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Post by Mike Brough on Dec 19, 2015 12:50:02 GMT
I suppose there has to be a least favourite...
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Post by ohthehorror on Dec 19, 2015 13:21:35 GMT
Or maybe not!
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Post by ohthehorror on Dec 19, 2015 15:16:35 GMT
Yep, that was good too. I knew Anna wouldn't let me down. Short but sweet. And I really like trees, so...
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Post by vaultadventcalendar on Dec 20, 2015 9:32:26 GMT
Day 20. One to savour just before you sit down to Sunday dinner. Some of you people don't make the writing of these thumbnail biographies easy. "Spurs supporter and season ticket holder in the Park Lane." So reads Matthew Crossman's twitter profile in its entirety, no mention at all of his blog, Decaying Dead, "Reviews of all things horror (and some that aren't),". Matt is another who has established himself as something of a calendar regular with previous entries The Right Choice (desperately grim) and the Hammer hokum of One Night In A Bavarian Forest. Where Charles Black's Revelations of Dr. Maitland takes future global conflict as its theme, Sweet Meats throws us back to the Concentration Camps of World War II, warning enough that what you are about to read is not pretty.
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Post by ripper on Dec 20, 2015 10:23:36 GMT
Charles' story surprised me with its twist ending and Anna never disappoints--the tales are all well up to the usual Vault high standards again this year.
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Post by Mike Brough on Dec 20, 2015 16:18:57 GMT
Sweet Meats was as black as sin. Bravo.
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Post by mattofthespurs on Dec 20, 2015 20:06:08 GMT
Thank you mike. Much appreciated.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 20, 2015 23:49:26 GMT
Merry Christmas, Mr. Black. Chrissie Demant Revelations of Dr. Maitland
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Post by ohthehorror on Dec 21, 2015 0:19:05 GMT
Sweet meats was a little too realistic I fear. I'm used to my horror being just that bit removed from reality. Exceptionally well done.
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Post by mattofthespurs on Dec 21, 2015 7:55:18 GMT
Sweet meats was a little too realistic I fear. I'm used to my horror being just that bit removed from reality. Exceptionally well done. Thanks...I think ;-)
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Post by vaultadventcalendar on Dec 21, 2015 8:08:40 GMT
Day 21VAT girls by Chrissie DemantYet another noted contributor to the Black Books, Tom Johnstone also co-edited - with the late Joel Lane - perhaps the stand-out original macabre anthology of 2014 in Horror Uncut! Tales Of Social Insecurity & Economic Unease (Gray Friar Press), seventeen tales of uneasy reading "inspired" by the then ConDem' government's austerity measures which, some of us would argue, gave the lie to the mantra that we are "all in this together." Today's story, as yet unpublished, is bleak as any we've featured on this or previous calendars. Should some of our readers be on their Christmas hols now, don't worry - you've not been spared that Monday morning feeling. Zero Hour.pdf (160.36 KB) Thanks, Tom!
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Post by ripper on Dec 21, 2015 10:24:26 GMT
Agreed about 'Sweet Meats.' Nasty and believable--uncomfortably so.
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Post by mattofthespurs on Dec 21, 2015 10:46:50 GMT
Agreed about 'Sweet Meats.' Nasty and believable--uncomfortably so. My work here is done Thanks!
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Post by Mike Brough on Dec 21, 2015 18:37:57 GMT
Zero Hour was disquieting. There's something about this kind of dislocated atmosphere that unsettles me - too close to the truth?
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Post by vaultadventcalendar on Dec 22, 2015 7:35:45 GMT
Day 22 brings a collaboration between scarily prolific anthologist/ author Johnny Mains and weird fiction veteran/ poet Bryn Fortey, whose first published story, Prison, appeared way back in 1971 in David Sutton's New Writings In Horror & The Supernatural and whose début collection, Merry-Go-Round & Other Words, was issued by Alchemy Press only last year. The Curse Of The Monster a convoluted, decade-spanning fantasy with all star cast, first saw print as a chapbook (Hersham Horror, 2015) and has since resurfaced in Mr. Mains' third collection, A Little Light Screaming, from Parallel Universe Publications. Mr. Mains explains; " ... whilst writing it I was up against deadlines for other things and I approached the only person I trusted enough to help write the story, Bryn Fortey, he of the Great Fontana Horror series. We passed the story back and forth and it's one of my favourite stories to date — a delightful romp with lots of blood and guts." Attachments:curse of the monster.pdf (203.42 KB)
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