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Post by dem bones on Mar 14, 2008 15:45:41 GMT
Kathryn Cramer & Peter D. Pautz (eds.) - The Architecture Of Fear (Avon, 1987)  Tim O'Brien
In the basement there are soft and slimy things to tempt you ... in the hospital you'll meet visitors that are not quite human ... You'll enter a place where only witches belong ... And the house itself will haunt you.
The master architects of fear will chill and thrill you in this outstanding collection of spine-chilling terror ... in a house of horror from which your mind may never escape ....Peter D. Pautz - Introduction
Gene Wolfe - In The House Of Gingerbread
Ramsey Campbell - Where The Heart Is
Charles L. Grant - Ellen, In Her Time
Scott Baker - Nesting Instinct
Karl E. Wagner - Endless Night
Joseph Lyons - Trust Me
Robert Aickman - The Fetch
Jack Dann - Visitors
John Skipp & Craig Spector - Gentlemen
Dean R. Koontz - Down In The Darkness
Joyce Carol Oates - Haunted
Michael Bishop - In The Memory Room
John M. Ford - Tales From The Original Gothic
Jessica Amanda Salmonson - The House That Knew No Hate
Kathryn Cramer - Afterword
A Guide To Significant Works Of Architectural Horror Never mind the bloody basement! Don't go in the toilet if you frequent the same bar as Skipp and Spector in Gentlemen! Actually, don't go anywhere. But most of all, don't stay where you are. Dean R. Koontz - Down In The Darkness: Restaurant owner Jess and wife Carmen move into their dream home in south Carolina. Jess discovers a cellar which neither the estate agent or previous owner had mentioned, but when he attempts to show his wife the door is no longer there. He investigates further when next he's alone, finds the door with no trouble and ventures down the hundreds of steps into pitch darkness. Something lurks down there, something horribly evil. When he learns the man who he bought the house from, Ngn Yen Quang Phu, is the same "torture master" whose hands he fell into in 'Nam, he lures him down there. The spirits of all those men he tormented tear the war criminal apart. Jess vows never to use the cellar again, but when Horace Daelco, lease owner of the restaurant, begins to play dirty with him, the door reappears and our man faces a struggle with his conscience ... Michael Bishop - In The Memory Room: Mortuary beautician Mrs. Dennis converses with Gina Callen's corpse as she readies her for burial. Gina's constant bemoaning her wayward sons gets too much for Mrs. D. who snaps;"Shut up! Do you think you're the only Goddam stiff whose troubles I have to listen to? ... Who the Hell do you guys think you are anyway?" Ramsey Campbell - Where The Heart Is: A suicide note left by a man driven insane by the death of his wife and being forced to sell their house. He conceals himself beneath the floorboards and takes an overdose of pills. The note is for the attention of the next residents - you get the impression they won't be staying long. Quietly disturbing. Robert Aickman - The Fetch: Scotland. Auld Carlia's appearance at the house of Pollaporra portends a death in the family. Brodrick first becomes aware of her on the night of his beloved mother's death, again when his wife Shulie disappears. We leave him holed up in the house, abandoned by second wife Clarissa and her lesbian lover. As the banshee has to be invited in, he is condemned to a kind of living death, incarcerated in the family home until his days run out. Joseph Lyons - Trust Me: A father, fed up with his daughter's screams after lights out, informs here that her nightmares are real - and all the dark, crawling slimy things with green fingers are coming for her. He succeeds in scaring himself as much as the little girl, for mother used the same technique on him when he was a child.
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