alansjf
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Post by alansjf on Jun 3, 2008 11:26:04 GMT
Best New Horror 9 (Robinson, 1998) (cover: ?) Stephen Jones - Introduction - Horror in 1997 David J. Schow - Dying Words Conrad Williams - The Windmill John Burke - The Right Ending Simon Clark - Swallowing a Dirty Seed Pat Cadigan - This Is Your Life (Repressed Memory Remix) Christopher Fowler - Christmas Forever Yvonne Navarro - Four Famines Ago Stephen Laws - The Crawl David Langford - Serpent Eggs Dennis Etchison - No One You Know Brian Hodge - The Dripping of Sundered Wineskins Thomas Ligotti - The Bells Will Sound Forever Ramsey Campbell - The Word Andy Duncan - The Map to the Homes of the Stars Caitlin R. Kiernan - Emptiness Spoke Eloquent Michael Marshall Smith - Save As... Kim Newman - Coppola’s Dracula Gwyneth Jones - Grazing the Long Acre Douglas E. Winter - The Zombies of Madison County Stephen Jones & Kim Newman - Necrology - 1997
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Post by dem bones on Jun 16, 2008 21:19:21 GMT
I don't have a copy, but I was particularly fond of at least one story (which Steve reminded me was): Stephen Laws - The Crawl: From memory: A motorist is pursued by an unrelenting figure - possibly shrouded - swinging a scythe from side to side. Originally the reaper-a-like was pursuing somebody else until our man played Good Samaritan and stepped in to intervene. He's only rid of the pursuer when a third man gets involved and immediately wishes he hadn't.
I think this volume also includes a story in which a werewolf walks into a pub and only the narrator notices it?
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Post by carolinec on Jun 16, 2008 21:44:21 GMT
I don't have a copy, but I was particularly fond of at least one story (which Steve reminded me was): Stephen Laws - The Crawl: From memory: A motorist is pursued by an unrelenting figure - possibly shrouded - swinging a scythe from side to side. Originally the reaper-a-like was pursuing somebody else until our man played Good Samaritan and stepped in to intervene. He's only rid of the pursuer when a third man gets involved and immediately wishes he hadn't. That's odd. That description reminds me of a Mark Morris story where a motorist is pursued by a scarecrow type figure in much the same way. I can't recall the name of the story, or where I've seen it. I'll look into it ...
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Post by dem bones on May 28, 2014 18:43:43 GMT
Stephen Laws - The Crawl: A blazing row erupts between Paul and Gill as she drives them home from a weekend at her parents'. As they approach the A1 at Boroughbridge, a human scarecrow, his face hidden behind sacking, intervenes by launching his scythe through the windscreen. With the car stalled in first, a panicked Gill manipulates the car across the motorway. The reaper follows in relentless pursuit .....
Christopher Fowler - Christmas Forever: Camden Market, two decades into the second Ice Age. Kallie, who has never known summer, braves the frozen streets to stock up on provisions (vintage canned goods). The futility of it all is doing him in. He ventures on toward Piccadilly Circus for a final glimpse of Eros and meets .... Olivia Newton-John (or someone very like her)!
Gwyneth Jones - Grazing The Long Acre: A serial killer preying upon the teenage whores who haunt a stretch of the E75 Highway between Czestochowa and Piotrkow Tryb. Or can it be that the Virgin Mary is releasing the poor kids from a life of misery?
John Burke - The Right Ending: Critically acclaimed author Milton Paget wearily attends book-signing duties in a department store. He never realised his readers were such a repulsive bunch, worse even than Valerie, the female lead in his latest best-seller. The strikingly beautiful woman in the green dress is the exception. Sharp as she is attractive, she compliments him on his ability to present a convincing anti-heroine. We are not surprised to learn that Valerie was drawn from life.
Simon Clark - Swallowing a Dirty Seed: Sinister apple trees versus human beings, the delicious, fleshy fruit masking the lethal seeds which take root in the consumer. Our narrator, Stephen Carter, ill-advisedly plays Good Samaritan to terrified hikers, Ashley and Dianne.
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