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Post by dem bones on Jan 25, 2020 18:36:34 GMT
Bernhardt J. Hurwood - Monsters and Nightmares (Belmont, Feb. 1967) The Monstrous Maggot of Death Time Out from Her Tomb The Philosopher and the Ghost The Old Woman and the Tiger The Wer-Hyena Tales of the Russian Vampire The Peasant and the Coffin Lid The Corpse and the Dog The Soldier and the Vampire A Russian Rip van Winkle The Traveller and the Corpse The Vampire Count de Morieve The Legend of the Screaming Skulls The Haunted Vault of Hackenthorpe The Vampires of Old China The Shoeless Ghost of Rathaby Church The Horrible Legacy of the Cannibal Chef The Ghost Who Refused to be Guilty The Incubus and the Virtuous Lady The Berwick Vampire The Demon Drummer of Tedworth The Grave Robber Who Had a Heart The Charmed Life of Francois de Civille Horror in the Monastery The Cremation of a Vampire The Strange Case of Victoria d'Olmond Vampires in Austria The Necrophile Who Did a Good Deed Born in the Grave The Woman Who Climbed Out of Her Grave The Luminous Woman The Banshee Whose Feelings Were Hurt The Horror That Was the Black Death Voluntarily Buried Alive The Hospitals That Were Hellholes The Holy Prepuse and the Miracles The Ghost Who Lost His Case The Mystery of the Barren Grave The Amazing Mr. Home The Bloody Prophecy The Haunted Mirror The Phantom Horseman of Mons
EpilogueBlurb: In the chill, Dead Corridors of your heart lurk the monstrous thought of which nightmares are made. In this horrifyingly unique book you will read more than 35 true tales of terror, of vampires, of grave robbers, of cannibals, of necrophiles, of banshees, of Black Death, of live burials, of barren graves, of death and of life.
Read, and take a trip into a horrifyingly real world that will take your breath away ... The Monstrous Maggot of Death: Mullins the village postman versus a hideous, entirely malevolent giant white maggot which crawls from the grave of a recently deceased Yorkshireman. Mullins eventually incinerates the ghastly grub when it returns to the coffin of the late Mr. Peters, but not before it has killed off the vicar, his entire family, and Mullins' own son. The Necrophile Who Did a Good Deed: According to the author, a translation from Bouchut's Les Signs de la Mort. A young man is packed off to enter a Religious Order against his wishes. En route, he stops at an inn where heartbroken proprietor and wife are mourning the loss of their daughter. The Brother-to-be agrees to watch over the corpse while they pray the night for her soul. Overcome with shame, the lad makes a swift exit the following morning rather than stick around for the funeral. He misses a treat. As the pallbearers near the grave, the procession halt - the 'corpse' is thumping on the coffin lid from within! Merciful God! Our beautiful girl has been restored! Nine months later ..... Time Out from Her Tomb: One of several adventures of the randy dead. An amorous, flesh and blood ghost nightly slips into the guest room of her parents' home and beds down with a young man. Beratated by her mother for this scandalous behaviour, the spell is broken and fair Philinnion dies a second and final time. The authorities, not taking any chances, cremate her outside the town border. Machates, the bereft lover, takes his own life. The Traveller and the Corpse: The funeral is over. The corpse trails his best friend back to an inn, removes its winding sheet, climbs into bed and attempts to molest him. Steady on, old man! The Berwick Vampire: From William of Newburgh's Historia rerum Anglicarum . A "most infamous villain" returns from the grave on a score-settling mission. Rushing up and down the streets, he breaths foul corpse-breath in the faces of all he meets, thereby spreading plague throughout Berwick, the kingdom, & Co. The Grave Robber Who Had a Heart: Another case of catalepsy, this time at Beaujolais, c. 1620. Desperation drives an impoverished undertaker to steal a gold ring from his client, the late Countess. As his blade slices into her finger, she shrieks! The would-be grave-robber, much ashamed of his actions, summons help and the woman is revived. So overjoyed is her husband at this miraculous turn of events that he refuses to press charges. The Wer-Hyena: An entire village of them, taking it in turns to woo a wife, bring her home for fattening up, finally banqueting on her flesh when she's plump and juicy. The Vampire Count de Morieve: An aristocrat who emerged unscathed from the French Revolution conducts his own reign of terror against the local peasantry, decapitating many before he is eventually murdered. For a period of seventy-two years, his corpse leaves the grave to feast on the blood of children. The haunting is finally ended by his grandson who gives orders that the family vault be opened. The Count's corpse, entirely free of decomposition, is ruddy and bloated. An expert drives a white thorn through his heart, whereupon .....
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Post by dem bones on Jan 27, 2020 10:57:18 GMT
Born in the Grave:
Horror in the Monastery: A cleaner reports cries of distress coming from the catacombs of St. Nizier de Marlegny, the small church attached to the monastery of the Récollets. The prior dismisses her story as the result of an over-active imagination .... until a month later, when the heavy stone covering the entrance to the catacombs is removed to reveal the corpse of a missing monk, his ragged fingers testimony to a desperate attempt at escape.
The Haunted Vault of Hackenthorpe: Much to the small South Yorkshire community's relief, lifelong enemies Ralph Leigh and his unnamed sister-in-law finally die - only to continue their screaming match in the family vault. An exasperated Richard Leigh constructs a brick wall between their respective coffins. Peace and quiet reigns at last.
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Post by humgoo on Jan 27, 2020 14:13:33 GMT
In this horrifyingly unique book you will read more than 35 true tales of terror, of vampires, of grave robbers, of cannibals, of necrophiles, of banshees, of Black Death, of live burials, of barren graves, of death and of life. "True tales"? Are they meant to be facts, "facts" or fiction? As good as the Armada books?
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Post by helrunar on Jan 27, 2020 21:11:31 GMT
Hi Humgoo,
I read one of these little books by Bernhardt J. Hurwood back in the early 70s but remember almost nothing about it. As Dem's extracts and notes indicate, the tales (which I recall being quite brief, even shorter than the kind of storyettes once printed in comic books) are supposed to be based on fact. I seem to recall that there were a couple of anecdotes printed in the book I had that I had seen mentioned in the writings of Montague Summers or other "authorities" on various occult subjects.
I don't think it would be worth spending real money (or time) on. But one of the books might be fun if you come across a copy marked cheap, and are in need of some light diversion.
Best wishes,
Helrunar
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Post by helrunar on Jan 27, 2020 22:52:49 GMT
So, I looked at a list of Bernhardt J. Hurwood's publications and the following were some of the titles listed:
Vampires, Werewolves and other Demons (1967)--this was the book by him I once owned; it was a thin paperback, thin in more sense than one Rip-Off! (1972) The Bisexuals (1974, described as an anthology)
Described as non-fiction:
Erotica (1968) The Girls, the Massage, and Everything (1973) The Joys of Oral Love (1975) Supernatural Wonder from Around the World (1993)
Under the pseudonym Mallory T. Knight, Hurwood wrote a series of explo novels during the Sixties, The Man from Tomcat. Am pretty sure at least one of the books, The Peking Pornographer (1969) was featured on a Vault thread at some point, perhaps in the Phwoar! board.
cheers, H.
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Post by Swampirella on Jan 27, 2020 23:40:17 GMT
Personally I enjoy/ed his ghost stories collections, then and now. I'm tempted to get this one...
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Post by helrunar on Jan 28, 2020 5:20:31 GMT
He published quite a few "true vampire" collections it seems... perhaps Dem will comment about these. He was really quite prolific and I imagine he used other pseudonyms as well.
H.
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Post by humgoo on Jan 28, 2020 6:52:19 GMT
Mr. Hurwood edited an O'Donnell anthology: The Hag of the Dribble & Other True Ghosts, From the Files of Elliott O'Donnell (Robert Hale, 1971). I like the sound of it. Certainly a man of the Vault!
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Post by dem bones on Jan 28, 2020 9:40:12 GMT
In this horrifyingly unique book you will read more than 35 true tales of terror, of vampires, of grave robbers, of cannibals, of necrophiles, of banshees, of Black Death, of live burials, of barren graves, of death and of life. "True tales"? Are they meant to be facts, "facts" or fiction? As good as the Armada books? I'd go for 'facts,'and judged on his tone throughout, so would the author. Book is very much in keeping with his contribution to the multiple author Monsters Galore, 1965 - translations and retelling of legends from around the world. Some are very short ( Born in the Grave [above] is quoted in its entirety), some ( The Banshee Who's Feelins were Hurt, Horrible Legacy of the Cannibal Chef & Co., run to seven-eight pages. If this is a "children's book," then some themes are atypically adult. The Amada Ghost Books are a very different beast. So, I looked at a list of Bernhardt J. Hurwood's publications and the following were some of the titles listed: Vampires, Werewolves and other Demons (1967)--this was the book by him I once owned; it was a thin paperback, thin in more sense than one Rip-Off! (1972) The Bisexuals (1974, described as an anthology) Described as non-fiction: Erotica (1968) The Girls, the Massage, and Everything (1973) The Joys of Oral Love (1975) Supernatural Wonder from Around the World (1993) Under the pseudonym Mallory T. Knight, Hurwood wrote a series of explo novels during the Sixties, The Man from Tomcat. Am pretty sure at least one of the books, The Peking Pornographer (1969) was featured on a Vault thread at some point, perhaps in the Phwoar! board. I've the strongest suspicion Hurwood ghost edited Barnabus & Quentin Collins' The Dark Shadows Book Of Vampires And Werewolves and The Dark Dominion (both 1970). He also crashed aboard the Anne Rice bandwagon with a vampire-on-the-psychiatrist-couch novel, By Bloood Alone, 1979.
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Post by Swampirella on Jan 28, 2020 11:40:03 GMT
Mr. Hurwood edited an O'Donnell anthology: The Hag of the Dribble & Other True Ghosts, From the Files of Elliott O'Donnell (Robert Hale, 1971). I like the sound of it. Certainly a man of the Vault!
That's about the only O'Donnell I haven't got, in some form. I guess the name put me off!
Edit: The price too! Having looked at the index kindly shown on the Richard Dalby's Library site, the contents are mostly or all stories to be found in his other books.
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Post by humgoo on Jan 28, 2020 12:36:38 GMT
That's about the only O'Donnell I haven't got, in some form Wow! Whittington-Egan's biography lists more than 60 items, so you've got most of them?!
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Post by Swampirella on Jan 28, 2020 14:45:48 GMT
That's about the only O'Donnell I haven't got, in some form Wow! Whittington-Egan's biography lists more than 60 items, so you've got most of them?! Sorry, I should have put "most of his ghost books" Going by the titles only, he's written at least 20 of those; I have 7-8 digital versions of the older (pre-1930s) books thanks to Gutenberg & 12 print books I've collected over the years (one of fictional ghost stories he edited). Plus the excellent biography written by Whittington-Egan.
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