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Post by Craig Herbertson on Oct 3, 2008 16:03:06 GMT
Exactly summarises my experience Luke - for the moment of joining here I was been helped on every hand, cheered up, laughing my socks off and so. I also discovered people insane enough to listen to my incoherent ramblings. What a joy...
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Post by dem bones on Oct 4, 2008 8:54:26 GMT
Childhood flashback (and apologies for possible *SPOILERS*) ... I think I may have skimmed this volume many years ago when I was about 10 years old. Does "The Revenge" involve rape, castration, and mistaken identity? I recall another story in the same book which was (I think) about a gravedigger who ended up being eaten alive by rats after being chased through an underground passage by a zombie. As a kid I found these two stories too disturbing to finish the rest of the book. The "gravedigger who ended up being eaten alive by rats after being chased through an underground passage by a zombie" story is definitely Henry Kuttner's The Graveyard Rats which has been reprinted many a time, but not in any of the Pan Horror volumes. You'll find it in 5th Fontana Book Of Horror Stories for example. For the 'rape, castration, mistaken identity' story, Raymond Williams' Man Hunt in Pan Horror #9 might be your man!
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Post by Dr Terror on Oct 4, 2008 10:00:27 GMT
Nah, it is The Revenge.
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Post by zyx on Oct 5, 2008 7:57:51 GMT
The "gravedigger who ended up being eaten alive by rats after being chased through an underground passage by a zombie" story is definitely Henry Kuttner's The Graveyard Rats which has been reprinted many a time, but not in any of the Pan Horror volumes. You'll find it in 5th Fontana Book Of Horror Stories for example. Thanks for the confirmation. Both these "Volume 5" collections must have been doing the rounds at my old school, I guess my fragile little mind confused/combined the two books.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Feb 24, 2009 13:10:37 GMT
Hey Jonny
Don't know if this is any good for your trivia section (and apologies if you know it already) but one of the wags at the BHF has recently reviewed the film Unman, Wittering & Zigo (1971) and apparently one of the teachers at the school can be seen reading The Fifth Pan Book Of Horror Stories in one scene. Oh, for a screen grab eh?
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Post by pulphack on Feb 25, 2009 12:12:26 GMT
how weird - i was watching that on sunday! it's when david hemmings wants to offload his fears to the art teacher, and comes upon him as he's 'working' in the craft room - while the boys are happily crafting, the teacher is sneaking a quick Pan fix. the actor is tony haygarth, now to be seen in Emmerdale (er, mrs ph watches it) and forever a part of my childhood as crotch-adjusting PC Wilmot in 'rosie'/'the growing pains of pc penrose'.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Feb 25, 2009 13:00:27 GMT
Nice one Pulps. Good old Tone - of Renfield in the Badham/Langella Dracula fame (probably as equally loathed here as the Coppolla/Oldman Gurly version.)
No shame in Emmerdale as it currently features Lair Of The White Worm's Lady Sylvia Marsh herself Amanda Donohoe. Rowf!!!
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Post by noose on Jun 22, 2012 9:52:43 GMT
There's not much to it but the cover has always haunted me for some reason. I certainly prefer it to that mangy cat on number one. As to the collection itself, I don't think it's quite up to the high standards set by 1-4 which I still consider to be the finest. Would it be because it was also used for the cover for TALES OF UNEASE, Dem? I just twigged this morning. Rushed to the books, and there it was. Funny that a picture on a book that has a story by John Burke in it was used for an anthology edited by Burke, two years later...
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Post by noose on Jun 22, 2012 10:16:14 GMT
And I'll be blowed if the woman on the cover isn't a very young Jacqueline Bisset....
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Post by dem bones on Jun 22, 2012 17:28:07 GMT
fascinating for sure, but its likely the reason it stayed with me is because it likely triggered a recurring nightmare when i was small: person unidentified having his or her face scraped off with a rusty can opener.
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Post by patblack on Mar 1, 2013 19:57:59 GMT
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Post by charliegrenville on Jul 6, 2014 9:10:48 GMT
And I'll be blowed if the woman on the cover isn't a very young Jacqueline Bisset.... Oh, to BE blowed by a young Jacqueline Bisset....let me dream for a minute... Anyway, where was I? Oh yes, back to the book. Great to reread THE MAN WITH THE MOON IN HIM after all these years- Sansom is at his best when subtle. Very similar in its underground setting to Peter Richey's superlative DON'T AVOID THE RUSH HOUR in its underground setting- and also in its description of a London you'll never see again, a far less populous, quieter, chav-free metropolis where the most dangerous person you were likely to meet at night would be the lone nutter out of a horror story... MESSAGE FOR MARGIE shows the ongoing genius of Christine Campbell Thompson- possibly the woman responsible, indirectly, for all this- and how she could create a clever premise out of the barest bones. And talking of bones, I also found time to visit MEN WITHOUT BONES. As a fan of Gerald Kersh's other work, I somehow knew i'd like this, and was right. Its vintage SF atmosphere did/does sit slightly at odds with the sea change towards grimmer, more urban fare found elsewhere in the book, BUT...it's still incredibly evocative. The idea of the jungle landing ground with the burnt out metal plates, a thousand moonlit eyes, and the rivers of goo from the splattes bodies of the dead creatures painted a picture so vivid in my mind I can see it right in front of me now. Would have made a great episode of something...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2014 5:21:14 GMT
A lot can change in 13 years. I detested this story as pretentious drivel when I first read it. Second time around wasn't much better. Third, and I snapped up a copy of his collection of the same name which I consider to be ... a neglected classic! I think Music When Soft Voices Die was the turning point. Apparently, JCK also once tried to summon Satan on a live radio broadcast.
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Post by zyx on Jan 12, 2015 9:14:34 GMT
I've poked around online to see if anyone else has commented on this, but apparently not: Adobe James's "Revenge" appears to be based on an earlier but less gruesome short story, also called " Revenge", by one Samuel Blas. Blas's story first appeared in Collier's magazine in 1947. It was turned into a comic strip by several horror comics, and was later adapted for TV in Alfred Hitchcock Presents in 1955, and again in 1985. I was wondering if Samuel Blas and Adobe James were the same person, but an Internet search turns up zilch for Samuel Blas. "Adobe James" was the pseudonym of James Moss Cardwell. I assume he is the same James Moss Cardwell (1926-1990) who wrote a Sherlock Holmes play called Mrs Hudson? Mrs Hudson!
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Post by dem bones on Jan 13, 2015 12:28:57 GMT
I've poked around online to see if anyone else has commented on this, but apparently not: Adobe James's "Revenge" appears to be based on an earlier but less gruesome short story, also called " Revenge", by one Samuel Blas. Blas's story first appeared in Collier's magazine in 1947. It was turned into a comic strip by several horror comics, and was later adapted for TV in Alfred Hitchcock Presents in 1955, and again in 1985. I was wondering if Samuel Blas and Adobe James were the same person, but an Internet search turns up zilch for Samuel Blas. "Adobe James" was the pseudonym of James Moss Cardwell. I assume he is the same James Moss Cardwell (1926-1990) who wrote a Sherlock Holmes play called Mrs Hudson? Mrs Hudson! Can't tell you anything about Samuel Blas, but it seems the adaptation for Alfred Hitchcock Presents ... also inspired Screamer, a particularly nasty 1975 episode of Brian Clemens' Thriller, which scared the hell out of me as a kid. I just reread the Adobe James version for the first time in an eternity, and, hideous as it is, the story stands up very well. For forms sake: Adobe James - The Revenge: James Rogers and Jack Tonklin are best pals, business partners and career skirt-chasers - until they meet Susan. Both men fall hopelessly in love, leaving her with the agonising decision of which to disappoint. Eventually she settles on Jack but is raped and beaten by an intruder on their wedding night. The trio swear vengeance on the bastard responsible, and when Susan identifies a passer-by as her assailant, Jack and James drag him away at gunpoint. But rather than kill him, Jack is intent on making the creep suffer. unfortunately, the horrible experience has driven Susan even crazier than they imagined.
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