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Post by dem bones on Oct 1, 2016 5:18:49 GMT
As a Sepulchral Saturday bonus, more from the Big O. Edmond Hamilton - The Monster-God Of Mamurth ( Weird Tales, Aug. 1926) Thomas H. Griffiths - The Malignant Pearl ( Weird Tales, Dec 1926) F. William Sarles - The Foe From Beyond ( Weird Tales, Dec 1926) E. Hoffman Price - Apricots From Ispahan ( Weird Tales, Dec 1926) One thing strikes me as odd. Given that the mighty Olinick provided illustrations for both The Horror Of Red Hook and He, how comes I've yet to set eyes of either? Sometimes it seems that every last, insignificant HPL-related morsel has an internet presence , so why not these? Because you are looking in the wrong place, Mr. Skeleton? Yes I've considered that. Ask them to put you out of your misery. Why didn't I think of that! 'cause you're only here as the bit of glamour, sonny. Leave the smarts to me.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 29, 2016 16:33:56 GMT
A pre-Halloween Olinick trick or treat ... Wright Field - The Mad Surgeon ( Weird Tales, August 1926). The physician granted five years of robust health to his patient - and then sudden death.Otto E. A. Schmidt - Shadows Cast Behind ( Weird Tales, April 1927). A weird ghost-tale of the San Francisco waterfront in the days of the gold-hunting fever.. James B. M. Clark, Jr. - Windows of Destiny ( Weird Tales, April 1927). From the mystic land of China came two Great Ones to circumvent the evil power of an American financial wizard. ... and some criticism. - Robert Weinberg - The Weird Tales Story (Wildside 1999, originally Fax 1977). Typical that the illustrations he singles out as "reasonably good" are two that have as yet escaped me.
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Post by dem bones on Jul 22, 2017 18:57:36 GMT
W. Elwyn Backus - The Youth-Maker: ( Weird Tales, April 1927).
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Post by dem bones on Nov 25, 2017 10:50:05 GMT
More from the master. Robert E. Howard - The Lost Race ( Weird Tales, Jan. 1927) Bassett Morgan - The Head ( Weird Tales, Feb. 1927) Gordon Philip England - The Fourth Victim ( Weird Tales, Jan. 1927) Everil Worrell - Leonora ( Weird Tales, Jan. 1927)
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Post by dem bones on Apr 9, 2019 14:55:36 GMT
Six of the best from Weird Tales, Sept. 1926.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Apr 9, 2019 23:14:59 GMT
Six of the best from Weird Tales, Sept. 1926. Seeing this set me to thinking about what my least favorite Lovecraft Weird Tales story might be. "He" is a contender--it's a mess on multiple levels--but maybe it does have a few redeeming qualities. I don't remember anything positive about "The Horror at Red Hook," but at least it helped inspire Victor LaValle's The Ballad of Black Tom. I suppose that leaves "Hypnos"--unless the co-authored works count, in which case nothing comes close to the wretched "Medusa's Coil." The illustration for "He" is sort of funny, though. HPL’s stand-in doesn't seem pleased to be meeting the old colonial gent.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 10, 2019 8:10:33 GMT
Talk of the devil! G. O. Olinick ( Weird Tales, Jan. 1927) Yesterday's read. G. O. Olinick Talbert Josselyn - The Bracelet: ( Weird Tales, Sept. 1926). "The fangs! the fangs!" cried the Queen - a story of old Egypt, with an unexpected modern ending."Whoever places this bracelet on the wrist of his wife places thereupon not only a bracelet but a watch-dog as well. For if the wife has been unfaithful, or becomes unfaithful in the future, this striking cobra will plunge its fangs into her arm and kill her!" A party at Colonel Chase's, and the old duffer is keen to show off his collection of Egyptian antiquities, including a tray of scarabs, a mummified cat, and a sinister turquoise cobra mounted on a bronze bracelet. Among the guests, Jack Radbourne harbours a grudge against virtually everyone, particularly the widow Grayson, who is forever humiliating him before his wife. When Chase leaves the bracelet unattended, Radbourne seizes an opportunity for revenge. "Unexpected modern ending" is not entirely unexpected.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 16, 2019 6:42:52 GMT
Both from the Dec. 1926 issue. Legacy of Hate strangely unspectacular, but Orbit of Souls is rather special.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 22, 2019 18:33:33 GMT
..... and from the October 1926 issue. " ..... Also quite good was his illustration for Quinn's The Great God Pan ..." - Robert Weinberg. Jules de Grandin throws a wrench into the schemes of the pagan high priest of a new kind of Pan-worship.Frank Alison pursues the green-faced man and the girl in the red to the dark star - a sequel to "The Bird of Space."The second of a series of stories, each complete in itself, dealing with Dr. Ivan Bordsky, "The Surgeon of Souls." Burgensdorf heard Hasting's boastful story - and then out of the clouds flashed the wrath of the Almighty. Thanks to Saskia van de Kruisweg
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Post by dem bones on Apr 26, 2019 15:17:13 GMT
October 1926, part II. Alan Carvel restores a murderer to life, with consequences that were as terrible as they were unforseen. A rational ghost-story which loses none of its thrill because the reader feels it could have happened. A tale of Voodoo in the Virgin Islands - a specter that threw vitriol - and a little goat that frightened Madame Du Chaillu.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Apr 26, 2019 15:52:41 GMT
"The Voice of Bills"?
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Post by dem bones on Apr 26, 2019 17:20:26 GMT
'Bills' being the murder victim's surname. Slickmer lures him to a cabin in the forest, shoots him down in cold blood. Bills, protesting his innocence of whatever it is the killer believes him to have done, eventually resigns himself to the inevitable. "You may kill the flesh, Slickmer, you may splatter this green moss with my brains: but you can't kill the soul ... You'll hear my voice in the night - perhaps when the wind whispers and moans. I'll dog your footsteps when the moon shines and sends long shadows. Before I am done with you, Slickmer, you will pray God on your knees to bury your bones here beneath mine." And so, in a roundabout way, it proves.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Apr 26, 2019 18:00:42 GMT
'Bills' being the murder victim's surname. Well, I did not know that. I should have, of course, but I did not.
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Post by dem bones on May 7, 2019 8:04:49 GMT
Weird Tales, November 1926. E. M. Stevenson provided the cover painting and interior illustration to E. Hoffman Price's The Peackocks Shadow, otherwise issue was near enough another Olinick special. H. Warner Munn - The City of Spiders: A complete novelette of shuddery horror and eery fascination that will remain long in your memoryFrank Belknap Long, Jr. - The Dog-Eared God: There were strange kings in the old forgotten days in Egypt, and they would not brook irreverent modern pryingRobert Emmett Lewis & Martha May Cockrill - The Fiend of the Marsh: The haunted marsh-woods finally gave up the dread secret that had terrorised the communityGeo. C. Wallis & B. Wallis - The Star Shell: A four-part weird-scientific serial about a thrilling voyage to the planet JupiterVictor Rousseau - The Tenth Commandment: The third in a series of stories, each complete in itself, dealing with Dr. Ivan Brodsky, "The Surgeon of Souls."
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