alansjf
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Post by alansjf on May 28, 2008 20:07:07 GMT
The First of many fine anthologies from Richard Dalby: The Sorceress in Stained Glass & Other Ghost Stories (Tom Stacey, 1971)  Lewis Spence - The Sorceress in Stained Glass H.R. Wakefield - ‘And He Shall Sing…’ E. & H. Heron - The Story of the Moor Road Mrs. L. Baille Reynolds - The House Which Was Rent Free E.K. Allan - The Round Graveyard F. Marion Crawford - The Doll’s Ghost A.D. Avison - The Horror in the Pond J. Sheridan le Fanu -The Child that Went with the Fairies N. Dennett - The Menhir Ambrose Bierce - A Jug of Syrup George Benwood - The Interrupted Honeymoon A.M. Burrage - Footprints E.F. Benson - The Other Bed W. Hope Hodgson - The Stone Ship J.A. Hopson - The House With No Road M.R. James - A Vignette |
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Post by Michael Connolly on May 6, 2017 12:51:33 GMT
The First of many fine anthologies from Richard Dalby: The Sorceress in Stained Glass & Other Ghost Stories (Tom Stacey, 1971) Lewis Spence - The Sorceress in Stained Glass H.R. Wakefield - ‘And He Shall Sing…’ E. & H. Heron - The Story of the Moor Road Mrs. L. Baille Reynolds - The House Which Was Rent Free E.K. Allan - The Round Graveyard F. Marion Crawford - The Doll’s Ghost A.D. Avison - The Horror in the Pond J. Sheridan le Fanu -The Child that Went with the Fairies N. Dennett - The Menhir Ambrose Bierce - A Jug of Syrup George Benwood - The Interrupted Honeymoon A.M. Burrage - Footprints E.F. Benson - The Other Bed W. Hope Hodgson - The Stone Ship J.A. Hopson - The House With No Road M.R. James - A Vignette Richard Dalby was only twenty-two when The Sorceress in Stained Glass was published. I've read somewhere that he had prepared a second volume for Tom Stacey before the company stopped publication. I think it was going to be called The Spectre Spiders, named after the short story by William J. Wintle, which eventually appeared in The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories (Robinson 1990). Incidentally, according to Wikipedia, in 1981 Tom Stacey conceived the electronic tag for offenders! |
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Post by ropardoe on May 6, 2017 14:06:17 GMT
The First of many fine anthologies from Richard Dalby: The Sorceress in Stained Glass & Other Ghost Stories (Tom Stacey, 1971) Lewis Spence - The Sorceress in Stained Glass H.R. Wakefield - ‘And He Shall Sing…’ E. & H. Heron - The Story of the Moor Road Mrs. L. Baille Reynolds - The House Which Was Rent Free E.K. Allan - The Round Graveyard F. Marion Crawford - The Doll’s Ghost A.D. Avison - The Horror in the Pond J. Sheridan le Fanu -The Child that Went with the Fairies N. Dennett - The Menhir Ambrose Bierce - A Jug of Syrup George Benwood - The Interrupted Honeymoon A.M. Burrage - Footprints E.F. Benson - The Other Bed W. Hope Hodgson - The Stone Ship J.A. Hopson - The House With No Road M.R. James - A Vignette Richard Dalby was only twenty-two when The Sorceress in Stained Glass was published. I've read somewhere that he had prepared a second volume for Tom Stacey before the company stopped publication. I think it was going to be called The Spectre Spiders, named after the short story by William J. Wintle, which eventually appeared in The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories (Robinson 1990). Incidentally, according to Wikipedia, in 1981 Tom Stacey conceived the electronic tag for offenders! This was the first ever reprint of "A Vignette" (Peter Haining later claimed that honour!). |
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Post by Michael Connolly on Feb 13, 2018 15:11:59 GMT
Here's the cover that went AWOL:  |
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Post by cauldronbrewer on May 13, 2019 20:35:41 GMT
The First of many fine anthologies from Richard Dalby: The Sorceress in Stained Glass & Other Ghost Stories (Tom Stacey, 1971) Lewis Spence - The Sorceress in Stained Glass H.R. Wakefield - ‘And He Shall Sing…’ E. & H. Heron - The Story of the Moor Road Mrs. L. Baille Reynolds - The House Which Was Rent Free E.K. Allan - The Round Graveyard F. Marion Crawford - The Doll’s Ghost A.D. Avison - The Horror in the Pond J. Sheridan le Fanu -The Child that Went with the Fairies N. Dennett - The Menhir Ambrose Bierce - A Jug of Syrup George Benwood - The Interrupted Honeymoon A.M. Burrage - Footprints E.F. Benson - The Other Bed W. Hope Hodgson - The Stone Ship J.A. Hopson - The House With No Road M.R. James - A Vignette I finally received my copy of this book. For some reason, the name of the title story has intrigued me for a long time--maybe it's just a compelling mental picture. Anyhow, "The Sorceress in Stained Glass" mostly lived up to my hopes. It's short and fairly conventional, but the imagery is evocative and the narrator's disgruntled commentary on his partner adds a bit of fun. I'm surprised it hasn't been reprinted more often. The Wakefield story isn't one of his more impressive efforts, but I'm looking forward to the Heron and Heron entry (part of the Flaxman Low series, which I've always felt deserves to be more famous) as well as some of the more obscure ones. |
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Post by cauldronbrewer on May 14, 2019 2:14:56 GMT
So it turns out I'd read "The Story of the Moor Road Before" (I can't figure out where), but it was worth a second read. And the next two stories--"The House Which Was Rent Free" and "The Round Graveyard"--are both solid old-school chillers (the latter featured in last year's Vault calendar, which I missed at the time). All in all, I'm very pleased with Mr. Dalby's selections. |
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Post by Middoth on May 14, 2019 8:30:45 GMT
The Hodgson's story the best and quite original. Others: "The House With No Road' - voodoo stuff, "The Interrupted Honeymoon"-about soul-exchange, "The Horror in the Pond"-the old good vampire terrorized the neighborhood. I don't read "The Menhir" from the author enjoyable "Unburied Bane".
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Post by cauldronbrewer on May 18, 2019 1:47:26 GMT
In putting together The Sorceress in Stained Glass, Dalby unearthed some entertainingly lurid stories from the 1930s Philip Allan anthologies. I wasn't particularly impressed by the soul-transference melodrama of George Benwood's "The Interrupted Honeymoon," but the others were just the sort of thing I was hoping to find: tales about long-armed revenants (E. K. Allan's "The Round Graveyard"), sheep-exsanguinating vampires (A. D. Avison's "The Horror in the Pond"), implacably menacing standing stones (N. Dennett's "The Menhir"), and zombies by the seaside (John Ashcroft Hopson's "The House with No Road"). All in all, this book was well worth tracking down.
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Post by mrhappy on May 18, 2019 4:20:21 GMT
In putting together The Sorceress in Stained Glass, Dalby unearthed some entertainingly lurid stories from the 1930s Philip Allan anthologies. I wasn't particularly impressed by the soul-transference melodrama of George Benwood's "The Interrupted Honeymoon," but the others were just the sort of thing I was hoping find: tales about long-armed revenants (E. K. Allan's "The Round Graveyard"), sheep-exsanguinating vampires (A. D. Avison's "The Horror in the Pond"), implacably menacing standing stones (N. Dennett's "The Menhir"), and zombies by the seaside (John Ashcroft Hopson's "The House with No Road"). All in all, this book was well worth tracking down. I really wish some enterprising publisher would reissue the Creeps series. Paging Valancourt. Mr. Happy |
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Post by Middoth on May 18, 2019 8:56:43 GMT
I think steady about 'Adventure Without Asking' by Oswell Blakeston.According to description it is terrific hallucinogenic tale.
"David Smith accidentally gets into a first class compartment when he boards a train at Waterloo. He finds himself alone with “a small, obese creature with a face so flabby that it looked like the disintegrated face of a medium in a spiritualist photograph after he has been deserted by one ghost and before he is possessed by another.” ‘This man is a doctor, hypnotist and mind reader, and he’s also extremely bitter and twisted about both his unfortunate appearance and his wife’s infidelity. Having caused David to faint at the station, he has him removed to his quarters where he can torment him with a scene from his worst nightmares. Weird and extremely horrible.’ dem bones |
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Post by Michael Connolly on May 18, 2019 12:45:26 GMT
In putting together The Sorceress in Stained Glass, Dalby unearthed some entertainingly lurid stories from the 1930s Philip Allan anthologies. I wasn't particularly impressed by the soul-transference melodrama of George Benwood's "The Interrupted Honeymoon," but the others were just the sort of thing I was hoping find: tales about long-armed revenants (E. K. Allan's "The Round Graveyard"), sheep-exsanguinating vampires (A. D. Avison's "The Horror in the Pond"), implacably menacing standing stones (N. Dennett's "The Menhir"), and zombies by the seaside (John Ashcroft Hopson's "The House with No Road"). All in all, this book was well worth tracking down. I agree with everything you say. It's notable that The Sorceress in Stained Glass is very similar in format and content to Hugh Lamb's anthologies that started to appear the following year. However, its unlikely that many new (as in as yet reprinted) and good 1930s' stories remain to be unearthed. |
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Post by johnnymains on May 18, 2019 13:06:29 GMT
In putting together The Sorceress in Stained Glass, Dalby unearthed some entertainingly lurid stories from the 1930s Philip Allan anthologies. I wasn't particularly impressed by the soul-transference melodrama of George Benwood's "The Interrupted Honeymoon," but the others were just the sort of thing I was hoping find: tales about long-armed revenants (E. K. Allan's "The Round Graveyard"), sheep-exsanguinating vampires (A. D. Avison's "The Horror in the Pond"), implacably menacing standing stones (N. Dennett's "The Menhir"), and zombies by the seaside (John Ashcroft Hopson's "The House with No Road"). All in all, this book was well worth tracking down. I agree with everything you say. It's notable that The Sorceress in Stained Glass is very similar in format and content to Hugh Lamb's anthologies that started to appear the following year. However, its unlikely that many new (as in as yet reprinted) and good 1930s' stories remain to be unearthed. While I'd agree that stories in the magazines of the day have more likely than not been ploughed up - I've found three or four from the 30s that were published in provincial newspapers that I'll be reprinting at some point in the future. Hugh Lamb and Richard Dalby were certainly of the thinking that there were thousands of genre stories waiting to be found - and I'm sitting on a file of 200 Victorian stories culled from the papers - lots of ghost stories at sea, plantation/slave ghosts - too many haunted house stories to shake a stick at - but also lots of 'Empire' ghost stories as well. I genuinely think we're about to see the biggest trove of stories catalogued for the first time - some being reprinted for the first time in 150 years or so. I know I'm certainly trying to do my bit. |
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Post by dem on Apr 30, 2020 18:15:47 GMT
Richard Dalby (ed.) - The Sorceress in Stained Glass (Tom Stacey, 1971) Richard Dalby - Introduction
Lewis Spence - The Sorceress in Stained Glass
H. R. Wakefield - "And He Shall Sing..."
E. Heron and H. Heron - The Story of the Moor Road
L. Baillie Reynolds - The House Which Was Rent-Free
E. K. Allan - The Round Graveyard
F. Marion Crawford - The Doll's Ghost
A. D. Avison - The Horror in the Pond
J. Sheridan Le Fanu - The Child That Went with the Fairies
N. Dennett - The Menhir
Ambrose Bierce - A Jug of Syrup
George Benwood - The Interrupted Honeymoon
A. M. Burrage - Footprints
E. F. Benson - The Other Bed
William Hope Hodgson - The Stone Ship
John Ashcroft Hopson - The House with No Road
M. R. James - A Vignette Blurb: A child looking out of the window at his own garden, a publisher working late in his office, a young couple honeymooning in a fashionable and busy hotel - nothing very frightening about those situations, is there? Read the stories in this book and you may change your mind. You may start to wonder if those footsteps coming up the stairs really are familiar and whether it really is just the wind which is rattling the window. “A stone’s throw out on either hand“ — who knows what may be lurking, waiting, coming?
Richard Dalby has collected a coven of truly terrifying stories by the greatest masters of the genre. None of them is a familiar anthology piece. He has conjured them out of rare books and forgotten magazines. Their titles are ...Lewis Spence - The Sorceress in Stained Glass: ( The Archer in the Arras, & Other Tales of Mystery, 1932). The chapel at Easterbeck, a fifteenth century Cumberland manor house, is haunted by a woman in scarlet with terrible crystal eyes, who used knot magic to raise gales and wreck ships. Folklorists Falcolner and Oliphant witness her image step out from the stained glass to wreak new havoc on the weather. A. M. Burrage - Footprints: ( Weekly Tale-Teller, 9. Nov. 1912). "I can will people who love me to do lots of things." Colonel Sevington refuses consent to a marriage between his guardsman son, 'Jack,' and Hesper, a lowly milliner's assistant. Undeterred, the young lovers elope, but a dire finances sees their baby die in squalor. Hester, who has gipsy blood, sends the child's ghost to visit a terrible death upon the sanctimonious old Tartar. John Ashcroft Hopson - The House with No Road: (Charles Lloyd [ed.], Thrills, 1935). A hiker sprains his ankle and calls at a huge red brick farmhouse in the woods. His host, a nervy, ancient recluse, explains that, but for a maidservant and a gardener, he has no need for commerce with the world outside, being entirely self-sufficient. The hiker notes something about the deathly pale servants that assists his miraculous recovery ...
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Post by humgoo on May 1, 2020 10:18:12 GMT
Glad to see you write it up, Dem. The Burrage story in it is top-notched!
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Post by dem on May 1, 2020 17:12:11 GMT
N. Dennett - The Menhir: (Charles Lloyd [ed] - Panics: A Collection of Uneasy Tales, 1934). When Mr. Edwin Melsome accepts the curateship of a small country village church, he is furious to discover that locals pay floral tribute to a hideously unpleasant-looking menhir at the churchyard gate. How frightfully Pagan! Has the Vicar done nothing to rid his flock of such idle superstition? The great stone is known and feared by the villagers as 'the Grey Gammer.' "At every funeral, the corpse must be carried around her three times before entering the churchyard, or those who carried it will die within a year." Needless to say. Mr. Melsome soon puts a stop to this ridiculous palaver, and defies the menhir to do her worst! So she does. E & H Heron- The Story of the Moor Road: ( Pearson's Magazine, March 1898). Northumberland. A mild earth tremor causes a gas leak and lets loose an elemental spirit which takes to attacking travellers on the road to Nerbury. Colonel Daimley's people take the strangely misshapen assailant - tiny, hairless head, elongated arms, ghostly pale, evil expression, etc. - for a "coughing tramp." Pioneering psychic detective, Flaxman Low, knows better ... Glad to see you write it up, Dem. The Burrage story in it is top-notched! Yes, I agree, Footprints is very effective. The mysterious 'N. Dennett's nasty Menhir on the rampage shocker and Hopson's eerie House With No Road work for me, too. All good so far!
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