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Post by johnnymains on Jun 2, 2018 19:33:46 GMT
The fact that Conrad Williams wrote one of the stories under the penname Gala Blau has always made me chuckle...😜😜
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Post by dem bones on Jun 2, 2018 19:48:30 GMT
Gala Blau (Conrad Williams) – Outfangtheif: Now this is a horror story - except it seems to have snuck in under false pretences. Sarah and thirteen-year-old daughter Laura are pursued across England and Wales by the sadistic debt collector who murdered her husband. Manser and his colleagues are Acrotomophiliacs - they get off on sex with amputees - and have designs on Laura like you wouldn't want to believe (those of you familiar with Alan Temperley's Kowlonga Plaything will get the idea). That a band of vampire women reach the fugitives first is a mercy, although even they can't prevent the worst.
Elizabeth Hand – Prince Of Flowers: (Rod Serling's Twilight Zone, Feb. 1988). Helen, a kleptomaniac, lifts a Balinese puppet from the museum she works for to add to her own private collection, and ill-advisedly hangs a rose garland around its neck. When she fails to show up at the workplace, a concerned colleague pays her a home visit and walks in on a swamp.
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Post by dem bones on Jun 3, 2018 10:49:26 GMT
Gemma Files - Year Zero: Vive la révolution! So Camille Desmoulins' 'seditious' writings were correct: the Aristocrats and Clergy are vampires draining the life blood of we peasants. Citizen Jean-Ray Sansterre, one among countless victims of the Undead Chevalier du Prendegrace, confronts his nemesis in a chamber of skulls (the mummified bloodsucker's grand entrance is particularly impressive). Given its historical setting Year Zero could hardly be anything other than a riot of blood and decapitated corpses; not sure I took it all in, but adore much of the imagery. Richard Olsen, Sangre ( Fantastic, June 1977). Lisa Tuttle - Sangre: ( Fantastic, June 1977). Glenda is sorely displeased that secret lover Steve is marrying her mother. An after her involuntary fling with a handsome local while holidaying in Sevilla, she's sure all will work out in her favour. Really should have another go at Marie O'Regan 's Mammoth Book Of Ghost Stories By Women one of these days.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Jun 25, 2018 13:27:50 GMT
Gemma Files - Year Zero: Vive la révolution! So Camille Desmoulins' 'seditious' writings were correct: the Aristocrats and Clergy are vampires draining the life blood of we peasants. Citizen Jean-Ray Sansterre, one among countless victims of the Undead Chevalier du Prendegrace, confronts his nemesis in a chamber of skulls (the mummified bloodsucker's grand entrance is particularly impressive). Given its historical setting Year Zero could hardly be anything other than a riot of blood and decapitated corpses; not sure I took it all in, but adore much of the imagery. This was one of the more engaging stories in the book. Three others also stood out from the back half. One was Tanith Lee's "Venus Rising on Water," a futuristic science fiction story about a vampiric painting. Another was Caitlin Kiernan's "So Runs the World Away," which features a side character (Dead Girl) from "Les Fleurs Empoisonnées," one of the author's stories about the teenage albino monster hunter Dancy Flammairon. And the third was "Jack," a clever story by Connie Willis set in London during the Blitz. One member of a rescue team begins to suspect that there's a sinister explanation for why his new co-worker is so good at finding people trapped under rubble... "Jack" might work even better if the title of the anthology didn't give away the story's secret, though Willis also includes other fun clues--frequent references about how the loss of sleep from the bombings has turned everyone into the "walking dead," characters with names such as Quincy, Mina, and Lucy. Beneath the mystery of the "body-sniffer's" secret is another puzzle: is he an opportunist exploiting a chance to find blood, or is he sincerely trying to "do his bit" for the war effort?
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