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Post by noose on Dec 23, 2010 21:50:29 GMT
Cheers for that Dem, gave me a right thrill to be able to download it! See you all on the other side of Xmas folks, hope you have a lovely time with friends and family!
Johnny x
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Post by dem bones on Dec 23, 2010 22:39:19 GMT
Cheers for that Dem, gave me a right thrill to be able to download it! See you all on the other side of Xmas folks, hope you have a lovely time with friends and family! Johnny x On the contrary, thank you for sharing it with us, Johnny. Have a good one yourself! I had a quick look on ancestry.com and there's a few arrival cards for Marie Elspeth Winch born in Auckland, NZ, c.1896 from places like Kingston, New York and Nova Scotia in the early 1920s, confirming Wheatley's short biog. There's always a tendency to ascribe obscure authors to writers who used a lot of pseudonyms, eg E. Charles Vivian/Charles Cannell/Jack Mann. ... which makes your research all the more important. à la Tartare is a little gem of a horror story and it's kind of nice to establish that Mrs. Winch really did exist and afford her due credit. Well done, James. here's the checklist of the stories to date, with just the one more to come (another cracker, BTW).
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Post by dem bones on Dec 24, 2010 1:47:48 GMT
And so to our final nefarious nicety. Scrape open the box and what do we find? Once the contemporary authors took to the stage, the project took on a decidedly 'tribute to The Black Books Of Horror aspect, so who better to deliver the coup de grâce than Dr. Terror himself, Mr. Charles Black? The following, desperately grim tale first saw publication in John Cooper's sadly defunct Forgotten Worlds #4 in 2006. If you find yourself in the back of beyond over the holiday and you're thinking of nipping into that quaint village pub for a swift Seagrams. think again, Goddammit! You could be walking into a Tourist Trap! Sincere thanks to all the contributors, living, dead or undecided who made this advent calendar possible, in particular Thana Niveau, Mark Samuels, David A. Riley, John Llewellyn Probert, Craig Herbertson, Franklin Marsh, Richard Stains, Stephen Bacon, Johnny Mains and Charles Black who so generously gave of their time and work. Attachments:
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Post by andydecker on Dec 24, 2010 10:58:22 GMT
Good story. The english countryside really must be more dangerous than Mexico. Thanks, dem, for your effort. This was a great idea with some very good stories. Have a nice holiday, which I hope for all Vaultdwellers!
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 24, 2010 13:07:19 GMT
Good one from Charlie. Echoes of the old Hammer House of horror and a sign that we should see another one in the Black Books.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 24, 2010 15:56:29 GMT
Knecht Ruprecht is a dark figure in the German Christmas. On Christmas Eve he goes about clad in skins or straw and examines children; if they can say their prayers perfectly he rewards them with apples, nuts and gingerbread; if not....he punishes them.
So, I hope you lot haven't been naughty otherwise....
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Post by dem bones on Dec 24, 2010 18:23:33 GMT
Good story. The english countryside really must be more dangerous than Mexico. Thanks, dem, for your effort. This was a great idea with some very good stories. Have a nice holiday, which I hope for all Vaultdwellers! Ha! no effort required on my part, Andy. The authors did all the work and i'm absolutely made up with the end results! As luck would have it, Charlie's kiss off is perfect in the circumstances as superstitious villagers and their hostile pubs have been a Vault obsession since day one! Hope you and yours enjoy a wonderful christmas. Knecht Ruprecht is a dark figure in the German Christmas. On Christmas Eve he goes about clad in skins or straw and examines children; if they can say their prayers perfectly he rewards them with apples, nuts and gingerbread; if not....he punishes them. So, I hope you lot haven't been naughty otherwise.... perish the thought! Happy Christmas to you, Craig, and i second your more stories from Dr. Terror sentiments! speaking of which, I just remembered we've a mystery to solve before the day is out. Any thoughts, good sir, on who wrote "After I Kill Her" ...?
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 24, 2010 19:01:32 GMT
Good story. The english countryside really must be more dangerous than Mexico. Thanks, dem, for your effort. This was a great idea with some very good stories. Have a nice holiday, which I hope for all Vaultdwellers! Ha! no effort required on my part, Andy. The authors did all the work and i'm absolutely made up with the end results! As luck would have it, Charlie's kiss off is perfect in the circumstances as superstitious villagers and their hostile pubs have been a Vault obsession since day one! Hope you and yours enjoy a wonderful christmas. Knecht Ruprecht is a dark figure in the German Christmas. On Christmas Eve he goes about clad in skins or straw and examines children; if they can say their prayers perfectly he rewards them with apples, nuts and gingerbread; if not....he punishes them. So, I hope you lot haven't been naughty otherwise.... perish the thought! Happy Christmas to you, Craig, and i second your more stories from Dr. Terror sentiments! speaking of which, I just remembered we've a mystery to solve before the day is out. Any thoughts, good sir, on who wrote "After I Kill Her" ...? I'm afraid it was me. The story repels me. No idea where it came from but I suspect it's not a nice place. merry Christmas folks
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Post by Johnlprobert on Dec 24, 2010 19:17:26 GMT
Ha! no effort required on my part, Andy. The authors did all the work and i'm absolutely made up with the end results! As luck would have it, Charlie's kiss off is perfect in the circumstances as superstitious villagers and their hostile pubs have been a Vault obsession since day one! Hope you and yours enjoy a wonderful christmas. perish the thought! Happy Christmas to you, Craig, and i second your more stories from Dr. Terror sentiments! speaking of which, I just remembered we've a mystery to solve before the day is out. Any thoughts, good sir, on who wrote "After I Kill Her" ...? I'm afraid it was me. The story repels me. No idea where it came from but I suspect it's not a nice place. merry Christmas folks Craig, for me it did what every good horror story should & there can be no better compliment than that - I really liked it! Merry Xmas to all the wonderful, anti-intellectual, pulp-loving members of this board who have helped keep me ?sane over the last year! May the spirit of Dennis Wheatley bless us, every one!
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Thana Niveau
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Post by Thana Niveau on Dec 24, 2010 21:05:30 GMT
I'm afraid it was me. The story repels me. No idea where it came from but I suspect it's not a nice place. merry Christmas folks Hey, it worked for me too! Everything a short and sweet (ie nasty) horror story should be. And the little grammar Nazi in me was delighted by the final line. Scary solstice to everyone at the Vault! Tidings of madness and woe...
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Post by Dr Terror on Dec 25, 2010 13:37:15 GMT
Barbara Roden's Tourist Trap is a better story than mine.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 25, 2010 17:16:07 GMT
couldn't say, Dr. T., as i've not read Barbara Roden's, but your Tourist Trap works for me (and mrs. d likes Midnight Snack!) I'm afraid it was me. The story repels me. No idea where it came from but I suspect it's not a nice place. merry Christmas folks The one that's been driving me mad this week is "would I have guessed?" and, if i'm honest, the answer is "no!" because it's so unlike anything else of Craig's i've read. i'm very pleased it made an impression - it will always be a bit special to me for providing a happy memory. Imagine being stuck for the next day's story and After I Kill Her comes flying at you out of nowhere?!! Merry Xmas to all the wonderful, anti-intellectual, pulp-loving members of this board who have helped keep me ?sane over the last year! May the spirit of Dennis Wheatley bless us, every one! Scary solstice to everyone at the Vault! Tidings of madness and woe... Happy Christmas, you two. Thanks ever so for your wonderful contributions to the calendar of terrors!
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Dec 10, 2012 13:03:26 GMT
On to today's offering, and what better than to get us underway than a shudder pulp which even the unflinching Robert Kenneth Jones" recognised as "an extreme case. Very few stories reached this level of repugnance .... it is extremely depraved, and certainly not for the squeamish." I speak, of course of Russell Gray (Bruno Fisher)'s Fresh Fiances For The Devil's DaughterReading the shudder pulp entries in the 2012 calendar inspired me to read "Fresh Fiancés for the Devil's Daughter" for the first time. Of all the shudder pulp stories I've read, this one is in a category with "The Mole Men Want Your Eyes" and no other. I'll admit that I laughed through the initial whipping scene, but the hot iron scene was something else entirely. I'm not sure what's more shocking--the story itself, or the fact that it was published in 1940.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 10, 2012 14:15:23 GMT
I'm not sure what's more shocking--the story itself, or the fact that it was published in 1940. Consider that the "weird menace" pulps contained exclusively this sort of thing. This particular story may be somewhat extreme in some respects, but it is a matter of degree only.
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