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Post by Craig Herbertson on Sept 16, 2008 13:21:17 GMT
Always liked Heston until he sold out to TV and revealed the rabid politics. I thoroughly enjoyed this film as well. It really built.
Some excellent scenes where the look out guy is overwhelmed by the host of little people and nice tensions created by the lead man.
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Post by lukemorningstar on Mar 11, 2009 23:00:38 GMT
I had a lot of fun re reading Pan 2, and adding to this thread late last year. A couple of nights ago I was lying in bed not able to sleep and listening to some Brian Eno ambient stuff on the i-pod (God this sounds pretentious, but it's true - try Eno for insomnia, not indigestion) and I was thinking about what a frightening tale The Judge's House is - really sinister, and with no happy ending. Who else shares my view?
Also, has 'Judge's House' ever been filmed. BBC Christmas Ghost Story in the making surely?
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Post by patblack on Sept 20, 2011 10:28:29 GMT
Hello again everyone Booksquawk has another review of the Pans up, this time for Volume 2. It's not as in-depth as my review of the first book and is a little more tongue-in-cheek, but I hope you enjoy it regardless... www.booksquawk.com/2011/09/second-pan-book-of-horror-stories.htmlThere's also links to a bit of fun we had for Halloween last year, The World Cup of Horror Stories. If you ever wondered what would happen if the Monkey's Paw had a fight with the Call of Cthulhu, then wonder no more! |
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Post by paulfinch on Oct 30, 2011 13:57:42 GMT
I so wanted to reprint THE INN in TERROR TALES OF THE LAKE DISTRICT, but Guy Preston and/or whoever his literary executor is - if indeed any such person exists - appear to be completely untraceable.
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Post by dem on Oct 30, 2011 19:02:20 GMT
I so wanted to reprint THE INN in TERROR TALES OF THE LAKE DISTRICT, but Guy Preston and/or whoever his literary executor is - if indeed any such person exists - appear to be completely untraceable. ah, you certainly know what constitutes a brilliant pulp horror story, Mr Finch! we've a thread for Guy Preston but there's not so much by way of detail on there, and i'm wondering if he survived the second world war? vague memories of seeing some other magazine work credited to him in the early sixties, but that could as easily be my mind playing tricks. As to The Inn, unless it saw previous magazine publication, it first showed up in Christine Cambell Thomson's superbly titled Grim Death in 1932. She comes back into the story in the 'sixties when Charles Birkin, who had included Preston's Thirty in one of his anthologies for Philip Allan, Terrors (1933), reprinted it in The Tandem Book Of Horror Stories (1965) with the note "the editor's thanks and acknowledgement of the publishers are due to .... D. C. Benson & Campbell-Thomson". So, be he alive or dead at the time, evidently Christine was still acting as Preston's literary agent. As neither CCT or Sir Charles are still around to ask - they died within a few weeks of each other in 1985 (it's Birkin's anniversary on November 8th) - we're left in the dark as to who owns the copyright to Guy Preston's work. Maybe it's lapsed? |
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Post by paulfinch on Oct 31, 2011 12:16:10 GMT
Possibly it has, D.
I've been chatting with Johnny about this over the last couple of days. There are of course contingencies in the event of owernship being untraceable. I guess it boils down to how much time you have available to spend looking for it.
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Post by Nightmare on Jan 25, 2013 14:07:28 GMT
I just finished reading Pan Horror 2 and it was very mediocre.
1. Piece-meal - The dialogue and ending were quite good.
2. The Fly - I lost interest halfway through. The story was far too long!
It was difficult keeping my eyes on the pages.
3. The Vertical Ladder - The descriptions were quite good and I felt as though I was there!
4. Pollock and The Porrah Man - I liked the descriptions the most.
5. The Inn - The character descriptions were nice and what a gruesome ending!
6. The Judge's House - I lost interest halfway through, but the ending wasn't bad at all.
7. The Specialty of the House - The story seemed familiar, but the ending wasn't bad.
8. The Last Seance - I tried to like this story. I really did, but it didn't appeal to me. I have no idea what the ending meant!
9. The Black Creator - I lost interest halfway through and skipped the rest.
10. By One, By Two, By Three - So-so story.
11. Boomerang - Not a bad story, but aren't there worse things than earwigs?
12. Our Feathered Friends - Good story, but the ending was predictable.
13. Taboo - Interesting plot, but I thought the story dragged a little bit.
*SPOILER* So was the man a cannibal then?
14. The Black Cat - Good tale from Poe.
15. Leiningen Versus The Ants - I never thought the story was very interesting.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jan 26, 2013 1:42:59 GMT
I just finished reading Pan Horror 2 and it was very mediocre. 1. Piece-meal - The dialogue and ending were quite good. 2. The Fly - I lost interest halfway through. The story was far too long! It was difficult keeping my eyes on the pages. 3. The Vertical Ladder - The descriptions were quite good and I felt as though I was there! 4. Pollock and The Porrah Man - I liked the descriptions the most. 5. The Inn - The character descriptions were nice and what a gruesome ending! 6. The Judge's House - I lost interest halfway through, but the ending wasn't bad at all. 7. The Specialty of the House - The story seemed familiar, but the ending wasn't bad. 8. The Last Seance - I tried to like this story. I really did, but it didn't appeal to me. I have no idea what the ending meant! 9. The Black Creator - I lost interest halfway through and skipped the rest. 10. By One, By Two, By Three - So-so story. 11. Boomerang - Not a bad story, but aren't there worse things than earwigs? 12. Our Feathered Friends - Good story, but the ending was predictable. 13. Taboo - Interesting plot, but I thought the story dragged a little bit. *SPOILER* So was the man a cannibal then? 14. The Black Cat - Good tale from Poe. 15. Leiningen Versus The Ants - I never thought the story was very interesting. I like your style Nightmare - you managed to get The Specialty of the House and The vertical Ladder down to 'quite good' and 'ending wasn't bad' - They're probably two of the finest horror stories on the planet but in a funny way you hit the nail on the head. |
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Post by Nightmare on Jan 26, 2013 19:30:55 GMT
Was I right about the ending of Taboo?
After reading Horowitz Horror by Anthony Horowitz last night, the writing in Pan 2 seems a bit more complicated!
Was I disappointed in Pan 2? A little.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jan 26, 2013 20:49:41 GMT
Was I right about the ending of Taboo? After reading Horowitz Horror by Anthony Horowitz last night, the writing in Pan 2 seems a bit more complicated! Was I disappointed in Pan 2? A little. It's implied he was. But part of the fun is not being told exactly. |
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Post by dem on Jan 26, 2013 20:55:32 GMT
Was I right about the ending of Taboo? You certainly were! I still regard this as the most consistently excellent of all the Pan Horror volumes, but to my way of thinking the series proper starts somewhere around number five or six when Van Thal introduces mostly new material. Then there's a phase 3, the gory, often wilfully pointless sadism for which the Pan books are perhaps most fondly remembered/ loathed, takes hold somewhere around volume 12. |
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Post by Nightmare on Jan 27, 2013 1:42:50 GMT
For some reason, the early Pan volumes are a bit difficult to get through, but the later ones...not so much. They aren't bad, but different. The later Pans seem a bit more simple to me, but good.
I'll have to read The Last Seance again to see if I can understand the ending.
I still really want to know what the ending to Cynthia and Charles was all about! I know the old lady's secret was revealed, but I don't know what it had to do with the story.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jan 27, 2013 14:26:02 GMT
For some reason, the early Pan volumes are a bit difficult to get through, but the later ones...not so much. They aren't bad, but different. The later Pans seem a bit more simple to me, but good. I'll have to read The Last Seance again to see if I can understand the ending. I still really want to know what the ending to Cynthia and Charles was all about! I know the old lady's secret was revealed, but I don't know what it had to do with the story. "There are certain primitive elementary forces, Raoul. Most of them have been destroyed by civilization, but motherhood stands where it stood at the beginning. Animals - human beings, they are all the same. A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path." this is the key passage in the Christie one. It's all about the ghost child sucking up the physical body of the mother or something like that |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jan 27, 2013 14:38:05 GMT
Cynthia is probably raped and murdered by Charles aided and abetted by mum - its as nasty as one would expect
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Post by Nightmare on Jan 27, 2013 15:08:23 GMT
Thank you!  I know Charles used scissors, so maybe he cut off the mum's hair at some point? That wouldn't make sense. |
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