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Post by lemming13 on Jul 30, 2010 14:40:20 GMT
Penda's Fen was a Play for Today, and so was the Boys and Girls Come Out to Play. They also did the original version of Lost Hearts, I believe, which was later shoehorned into the Ghost Story for Christmas series. And there was a dramatisation of Alan Garner's Red Shift; Robin Redbreast; Stronger Than the Sun; Vampires (not an actual vampire tale but horrific enough); London Is Drowning; Crimes; Bright Eyes; Shades; Z For Zachariah. There were probably others I don't recall. Armchair Theatre mounted The Picture of Dorian Gray, John Wyndham's Dumb Martian, and I'm pretty sure they did a version of MRJ's The Rose Garden.
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Post by lemming13 on Jul 24, 2010 13:59:44 GMT
I was rooting through the Vault earlier, when I remembered I hadn't yet cleaned out the canary cage. So I logged out and did my chore to the mellow strains of Cradle of Filth's Midian album (don't worry, it isn't animal cruelty, the fluffy little dears sing along). At which point it suddenly occurred to me that I've become a horror movie stereotype; I'm the nice little lady with the canaries and the crochet and the sinister secret in the cellar/ attic. In an Amicus film I'd be played by Beryl Reid. My daughter kindly pins me as Madame Foster of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, but I know the truth. So I was wondering, is it a result of too much pulp horror? Am I the only one, or are there board members who have turned into the wicked vicar, the peculiar shopkeeper, or the blousy sexpot?
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Post by lemming13 on Jul 24, 2010 13:05:43 GMT
Actually, I've met him (two years ago, at a talk he gave on ghosts and mysteries), and it's true, he is on that fine, fine borderline. But all the best people are. In a way it's a pity he spends most of his time these days on the non-fiction, though pulp's loss is Forteana's gain. He's supposed to return to our area later this year, so I'll buttonhole him about coming back to the fold.
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Post by lemming13 on Jul 24, 2010 13:01:10 GMT
I thought I had all the Wordsworth ones (and I have the unreleased on pre-order), but then you go and show me the special editions... Though since a lot of the contents are repeated from the smaller anthologies, I don't know whether to go for them or not. Probably not, since my shelves are already three rows deep in books. On the other hand, who needs all that much floor?
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Post by lemming13 on Jul 24, 2010 12:45:22 GMT
I'm not sure of the exact anthology on number 2, but I'm pretty sure the story depicted is a Ray Bradbury, Uncle Einar.
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Post by lemming13 on Jul 24, 2010 12:35:18 GMT
Actually I think all horror is themed around odd interpersonal relationships, though having unexpectedly been exposed to a trailer for some ghastly soap yesterday while setting up the dvd player for Sapphire and Steel, it looks like allegedly normal relationships are the most horrific. Thank you again demonik for the suggestions - I've read the Christopher Fowler one (he's a favourite author of mine) but the others were new. I'd have to add in Stephen King's The Mangler; Lafcadio Hearn's extremely short Furisode; and Sir Andrew Caldecott's Quintet, which includes a trouser-stealing poltergeist.
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Post by lemming13 on Jul 24, 2010 12:15:45 GMT
Thank you so much for the content listing on this - just received the copy I ordered from Amazon as a result, and have already read three while eating lunch. My daughter has put in her request to be next to read it, and I don't think she'll have a long wait.
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Post by lemming13 on Jul 20, 2010 18:27:25 GMT
I bought the dvd set of Charley Says, merrily scared the crap out of myself for ages. It also includes Protect and Survive, which I found scary for a whole different reason. My daughter loved the Think Bike ads involving the hammer and the peach, for some reason; she has this slightly disturbing tendency to re-enact it with spoons and icecream, while chuckling in sinister fashion. Maybe it's my fault for passing on some kind of horror nutjob genes... I had to make mention of a few of my tv favourites, those not already covered here. I had nightmares over a very creepy Play For Today called Penda's Fen, involving druids and ritual amputation. There was another one I don't recall the title of, involving spectral children luring living ones out into the night by singing Boys and Girls Come Out to Play. Doomwatch was a superb series, and of course Quatermass in all his manifestations. And there were some lovely anthologies like Out of the Unknown (I believe the BBC wiped that one), and Journey to the Unknown with its creepy opening sequence, a rollercoaster ride to a haunting whistling tune. And more recently there was Ultraviolet, which I was very sorry was never followed up. I don't usually watch tv at all these days, it irritates me too much (when there is something I want to see it gets sandwiched among adverts for appalling things that blast my sanity), but I did make an exception for Mark Gatiss' Crooked House - bless his Hammer Horror-steeped socks.
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Post by lemming13 on Jul 20, 2010 18:11:11 GMT
I was another of the scribbling brood, but my mother actually didn't freak out; she did get a bit worried when I developed a lifelong phobia of things touching my eyeballs from watching Bunuel's An Andalusian Dog, but generally she had no problem with my writing horror fanzines, and sitting up watching Creature Features. I stand corrected over Coffin Joe, I forgot he was Brazilian cheese. But the Murders in the Manchester Morgue, that was Spanish. And there have been a few recent ones which stand up very well; I enjoyed The Dark Hour, Fermat's Room and Timecrimes, and of course The Orphanage. Mind you, they're a bit classier than the kind of pulp we all know and love. Rec, though, (and I in no way recommend the Americanised one, because I haven't seen it), touches the old gory roots.
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Post by lemming13 on Jul 20, 2010 18:02:00 GMT
Ward No. 6 is excellent; so are The Black Monk and The Student. I've come across Potocki's work via the film The Saragossa Manuscript; I was fascinated by it. I'll have to look out for that.
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Post by lemming13 on Jul 17, 2010 21:08:11 GMT
I've been looking around the Vault, but as I only joined a couple of days ago you'll forgive me if I have missed any posts on this topic. I'm an enthusiastic player of roleplaying games - not the legendary Dungeons and Dragons, I outgrew that when I was 15, but the original White Wolf World of Darkness and Call of Cthulhu systems that allow for more actual roleplay and less dice. I've also played Warhammer Fantasy, Dark Heresy and Rogue Trader, Deadlands, Whispering Vault and many more (including a crossover of World of Darkness which was homegrown and set in the 1930s - not just inspired by Indie and Hellboy, but many other pulp delights). Is anyone else out there a player? My playing group fell apart because of personal disagreements, and I'm beginning to feel like I'm the only British RPG-er left outside of London...
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Post by lemming13 on Jul 17, 2010 21:00:31 GMT
I know it's been a long time since this thread was started, but I'm a fan of cheesy Spanish horror flicks. How about 'Los Muertos Sin Ojos' - the Blind Dead? There are four films about these creatures, who are a cross between mummies and zombies, a cult of evil Templars who go in for molesting Spanish ladies in shorts an awful lot. And you must have come across the awe-inspiringly awful Coffin Joe.
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Post by lemming13 on Jul 17, 2010 20:50:07 GMT
I think I hurt myself laughing at this stuff. You people are evil, EEEVVILLL, and I love you. Even though I admit I'm a Vine Voice on Amazon (hey, I get free books, and some of them are actually good) and take it seriously enough to have reviewed a cushion. (It was a damn good cushion, though; I'm leaning on its Union Jack-covered comfiness as I type).
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Post by lemming13 on Jul 17, 2010 20:41:28 GMT
It does look a juicy collection, though I don't know if I'd classify M. Valdemar as a zombie. The Mammoth Book of Zombie Comics has been on sale at a bargain price in HMV lately, along with the Mammoth Book of Horror Comics, and both are worth the money. I don't know if this has been posted anywhere else in the Vault, so forgive a newb if I'm repeating other people's posts, but the listing for the Zombie Comics is; Making Amends - Steve Niles & Josh Medors Pariah - Jon Ayre & One-Neck In Sickness - Jon Ayre & Stephen Hill Necrotic: Dead Flesh On a Living Body - Buddy Scalera, M Swank & Pat Quinn The Immortals - Darko Macan & Edvin Biukovic Flight From Earth - Oleg Kozyrev & Roman Surzhenko Amy - Mark Bloodworth & Vincent Locke Black Sabbath - Stuar Kerr & Vincent Locke M.A.Z.H - Andrew Davies & Laura Watton Dead Eyes Open - Matthew Shepherd & Roy Boney Jr Might of the Living Dead - Indio Job Satisfaction - Gary Crutchley The Corpse - Askold Akishin The Haunted Ship - Askold Akishin The Zombie - Askold Akishin Pigeons From Hell - Robert E Howard & Scott Hampton Zombie World: Dead End - Stephen Blue Zombies - Kieron Gillen & Andy Bloor
Some of these are very short, some extremely long, and the art work varies in style, but I found all of them worth a read and some are real classics.
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Post by lemming13 on Jul 17, 2010 20:26:30 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.
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