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Post by dem bones on May 23, 2015 20:59:26 GMT
"Inspired" by a line in Justin Marriott's article, Lovecraft On Viagra ( The Sleazy Reader #2), an imaginary anthology devoted to horror fiction's premier Peeping Toms, Keyhole Kates, curtain-twitchers and good old fashioned voyeurs. Cover scans reproduced from Paperback Fanatic and True Crime Detective Magazinesrespectively. The PERVY DWARF in Ralph Milne Farley's The House Of Ecstasy ( Weird Tales, Apr. 1938) JOE LAUREL in Steven Utley's Someone Is Watching (Michel Parry's 6th Mayflower Book Of Black Magic Stories, 1977) RALPH BANGHART, sleazy ticket attendant at the Hall Of Mirrors, in Ray Bradbury's The Dwarf (Fantastic, Jan-Feb. 1954) RESPECTABLE NARRATOR gets his kicks prying on the sparring Polish family across the street in Edmond H. Burke's The Open Window, ( London Mystery Magazine #31, Dec. 1956) THE DISEMBODIED HEAD in Charles Black's Face To Face, ( Black Ceremonies, 2015) The desperate BUDDING AUTHOR in Edogawa Rampo's The Human Chair and TANUMA in the same author's The Hell Of Mirrors. (Peter Haining's Beyond The Curtain Of The Dark and The Hell Of Mirrors respectively). HORNY TEEN MICHAEL and his deformed best pal in Chris Morgan's Eric And I ( Pan Horror 19, 1978. AN UNIDENTIFIED GOVERNMENT AGENCY keep an entire community under surveillance as they conduct a Big Brotheresque experiment in irresponsible social manipulation in Ramsey Campbell's A Street Was Chosen ( Ghosts & Grisly Things, Pumpkin, 1998). NovelsNORMAN BATES in Robert Bloch's Psycho. THE KA OF GIFFORD HILLARY in Dennis Wheatley's The Ka Of Gifford HillaryJOHN WILMOT, hypnotist and enthusiastic flogger, in Peter Hawkins' The Man With Mad Eyes (Nel, June 1973) HARRY, the multi-talented Mr. Fixit, in Gerald Suster's The Handyman (NEL, 1987). "Life ain't much but it's all you've got, Mrs. Foster, so stick a geranium in your 'at and be 'appy" With few exceptions, EVERYONE WHO IS ANYONE in the entire published works of Richard Laymon. Any suggestions ....?
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Post by severance on May 26, 2015 19:49:42 GMT
I've only got the one item for this, unfortunately. "Some Must Watch" by Stephen Ransome was published by Pocket in 1963. Ransome was a pseudonym of Frederick C. Davis that was used for his crime novels - definitely more restrained than "Mole Men Want Your Eyes" but still a good read.
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Post by dem bones on May 26, 2015 20:42:36 GMT
Much obliged, Sev! Not having a copy, can't say for sure that the character depicted above is a bona fide Peeping Tom, but who's complaining? Typically stunning Robert McGinnis artwork for Max Allen Collins' The Last Quarry ( Hard Case Crime, 2006) Andrew Shaw's Voyeur (Leisure,1965: "His sickness reflected the city's sin!") most likely qualifies.
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Post by randy on May 26, 2015 20:59:14 GMT
A sort of accidental peeper: "They're Coming for You" by Les Daniels.
Randy M.
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Post by dem bones on May 26, 2015 21:13:31 GMT
A sort of accidental peeper: "They're Coming for You" by Les Daniels. Randy M. Thank you, Randy. Should imagine the late, great Mr. Daniels was not the only person to contribute a voyeur story to the Hot Blood series. ... and, how could I forget, Robert Leslie Bellem's ace Spicy Mystery short, I Am A Monster?!
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Post by severance on May 26, 2015 21:28:00 GMT
Bloody hell, I've got all of Max Allan Collins' 'Quarry' novels and quite forgot that McGinnis cover on 'The Last Quarry.' Haven't read this one yet, though, but do Peeping Toms usually carry guns?
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Post by dem bones on May 27, 2015 6:09:34 GMT
Ideally, no, and the snooper doesn't look as though a crafty perve was foremost in his thoughts when he approached the window. Almost certainly another case of the accidental lech, then. Same can't be said for the protagonist in Leslie Thomas's "ripe comedy" (© Daily Exp*e**) His Lordship, wherein the board school's new Tennis Coach spends his nights in the loft, spying on the girls' dorm below. He likes them young ... Perhaps the most famous voyeur story of all: Cornell Woolrich's It Had To Be Murder (aka Rear Window), Dime Detective Magazine, February, 1942.
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Post by andydecker on May 27, 2015 18:03:00 GMT
Bloody hell, I've got all of Max Allan Collins' 'Quarry' novels and quite forgot that McGinnis cover on 'The Last Quarry.' Haven't read this one yet, though, but do Peeping Toms usually carry guns? Have you seen the new edition announced for October I think, from Hard Case Crime? They do the early novels with new covers as - I guess - a tie-in for the Quarry tv-series. Are good looking.
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Post by dem bones on Jun 2, 2015 18:14:45 GMT
Voyeur watch continued ... The mad monk in CHARLES MATURIN's The Parricides Tale has the right idea. Not only has he secured a financially remunerative outlet for his predilection, but he also gets to denounce love's young dream to the Inquisition! Talk about job satisfaction. In CLIVE BARKER's Dread, brilliant philosophy student Quaid locks girlfriend Cheryl in a bare room, subjecting her to all manner of indignities (Chuck Berry will think it's his birthday come early), photographing a highlights package for intended victim #2. Inevitably, when cornered, he pleads "scientific research." If Quaid - however he dresses it up - is a full-on, no nonsense voyeur, the unnamed computer technician in MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH's classic More Tomorrow is another "accidental peeper" (© randy), who, on stumbling upon a dubious erotica site, makes it his business to rescue a young woman facing gratuitous surgery under the knife of her seriously twisted boyfriend. It's been years since I read it, but seem to recall that the eavesdropper in ALGERNON BLACKWOOD's The Listener is eventually revealed as the ghost of a nosey leper.
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Post by severance on Jun 8, 2015 19:14:21 GMT
Because I'm notoriously useless in knowing my own book collection, I looked up Curt Purcell's The Groovy Age of Horror blog as I recalled he had a Peeping Tom section there - and lo and behold he had a copy of this posted which I had forgotten about. Sex Fiend by L.T. Woodward M.D. Published by Monarch in May 1961 with cover art by Robert Maguire. This strange tome purports to be a factual study of sexual deviates - but it's actually nothing of the sort. Woodward was actually SF legend Robert Silverberg making stuff up.
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Post by dem bones on Jun 10, 2015 18:42:39 GMT
The crime novel seems the Peeping Tom's natural habitat. Perhaps Justin might consider a "through the keyhole/ window" covers gallery for a future Sleazy?
This pair might be worth including.
Andrew Shaw - Voyeur (Leisure, 1965: "His sickness reflected the city's sin!") Jack Baynes - The Peeping Tom Murders (Gold Medal Crest, 1958: "Morocco Jones rips the lid off Hollywood's strangest and dirtiest racket")
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 6, 2021 20:33:33 GMT
Edogawa Rampo's BEAST IN THE SHADOWS has one, as I recall. Filmed by Barbet Schroeder as INJU: THE BEAST IN THE SHADOW (2008).
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Post by dem bones on Nov 19, 2023 15:22:41 GMT
— Illustrated Police News, 5 August 1899 — Illustrated Police News, 29 June 1922 A. H. L. Bucklin - Talking Needles: True, "inside" story of a murder investigation that stirred the nation. ( True Detective Mysteries, Nov. 1925). — Illustrated Police News, 13 August 1925 — Illustrated Police News, 8 October 1931 A "PEEPING TOM" PUNISHED— Illustrated Police News, 28 February 1929 Edwin A Goeway - The Clue of the Crimson Stain: Sensational mystery-murder of the Philadelphia millionaire, Victor Brooks. ( True Detective Mysteries, June 1928).
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2023 22:25:22 GMT
When I saw the thread title I thought to myself, "How on earth does he know my neighbors?"
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Nov 20, 2023 17:13:44 GMT
When I saw the thread title I thought to myself, "How on earth does he know my neighbors?" Show less garter.
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