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Post by andydecker on May 17, 2020 18:06:50 GMT
Marvel made multiple attempts to get a Kull series up and running but somehow it just never caught on. Personally I blame the restrictive nature of the character's kingship status. But I do like Kull. In very many respects he is Howard himself: the brooding dreamer and enquirer after the infinite. I have the same opinion. Kull is a favorite. In many regards he is much more interesting than Conan. The Shadow Kingdom is one of my favorite Howard stories, and I like By this Axe I rule much more than its Conan rewrite. But the Marvel Kull never really worked for me either, if it was Thomas/Conway or all the later scribes. The concept is very limited. (Conan the King is also mostly boring by default). Even the Bolton issues by Moench were basically recycled Howard formula.
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Post by dem on May 26, 2020 16:35:11 GMT
Fearful of what he might do to a prostitute should the change overcome him, troubled Bill 'The Southend Werewolf' Ramsey, appealed to police to lock him up for the night. The S**, 24 July 1987.  Sidney Stanley Algernon Blackwood's The Willows & Other Queer Tales, (Collins, n.d. circa 1920s [?]) : ( Dime Mystery, Oct. 1949). Imagination, Drake called it. But then - how to account for the mangled bodies that appeared ... every time the wolf shadow stalked the bayou country?Tim Stout - High Moon: ( Hollow Laughter, 1978). Ian Thorne - The Wolf Man (Crestwood House, 1977) Ian Thorne - Frankenstein Meets Wolfman (Crestwood House, 1981) Carl R. Green & William R. Sanford - Werewolf of London (Crestwood House, 1985) A botanist, who is bitten by a wolf while on a trip in Tibet, becomes a werewolf. He is told that only a certain white flower can save him. Another werewolf steals the flower and the botanist starts killing people. After he is wounded, he turns back into his human form. |
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Post by cromagnonman on May 26, 2020 20:25:12 GMT
Anyone here see Curse of the Werewolf? I'm sure it was a - ahem - howl.
Ken Hill was a great theatrical impressario. I remember seeing his Phantom of the Opera with Peter "UFO" Straker in the lead. It was great. And although I never saw it (regrettably) his Invisible Man was supposed to be replete with striking effects such as a bicycle that rides itself off stage.
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Post by dem on Jun 16, 2020 19:41:59 GMT
Mont Hurst - The Wolf Man: ( Ghost Stories, July 1928). The young beauty of the woods little dreamed how deadly it was to reject her mad admirer. Fleurville, Louisiana, 1927. One morning, Peter Benoit, village idiot, arrives home from Bisnau forest wearing bloodied cloths and a sly smile on his mad face. Benoit is already suspected of the abduction of a Cajun girl: can it be that he's since murdered - and eaten - her? To prevent his sneaking off nights, the Benoit's strap the gibbering maniac to his bed. Meanwhile, our narrator, an oil company scout, locates the boy's woodland hideaway - and comes under attack from a crazed timber wolf.
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Post by dem on Jul 5, 2020 5:39:36 GMT
 Jack Binder: ( Weird Tales, April 1935). An uncanny story about the weird figures that beset Elof Bokac one night in the fog. Minnesota. Staggering drunk through the woods on his way to ask Kate O'Mecca's hand in marriage, Elof is beset by two female werewolves. The brawny farmer gets the best of the encounter, killing the elder woman-beast outright and lopping a paw from the second. Depending on his familiarity with lycanthrope fiction, a nasty shock awaits him/ he'll know what to expect on reaching O'Mecca farm. |
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Post by andydecker on Jul 5, 2020 12:15:27 GMT
The illustration alone is worth the admission. Wonderful. Thanks for sharing!
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Post by dem on Dec 7, 2020 18:19:44 GMT
Elliott O'Donnell - The Sign of the Werewolf: ( Casebook of Ghosts, 1969). Includes the terrifying experience of Miss Jane St Denis, menaced in the waiting room of a lonesome country railway station by a nude grey thing with a wolf's head. Lucky for her, shining a torch direct into its face caused the werewolf to shield it's blazing eyes and vanish to nothing. A similar story in Cumberland. The Anderson family found it impossible to retain servants on account of a wolf-headed man scaring them witless. Matters reach a head on Christmas Eve when Mr. Anderson, in full Santa regalia, inadvertently leads the creature into the children's bedroom. O'Donnell skips over a lesser incident in Tavistock for an anti-climactic grand finale in the Hebrides. The opening story - almost Peter Fleming's The Kill minus the kill - makes decent use of eerie location.
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Post by Dr Strange on Dec 7, 2020 22:26:04 GMT
Surely that is a were-hedgehog? |
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Post by dem on Jan 12, 2021 12:19:15 GMT
Two really good stories (I've not spoiled the endings). Am beginning to believe that maybe a very decent pulp-fuelled 100 Wild Little Werewolves anthology would not have been beyond Dziemianowicz-Weinberg-Greenberg after all. It would be an interesting challenge to put together a table of contents limited to short-shorts. But has Dragan Vujic written any short tales? No Dragan, I'm afraid, but this might work: At least five of the stories run to a dozen pages, but the overall average is probably six or seven with several single/two pagers. Have tried to resist the over-familiar ( Gabriel-Ernst, etc) , though doubtless a few slipped under the wire. In keeping with the 100's tradition, a few titles are included as period pieces, others because they are dreadful. Have tossed in a variety of were-creatures to keep things interesting. Sylvius Agricola (Forrest J. Ackerman) - The Shaggy Werewolf: ( Perry Rhodan #41: The Earth Dies, 1974) Kevin J. Anderson - Special Makeup: (Byron Priess [ed.], The Ultimate Werewolf, 1990) Anon - The Bride of Jan Malthek: ( The Beyond #29, Nov. 1954). Anon - Fangs of the Werewolf: ( Voodoo #10, July 1953). Anon (Art Sampler?)- The Horror Man: ( Nightmare #3, Skywald, April 1971) Michael Armstrong - I Was a Middle-Aged Werewolf: ( Frighteners #1, July 1991) Clifford Ball - The Werewolf Howls: ( Weird Tales, Nov. 1941). J. D. Beresford - The Hidden Beast: ( Signs & Wonders, Putnams, 1921). Eddy C. Bertin - Gris-Gris: ( Griezellige Klanken, 1998) Robert Bloch - The Bogey Man Will Get You: ( Weird Tales, March 1946) Scott M. Brents - The Silver and the Damage Done: (Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg, Martin H. Greenberg [eds.], Horrors! 365 Scary Stories , 1998) Brooke Byrne - The Werewolf's Howl: ( Weird Tales, Dec. 1934). Bernard L. Calmus - The Howl of the Werewolf: ( Phantom, April 1957) Grace M. Campbell - The Law Of The Hills : ( Weird Tales, Aug. 1930). J. Ramsey Campbell - Hybrid: ( Ghostly Tales, 1958. Crypt of Cthulhu #50, Sept. 1987) Bernard Capes - The Thing In The Forest: ( The Fabulists, 1915) Susan Carleton - The Lame Priest: ( Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1901) Angela Carter - The Werewolf: ( The Bloody Chamber, 1979) Lee Chater - The Thing On The Stairs: ( Coven 13, March 1970). Theodore Cogswell - Wolfie: ( Beyond Fantasy Fiction, Jan. 1954). Alonzo Deen Cole - The Werewolf: ( The Witch's Tales promo booklet, 1936). Nancy A. Collins - Vargr Rule: ( Shock Rock, 1992). Lawrence C. Connolly - Horror by Sunlight: (Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg, Martin H. Greenberg [eds.], Horrors! 365 Scary Stories , 1998) Basil Copper - Cry Wolf: (Roger Elwood [ed.], Vampires, Werewolves & Others, 1974) Mrs. George Corbett - The Werewolf: ( The Evening Post, Tuesday 7 June, 1904). Joseph Cromarty - The Screenplay: ( Twilight Zone, Nov. 1982). Matt Crossman - One Night In A Bavarian Forest: (Vault Advent Calendar, 2013) Les Daniels - Werman: (AKA, By The Light Of The Silvery Moon: Thomas F. Monteleone [ed.], Borderlands, 1990) Andrew Darlington - Beast of the Baskervilles: (DS Davidson [ed.], Tigershark #5, 2014; ]A Saucerful Of Secrets, 2016). Calvin Demmon - Who's Afraid?: ( Fantastic, Dec. 1972). Geoffrey Dickens - The Rapist Werewolf: ( Shock Tales, Jan. 1959: Thriller, Feb. 1962 as The Werewolf Lover by 'Geoffrey Van Loan, Jr. ') Dales C. Donaldson - Pia!: ( Coven 13 #2, Nov. 1969) Arthur Conan Doyle - A Pastoral Horror: ( People, 21 December 1890) David Drake - Best Of Luck: (Gerald W. Page [ed.], Years Best Horror VI, 1978). Steve Duffy - The Clay Party: (Mark Valentine [ed.], The Werewolf Pack, 2008) C. M. Eddy jnr. - The Ghost-Eater: ( Weird Tales, April 1924). Jeremy Ellis - Silver Bullets: ( Weird Tales, April 1930) Bron Fane (R. Lionel Fanthorpe) - Cry in the Night: ( Supernatural Stories #67, Nov. 1962). Mrs Hugh Fraser - A Werewolf of the Campagna: ( Further Reminiscenses of a Diplomatist's Wife, 1912) Orlin Frederick - The Throwback: ( Weird Tales, Oct. 1926). Theo Gift – Dog or Demon?: ( Not For The Night-Time, 1889) Hon. Mrs Greene - Bound By A Spell: ( Bound by a Spell; or, The Hunted Witch of the Forest, 1885. Peter Haining [ed.], A Circle Of Witches, 1971). Beverly Haaf - Mrs. Kaye: ( Startling Mystery Stories #11, Winter 1968/69) Charles D. Hammer (Robert J. Silverberg ?) - The Man Who Believed in Werewolves: ( Monster Parade # 2 , Nov 1958). Emma Hooper - Nightstalking: ( Udolpho #28, Spring 1997) Robert E. Howard - In the Forest of Villefère: ( Weird Tales, Aug. 1925). Mont Hurst - The Wolf Man: ( Ghost Stories, July 1928). Kenneth Ireland - The Werewolf Mask: (1983: Anthony Horowitz [ed.] The Puffin Book of Horror stories, 1994) Carl Jacobi - The Phantom Pistol: ( Weird Tales, May 1941). Robert Barbour Johnson - Lupa: ( Weird Tales, January 1941). Roger Johnson - Oddities & Entities: Tales from a Hero's Casebook #4. How To Be A Hero: ( In The Night, In The Dark, 2011). Obadiah Kemph - It Takes Two For Terror: (Theodore S. Hecht [ed.], Adventures In Horror #2, Dec. 1970). Kurt Kuersteiner - By The light of the Moon: ( 113 Tales of Terror, 2017). Ralph Allen Lang - The Silver Knife: ( Weird Tales, Jan. 1932). Thomas Ligotti - The Real Wolf: ( Nocturne #1, 1988). Dan Lindsay - The Beatnik Werewolf: ( MF&SF, Dec. 1960). Robert E. Lory - Chains: ( More Tales Of The Frightened, 1975). Marie de France - The Werewolf: (Aka Le Lai du Bisclavret, circa 12th Century: Alex Hamilton [ed.], The Cold Embrace, 1966) Joseph McCord - The Girdle: ( Weird Tales, Feb. 1927) George MacDonald - The Gray Wolf: ( Works of Fancy and Imagination, 1871) Roger Malisson - Countess Ilona; or, The Werewolf Reunion: (Roger Muller [ed], Supernatural, 1977). Barry N. Malzberg - Night Shapes: (Bill Pronzini [ed.], Werewolf!, 1979) Franklin Marsh - Yukon: ( Filthy Creations #5, Nov. 2008: Auld Franklin's Almanak Of Doom, 2015). Joe Meno - Spring: (Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg, Martin H. Greenberg [eds.], Horrors! 365 Scary Stories , 1998) Larry Eugene Meredith - The Last Letter From Norman Underwood: ( Magazine Of Horror #19, Jan. 1968) Lireve Monet [Everil Worrell) - Norn: ( Weird Tales, Feb. 1936) Brian Mooney - The Witch of Nuide: ( Dark Horizons #15, BFS, Winter 1976). Lisa Morton - Nikola, Moonstruck: (Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg, Martin H. Greenberg [eds.], Horrors! 365 Scary Stories , 1998) Bill Pronzini - Ancient Evil: (Byron Priess [ed.], The Ultimate Werewolf, 1990). Seabury Quinn - Out Of The Long Ago: ( Weird Tales, Jan, 1925). Stephen Mark Rainey - Temperance: (Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg, Martin H. Greenberg [eds.], Horrors! 365 Scary Stories , 1998) Tina Rath - Fifth Sense: (Mary Danby [ed.], 17th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories, 1984). Ruth Rendell - Loopy: ( Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Feb. 1983) Flavia Richardson - The Black Hare: (Christine Campbell Thomson [ed.], Keep On The Light, 1933). Frank Robinson - The Night Shift: ( Fantasy Magazine, Feb-March, 1953). Thomas S. Roche - The Dogcatcher: (Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg, Martin H. Greenberg [eds.], Horrors! 365 Scary Stories , 1998) Allan Roderic — Night Of Horror: ( Werewolves & Vampires #1, 1962) Saki - The Hedgehog: ( Morning Post, 19 Aug.1913). S. E. Schlosser - Werewolf's Bride: A Michigan Ghost Story: ( Spooky Campfire Tales, Globe Pequot Press, 2007). Paul Selonke - Beast Of The Island: ( Strange Stories, Oct. 1940). Robert Silverberg - The Werewolf Gambit: (Byron Priess [ed.], The Ultimate Werewolf, 1990). Clark Ashton Smith - Monsters in the Night: (aka A Prophecy of Monsters, MF&SF,Oct. 1954). Guy N. Smith - The Howling On The Moor: ( Graveyard Rendezvous #35, Summer 2010). Feodor Sologub - The White Dog: ( Weird Tales, Feb 1926). Judith Bauer Stamper - The Ten Claws: ( Tales for the Midnight Hour, 1977) Montague Summers - The Phantom Werewolf: ( The Werewolf, 1933) Anna Taborska - Buy A Goat For Christmas: ( For Those Who Dream Monsters, 2013). H. L. Thomson - The Fisherman's Special: ( Weird Tales, Aug 1939). Richard Thomson - The Severed Arm, or The Wehr-wolf of Limousin: ( Tales Of An Antiquary, 1828). Ian Thorne - The Wolf Man: ( The Wolf Man, Cresswood House, 1977) Ralph Thornton - I Was A Teenage Werewolf: ( Screen Chills and Macabre Stories #1, Nov. 1957) Roger Dale Trexler - Is That A Streetlight Or The Moon?: ( A Visit With The Shorts, 1988). E. H. Visiak - in The Mangrove Hall: (John Gawsworth [ed.], Masterpiece of Thrills, 1936). Karl E. Wagner - One Paris Night: (Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg & Edward E. Kramer [eds.], Grails: Quests, Visitations & Other Occurrences, 1992). Howard Wandrei - In The Triangle: ( Weird Tales, Jan 1934) Manly Wade Wellman - The Werewolf Snarls: ( Weird Tales, March 1937). Wallace West - Loup Garou: ( Weird Tales, Oct. 1927). Henry S. Whitehead - No Eye-Witnesses: ( Weird Tales, Aug. 1932). W. J. Wintle - The Voice In The Night: ( Ghost Gleams, 1921) Sewell Peaslee Wright - The Wolf: ( Weird Tales, Nov 1927). ----------------------------------- |
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Post by helrunar on Jan 12, 2021 14:01:02 GMT
Wow, Kev, that's an amazing compilation. So beyond impressed.
I'm intrigued that "The Countess Ilona - The Werewolf Reunion" is so short in print. The television version was a two-parter and thus ran to about two hours.
cheers, Steve
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Jan 12, 2021 18:29:03 GMT
At least five of the stories run to a dozen pages, but the overall average is probably six or seven with several single/two pagers. Have tried to resist the over-familiar ( Gabriel-Ernst, etc) , though doubtless a few slipped under the wire. In keeping with the 100's tradition, a few titles are included as period pieces, others because they are dreadful. Have tossed in a variety of were-creatures to keep things interesting. Lots of great selections here. I have a particular fondness for the Wellman, Bloch, and Monet (Worrell) stories. I would love to see 100 Wild Little Werewolf Stories manifest in our reality. |
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Post by dem on Jan 14, 2021 11:48:49 GMT
Lots of great selections here. I have a particular fondness for the Wellman, Bloch, and Monet (Worrell) stories. I would love to see 100 Wild Little Werewolf Stories manifest in our reality. I'm intrigued that "The Countess Ilona - The Werewolf Reunion" is so short in print. The television version was a two-parter and thus ran to about two hours. and I Was A Teenage Werewolf are among the lengthier stories on the list, so they'd be among the most likely to be dropped. Even if, by some miracle, we negotiated the copyright minefield, the bigger challenge would be to fit the above into 570 pages without resorting to micro font size. Though the listing was compiled as a fun project, it has made me even more appreciative of what a huge amount of work Messrs Dziemianowicz, Weinberg and Greenberg took on with the '100' series. Think it's already been suggested that a listing for an imaginary alternative 100 Vicious Vampires ... should be relatively easy to compile. It's quite possible that between us we could also come up with 100 short 'when plants attack' stories. I think mummies might prove beyond us - too samey, and many of those mentioned are fairly long. Any more? |
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Jan 14, 2021 12:50:38 GMT
Think it's already been suggested that a listing for an imaginary alternative 100 Vicious Vampires ... should be relatively easy to compile. It's quite possible that between us we could also come up with 100 short 'when plants attack' stories. I think mummies might prove beyond us - too samey, and many of those mentioned are fairly long. Any more? It might be a challenge to fill, but my next choice would be an anthology about dolls, puppets, dummies, marionettes, scarecrows, homunculi, animated suits of armor, and the like. |
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Post by helrunar on Jan 14, 2021 15:46:40 GMT
How about 100 Velveteen Vampires? Their little fangs are so dear.
H.
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Post by dem on Jan 31, 2021 22:08:17 GMT
Felix Claire - The Wolf-man's Call[: ( English Illustrated Magazine, March 1912). Narrator George Ingleby spends Christmas with friend Baron Mersky at his ancestral home 150 miles from Moscow. What transpires is a nightmare in snow on account of a marauding wolf pack and Ivan Ivanovitch, sinister sledge driver, the man with the ravenous gaze. Dulcie Deamer - Hallowe'en: ( Six Studies of the Stone Age & other stories, 1909: James Doig [ed.] - Australian Gothic, 2007).
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