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Post by albie on Jun 1, 2019 10:24:11 GMT
Really short but powerful and scary. Need I say more?
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Post by albie on Mar 25, 2019 15:34:41 GMT
Brandreth creeps me out. I think he's in the lowest of the lowest section of the Illuminati.
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Post by albie on Mar 25, 2019 13:55:45 GMT
It's been suggested that Rolt inspired Aickman to write horror stories. I've read one story by Rolt and it was pretty good.
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Post by albie on Mar 25, 2019 13:54:02 GMT
Saw the original as a child. As spooky as any horror. Spookier!
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Post by albie on Mar 12, 2019 14:25:17 GMT
THanks for your time. I read PARMA VIOLETS the other day. It lacked something. Probably more L P Hartley-like than James or anyone else.
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Post by albie on Mar 11, 2019 16:27:11 GMT
I have his first two anthos.
The Dreams of Cardinal Vittorini and The Complete Symphonies of Adolf Hitler.
Just read one story so far. Christmas Card. Not bad. I know Campbell extols him.
I heard he wrote a story about M R James. COuld someone point me in the right direction?
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Post by albie on Mar 2, 2019 11:21:25 GMT
I really can't say. It is a difficult question. There are so many aspects. Because it is a paradox? So often the epitome of conversatism and at the same time anarchistic. Has anybody ever truly rooted for van Helsing? Isn't Dracula not much more interesting? BUt why is Dracula more interesting? Because he proves the supernatural? Horror films are really a battle or comparison between reality and a reality that may be. Between the mundane and the supernatural. That's why I see this as a spiritual matter.
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Post by albie on Mar 2, 2019 11:18:19 GMT
You might as well ask why we enjoy any type of story. Conflict of some kind is central to all meaningful story-telling. We are programmed to be interested in hearing about other people in trouble, basically, because it may provide clues about how to survive. I'd like to think it's more an imaginative response than anything determined by our biology or DNA. It may be that the devil is real and we all(at least those into horror) have a soul memory of him. It could be that horror films like A NIGHTMARE ON ELM ST remind us of the devil. It's a crazy notion, true.
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Post by albie on Mar 2, 2019 11:16:10 GMT
Of course there are other things that horror offers. Blood and guts. I believe that kind of horror is a matter of surrealism. violence is surreal. Horror could be described as a branch of surrealism.I think we get bored of reality. Shops. People going shopping. cars. Houses. Suppose someone was run over by a bus. Guts and blood spilling out of a person screaming. Surreal. It's not surreal at all. If you think something's surreal, it's because the elements in it are combined in a strange way that you would not normally expect, like in a dream. A screaming, bleeding, eviscerated accident victim isn't surreal. It's as real as it gets... BUt violence is unexpected. We never know how a stabbing or disembowelling will look(at least the first few times). I've never seen anyone gutted in real life. You may see it as an octopus coming out of someone. And I don't think surreal has to be limited to one definition. I think surrealism denotes dreamlike images. That could mean all manner of things.
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Post by albie on Mar 2, 2019 11:12:05 GMT
You might as well ask why we enjoy any type of story. Conflict of some kind is central to all meaningful story-telling. We are programmed to be interested in hearing about other people in trouble, basically, because it may provide clues about how to survive. I seriously would like to know why people read stuff like James Joyce and Hemingway. What emotion are these stories trying to conjure in the reader? Beats me because all I feel is bored.
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Post by albie on Mar 2, 2019 11:09:44 GMT
I'm in total agreement with all of the above by albie and Dr Strange. I can add that I think it causes us to interface with our own shadow self (as described by Jung), somewhere between casual flirtation and outright confrontation... Which can develop one's personality and character for the better, as long as the dark-half remains held in check. The connection horror makes to the mysterious and unexplainable is great exercise for the imagination as well. And how about Freud's death drive? The idea that part of us is seeking our own death?
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Post by albie on Mar 1, 2019 13:55:29 GMT
Why do we attain pleasure from horror? From fear?
I suspect it is partly spiritual in nature. By which I mean that monsters offer a greater reality. If a vampire or werewolf was captured, that would raise the bar on what is possible within our reality. That would be enthralling.
I think we get a taste of that when we read a horror story. The existence of the supernatural has implications for spirituality.
People talk of horror stories that inspire awe. I think that is true.
Of course there are other things that horror offers. Blood and guts. I believe that kind of horror is a matter of surrealism. violence is surreal. Horror could be described as a branch of surrealism.I think we get bored of reality. Shops. People going shopping. cars. Houses.
Suppose someone was run over by a bus. Guts and blood spilling out of a person screaming. Surreal.
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Post by albie on Feb 28, 2019 15:22:21 GMT
Got a family living above me. IN TWO ROOMS. They have a toddler who must weigh as much as a full grown man judging by the noise he makes as he constantly runs around as if in Oz or Wonderland. Could I be forgiven for wishing illness upon this child? There I am in the middle of a Ramsey Campbell story and BANG BANG BANG BANG COUGH BANG. Atmosphere gone. NO chance of ever liking the story to its fullest now. Because some spratling thinks it's amazing to run around and drop toys so heavy they must surely be hammers.
I bet you all have the fortune to live in detached homes down leafy avenues. Is it any wonder I find 99% of horror fiction uneventful? All those works of art ruined by PEOPLE.
So would you think bad of me if I were to cast a teensy weensy spell upon this child? Just a teensy weensy one? Maybe a broken leg or two?
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Post by albie on Feb 28, 2019 15:10:30 GMT
Would I be risking a bizarre haunting by the man himself if I admitted to you I did not like this story at all?
Hmmm. There's a hand at the window of my barge...
It contained very little oddness. Very little to be afraid of. I think he just got carried away with the characters.
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Post by albie on Feb 26, 2019 12:36:59 GMT
I don't recall any skinless zombie drinking anything in that story!
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