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Post by ghost on Aug 27, 2011 8:46:10 GMT
2. John Blackburn - The Tragedy of Macbeth, William Shakespeare – Huzzah! Did this in school, where we were marched to the local cinema to see the Polanski film. Beltin’. Fell in love with the story ever since. Is there a 'horror we did in school' thread? French A-Level meant we did Camus' The Plague, a much better horror contender than The Stranger... (but not to be confused with the James Darke version)
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Aug 27, 2011 14:24:30 GMT
2. John Blackburn - The Tragedy of Macbeth, William Shakespeare – Huzzah! Did this in school, where we were marched to the local cinema to see the Polanski film. Beltin’. Fell in love with the story ever since. Is there a 'horror we did in school' thread? French A-Level meant we did Camus' The Plague, a much better horror contender than The Stranger... (but not to be confused with the James Darke version) using the loose criteria for this hundred I suggest the following scenario: A good example of school horror for Americans must be Moby Dick. I can imagine the poor kids being given the introduction and perhaps a first chapter reading to kick them off. There's a lengthy pause as the last words of the teacher drop into the classroom. The silence wakes those insomniacs who are grimacing at their fingers. Then the teacher hands the books out to a stunned silence. The bright kid at the back voices the unthinkable 'There are 135 chapters of this and 1,946 pages...Please tell us this is April the first...'
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Post by dem bones on Aug 27, 2011 18:05:27 GMT
Is there a 'horror we did in school' thread? French A-Level meant we did Camus' The Plague, a much better horror contender than The Stranger... (but not to be confused with the James Darke version) there is now! hope you didn't mind me surgically removing your post mr ghost. The closest we got to horror fiction at secondary school was when our english lit teacher read us The Speckled Band. He was an elderly German chap, Mr. Valkenburg, mad on Sherlock Holmes & Gilbert & Sullivan operas (had us read Ruddigore now i think of it), most likely the first person i knew who loved his books with a passion. Tragically, he hung himself, reputedly because some stupid kid stole his diary. in primary, i still remember a teacher reading us Sorche Nic Leodhas's The Man Who Walked Widdershins Around The Kirk from the 2nd Armada Ghost book. She also genuinely seemed to be believe a "true" story about subterranean dwellers attacking London Underground workers in the tube tunnels. no matter that it all sounds a bit Death Line, she told it well!
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Post by ghost on Aug 27, 2011 18:12:06 GMT
Thanks for making the thread.
From the first 100 we 'did':
Shakespeare -- M*cbeth [O-level English syllabus]
From the second hundred
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte [English] The Stranger by Camus [A-level french syllabus] Nineteen Eighty Four by Orwell [O-level English syllabus] Weirdstone of Brinsingamen by Alan Garner [read to us in junior school] Sweeny Todd by Sondheim & Wheeler ["performed" by school, I was 3rd lighting assistant]
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Post by dem bones on Aug 28, 2011 8:26:27 GMT
Sweeny Todd by Sondheim & Wheeler ["performed" by school, I was 3rd lighting assistant] ha! when we were in primary school, the eng lit teacher divided us into groups of four and betweeh us we'd have to write and perform a play in front of the class. nine years old and i'm a vampire. talk about typecast for life. we could expand on this with a companion question; ... and what books & mags were passing around the playground?. now that is surely asking for trouble!
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Aug 28, 2011 8:56:13 GMT
You preempted me there Dem. I must have been 9 or 10 when the old Pan Horror stories were flying round the classroom. Parents were less picky with kids I suspect in those days, and of course I had older brothers. We used to tell each other the stories and exaggerate them until Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol would have seemed like Watch with Mother. Great days.
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Post by noose on Aug 28, 2011 9:00:48 GMT
Well, for the short while they were around - we used to pass SCREAM! - I think one of the most serious horror comics I've seen for kids. They were fun, I've not got the whole set, just these ones and if I remember rightly, they went tits up at around issue 16. Broke my heart it did and I'm still incredibly fond of them today. Missing four issues - found the rest of these mouldering away in a shop, so just HAD to rescue them!
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Post by mattofthespurs on Aug 28, 2011 9:35:59 GMT
Used to have a full set of "Scream" comics. Sold them for a stupid amount of money on eBay (£155 if memory serves) and bought a bootleg CD rom of the complete set, including summer specials, to read on the computer for less than a fiver delivered.
The two books I remember being passed around at school when I was 11 were "The Exorcist" (mainly for it's bad language) and "The Amityville Horror" (the film had just come out in 1979 when I was 11).
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Post by andydecker on Aug 28, 2011 10:36:03 GMT
Scream is a new one for me. Was this some american reprint material or original tales and art?
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Post by noose on Aug 28, 2011 13:05:52 GMT
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Post by ghost on Aug 28, 2011 16:11:39 GMT
we could expand on this with a companion question; ... and what books & mags were passing around the playground?It seems like it was a law that all 80s playgrounds had to have a copy of The Rats going round...
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Post by mattofthespurs on Aug 28, 2011 17:49:55 GMT
Scream is a new one for me. Was this some american reprint material or original tales and art? Original tales and art, many from the 2000 AD stable.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 28, 2011 18:33:29 GMT
It seems like it was a law that all 80s playgrounds had to have a copy of The Rats going round... ... late 'seventies playgrounds too. can't remember seeing much else by way of horror. the closest - and it became my bible for a term - was Julian Tondriau & Roland Villeneuve's beautifully illustrated Devils & Demons: A Dictionary Of Demonology (Tom Stacey Ltd., London, 1972). i've not seen a copy in years. it felt like the last word in lurid to then me though i'm sure it's a serious book. Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange was mandatory, as were issues of early alternative football mag Foul magazine (even bought the t-shirt). There always seemed to be an abundance of Sven Hassle paperbacks doing the rounds, tried one, didn't get into it. School perv circulated a copy of Michael Walsh's How To Undo A Maiden (Tandem, 1971) until it was intercepted by the nuns who took a dim view. it's another been on my wants list for years. Scream fans might like to check out mr. Ghastly McNasty's tribute site. thanks to Steve for providing the Devils & Demons scan and giving a name to the authors who i'd forgotten.
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Post by andydecker on Aug 28, 2011 19:07:44 GMT
Thank you so much for the links, Johnny. I expected to find some middle of the road stories with simple art, but this is great stuff. Dracula Files is very good, stuff like Thirteenth Floor and Monster is a lot of fun. Shame that this was cancelled so abruptly and never finished.
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Post by andydecker on Aug 28, 2011 19:17:06 GMT
Original tales and art, many from the 2000 AD stable. Yes, I discovered Moore, Wagner, Finley-Day and Cam Kennedy. The art had a surprisingly high standard.
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