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Post by dem bones on Oct 19, 2008 11:51:03 GMT
Michael & Don Congdon (eds.) - Alone By Night (Ballantine, 1961) Richard Powers Tales Of Unlimited HorrorRobert Bloch - Sweets To The Sweet Elisabeth Sanxay Holding - The Strange Children Logan Swanson - The Likeness Of Julie Frank Belknap Long - It Will Come To You Henry Kuttner - A Gnome There Was Richard Matheson - Nightmare At 20,000 Feet Ben Hecht - In The Midst Of Death Saki - Gabriel Ernest August Derleth - Baynter's Imp Robert Bloch - Enoch F. Marion Crawford - For The Blood Is The LifeBlurb: Enter the world of the SUPERNATURAL teeming with very special denizens of its own, so rich in gory variety that the heart thuds loud, sweat breaks, the cringing mind searches shudderingly for the next ghastly manifestation in this terrifying tome of horror.Includes: Richard Matheson - Nightmare At 20,000 Feet: Arthur Wilson's morbid fear of flying isn't helped any when he spots a gremlin playing peek-a-boo with him from the wing of the DC-7 mid-flight. Unable to convince the hostess of what he's seen and fast going into mental meltdown, the terrified Wilson realises that only he can prevent a disaster. Logan Swanson (Richard Matheson) - The Likeness Of Julie: I'd forgotten just how perverted this story is. Eddy Foster, English teacher, fixates on the one girl in his class he doesn't fancy, the no looks, no figure Julie Eldridge, until he just has to have her. He has it all planned: Rohypnol in her drink; a hotel room; a camera for the photographs he'll use to ensure her silence. It all runs like clockwork - but just who has been pulling Eddy's strings all along? As you'd expect from Matheson, it's very effective. Frank Belknap Long - It Will Come To You: "The figure had the look of something that ought never to have been dug. There was hardly any flesh on it, and its teeth were pointed like those of a beast of prey ...His long-term benefactor Bannerman has found Cromer another job - this time as a food-taster for all the top restaurants which should suit his special talent down to the ground. At last he'll be able to make up to his fiery, high maintenance girlfriend Jane Wilder. That night in the Ten O'clock club, Cromer is at his happiest, genuinely proud that all the guys are checking out his girl - until the angry call from Bannerman. The food he'd passed as OK has just killed two of his normal colleagues who helped themselves to a chicken drumstick. Bannerman has to show him his true form to remind him of what he really is. August Derleth - Baynter's Imp: Cyril Baynter, oafish spoilt bastard and self-styled Dandy about Chicago, is infuriated that local beauty Belle Fossett would rather be seen out with pauper Bert Trayle than spend a second with him. With the help of the imp he unwittingly releases from the bottle that's imprisoned it for 900 years, he first kills Bert, then Belle's father who never approved of him and prepares to make his move. Now there's just the little matter of doing away with his personal demon. Robert Bloch - Enoch: When the retarded Seth explains to kindly D. A. Mr Cassidy that he didn't mean to kill all those people and dump their bodies in the quicksand, that it's all the fault of Enoch, the invisible man who lives on top of his head and makes him do bad things, the sympathetic lawman agrees to cut him a deal. In return for Seth's testimony, he'll 'adopt' Enoch. Just goes to show, you should never attempt to humour a 'crazy' man.
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