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Post by bobby on Sept 7, 2015 1:54:33 GMT
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Post by dem bones on Sept 7, 2015 6:51:04 GMT
Thank you for all the recommendations, gents! Cover of Vault of Horror #26 As luck would have it, Vault Of Horror #26 is among the only three reprints I have. Also: Been staring me in the face for the past fortnight, but there's a nifty skeletal hand on the cover of the current Paperback Fanatic (via Richard Matheson's A Stir Of Echoes). Mandy Slater's hand makes a special guest appearance on page 512 of Stephen Jones & friends' Zombie Apocalypse - Fightback, 2012.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 8, 2015 10:50:11 GMT
... two particularly nasty examples ....
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Post by dem bones on Sept 8, 2015 16:04:07 GMT
Many thanks to Justin Fanatic for providing the following scans (a few more to be added later).
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Post by bobby on Sept 9, 2015 3:26:11 GMT
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Post by dem bones on Sept 9, 2015 6:58:27 GMT
And the same applies to this panel from Ship-Shape!, Haunt Of Fear #14, July-August 1952. No surprise to learn that Rev. Lionel Fanthorpe has written at least one, possibly two stories with thread potential: 'Trebor Thorpe' - The Phantom Hand ( Supernatural Stories #17, Aug. 1958) R. Lionel Fanthorpe - Fingers of Darkness ( Supernatural Stories #41, March 1961) Then there's: R. Chetwynd-Hayes - Cold Fingers ( Ghosts from the Mist of Time, Kimber, 1985). And I need to schedule a rematch with this pair. Michael Saltmarsh – Haunted Hands (R. Thurston Hopkins [ed.], Cavalcade Of Ghosts (Panther, April 1963: originally Worlds Work, 1956) Jack Bradley - Haunted Hands (Christine Campbell Thomson [ed.], Switch On The Light (Selwyn & Blount, April, 1931)
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Post by dem bones on Sept 9, 2015 19:57:07 GMT
Many thanks to Justin of The Paperback Fanatic for compiling this Hitchcock selection.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 10, 2015 3:57:23 GMT
And a mini-magazine supplement (thanks to Justin for the Moviegoer scan) Have now reread Jack Bradley's Haunted Hands, and it's certainly worthy it's place on this thread. Also: E. G. Swain - Bone To His Bone: ( Stoneground Ghost Tales, 1912). Christmas Eve, 1907. Renovation work at Stoneground Church disturbs the grave of William Whitehead, the parish vicar from 1731 to his death in 1754. His gentle but tenacious ghost imposes upon the present incumbent, Mr. Batchel, to reinter his forearm bone in consecrated soil. Love the scenes involving the shovel and masterpiece of tedium, John Evelyn esq.'s The Compleat Gard'ner.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 10, 2015 18:40:25 GMT
Yet more. The old skeleton-hand-on-shoulder routine gets another run out.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 11, 2015 19:29:11 GMT
Seems we've fast on our way to establishing that every horror cover in history features some horrible hand action ....
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Post by dem bones on Sept 15, 2015 18:22:34 GMT
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Post by dem bones on Sept 22, 2015 20:39:57 GMT
.... four more, courtesy of Justin 'The Scans man' Fanatic: And a very unpleasant addition to the listing. Matthew Costello - Abuse: (Jeff Gelb & Mike Garrett [eds.], Hottest Blood, 1993. A serial killer who uses the severed hand of latest victim as a sex aid.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2015 21:13:16 GMT
And a very unpleasant addition to the listing. Matthew Costello - Abuse: (Jeff Gelb & Mike Garrett [eds.], Hottest Blood, 1993. A serial killer who uses the severed hand of latest victim as a sex aid. There's a story in the Kindle edition only of my second collection called 'Hands Off' about a fella who collects relics - and in this case breaks into Princess Diana's tomb to saw off her hands which are rumoured to be untouched by decay - to sell them to a German collector who wants to pleasure himself with them. Whilst the relic collector is sawing off the hands, Diana comes to life... It's a really bad story, but was a lot of fun to write!
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Post by dem bones on Sept 23, 2015 17:48:46 GMT
David J. Schow - Where The Heart Is: A beast with five fingers, two eyeballs and trailing a human heart. Another spicy hand job, courtesy of Messrs Gelb & Garrett's Hottest Blood.
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Post by jamesdoig on Sept 24, 2015 10:37:10 GMT
Nice one, also on the cover of a Year's Best Horror I think:
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