Chuck_G
Crab On The Rampage
Posts: 32
|
Post by Chuck_G on Oct 19, 2011 18:20:10 GMT
I hope no one minds that I bumped this topic back to the top, but since it's that time of year I thought it would be fun. Besides, I love Halloween themed stories. Two that I would include:
He'll Come Knocking At Your Door by Robert McCammon Yesterday's Witch by Gahan Wilson
|
|
Chuck_G
Crab On The Rampage
Posts: 32
|
Post by Chuck_G on Oct 28, 2010 14:47:59 GMT
I really enjoy these kind of stories, I'll have to look for some of the ones on your list. The one that comes to mind for me is 'Scream Queen' by Edo von Belcom. I also really like HR Wakefield's 'The Ghost Hunt' in Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories, which is a radio show crew in peril story.
|
|
Chuck_G
Crab On The Rampage
Posts: 32
|
Post by Chuck_G on Aug 25, 2010 15:39:54 GMT
The DAW Horror Stories. Mainly because of the eclectic choice of Wagner as editor. He must have read pretty much every small press publication going (no mean feat at that time) and picked out some real gems. One story was either the script, or a story expanded from a script at Wagner's suggestion, from the EC tribute comic Twisted Tales. Decent informative introductions that act as a snap-shot of genre fiction at the time as well as providing background on the authors and their motivations. No god-awful 'public domain' stories to pad out a low-budget. No hint of an "old boys club" in that if the story was good in Wagner's eyes than it was in, whether you were Stephen King or published in some cruddy old zine. The books stand the test of time in terms of their quality. This was always my favorite too. I enjoy the Mammoth Books of Best New Horror, but they just don't have the same feel that the DAWs had. Another great series that I loved was Night Visions. They featured three authors who got a certain amount of words to do whatever they wanted. There were some great stories in there. Robert McCammon's 'Best Friends' remains one of my favorites.
|
|
Chuck_G
Crab On The Rampage
Posts: 32
|
Post by Chuck_G on Aug 25, 2010 15:33:44 GMT
Glad to see I'm not the only one who has several anthologies going at one time! Right now I'm reading:
The Avon Ghost Reader Savage Tales of Solomon Kane by Robert E. Howard The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories Necronomicon: The Best Weird Fiction of HP Lovecraft and my lunchtime novel is Dray Prescott # 15 Secret Scorpio by Alan Burt Akers (Ken Bulmer)
|
|
Chuck_G
Crab On The Rampage
Posts: 32
|
Post by Chuck_G on Aug 23, 2010 22:53:04 GMT
Avon Ghost Reader Avon Book Company 1946 Introduction - H.W. (Herbert Williams) The Dunwich Horror - H.P. Lovecraft The Panelled Room - August Derleth The Fireplace - Henry S. Whitehead The Haunted Doll's House - M.R. James The Squaw - Bram Stoker Wingless Victory - H.F. Heard Through the Dragon Glass - A. Merritt Naked Lady - Mindret Lord The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - F. Scott Fitzgerald The Bottle Party - John Collier By the Waters of Babylon - Stephen Vincent Benet The Salamander - William B. Seabrook
|
|
Chuck_G
Crab On The Rampage
Posts: 32
|
Post by Chuck_G on Aug 23, 2010 22:40:23 GMT
I hope I've posted this in the right place. This is my first attempt at uploading a cover and posting, so I hope I've done it right. The image seems a little big to me. The Pocket Book of Ghost Stories Edited by Philip Van Doren Stern Pocket Books, Inc. 1942 Introduction Philip Van Doren Stern The Beckoning Fair One - Oliver Onions The Mezzotint - MR James Tarnhelm - Sir Hugh Walpole The Willows - Algernon Blackwood August Heat - W.F. Harvey The Mark of the Beast - Rudyard Kipling Couching at the Door - D.K. Broster The Familiar - Sheridan Le Fanu The Upper Birth - F. Marion Crawford The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allen Poe The Yellow Wall Paper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman Afterward - Edith Wharton Full Fathom Five - Alexander Woolcott
|
|
Chuck_G
Crab On The Rampage
Posts: 32
|
Post by Chuck_G on Aug 23, 2010 13:34:55 GMT
The Spirit of Tom Molyneaux by Robert E. Howard is a ghost story combined with a pretty good boxing story. It was also published under the title The Apparition in the Prize Ring.
|
|
Chuck_G
Crab On The Rampage
Posts: 32
|
Post by Chuck_G on Aug 20, 2010 13:20:46 GMT
If I'm remembering right the Seabury Quinn story The Horror on the Links has a mad scientist.
|
|
Chuck_G
Crab On The Rampage
Posts: 32
|
Post by Chuck_G on Aug 20, 2010 13:15:43 GMT
I bet no-one's done an anthology of horror on the theme of laundry. Not counting 'Oh Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad', there are several stories I've read which revolve around laundries, laundromats and textiles gone bad. Personally I always feel a certain horror when laundry day approaches, but that's just my idleness raising its head. i love that idea! someone could use a late night launderette as the setting for a Tales From The Crypt-style selection. anyway, three relevant stories i could think of are: Christopher Fowler - The Laundry Imp Pamela Vincent - Lost Soul Richard Laymon - The Hunt Here's another: The Rag Thing by David Grinnell
|
|
Chuck_G
Crab On The Rampage
Posts: 32
|
Post by Chuck_G on May 29, 2010 2:24:51 GMT
|
|
Chuck_G
Crab On The Rampage
Posts: 32
|
Post by Chuck_G on Mar 18, 2010 11:53:53 GMT
Thanks Craig.
|
|
Chuck_G
Crab On The Rampage
Posts: 32
|
Post by Chuck_G on Mar 17, 2010 23:28:55 GMT
Currently reading 'Haggopian and Others' by Brian Lumley. It has a lot of his early Cthulhu Mythos stories. I also have 'The Taint and Other Novellas' on by TBR pile.
|
|
Chuck_G
Crab On The Rampage
Posts: 32
|
Post by Chuck_G on Mar 17, 2010 23:25:13 GMT
I used to have an anthology called The Owl's Watch edited by George Brandon Saul. The only story that I can remember from it was Dunsany's Two Bottles of Relish. Does anyone happen to have a list of the table of contents?
|
|
Chuck_G
Crab On The Rampage
Posts: 32
|
Post by Chuck_G on Mar 17, 2010 23:16:09 GMT
I've been lurking around for a while and wanted to say hi. My name's Chuck, and I love vintage horror and pulp fiction. I've been enjoying the many reviews and TOCs listed for all the anthologies. It's also great to see the Wordsworth Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural folks here. I just discovered these on Amazon and am looking forward to spending some hard earned cash soon!
|
|
Chuck_G
Crab On The Rampage
Posts: 32
|
Post by Chuck_G on Mar 17, 2010 23:00:15 GMT
How about the ghost stories of Ralph Adams Cram?
|
|