The Spectres at the Feast

[Scott Wood]

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Wild Talents presents
The Spectres at the Feast: A Night of Ghost Stories

29th October 7.00pm-10.00pm.

Dirty Dicks, 202 Bishopsgate, City of London, EC2M 4NR.

Nearest rail and tube: Liverpool Street.
Reserve a table by email or telephoning 020 7283 5888
For more details contact or 0795 201 2487

Spectres with appear through the night within the haunted halls of Dirty Dick’s upstairs room for a night celebrating ghost stories and horror. Your night will be haunted with stories and song from folklore, classic ghost literature and twenty-first century penny dreadfuls. Encounter vampires, phantom thumbs, séances gone wrong, lost souls, football hooligans from beyond the grave and much more.

Performers include Al Robertson, Janet Dowling, Chris Roberts, Niall Boyce, Jude Cowen & Paul Cowdell.

Join our ghost story quiz and win a stack of horror stories.

‘The Spectres at the Feast’ is a free event by Wild Talents in conjunction with One Eye Grey, the Liars League, Fright Fiction, Graeme's Fantasy Book Review and The Original London Ghost Festival (established October 2008).

We provide the spectres; please purchase your feast from the bar.

Readers / performers: we have a couple of slots left for ghostly contributions. Please contact us on [e-mail]

[dem bones]

Hi Scott. would love to stagger in and provide one more card-carrying skeleton at the feast to prop up the bar because it sounds like something i'd get into, but, as with this year's Zardoz, it ain't going to happen for me. Can suggest a story that might be appropriate if no-one's mentioned it yet: Gerald Kersh's Carnival On The Downs featuring a cameo from Dirty Dick of Bishopsgate who "had a public house and was a dandy once". It's most easily available in Mary Danby's 65 Great Tales Of The Supernatural.

Hope it goes off well for you and loads of bone-bags show up!

[Dr Strange]

Hmmmm... I can't help thinking of the story "Jerry Bundler" by W.W. Jacobs.

[Scott Wood]

Oct 7, 2009 12:49:32 GMT Dr Strange said:

Hmmmm... I can't help thinking of the story "Jerry Bundler" by W.W. Jacobs.

Which, by the power of Google, I've just found and downloaded.

[Scott Wood]

Oct 7, 2009 12:26:14 GMT dem bones said:

Gerald Kersh's Carnival On The Downs featuring a cameo from Dirty Dick of Bishopsgate who "had a public house and was a dandy once". It's most easily available in Mary Danby's 65 Great Tales Of The Supernatural.

Thanks, I've check it out as I've not heard of it. Thanks for the good wishes, I'm sure it'll go well but it's the first time I've given sometihng like this a go so I'm a little jittery. Luckily I've got the support of a lot of good and interesting writers and perfomers.

[Dr Strange]

Oct 8, 2009 11:43:13 GMT Scott Wood said:

Oct 7, 2009 12:49:32 GMT Dr Strange said:

Hmmmm... I can't help thinking of the story "Jerry Bundler" by W.W. Jacobs.

Which, by the power of Google, I've just found and downloaded.

I hope you enjoy "Jerry Bundler" - and that your evening goes off with (a different sort of) a bang.

Thought I might share this true story with the Vault -

When I was a teenager in a remote part of rural Scotland (sometime in the 80s) a "Rock Horror Show" came to the local village hall. Some of you have probably seen one of these (they seemed to be all the rage back then) - basically a group of people doing stage magic while dressed as "horror" characters, with a heavy metal soundtrack playing. Very Alice Cooper - scantily clad women being decapitated by guillotine, etc.

Anyway, at one point in the proceedings a guy came on to the stage dressed in a gorilla suit and chased said scantily clad women around for a while, and then jumped of the stage (which was all of 3 feet high) into the audience... to be promptly decked by a swift right hook from a drunken local. It was the best part of the night.

[dem bones]

i'll give this a bump as it's TOMORROW NIGHT, so if you're in the vicinity of Liverpool Street why not drop in and enjoy some seasonal spookiness.