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Post by billdemo2 on Feb 28, 2018 15:04:30 GMT
Short stories about phones or stories where phones play an integral part in the plot.
William F Nolan - Dead Call Ramsey Campbell - Call First Anthony Horowitz - The Phone Goes Dead Ramsey Campbell - Digging Deep Lucille Fletcher - Sorry Wrong Number (although, perhaps this is more of a crime story).
Also, I seem to remember Stephen King having an obscure short story called "Sorry Right Number" in which a woman receives a supernatural phone call...
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Post by dem bones on Feb 28, 2018 17:32:21 GMT
I'm sure there are quite a few: Ramsey Campbell - The Telephones John Pudney - Dunworthy 13 Graeme Fife - Snipe 3909 Richard Matheson - Sorry, Right Number Elliott O'Donnell - The Haunted Telephone Peter Ackroyd - Ringing In The Good News Neville Steed's novel, Hallow's Hell ....
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Post by johnnymains on Feb 28, 2018 17:48:39 GMT
David Williamson, 'The Too Good Samaritan'
David Williamson, 'The Not So Good Samaritan - both from Pan Horror 30
If I can mention my own stories 'Head Soup' 'Prim Suspect' and 'Final Draft' both feature the telephone in some capacity.
I also have a fond spot for 'A Telephone Call' by Dorothy Parker - not horror, but absolutely bonkers.
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Post by dem bones on Feb 28, 2018 18:04:16 GMT
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Post by billdemo2 on Feb 28, 2018 19:27:52 GMT
The Stephen King "Sorry, Right Number" was originally written as an episode of Tales From The Darkside. The script was later included in Nightmares & Dreamscapes.
The Richard Matheson "Sorry, Right Number" is usually anthologized as "Long Distance Call" as is basically a retelling of a very popular urban legend.
I found a site where someone described a short story they had read. It involved a man who survived some kind of world disaster and was the last man on earth. He was very lonely, so he started calling all the numbers in the phone book, hoping to get in touch with other survivors. SPOILER: When that didn't work, he grew depressed and decided to kill himself by jumping off a building. Just before he hit the ground, he heard a telephone ring... Does anyone recognize the story?
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Post by mcannon on Feb 28, 2018 21:42:31 GMT
"Shatterday" by Harlan Ellison. A man accidentally calls his own home number - and the voice that answers is his own.
Mark
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Post by mcannon on Feb 28, 2018 21:50:23 GMT
The Stephen King "Sorry, Right Number" was originally written as an episode of Tales From The Darkside. The script was later included in Nightmares & Dreamscapes.>> King's short story "The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates" also involves telephones, with a widow receiving phone calls from her recently deceased husband. He also had an entire novel, "Cell", in which mobile phone users become zombified - or something (I haven't read it). Going back a couple of generations, were there any horror stories involving telegrams? Now there's an idea for a themed anthology - "Great Horror Tales of Obsolete Technology". Mark
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Post by franklinmarsh on Feb 28, 2018 22:22:28 GMT
Charles Black - Death On The Line
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Post by dem bones on Feb 28, 2018 22:38:32 GMT
Charles Black - Death On The Line Also Simon Kurt Unsworth's Traffic Stream in Charlie's Sixth Black Book Of Horror. Been some time since I read either, but J. N. Williamson's Jezebel ( Stalkers) and Lucy Taylor's Atrocities in Hotter Blood likely qualify? Couple of telegram terrors. Violent Hunt's The Telegram (ahem) and Marie Belloc Lowndes magnificently creepy The Unbolted Door.
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Post by Swampirella on Feb 28, 2018 23:13:44 GMT
E. F. Benson - The Confession of Charles Linkworth
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Feb 28, 2018 23:35:34 GMT
Going back a couple of generations, were there any horror stories involving telegrams? Now there's an idea for a themed anthology - "Great Horror Tales of Obsolete Technology". Mark "The Night Wire" by H. F. Arnold comes to mind.
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Post by Swampirella on Feb 28, 2018 23:54:18 GMT
John Christopher - Ringing Tone (Pan Book of Horror #10) may or may not count.....
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Post by Swampirella on Mar 1, 2018 2:17:32 GMT
Short stories about phones or stories where phones play an integral part in the plot. William F Nolan - Dead CallRamsey Campbell - Call FirstAnthony Horowitz - The Phone Goes DeadRamsey Campbell - Digging DeepLucille Fletcher - Sorry Wrong Number (although, perhaps this is more of a crime story). Also, I seem to remember Stephen King having an obscure short story called "Sorry Right Number" in which a woman receives a supernatural phone call... What a great thread; thanks for getting the ball rolling! Or the phone ringing....
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Mar 1, 2018 8:18:58 GMT
Robert Aickman, "Your Tiny Hand is Frozen."
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Post by Dr Strange on Mar 1, 2018 12:41:00 GMT
Algernon Blackwood - You May Telephone From Here (The Westminster Gazette, 27th Feb 1909; Ten Minute Stories, 1914)
HD Everett - Over The Wires (The Death Mask & Other Ghosts, 1920; The Crimson Blind & Other Stories, 2006)
Barry Pain - The Case of Vincent Pyrwhit (Stories In The Dark, 1911)
Mary Treadgold - The Telephone (The Third Ghost Book, ed. Cynthia Asquith, 1955)
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