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Post by dem bones on Jan 9, 2008 11:11:26 GMT
We got some mileage out of this on the old board but not nearly as much as I'd have hoped. So, your chance to show the Steve Jones' and Martin Greenberg's of this world what it's all about! Themed or otherwise is up to you.
Thanks to Sean for getting things underway with his D-I-Y 'SF/ Horror' crossover selection.
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Post by albie on Aug 13, 2008 16:30:06 GMT
I would like to see an antho about simulacrum. Dummies. Mannequins...erm...puppets. That kind of thing.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 13, 2008 20:46:19 GMT
Ah, well we made a fair start on the very same at the old place, and i'll maybe transfer the best of that thread across in the not too distant. Until then .... Malevolent Dolls, Puppets, Toys & Co. |
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Post by Truegho on Aug 17, 2008 23:06:27 GMT
I don't think anybody has ever done an anthology specifically pertaining to tales of demonic possession, have they? Truegho www.horrorwriters.net |
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Post by dem bones on Aug 18, 2008 7:24:37 GMT
Michel Parry - The Devil's Children: Tales of Demons & Exorcists (Orbit, 1974) Michel Parry - Introduction
Robert Bloch - Enoch
R. H. Benson - Father Meuron’s Tale
Ramsey Campbell - Vacant Possession
Guy De Maupassant - The Horla
H. P. Lovecraft - The Thing on the Doorstep
August Derleth - Saunder’s Little Friend
Roger Pater - A Porta Inferi
Henry S. Whitehead - The Lips
Richard Matheson - From Shadowed Places
Robert Bloch - The Unspeakable Betrothal
J. A. Cuddon - Isabo
John Collier - The Possession of Angela Bradshaw
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Post by albie on Oct 7, 2008 16:44:26 GMT
How about an anthology of miscellaneous?  You know, those stories that don't fit in any catagory.  |
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Post by weirdmonger on Oct 7, 2008 16:47:42 GMT
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Post by corpsecandle on Jan 19, 2009 10:11:23 GMT
Maybe I have missed something but I can't recall finding any antholigys that are about nuclear war/nuclear weapons The whole nuclear thing is an obsession of mine and I think I own almost every disturbing film about nuclear warfare but no horror related nuclear war anotholigies. Are there any? |
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Post by allthingshorror on Jan 19, 2009 10:26:52 GMT
Theres this - don't know if it's what you're looking for:
Nuclear War (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Ace 0-441-58640-6, Jul ’88 $3.50, 231pp, pb) Anthology of 13 sf stories on nuclear war plus an introduction by Benford.
CONTENTS
1 · Introduction · Gregory Benford ·
5 · The Nightmare · Chandler Davis ·
25 · Thunder and Roses · Theodore Sturgeon ·
49 · The Weapon · Fredric Brown ·
53 · Triggerman · J. F. Bone
64 · The Day They Got Boston · Herbert Gold ·
73 · The Big Flash · Norman Spinrad ·
95 · To Howard Hughes: A Modest Proposal · Joe W. Haldeman ·
114 · Men Like Us · David Drake ·
133 · Executive Clemency · Gardner R. Dozois & Jack C.Haldeman, II ·
149 · The Last Child Into the Mountain · Michael Bishop & Lee Ellis
165 · Heavenly Flowers · Pamela Sargent ·
177 · Nuclear Autumn · Ben Bova ·
181 · To the Storming Gulf · Gregory Benford
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Post by corpsecandle on Feb 27, 2009 20:42:49 GMT
I never even knew that one exsisted and I would go googling for it but I have a phobia of seeing mushroom clouds believe it or not.
Maybe I will use Opera without images...but thank you.
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Post by lemming13 on Jul 17, 2010 20:26:30 GMT
I bet no-one's done an anthology of horror on the theme of laundry. Not counting 'Oh Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad', there are several stories I've read which revolve around laundries, laundromats and textiles gone bad. Personally I always feel a certain horror when laundry day approaches, but that's just my idleness raising its head. |
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Post by monker on Jul 22, 2010 1:43:03 GMT
A theme I would like to see explored in an anthology is a subtle take on supernatural femme-fatale or simply stories concerning interpersonal relationships with odd persons and how we identify with them or don't. Not so much highly-charged stories of dangerous women as much as the subtly psychological idea that those that are 'other' are indeed 'other'. I suppose all this shows were my head is at.
Fritz Leiber's 'The Girl with the Hungry Eyes' is a not overly subtle but it could fit into both categories and it has some of the elements I'm going for. A rarer and less obvious example is Hartley's 'The Pampas Clump' but that only makes sense in that regard in a round-about way at the climax. My pool of knowledge in regards to examples is pitifully thin so I'm hoping some of you might have a go at fleshing it out.
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Post by dem bones on Jul 22, 2010 14:37:28 GMT
I bet no-one's done an anthology of horror on the theme of laundry. Not counting 'Oh Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad', there are several stories I've read which revolve around laundries, laundromats and textiles gone bad. Personally I always feel a certain horror when laundry day approaches, but that's just my idleness raising its head. i love that idea! someone could use a late night launderette as the setting for a Tales From The Crypt-style selection. anyway, three relevant stories i could think of are: Christopher Fowler - The Laundry Imp Pamela Vincent - Lost Soul Richard Laymon - The Hunt Robin Smyth's Perfect Lady might be another (from old notes: lazyitis has claimed me). Rejected by gold-digger Lizzie, “the Jezebel of the laundry machine shop”, Rupert devotes his life to finding the perfect lady. This he does, but unfortunately her magnificent parts are apportioned over several imperfect women. When he decides to re-unite them, Fulham gets its very own Frankenstein and Ted Bundy. A theme I would like to see explored in an anthology is a subtle take on supernatural femme-fatale or simply stories concerning interpersonal relationships with odd persons and how we identify with them or don't. Not so much highly-charged stories of dangerous women as much as the subtly psychological idea that those that are 'other' are indeed 'other'. I suppose all this shows were my head is at. monker, 'scuse my dimness but not having read The Pampas Clump i'm probably one or two examples short of understanding quite what you're getting at. can you suggest some more? |
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Post by monker on Jul 23, 2010 1:50:34 GMT
Yes, like I said, it probably shows where my head is at. I don't have many examples, it's just a pet theme. Humans that are not quite human, with the effect being spiritual or psychological and not necessarily violent. The idea that your lover, next-door neighbour, vicar, bus driver or man who runs the local corner-shop, etc, is not quite what they appear to be and the outcome is a bit more subtle than your average bloodsucking vampire or practitioner of the Black Arts story. The original idea was on the seductive female variety but it does not have to be. Benson's 'The Face' would just about qualify at a huge stretch although I'm sure E.F was thinking strictly in the ghostly/undead nasty person mode when he wrote it. Bowen's 'The Demon Lover', depending on one's interpretation, is another. Those two, however, are at the dramatic end of the scale. I suppose you could add spirits, doppelgangers and the like, to the mix, providing they were quasi-human rather than ghosts or phantoms. If you want one that is a bit easier we could just go with haunted churches.  |
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Post by lemming13 on Jul 24, 2010 12:35:18 GMT
Actually I think all horror is themed around odd interpersonal relationships, though having unexpectedly been exposed to a trailer for some ghastly soap yesterday while setting up the dvd player for Sapphire and Steel, it looks like allegedly normal relationships are the most horrific.
Thank you again demonik for the suggestions - I've read the Christopher Fowler one (he's a favourite author of mine) but the others were new. I'd have to add in Stephen King's The Mangler; Lafcadio Hearn's extremely short Furisode; and Sir Andrew Caldecott's Quintet, which includes a trouser-stealing poltergeist.
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