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Post by ropardoe on Nov 25, 2018 17:39:24 GMT
A gentleman on the M.R. James Appreciation Society Facebook page asks the following about a story he'd like to identify. I said I'd pose the question here. Any ideas?
"Bit of a grisly long shot, but..... Does anyone know of a supernatural short story published sometime in the '60s or early '70s wherw the strapline would be "Why did they find his battered broken body with its heart eaten out?" It was a short story collection I had as a teenager, but I lost before I'd read all the stories!"
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Post by dem bones on Nov 25, 2018 18:16:27 GMT
Someone will know, someone must surely know. Ro, can you ask enquirer if he recalls anything about the cover artwork, paperback or hardcover, anything else that might be useful?
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Post by ropardoe on Nov 25, 2018 20:46:14 GMT
Someone will know, someone must surely know. Ro, can you ask enquirer if he recalls anything about the cover artwork, paperback or hardcover, anything else that might be useful? Actually he does - I should have added this: "...the cover was quite striking: it was a picture of an rundown graveyard (got the feeling it wss perhaps supposed to be in the tropics somewhere) with some quite scary looking pirate spectres hovering over the graves..... It definitely was not a Pan or Fontana collection."
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Post by ropardoe on Nov 27, 2018 9:36:47 GMT
A gentleman on the M.R. James Appreciation Society Facebook page asks the following about a story he'd like to identify. I said I'd pose the question here. Any ideas? "Bit of a grisly long shot, but..... Does anyone know of a supernatural short story published sometime in the '60s or early '70s wherw the strapline would be "Why did they find his battered broken body with its heart eaten out?" It was a short story collection I had as a teenager, but I lost before I'd read all the stories!" It's been identified: it's HPL's "Dreams in the Witch House" in August Derleth's The Sleeping and the Dead. I did consider that story but it didn't seem quite to fit the description - I still don't think it does, but that's the strapline used on the back cover of the book so it's confirmed.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 27, 2018 11:48:38 GMT
"...the cover was quite striking: it was a picture of an rundown graveyard (got the feeling it wss perhaps supposed to be in the tropics somewhere) with some quite scary looking pirate spectres hovering over the graves..... It definitely was not a Pan or Fontana collection." Ah, thank you for putting at least one of us out of our misery, would never have got it in a million years. I guess they do look a bit like tropical pirates in a certain light ...
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Post by helrunar on Nov 27, 2018 17:43:48 GMT
Wow, I would never have figured that one out. And "Dreams in the Witch-House" is a favorite yarn of mine, which I re-read quite recently.
Fascinating how people remember these things... great scan, Kev!
cheers, Steve
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