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Post by fritzmaitland on Nov 4, 2020 9:40:52 GMT
Wow! Excellent cover for the second volume but the first mentions Mummers and a panto massacre. AAaaaaaaggghhhhh!!!
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Post by dem bones on Nov 5, 2020 18:42:05 GMT
Wow! Excellent cover for the second volume but the first mentions Mummers and a panto massacre. AAaaaaaaggghhhhh!!! I can vouch for the brilliance of The Faerie, The Christmas Toys and (Vault ad cal classic) The Unreal. Currently engrossed in The Stain, a 100 page Film-crew-in-Peril novella original to the demon Christmas pudding collection. As is the case with Craig Herbertson, festive horrors are a Mr F speciality.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 15, 2020 10:33:43 GMT
The Mummers: (Barbara Roden & Christopher Roden [eds.] Shadows and Silence, 2000). Belief still holds that every Christmas eve, on the stroke of midnight, the spectral mummers return to Holker Hall to perform their pagan ritual, and that any individual luckless enough to witness this will die.
Veteran journalist Phil 'don't call me Stewpot' Steward and Eric Hazelwood, recently ousted editor of the Bradleigh Chronicle due to its merger with the Mercury, plan a Christmas party to remember for Eric's wideboy successor, Al Green, and his obnoxious stooges. "This is tantamount to murder," muses Phil, as they await their enemies' arrival. Unless, of course, the legend of the murdered mummers' annual abandonment of their icy graves is a myth. The pissed up revellers groove to Greg Lake. Ten minutes to twelve ...
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Post by dem bones on Dec 17, 2020 9:49:55 GMT
Midnight Service: A man is stranded in a small town somewhere between Derby and Macclesfield when the bus is held up in bad weather. He disdains the driver's assurances that passengers will be looked after, and wonders off to find somewhere to stay. The town is deserted, but he finds eventually an old building with a light shining. Inside, he meets a clergyman who offers a place to stay in exchange for his participation in the annual miracle play for local orphans. Reluctantly, he agrees and is given a sheep costume and directed to dance around the stage, but perhaps he should have queried the plot of the 'Derby Ram' before agreeing to play the main part. The Fairy: A man and his young daughter, Arthur and Gabby, are lost on a remote road. The weather is getting worse and it seems the car will not be able to go much further. Gabby sees a house at the side of the road and Arthur stops the car. Gabby is nervous, saying it looks like a fairy house, a house that lures people inside and then vanishes. Inside, they meet an attractive woman who seems to be everything that Arthur's shrewish wife isn't. She gives them food and drink, and is very sympathetic to Arthur's plight with his wife, but is all as it seems and could Gabby be right? The Faerie: ( Traps, 2008: Enemies at the Door, 2012). Ah, yes, I love this one. The anti-Nigella, domestic goddess from Hell, is coming to kill us all! Midnight Service: ( Killer Reads: HarperCollins blog, 2012). When his coach breaks down on Christmas Eve, Capstick, calls at the nearest lit building - a church - to request use of a phone. There is none, but the vicar offers the wearied traveller shelter in exchange for his participation in tonight's annual play for workhouse orphans. 'In this day and age?,' wonders Capstick, but he has little option other than to accept. This year it's The Derby Ram, a curious tale based on a local legend. Capstick takes the starring role ...
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