believe it when I watched this. How to wrench shoulders out of their sockets inquisition-style. On camera and not off-stage. 30 years ago this would have gone straight on the video-nasties list. But it was quite a good episode, and Dourif was wonderful.
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Post by ropardoe on Oct 10, 2016 15:02:32 GMT
I've just remembered that there was an episode of Criminal Minds, (nearly as good as the episode in which the equally wonderful Brad Dourif played a man who was making living string puppets out of people). This one was an absolute horror-show. I couldn't believe it when I watched this. How to wrench shoulders out of their sockets inquisition-style. On camera and not off-stage. 30 years ago this would have gone straight on the video-nasties list. But it was quite a good episode, and Dourif was wonderful. It really was, wasn't it? Not an episode you forget in a hurry! But what got me was how sorry one felt for Dourif's character in the end despite the enormities he'd perpetrated on his innocent victims. I was actually a little tearful!
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Post by dem bones on Jan 16, 2018 11:12:39 GMT
Alfred Crowquill (according to Peter Haining it is, anyway) Gerald Griffin - The Unburied Legs: ( Holland-Tide; or, Munster Popular Tales, Simpkin & Marshall, 1827). Shoresha Hewer encounters the tireless "well-shaped, middle-sized legs without either hip, body or head" while making his way to Mass in Abbeydorney. Hewer leads a crowd of villagers in following the disembodied legs over the moor and across the River Gale to the ruins of an old church at Newtownsands where, finally, they fade into thin air. What can it all mean? An old lady recalls a terrible crime from her youth; the grisly hatchet murder of a young man by a jealous love rival.
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Post by johnnymains on Jan 16, 2018 22:55:44 GMT
Love this story, however there's no illustration in the collection it's from, the reprint in the Dublin Penny Journal doesn't carry any illustrations and it was a heavily syndicated story in the UK, no artisty scribbles with it. Griffin wrote a corker of a story which I think has all but been forgotten about, 'The Brown Man' - and has the kind of ending that would have made the genteel shriek, back in the day. You can read it here
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Post by dem bones on Jan 17, 2018 9:02:18 GMT
I'd not read it until now but Rosemary Gray includes The Brown Man in her Irish Ghost Stories, (Wordsworth Editions, 2011), as does Peter Haining in Great Irish Stories of the Supernatural (Souvenir, 1992). The Unburied Legs and illustration are reprinted in Haining's Great Irish Tales Of Horror (Souvenir, 1995).
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Post by dem bones on Sept 1, 2018 12:29:44 GMT
Uncredited artwork Howard R. Marsh - The Foot Fetish: ( Weird Tales, June 1926). June Hubbard, attention seeking American girl, is abducted by inscrutable Orientals after trying on a pair of slippers in a Chinatown gift shop. The Yellow fiends, foot fetishists to a man, identify the fang-shaped birthmark on her ankle as identical to the sacred symbol of their Goddess. That can only mean she is the Princess of the Sacred Foot! Later that night June is doped, bundled inside a trunk and smuggled aboard a ship bound for China. Shanghaied! Fortunately for her, John Powell, a two fisted adventurer, throws in his lot with her father. The two board the ship, but how to spot the culprits amid a hundred of their fellows? The superior whites contrive a truly preposterous scheme to lure the guilty party into the open. Even by great bad Weird Tales standards, Mr. Marsh's story is a bit special. Ben Hollander - Legs: ( Fear #29, May 1991). New Years Night, 1987 at the World Club. Kate moved to New York from Arkansas with dreams of becoming to new Christie Brinkley. Two years of waiting tables later, it's not going to plan, though her shapely legs have at least gained her some modest modelling assignments. Unfortunately for Kate, tonight they've also attracted the attentions of Serena and her bloated sugar daddy, Sasha a direct descendant of Siva. Fans of swimming pool orgies should enjoy this one I'd have thought.
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Post by humgoo on Jul 8, 2019 16:29:52 GMT
The Skeleton Crew, or, Wildfire Ned was reprinted as a cheap but satisfyingly hefty paperback by Victorian Secrets in 2015, complete with the illustrations and along with three appendixes (A. E. Waite's "By-Ways of Periodical Literature", James Greenwood's "A Short Way to Newgate" and Colin Henry Hazlewood's stage version of the blood). The following pair of "bodiless legs" are from chapter XIII:
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Post by dem bones on Jul 10, 2019 11:29:27 GMT
The Skeleton Crew, or, Wildfire Ned was reprinted as a cheap but satisfyingly hefty paperback by Victorian Secrets in 2015, complete with the illustrations and along with three appendixes (A. E. Waite's "By-Ways of Periodical Literature", James Greenwood's "A Short Way to Newgate" and Colin Henry Hazlewood's stage version of the blood). The following pair of "bodiless legs" are from chapter XIII: Many thanks, Mr Humgoo. Never imagined I'd get to see that illo. Must admit, the "ghostly, bodyless legs" are rather more substantial than I'd envisioned.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 24, 2020 6:23:30 GMT
Mark Dane - White Legs: ((Lyle Kenyon Engel [ed.], Tales of the Frightened #2, Aug. 1957). "If his interest had been healthy, he might have been a shoe designer, or an artist, or a creator of women's hosiery. As it was, he was only a maniac."
On wife Molly's insistence, Carter, a self made businessman who began a transport company with just one truck, reluctantly consults Dr. Harcourt, psychiatrist. Carter is traumatised by a recurring nightmare of walking trees which turn into giant silk-clad legs, ever moving away from him. He gives chase. Once they have him surround, they topple, crushing him beneath their weight. What can it all mean?
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