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Post by dem bones on Aug 27, 2008 17:04:35 GMT
Gerald W. Page (ed.) - Years Best Horror #5 (DAW, 1977)  Michael Whelan
Manly Wade Wellman - Where the Woodbine Twineth
Tanith Lee - Huzdra
Joseph Payne Brennan - Long Hollow Swamp
Jerry Sohl - The Service
Glen Singer - Harold's Blues
H. Warner Munn - The Well
Robert Bloch - A Most Unusual Murder
Harlan Ellison - Shatterday
David Drake - Children of the Forest
Arthur Byron Cover - The Day it Rained Lizards
Robert Edmond Alter - Followers of the Dark Star
Charles L. Grant - When All the Children Call My Name
Fritz Leiber - Belsen ExpressKind of sad noting all those Weird Tales veterans - Bloch, Brennan, Leiber, Munn, Wellman - who are no longer with us. Even youngsters like Karl Wagner and Charles L. Grant have gone. The Bloch story is one of his Jack the Ripper jobs already described on the Fear And Trembling thread elsewhere. As you'd expect from the title, Fritz's Leiber's offering ain't exactly a bundle of laughs. Don't think i'm familiar with anything else.
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Post by Johnlprobert on Apr 12, 2011 12:51:54 GMT
I'm slowly working through these and Volume 5 is very good indeed. I read it a couple of weeks ago so some of my memories are starting to fade but the stories I particularly loved were:
Karl Edward Wagner - Sing a Last Song of Valdese. The first of Wagner's Kane stories that I've read. KEW has a real feel for sword 'n' sorcery and horror that means I'd like to get hold of a book of all of these, put it's probably hideously expensive.
Tanith Lee - Huzdra. Another horror fantasy story that has rich writing without being purple or pretentious. Great couple of villainous main characters as well.
H. Warner Munn - The Well. No idea who Munn is but this 'Arabian Nights Goes to Hell' about a bloke chukced down a well is 20 pages of a man on his own in the dark & it's great. Apparently there's a similar story by Munn in Volume IV set in the desert.
Robert Bloch - A Most Unusual Murder. It's Bloch, Jack the Ripper, a time machine and a punchline. I loved it.
Harlan Ellison - Shatterday. I knew this from the modern TZ version with Bruce Willis. A simple idea but Ellison's does it justice.
Arthur Byron Cover - The Day it Rained Lizards. Bonkers, outrageous, surreal, offensive and downright weird. Some sort of portal opens up & it literally rains lizards on our hero who spends most of his time committing acts of obscenity in the local neighbourhood.
Robert Edmond Alter - Followers of the Dark Star. Classic Weird Tales with a naughty trio of adventurers off to find fabulous lost treasure and finding the inevitable nasty at the end of it
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Post by andydecker on Apr 12, 2011 17:25:01 GMT
, Karl Edward Wagner - Sing a Last Song of Valdese. The first of Wagner's Kane stories that I've read. KEW has a real feel for sword 'n' sorcery and horror that means I'd like to get hold of a book of all of these, put it's probably hideously expensive. It is a shame that KEW is out of print. Sing a Last Song is a great story. . H. Warner Munn - The Well. No idea who Munn is but this 'Arabian Nights Goes to Hell' about a bloke chukced down a well is 20 pages of a man on his own in the dark & it's great. Apparently there's a similar story by Munn in Volume IV set in the desert. Munn wrote Werewolf of Ponkert. Later he did quite a good fantasy trilogy - back when you wrote one in your life and not three a year - , a big one about King Arthur establishing a kingdom in the New World with Merlin and so on. I read it ages ago and remember to like it. |
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Post by Johnlprobert on Apr 13, 2011 9:59:46 GMT
And finally, the David Drake one was a bit too 'away with the fairies' to work for me, the Charles L Grant one was quite good but again, I prefer my horror to hit me over the head with a hammer rather than brush me with a feather, which is what he's very good at, and the Fritz Leiber & Manly Wade Wellman ones I remember being very good but I can't remember what they're about!
There are more KEW Kane stories in other volumes I think, so onwards and upwards!
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