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Post by dem bones on Dec 18, 2013 18:17:24 GMT
This has been the best year so far, and there's still some days left! Anthony Lerrom looks very much like David Mellor at the top of the page (Gary Power's story). Purely, absolutely, totally one of life's amazing coincidences. But yes, something that's been very pleasing about this year's calendar is the much appreciated contribution from non-/ seldom-posting but crucial friends and supporters, Chrissie certainly among them. But dear authors, if you can provide an illustration for your/ a story - even if we've already run it - then please do so ASAP as there aren't enough free hours in the day!
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Post by dem bones on Dec 19, 2013 7:44:04 GMT
"I write for my pleasure. I write to still the demons in my head."The first of two lycanthropy-themed stories (the next will be made available over coming days once the running order is finally settled!). Despite his long-time and much valued contribution to this forum, Matthew Crossman remains something of an International Man of Mystery, so we asked him to divulge a few titbits about himself. "I love Dario Argento, I also love red wine, Hammer Films, horror anthology books, and 2000 AD comics which I have been buying since issue 1 in 1977. I'm also too old for this shit. I have a dog called Misty (after the girls comic), and I was once turned down by Stephen Jones for Dark Voices 5. I still have the letter framed on my wall." Matt's previous calendar appearance came in 2011 with a particularly bleak piece, The Right Choice. Today's story. which finds him in lighter mood, will surely appeal to fellow fans of Hammer Horror melodrama.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 20, 2013 7:38:32 GMT
Chrissie Demant Here's one to get us in the festive spirit, and yet another mystery author! Roland Caine seemingly came and went with Michel Parry's Mayflower Book of Black Magic Stories, to which he contributed The Eye Of The Beholder ( Vol.2 (1974), and today's grisly short, Red Christmas ( Vol. 5, (1976). This is a slightly amended version, first published in Three Demonic Tales, a limited edition booklet launched by B! publications tio coincide with the November 2011 Pulp & Paperback Fair. Satan Claws has entered the building ..... Attachments:Red Christmas.pdf (50.57 KB)
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Post by dem bones on Dec 21, 2013 6:53:24 GMT
Chrissie Demant Today's author is the very busy Johnny Mains, posthumous biographer of Herbert Van Thal, publisher of Mary Danby's long overdue début collection Party Pieces, whose anthologies to date include The Screaming Book Of Horror, Back From The Dead, Bite-Sized Horror... In short, he's a fellow with his finger in many pies. The following East Anglian tale of terror is included in Mr. Mains 'second collection, Frightfully Cosy And Mild Stories For Nervous Types, Shadow Publications, 2012. Meet the tragic Vinny Dazzle, Norfolk's premier, albeit shortest DJ, a man afflicted by the curse of ....
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2013 9:44:13 GMT
Chrissie Demant Thank you very much Chrissie, that's a BEAUT! Dem is it okay if, with her permission, I can print this off and put it in a wee frame?
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Post by dem bones on Dec 21, 2013 14:49:17 GMT
Thank you very much Chrissie, that's a BEAUT! Dem is it okay if, with her permission, I can print this off and put it in a wee frame? That's nice. Be sure to turn it toward the wall during a full moon, mind. We don't want any little .... accidents ....
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Post by dem bones on Dec 22, 2013 6:48:59 GMT
Chrissie Demant Day 22, and a second short, sharp shocker from Craig Herbertson, this one written especially for the occasion, which is typical of the kind support Craig has long shown this board and its terrifying calendars. In Any Old Iron we learned of the horrible fate to befall poor Samuel Watts. Now we discover what would have happened to YOU a fortnight from now, if ...
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Post by David A. Riley on Dec 22, 2013 8:23:34 GMT
Excellent short story, Craig. You managed to pack a lot into those few pages. Nicely written, with a growing aura of menace and a neat denouement.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 22, 2013 11:29:22 GMT
Cheers David. The calendar been a real treat this year. I have to catch up after the work. What a great illustration! I particularly like that one for 'Two Weeks' - I was really struggling in m mind whether the narrator was a vampish female or a very fastidious old guy and as soon as I saw the great lady's work I thought they should have obviously been female. Chrissie must have read my subconscious.
Dem - I stopped writing in December last year except for churning something out for the vault so I think of the vault as supporting me
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 22, 2013 13:15:32 GMT
Energetic stuff from Mr Mains. Sounds funny to say it but my favourite aspects of your work are the asides and the character building. Always very realistic amidst the humour. I don't why but I loved this line -
'He had continued to think that way until a packet of cigarettes bounced from Vinny’s pocket onto the road.'
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2013 16:19:26 GMT
Energetic stuff from Mr Mains. Sounds funny to say it but my favourite aspects of your work are the asides and the character building. Always very realistic amidst the humour. I don't why but I loved this line - 'He had continued to think that way until a packet of cigarettes bounced from Vinny’s pocket onto the road.' I'm trying to become the destitute mans Conrad Hill...
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Post by jamesdoig on Dec 23, 2013 5:50:54 GMT
Just printed off a great wad of advent stories after an enforced absence - much looking forward to catching up on these over the Xmas break.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 23, 2013 7:20:03 GMT
Hope you get as much enjoyment from reading them as I did, James. It's been a fantastic effort on the part of our contributors, one and all. Chrissie Demant The reader will have noticed by now that our 2013 calendar fast degenerated into a Black Bookers Anonymous meeting. This wasn't by design, any more than it was intended as a showcase for the bride of dem's work, but am very glad things turned out how they have. In the circumstances, it's only fitting that we should feature a story by the Dark Prince of Mortbury himself! Charles Black, the evil genius behind the inspirational Black Books Of Horror, recently celebrated publication of Volume 10 with a first Mortbury Press non-series paperback, Anna Taborska's outstanding début collection, For Those Who Dream Monsters. Charlie's own sporadic works of short fiction have appeared in such diverse publications as Best New Zombie Tales: Vol 1 Books of the Dead, 2010), [/i] Hell's Hangmen & Other Stories (Tenoka Press, 2006) and Filthy Creations magazine (issues 1, 4, and 6), but you'll not have caught The Overcrowded Train before. We have it on the authority of Mr. Henry Lester that this grim tale is best enjoyed on the depressing commute home after another miserable day at work .... Visit Mortbury Press
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Post by dem bones on Dec 24, 2013 6:24:10 GMT
Chrissie Demant Our Ghost Story for Christmas Eve is a deliciously creepy chiller from the supernaturally prolific, genre-hopping Paul Finch, best-selling crime novelist, screen and short story author, and contributing editor of the popular Terror Tales anthologies. When does this man ever sleep? !!! Paul tells us; " A Christmas Yet To Come was first 'published' in 1996 in a spoken world anthology from Telstar Records called HAUNTED HOUSES. It was read by Ross Kemp." The story has since been included in Stains, Mr. Finch's collection of horror shorts & novellas from Grey Friar Press, 2007, You can catch up on Paul's news at Walking In The Dark, where you'll find, among several delights, another Xmas spook story for your uneasy pleasure, Midnight Service. But first, dear little reader, brace yourself for the posthumous revenge of a bitterly twisted parent ....
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 24, 2013 8:26:08 GMT
Had to read Paul Finch before catching up with those missed. Brilliant ending.
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