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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Feb 24, 2022 19:54:01 GMT
Disappointing for Oscar Cook fans that Professor Harvard provides neither source nor date for the following. Isn't this a Twilight Zone episode and a short story before that? I may be going ga-ga, but I think I remember reading it as a Somerset Maugham (or similar) story where the bug was introduced into the victim's ear by a cuckolded husband. The description of the agony caused was rather horrifying and then you had the punchline that the bug that had finally exited the exhausted and broken man's other ear had been pregnant. Oscar Cook, "Boomerang" (1931), adapted for NIGHT GALLERY.
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Post by samdawson on Feb 24, 2022 22:22:58 GMT
Isn't this a Twilight Zone episode and a short story before that? I may be going ga-ga, but I think I remember reading it as a Somerset Maugham (or similar) story where the bug was introduced into the victim's ear by a cuckolded husband. The description of the agony caused was rather horrifying and then you had the punchline that the bug that had finally exited the exhausted and broken man's other ear had been pregnant. Oscar Cook, "Boomerang" (1931), adapted for NIGHT GALLERY. Thank you Jojo. I wonder if I will find whatever anthology I read it in at some point
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Post by dem bones on Feb 25, 2022 7:19:01 GMT
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Post by samdawson on Feb 25, 2022 9:20:04 GMT
Thank you DB. I grew up with A Century of Creepy Stories, so that will the one
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Post by dem bones on Dec 11, 2022 18:35:07 GMT
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 11, 2022 18:42:10 GMT
I love this; looks like Reveille is turning into a gold mine!
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Post by dem bones on Dec 11, 2022 19:20:21 GMT
I love this; looks like Reveille is turning into a gold mine! In response to an article on a 'Ghost ship';
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 11, 2022 19:21:49 GMT
I rest my case!
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Post by weirdmonger on Dec 11, 2022 19:53:03 GMT
I love this; looks like Reveille is turning into a gold mine! My mother read REVEILLE regularly in the early 1950s. I used to take sneaky looks into them, I recall.
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Post by helrunar on Dec 11, 2022 20:05:49 GMT
Those are marvelous scans (perhaps almost as marvelous as Mars bars were back then). Thanks Dem!
I found this note in an online source; it states that this publication was founded by one Reg Hipwell:
Launched on 25 May 1940, it was originally the official newspaper of the Ex-Services' Allied Association. It was bought by the Mirror Group in 1947, after which it was printed and published by IPC Newspapers Ltd.
In the 1950s it increased its light-entertainment pages and would often run features on the Royalty.
During the 1960s and 1970s it became known as Reveille Magazine and would publish large double-page pop posters and also feature glamour models.
Author Rosemary Timperley wrote a great many articles for Reveille under her own name and pseudonyms. The crime fiction writer Michael Gilbert published a number of short stories in Reveille, some of them featuring his series character Inspector Petrella.
In March 1973 it was renamed New Reveille, the title being reverted to Reveille in March 1975. By the end of 1975 Reveille had shrunk from its previous 40 page size and had dropped the short story feature, becoming more concerned with television, films, and celebrities.
Its last issue appeared on 17 August 1979 and in September 1979 it merged with Tit-Bits magazine.
Hel.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 23, 2022 12:46:10 GMT
Riding in the Storm, Adventures into Darkness #11, Standard Comics, Sept. 1953 With thanks to Comic Books Plus who uploaded it.
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Post by helrunar on Dec 23, 2022 13:38:14 GMT
Wonderful comic! There are so many variants on that story. Very creepy!
cheers, Hel.
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 23, 2022 13:42:25 GMT
Wonderful comic! There are so many variants on that story. Very creepy! cheers, Hel. I agree, it's great! Especially the idea that they could exhume her body just because of the driver's ghostly experience.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 31, 2022 12:39:35 GMT
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 31, 2022 12:49:05 GMT
An excellent re-telling of the classic ghostly (nun) hitch-hiker urban legend.
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