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Post by dem bones on Nov 21, 2009 19:12:00 GMT
Agreed there, dem. Found this online & wondered if Preston was inspired by reports of this for the 'Journey's End' pub sign? (entry from www.paranormaldatabase.com/reports/headless.php): Twelve Pallbearers Location: Ashford in the Water (Derbyshire) - Shady Lane, near Thornbridge Hall Type: Haunting Manifestation Date / Time: Unknown Further Comments: These twelve men carrying a coffin are said to be headless. The coffin is also empty, the space reserved for any witnesses to the spectral sight. Great spot, Dave! don't know how you got on looking it up, but it seems that 'Shady Lane' is also known as Longstone Lane; a few mentions of pubs & restaurants but no luck with the Twelve Pallbearers. Perhaps our man in the Devil's Peak district can enlighten us?
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Nov 21, 2009 19:36:23 GMT
I also found this entry from the same site:
Headless Bearers
Location: Great Holland (Essex) - Field along Park Lane Type: Haunting Manifestation Date / Time: Unknown Further Comments: At least one witness has reported seeing six headless men carrying a coffin across the field.
This one is a little closer to the sign, as it involves six pallbearers. As for looking it up, I was looking through the linked site's haunting index (don't believe in ghosts, myself, but always had an interest in the paranormal if that makes any sense) & reading the entry, remembered the pub sign in the Guy Preston story.
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Nov 21, 2009 19:41:26 GMT
And another:
Pallbearers
Location: Lytchett Matravers (Dorset) - Road between village and Poole - A350? Type: Haunting Manifestation Date / Time: Unknown Further Comments: Somewhere along this road, four headless pallbearers hurry along before vanishing into a hedge.
& yet another!:
Six Pallbearers
Location: Powerstock (Dorset) - Road leading to North Poorton Type: Haunting Manifestation Date / Time: Unknown Further Comments: Six decapitated men carrying a coffin are said to slowly move along the country lanes.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 21, 2009 20:49:27 GMT
"The inn sign ... was in the nature of a coffin supported by six headless bearers goose-stepping towards a white headstone, and underneath this somewhat forbidding daub with grim irony, the legend 'Ye Journey's End'"
i'm sure you're onto something and that one of these legends inspired the story. Rather disconcerting, in view of yesterday's tragic events, to drag out a copy and find he'd set it in Cumberland, somewhere between Cockermouth and the Workington-Whitehaven district.
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Nov 21, 2009 20:59:31 GMT
Forgive my ignorance, dem, but what events are you referring to? I seem to have managed to avoid the news yesterday.
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Post by carolinec on Nov 21, 2009 21:10:01 GMT
Forgive my ignorance, dem, but what events are you referring to? I seem to have managed to avoid the news yesterday. HP - a policeman was killed when he was directing traffic off a bridge which collapsed in the flooding in that area yesterday. Very sad.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 21, 2009 21:17:55 GMT
And the three places he names in the story featured heavily in the news reports as being the worst hit. I think they were hit with something like a months rainfall in 24 hours? what it did to the bridge the policeman was standing on was sobering. it's no consolation to his poor family, but only the one fatality is pretty miraculous when you see the devastation.
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Nov 21, 2009 21:35:52 GMT
I've since looked it up & seen what it did, yikes!. The destructiveness of the weather is certainly frightening.
Before I drag things off topic too much, I have to say whatever story it was with the retiring social worker who exacts revenge on a couple of feckless parents, ranks farely high for me. It's a toss up between that & kowlongo plaything (I've still got quite a few pans to read, so my shortlist is limited).
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Post by erebus on Feb 11, 2010 17:31:07 GMT
Not gory but made me squirm. In Pan 23 The Sleeping Prince , were the nurse pushes the pin into the eyeball. And the another over it to push the initial one in deeper, owwwww.
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Post by oatcakeredux on Sept 26, 2010 17:21:54 GMT
The earlier-mentioned SUGAR AND SPICE showed up in the same volume as the one about the curious young boy cutting up his dead Mum. Both by the same author, I'm sure, although I can't remember his name. Either way, he would have appeared to have had issues.
Most of my contenders have been mentioned. But who wrote that grisly historical yarn wherein a nasty king puts his queen's lover in some stocks and burns his eyes out graphically with a red-hot poker?
Whereupon his queen comes in, kills him, and then - seeing the ruin left of her beau's face - calmly knocks him down and upturns a brazier of hot coals over his head before walking out...
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Post by dem bones on Sept 27, 2010 8:59:59 GMT
great to hear from you again, oatcake. as you can see, we're still grinding out the same old rubbish - i bet it's like you were never away. The burning coals torture fest is Raymond Williams' The Assassin from #8, one of my all time favourites - it probably says something terrible about me that i was in fits of laughter by the end of it.
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Post by corpsecandle on Sept 27, 2010 11:06:55 GMT
Not sure of it's name but the story used Nursery Rhymes to describe it's characters and the monster was basically a glob that ate it's victims.
Then again I could be getting mixed up with the Pan story about a slime monster that lived in the sewer and ate it's victims like the thing in the film The Blob.
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Post by Johnlprobert on Sept 27, 2010 12:44:27 GMT
Not sure of it's name but the story used Nursery Rhymes to describe it's characters and the monster was basically a glob that ate it's victims. Then again I could be getting mixed up with the Pan story about a slime monster that lived in the sewer and ate it's victims like the thing in the film The Blob. That's The Fat Thing by Martin Waddell. It does indeed live in a sewer when it's not squeezing its shapeless bulk into a bodystocking and rubber gloves to kill people who have the same names as nursery rhyme characters!
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Post by corpsecandle on Sept 27, 2010 13:27:35 GMT
That's the bugger Wasn't there one called The Sploge that was about something similer I will have to take a look at my Pans now to give my top moments. I was also wondering if someone could settle a mystery, my finacee remembers being freaked out by a story about a boy who is afraid of a monster in the basement. His parents don't believe him and they punish him by locking him in the celler and the monster turns out to be real.
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Post by Dr Strange on Sept 27, 2010 13:36:32 GMT
I was also wondering if someone could settle a mystery, my finacee remembers being freaked out by a story about a boy who is afraid of a monster in the basement. His parents don't believe him and they punish him by locking him in the celler and the monster turns out to be real. The Thing in the Cellar by David H. Keller. Published in Weird Tales (1932), and online here - thenostalgialeague.com/olmag/cellar.html
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