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Post by dem bones on Mar 22, 2008 9:47:18 GMT
Stuart David Schiff (ed.) - Whispers IV (Jove, 1988: Doubleday, 1983) Stuart David Schiff - Preface
Freff - A Night On The Docks
Karl E. Wagner - Into Whose Hands
Ramsey Campbell - Out Of Copyright
Tanith Lee - Elle Est Trois, (La Mort)
Frances Garfield - Come To The Party
Gerald W. Page - The Warrior Who Did Not Know Fear
William F. Nolan - Fair Trade
Charles L. Grant - I Never Could Say Goodbye
Lawrence Treat - The Devil You Say!
Frank Belknap Long - Diploma Time
Stephen Kleinhen - Tell Us About The Rats, Grandpa
Hugh B. Cave - What Say The Frogs Now Jenny?
Richard Christian Matheson - The Beholder
Michael Shea - Creative Coverage. Inc.
David Drake - The Dance In The Flames
Russell Kirk - The Reflex Man In Whinnymuir Close Another splendid collection from Mr. Schiff. Note the Fantasy Inn sticker on the cover. This was a neat outlet in the Charing Cross Road which burnt down. Includes: Freff - A Night On The Docks: Seaport children capture a vampire and slowly torture him to death following a shipwreck and outbreak of the White Death. Well nasty! Ramsey Campbell - Out Of Copyright: Seriously great! Unscrupulous book dealer and horror anthologist Tharne reckons he's got it made when he tricks a widow into parting with Damon Damien's impossibly rare macabre masterpiece Tales Beyond Life including his semi-mythical The Dunning Of Diavolo for pennies. This story - of a dissected black magician whose limbs reanimate and "crawl down the throats of [the men who betrayed him] to drag out the twins of those organs of which the corpse had been robbed", will provide the perfect finishing touch to Tharne's latest selection Justice From Beyond The Grave .... Hugh B. Cave - What Say The Frogs Now Jenny?: Florida. Jenny, a waitress at the Lake Serena Cafe, is constantly pestered by oafish customer Willard Allison, trucker, a well-meaning enough fellow but slow to get the message that she doesn't want to know. One stormy night he bumps her new car off the road as the result of a silly prank, so next time he's in she laces his coffee. He crashes his rig and dies when he falls asleep at the wheel. To a persistent frog chorus out of Paul McCartney's worst nightmares, Jenny is pursued to her doom by his furious ghost. Richard Christian Matheson - The Beholder: Kim encounters the mysterious Christian in the art gallery. He makes her a present of the bejewelled paintbox containing his special oils - "they're like pieces of a rainbow" she exclaims. As she works at the canvas, her dark creation takes on a life of its own .... Stephen Kleinhen - Tell Us About The Rats, Grandpa: Old Herman Ledbetter is overly protective toward daughter Annie, and Jack Denlow is under no illusions that he'd better treat her a whole lot better than her ex-husband. You know, the louse who drank far more than he could hold and mysteriously disappeared off the face of the earth one day. Grandpa waxes lyrical about the rats in the barn. They sure are big bastards. Frances Garfield - Come To The Party: Small-time publisher Steve throws a do to commemorate the launch of Nora's first novel. Unfortunately, he lives in the middle of nowhere and he's not all that clever at drawing maps. Having been forced off the road by a mad, bearded hippy in a van, Nora, husband Sam and neighbours Jeff and Willie finally chance upon the place where a party is in full swing .... except, Steve isn't there and the revellers are a peculiar tribe of far-out flower people with a penchant for human sacrifice. William F. Nolan - Fair Trade: Virginia. A heavy rainstorm and Lafe Pritchard leaves his grave in Cemetery Ridge to avenge himself on his despicable, heartless brother Lon. Narrated by Jace Ridling, a wild man of the woods, who witnesses Lafe's bloody act of retribution. The sheriff finds his testimony implausible. Nolan's work doesn't always do if for me, but this is a delightfully ghoulish tribute to the E.C. comics.
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