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Post by dem bones on Mar 28, 2008 15:59:25 GMT
Stuart David Schiff (ed.) - Whispers III (Jove, 1988: Doubleday, 1981) Stuart David Schiff - Preface
Dennis Etchison - The Dead Line
Ramsey Campbell - Heading Home
David Drake - King Crocodile
Hugh B. Cave - The Door Below
Phyllis Eisenstein - Point Of Departure
David Campton - First Born
Roger Zelazny - The Horses Of Lir
Frank Belknap Long - Woodland Burial
Karl E. Wagner - The River Of Night's Dreaming
Charles E. Fritch - Who Nose What Evil
Jean Darling - Comb My Hair, Please Comb My Hair
Steve Sneyd - A Fly One
Fritz Leiber - The Button Moulder
William F. Nolan - The Final Quest (verse)
Little more than a stub for now, but I'm sure many of you will be familiar with at least some of the contents. Whispers was that rarest of series' - a consistently good one! Includes: David Campton - Firstborn: Harry and Elaine are rescued from their debt Hell by his wealthy uncle who invites them to live with him at his magnificent Dorset home. Uncle has a mania for exotic plants and it is clear from the first that the chief reason for his charity is the close proximity of Elaine, though not for the reason Harry suspects. Uncle’s proudest possession - even more-so than the bone-crushing, man-eating monstrosity in the greenhouse - is the multi-tendrilled, touchy-feely demon flower in the cellar whose perfume acts as a powerful aphrodisiac - it certainly solves the couple’s bedroom problems. But when it molests Elaine and she falls pregnant, the lovers face an anxious wait to discover what she will give birth to … Jean Darling - Comb My Hair, Please Comb My Hair: In a setting not far removed from a fairy tale gingerbread house, surrounded by sinister woods, an ancient witch feeds off the lives of a mother and daughter who are compelled to pamper her. She grows younger and ever more voluptuous as they rapidly deteriorate into withered crones. A really good, disturbing horror tale, reminiscent in part of Philip K. Dick's famous The Cookie Lady.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 28, 2021 18:29:02 GMT
Frank Belknap Long - Woodland Burial: Will Gage offs his wife with arsenic so he can take up with sexy Molly Tanner. Mrs. G. takes doesn't care for the arrangement, leaves her grave to return and throttle the usurper in bed, making away with Molly's scarf as a trophy. A panicked Will sets out with his shovel to see that his missus is still where he buried her. A sore squirrel alerts the sheriff to the killer's behavior.
Steve Sneyd - A Fly one: Misanthropic cop Vrczynski interviews the hunchbacked killer of 14-year-old Elizabeth Joy Manvers, whose corpse was found discarded on waste ground. A curious factor is that the killer left no footprints in the muddy soil. Neither did his victim. Vrczynski has Quasimodo remove his coat.
Ramsey Campbell - Heading Home: A mad scientist is so engrossed in his pursuit of the elixir of life that he fails to notice his wife is having it away with the village butcher, a man very handy with a cleaver and not shy to use it. Ghoulish, and v. funny.
Phyllis Eisenstein - Point Of Departure: Leah receives a curt telephone dinner invitation from her mother - the same cancer casualty she buried thirteen years ago in Rosewood cemetery.
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