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Post by doug on Feb 5, 2012 11:39:29 GMT
Alfred Hitchcock's Haunted Houseful:Let's haunt a house / Manly Wade Wellman -- The Wastwych secret / Constance Savery -- Jimmy takes vanishing lessons / Walter R. Brooks -- The mystery of Rabbit Run / Jack Bechdolt -- The forgotten island / Elizabeth Coatsworth -- The water ghost of Harrowby Hall / John Kendrick Bangs -- The Red-Headed League / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The treasure in the cave / Mark Twain -- The mystery in Four-and-a-Half Street / Donald and Louise Peattie. I saw some scans of the interior illustrations for this book and have decided that I must buy it. I especially liked the illustration for "The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall" (which is a funny story and my favorite of the Bangs pieces that I've read). Ghostly Gallery is even better!  www.google.com/search?q=hitchcock%20ghostly%20gallery&biw=1024&bih=571&sei=B2ouT9zMOMHLtAas9Zj7DA&tbm=isch |
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Feb 5, 2012 13:20:53 GMT
Ghostly Gallery is even better! I have a copy of Ghostly Gallery (which is great!). The illustrations in mine are different, however (and not as good). |
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Post by sara on Feb 5, 2012 14:38:10 GMT
Its that retelling of the tales by others that increases the imaginative sparkle - It must be buried deep in the psyche from ancient times. Love it! True, there’s something about sitting round, swapping stories, trying to scare the bejesus out of each other – it’s so fun and scary too! ;D I think the extra frisson is added by them being retold by someone who we're conditioned from an early age to believe is going to protect us from the horrors, not embellish them... Interesting point, :DI guess she just got a bit carried away with her storytelling skills, bless her. |
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Post by doug on Feb 7, 2012 9:53:11 GMT
Ghostly Gallery is even better! I have a copy of Ghostly Gallery (which is great!). The illustrations in mine are different, however (and not as good). Here's the edition that I have.....  |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Feb 7, 2012 11:44:28 GMT
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Post by Knygathin on Apr 10, 2012 6:55:55 GMT
I don’t think it was books that started me off. I was a Christmas gift off an uncle and it was the Aurora monster kit of The Mummy. . . - Dracula, Frankenstein, The Forgotten Prisoner, Hunchback, Wolfman and I even got the working Guillotine! The Aurora monster kits covered the tops of every book-shelf in my room. My dad couldn't resist painting The Mummy and The Phantom of the Opera with his old oil-paints. I was duly impressed - they became alive! I painted with Humbrol paints. I used to enjoy placing the man standing by the far end of the Guillotine, then tipping the board over so he was lying down, and shoving him in under the blade. He had such fine dignity in his pose, and accepted this treatment every time! The blade was rigged up with real hemp-colored string, and there was grass and painted blood in the basket. His head was carefully attached, so it would fall clean off every time the blade dropped. Ah, those were the days! All the Aurora models are gone now. Broke and disappeared one by one with the ravages of time. Difficult to collect since they took up much space, and were fragile. Replaced now with supernatural fiction! |
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Post by dem on Apr 11, 2012 12:50:32 GMT
hi knygathin: if you've not already aware of it, think you may enjoy Craig & friends' enthusiastic reminiscences on the morbid models here |
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Post by valdemar on Apr 12, 2012 19:43:48 GMT
As a child, I had a copy of a record of Boris Karloff reading 'Tales Of Mystery And Imagination' by Edgar Allan Poe. It was an unusual record for a child, but the 60's were simpler times. The book that possibly was the start of my love of horror stories, was an ancient, battered copy of MR James' ghost stories, that I got from a jumble sale when I was about nine. A lot of it went right over my head, but I distinctly remember the delicious frisson of fear whilst reading 'Lost Hearts'. I liked this feeling, and that was it. Horror has not yet overtaken my utter obsession with 'Doctor Who' [since 1968], but it's close.  |
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