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Post by dem bones on Sept 4, 2022 13:41:29 GMT
... but not so much their gentler moments .... PT (Page Trotter?) Oscar Wilde - The Canterville Ghost: ( The Court and Society Review, 23 Feb/ 2 March 1887). "For three hundred years I have not slept, and I am so tired." Despite a fearsome reputation going back three centuries and more, American minister to England, Hiram B. Otis and family — wife Lucretia, eldest son Washington, twin brothers, 'Stars and Stripes,' and sweet, sensible 15-year-old Virginia — move in at Canterville Chase, near Ascot, Berks. The mansion is haunted by Sir Simon Canterville, spectre of many ghastly guises ("Jonas the Graveless, or the Corpse-snatcher of Chertsey Barn," "Black Isaac, or the Huntsman of Hogley Wood," "The Vampire Monk, or the Bloodless Benedictine" & Co.), who murdered his wife only to be chained up and starved to death by her brothers. The ghost proves no match for the Americans, who are simply too hyper-materialist to take fright at his antics. Utterly humiliated and forlorn, the ghost confides in Virginia. "Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. You can help me. You can open for me the portals of Death’s house, for Love is always with you, and Love is stronger than Death is." Through prayer and tears, Virginia helps Sir Simon pass into the blessed garden of death. Classic it may be, but God, is this story mawkish. We so need a version which sees Sir Simon torture-murder the entire family.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 5, 2022 15:53:52 GMT
Lloyd Greer - "I'll Come Back to Haunt You!": The chemist learned the full horror of this awful threat when an unearthly creature played havoc among the explosives and deadly acids in his laboratory!. Old Krug, a bitter and vindictive factory nightwatchman, takes such offence at the young chemist's flippant remark re "ignorant" types who believe in ghosts and spirits, that he vows to hex him from beyond the grave. Krug duly dies of pneumonia. One year to the day, he makes good on his threat. China's Spectral Emperor: Spectre of Chin Tsing, last of the Ming Emperors, who, on learning of his armies' defeat by the invading Manchu's, hung himself from a tree in the Peking Royal Park in 1682. According to our anonymous source, the tree is - or was - chained at the base as a mark of shame for its part in the "killing" of the great one. Page Trotter Achmed Abdullah - Renunciation: ( Munsey's Magazine, March 1919). Roger made the greatest sacrifice of all — he gave up the woman he loved. But the Other World granted him a reward sweeter than any earthly happiness. On the eve of his departure to France on a secret mission, Roger Kenyon receives a shock visit from Josephine Erkskine, the girl he loved and lost back home in New England when she married a man who could better provide for her brothers and sisters. My, that's a flimsy dress. What brings her here? How did she know where to find him?
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Post by andydecker on Sept 6, 2022 6:35:26 GMT
Page Trotter There is just Rudolph Valentino missing on this picture.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 7, 2022 8:46:16 GMT
Page Trotter Archie Binns - Intruder at the Masquerade: Her beauty cast a spell of silence and mystery over the crowded ballroom. Her strange words struck terror to the dancers' hearts. Who was she? What was her fearful purpose? Tom Greenfield's drunken attempt to de-masque a mystery 'Maid of Athens' at the Stevens sisters' ball invites catastrophe. The beautiful stranger, who, scarily, knows far too much about everyone's intimate business, angrily warns he and Dick Worth, our recently engaged narrator, "One of you is to die before morning. Within a year the other, with his own hand, will kill the woman he loves!". PT (Page Trotter?) Tito Schipa, Premier Tenor of the Chicago Opera Company - The Scarred Hand: A famous opera singer tells of his amazing supernatural experience in Spain - the TRUE story of a murderer betrayed by the wraith of his own hand. At close of a successful season in Seville, Schipa keeps his promise to visit his great friend, Don Rodiguez, at Mirimar, his part-medieval castle, part modern château in Seville. He arrives to find the family mourning the death of Señor Martinez the cattle rancher, stabbed to death for his wallet as he rode home through the woods. The killer escaped unseen. Granted his pick of guest rooms, Schipa takes one in the castle. That night, his sleep is interrupted by a deathly white hand reaching out from a portrait on the wall, clutching a spectral bloodied dagger .... Am I a Prophetess?: Mrs Frank H. Vannings of Racine, Wisconsin, wonders at her dubious gift. From childhood, the lies she has told to extricate herself from a difficult situation have had an uncanny knack of becoming truth soon afterward. "I am aw'fly sorry to be late, but my little brother has the measles ...", etc.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 8, 2022 9:16:07 GMT
Harry Rogers, D.D., as told to Victor Rousseau - Phantom Lips: This young clergyman forgot his sacred calling in the arms of a wayward woman. then, out of eternity, came a stern-faced judge!. From the hour of his birth, Rogers' sainted, widowed mother has prayed he will dedicate his life to God's service, but her only son's belief in the Almighty is flimsy at best, and he'd much rather follow in his late father's footsteps and take up the post set aside for him at the bank. Much to Mum's joy, instant conversion at Mr. Castleman's revival meeting — "Come to the Mercy Seat! Come to the Mercy Seat and be freed from the shackles of sin!" — persuades him to enter a seminary, a rash decision he soon bitterly regrets. Rogers' graduation coincides with the death of his mother and his being knocked out cold by a golf ball mishit by soon-to-be independently wealthy gay divorcee Mrs. Celia North, the Valleyfield She-Devil! Mrs. North sets to corrupting the innocent. Who will save him from her sinful embrace? I have to admit, this one is pretty terrible. Count Cagliostro - Spirit Tales: The Brown Man of Croglin — The Screaming Skull — The Uncanny Doom of Cecil Rhodes, the Empire Builder — and other TRUE stories! . Non-fiction compilation, includes Captain Fisher's reworking of Varney, the Vampyre as the Croglin Grange Vampire, retold and further embellished by the Count ("A fictional story should end there. This true one does not.") Impressive support provided by, among others; 'Black Roger,' decapitated in a brawl during the reign of Charles II, whose skull screams on at Wardley Hall, Salford; the death-dispensing 'Grey Ghoste' of Dalham manor House, near Newmarket, whose name victims include the imperialist, Cecil Rhodes; the Woman in white and the 'Luck' of Eden Hall Cumberland — a goblin which must never be allowed to break or fall; the hunchbacked horror of Ham House, and a centuries old murder; the curse on the house of Byron; a coughing spectre at a Welsh Salvation Army hostel; an incontinent gemstone; and a Mexican youth's inexplicable suicide, as foretold by a medium.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 9, 2022 11:07:29 GMT
Gordon Hillman - Panic in Wild Harbor: What Was the Lurking Horror that Terrorized This Quiet New England Village? "Rot! You can't expect to find ghosts in a summer resort nowadays. Wild Harbor's full of artists and barelegged girls in the season. The only thing that's ghastly about the town is the smell of fish" Two years ago, the Golden Wind was smashed on the rocks during a race through thicjk fog with Captain Starbuck's Hallowe'en. Ten men drowned, their bodies as yet to be recovered. Now every Friday at midnight, a bell above the dead skipper's house, inexplicably tolls once for every man lost. Cranshawe, the famous psychic detective, and his mandatory sceptic sidekick, investigate. Personal favourite after Bride of the Unknown. John Carpenter should film it. (looks like) Lew Piello (?) Howard Thurston - Do Dead Men Ever Tell Tales?: Ninety per cent of the mediums are frauds, this famous magician believes — but read what he has to say about the other ten per cent! The American illusionist and scourge of bogus psychics and charlatans, is notoriously unsusceptible to the apparatus of the phoney mediums, i.e., the flimsy gauze spooks, speaking trumpets, the reading of sealed questions, the metal shoe and other table-tumbling contraptions. But how to explain the super-normal wonders of the Neapolitan, Madame Eusapia Palladino. "I am willing to stake my reputation as a magician that what this one medium showed me was genuine!" Page Trotter
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Post by dem bones on Sept 10, 2022 10:23:06 GMT
Robert Napier [ed.] - The Meeting Place. Robert Napier - The Prison Warden's Story: A violent fugitive voluntarily returns to the 'great western prison' he had but recently escaped, convinced the detested warden he murdered is holding a gun to his back. P. F. Bullock - Georgia's Famous Ghost: From October 1872, the Surrency family endured the persecutions of a pranking poltergeist until it grew bored and moved on. Case still something of a cause célèbre, eyewitnesses to the goings-on including scientists, big shot reporters and nosey neighbours. R. McT. - Spirits in Iceland: Florizel von Reuter, eminent violinist and psychic researcher, has been assured by a little girl that he is under the protection of the four tiny gnomes who live on his shoulder. Jennie McLoughlin - Ectoplasm — or a Soul?: Reader wonders at the spirit faces appearing in her photographs these past two years. Alice D. - Some More About Vampires: "I am sure many theatregoers will not soon forget the drama Dracula, recently adapted from the novel of that name. It seems impossible that there isn't some truth in a tradition that has flourished so long and so widely. Frankly, I'm more than half convinced!" H. Williams - Phantoms on the South Seas: The Laok, Bali's hybrid vampire-poltergeist, and Java's tree-dwelling phantom betel juice squirter. Kemp - A Specter with a Conscience: Ghost of a London butler who shot himself in the wine cellar rather than admit to stealing a bottle. Frank R. - Can a Miser Come Back? : A séance at the Old Paye house on Chews Landing Road, Pennsylvania, manifests the spirit of a former resident.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 11, 2022 15:53:39 GMT
Dr. Henry Leigh, as told to H. Thomson Rich - The Thing That Came Home from the War: As he kissed his bride goodbye, Curtis vowed he would return from France — no matter what. But stark terror gripped a whole town when he kept his promise. As blurb. Recently wed, Curtis leaves to fight in France after reassuring his bride, "I will come back, Jennie, sweetheart. No matter what happens." And he does. Or so Jennie believes. Problem is, his wife is the only one can see him. Dr. Leigh and other family friends, fearful for her sanity, play along with the delusion despite themselves. When Jennie receives a telegram from the War Office, bearing bad tidings, she simply shreds it and carries on as before, until a bizarre situation takes another strange twist. Page Trotter Clinton Tolliver - The Clue of the Black Dragon: Chinatown, grimly inscrutable, concealed the dreadful secret of Millicent Courtney's disappearance — until her lover found a weird guide. Narrator is distraught when his fiancée, Miss Courtney, a welfare worker in New York's yellow quarter, goes missing among the opium dens and illegal gambling joints. I mean, one hears such dreadful stories of the white slave trade .... The police have no leads, the community having drawn a veil of silence over the affair for fear of reprisal — until the ghost of Leung Nam, Tolliver's wise, just, murdered friend, breaks rank, leads him through thick fog to a not-quite abandoned warehouse ....
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Sept 11, 2022 18:44:14 GMT
You have a king now! Thoughts?
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Post by Michael Connolly on Sept 11, 2022 21:09:21 GMT
You have a king now! Thoughts? I don't think he has any.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 12, 2022 16:56:13 GMT
This issue's serial instalments. George T. Osborn, as told to Wilbert Wadleigh - Haunted Hollywood [Part 5 of 5]: Trapped! Yet the "Scorpion" makes one last desperate move — and terror reigns in the studios.A supernatural film crew in peril whodunnit. On-set murder and catastrophe at Summit studios during filming of Frank Padgett's mystery novel, The Scorpion, eerily mirror the book's darker episodes and those in the blind author's troubled life, not least the suicide of his lover, Sybil Dale, whose ghost now prowls the dressing rooms. Padgett's Scorpion is a human fiend who preys upon motion picture celebrities through their weakness for drugs and occult practices. But how much, if any of the novel is based on fact? Can it really be that a devil worship cult known as the Sivanians control Hollywood? Page Trotter James Haskell, as told to Alan Schultz - The Man with the Sabre Cut [Part 3 of 4] : A Tale of Mystery and Terror in the New York Night-Clubs. Ever since he came into possession of a curious workbench, Haskell has been haunted by the ghost of the James Stephen Bixbee, the great inventor and electronics wizard. Haskell is smitten by Ella, the spectre's great-granddaughter, a cabaret dancer at 'Slink' Mustapay's Crystal Slipper nightclub on Broadway, and the ghost is concerned for her safety. Haskell shares these concerns, chief among them, her association with scar-faced Raoul Murtha, a man of phenomenal powers of mesmerism, and his 'ape-lie' Jap chauffeur.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Sept 15, 2022 19:07:44 GMT
The story below was sent to GHOST STORIES by the woman who suffered all the heartbreak and horror pictured in this poignant human document. Not one fact in her amazing narrative has been altered.[Name withheld] - Bride of the Unknown: A True Story: "Gilbert, I am yours through life and death — for all eternity." When Gilbert, an accomplished fiddler, and Sallie wed, they are most surely the happiest couple the Kentucky mountains have ever known, so no surprise their joy is short-lived. Gilbert is set on fathering four kids — two of each, boy, girl, girl, boy in that order — but fate or whatever decides otherwise. "Each year I gave birth to a still-born child, until five lay yonder beneath the poplar." Gilbert takes to playing his mournful music at all hours until the day Sallie finds him propped against the tree. Stone dead, cold to the touch — yet still his corpse plays on! Sallie is too young for widowhood, and when Big Dan Flynn bashfully requests her hand in marriage, she forgets her pledge to husband MK I. Fatally for both, Gilbert hasn't. God, but I love Ghost Stories! "Up in the Kentucky hills the coming of a stranger is still a rare event."This story was excellent (the illustration, too). I don't suppose there's any way to be sure that the anonymous author was really from eastern Kentucky, but the first-person narration comes across as authentic, and the writing evokes the setting vividly.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 16, 2022 10:19:04 GMT
"Up in the Kentucky hills the coming of a stranger is still a rare event." This story was excellent (the illustration, too). I don't suppose there's any way to be sure that the anonymous author was really from eastern Kentucky, but the first-person narration comes across as authentic, and writing evokes the setting vividly. So pleased you enjoyed it. For me, it's the standout story in the usual curates egg of an issue. In the unlikely event John Locke gets around to a third Ghost Stories selection, I hope he considers Bride of the Unknown. Hadn't realised until now it's the cover story, so editor Bond presumably rated it highly.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Sept 16, 2022 11:42:55 GMT
For me, it's the standout story in the usual curates egg of an issue. In the unlikely event John Locke gets around to a third Ghost Stories selection, I hope he considers Bride of the Unknown. Hadn't realised until now it's the cover story, so editor Bond presumably rated it highly. There's a narrow space on my shelves next to the Locke set, so I went ahead and ordered a copy.
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Post by humgoo on Jan 21, 2023 8:29:17 GMT
Ghost Stories: January 1927 (Fiction House Press, 2020; originally The Constructive Publishing Corporation, 1927) George William Wilder - Never Scoff at a Ghost Alan Van Hoesen - The Specter of the Yellow Quarter Edwin A. Goewey - Johnny Kelly's Christmas Ghost Mark Mellen - "They Who Play with Sacred Things—" Edmund Snell - The Black Spider J. Paul Suter - The Woman with Two Souls Samri Frikell - Can the Spirits of the Dead be Photographed? Ralph Durham - Out of a Gleaming Tomb R. Cummings - They Hanged a Phantom for Murder Lyon Mearson - Pawn of the Unseen Victor Rousseau - The Doll That Came to Life Colonel Norman G. Thwaites - "What a Man Sows—" Robert Sneddon - NEXT!—Within Four Creeping Walls Wilbert Wadleigh - Under the Spell of the Red Circle Frank Belknap Long, Jr. - The Man Who Died Twice Spirit Tales—Timely Topics of Current Psychic Interest $10,000 Offered for Ghosts Were You Born in December?—Let the Stars Determine Your Fate
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