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Post by cw67q on Oct 26, 2010 7:03:01 GMT
Thanks Dem, I hadn't recognised the story from its individual title. Nor had I realised that the Two Trifles had been published separately.
- chris
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Post by dem bones on Apr 26, 2021 11:02:32 GMT
Reg Gray Lucy M. Boston - Many Coloured Glass: ( Young Winter's Tales, 1970). Mayor Sir Joshua Waters organises a Jane Austen-themed Ball in the Museum costume wing to celebrate son Phillip's medal triumph at the Olympics. As Philip/ 'Mr. Darcy' basks in the adoration of his female fans, Ann, his almost-official girlfriend, is smitten by the long-haired, rag-bag student leading a "Down with heroes! Down with snobs!" demo, who, after briefly gatecrashing the dance floor, suggests Ann join him in the garden. As she awaits her new love, Ann finds a Bavarian music box whose mechanical figures include a beau in finery, a girl in a beautiful dress, and a beggar. She sets the dancers in motion ... Paul Dorrell - Tea And Empathy: Kate Hale, is the only one of the family can see the two miserable female ghosts haunting their home; a put upon young ladies' companion and her spiteful, veiled old harridan of a mistress. When the latter takes to clawing at her throat with horrible bony fingers, Kate is shocked into discarding her Teen Rock magazine. Who are these spectres? What do they want with her? By a stroke of good fortune, Kate's brother Nick is friendly with an aspiring psychic investigator who agrees to look the place over and ruin everything.
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Post by helrunar on Apr 26, 2021 13:05:05 GMT
I really need to track down L M Boston's spook/spectre tales. I've read most of her novels now and love the atmosphere she evokes.
H.
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Post by pbsplatter on Jan 13, 2023 21:23:30 GMT
I have this one!
I remember finding the end of "Kroger's Choice" to be completely and utterly petrifying as a child.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 14, 2023 19:39:31 GMT
I have this one! I remember finding the end of "Kroger's Choice" to be completely and utterly petrifying as a child. Think this may be my favourite of the Octopus anthologies outside the '65' series. For some years I wondered if Deborah Shine and Mary Danby might be one and the same entity, but then I also wondered if the illustrator was the same Reg Gray fronted 'seventies Glam rockers, Mud (ask your ancestors).
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Post by Shrink Proof on Jan 14, 2023 20:29:22 GMT
I also wondered if the illustrator was the same Reg Gray fronted 'seventies Glam rockers, Mud (ask your ancestors). Speaking as someone old enough to be an ancestor's ancestor, wasn't it Les Gray who fronted Mud, not Reg Gray?
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Post by dem bones on Jan 14, 2023 20:40:56 GMT
I also wondered if the illustrator was the same Reg Gray fronted 'seventies Glam rockers, Mud (ask your ancestors). Speaking as someone old enough to be an ancestor's ancestor, wasn't it Les Gray who fronted Mud, not Reg Gray? You're right. My apologies to both talents!
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