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Post by billdemo2 on Dec 30, 2015 18:47:44 GMT
I found this description on another site where someone was trying to identfy the story. Can anyone here solve it?
This was a short story in a horror anthology. A young couple are engaged to be married. The guy wants his girlfriend to meet his father before the wedding. The mother had died years before. They visit his childhood home, but the father turns out to be creepy and old and he takes an obvious dislike to the girl.
The guy tells a story from his childhood about an incident where he saw his father on top of his mother, naked with their skin fused and he thought that they were 'making love'. The father becomes even more creepy and yells at the girl, telling her that she'll never marry his son.
On the last night before they're due to leave, the girl finds the father lying on top of the guy, both of them naked with their skin fused, "unbroken and like one".
The title of the story might have been something to do with "Skin". The book itself was black with a reddish thing on the cover, maybe a screaming phantom. It was a thick book, with the names of notable authors on the cover. I think one of the other stories in the book was a story where a psychopath is killing a little girl. I seem to remember the killer thinking 'he had just broken her neck and was going to throw her into the oven/fire. I thought this one was by Stephen King but I could be wrong.
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Post by ramseycampbell on Jan 1, 2016 10:54:18 GMT
I rather think it's Marc Laidlaw's "Tissue", his first published tale, which I was delighted to bring to the world in New Terrors 1 . Which is the other site?
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Post by ramseycampbell on Jan 2, 2016 8:53:54 GMT
"I think one of the other stories in the book was a story where a psychopath is killing a little girl. I seem to remember the killer thinking 'he had just broken her neck and was going to throw her into the oven/fire. I thought this one was by Stephen King but I could be wrong."
No, Steve's tale in New Terrors is the very strange "Big Wheels". The story referred to is Bob Bloch's "The Rubber Room", for which I outbid Stuart Schiff - I hope he has forgiven me.
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