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Post by dem bones on Jun 3, 2021 14:01:33 GMT
Wow, these are top-tier fiends! Don't think I'd like to bump into your bookshelves (or any of the fiends in person, of course) down a dark alley.... It should be understood that Frank Cannon is only demonstrating what a Stewardess Strangler looks like. He's not one himself.
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Post by Swampirella on Jun 3, 2021 14:06:43 GMT
Thanks to the Paperback Library thread, I've spotted a few more fiends:
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Post by Swampirella on Jun 3, 2021 14:08:46 GMT
Wow, these are top-tier fiends! Don't think I'd like to bump into your bookshelves (or any of the fiends in person, of course) down a dark alley.... It should be understood that Frank Cannon is only demonstrating what a Stewardess Strangler looks like. He's not one himself. I can remember enjoying the program as a kid. It's sad that whoever chose the cover misrepresented poor Frank, causing future misunderstandings such as this that need to be clarified.
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Post by dem bones on Jun 3, 2021 17:54:49 GMT
The Illustrated Police Gazette was always good for a fiend or ten, many of them moustached. Murdered - on her birthday! How fiendish can you get? Foil that fiend. This plucky and very elegantly attired young lady was having none of his nonsense!
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jun 3, 2021 18:03:15 GMT
The Foil that fiend reminds me of a French film I saw once. it was black and white, and might have been silent. I think the heroine in it had her bag stolen and a crowd chase the man and attack him. I can't remember a lot. Does anyone know it?
Edited to say I'm sure it was regarded as a classic.
Edited again: I remember some more. It had a barge, and the woman looked like a ghost in it at one point.
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Post by helrunar on Jun 3, 2021 18:26:31 GMT
I hope the blackguard got his just desserts for how villainously he was treating that innocent puss! A vile, heartless fiend in truth! By the way, years ago a friend of mine told me that the phrase "no room to swing a cat" referred not to a lovely feline, but to a cat-o-nine-tails; I thought that was interesting, but have never tried to follow it up.
The plucky girl armed with a deceptively frail looking parasol reminds me of Amelia Peabody in Elizabeth Peters' very entertaining Egyptological mystery series. Amelia always went out armed with a very formidably equipped umbrella and numerous miscreants felt the sting of her steel, and lived to rue the day.
H. devoted acolyte of the Cat Goddess Bast.
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Post by dem bones on Jun 3, 2021 19:05:42 GMT
Alas, even Ms Peabody would struggle to fend off the slobbering idiots, lecherous octogenarians (male and female), torture-loving "monks" and mayors dressed up as man-eating squid who roamed the pages of the Shudder pulps and their short-lived derivatives.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jun 3, 2021 19:14:00 GMT
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jun 3, 2021 19:19:19 GMT
But there is one far more terrible than even Spring Heeled Jack himself. He is... dem bones with Asimov's hands grafted on!
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jun 4, 2021 14:31:41 GMT
As no one seems in a High Cockalorum mood, I'll leave you with this image of a lady being terrified by a fiend instead.
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Post by dem bones on Jun 4, 2021 16:38:28 GMT
the fiend's fiend. Harry H. Corbett, Olympic gold standard creepy as the Cover-Girl Killer.
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Post by Swampirella on Jun 4, 2021 17:02:12 GMT
Looks like a pretty good movie; surprised I haven't heard of it yet.
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Post by helrunar on Jun 4, 2021 17:38:57 GMT
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Post by Dr Strange on Jun 4, 2021 18:50:42 GMT
INTERLUDE: Black-hearted fiends in top hats. In films. Definitely a thing in the 1920s/30s - Dr Caligari, 1920 1922 London After Midnight, 1927 1931 And made a sort of comeback in 2014 -
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Post by dem bones on Jun 5, 2021 16:43:15 GMT
... but did it ever truly go away?
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