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Post by helrunar on Apr 1, 2020 14:40:50 GMT
Sounds like an appealing little tale. Is the date on the original pub 1941? I think Derleth was only 13 in 1914.
cheers, H.
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Post by helrunar on Apr 1, 2020 16:18:06 GMT
Oh my gosh, thank you Miss Scarlett! I somehow thought the story was by Derleth. I hope I am not losing my marbles completely but I suppose it is a possibility.
Hope you and yours are keeping safe and healthy!
Best wishes,
Helrunar
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Post by Swampirella on Apr 1, 2020 17:54:08 GMT
Oh my gosh, thank you Miss Scarlett! I somehow thought the story was by Derleth. I hope I am not losing my marbles completely but I suppose it is a possibility. Hope you and yours are keeping safe and healthy! Best wishes, Helrunar You're very welcome, Steve! I'm sure I lost my marbles a long time ago, but glad I could be helpful. Me & mine are safe & healthy so far, thanks, & hope the same for you and yours.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 12, 2020 18:54:34 GMT
K.D. Wentworth - Night of the Living Bra: (Carol Serling [ed.] Return to the Twilight Zone[/i], MJF, 1994). Aramantha and Orville Morgan settle down to watch Lucille Ball, but TV set has developed a mind of it's own and subjects startled pair to an evening of bizarre soft porn - featuring an animated brassiere and a singing toilet - while cajoling "Just say no to drugs." Orville figures it's those god-damn Commies trying to shut down the asprin industry and reports the matter to the military. Shy, God-fearing Aramantha finds the experience increasingly exhilarating - living in Terleton, Oklahoma, she has no concept of equality. Fact that (sadly, late) author was a contributor to Esther Friesner's Chicks in Chainmail series should be warning enough that we're being set up for a non side-splitting 'hilarious' punchline..
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Post by Dr Strange on Apr 12, 2020 20:45:55 GMT
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Post by dem bones on Apr 27, 2020 5:07:32 GMT
Artist uncredited Alison Prince - Black Dress: ( A Haunting Refrain, 1988). Selina Duncan buys a vintage dress at a jumble sale. Walking through town she grows increasingly self conscious that the silky garment is old fashioned and ridiculous as her Mother said it was. She detours to the pier to avoid a group of loud-mouthed boys at the bus shelter. An old man on a public bench compliments her appearance -"reminds me ... Selina wore a dress like that." - before zoning out into a world of his own. Arriving at the ballroom Selina is delighted to discover that the derelict old dump has since been renovated and reopened. Feeling unusually daring, she wanders in. A dashing young man, Bertie Pomfret, requests a dance. Bertie has a scar above his eye, a legacy, he explains, of the Great war .... A gentle time slip ghost story with haunted bench potential. Anon - The T-shirt: ( Count Dracula Fan Club Bi-annual, Summer 1979). Narrator, a spread-nosed ex-college football hero, can't believe his luck when rich, elegant Indian beauty Eri Pmav agrees to a date. Better still, Miss Pmav lets on that her parents are away, so tonight they will have the apartment to themselves! On his way over, loverboy spots a sign: T-SHIRTS MADE WHILE YOU WAIT. Wouldn't it be amazing if he bought one for Eri with her full name printed across the chest. Need I spell it out?
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Post by Swampirella on Apr 27, 2020 11:00:07 GMT
Artist uncredited Alison Prince - Black Dress: ( A Haunting Refrain, 1988). Selina Duncan buys a vintage dress at a jumble sale. Walking through town she grows increasingly self conscious that the silky garment is old fashioned and ridiculous as her Mother said it was. She detours to the pier to avoid a group of loud-mouthed boys at the bus shelter. An old man on a public bench compliments her appearance -"reminds me ... Selina wore a dress like that." - before zoning out into a world of his own. Arriving at the ballroom Selina is delighted to discover that the derelict old dump has since been renovated and reopened. Feeling unusually daring, she wanders in. A dashing young man, Bertie Pomfret, requests a dance. Bertie has a scar above his eye, a legacy, he explains, of the Great war .... A gentle time slip ghost story with haunted bench potential. Anon - The T-shirt: ( Count Dracula Fan Club Bi-annual, Summer 1979). Narrator, a spread-nosed ex-college football hero, can't believe his luck when rich, elegant Indian beauty Eri Pmav agrees to a date. Better still, Miss Pmav lets on that her parents are away, so tonight they will have the apartment to themselves! On his way over, loverboy spots a sign: T-SHIRTS MADE WHILE YOU WAIT. Wouldn't it be amazing if he bought one for Eri with her full name printed across the chest. Need I spell it out? "Eri Pmav" !!! That's hilarious; I'll be chuckling over that all morning.
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Post by dem bones on May 5, 2020 18:48:38 GMT
Two more from the wardrobe of woe. A delightfully ghoulish vignette, and a gory variation on Frederic Brown's Nasty.
Terry Bisson - The Coon Suit: (MF&SF, May 1991). Bystander at the Carpenter's Lake coon run picks fine time to realise he's improperly dressed for the occasion.
Gary Brander - Mr. Pants: (Jeff Gelb [ed.] Shock Rock II, 1994). Nineteen-year-pld Farley Zmecksis is madly in lust with Valerie Mons, who has no interest in him whatsoever. Desperate for advice, he turns to Heavy Metal super-stud JoJo Kingman, lead singer with Heavy Metal Gods, Brain Cancer. JoJo, desperate for peace, explains the secret of his success with hot chicks is all down to the pair of sparkly, skin tight trousers he bought from Mr. Pants at 369 Moody Place, Beverly Hills. "They're custom-made. Put on a pair of these and I promise you, the women won't leave you alone." Farley don't need telling twice.
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Post by dem bones on May 18, 2020 9:02:18 GMT
A. F. Kidd - The Black Veil: (Mark Valentine [ed.] The Black Veil & other tales of Supernatural Sleuths, 2008: A. F. Kidd & Rick Kennett, No 472 Cheyne Walk: Carnacki: The Untold Stories, Ghost Story Society, 1992, as The Darkness). "There is something about the silence in that house makes a man beastly afraid." Carnacki, accompanied by young journalist Charles Aster, investigates a malevolent West County haunting. The reported phantom lurks at an upper window, face concealed behind a long black veil. " Local gossip has it that it is the ghost of a young woman so seriously beaten by her husband as to blind her. The fun begins with Carnacki's discovery of the cobwebbed veil in a window box ...
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Post by dem bones on May 28, 2020 18:55:00 GMT
Terry Tapp - Dressed for the Occasion: (Mary Danby [ed.], 12th Armada Ghost Book, 1980). "Soon I will have you! Soon I shall have a body again. A young body filled with life and movement. and years of life ahead!" Janet Holly invites best chum Claire to spend the Easter holiday with her family at Talgar Castle. The Holly's are throwing a fancy dress party and the young guest is given her choice of costume from a trunk of Victorian finery. She opts for a dress trimmed in Chantilly lace, as worn by the crone whose terrifying portrait hangs in the gallery. When Claire slips into the gown, the old witch takes possession of her young limbs.
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Post by helrunar on May 28, 2020 22:43:25 GMT
That Terry Tapp story (the name Terry Tapp revives ancient memories of tweenhood days reading L Frank Baum's Oz books--sounds like the kind of character he would have come up with for one of those) sounds a lot like the AE Van Vogt yarn "The Witch." Interesting short note about it here: www.icshi.net/sevagram/biblio/witch.phpBesides the Night Gallery film, an excellent vehicle for the incredible Jeanette Nolan, there's a radio version, "Triptych for a Witch." Script was written by Ian Martin who may have credited the van Vogt story, but the credit was not mentioned on the air. It starred Margaret Hamilton (yes, THE Margaret Hamilton) in the title role and aired on a great series, The CBS Radio Mystery Theatre, which kept me up late many nights during the era of the mid 1970s. cheers, Steve
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Post by dem bones on Jun 21, 2020 8:44:16 GMT
Two from Eric Miller's Hell Comes To Hollywood, (Big Time Books, 2012). Andrew Helm - Muse: The demon Callie provides inspiration to a struggling screenwriter in return for a brand new corset. Jed Strahm & Ray G. Ing - "I'd Like To Thank ...": Fiona Danworth, the most ruthless Diva in Hollywood, wears a trendy meat dress to the award ceremony. And from it's sequel; Hell Comes To Hollywood II, (Big Time Books, 2014). Katarina Leigh Waters - Once Upon a Time at the Horror Hotel: Raquelle tries on the dress of the female lead in an H. H. Holmes bio-pic. She's transported back to the Chicago of the 1880's at the height of Holmes' reign of terror. Ronald Kelly - Blood Suede Shoes: (Jeff Gelb, [ed.] Shock Rock, 1992). Teenybopper idol Rockabilly Reb owes his success to a soul-sucking Les Paul and satanic vampire footwear.
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Post by dem bones on Jul 14, 2020 8:09:13 GMT
Terry Beatty, The Funeral Dress Two from 113 Tales of Terror: Illustrated Urban Legends & Short Shock Stories, 2017. Kurt Kuersteiner - The Funeral Dress: Haiti. A young woman visits funeral parlour to pay respects to deceased neighbour. She enters the wrong room to find a girl her own age laid out in a coffin. She's wearing such a beautiful gown. Would be a shame for it to go to waste ... Kurt Kuersteiner - A Crying Shame: Mr. Hill and the handkerchief of doom. Extreme nasal passage torture.
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Post by dem bones on Jul 31, 2020 5:36:32 GMT
Jack O'Donnell - The Throw-Aways: ( Land of Fright IV, 2015). Pulp hack Ted Hiller and the red silken pyjamas of doom. Jack O'Donnell - Clothes Make the Man: ( Land of Fright IV, 2015). Funeral parlour frolics. Blake Gordon strips the chick-bait voodoo suit from Robert's corpse. Sarah Pinborough - Granny's Slippers: (Stephen Jones [ed.] Haunts: Reliquaries of the Dead, 2011). Jason can't be rid of deceased gumster's fiendishly comfy footwear. Bentley Little - See Marilyn Monroe's Panties!: (Jeff Gelb & Michael Garrett [eds,], Seeds of Fear: Hot Blood #5, 1995). Grim. Mouldy. Disgusting. Irresistible. Same roadside museum also boasts Lennon's guitar, Presley's toupée, and Hitler's SS uniform among its exhibits. You don't want to stop there.
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Oct 8, 2020 13:34:47 GMT
Lynne Truss - Possunt quia posse videntur (Woman's Hour 50th Anniversary Short Story Collection, 1996)
When the narrator encounters her eccentric Aunt Miriam in Fortnum & Mason she is puzzled by the absence of the habitual fox fur coat the old girl had long-promised her, and rather put out that the coat has been consigned to the flames after being handed in to a fur amnesty with one of those animal rights groups. Over lunch, Miriam tells of how the possum fur rescued from an attic it had been locked away in following her own mother's tragic fatal accident had unfortunate consequences for the friend she sold it to, and how she managed to receive some injuries of her own.
A blackly comic story with distinct Jamesian touches - a book of M.R. James ghost stories features in passing. Another Lynne Truss contribution to Radio 4's Woman's Hour's short story slot was the splendid The Proceedings of that Night, a macabre meta-tale about an actor in a radio studio recording a very Jamesian ghost story that won't adhere to its own script...
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