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Post by dem bones on Aug 30, 2015 12:47:22 GMT
Short stories, novels, artwork etc., relating to hands severed, animated, wandering, grafted onto somebody else and turning them into a murderer, etc. I really don't mind. There must be hundreds! Guy de Maupassant - The Flayed Hand: ( La main d'écorché, 1875). Early version of .... Guy de Maupassant - The Hand: ( La main, 1883). Sir John Rowell keeps the severed black hand of his “best enemy” as a memento of his victory in their epic struggle – a hollow one as it turns out: the shrivelled black relic requires a stout chain to prevent it throttling him. One night … Agnes McLeod - The Skeleton Hand: ( Blackwood's, October 1894) Theodore Dreiser - The Hand: ( Munsey's, May 1919). William Fryer Harvey - The Beast With Five Fingers: (J. Walker McSpadden (ed.) Famous Psychic Stories, 1920) Louis Golding - The Call Of The Hand: (C. A. Dawson Scott & Ernest Rhys (eds.) - Twenty And Three Stories by Twenty And Three Authors, 1924) Seabury Quinn - The Dead Hand ( Weird Tales, May, 1926). R. Anthony - The Parasitic Hand ( Weird Tales, Nov. 1926, Aug. 1934). It's living inside me. Hugh B. Cave - The Affair Of The Clutching Hand: ( Ghost Stories, May 1931) Harold Ward - Clutching Hands of Death ( Weird Tales, March 1935). "A terror tale about a weird surgical operation and a ghastly horror that stalked by night" E. Hoffman Price - The Hand Of Wrath ( Weird Tales, Nov. 1935). John Keir Cross - Hands: ( The Other Passenger: 18 Strange Stories, 1944). A. N. L. Munby - The Alabaster Hand: ([url=http://vaultofevil.proboards.com/thread/2852The Alabaster Hand and Other Ghost Stories[/url], 1949) Gordon MacCreagh - Hand of St. Ury "An old theory has it that a thought of hate can be a powerful enough force to persist after the death of its originator." ( Weird Tales, Jan. 1951). David Eynon - The Iron Hand of Katzaveere. "The man had been strangled ... by two right hands". ( Weird Tales, Jan. 1952). Robert Bateman - The Hands Of Orlac (Four Square, 1961) George Langelaan - The Other Hand (Groff Conklin [ed.], Twisted, 4 Square, 1965) John Burke - Severed Hand ( Dr. Terror's House Of Horrors, 1965). A suicide's revenge on a toffee nosed art critic. Martin Thomas - The Hand Of Cain (1967) David Case - Fengriffen (1970) Errol LeCale - The Severed Hand, (Nel, 1974) M. M. Thomas - The Vigil Of St. Oswald: ( Saints & Relics, Haunted Library, 1983). Clive Barker - The Body Politic ( Books of Blood: Vol. IV, 1985) Patrick McGrath - Hand Of A Wanker: ( Blood And Water And Other Stories (Penguin, 1989). Eugene M. Gagliano - The Hand: ( Bruce Colville's Book Of Nightmares, 1995). Charles Black - Holding On: ( Filthy Creations #4, May 2008). The terror from the toilet bowl. Cheer up. We'll get around to other body parts later.
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Post by Dr Strange on Aug 30, 2015 16:27:04 GMT
There's "A Narrative of the Ghost of a Hand" by Le Fanu, which was originally part of The House By The Churchyard (1863), but I read it as a stand-alone short story in some anthology or other (can't remember where though); and there's also Conan Doyle's "The Brown Hand" (1899), which is about a ghost searching for his missing hand.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 30, 2015 19:25:32 GMT
There's "A Narrative of the Ghost of a Hand" by Le Fanu, which was originally part of The House By The Churchyard (1863), but I read it as a stand-alone short story in some anthology or other (can't remember where though); and there's also Conan Doyle's "The Brown Hand" (1899), which is about a ghost searching for his missing hand. Thank you, kind Dr. (can't believe I overlooked Le Fanu) Sax Rohmer - The Hand of the White Sheikh ( Cassell's, December 1920). Sax Rohmer - The Mystery of the Shrivelled Hand (aka The Hand of Mandarin Quong, Munsey's, Feb. 1922) Victor Rousseau - The Phantom Hand (serialised over five issues of Weird Tales, July-Nov 1932). "An astounding novel of Black Magic, eery murders, and the kingdom of shadows." Seabury Quinn - Hands of the Dead ( Weird Tales, Jan 1935). "A tale of weird surgery and dual personality - a startling story of Jules de Grandin." Quinn is one of several authors to build a story around a Hand Of Glory ( Weird Tales, July 1933).
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Post by dem bones on Aug 31, 2015 12:23:43 GMT
W. W. Jacobs - The Monkey's Paw ( Harper's Monthly, September 1902, and every other horror & supernatural anthology since). Sabine Baring-Gould - A Dead Finger ( A Book Of Ghosts, 1904). Robert E. Howard - The Right Hand of Doom ( Red Shadows, 1968). Howard Wandrei - The Hand Of The O'Mecca ( Weird Tales, April 1935) Anon - The Severed Arm: Or, The Wehr-wolf Of Limousin (c. 1820: reprinted in Peter Haining [ed.] The Shilling Shockers, 1978). Marc Brandel - The Lizard's Tale (1980) R. C. Cook - Green Fingers (Christine Barnard [ed] - 3rd Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories, 1968).
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Post by jamesdoig on Aug 31, 2015 20:57:35 GMT
That H. Marksman Carson story in the Australian Journal, "The Mummy's Hand". And there's a hand story by Darrell Schweitzer in the "Magazine of Horror & the Supernatural"- "Divers Hands" maybe.
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Post by bobby on Sept 1, 2015 2:22:07 GMT
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Post by bobby on Sept 1, 2015 2:33:37 GMT
Does the severed hand have to be alive? I'm thinking of an EC "Grim Fairy Tale" in which a king promises his daughter's hand in marriage to someone.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 1, 2015 9:07:17 GMT
Does the severed hand have to be alive? I'm thinking of an EC "Grim Fairy Tale" in which a king promises his daughter's hand in marriage to someone. No, doesn't have to be alive. I was going to write "any horror or supernatural story in which hands play a pivotal role", but that's just about every story ever written. Best we go with: if the story/ strip is horrible enough, its good enough. That H. Marksman Carson story in the Australian Journal, "The Mummy's Hand". And there's a hand story by Darrell Schweitzer in the "Magazine of Horror & the Supernatural"- "Divers Hands" maybe. Mr. Schweitzer's Divers Hands made Gerald W. Page's Years Best Horror 7 which has lain neglected on shelf for too long.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 1, 2015 22:26:41 GMT
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Post by dem bones on Sept 2, 2015 18:43:31 GMT
Nope, JoJo still hasn't added it, so I will. William Sansom - A Woman Seldom Found ( A Contest Of Ladies, 1956: 'Alfred Hitchcock' [ed.], Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do On TV, 1957) Justin Dowling - The Arm ( Weird Tales March 1954) "Right arm, what are you? Ugly, they will say - like uncooked meat..." Stone the crows! I need to read this even more than the same author's celebrated The Legs That Walked. Back in comics land, Reg Parlett's strip The Hand was a Shiver & Shake ever present.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Sept 2, 2015 19:06:33 GMT
Nope, JoJo still hasn't added it, so I will. Arguably, it is an "arm" story, not a "hand" story.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 2, 2015 20:04:21 GMT
Arguably, it is an "arm" story, not a "hand" story. No "arguably" about it, you're absolutely right. After some consideration, I decided weird arms are fair game, just forgot to tell anyone ....
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Post by dem bones on Sept 4, 2015 11:03:07 GMT
Hand jobs only ... Gerard Nerval - The Enchanted Hand (La Main Enchantée), ( Le Cabinet de Lecture, 1832). William Hauff - The Severed Hand (orig. 1888, Weird Tales, Oct. 1925) Oscar Cook - His Beautiful Hands (Christine Campbell Thomson [ed.], At Dead Of Night, 1931). Gary Brandner - Julian’s Hand ( Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, 1974: Frank Coffey [ed.], Modern Masters Of Horror, 1981). Fritz Leiber - The Glove (Stuart David Schiff [ed.], Whispers #6-7, 1975: Whispers, 1977)
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Post by andydecker on Sept 4, 2015 11:39:31 GMT
Maurice Limat, originally a french novel titled "Le Manchot"
Laird Barron: Hand of Glory (2012)
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Post by dem bones on Sept 4, 2015 18:40:16 GMT
Beautiful. Thanks, Andreas! The cover painting for James Buxton's revenge-of-the-plague-victims novel, Subterranean, features not only a clutching hand but a shapely leg into the bargain.
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