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Post by corpsecandle on Sept 27, 2010 14:20:39 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 - Oh brillaint and just got an "oh God" in the distance when I told her it can be read online hehe, Thank you
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Post by valdemar on Apr 3, 2012 23:29:17 GMT
I have had the pleasure of reading the Pan Horror series many times, and without question, the goriest story was basically, a reportage of a factual event. I don't have any of the books now, but recall reading 'The Execution Of Damiens' when I was about 14, and it did it's job of horrifying. It's one of those stories, which, if you show it to someone, they invariably read it, and then give you the book back in silence - or cannot finish it. I don't remember the author, or in which book [possibly 12?] it appeared; but I have never forgotten it. France in the 17th Century? The Enlightenment? Not a good time to be a failed regicide...
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Post by dem bones on Apr 3, 2012 23:38:16 GMT
hello Valdemar. the story in question is by Hans Heinz Ewers and you'll find it in number Pan Horror 3. can only agree with you - it's a truly horrible piece of work!
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Apr 4, 2012 8:08:00 GMT
'The Execution Of Damiens' describes a particularly awful death and lends credence to the adage that we horror writers can't usually come up with fantastic horror that is more horrible than man's normal inhumanity to man.
Just rereading Exquemelin's 'The Buccaneers of America' as a kind of tangential example. Everything fictional you ever saw or read about buccaneers and pirates seems to be less fantastical than their real exploits.: They'd take about 40 men and charge a fort on a hill with about 400 soldiers in it - and win. On a less commendable level they'd also take a leather strap, tie it around your head until your eyes popped out or toast you on baking rock to find out where your treasure was hidden or in a fit of indifference hack you into small pieces. - all for doubloons which would be spent in a few days.
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Post by marcgreenman on Jul 19, 2013 8:11:59 GMT
just finished david case's among the wolves amongst my pan re-reads. this contains one scene which i have never forgotten from the pan horrors where a man gets his leg caught in a bear trap and decides to remove it with an axe, this forms the climax of the story and is incredibly bloody and unpleasant. i don't think i can recall anything as nasty as this, incredibly bloody. the climax of the next story isn't bad either, but i'm nominating the end of case's story as one of the nastiest moments.
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Post by paulfinch on Dec 12, 2013 12:07:39 GMT
Pretty sure David Case said he was influenced to write that story after hearing the true account of a trapper who hacked off his own limb to escape a trap. Not sure when or where it supposedly happened.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 12, 2013 15:16:25 GMT
Pretty sure David Case said he was influenced to write that story after hearing the true account of a trapper who hacked off his own limb to escape a trap. Not sure when or where it supposedly happened. This guy was quite famous. intrigued me. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liver-Eating_Johnson
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Post by charliegrenville on Jul 6, 2014 8:02:06 GMT
The author of SUGAR AND SPICE and PLAYTIME (the one about the dead Mum) was the wonderfully named AGJ Rough, possibly a pseudonymous entity, who also gave us COMPULSION in the 9th, SOMETHING IN THE CELLAR- not to be confused with the much earlier THING IN THE CELLAR by David Keller, which has been discussed above- and years later, THE MATERIALIST in the 20th. There may have been a couple of others, i'd have to check.
And the one about the dodgy abusive parents who get tortured and duffed up by a vengeful social worker is AN OPPORTUNITY IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT by who else but the wonderfully sadistic Norman P Kaufman.
I can't think of the one about a father and son being crushed in a chimney though...any ideas?
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Post by thasaidon on Jul 26, 2014 0:34:21 GMT
I can't think of the one about a father and son being crushed in a chimney though...any ideas? "Upstarts" in Pan Horror 28.
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Post by Mike Brough on Jul 26, 2014 7:49:09 GMT
Afraid my recollection of Pans is pretty sketchy. I haven't read any since I was a teenager - but I'll start catching up now. (BTW I know half the fun is in collecting the physical books, but are they also available for Kindle?)
I have a vague memory of a story where the protagonist wakens to find that he's being kept alive as a meat source - various parts of him, and others, being hacked off as needed. For some reason, I connect it with Ray Bradbury's The Homecoming but that may just be childhood neurons misfiring. Anyone able to enlighten me?
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Post by doomovertheworld on Jul 26, 2014 15:56:16 GMT
Afraid my recollection of Pans is pretty sketchy. I haven't read any since I was a teenager - but I'll start catching up now. (BTW I know half the fun is in collecting the physical books, but are they also available for Kindle?) You can't get any of the books in their complete form on Kindle however you can buy five stories, Flies, The Copper Bowl, Nightmare, A Fragment of Fact and Serenade for Baboons from the first Pan Book of Horror for it
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Post by redbrain on Jul 26, 2014 21:13:38 GMT
Afraid my recollection of Pans is pretty sketchy. I haven't read any since I was a teenager - but I'll start catching up now. (BTW I know half the fun is in collecting the physical books, but are they also available for Kindle?) I have a vague memory of a story where the protagonist wakens to find that he's being kept alive as a meat source - various parts of him, and others, being hacked off as needed. For some reason, I connect it with Ray Bradbury's The Homecoming but that may just be childhood neurons misfiring. Anyone able to enlighten me? I have a vague memory of that, too... not that I can remember which story it is (or even which volume of Pan Horrors). I'm pretty sure that it isn't a Ray Bradbury story. In fact, I don't recall seeing a Bradbury yarn amongst the Pan Horrors. (Or am I wrong? It doesn't seem likely. Ray Bradbury seems far too whimiscal for Herbert Van Thal's purposes.)
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jul 27, 2014 22:24:49 GMT
Afraid my recollection of Pans is pretty sketchy. I haven't read any since I was a teenager - but I'll start catching up now. (BTW I know half the fun is in collecting the physical books, but are they also available for Kindle?) I have a vague memory of a story where the protagonist wakens to find that he's being kept alive as a meat source - various parts of him, and others, being hacked off as needed. For some reason, I connect it with Ray Bradbury's The Homecoming but that may just be childhood neurons misfiring. Anyone able to enlighten me? I have a vague memory of that, too... not that I can remember which story it is (or even which volume of Pan Horrors). I'm pretty sure that it isn't a Ray Bradbury story. In fact, I don't recall seeing a Bradbury yarn amongst the Pan Horrors. (Or am I wrong? It doesn't seem likely. Ray Bradbury seems far too whimiscal for Herbert Van Thal's purposes.) THE EMISSARY, fourth pan One of my favourites
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Post by redbrain on Jul 27, 2014 23:33:35 GMT
Checking, I find that you're absolutely right. The Emissary by Ray Bradbury is in Pan Horrors 4. It's not typical Pan Horror fare, though, and I'm not surprised that I'd forgotten its presence. It's most certainly not the story about a man kept alive as a source of meat.
(I write "source of meat" rather than "meat source" because I can't read the latter phrase without thinking "meat sauce".)
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jul 27, 2014 23:58:23 GMT
Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man was in a later edition (eighth?). I know what you mean by saying not typical but Pan evolved and there were always authors who didn't fit the perceived mould. We need John mains here. Maybe there were more Bradbury's?
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