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Post by Knygathin on Jun 4, 2020 12:08:26 GMT
While waiting in the car for someone today, I just managed to squeeze in a reading of the notorious "Marjorie's On Starlight". Birkin is very good with settings and small details, and has a knack for annoying characters. Enjoyable. But I didn't find the story all that horrifying, already knowing of the surprise ending from well-meaning Vault comments partly punctured that. And I couldn't but help feel some understanding with Cynthia's position and why she did what she did. "The Smell of Evil", and other stories in which sympathetic characters die, I find much more horrifying, in fact incomprehensibly unpleasant; there isn't here even, at least, the moral justice that EC horror comics would offer.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jun 4, 2020 15:03:45 GMT
While waiting in the car for someone Who?
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Post by Knygathin on Jun 4, 2020 16:41:58 GMT
While waiting in the car for someone Who? It was my mother, who was at the hospital for eye treatment. She is, by the way, a late fan of Lovecraft and Bradbury, although not generally interested in supernatural fiction. She cannot understand, and find it sad, how such a fine writer as Lovecraft could have been confined to publication in pulp magazines at newsstands.
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Post by Middoth on Oct 25, 2021 17:04:42 GMT
can you say a few words about "Phantom silhouette", please?
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Post by dem bones on Oct 26, 2021 7:39:38 GMT
Joy Burnett - Phantom Silhouette: Narrator and his Boxer dog spend a night at a Victorian farmhouse of evil repute. The source of the disturbances, a door in the kitchen opening into a cave tunnelled through the hill at back of the property. The estate agent advises; "I have heard that it was originally a hospital, a burial place for plague victims, and a hidey hole in the War of the Roses, among other things." Previous occupants have either gone insane or died of terror .....
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Post by Middoth on Oct 26, 2021 9:32:44 GMT
this is what I wanted!
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