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Post by benedictjjones on Mar 14, 2009 14:34:01 GMT
The Crimson Picture - Daniel McGachey
The Road Virus Heads North - Stephen King
Pickmans Model - HP Lovecraft
The Mezzotint - MR James
these pictures are just BAAAAAD news! anymore?
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Post by dem bones on Mar 14, 2009 15:07:40 GMT
Bleeding loads, an anthology or three's worth at least i reckon. I was only reading one yesterday: H. R. Wakefield's A Black Solitude.
Some that come to mind:
Anthony M. Rud - A Square Of Canvas
Hugh B. Cave - The Ghoul Gallery
Hume Nisbet - The Old Portrait
Frederick Cowles - The Horror Of Abbot's Grange
Edgar Allan Poe - The Oval Portrait
Arthur Machen - Out Of The Picture
Henry S. Whitehead - Seven Turns Of A Hangman's Rope
Jan Neruda - The Vampire
E. F. Benson - The Room In The Tower
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Post by carolinec on Mar 14, 2009 16:37:45 GMT
Could we include Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray"?
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Mar 14, 2009 19:49:33 GMT
The Crimson Picture - Daniel McGachey The Road Virus Heads North - Stephen King Pickmans Model - HP Lovecraft The Mezzotint - MR James these pictures are just BAAAAAD news! anymore? Ha! I'm the only one there I've never heard of!  I'd add "The Anamorph of Hans Baldung Grien" by Stephen Volk, one of his tales featuring the "amateur supernaturalist" Venables. |
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Post by jonathan122 on Mar 15, 2009 0:07:42 GMT
Bernard Capes's "A Queer Cicerone" springs to mind.
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Post by benedictjjones on Mar 15, 2009 0:52:44 GMT
but one of the best daniel!
i thought there might have been a fair few of these and dem proved me right!! there's just something about those four tales that really does it for me - so now i'll have to try and a hunt down a few of these other ones!! (since i've managed to hunt down those 4 TED klein novellas i guess i need something to do!)
why is it, do you lot think, that art and pictures in particular have such an ability to terrify?
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Post by carolinec on Mar 15, 2009 10:32:45 GMT
why is it, do you lot think, that art and pictures in particular have such an ability to terrify? I don't know the answer to your question, Ben, but Rod Serling's TV series Night Gallery springs to mind. He obviously thought art in a gallery was an excellent backstory to those tales too. ;D |
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Post by dem bones on Mar 15, 2009 13:48:02 GMT
Another batch: there really is a decent theme anthology to be had out of The Gallery Of Terror.
Karl E. Wagner - The Picture Of Jonathan Collins
Sydney J. Bounds - The Pauper’s Feast
Eddy C. Bertin - A Pentagram For Cenaide
Rosemary Timperley - Eye Of The Mandala
Jack Oleck - Drawn And Quartered (last episode in his novelisation of The Vault Of Horror)
Michael Avallone - Portrait In Hell
Mindret Lord - Naked Lady
Mark Rutherford - A Mysterious Portrait
'Flavia Richardson' (Christine Campbell Thomson) - The Red Turret
Nathaniel Hawthorne - Edward Randolph’s Portrait
Recurring themes. Long-dead dabblers in Black Sorcery stepping out from their portraits to terrorise the living: paintings which vampirically drain the life from their subjects. Mad artists who commit multiple murders in the cause of realism.
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Post by carolinec on Mar 15, 2009 15:32:58 GMT
Ooo, just thought of another one. A film I saw at last year's Fantastic Film Weekend - Schalken, The Painter - wasn't that based on a story by Sheriden Le Fanu or someone like that?
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Mar 15, 2009 19:41:39 GMT
Ye Gods! How could I have forgotten Schalken? I just read the le Fanu original recently, and the Omnibus TV version is a fantastic piece of work.
If it isn't just paintings, but pictures in general, I'd also suggest "The Photograph" by Nigel Kneale, and "The Gilt Frame" by Chris Priestley, from "Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror".
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Mar 19, 2009 12:03:18 GMT
There's also, of course, John Llewellyn Probert, with "The States of the Art" in "The Faculty of Terror".
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Post by patarenast on May 2, 2013 15:33:43 GMT
Golgotha Dancers - Manly Wade Wellman
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Post by randy on May 3, 2013 17:47:59 GMT
If you don't mind me purposely misinterpreting the subject,
"How Fear Departed the Long Gallery" by E. F. Benson.
If you're willing to include some statuary,
"The Venus d'Ille" by Prosper Merrimee
"Dionea" by Vernon Lee
And maybe back in a far, dark corner of the gallery you might like to display some of the works of Leverett from,
"Sticks" by Karl Edward Wagner
(I also hope your gallery has room for the more novel, "The Drowning Girl' by Phillip George Saltonstall from Caitlin Kiernan's The Drowning Girl)
Randy M.
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Post by Chuck_G on May 8, 2013 17:53:01 GMT
I would also like to add:
The Wall-Painting by Roger Johnson and The Picture in the House by Lovecraft
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Post by enoch on Dec 28, 2021 3:54:43 GMT
David Morrell's "Orange is for Anguish, Blue for Insanity." Not about just one particular picture, but still relevant to the topic, I think.
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