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Post by paulfinch on Sept 8, 2011 15:28:59 GMT
Don't know if anyone can help, but I've been trying to trace the title and author of a story I read about three or four years ago, which made a massive impression on me.
I'm writing in this particular section, because I'm pretty sure it appeared in one of the Year's Best anthologies, though I wouldn't like to put my mortgage on that.
It concerns a psychic chap who is asked to the house of a rather odd family (possibly on Christmas Eve) to help with their ghost-watching activities. Initially it's all quite genteel, but then he ends up playing a bizarre game of hide and seek, and being hunted around the large, gaunt house by quite a different kind of family ...
Does that ring any bells of familitary with anyone? It's totally remiss of me to lose the details - don't know what I was thinking of at the time, but it's one of the scariest modern stories I've ever read.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 8, 2011 22:19:22 GMT
*groan* from your synopsis, this sounds so up my street that it's to going to haunt me too until someone comes up with the answer. can you not give us anything else to go on, Paul? and you're sure it's definitely modern?
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Post by paulfinch on Sept 9, 2011 9:19:13 GMT
*groan* from your synopsis, this sounds so up my street that it's to going to haunt me too until someone comes up with the answer. can you not give us anything else to go on, Paul? and you're sure it's definitely modern? It's definitely a recent story, D - as in id tes from the last five years or so. If memory serves, the game is an attempt to replicate the circumstances in which someone disappeared in the house (or something like that). The hero then slips through the same dimension door, or whatever it is, and finds himself in a kind of nightmarish parallel version of the world he's just been in. It's truly terrifying. I had the idea initially that it was written by Reggie Oliver, Steve Duffy or another member of the 'James Gang', as they used to be called back in the days of Ghosts & Schoalrs, but so far they've all denied authorship. However, I'm pretty sure the author is British, as the story is set somewhere like Lancashire or Cheshire. It's becoming a real mystery. |
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Post by mrhappy on Oct 8, 2011 21:10:50 GMT
I think this is The Last to Be Found by Christopher Harman. This appears in Datlow, Link and Grant's The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twentieth Annual Collection.
Mr. Happy
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Post by paulfinch on Oct 23, 2011 21:46:39 GMT
You are correct, Mr. Happy. Thanks very much.
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