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Post by dem bones on Mar 17, 2009 22:53:50 GMT
Horrors of the Wax Museum! From Serg Moren & Len Wein's Museum Piece, Psycho #4, 1971 Waxworks suggest themselves as a decent, creepy subject for a theme anthology, but now having lumped these together they do seem a bit samey. A. M. Burrage - The Waxwork Lady Eleanor Smith - Mrs. Raeburn's Waxwork Nelson Bond - The Mask Of Medusa W. L. George - Waxworks Elliott Capon - Fun And Games At The Whacks Museum Robert Bloch - Waxworks Hazel Heald - The Horror In The Museum Marie Belloc Lowdnes - The Lodger André de Lorde - Waxworks * Gaston Leroux - The Waxwork Museum * Any more ....? * Both the same story: Peter Haining up to his old tricks!
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Mar 17, 2009 23:50:08 GMT
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Post by dem bones on Sept 26, 2015 17:50:10 GMT
(Very) belated thanks for that Lurkio & Vince. Unfortunately that link leads somewhere else now.  It's been one of those threads. Patricia Highsmith - Woodrow Wilson's Neck-tie (Herbert Van Thal [ed.], 24th Pan Book Of Horror Stories, 1983) A.E. Martin - The Hollmsdale Horror ( The Shudder Show, 194-?: James Doig [ed], Australian Hauntings, 2011) |
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Post by bobby on Sept 27, 2015 1:16:25 GMT
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Post by dem bones on Sept 9, 2016 16:22:13 GMT
 G. O. Olinick (who else?) : ( Weird Tales, February 1927). "The men who erect these think they have nothing more than the external shells. How ignorant they are of the psychic qualities of their actions! indeed, what do they dream of anything beyond the material? Yet this gallery is almost a breeding ground of souls. Who can measure what influences such beings draw down to them." - Perma-grumpy Dr. Ivan Brodsky, "The Surgeon of Souls," delivers a damning verdict on the ills of wax emporiums. Naval Officers are in vogue with the public so Mr. Margotson, proud proprietor of the waxwork museum on Fifth Street, commissions Monsieur Paul Dupoy to create a life-size model of Admiral Nelson. Unfortunately Nelson still has a down on the French and determines to kill Dupoy. To this end the elemental channelled via the wax image takes demonic possession of Margotson. It all ends in swordplay. Not particularly convincing - the climax is especially weedy - but they all count. Alex Hamilton - The Image Of The Damned: (Herbert Van Thal [ed.] - 10th Pan Book Of Horror Stories, 1969). Better by far. |
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Post by dem bones on Sept 25, 2019 5:15:04 GMT
W. L. George - Waxworks: A Mystery ( The Strand, July 1922)  E. G. Oakdale: ( London Mercury, March 1931).  Mrs. Raeburn's Waxwork: Narrated By: Cathy Dobson Red Door Audiobooks Nov. 2015 : ( Someone in the Room, Jarrolds, 1931).  Fred Banbery, Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery, Random House, 1962.  Virgil Finlay, Weird Tales, Jan. 1939.
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Post by helrunar on Oct 18, 2019 20:16:10 GMT
I wonder if the Robert Bloch story "Waxworks" was the source for The House that Dripped Blood episode that involves a very creepy house of wax to which poor retired Peter Cushing falls afoul? A classic in the Helrunar cinematheque.
H.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 19, 2019 5:33:13 GMT
I wonder if the Robert Bloch story "Waxworks" was the source for The House that Dripped Blood episode that involves a very creepy house of wax to which poor retired Peter Cushing falls afoul? A classic in the Helrunar cinematheque. H. It was, and the other House That Dripped Blood stories are adaptations of his Method For Murder, Sweets for the Sweet and The Cloak. Robert Bloch in Amicus. |
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Post by andydecker on Oct 19, 2019 10:29:41 GMT
I am still on the fence with House. Some parts are harmless fun, but I can't stand the Ingrid Pitt segment which is much too campy and juvenile for my taste. Sometimes I wonder how Bloch stories would have come across if done much more edgier.
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Post by helrunar on Oct 19, 2019 13:20:59 GMT
Hi Andreas, Obviously tastes differ--and I often reflect how boring the world would be if they did not! I enjoy the Jon Pertwee/Ingrid Pitt segment of House that dripped blood a lot. However, I finally was able to read "The Cloak" which was the original tale from which Bloch adapted this segment, and it's really rather different. Not surprising since I believe "The Cloak" was originally written in the late 1930s. The characters aren't involved in film--that's just one difference.
Best wishes, Steve
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Post by Dr Strange on Oct 20, 2019 10:58:09 GMT
John Keir Cross - Miss Thing and the Surrealists (The Other Passenger, 1944): "Miss Thing" is the artist Kolensky's "big Surrealist gesture", a collection of wax-work body parts scattered about his studio, protruding from the walls or serving as flower vases or chair legs.
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Post by dem bones on May 4, 2020 12:42:49 GMT
Robert Arthur - ... Said Jack the Ripper: (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Dec 1957). Burke Morgan, quiz show champ and cold blooded murderer, escapes from Shore Beach Penitentiary on the eve of his execution, takes refuge for the night among the dummies in Pop Dillon's Chamber of Horrors.
J. D. Stamper - The Wax Museum: (Still More Tales For The Midnight Hour, Oct. 1989). Mr. Archer takes the class on a day out to the Wax emporium. At closing time, Andrew, the school troublemaker, hides behind a velvet curtain, intent on stealing a ring from the finger of Henry VIII. The hooded headsman in a tableau depicting the execution of Anne Boleyn has other ideas.
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Post by Middoth on May 4, 2020 16:40:22 GMT
in fact, it is Andre de Lorde short story (the play exists too).
Even Argento confused.
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Post by dem bones on May 4, 2020 17:22:54 GMT
in fact, it is Andre de Lorde short story (the play exists too). Even Argento confused. Yeah, so I heard: Gaston le Roux |
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Post by Middoth on May 4, 2020 17:38:51 GMT
The earliest example of theme that I was able to find is "The Power of Darkness" by Edith Nesbit (The Strand Magazine, April 1905).
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The fiendish fiend!
It's been one of those threads.
