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Post by the paperback fanatic on Dec 1, 2015 11:20:59 GMT
Conscious that this might get lost among the Advent Depravity, but here goes anyway....
Second issue of Pulp Horror will be a Horror in SF 'special', including a piece on Space Vampires. So looking for some Vault expertise in building a list of suitable candidates.
How would I define a space vampire? Not sure really. A future setting. A being from another world. Doesn't have to be a blood-sucker - the list below contains psychic vampires and a robot vamp that sucks oil. Cut off-point mid 80s.
Novels Dreadful Sanctuary, Eric Frank Russell
The Mind Worm, Kornbluth
Space Vampires, Colin Wilson
Thorns, Silverberg
I Am Legend, Matheson
This Immortal, Zelazny
Night World, David Bischoff
Sabella, Tanith Lee
Vampires of Venus, Karl Mannenheim
Image of the Beast, PJF
Shorts
The Stainless Steel Leech (Robot) Zelazny
Asylum, Van Vogt
Vampires from Outer Space, Silverberg
Girl From Mars, Bloch
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Black Crow King
Horror chav at the controls/ weird cheerleader #arts&culture
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Post by vaultadventcalendar on Dec 1, 2015 11:50:54 GMT
A few to be getting on with, Mr. Fanatic. Will try add some suitable cover scans later. NovelsKarl Mannheim - Vampires Of Venus Ron Goulart - Vampirella series Tanith Lee - Sabella ShortsCharles Beaumont - Place Of Meeting (on reflection, maybe not: they might not be from outer space after all) Joe L. Hensley - And Not Quite Human C. L. Moore - Shambleau Frederic Brown - Blood Ray Russell - The Longest Night Damon Knight - Eripmav Not read it in ages, but I think Ray Bradbury's The Man Upstairs could well qualify. Later; Here's a nice one. Richard Matheson - Io Sono Leggenda (Mondadori, Sept. 1996) Cover illustration by Walter Angelici
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Post by dem bones on Dec 1, 2015 18:03:06 GMT
A classic novella (thanks to Ramsey for first pointing me toward it)! Eric Frank Russell - Vampire From The Void ( Fantastic, October 1972)
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Post by randy on Dec 2, 2015 19:42:22 GMT
Of more recent vintage: "The Wide, Carnivorous Sky" by John Langan.
Randy M.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 2, 2015 21:50:03 GMT
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Post by dem bones on Dec 3, 2015 23:51:58 GMT
Sewell Peaslee Wright - Vampires Of Space ( Astounding Stories, March 1932). C. L. Moore - Julhi ( Weird Tales, March 1935) Richard F. Watson [Robert Silverberg] - Vampires From Outer Space ( Super Science-Fiction, April 1959). Haven't read it, but sounds a likely contender. Donald Wandrei - The Fire Vampires ( Weird Tales, Feb. 1933). Likewise. Gerald W. Page - The Tree ( Magazine Of Horror #10, Aug. 1965). Fitz-James O'Brien's frequently anthologised What Was It? ( Harpers, March 1859), is surely among the earliest of these space vampire stories? Ambrose Bierce's The Damned Thing owes it a huge debt so qualifies by proxy. Maybe. Slightly after you cut-off point but good fun anyway is Simon Hawke's The Dracula Caper (Headline, 1988).
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Post by bobby on Dec 4, 2015 5:10:12 GMT
September 1952 (The title is "Flight of the Vampire s" in the table of contents and on the splash page of the story itself.)
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Post by the paperback fanatic on Dec 5, 2015 14:39:59 GMT
I can confirm Vampires From Outer Space by Silverberg is kind of horror. He was writing for SF and Detective mags at the time, and the SF mag started publishing 'Monster Specials' to capitalise on the success of Famous Monsters. Silverberg would typically have a couple of stories in each issue, under various pseuds. Vamps from OS is more of a detective story than anything, with maybe a touch of the shudder pulps. In others work, total crud.
The Leech by Robert Sheckley is another candidate.
Please keep em coming!
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Post by dem bones on Dec 6, 2015 10:37:42 GMT
Rod Ruth ( Fantastic Adventures, March 1950) This is proving more difficult than I'd have imagined. Pity The Slime Beast doesn't possess enough of the right traits. How about the Martian brain-eating cushions who attack the archaeologists in Clark Ashton Smith's The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis?
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Post by the paperback fanatic on Dec 9, 2015 10:30:48 GMT
Mop Up by Arthur Porges.
Short short of possibly the unluckiest man in the world - survives the nuclear holocaust only to run in to a trio of witch, ghoul and vampire. Then it chucks in some 'when animals attack' justice.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 14, 2015 11:05:42 GMT
Arthur William Bernal - Vampires Of The Moon (Three-part serial, Weird Tales, May/June/July 1934). "A sensational weird-scientific novel of a terrific threat against mankind." Not sure if it has ever been reprinted outside the Girasol facsimile editions.
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Post by dem bones on Mar 16, 2016 21:25:10 GMT
J. M. Dillard - Star Trek #6: Bloodthirst (Titan, 1987) [/center] Blurb: A class one medical emergency summons the Enterprise to the Federation outpost Tanis. There, a grisly surprise awaits them. Two or the lab‘s three researchers are dead, their bodies almost entirely drained of blood. There are no clues. No records of their research. No remnants of their work. There is only the outposts sole survivor, Dr. Jeffrey Adams. A man with a secret that will rock the very foundations of Star Fleet. . .and a terrible, all-consuming hunger that will bring death to the crew of the starship Enterprise.Sadly, not a novelization of the Harlan Ellison scripted episode, Wolf In The Fold, in which the Ripper murders are re-enacted aboard the starship Enterprise and everyone thinks it's Scottie, but a Dracula-in-space entry - almost. The 'vampire' is a virus that drives those infected to crimes of unspeakable savagery in pursuit of their blood-fix. This next, while not particularly riveting, is perhaps the ultimate space vampire story. Niel Straum - Vanishing Breed (Margaret L. Carter [ed.] , The Curse Of The Undead, Fawcett, 1970). "The experiment has failed!" The trad vampires, led by Lord Ruthven, Gilles de Rais and Dr. Valpa, have had it with this world. Unlife just isn't the same since global peace broke out in the 22nd century and their human-vampire offspring turned their back on deviant pursuits. Worse, the old school are being discreetly bumped off by a clandestine security agency. Time for all vampires to board their ancient starship and find a new planet to colonise. Yes, Vlad Tepes, Countess Bathory, Arnod Paole, Count Dracula & all the rest were aliens all along! Marc Laidlaw - Mars Will Have Blood: Blackstone School's Lovecraft laced interpretation of 'The Scottish Play' gets well out of hand. Borderline space vampire, perhaps, but a brilliant story. Included in Graham Masterton's epic charity antho, Scare Care (Tor, 1989) Currently revisiting what may well be the most wonderful s-v novella of them all ....
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Post by dem bones on Mar 17, 2016 12:29:27 GMT
Frank Belknap Long - Odd Science Fiction (Belmont, 1964) Cover art uncredited, but looks suspiciously like the work of Richard Powers The Horror from the Hills ( Weird Tales, Jan. 1931) The Flame of Life ( Future, June 1959) Giant in the Forest ( Science Fiction Quarterly, Feb 1955) The Horror From The Hills"The flesh of your body will turn black and melt like tallow in the sun. You will become a seething mass of corruption." Clark Ulman, an archaeological explorer attached to the Manhattan Museum of Fine Arts, travels Asia in search of a hideous stone statue. Just his catastrophic luck that he finds it. Five days into a trek across the desert, he's captured, more dead than alive, by a strange tribe led by Chung Ga, an Oxford-educated chap, who acts as guardian to the stone idol. It is the stuff of nightmares, depicting a Buddha figure with tusks, an enormous trunk and little piggy eyes. The way Chung Ga tells it, his people are tired of their demanding 'God', who goes by the name of Chaugnar Faugn. In return for his life, Ulman must first spend a night in the statue's lair, and then escort it to the West that Chaugnar Faugn may fulfil his destiny. Honestly, these ignorant savages! They talk as though their ghastly statue were alive! Ulman arrives in Manhattan, a mere husk of his former self, face concealed behind a layer of bandages so only the sunken, haunted eyes show. Algernon Harris, the dashing young museum curator, is horrified at his friend's condition and promises him a long holiday, but well done, man, you've delivered us one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the century! Ulman urges him to take one good look at the statue - then destroy it. He confides his horrific experiences. He peels away the bandages .... That's just the opening chapter. So what has all this to do with 'Space Vampires'? Chaugnar Faugn, he who animates the statue, is a blood-drinking entity from the fourth dimension bent on entire World domination. Properly horrible horror pulp at it's most superb, makes Herbert West: Reanimator seem like The Stoneground Ghost Tales. More to follow ....
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Post by dem bones on Mar 19, 2016 17:58:33 GMT
No sooner has Ulman completed his harrowing account than he spectacularly expires on the spot and "I never before imagined that putrefaction could proceed with such incredible rapidity." The Museum comes under media scrutiny and the great American public demand access to the celebrity statue. Fools! Don't they realise they are meddling in matters beyond human comprehension? Algernon Harris bows to the pressure and hastily arranges an exhibition. Young Mr. Cinney, the night-watchman, doesn't make breakfast. The statue does it's best to look innocent, but the blood smeared about it's mouth and trunk put Harris on alert. Whatever killed Cinney made a thorough job of it. The poor bastard was exsanguinated, but not before the killer had eaten his face!
Worse is to follow when the statue/ Chaugnar Faugn goes AWOL from the museum. A massacre in Asbury Park! Slaughter in the Pyrenees! (this latter perpetrated by its spawn, the pocket-sized slime people). If somebody doesn't invent an "entropy-reversing machine" very soon, we've all had it. Fortunately, Harris's superior, Dr.Imbert, remembers an old colleague, Roger Little, a madman for sure, prone to interminable monologues which all seem to end in "have I clarified your perplexities?" but needs must in a crisis ....
Frank Belknap Long was also responsible for something called Stellar Vampire (SF Stories, June 1943).
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Post by dem bones on Mar 20, 2016 12:27:37 GMT
Not had a chance to get stuck in it yet, but, courtesy of Project Gutenberg where you can read the issue in its entirety. Anthony Pelcher - Vampires Of Venus ( Astounding, Oct 1946). Leslie Larner, an entomologist borrowed from the Earth, pits himself against the night-flying vampires that are ravaging the inhabitants of Venus.Attachments:Vampires of Venus.pdf (199.48 KB)
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