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Post by dem bones on May 4, 2020 10:34:05 GMT
E. K. Allan - The Round Graveyard: (Charles Lloyd [ed.], Monsters, 1934). The graveyard lies on the Hertfordshire-Essex border near Hungerdown Wood. An elemental with elongated Mr. Tickle arms and a twisted sense of humour preys upon those who stray too close to the tree by the North Wall. Read it on Vault Advent Calendar 2018. E. F. Benson - The Other Bed: ( Popular Magazine, Apr, 1908). Narrator on Christmas skiing holiday in the Swiss Alps, takes room 33 at the Hotel Beau Site for a very reasonable price. It is haunted by the ghost of an alcoholic who took a razor to his throat during a whisky binge. L. Baillie Reynolds - The House Which Was Rent-Free: ( The Relations and What They Related II, Ladies Realm, 1902). Dennismore Hall, Dorset is haunted by the ghost of a ten year old who, cruelly maltreated by his evil guardian, Mr. Haggard, vanished, never to be seen alive again. New tenant, recently widowed Mrs. Preston, gifted with the second sight, locates his bones while skating on the frozen lake.
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Post by dem bones on May 5, 2020 19:05:34 GMT
William Hope Hodgson - The Stone Ship: (The Red Magazine, 1 July 1914. as The Mystery of the Ship in the Night). "Look at the slime on her! She's a proper Davy Jones ship. By gum! she stinks like a corpse!" She is also constructed of solid stone, as is the man sat at a stone table in her stone cabin. Then narrator Duprey catches a glimpse of what appears to be a giant red head of writhing eels. Could it be that the petrified vessel fell victim to a Medusa of the deep, or is their a ration explanation? A strange and terrifying mid-Atlantic adventure for the crew of The Alfred Jessop.
M. R. James - A Vignette: (London Mercury, Nov. 1936). Slight piece, inspired by MRJ's childhood at Livermere Rectory, Suffolk. A draped form with horrible face haunts gate leading onto the woods.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Nov 1, 2021 11:07:20 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 ... I remember reading somewhere that The Sorceress in Stained Glass was published in time for Christmas 1971, which makes it its fiftieth anniversary. It still has one of the best covers that I have seen for such an anthology.
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