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Post by redbrain on Jul 28, 2014 0:11:02 GMT
You're absolutely correct. It's a long time since I read the Pan Horrors. (Volume 4, I must have read in 1963, very shortly after it was first published, more than half a century ago. Crumbs!) When I think of Pan Horrors, the things that come to mind are a very long way from Ray Bradbury's fantasies. And yet the Bradbury stories were present. Dim recollections of ancient reading, no doubt, are far too inclined to stereotype.
Volume 4 is one of the volumes that I still have -- partly for the sake of the wonderful W Francis Phillipps cover of the first edition. The same artist produced another exceptional cover for the first edition of Volume 3. There's an argument for saying that these two covers were the best ever to be seen on the front of Pan Horror volumes.
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Post by charliegrenville on Jul 28, 2014 10:27:38 GMT
It's ironic that the "chimney crusher" story should turn out to be UPSTARTS- by pure coincidence, I dug out the 28th recently, half of which I'd clearly forgotten since reading it in 1988- and sure enough, there it was.
The "meat source" story isn't IT CAME TO DINNER by R Chetwynd Hayes is it? It has a similar theme at least. It also crops up in PEBBLEDENE, but only as an afterthought.
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Post by Mike Brough on Jul 28, 2014 12:02:29 GMT
This page Contents ( covers) has complete contents listings (click on the covers for volume by volume contents). I suspect the story I'm thinking of is in volume 14 (the cover rings a ghoulish bell) but I'll need to find a synopsis of each story to be sure. No sign of Bradbury in that volume, though. I wonder where I first read The Homecoming.
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Post by thasaidon on Jul 28, 2014 23:33:18 GMT
I'd concur that the "meat source" story is "It Came to Dinner".
Also Helen and Monica come to a similar fate in "Suitable Applicant" (Vol.8), though there the limbs are all taken for food in one go and they're hung up to be used as sex slaves.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jul 29, 2014 7:16:09 GMT
I'd concur that the "meat source" story is "It Came to Dinner". Also Helen and Monica come to a similar fate in "Suitable Applicant" (Vol.8), though there the limbs are all taken for food in one go and they're hung up to be used as sex slaves. I'm almost unhappy you reminded me of the title of that gruesome story 'Suitable Applicant'. It was a real shocker at the time.
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Post by Mike Brough on Jul 29, 2014 17:11:32 GMT
I'd concur that the "meat source" story is "It Came to Dinner". Also Helen and Monica come to a similar fate in "Suitable Applicant" (Vol.8), though there the limbs are all taken for food in one go and they're hung up to be used as sex slaves. Yes, that's the one Thanks for everyone's help with this. Off to scour Amazon and eBay.
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