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Post by dem bones on Oct 17, 2008 17:09:58 GMT
Alden H. Norton (ed.) "with an introduction and notes by Sam Moskowitz" - Hauntings And Horrors (Berkley Medallion, March 1969) Introduction
Robert W. Chambers - The Maker Of Moons
Julian Hawthorne - The Delusion Of Ralph Penwyn
Ray Bradbury - It Burns Me Up!
H. P. Lovecraft - The Temple
Robert Bloch - Head Man
William Hope Hodgson - The Albatross
Clark Ashton Smith - A Prophecy Of Monsters
W. C. Morrow - Over An Absinthe Bottle
Ralph Adams Cram - No. 252 Rue M. Le Prince
W. E. P. French - The Soul Of Mozart
Blurb If you like to keep your cool Hauntings And Horrors is just the thing to turn the blood in your veins to icy water. TERROR is the medium of exchange between author and reader in this collection of superbly crafted stories.
Only the brave deserve this fare!
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Post by dem bones on Sept 3, 2021 6:37:36 GMT
Ray Bradbury - It Burns Me Up!: ( Dime Mystery, Nov. 1944). Filled with a silent, icy anger, I saw my friends revealed for what they were! Mr. Jameson, dead on the floor. Slit throat, multiple stab wounds. Helpless and frustrated. Aware of all that is going on around him - the coroner, detectives, reporters, nosey neighbours, and his jubilant wife, glamorous singer at the Bomba nightclub - but unable to communicate disgust. Coroner reckons its suicide, "a very nice job, impressively bloody." Wife, hardly believing her luck, added three in the chest post mortem. She admits as much to the hunky reporter. Mr. Jameson reckons the best he can hope for is a petty revenge during cremation. Blackly funny. Reads like a companion piece to the previous year's The Crowd. Julian Hawthorne - The Delusion of Ralph Penwyn: ( Cosmopolitan, Feb. 1909). The two loves of adventurer and former artist Ralph Penwyn attend the masque ball wearing the costume of Marguerite. The one, Mrs. Edith Howard, is widely feted as the most beautiful woman in Paris; the other is she who modelled for his famous Profanation - a sensation on it's Paris unveiling six years ago - and took her own life on Penwyn's desertion. The day after the ball, there is mystery surrounding Penwyn's death in the carriage returning home, but old Mrs. Capet the clairvoyant witnessed the end some months ago and her premonition proved true. Trad ghost story. E. F. Bleiler not a fan, but I loved it.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 3, 2021 16:33:05 GMT
W. E. P. French - The Soul of Mozart: (Cosmopolitan, Aug. 1902). Narrator Stephen Van Ingen, 35, violinist, man of leisure, confirmed bachelor, is among a select group invited by music teacher Mr Hasbrouk to a party commemorating the 100th anniversary of Wolfgang Mozart's death. Hasbrouk has arranged for the celebrated singer and pianist, Miss Aloysia Weber to perform a found composition - a love song concealed in a hidden panel of the composer's music cabinet and devoted to his wife's sister (Ms. Weber's great-great grandmother). Among the audience, another Wolfgang, this one a grey Persian cat with a fine appreciation of the classics, who spits and snarls something terrible should a performer dare hit a wrong note. Mr. Hasbrouk often wonders if there is anything to this transmigration of the soul business after all ... Van Ingen, inevitably, falls for the incomparably beautiful Aloysia, his love is reciprocated, and everything's rosy, until ....
Another Bleiler didn't care for. Taken at a leisurely pace, fine for what it is, just not very eventful. Perhaps the author felt as much himself, hence wonderfully horrible bit once reader has been lulled semi-comatose.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 3, 2021 16:37:56 GMT
W. E. P. French - The Soul of Mozart: ( Cosmopolitan, Aug. 1902). Narrator Stephen Van Ingen, 35, violinist, man of leisure, confirmed bachelor, is among a select group invited by music teacher Mr Hasbrouk to a party commemorating the 100th anniversary of Wolfgang Mozart's death. Hasbrouk has arranged for the celebrated singer and pianist, Miss Aloysia Weber to perform a found composition - a love song concealed in a hidden panel of the composer's music cabinet and devoted to his wife's sister (Ms. Weber's great-great grandmother). Among the audience, another Wolfgang, this one a grey Persian cat with a fine appreciation of the classics, who spits and snarls something terrible should a performer dare hit a wrong note. Mr. Hasbrouk often wonders if there is anything to this transmigration of the soul business after all ... Van Ingen, inevitably, falls for the incomparably beautiful Aloysia, his love is reciprocated, and everything's rosy, until .... Another Bleiler didn't care for. Taken at a leisurely pace, fine for what it is, just not very eventful. Perhaps the author felt as much himself, hence wonderfully horrible bit once reader has been lulled semi-comatose. There is the legend that Mozart was poisoned by Salieri, it makes a good story, but it isn't true. Are there any novels or stories based on this? I know the play. |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 3, 2021 16:40:24 GMT
W. E. P. French - The Soul of Mozart: ( Cosmopolitan, Aug. 1902). Narrator Stephen Van Ingen, 35, violinist, man of leisure, confirmed bachelor, is among a select group invited by music teacher Mr Hasbrouk to a party commemorating the 100th anniversary of Wolfgang Mozart's death. Hasbrouk has arranged for the celebrated singer and pianist, Miss Aloysia Weber to perform a found composition - a love song concealed in a hidden panel of the composer's music cabinet and devoted to his wife's sister (Ms. Weber's great-great grandmother). Among the audience, another Wolfgang, this one a grey Persian cat with a fine appreciation of the classics, who spits and snarls something terrible should a performer dare hit a wrong note. Mr. Hasbrouk often wonders if there is anything to this transmigration of the soul business after all ... Van Ingen, inevitably, falls for the incomparably beautiful Aloysia, his love is reciprocated, and everything's rosy, until .... Another Bleiler didn't care for. Taken at a leisurely pace, fine for what it is, just not very eventful. Perhaps the author felt as much himself, hence wonderfully horrible bit once reader has been lulled semi-comatose. Is there a thread about stories and music? |
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Post by Middoth on Sept 3, 2021 16:43:36 GMT
All of us needed "The Soul Of Mozart" .
Another rarity:
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Post by dem bones on Sept 3, 2021 16:47:02 GMT
Is there a thread about stories and music? We've one for Imaginary rock bands. You might like to start one for classical/ opera? I'm sure there are a respectable number built around the legend of Gloomy Sunday. |
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Post by weirdmonger on Sept 4, 2021 7:47:30 GMT
Is there a thread about stories and music? I donāt know, but a few years ago I edited and published an anthology book of new horror stories by various authors with a classical music theme to each story. Including one based on Shostakovichās 14th symphony! |
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