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Post by benedictjjones on Feb 9, 2010 19:08:22 GMT
right then...
i'm pretty sure this was in either a 'mammoth book of best new horror' or 'years best fantasy and horror' or something simialr. it involved a man replicating jekylls formula and selling it as a cure all tonic in victorian london annd ends up creating a horde of hydes.
really enjoyed it but either lost the book when i was 'escorted from the building' at one job or took it back because the book stopped halfway through and then repeated itself... Liked the setting and wondered if the author, whoever that is, did anything similar.
help, a always, much appreciated
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Post by dem on Feb 9, 2010 20:19:56 GMT
damn, i've read this, and i'm almost certain it's a Kim Newman story from one of the Mammoth Best New Horrors i had from the library. Maybe The Other Side of Midnight from #12? Enjoyed your Malarky's Conveyance, by the way. short, nasty and worth a place in the Ultimate Claustrophobia fantasy antho! |
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Post by benedictjjones on Feb 9, 2010 20:36:20 GMT
that title isn't ringinga bell bu i'll look it up - didn't think it was newman (as i thought i'd remember his name). i'll have a look.
cheers! i really enjoyed writing MC glad you liked it.
edit-checked the newman one (well a synopsis) and it isn't that one (further developments in the case of J &H)
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Post by andydecker on Feb 9, 2010 21:42:39 GMT
I know this story. I think. Definitly in one of the Best New Horrors.
Wasn´t this one of Paul McAuley´s occult London storys?
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Post by benedictjjones on Feb 9, 2010 23:15:06 GMT
bloody well found it!
Dark Terrors 6 (and it was Kim Newman *bows to demonik keeper of all pulpy knowledge*)
"Kim Newman's "A Drug on the Market" displays what could have possibly happened if Dr Jekyll had succeeded, and the resulting tonic was readily available -- researched in minute detail, and Newman delivers and almost perfect sense of time and place"
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