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Post by dem bones on Oct 20, 2011 5:31:27 GMT
Theodore S. Hecht (ed.) - Horror Stories: Vol 1: Number 6 (Stanley Publications, August 1971) The Halloween treats have arrived early this year thanks to the the consistently brill Retrospace, a splendid repository of vintage magazines of every stripe, pulp covers, found photographs, and much else besides. This time the great man has truly outdone himself, providing two full issues apiece of sensational 'seventies terror & fear magazines World Of Horror and Horror Stories as downloadable pdfs, and truly, mere words cannot express my undying gratitude! Here's to many more Mini Skirt Monday's, Mr. Space! So, to Horror Stories for August 1971, and squeezed in between the full page advertisement for chillingly life-like blow-up dolls and 'Joe Weiner presents THE TRIM MASCULINE BODY LOOK FOR THE SEVENTIES: MUSCLE UP & MAKE OUT!', etc, we find: True Stories Of The Unknown
William Arnes - The Slave Of Satan Who Stalked By Night. Long dead flesh came to life when the moon hid behind clouds and people fled from the sight Charles Thompson - Seven Victims For The Blood-Mad Ghoul. It needed fresh corpses to carry out its foul plan - and no one was safe. Avery West - Revenge Of The Witch. The Bride of Evil kept a vigil for 300 years to seek out and punish the hapless descendants of an innocent man.
Adventures In Terror Gabriel Varney - The Phantom Of Kensington Theatre. Our famous Ghost-Hunter tackles the most frightening case of his career. Franklin Chase - Trapped Without Hope On The Ship Of The Dead. A nameless horror was on board - somehow - and one by one the crew died an unspeakable death. Obadiah Kemph - Fangs Of A Fiend For The Girl Who Died Twice. Constance awoke from a dream into a living nightmare. Roy Marvin - "Tomorrow We'll Dance In The White Man's Blood!". African magic is a cruel master to anyone still foolish enough to doubt its presence.
Special Features Whittier Fowles, Ph. D. - Adventures In Witchcraft. Lycanthrope and werewolves is this issue's subject. Notes From Our Readers. If you've had an experience with the Unknown World, why not share it.After hoping for so long i'd one day have an opportunity to read Obadiah Kemph's Fangs Of A Fiend For The Girl Who Died Twice, i have to say it comes as a slight disappointment, but how could it be anything else? Allegedly written by Ed Wood, it's the story of Constance Browne, a young and beautiful heiress, who is chatted up by a mysterious, black clad stranger, Charles Granville, at her Aunt Alice's funeral. Constance is sick of the paparazzi hounding her every move - in fact, she's sick of life. To get away from it all she takes a week away at her late aunt's cottage, after which she'll return to marry her boring lawyer boyfriend, Jeremy. Granville, a centuries old vampire, has other ideas. If this really is Wood's work, it's atypical because there's nothing at all going on in the erotica department and Granville hasn't even the courtesy to cross dress.
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Post by Johnlprobert on Oct 20, 2011 7:40:28 GMT
For all the zero people in the world who are wondering, that still for Who Stalked by Night is from Ray Dennis Steckler's The Incredible Strange People Who Stopped Living & Became Mixed Up Zombies!
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Post by andydecker on Oct 20, 2011 10:38:02 GMT
Thanks for the link, dem. Great stuff. I must be really, really jaded, but the ads in Horror Stories are so much more interesting then the stories. The "Lifesize Topless Go Go Girls" for just 3 Dollars are a steal But the book on "150 rare martial positions" is not bad either. That is the present that keeps on giving. And I overlooked it the first time this was posted in this thread, but if I ever need a woman pseudonymn, I take Glinka Schmartmeedle
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Post by dem bones on Oct 20, 2011 20:01:09 GMT
Must admit, i'm a little underwhelmed by the August Horror Stories myself. Helga the inflatable playgirl and all those other squalid ads aside, the tits 'n bums quota is scandalously low, so no surprise the next one (October 1971) would be the last.
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Post by dem bones on Feb 4, 2018 15:57:53 GMT
Theodore S. Hecht [ed.] - Adventures In Horror #2, (Stanley publications, December 1970). TRUE TALES OF THE UNKNOWN Robert Lawrence - BONY FINGERS FROM THE GRAVE. Raw fear blinded them as the brothers realized that the dead don't always stay dead. Harlan Williams - TRAPPED IN THE VAMPIRE'S WEB OF ICY DEATH. She was frantic with worry and foolishly thought a mere man of science could save her. Michael Praetorius - ONE MORE VICTIM FOR THE COFFIN'S CURSE OF HORROR. Whatever the secret of Kenmore Hall was, the ancient servant kept it locked in her heart until it was time.
ADVENTURES IN TERROR William Dunlappe - THE BLOOD-DRENCH CORPSE OF THE PRIESTESS OF SATAN. An angry wife unwittingly helped open the door to Hell and beyond. Thomas Arnes - THE DOLL-MAKER'S REVENGE. She was young and beautiful - but Evelyn had a power far greater than human. Obadiah Kemph - IT TAKES TWO FOR TERROR. Beth became an unwilling lover - as a pair of fiends battled to possess her. Norman Nickerson - EVIL STRANGER IN THE HOUSE OF DOOM. He was just a farmhand - yet his silent brooding terrified them.
SPECIAL FEATURES Whittier Fowles, Ph.D., Sc.D. - ADVENTURES IN THE OCCULT. A noted scholar discusses the real facts behind witchcraft. NOTES FROM OUR READERS. Your letters about your own experiences with the unknown.Thanks to the good people at archive org, you can read/ ogle issues 1 and 2 here. Adventures in Horror #1Adventures in Horror #2
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Post by helrunar on Mar 10, 2018 13:18:43 GMT
I thoroughly enjoyed that hilarious review of New Witchcraft. E. A. St George's "Case of the Unwanted Actress" was a reprint from one of the yarns included in Casebook of a Working Occultist, a work I personally classify as fiction, although there is no doubt that the author had received magical training in a London lodge as well as a Wiccan coven. In the story about the stranded Apollo spacecraft, the title character invokes Mr Spock from the Star Trek universe to materialize first in her own magical circle at home and then subsequently within the disabled vessel, where the Enterprise officer makes short work of fixing up the "primitive" 20th century circuitry. I still wonder if the Chaos Magic "current" of the 1980s owed at least some inspiration to this tale, which presumably circulated in occult circles throughout the 70s. All the early Chaos stuff seemed to make a point of mentioning the effectiveness of invoking Star Trek characters in magical rites.
Worth noting, incidentally, that a copy of Casebook of a Working Occultist appears a couple of times in the legendary Seventies serial, Children of the Stones, filmed in part at Avebury. Great fun and I recommend it. I watched the whole thing a year or so ago on the Tube of U.
cheers, H.
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Post by dem bones on Mar 10, 2018 14:42:37 GMT
I thoroughly enjoyed that hilarious review of New Witchcraft. E. A. St George's "Case of the Unwanted Actress" was a reprint from one of the yarns included in Casebook of a Working Occultist, a work I personally classify as fiction, although there is no doubt that the author had received magical training in a London lodge as well as a Wiccan coven. In the story about the stranded Apollo spacecraft, the title character invokes Mr Spock from the Star Trek universe to materialize first in her own magical circle at home and then subsequently within the disabled vessel, where the Enterprise officer makes short work of fixing up the "primitive" 20th century circuitry. I still wonder if the Chaos Magic "current" of the 1980s owed at least some inspiration to this tale, which presumably circulated in occult circles throughout the 70s. All the early Chaos stuff seemed to make a point of mentioning the effectiveness of invoking Star Trek characters in magical rites. Worth noting, incidentally, that a copy of Casebook of a Working Occultist appears a couple of times in the legendary Seventies serial, Children of the Stones, filmed in part at Avebury. Great fun and I recommend it. I watched the whole thing a year or so ago on the Tube of U. cheers, H. Thanks for the info, Steve. Here's the heading which accompanied the Case Of The Unwanted Actress reprint. Now that you've explained it, the Apollo 13 episode sounds eminently plausible ....
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Post by andydecker on Jan 25, 2020 12:14:38 GMT
Another translated Bloch story I stumbled upon. The original of this anthology is already covered here, at the Fawcett Horror checklist. This edition is missing the Machen story, as Heyne paperbacks were still priced according to for their length at the time, I guess it was just too long. This edition from 1973 has just 141 pages. Bloch's The Thinking Cap which is included here is one of those ailing writer gets mystic help until he fucks up stories, and I really wouldn't describe it as erotic in any way. The whole book isn't in any way in the category of, say, Hot Blood or their competition. But this is matter of taste. The German cover from 1973 though is great.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 25, 2020 19:19:24 GMT
Bloch's The Thinking Cap which is included here is one of those ailing writer gets mystic help until he fucks up stories, and I really wouldn't describe it as erotic in any way. The whole book isn't in any way in the category of, say, Hot Blood or their competition. But this is matter of taste. The German cover from 1973 though is great. I guess 'Erotic' is in the eye of the beholder. There are stories in, say, Michelle Slung's I Shudder at Your Touch do nothing for me, but they may well be the sexiest thing going to another reader (and vice versa). That said, no way would I have expected to find The Shoes is such a selection, even were it foot-fetish specific. That cover, as you say, is quite ... striking.
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