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Post by carolinec on Jan 10, 2008 11:51:05 GMT
You assume correctly. Ramsey's great, but if you get around to the VH piece I don't think it will take you forever to work out who I'm perhaps a little less fond of. Ha, ha. I see what you mean! Ramsey deals with it in his usual manner: simply describing what is said in the book, and then throwing in the occasional one-liner which is like a smack in the face. Excellent! Anyway, sorry, back to spiders in short stories - I appear to have inadvertently diverted you ...
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Post by dem bones on Jan 10, 2008 22:36:56 GMT
Nope. My fault entirely. Has anyone mentioned 'The Man Whose Nose Was Too Big' by Alan Hillery? Extreme nostril agony! Nailed on for the top thirteen. Don't know how I could have overlooked it seeing as I only reread it a few weeks back! Another little beauty (and delightfully camp at that) is: Fritz Leiber - The Spider: I really messed up on the notes for this before. I had Gibby Monzer down as "a Zacherley-style horror host whose stand-up routine is a demolition job on Dracula, the Invisible Man, the Bride and all the great monsters of the silver screen". He isn't. He's a cartoonist who's made a career from "presenting them in a series of comic books as louts, lugs, zanies, morons and stumblebums". That's where reviewing from memory gets you. Thank Christ nobody reads my junk. Anyhow, three of these, the beautiful people, rendezvous on the corner below his house, waiting to pay Gibby a late night visit. And with them, the spider ...
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Post by sean on Jan 16, 2008 9:01:39 GMT
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Post by fullbreakfast on Nov 3, 2008 19:37:57 GMT
Has anyone mentioned 'The Man Whose Nose Was Too Big' by Alan Hillery? Now that is a seriously unpleasant story. Much nastier, I think, than the one about the chap with a centipede in his brain (the name and author escape me, but I think you all know the one I mean). I see nobody has yet mentioned one of the great early entries in the genre, H.G. Wells' The Valley of the Spiders. Actually the people in the story are worse than the spiders. Which may be part of the point.
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Post by mattofthespurs on Nov 3, 2008 19:49:35 GMT
Now that is a seriously unpleasant story. Much nastier, I think, than the one about the chap with a centipede in his brain (the name and author escape me, but I think you all know the one I mean). I am assuming you are referring to "Boomerang" by Oscar Cook, filmed by Jeannot Szwarc (he of Jaws 2 'fame') for The Night Gallery hosted by Rod Serling and filmed under the title "Caterpillar". A classic without a doubt.
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Post by carolinec on Nov 3, 2008 19:57:25 GMT
Now that is a seriously unpleasant story. Much nastier, I think, than the one about the chap with a centipede in his brain (the name and author escape me, but I think you all know the one I mean). I am assuming you are referring to "Boomerang" by Oscar Cook, filmed by Jeannot Szwarc (he of Jaws 2 'fame') for The Night Gallery hosted by Rod Serling and filmed under the title "Caterpillar". A classic without a doubt. Wasn't there a similar story (or maybe a different version of the same one?) done as a Tales of the Unexpected too?
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Post by fullbreakfast on Nov 3, 2008 22:33:57 GMT
Now that is a seriously unpleasant story. Much nastier, I think, than the one about the chap with a centipede in his brain (the name and author escape me, but I think you all know the one I mean). I am assuming you are referring to "Boomerang" by Oscar Cook, filmed by Jeannot Szwarc (he of Jaws 2 'fame') for The Night Gallery hosted by Rod Serling and filmed under the title "Caterpillar". A classic without a doubt. Oscar Cook, yes that rings a bell. Bonus points for anyone who can remember which Pan it's in....one of the early ones I think?
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Post by dem bones on Nov 3, 2008 22:50:12 GMT
The second one. It originally appeared in Switch Off The Light in 1931 and (blabbers on about how great the Not At Night series was, drones on about Oscar Cook being, like, almost God ........)
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Post by dem bones on Jun 16, 2009 11:41:10 GMT
But the greatest hack work of all... American sailors on a nuclear sub are perving at the shielas on Bondi beach via a digital camera: "And what images they were, custom made to lift the spirits of any lonely submariner. Australia's finest swarmed along Bondi that night, flitting like insects in the firelight of a dozen beach parties - hundreds of girls, all fit and tanned, parading, pouting and preening, kissing and cuddling and coupling in the shadows with their boyfriends." Such is their distraction that they fail to notice a radiation leak. The leak infects the local funnelweb population, that, naturally, start to grow and grow and... Couldn't resist adding this to the web of weird terror. It sounds terrific! This is Pan Australia 1997, James?
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Post by jamesdoig on Jun 17, 2009 0:29:15 GMT
Yep, Pan 1997. Pan flooded the market with this thing and thousands were remaindered - you still can't give it away.
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Post by thecoffinflies on Nov 9, 2009 14:44:13 GMT
The story about the spider that wends it's way into the female corpses womb affected me quite badly as a nipper. Does anybody here recall it, I've lost the title and author in my swiss cheese of a memory? Easy. " The Spider And The Fly, or Little Miss Muffett" by my beloved Myc Harrison from Pan Horror 14 re: The Valley Of The Spiders, HG Wells My mother included that in one of her two 60s horror anthologies, The Creepy-Crawly Book.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 9, 2009 16:55:31 GMT
re: The Valley Of The Spiders, HG Wells My mother included that in one of her two 60s horror anthologies, The Creepy-Crawly Book. The other one was Demon Lovers: Tales of Unearthly Passions and Fiendish Seductions for Tandem (1970), right? If so, we could use a cover scan and contents list, pretty please!
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Post by thecoffinflies on Nov 10, 2009 13:55:38 GMT
Hey I'll give it a go! And well spotted!
I seem to remember reading somewhere on this site how to post images up. I'll have a dig round. Or if you have the instructions a single click away, maybe you could just stick 'em on this thread...?
Peace & Bunnies,
TCF
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Post by dem bones on Nov 10, 2009 15:14:58 GMT
thanks, mr flies! here are the instructions; i hope they're easy enough to follow. i've a contents list for The Creepy-Crawly Book, but no cover so if you could help with that one, too? First, you'll need somewhere to host your pictures: Photobucket and Imagecave are two of the most popular, both offer free accounts and are easy to use. For this example, we'll use photobucket, though the principal is the same for both. Once you've opened your account, upload some photo's from your desktop. Make sure you own the copyright, like we always do! Now you've uploaded your photo, you'll see four sets of code underneath it. In photobucket, the one you want is at the bottom, IMG CODE. Copy this, save it in notepad or wherever so that it's ready for you to cut and and paste into your post. That's it! PS: I usually centre mine, though it's up to you whether you find that necessary. The code for the Wheatley spider classic (above) looks like this: [center] [img]http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/haloofflies/wheatleytobyjuggsheldon.jpg[/img] [/center] And remember: Hot-linking is bandwidth theft is illegal. Don't do it!alternatively, i guess you could try the new fangled 'Attachment' feature. i don't think anyone's bothered with that yet.
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Post by paulfinch on Nov 18, 2009 0:14:03 GMT
Has anyone mentioned 'The Man Whose Nose Was Too Big' by Alan Hillery? That's a truly gross one, John, if memory serves. Another particularly frightening example of eight-legged terror is THE FINNEGAN, by Ray Brabury.
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