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Post by franklinmarsh on Aug 30, 2011 14:42:20 GMT
Already mentioned Macbeth, 1984, Lord Of The Flies (etc) - were shown the film of The War Game too. Books passed around included Skinhead and Boot Boys at primary school. Secondary school saw Jaws, The Rats (one teacher was nicknamed Willard and at least one cover of Herbert's masterpiece was defaced so that the Rat was wearing glasses and clutching a piece of chalk), Night Of The Crabs and (Huzzah!) Confessions Of A Travelling Salesman, along with magazines such as World Of Horror.
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Post by lemming13 on Sept 12, 2011 11:01:27 GMT
On the official side of things, we had King Lear (Gloucester's eyes and all), HG Wells' Country of the Blind, The Chrysalids and The Midwich Cuckoos (my English teacher adored Wyndham), Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Signalman, Lord of the Flies, Pincher Martin, and a few tales by Hoffman and leFanu. Unofficially I was considered the horror guru of the school from day 1, since all the other parents seemed to be paranoid about horror stories warping the minds of their darlings. So it was to me the others came to share my Pan and Fontana paperbacks, my Dracula Lives comics, and all the other glorious pulp.
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Post by ripper on Dec 4, 2015 13:39:03 GMT
I think the nearest we got to horror at school was Macbeth, 1984 and Lord of the Flies, all for O-level English. The teacher would make us take turns to read out loud to the rest of the class, except when an embarrassing passage was reached when he would then tell us to read on our own, a classic example being Winston's encounter with a lady of the night in 1984. And there was also the time when the school put on a production of Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible' in which I played Thomas Putnam. We had to get permission from the Headmaster to perform the full play with no censoring as there are a few slightlyoff-colour words included--well, off-colour for 1977.
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