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Post by Dr Terror on Nov 14, 2008 23:16:16 GMT
NEL 1978
Introduction - Peter Haining
Mary Shelley - The Re-animated Englishman
Tim Stout - The Dracula File
Gaston Le Roux - The Woman With The Velvet Collar
Edgar Allan Poe - The Tell-Tale Heart
Sax Rohmer - Red Mist
Richard Marsh - A Silent Witness
H. P. Lovecraft - The Challenge From Beyond
Robert Bloch - Son Of A Witch
Ray Bradbury - Undersea Guardians
William F. Temple - The Whispering Gallery
Evan Hunter - Dream Damsel
Rosemary Timperley - The Tunnel
Stephen King - Cat From Hell
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Post by dem on Nov 18, 2008 18:57:13 GMT
 Tony MaseroThe Richard Marsh story, about a bank employee who witnesses a theft (for which he's blamed) while in a cataleptic trance is fun, particularly when he's screwed into his coffin unable to tell anyone he's still alive but the title of part three is the worst spoiler ever. If I remember, the Gaston LeRoux is a rewrite of Washington Irving's guillotine favourite Adventure Of The German Student? Best of all, IMO, is the Tim Stout's horror film crew in peril classic. Producer Leslie Leech, author Frank Filcher and Roderick Nightblood, male lead in wacky horror comedy It's Fun to Be Dead! are gorily disposed of when a resident of Golders Green Cemetery takes exception to their handling of a serious subject. Meanwhile, a European nobleman, 'Mr. X', is on his way to England to star in his original screenplay, The Great Impaler, and dispense a little retribution of his own. Was the Stephen King one filmed? |
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Post by allthingshorror on Nov 18, 2008 21:05:13 GMT
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Post by dem on Nov 19, 2008 13:49:53 GMT
Ah yeah, that's the one. Thanks John. It used to exasperate me, but now i can't help but admire Mr. Haining's nerve at including The Tell-Tale Heart in a book of "Unknown" horrors, although I wish he'd had the cheek to re-title it as was usually his fiendish wont! Someday, someone even sadder than me will compile a listing of the top ten stories Peter felt the need to keep on sharing with us throughout his five million anthologies. I strongly suspect that Dracula's Guest and MRJ's A School Story would be in with a shout. It's Peter's anniversary today. I'm so glad that Robinson posthumously published his Mammoth Book Of True Hauntings in October as not only does it captures him bang on form but I bet he'd have loved the idea of giving us a bumper book of ghosts to argue over when he'd joined their ranks himself! |
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Post by Johnlprobert on Nov 19, 2008 14:17:13 GMT
Christian Slater appeared in the Lot 249 episode which is a bit better than the Cat From Hell segment. The final Michael McDowell scripted story is a bit of an old cliche that most people should already be familiar with.
The only bit I really like is the linking story, but then I've had a thing for Debbie Harry since Videodrome
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Post by Johnlprobert on Nov 19, 2008 14:18:03 GMT
Oh, and here's the dullest post of the day - does anyone know what the font is on the cover of that book? I love it.
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Post by valdemar on May 9, 2012 15:26:25 GMT
The font is very similar to one I downloaded from a site called 'Dafont' [do a google search for it, and remember, other search engines are available...], and it is called 'Deutsch Gothic'. Other great fonts from that site include; 'Evil Of Frankenstein', 'Danzig 4p', 'Herman Decanus', 'Mad Science', and 'Morgus'. I have to warn you, though, that it is a really addictive site. You go through their lists of [mostly] free fonts, tell yourself 'That's the last one... oh, I like that...' and before you know it, you've got 200 fonts to unzip. This is a true story. My name is Valdemar, and I'm a fontoholic...   |
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ghannah01
Crab On The Rampage
It's dark in here. Anyone have a match?
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Post by ghannah01 on Oct 2, 2012 8:05:22 GMT
Just found this one in my collection. Good solid little anthology. I'm trying to get back to a lot of the books I've bought and haven't read.. or forgotten I had..like this one.
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Post by dem on Apr 21, 2016 17:05:25 GMT
It used to exasperate me, but now i can't help but admire Mr. Haining's nerve at including The Tell-Tale Heart in a book of "Unknown" horrors, Except he didn't. How reassuring to learn I was just as sloppy in 2008 as I am today. Onwards and downwards. Rosemary Timperley - The Tunnel: ( Capital Radio, 1973). One of Mrs. Timperley's bleakest ghost stories. Joe, a train driver, has recently been dumped by his girlfriend and is suffering from depression. As he drives through the tunnel a group of men step onto the tracks. He hits the brakes but too late. The train mows them down ... or would have done, had there been anyone there. The Doctor signs him off on a fortnight's sick leave, time enough to get over his "hallucination." Joe spends the time researching the branch line but can find no reference to tragedy. The "ghosts" must have been a figment of his troubled imagination. If only ... |
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Post by Shrink Proof on Apr 22, 2016 11:20:39 GMT
Haven't read that particular Timperley tale. Written after she'd left her husband and was living alone, describing herself as "living on black coffee, pink gin and cigarettes..."
Sounds like one for the Railways thread though...
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Post by dem on Apr 22, 2016 14:45:22 GMT
Haven't read that particular Timperley tale. Written after she'd left her husband and was living alone, describing herself as "living on black coffee, pink gin and cigarettes..." Sounds like one for the Railways thread though... That explains much. It is not a cheerful story at all which maybe explains why I'd rank it in or around a Timperley top 10. Have a few more nominations for the Railway thread. Do Ghost Trains, as in the fun fair variety, qualify or did we rule them out? |
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Post by Shrink Proof on Apr 22, 2016 15:18:09 GMT
If we accept model trains and narrow gauge railways (which we did) then full-sized ones, whether in funfairs or anywhere else, should be in too.
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