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Post by dem bones on Jun 21, 2018 7:16:16 GMT
Stephen Jones (ed.) – The Mammoth Book Of Best New Horror 10 (Robinson, 1999) Joe Roberts co uk Stephen Jones – Horror in 1998
Christopher Fowler – Learning To Let Go Neil Gaiman – The Wedding Present Peter Atkins – Adventures In Further Education Kathe Koja – Bondage Chaz Benchley – The Keys To D’Esperance Stephen Laws -The Song My Sister Sang Kim Newman – A Victorian Ghost Story Bruce Holland Rogers – The Dead Boy At Your Window Ramsay Campbell – Ra*e Lawrence Watt-Evans – Upstairs Caitlin R. Kiernan – Postcard From The King Of Tides Michael Marshall Smith – Everybody Goes Tanith Lee – Yellow And Red Steve Rasnic Tem – What Slips Away Dennis Etchison – Inside The Cackle Factory Kelly Link – The Specialist’s Hat Avram Davidson & Grania Davis – The Boss In The Wall: A Treatise On The House Devil Harlan Ellison – Objects Of Desire In The Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear Peter Straub – Mr Clubb And Mr Cuff
Necrology: 1998 – Stephen Jones & Kim NewmanWe had a relatively lively thread for Vol. 10 on Vault Mk I courtesy of Victoria Dixon & Rog Pile, but much to my frustration, have been unable to access it via the Wayback machine (should anyone have more success, please provide a link!). 'Ra*e' and 'The Wedding Present' are familiar from Ghosts & Grisly Things and Dark Terrors 4 respectively. Of the rest, those that stuck are stories I didn't get on with ; Chris Fowlers "why I'm not writing any more trad horror stories" address, Kathe Koja's mild bondage session, Kim Newman's period piece, etc. Kathe Koja - Bondage: "My own sense is that Bondage is as close to a morality play as anything I've written" offers the author in the introductory note, though can't say this reader found it helpful. Woman who won't wear a ring "because it's like bondage" instead suggests she and partner spice up love life with some pain-free S&M. He's cautiously up for it. She buys a white leather face mask from SECRET PLEASURES, they take turns in wearing it for minor bizarre doms & subs sessions. He next invests in a red Devil mask, while she shrink-wraps her head in an eyeless hood. And there we leave them to their privacy while we analyse what we just read, shrug our shoulders, move on to next story regretting we're too thick to appreciate great lit when it's provided us. A trio of tiny terrors: Lawrence Watt-Evans – Upstairs: The dead folk in the flat upstairs don't take kindly to complaints. Peter Atkins – Adventures In Further Education: Kenny's biro-tapping hobby enters its critical phase. 1998 not a vintage year for horror on this evidence, but early days. Bruce Holland Rogers – The Dead Boy At Your Window: Proud parents refuse to accept that their baby son died on the maternity ward, raise him as a healthy child until he's ready for school. Once the other kids discover the dead boy is light as a bunch of twigs, they fly him as a kite ... and, oops, let go the string. The boy drifts to Hades, meets his own kind, and henceforth travels between the two worlds delivering messages from the dead to the living and vice versa. Fairy story of sorts, liked it a lot.
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Post by andydecker on Jun 21, 2018 16:26:24 GMT
Kathe Koja - Bondage: "My own sense is that Bondage is as close to a morality play as anything I've written" offers the author in the introductory note, though can't say this reader found it helpful. And there we leave them to their privacy while we analyse what we just read, shrug our shoulders, move on to next story regretting we're too thick to appreciate great lit when it's provided us. In other words, it is the usual pretentious non-story of the Koja school of writing
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jun 21, 2018 17:20:29 GMT
In other words, it is the usual pretentious non-story of the Koja school of writing Hey! THE CIPHER is great, not to mention very entertaining. Or at least that is how I remember it.
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Post by Shrink Proof on Jun 22, 2018 17:00:53 GMT
Peter Straub's "Mr Clubb And Mr Cuff" was great and I was pleased that it was selected for "The Best of The Best of New Horror". A really neatly unpleasant pair of characters....
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Post by dem bones on Jun 22, 2018 23:40:23 GMT
Enjoyed this trio the second time around.
Christopher Fowler - Learning To Let Go: Dr. Harold Masters, wife Jane, and her not-so-secret lover, Peregrine Summerfield, board a night train bound for Dartmoor. Jane is annoyed when their compartment is invaded by a trio of husband's students (he is a professor of Oral History). This being Halloween, the boozy party trade creepy stories. Meanwhile, their carriage inexplicably detaches itself from the rest of the train. A classic Dr. Terror's House Of Horrors situation, but author is through with traditional ghost stories and their "absurd conventions" so readers left to resolve the mystery for themselves while he ponders the future direction of his work. Kim Newman - A Victorian Ghost Story: Old duffers exchange tales of terror at a London Gentlemen's club. Ernest Meiklejohn Virtue, stockbroker believes himself haunted by vast numbers of filthy, dead creatures in rags whose toilet leaves much to be desired. Narrator suggests that these "things that should decently remain invisible" are not supernatural phenomena, but his ridiculous theory - that Virtue has encountered starving paupers in the most prosperous city on earth - is dismissed with the contempt it deserves.
Stephen Laws - The Song My Sister Sang: "Stay away from Deep Water - my sisters and I feed there." Thirty years on from the family tragedy, Dean is among a team of RSPCA volunteers treating stricken birds following the sinking of an oil tanker off Whitby Bay. A tarred seagull leads him a merry dance through the now derelict swimming pool where Amy, his nine-year-old sister, drowned. As the bird dies in his hands, a familiar voice breaks the the eerie silence with a mocking rendition of Amy's favourite song, Ain't she sweet? ...
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Post by Swampirella on Mar 19, 2019 16:10:46 GMT
Stephen Jones (ed.) – The Mammoth Book Of Best New Horror 10 (Robinson, 1999) Joe Roberts co uk Stephen Jones – Horror in 1998
Christopher Fowler – Learning To Let Go Neil Gaiman – The Wedding Present Peter Atkins – Adventures In Further Education Kathe Koja – Bondage Chaz Benchley – The Keys To D’Esperance Stephen Laws -The Song My Sister Sang Kim Newman – A Victorian Ghost Story Bruce Holland Rogers – The Dead Boy At Your Window Ramsay Campbell – Ra*e Lawrence Watt-Evans – Upstairs Caitlin R. Kiernan – Postcard From The King Of Tides Michael Marshall Smith – Everybody Goes Tanith Lee – Yellow And Red Steve Rasnic Tem – What Slips Away Dennis Etchison – Inside The Cackle Factory Kelly Link – The Specialist’s Hat Avram Davidson & Grania Davis – The Boss In The Wall: A Treatise On The House Devil Harlan Ellison – Objects Of Desire In The Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear Peter Straub – Mr Clubb And Mr Cuff
Necrology: 1998 – Stephen Jones & Kim NewmanWe had a relatively lively thread for Vol. 10 on Vault Mk I courtesy of Victoria Dixon & Rog Pile, but much to my frustration, have been unable to access it via the Wayback machine (should anyone have more success, please provide a link!). 'Ra*e' and 'The Wedding Present' are familiar from Ghosts & Grisly Things and Dark Terrors 4 respectively. Of the rest, those that stuck are stories I didn't get on with ; Chris Fowlers "why I'm not writing any more trad horror stories" address, Kathe Koja's mild bondage session, Kim Newman's period piece, etc. Kathe Koja - Bondage: "My own sense is that Bondage is as close to a morality play as anything I've written" offers the author in the introductory note, though can't say this reader found it helpful. Woman who won't wear a ring "because it's like bondage" instead suggests she and partner spice up love life with some pain-free S&M. He's cautiously up for it. She buys a white leather face mask from SECRET PLEASURES, they take turns in wearing it for minor bizarre doms & subs sessions. He next invests in a red Devil mask, while she shrink-wraps her head in an eyeless hood. And there we leave them to their privacy while we analyse what we just read, shrug our shoulders, move on to next story regretting we're too thick to appreciate great lit when it's provided us. A trio of tiny terrors: Lawrence Watt-Evans – Upstairs: The dead folk in the flat upstairs don't take kindly to complaints. Peter Atkins – Adventures In Further Education: Kenny's biro-tapping hobby enters its critical phase. 1998 not a vintage year for horror on this evidence, but early days. Bruce Holland Rogers – The Dead Boy At Your Window: Proud parents refuse to accept that their baby son died on the maternity ward, raise him as a healthy child until he's ready for school. Once the other kids discover the dead boy is light as a bunch of twigs, they fly him as a kite ... and, oops, let go the string. The boy drifts to Hades, meets his own kind, and henceforth travels between the two worlds delivering messages from the dead to the living and vice versa. Fairy story of sorts, liked it a lot. Finally, the right place to post this.....I'm enjoying this anthology today and wanted to point out Tanith Lee's excellent, somewhat Jamesian (?) story "Yellow and Red". It can read/downloaded here:
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