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Post by jamesdoig on Dec 21, 2012 21:20:09 GMT
Can't think of better Xmas reading. |
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Post by dem on Dec 22, 2012 6:49:37 GMT
Day 22. A second (and very short) grim revenge story from David A. Riley. To the best of my knowledge, Retribution, which first appeared in issue 3 of Stuart Hughes' Peeping Tom magazine (1991), is among the stories selected for Mr. Riley's long awaited Lurkers In The Abyss which, Armageddon permitting, will finally see publication in 2013. The Toad-People have wronged his kind. The despised squamous ones have the numbers, all the cards stack in their favour, but he's a man on the mission: now is the time to hit them, and hit them hard ..... Attachments:
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 22, 2012 8:15:21 GMT
Day 22. A second (and very short) grim revenge story from David A. Riley. To the best of my knowledge, Retribution, which first appeared in issue 3 of Stuart Hughes' Peeping Tom magazine (1991), is among the stories selected for Mr. Riley's long awaited Lurkers In The Abyss which, Armageddon permitting, will finally see publication in 2013. The Toad-People have wronged his kind. The despised squamous ones have the numbers, all the cards stack in their favour, but he's a man on the mission: now is the time to hit them, and hit them hard ..... Short but not so sweet.  |
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Post by dem on Dec 22, 2012 18:28:48 GMT
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Post by Johnlprobert on Dec 22, 2012 20:54:11 GMT
I have to say I rather like that illustration, but then you knew that, didn't you?  |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 23, 2012 2:52:24 GMT
I feel moved to say that these modern stories have some brilliant titles but for some reason 'They Pissed on my Sofa' is just a touch of class.
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Post by dem on Dec 23, 2012 8:32:50 GMT
I have to say I rather like that illustration, but then you knew that, didn't you? Shamelessly recycled from the cover of The Weekend Book of Ghost & Horror #2 which, for reasons I could never begin to explain, seemed entirely appropriate. It looks a little better now i've added the names? As previously mentioned, our contemporary authors share something other than a talent for terror; they've each of them written for either The Black Book of Horror, or Justin's Paperback Fanatic, or both, which tells you plenty about where Vault's roots lie. So who better to provide our penultimate story than Mr. Charles Black? To date, Charles has included only one of his own stories in the Black Books, and that, To Summon A Flesh Eating Demon, way back in the bumper (300 page) début. His fiction has featured in publications as diverse as James Roy Daley's Best New Zombie Tales: Vol 1. (Books Of The Dead, 2010), Christopher Wood's The Second BHF Book of Horror Stories, Ron Shiflet's Hell's Hangmen, (Tenoka Press, 2006), and Filthy Creations magazine. Enough. Let's go see how crotchety technophobe Hugh Clifford gets on when he buys his first and last mobile phone .... Attachments:
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Dec 23, 2012 17:04:37 GMT
Paul knows far too much about the criminal mind I think - The psychological portrait was horribly convincing, coupled with the sense of place it reminded me a bit of To Let the Spanish Horror film for some indefinable reason - maybe the trashed empty rooms. I'm still a few stories behind . . . I found Mr. Finch's story satisfyingly creepy, particularly the setting. I have a thing for abandoned institutional buildings (which reminds me, if you've never seen the film Session 9, it's set in--and was filmed in--the abandoned Danvers State Hospital, as wonderfully a creepy building as there ever was). |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 23, 2012 22:31:50 GMT
Death on the Line is a cracker. I wouldn't mind the telecom job...
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Post by Thana Niveau on Dec 24, 2012 6:29:16 GMT
Nice one, Charlie!  |
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Post by dem on Dec 24, 2012 7:29:09 GMT
And finally, for this side of Christmas at least ....  Victorian Vileness Illustration: Bride of DemAs, more than most, we've Charles Dickens to blame for this annual collective lunacy, seems only fitting to shut up shop for the holiday with a celebration of Victorian vileness. So here, as promised, a second terrific - and very festive - offering from Craig Herbertson, composed, along with It Could Have Been Me, during the legendary Midge Ure sessions. Mr. Brindle presides over the workhouse with a rod of iron, his methods not widely appreciated by the starved orphans subjected to his tyranny .... Attachments:
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Dec 24, 2012 17:21:49 GMT
You can read another of James' stories, Mathrafal ( Ghosts & Scholars #29, Haunted Library, 1999) - "What connection does a scarecrow figure haunting an old castle have with a less-than-saintly image of a Welsh saint? "- on the Pardoes' G&S WebsiteThanks for the link. I took a detour from the Advent Calendar to read this and found it much to my liking. It has that classic Ghosts & Scholars feel, and the academic touches are all too plausible. Someone should revive it for an anthology! Also: I couldn't help wondering whether the proprietor of the Dragon Inn was a sly reference to another G&S author. |
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Post by dem on Dec 26, 2012 9:02:41 GMT
Still have some horrors to use, so with a little ingenuity and some rabid old pulp treasure, might be able to stretch this out until the new year again. When Franklin Marsh sent me this next, struck me that, content to the contrary, it was somehow better suited to Boxing Day than pre-Christmas. It is Stille Nacht and for you, Tommy, the war is very over .... Attachments:
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Post by dem on Dec 27, 2012 8:39:56 GMT
In the Gloomy Depths of the Old Warehouse Dale Saw a Thing That Drew a Scream of Horror to His Dry Lips. It Was a Corpse—the Mold of Decay on Its Long-dead Features—and Yet It Was Alive!This one should set us up for today. Professor Daimler, mad scientist, does the Frankenstein thing in shudder and weird pulp legend Hugh B. Cave's sci-horror shocker The Corpse On The Grating, Astounding Stories (Feb. 1930). You'll find the entire issue transcribed on GutenbergAttachments:
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Post by dem on Jan 2, 2013 13:10:28 GMT
Bollocks! Illness saw to it that the calendar fizzled out before intended new years eve cut off point. Will drift up the bonus Weird Tales material in due course - it's nothing fans won't have seen before - but am most concerned that Alex Miles should miss out. Johnny Mains sent me on a pdf of his six story début collection, Glory & Splendour: Tales Of The Weird (Karōshi Books , 2012), with a permission to run the title novella, so belatedly and with apologies for delay, here it is! Attachments:
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