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Post by dem bones on Nov 14, 2012 22:00:12 GMT
By coincidence, I recently looked back at this thread from the old site after having reread Mary Danby's creepy puppet masterpiece, "The Engelmayer Puppets," in Party Pieces. It may be due for an update. My hall of fame for creepy puppet/doll stories would also include Sarban's The Doll Maker, A. Merritt's Burn, Witch, Burn!, Fredric Brown's "The Geezenstacks," Robert Aickman's "The Inner Room," and Chris Priestley's "The Un-Door." That's just scratching the surface, however. Michael Whelan These are the suggestions from Vault MK 1 (a Monker-Ripper-Victoria-Dem production). Michael Kernan - The Doll Named Silvio William Nolan - My Name Is Dolly Ramsey Campbell - The Companion Theodore Sturgeon - The Professor's Teddy Bear Lisa Tuttle - Dollburger Mary Danby - The Engelmeyer Puppets David Rowlands - On Wings Of Song Davis Grubb - Where The Woobine Twineth F. Terry Newman - Marius the Doll Francis King - The Doll Clive Ward - Caviat Emptor Algernon Blackwood - The Doll Richard Matheson - PreyTo which i'll add: W. F. Harvey - Sambo Paul Finch - The PoppetI've dropped the toys (general) from the thread title on the reasoning that there are enough of them to warrant another to themselves!
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Post by ramseycampbell on Nov 14, 2012 22:13:54 GMT
Steve King's "The Monkey", surely!
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Post by dem bones on Nov 14, 2012 22:46:11 GMT
Fear not, Ramsey. My needlessly complicated approach means The Monkey and Trucks are already sidelined for companion volume Toys (that aren't dolls)
Here's a mannequin/ rubber doll assortment.
Robert Bloch - Everybody Needs a Little Love John Collier - Special Delivery Ramsey Campbell - Lilith's Robert Bloch - The Weird Tailor Paul Finch - Those They Left Behind Robert Shearman - Alice Through The Plastic Sheet
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Nov 15, 2012 12:37:57 GMT
A few more:
Mary Danby - The Grey Lady Fritz Leiber - The Power of the Puppets Chris Priestley - Gerald
And then two that would fall under the heading of "benevolent dolls":
F. Marion Crawford - The Doll's Ghost Greye La Spina - The Wax Doll
I haven't read Ramsey's "The Puppets" (in Dark Companions)--would it fit here?
And should stories about ventriloquist's dummies go here?
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Post by dem bones on Nov 15, 2012 12:48:59 GMT
A few more: Mary Danby - The Grey Lady Fritz Leiber - The Power of the Puppets Chris Priestley - Gerald... to which we can add Fitz-James O'Brien's The Wondersmith, wherein Herr Hipp and his gypsy cronies distribute evil dolls to good little Christian children. made a start on deadly VD's writing up 'The Stage' thread, but they're maybe more appropriate here. Ben Hecht - The Rival Dummy H. R. Wakefield - Farewell Performance Charles Birkin - Who's Your Lady Friend? Gerald Kersh - The Extraordinarily Horrible Dummy John Keir Cross - The Glass Eye Ruth Cameron - Dolly Juleen Brantingham - The Ventriloquist Doll Charles Thornton - Double Puppet Ray Bradbury - And So Died RiabouchinskaThere's a neat page on ventriloquist horror films at Ventriloquist CentralRamsey's The Puppet. It's been a long time, but I think so. Will get back to you on that. One that certainly qualifies is Brian Leonard Hayles' Heirs, or The Workshop Of Filthy Creation in Robert Muller's Supernatural.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Nov 15, 2012 13:18:39 GMT
made a start on deadly VD's writing up 'The Stage' thread, but they're maybe more appropriate here. There's also Joe R. Lansdale's "By the Hair of the Head."
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Post by monker on Nov 17, 2012 13:00:42 GMT
Shirley Jackson's 'The Bus' should qualify.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 22, 2012 21:32:52 GMT
A Toys that aren't dolls interlude, revamped from Vault Mk. I...
Stephen King has The Monkey and the very entertaining Battleground - a bunch of model soldiers wage war on their new owner. In Tod Robbins' Toys, Mr. Fate buys a model village which he uses as a voodoo doll against the real-life original. Alex Hamilton's The Attic Express sees a bullying father trapped aboard a runaway train on his deluxe model railway. An unsolved crime is re-enacted over and over by the figurines in M. R. James' The Haunted Dolls House. Despite its title, Robert Bloch's sci-horror A Toy For Juliette doesn't qualify, unless we're to include playthings who happen to be Jack the Ripper. Theodore Sturgeon's memorably grim The Professor's Teddy Bear is arguably even better than all the above. ... plus;
Davis Grubb - The Siege Of 318: "I see no Glory. I see poor fools butchering each other for reasons kept secret from them .... No, dads. There are no fields of honour. There are only insane abattoirs."
Glory, West Virginia, 1932. Sean Pollixfen lost his arm at Ypres during the battle of the Somme, yet still looks back on the Great War with fondness - they were glorious times, shame they had to end. Don't despair, Mr. Pollixfen! Uncle Liam has just sent ten year old Benjy a box of five thousand tins soldiers - "Boche, French and English" - plus accessories, and the good old days are about to be re-enacted in your very own back garden!
Sabine Baring-Gould - The Bold Venture: A battle between model ships.
Portstephen, fishing town. Jane Rae and her grandmother Betty do not get along, which wouldn't be so bad if husband Jonas hadn't insisted on the old harridan moving in with them. The birth of son Peter provides Jane an opportunity to banish Betty to a nearby cottage, but when his father is away at sea, Peter prefers the company of Gran, with whom he builds a model ship. One night, returning home, he falls over the quayside and drowns.
Betty pleads to have the white ship buried with the boy, but the embittered Jane is having none of it. Eventually Betty persuades the sexton to place it atop the coffin before the grave is filled.
A second child is born, Jonas II, and we go through exactly the same rigmarole. This time Betty helps him build a Schooner, The Bold Venture, completed just in time for his ninth birthday. But, out of spite, his mother forks out seven shillings on a state-of-the-art model frigate at Camelot fair. His gran is distraught:
“Won’t you have your ship - The Bold Venture?”
“No, granny; chuck it away. It’s a shabby bit o’ rubbish, mother says; and see! there’s a brass cannon, a real cannon that will go off with a bang, on my frigate. Ain’t it a beauty?”
The frigate, Saucy Jane, is, of course, for display purposes only. It won't float. Jonas senior calls on his mother to find the old girl dead. He takes home The Bold Venture for his son and this time, no complaints from his wife.
Jane falls grievously ill from a chill picked up at Betty's funeral.
The Bold Venture wages war on Saucy Jane.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Nov 23, 2012 16:02:24 GMT
Davis Grubb - The Siege Of 318: "I see no Glory. I see poor fools butchering each other for reasons kept secret from them .... No, dads. There are no fields of honour. There are only insane abattoirs." Glory, West Virginia, 1932. Sean Pollixfen lost his arm at Ypres during the battle of the Somme, yet still looks back on the Great War with fondness - they were glorious times, shame they had to end. Don't despair, Mr. Pollixfen! Uncle Liam has just sent ten year old Benjy a box of five thousand tins soldiers - "Boche, French and English" - plus accessories, and the good old days are about to be re-enacted in your very own back garden! Davis Grubb + malevolent toys = impulse purchase of Frank Coffey's Modern Masters of Horror. The Vault is a dangerous place.
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Post by mattofthespurs on Nov 24, 2012 16:22:58 GMT
Davis Grubb - The Siege Of 318: "I see no Glory. I see poor fools butchering each other for reasons kept secret from them .... No, dads. There are no fields of honour. There are only insane abattoirs." Glory, West Virginia, 1932. Sean Pollixfen lost his arm at Ypres during the battle of the Somme, yet still looks back on the Great War with fondness - they were glorious times, shame they had to end. Don't despair, Mr. Pollixfen! Uncle Liam has just sent ten year old Benjy a box of five thousand tins soldiers - "Boche, French and English" - plus accessories, and the good old days are about to be re-enacted in your very own back garden! Davis Grubb + malevolent toys = impulse purchase of Frank Coffey's Modern Masters of Horror. The Vault is a dangerous place. Me too. Had never heard of this anthology. Went straight onto eBay and snapped one up for £2.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 26, 2012 11:39:48 GMT
Davis Grubb + malevolent toys = impulse purchase of Frank Coffey's Modern Masters of Horror. The Vault is a dangerous place. Me too. Had never heard of this anthology. Went straight onto eBay and snapped one up for £2. £2 well spent, i'd have said. Not only is it a wonderful collection, in my case it's also to blame for sparking a Richard Laymon fetish that endures to this day. There's a thread for it in the American Gothic section, but on reflection, it's best avoided as too spoiler heavy. Do voodoo dolls qualify for this thread? If so, another contender, likely inspired by The Monkey's Paw. Joseph Payne Brennan - Zombique: Barsted, Connecticut. Kelsey, holidaying in Hiati, buys a feathered voodoo doll with miniature drum kit as a present for his affluent pals Tyler and Maria Marison. Tyler Marison made his fortune on Wall Street and is not a man to be crossed. So when Jake Seff, facing bankrupcy, overcharges for servicing his sports car, Marison tells Zombique to burn down his garage. It goes up in flames that same night. Maria urges her husband to get rid of the doll, but Tyler sneers that mumbo jumbo is for fools, what happened to Jake's place is merely a coincidence. But it's Zombique he turns to when a belligerent cop books him for dangerous driving, and this time he wishes Sergeant Skepley to drop down dead ....
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Post by dem bones on Nov 30, 2012 16:02:09 GMT
Pat Gibbons - The Doll: ( Shock, #2 , July, 1960) Psychiatrist Dr. Garber thinks he can cure his two-and-a-half year old son Martin's jealousy of new arrival Timothy (four months) by giving him a doll to play with. Just imagine it's your brother, he tells him. Hurt the doll, not Timmy. Trouble is, it was made in Haiti ... Yaiza Marrero-Shepherd - Clowns: ( Graveyard Rendezvous, # 39, Summer 2011). Faye is terrified of toy clowns her mum picked up at a jumble sale, especially when the little ceramic-headed bastards recite doggerel detailing what they're going to do with her and "it will really hurt." It does, too! Bryce Walton - The Devil Doll: ( Dime Mystery, Nov. 1947). Earl is intent on leaving the devoted Crita for the fabulously wealthy - and white - Joan. Aware of his scheming, Crita kisses him on the shoulder at the climax of a voodoo ritual leaving a red mark burnt into his skin from which erupts a miniature of his spurned girlfriend. The figure taunts him constantly, provoking him to kill Joan. Only Crita can lift the spell, but when he pays a visit to her room ....
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Post by patarenast on Apr 29, 2013 15:29:25 GMT
if any have this books contact me: Delicate Toxins (J. H-Smith) Five Quarters (S. Duffy and I. Rodwell) Screaming Book of Horrors (ed. J. Mains) Into the Penny Arcade/Marionettes-C. Massey Party Pieces (especially Enelmayer Puppets) - Mary Danby Rumours of the Marvelous - Peter Atkins Charles Birkin (everything)Like · · Share · 5 minutes ago · Only MeJello Biafra where i find stories about evil dioramas, little figurines, waxworks, etc like Millhauser, Ligotti, D. P. Watt
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Post by patarenast on Apr 29, 2013 15:30:09 GMT
where i find stories about evil dioramas, little figurines, waxworks, etc like Millhauser, Ligotti, D. P. Watt
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Apr 29, 2013 16:50:53 GMT
What you want is THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF EVIL DIORAMAS. You just have to wait for somebody to compile it.
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