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Post by dem bones on Nov 27, 2014 12:34:17 GMT
Three and a bit days to go and, due to some recent unpleasant distractions, i've ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in the pipeline for a fifth Vault Advent Calendar - not even a typically awful graphic. Should you wish to contribute, please either PM me, or email story for consideration direct to whitechapelgothicAtgmail.com. ASAP! Please name message 'Vault Advent Calendar' or similar so as not to confuse my spam filter.
Apologies for brevity and lateness of appeal and thank you in advance for your continued support!
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Post by dem bones on Nov 28, 2014 15:14:34 GMT
Photo: Simone Solon Lift Off! Thank you for the OVERWHELMING RESPONSE to yesterday's appeal. Now, if we can only fill the remaining 23 22 21 20 slots, V.A.C. #5 is in business!!
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Post by dem bones on Nov 30, 2014 17:23:52 GMT
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Post by dem bones on Dec 1, 2014 7:32:36 GMT
Day 1. Might as well start as we mean to go on. The late, great Charles Birkin needs little introduction to our regulars, many of whom will by now have read this mini-masterpiece of foulness. If you've not, and you're a fan of "Alex White"'s celebrated Pan Horror pleasantry The Clinic, then Christmas has indeed come early. Why, perhaps you may even agree that both stories might have been written by the same hand .....
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 1, 2014 17:18:35 GMT
Day 1. Might as well start as we mean to go on. The late, great Charles Birkin needs little introduction to our regulars, many of whom will by now have read this mini-masterpiece of foulness. If you've not, and you're a fan of "Alex White"'s celebrated Pan Horror pleasantry The Clinic, then Christmas has indeed come early. Why, perhaps you may even agree that both stories might have been written by the same hand ..... I had not read this one before. I do not know what to say, really. Thanks!
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Post by ohthehorror on Dec 1, 2014 17:51:01 GMT
Kind of reminds me of a children's story, right up to the point where she gets squished. Very well done.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 1, 2014 19:27:59 GMT
'Marjory ...' is very special to me because it was my very first experience of Sir Charles' work. A personal game-changer, in other words. All of a sudden I could accept that horror fiction didn't die with Monk Lewis after all. Needless to say, the story is reproduced here by way of tribute to a proper genre great. Thanks to those several kind souls who have submitted stories for this year's abomination, we've some top treats to look forward to over coming three and a bit weeks though there are still plenty of vacant slots! Remember: the more support received from contemporary authors, the less everybody has to suffer my appalling taste in macabre lit. Not that i'm trying to threaten you or anything.
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Post by David A. Riley on Dec 1, 2014 20:12:01 GMT
What better way to kick off the Yuletide celebrations than with a bit of Sir Charles!
I shall read this before I go to sleep tonight. Happy nightmares!!!!
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Post by dem bones on Dec 2, 2014 7:16:35 GMT
Day two: Publisher, crime novelist, soldier, globetrotter, chap, and sometime murder suspect, Sir Rupert Grayson somehow found time to pen two original short stories for Christine Campbell Thomson's Not At Night series, The Man Who Ordered a Double ( Gruesome Cargoes, 1928) and the suspenseful Blood. First editions of his several 'Gunston Cotton, Secret Service Agent' books nowadays exchange hands at cardiac arrest prices. For a mini-biography, see the press release for Bob Scholfield's Moving On: From the Memoirs of the Late Sir Rupert Grayson (Troubadour, 2014). But first, feast your eyes on Volpine and his feathered friend .....
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Post by ripper on Dec 2, 2014 12:02:21 GMT
Great start to the calendar. Margery's on Starlight was a Birkin story I had not read before. Very grim and typical of Sir Charles' horror tales. Looking forward to today's story, and an author I don't remember encountering before.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 3, 2014 7:11:01 GMT
Day three. Excuse the decorations. What with the Birkin and Grayson stories tending toward the bleak, the big plan for today was to cut you some slack and run a gentle upbeat romance. Unfortunately, I couldn't find one, so here's another grim gem from the tragically short-lived Richard Middleton (1882-1911). ( Right way .../ Wrong Way from Hutchinson's Story Magazine, July 1919)
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 3, 2014 7:48:43 GMT
It raises many questions.
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Post by ohthehorror on Dec 3, 2014 17:43:51 GMT
Loved this one. My favourite so far. I'll be giving it it's third reading later tonight once I get home from work. Nice job!
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 3, 2014 19:49:19 GMT
I did not understand it.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 3, 2014 20:14:22 GMT
Me neither. was he just mad?
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