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Post by dem bones on Oct 13, 2019 16:01:52 GMT
Dennis Pepper [ed.] - The New Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories (OUP, 1999) Dennis Pepper - Introduction
Marian Abbey - Watching Over You
Francis Beckett - A Separate Peace
Ruskin Bond - Topaz
Tanya David - Dogends
Louise Francke - Alicia
Shamus Frazer - Florinda
Adèle Geras - Rowena Ballantyne
John Gordon - If She Bends, She Breaks
Catherine Graham - Snookered
Dennis Hamley - Incident on the Atlantic Coast Express
Kenneth Ireland - Who Is Emma?
Shirley Jackson - Home
Gerald Kersh - The Extraordinarily Horrible Dummy
Rita Morris - Hallowe'en
T. V. Olsen - The Strange Valley
Susan Price - The Haunted Inn
Alison Prince - The Fire Escape
Robert Scott - With Vacant Possession
Laurence Staig - Love Letters
Rosemary Timperley - The Sinister Schoolmaster
Barbara Ker Wilson - The Honeysuckle Trap
Mary Frances Zambreno - The Ghost in the Summer Kitchen
Robert Scott - The Opening Match Blurb: This is a collection of stories about ghosts - all kinds of ghosts.
You'll meet ghostly warriors, dogs, snooker-players, and ventriloquists' dummies. You'll sleep in haunted inns, operate a demonic computer, go for your last ride on a phantom express, and maybe turn into a ghost yourself.The pub where terror stalked; sad story of Hameeda of the Himalayas; snooker groupie; the return and return of a fanatical flogger; I love you, you big dummy, etc. Susan Price - The Haunted Inn: A salesman seeking a bed for the night at the The Struggling Man (Location unsportingly withheld) is stung by the landlord's refusal to accommodate him, on the grounds that no-one is permitted to spend a night in "the haunted room" - it's far too dangerous. Our man is aghast. Do people still go in for such superstitious tripe in this day and age? Under pressure from pub regulars, the landlord relents. The stranger can take his chances if he so desires, but be it on his own head! Ruskin Bond - Topaz: ( Penguin Book of Indian Ghost Stories, 1993). In the Pine woods on the slopes of the Himalayas, a young girl swaying in the breeze to the strains of The Blue Danube. By the neck, obviously. Very beautiful, this one.  Jason Cockcroft The Sinister Schoolmaster: ( Armada Ghost 10, 1978). Him again! Newbie versus "Basher" Bashman, the scourge of St. Edmund's. The old perve has stalked us across several anthologies of late. Gerald Kersh - The Extraordinarily Horrible Dummy: Denys Kilham Roberts [ed.] Penguin Parade #6, 1939). Echo the ventriloquist, down on his luck, is lodging in Busto's London lodging house. Time was when Echo and Micky, his ghastly dummy, topped bills and commanded huge fees, but now both health and career are in declines. The narrator regards Echo as the greatest ventriloquist on earth, but the fallen star won't hear of it. His father, Vox, was far better. Indeed, his own small talent is due to the old man bullying him day in day out, until his mysterious plunge down a lift shaft. Now father merely torments him from beyond the grave.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 16, 2019 3:34:04 GMT
Adèle Geras - Rowena Ballantyne: Vanessa, a thirteen-year-old boarder at Staghurst College, finds a dusty exercise book beneath a floorboard in her room. It's the harrowing diary of a former pupil Rowena Ballantyne, bullied into taking her own life by a gang who call themselves "the Beauties." Now Rowena's ghost takes to again hanging around the school, though only Vanessa can see her ..... until a Staghurst old girl appears as in regular guest speaker slot to address the class on why she became a social worker.
John Gordon - If She Bends, She Breaks: (Catch Your Death & Other Ghost Stories, 1984). Defying his form teacher, Tommy Drake insists on taking Jenny sledging on the frozen river. The ghosts of two boys who fell through the ice - one of them Jenny's brother - entice them out to the centre.
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Post by Swampirella on Oct 16, 2019 14:05:11 GMT
Adèle Geras - Rowena Ballantyne: Vanessa, a thirteen-year-old boarder at Staghurst College, finds a dusty exercise book beneath a floorboard in her room. It's the harrowing diary of a former pupil Rowena Ballantyne, bullied into taking her own life by a gang who call themselves "the Beauties." Now Rowena's ghost takes to again hanging around the school, though only Vanessa can see her ..... until a Staghurst old girl appears as in regular guest speaker slot to address the class on why she became a social worker. John Gordon - If She Bends, She Breaks: ( Catch Your Death & Other Ghost Stories, 1984). Defying his form teacher, Tommy Drake insists on taking Jenny sledging on the frozen river. The ghosts of two boys who fell through the ice - one of them Jenny's brother - entice them out to the centre. Both this and the "old" Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories are available on the Int*rn*t Arch*ve. |
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Post by dem bones on Oct 18, 2019 6:04:35 GMT
Both this and the "old" Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories are available on the Int*rn*t Arch*ve. They also have ..... Nasty Endings which looks pretty good. These three original to New Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories. The first, a supernatural horror, is strong personal best-of-book contender. Dennis Hamley - Incident on the Atlantic Coast Express: Railway mad Percy Padlow, 42, lives at home, caring for his widowed, bogus invalid monster of a mother. True to form, on the eve of the Enthusiast's Steam Weekend in Exeter, Mrs. Padlow pulls her "I'm dying!" routine, but for once Percy won't be denied. He leaves seething mother to the mercies of kindly neighbour Mrs. Larkin and sets off for a well deserved break. The event is a big deal. Twelve miles of preserved track have been reopened on the defunct Moors and Tors line with various classic engines scheduled to run over the two days. All staff in period costume. Thomas the Tank Engine for the kids. "And perhaps the ghost might come again." We're genuinely happy for Percy when the weekend turns out everything he hoped it would be, but what's this? The organisers have saved the best until last! On the final night a Merchant Navy Pacific engine pulling a line of green coaches arrives at the station when all but Percy have retired to the hotel. What a master-stroke to fill it with passengers in fancy dress. Percy climbs aboard ..... Robert Scott - With Vacant Possession: Her sleep is haunted by visions of a property in the country whose wrought-iron gates gates are inscribed with her initials. One day while out driving in the country she chances upon the bricks and mortar original of the dream house. Dare she find out who or what waits inside? Robert Scott - The Opening Match: New hope for dead cricketers. Some of them. |
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Post by dem bones on Oct 26, 2019 16:26:19 GMT
Marian Abbey - Watching Over You: Three-year-old Tasmin playing in the garden with her 'imaginary friend.' The canal wall at bottom of the garden collapses. Dull synopsis, decent story. Alison Prince - The Fire Escape: ( The Ghost Within, 1984: Lindsay and parents have recently moved house from a country cottage in Lincolnshire to a house in a drab London street. His bedroom is haunted by the living ghost of a former nanny who survived a fire there and the very dead one of the little boy who perished in the flames. Dismissed for negligence over the tragedy, a destitute Sarah Hodden has fallen in with the meths drinkers who congregate on the waste-ground beneath Lindsay's window. Sometimes Lindsay sees her cursing and staggering in the street. Others, the ghost of her younger self is drinking in his room, and slapping him around for costing her a career. Grim as it sounds, ending is almost jolly considering who wrote it. A Tramps, Wino's etc classic.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 28, 2019 14:19:28 GMT
Laurence Staig - Love Letters: An internet romance between school dreamboat Greg Slope and a mystery female admirer who thinks he's a "Saucy boy. Saucy." Might it have something to do with the school allocating Mr. Reilly's computer club a room directly above the remnants of a forgotten graveyard? Shirley Jackson - Home: ( Ladies Home Journal, Aug 1965). "We don't use that road in this weather. You might say there's talk about that road." Mrs. Ethel Sloane, overbearing person, has lived in the single street village for precisely one day before she regards herself as true country people and more local than the actual locals. A drop of rain won't deter her from driving along the old Sanderson Road if she jolly well pleases! As the storm worsens Mrs. Sloane spots an old woman and a little boy stood drenched by the roadside and demands to give them a lift. Even before they vanish from the back seat she realises there's plenty not quite right about the pair. Catherine Graham - Snookered: Ceaseless instruction from the ghost of his gormless late friend Smithy puts Alan off his game in the youth final. See Sport is Horror. Or not, as the case may be. Kenneth Ireland - Who is Emma?: ( A Ghostly Gathering, 1992). On turning out the light, Emma hears someone else breathing in the darkness. It's another little girl, Hannah, who wants to know what she's doing in her bed? Emma counters: "But this is my room!" Neither are mistaken.
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