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Post by dem bones on Jan 24, 2008 19:53:02 GMT
Richard Dalby (ed.) - Dracula’s Brood: Rare Vampire Stories by Friends and Contemporaries of Bram Stoker (Crucible, 1987, Equation, 1989) Introduction - Richard Dalby
William Gilbert - The Last Lords of Gardonal Eliza Lynn Linton - The Fate of Madame Cabanel Phil Robinson - The Man-Eating Tree Vasile Alecsandrai - The Vampyre Anne Crawford - A Mystery of the Campagna Julian Hawthorne - Ken’s Mystery Arthur Conan Doyle - The Parasite Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Good Lady Ducayne Mary Cholmondeley - Let Loose Vincent O’Sullivan - Will H. B. Marriott Watson - The Stone Chamber Hume Nisbet - The Vampire Maid Hume Nisbet - The Old Portrait Vernon Lee - Marsyas in Flanders Louise J. Strong - An Unscientific Story Sabine Baring-Gould - A Dead Finger Horacio Quiroga - The Feather Pillow Algernon Blackwood - The Singular Death of Morton Alice & Claude Askew - Aylmer Vance and the Vampire Ulric Daubeny - The Sumach M. R. James - Wailing Well Edward Heron-Allen - Another Squaw? E. R. Punshon - The Living Stone Frederick Cowles - Princess Of Darknessincludes: Eliza Lynn Linton - The Fate Of Madame Cabenal: Pievrot, a hamlet in Brittany. Jules Cabanel, father of his housekeeper Adele’s child, returns from Paris with an English bride. Adele welcomes her new mistress with a bouquet of scarlet poppies, belladonna and aconite, and, in concert with Martin Briolic, is soon plotting her rivals downfall. The high rate of infant mortality in the region gives them all the ammunition they need … Frederick Cowles - Princess Of Darkness: Now we’re in Budapest, and the clutches of the 400 year old Transylvanian Princess Bessenyei, so no prizes for guessing she’s a full on vampire with all the trappings. Wherever she goes, she leaves a trail of dead lovers in her wake until Harry Gorton, an English diplomat, teams up with his occultist friend Istvan Zichy join forces against her. A marvelous pulp romp with a suspenseful climax, and it’s possible you won’t double guess the ending. E. R. Punshon - The Living Stone: “What could any man do against fifty tons of granite made animate?” Good question, especially when it flings itself upon you with a great leap and gluts on your blood. The professor, researching human sacrifice in Cornwall, stakes out the ‘hunting stone’ in Missing Lane following a series of mysterious disappearances in the locality. Hume Nisbet - The Old Portrait: Utterly charming Victorian horror. When he scrubs away the “bloated, piggish visage of a landlord” from the canvas, he discovers the masterly portrait of a beautiful woman underneath. Fascinated, he spends Christmas Eve gazing at his find. Come midnight, and the lovely lady comes floating out of the frame.. Hume Nisbet - The Vampire Maid: A reclusive artist takes up residence in a cottage and falls for the attractive invalid Ariadne Brunnell. Her health begins to return. Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Good Lady Ducayne: Bella lands the position of ladies maid to the ancient, wizened Adelaide Ducayne, and spends the winter touring Italy with her and sinister physician Dr. Parravicini. The old girl’s is soon dramatically improved, although Bella isn’t feeling too clever …. Edward Heron-Allen - Another Squaw?: Title alludes to Stokers horrible tale of the American tourist, the cat and the Iron Maiden. This one is set at a Marine Biological Station, and relates the events leading to the death of Jennifer Pendeen B.Sc., savaged by an Angler fish. Mary Cholmondeley - Let Loose: Wet-Waste-On-The-Wold, Yorkshire. When Sir Roger Despard, a man of many vices, lay on his deathbed, he did so denying God and his Angels, declaring that all were damned as he, and that Satan was strangling him to death. Taking a knife, he cut off his hand and swore an oath that, if he were to go down and burn in hell, his hand would roam the earth and throttle others as he was being throttled. Thirty years after his death, a young man persuades an old clergyman to open the crypt … Horacio Quiroga - The Feather Pillow: Even given the heady standards set by the The Living Stone, The Sumach (an excellent ‘vampire tree’ outing) and Another Squaw?, this one is pretty bizarre. Recently wed, Alicia is wasting away before the eyes of her dominant husband. What could be causing her illness? (Clue: it isn’t a haunted hot-water bottle). Alice & Claude Askew - Aylmer Vance and the Vampire: Hereditary vampirism in the Scottish Highlands. Paul marries beautiful redhead Jessica MacThane, the last of her clan, who bears a striking resemblance to her ancestress, Zaida the witch, the wife of a murderer. Since Zaida’s day, the legend has persisted of “a pale woman clad in white, flitting about the cottages at night, and where she passed, sickness and death were sure to intervene …” H. B. Marriott Watson - The Stone Chamber: Utterbourne Village, Devon. Rupert Marvin, an eighteenth century rake and murderer, does his little bit to upset the wedding plans of the besotted Warrington and Marion. You’ll most likely prefer Warrington when he’s demonically possessed by the vampire, boozing, cursing and pawing every woman in sight. Not a patch on the same author’s The Devil On The Marsh, but good fun none-the-less. Sabine Baring Gould - The Dead Finger: When it comes to leftie-haters, very few could outdo Dennis Wheatley, but the Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould certainly gave it his best shot in this 1904 shocker. Who is to blame for the vampiric digit which persecutes our narrator so? As the undead himself explains: whinging paupers! “Folk once called us Anarchists, Nihilists, Socialists, Levelers, now they call us the Influenza …. we the social failures, the generally discontented, coming up out of our cheap and nasty graves in the form of physical disease.”I’d so have that engraved on my headstone if only I could afford one!
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chastel
Crab On The Rampage
Where wolf? There castle!
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Post by chastel on Feb 14, 2009 21:56:41 GMT
Ah, where can I find this! ;D
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Post by dem bones on Feb 17, 2009 20:58:41 GMT
I'm not sure how easy it is to find either edition at a reasonable price, but if you can put up with reading from a computer screen then you can download the majority of these for free from horrormasters.
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chastel
Crab On The Rampage
Where wolf? There castle!
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Post by chastel on Feb 17, 2009 21:56:51 GMT
I'm not sure how easy it is to find either edition at a reasonable price, but if you can put up with reading from a computer screen then you can download the majority of these for free from horrormasters. Thank you so much!
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Post by dem bones on Dec 4, 2009 7:06:36 GMT
Vincent O'Sullivan - Will: A man despises his wife so much he wills her to death, draining the life from her with his hatred. Before she dies, she swears that she will haunt him from beyond for what he's done, and true to her word, she is with him from that day forward, until the happy couple are reunited. "On a night which was the last of the moon, he heard a singular scraping noise at his window, and upon throwing open the casement, he smelt the heavy odour which clings to vaults and catacombs where the dead are entombed. Then he saw that a beetle - a beetle enormous and unreal - had crept up the wall of his house from the graveyard, and was now crawling across the floor of his room ...."
Had forgotten how great his stuff is until a recent re-read of The Business Of Madame Jahn. Should've voted for him in the Wordsworth poll, though I see he did well enough! Ghost Story Press put out Master of Fallen Years: Complete Supernatural Stories in 1995, but a Wordsworth would be most welcome.
Now, a couple of very entertaining trees of terror outings;
Phil Robinson - The Man-Eating Tree: Adventure of the great traveller, Peregrine Oriel, hunting deer in Central Africa. When one of the native children, Otona, tries to trap a wounded fawn, he's attacked by the vampire leaves of the evil tree. Attracted by the boy's screams, Oriel shoots the tree as he would anyone who disobeys his orders, but it's no use. Eventually, what's left of Otona is dragged free of "the ghastly relics of many former meals", but cleaning him up would take too long, so Oriel's men dig a hasty grave and bury him with the leaves still sucking away at his blood.
Ulric Daubeny – The Sumach: Irene Barton inherits Cleeve Grange from cousin Geraldine who died of acute anemia. Before she passed away, Geraldine developed a morbid fear of a tree which still stands in the garden - the Sumach. "The foliage was unusual, and the branches gnarled and twisted beyond recognition. Just now the leaves were stained with splashes of dull crimson, but rather than droop, they had a bloated appearance ..." Maybe Irene was a little hasty in deciding to bury her her dog, Spot, under the tree, but she has other things to worry about: she's fast wasting away from the same mystery illness that did for Geraldine! It transpires that a suspected vampire was once buried on the spot and the Sumach has grown from the stake driven through its heart. Mrs. Watcombe, nosey neighbour, knows the solution, but will Irene's husband return from London in time to save his fast ailing wife?
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Post by dem bones on Jan 28, 2010 18:35:01 GMT
chastel, if you're still after Dracula's Brood, you might like to have a look at this ..... In terms of overall plot, but not how the story is told, "The Tomb of Sarah" bears many resemblances to "An Episode of Cathedral History". Both are worth reading. For handiness, both are included in a new anthology, THE VAMPIRE ARCHIVE, edited by Otto Penzler. It has over a thousand pages and I got it from Amazon for £9.99. It is the thickest paperback I have and seems to have plundered every other anthology of vampire stories. It has many good stories among its 80 plus items, like "The Tomb of Sarah" and "An Episode of Cathedral History", and many bad ones. You can decide yourself. Looks like the new anthology owes a bit to Richard Dalby's Dracula's Brood for the early stuff. Otto Penzler (ed.) - The Vampire Archives - The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published (Random House, 2009) Foreword - Kim Newman Preface - Neil Gaiman Introduction - Otto Penzler PRE-DRACULA M. E. Braddon - Good Lady Ducayne William Gilbert - The Last Lords of Gardonal Anne Crawford - A Mystery of the Campagna Eliza Lynn Linton - The Fate of Madame Cabanel Mary Cholmondeley - Let Loose Vasile Alecsandri - The Vampire Ambrose Bierce - The Death of Halpin Frayser Julian Hawthorne - Ken's Mystery Sheridan Le Fanu - Carmilla F. G. Loring - The Tomb of Sarah Edgar Allan Poe - Ligeia Hume Nisbet - The Old Portrait Hume Nisbet - The Vampire Maid TRUE STORIES Eric Count Stenbock - The Sad Story of a Vampire Luigi Capuana - A Case of Alleged Vampirism Franz Hartmann - An Authenticated Vampire Story GRAVEYARDS, CASTLES, CHURCHES, RUINS Carl Jacobi - Revelations in Black Anne Rice - The Master of Rampling Gate Frederick Cowles - The Vampire of Kaldenstein M. R. James - An Episode of Cathedral History D. Scott-Moncrieff - Schloss Wappenburg H. P. Lovecraft - The Hound Tanith Lee - Bite-Me-Not Or, Fleur De Fur Joseph Payne Brennan - The Horror at Chilton Castle Algernon Blackwood - The Singular Death of Morton Clark Ashton Smith - The Death of Ilalotha THAT'S POETIC Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe - The Bride of Corinth Lord Byron - The Giaour John Keats - La Belle Dame Sans Merci HARD TIMES FOR VAMPIRES Charles Beaumont - Place of Meeting Ed Gorman - Duty David J. Schow - A Week in the Unlife CLASSIC TALES Victor Roman - Four Wooden Stakes E. F. Benson - The Room in the Tower E. F. Benson - Mrs. Amworth Basil Copper - Doctor Porthos F. Marion Crawford - For the Blood Is the Life M. R. James - Count Magnus Manly Wade Wellman - When It Was Moonlight August Derleth - The Drifting Snow Alice and Claude Askew - Aylmer Vance and the Vampire Bram Stoker - Dracula's Guest Algernon Blackwood - The Transfer H. B. Marriott Watson - The Stone Chamber Jan Neruda - The Vampire Clark Ashton Smith - The End of the Story PSYCHIC VAMPIRES D. H. Lawrence - The Lovely Lady Arthur Conan Doyle - The Parasite Harlan Ellison - Lonely Women Are the Vessels of Time SOMETHING FEELS FUNNY Fredric Brown - Blood Stephen King - Popsy R. Chetwynd-Hayes - The Werewolf and the Vampire Richard Matheson - Drink My Red Blood Roger Zelazny - Dayblood LOVE . . . FOREVER Lisa Tuttle - Replacements Frederick Cowles - Princess of Darkness Garry Kilworth - The Silver Collar Walter Starkie - The Old Man's Story Vincent O'Sullivan - Will Dion Fortune - Blood-Lust Everil Worrell - The Canal Mary A. Turzillo - When Gretchen Was Human Lafcadio Hearn - The Story of Chugoro THEY GATHER Steve Rasnic Tem - The Men & Women of Rivendale Tanith Lee - Winter Flowers Brian Stableford - The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady F. Paul Wilson - Midnight Mass IS THAT A VAMPIRE? Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire Sabine Baring-Gould - A Dead Finger M. R. James - Wailing Well Clive Barker - Human Remains Sydney Horler - The Vampire Hugh B. Cave - Stragella Vernon Lee - Marsyas in Flanders Guy De Maupassant - The Horla Fritz Leiber - The Girl With the Hungry Eyes THIS IS WAR Robert Bloch - The Living Dead Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann - Down Among the Dead Men MODERN MASTERS Brian Lumley - Necros Ray Bradbury - The Man Upstairs Manly Wade Wellman - Chastel Peter Tremayne - Dracula's Chair Richard Laymon - Special Dan Simmons - Carrion Comfort Gahan Wilson - The Sea Was Wet as Wet Could Be Daniel Seitler - The Vampire: A Bibliography
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Post by monker on Jan 29, 2010 12:31:38 GMT
Why not try for both? The latter volume seems to squib out when it comes to the "Vampire things" type of story.
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Post by ripper on Sept 1, 2016 12:36:18 GMT
The Fate of Madame Cabanel is quite grim. I was waiting for the said lady to be rescued or at least to exact revenge or even a twist ending with her accusers proven correct, but no such luck. She does seem a bit oblivious to her predicament, and was it really a good idea for her to get the blood of the infant she is suspected of feeding upon all over her lips?
The Man-Eating Tree reminded me of the highly suspect reports of such things that circulated in the late 19th century, and possibly they were Robinson's inspiration for the story. There's a sizeable preamble which I thought could have been omitted without any effect on the narrative.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 1, 2016 16:51:43 GMT
The Fate of Madame Cabanel is quite grim. I was waiting for the said lady to be rescued or at least to exact revenge or even a twist ending with her accusers proven correct, but no such luck. That's what I most like about it and why, suspenseful as they are, I'm not planning to go gaga on Dean R. Koontz novels. Had Mr Koontz written ... M. Cabanel there's no question human goodness would have prevailed and the heroine been spared her ordeal. Dracula's Brood is such a wonderfully varied collection it puts just about every other vampire-themed anthology to shame. The Feather Pillow, The Living Stone, and the proto Hammer Horror, Princess Of Darkness, are huge personal favourites. The finger on the rampage in Rev. Sabine Baring Gould's hysterical party political broadcast is my all time hero ... or was, until The Legs That Walked marched into my life.
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Post by bobby on Sept 1, 2016 23:04:11 GMT
This is the cover of the edition I have, which I ordered from Barnes & Noble's print catalog in the early 1990's.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 2, 2016 8:20:14 GMT
This is the cover of the edition I have, which I ordered from Barnes & Noble's print catalog in the early 1990's. Edvard Munch is certainly an upgrade on the Equation house artist.
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Post by ripper on Sept 2, 2016 9:25:37 GMT
I agree with you, Dem; Dracula's Brood is a great anthology, with a wonderfully varied selection and is probably my favourite vampire collection.
The Stone Chamber is another that didn't quite go where I was expecting. Poor Warrington loses his lady love after trying to assault her in the garden while possessed. I thought our narrator would sort it all out and bring the couple together, but he's not above lusting after her following his unwise move to sleep in the stone chamber and Warrington's flight to the continent. Also, the fate of the maid is only hinted at, but we can guess what Warrington did to her. A good story which I thoroughly enjoyed.
The Old Portrait and The Vampire Maid: I view these as the Ant and Dec of vampire fiction, for they are rarely seen apart. Two simple tales that don't outstay their welcome. As Dem said, they do have a charm about them.
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Post by ripper on Sept 3, 2016 9:23:59 GMT
The Living Stone: This one doesn't hang about and I thought it was an enjoyable and highly unusual tale. I warmed to the Professor and wondered if Punshon featured him in any other stories.
Another Squaw?: Dalby includes a very unusual type of vampire story with a nasty ending. What struck me was the author's choice of a lady marine biologist as main character--unusual for a woman to be shown as having a scientific career at the time I would have thought. The author saw fit to recap the plot of Stoker's story 'The Squaw' as a preamble, probably to explain his choice of title to readers unfamiliar with Stoker's classic.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Sept 3, 2016 12:54:44 GMT
The Living Stone: This one doesn't hang about and I thought it was an enjoyable and highly unusual tale. I warmed to the Professor and wondered if Punshon featured him in any other stories. I found this list of weird tales from Punshon on the ISFDB website: "The Avenging Phonograph" (1907); "The Last Ascent (1916); "The Unknown Quantity" (1916); "The Haunted Chessmen" (1916) and "The Living Stone" (1939). You can find publication details here: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?18356Given the original publication dates it looks like Punshon did not feature the Professor in any other stories.
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Post by ripper on Sept 3, 2016 14:02:58 GMT
Thank you, Michael. That's a pity; I was hoping for more tales featuring the Professor. I can't recall reading anything else by the author but this story entertained me greatly.
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