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Post by allthingshorror on Mar 17, 2008 14:37:43 GMT
I know it was from a book of short stories - dont think it was in the Pan books or I would have come across it for sure. All I can remember is that a posh(?) ladies fingers were found in a post box. And maybe she came back as a ghost.
Have scratched my head over this one for many a year trying to remember it!!
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Post by dem on Mar 22, 2008 9:33:44 GMT
Thought I'd give this a bump as, I must admit, I'm *ahem* stumped. Can't your remember anything else about it that might help, Johnny?
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Post by sean on Mar 22, 2008 13:12:27 GMT
Right, this is probably fuck-all to do with anything, but the first thing I thought of was this, a paragraph about an episode of 'Night Gallery' which gets a mention at the back of my childhood bible, 'The Twilight Zone Companion' by Marc Scott Zicree:
In 'Green Fingers', adapted by Serling from the short story by R. C. Cook, a strong willed old woman (Elsa Lanchester), proud of her gardening abilities and determined not to sell her property to a consciouless industrialist (Cameron Mitchell), has her fingers hacked off by a thug but manages to plant them in her garden before bleeding to death - with terrifying results. In the end, Mitchell, thoroughly mad, his hair turned white, peers at the camera from out of the bushes and rasps, "You know what grows from little old ladies fingers?...Little old ladies!"
The end of the Night Gallery episode is up on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LWQdlAYW5Q |
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Post by dem on Mar 22, 2008 13:33:36 GMT
Ah, well if it's Green Fingers then it's by R. C. Cook and you can find it in Fontana Horror #3.
Spoiler:
Old widow Bowen prides herself on being able to make “anything grow” in her garden. this seems to be true. Even tropical plants entirely unsuited to the climate flourish as do a piece of firewood, a tuft of her hair, a fingernail …
When a rabbit she buried grows back from a skeleton and runs off she begins to worry. she decides to chop down the tree but it resents any attempt at keeping it in check and she only succeeds in slicing off her finger with an axe. She plants the severed digit, too - and a replica widow Bowen shoots up from the soil. Comes the day with the fully-grown double uproots itself …
Shortly afterwards in the coppice, the body of an old woman is found chopped into pieces …
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Post by allthingshorror on Mar 23, 2008 7:54:26 GMT
Nah definately not that.
The lady in question was young and rich. A postman finds her fingers in the postbox. He goes looking for women sans two fingers.
Ends up that she's a ghost and I THINK she's luring the postman to his death as he was the brother of the person who did it (as he's fleed the country and ghosts in this story have abviously never heard of cheap trans intercontinental flights)
Damm - I wish I remembered more but there's been a hell of a lot of drink and drugs in 15 years.....
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Post by allthingshorror on May 2, 2009 11:05:13 GMT
Well. it's taken 1 year and one month of looking, but I finally found the short story in question, and years of abuse have certainly made me come up with a story in my head that's more colourful than the one that was written! *drumroll* The Haunted Pillar-Box by Rosemary Timperley from the 8th Armada Ghost Book! And it's as good as I...remembered....it...  |
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