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Post by cauldronbrewer on Dec 3, 2013 18:50:18 GMT
That was definitely something special. I can't help wondering how he wrote it all down, though, with his crab-like claws. I second both points.
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Thana Niveau
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Post by Thana Niveau on Dec 3, 2013 20:11:40 GMT
I really enjoyed The Poor Nun of Burtisford by William Fairlie Clarke. I've not come across him before, but it was a deceptively easy read with a quite horrific climax. I liked that one a lot too. The final image was harrowing.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 4, 2013 7:20:59 GMT
Day 4, and time to introduce the first of our ladies of pain - except that's difficult. Other than that she wrote several exceptional horror stories, the little I know about Allison V. Harding is the information provided in this typically splendid article by Terence E. Hanley at Teller of Weird Tales. it was my friend Cauldron Brewer who first recommended The Underbody, and I am very grateful that he did! How the mysterious mistress of the macabre has yet to see her work collected is one of life's great unfathomables.
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Post by David A. Riley on Dec 4, 2013 13:22:07 GMT
Another good one! That's pure Weird Tales!
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Post by dem bones on Dec 5, 2013 5:50:05 GMT
C. C. Senf Another mystery figure from the very early days of Weird Tales, Lyle Wilson Holden's solitary appearance in the unique magazine took place in May 1923 with a story which leads Poe's The Cask of Amontillado on a trek through the Australian jungle and gives it a good seeing to. The Devil Plant has since been revived by Marvin Kaye and John Betancourt in their wildly entertaining Best Of Weird Tales 1923 collection. I've no suitable illustration for the original, but five years later, John Murray Reynolds' The Devil Plant would inspire the above C.C. Senf painting for the September 1928 issue. While we're on the subject of demon flowers. Craig, if you read this: did Edgar Rice Burrough's ever pit Tarzan versus any man-eating plants, vindictive vegetation, etc?
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Post by Johnlprobert on Dec 5, 2013 9:11:30 GMT
That was definitely something special. I can't help wondering how he wrote it all down, though, with his crab-like claws. I second both points. That was great! Thank you, Lady P, for insisting I read it first!
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 5, 2013 14:19:54 GMT
Another mystery figure from the very early days of Weird Tales, Lyle Wilson Holden's solitary appearance in the unique magazine took place in May 1923 with a story which leads Poe's The Cask of Amontillado on a trek through the Australian jungle and gives it a good seeing to. The Devil Plant has since been revived by Marvin Kaye and John Betancourt in their wildly entertaining Best Of Weird Tales 1923 collection. I've no suitable illustration for the original, but five years later, John Murray Reynolds' The Devil Plant would inspire the above C.C. Senf painting for the September 1928 issue. While we're on the subject of demon flowers. Craig, if you read this: did Edgar Rice Burrough's ever pit Tarzan versus any man-eating plants, vindictive vegetation, etc? On film and in comics Tarzan couldn't walk out of the tree-hut without falling into a man-eating plant but from memory (there are 24 Tarzan books) he didn't encounter them in 'real life' which centres around the first 9 books. 1.1 Tarzan of the Apes (1912)None 1.2 The Return of Tarzan (1913)None 1.3 The Beasts of Tarzan (1914) 1.4 The Son of Tarzan (1914) 1.5 Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (1916) 1.6 Jungle Tales of Tarzan (1919) 1.7 Tarzan the Untamed (1920) 1.8 Tarzan the Terrible (1921) 1.9 Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1922/23)Although we've seen unbelievable cities in Opar, from Tarzan and the Ant Men, where Burroughs shrinks Tarzan to the size of an ant, the situations get more or less preposterous and he might meet one somewhere amongst dinosaurs and underwater men. I'll need to check. 1.10 Tarzan and the Ant Men (1924) 1.11 Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (1927/28) 1.12 Tarzan and the Lost Empire (1928) 1.13 Tarzan at the Earth's Core (1929) 1.14 Tarzan the Invincible (1930/31) 1.15 Tarzan Triumphant (1931) 1.16 Tarzan and the City of Gold (1932) 1.17 Tarzan and the Lion Man (1933/34) 1.18 Tarzan and the Leopard Men (1935) 1.19 Tarzan's Quest (1935/36) 1.20 Tarzan and the Forbidden City (1938) 1.21 Tarzan the Magnificent (1939) 1.22 Tarzan and the Foreign Legion (1947) 1.23 Tarzan and the Madman (1964) 1.24 Tarzan and the Castaways (1965)I can say for certain that Carson of Venus is the plant stalker and that John Carter of Mars has to fight walking plant men in Gods of Mars (One of my favourite Burroughs books) and Thuvia Maid of Mars. Here's the loin clothed hero fighting evrey kind of plant you can imagine. Man eating plants
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 5, 2013 14:38:25 GMT
Thoroughly excellent plant story!
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Post by David A. Riley on Dec 5, 2013 16:24:29 GMT
Thoroughly excellent plant story! Agreed!
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Dec 5, 2013 18:18:36 GMT
Day 4, and time to introduce the first of our ladies of pain - except that's difficult. Other than that she wrote several exceptional horror stories, the little I know about Allison V. Harding is the information provided in this typically splendid article by Terence E. Hanley at Teller of Weird Tales. it was my friend Cauldron Brewer who first recommended The Underbody, and I am very grateful that he did! How the mysterious mistress of the macabre has yet to see her work collected is one of life's great unfathomables. You're welcome, and thanks for including it the calendar! I have a soft spot for Ms. Harding's work, even if commentators tend to dismiss it. Given how heavily Weird Tales has been mined for anthologies, I'm still surprised that nobody--not even Kurt Singer--has ever picked up "The Underbody." For those who like it, I'd also recommend another of Harding's WT stories, "The Damp Man," which spawned two sequels (I've never read those, something I should remedy one of these days). It can be found in Marvin Kaye's Weird Tales anthology, or free online at unz.org.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 5, 2013 18:24:06 GMT
That was great! Thank you, Lady P, for insisting I read it first! Admittedly the splendid Derek's costume would call for a radical departure from immaculate crushed velvet and pinstripes, but surely I Am A Monster warrants a Lord & Lady Probert treatment at next year's World Fantasy Con?
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Post by Johnlprobert on Dec 5, 2013 21:38:29 GMT
I see a rendition with glove puppets, perhap ;-)
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michelp
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Post by michelp on Dec 5, 2013 22:21:53 GMT
That 'Devil Plant' WT cover is very like a scene from the low-budget British film 'Womaneater' with George Coulouris, which, coincidentally, I watched for the first time last night!
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Post by dem bones on Dec 6, 2013 5:54:28 GMT
And another sometimes Weird Tales contributor. 'Flavia Richardson' was, of course, the pen-name of legendary Not At Night editor Christine Campbell Thomson (1897-1985), who we've written of at length elsewhere on the board, so no need to drag all that up again. Behind The Blinds, while not as horrible as a second, slightly later 'flappers in peril' saga, Behind The Yellow Door, certainly has its moments though I'd be the first to admit, Flavia arrives at them via the scenic route. Then again, who said slimming was easy? Thanks for all the Tarzan info, Craig. Knew we could rely on you! Attachments:BEHIND THE BLINDS.pdf (78.07 KB)
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Dec 6, 2013 18:52:07 GMT
I'm with David and Thana on Clarke's tale. Poor nun, indeed.
I recently read Thomson's story in the "King of Pop" edition of Only by Daylight, and that chant of "too fat . . . too fat" has lingered in my memory.
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