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Post by dem bones on Sept 24, 2015 13:14:52 GMT
Nice one, also on the cover of a Year's Best Horror I think: Yep, Vol XVI (1988) to be precise. It's never ending.
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Post by jamesdoig on Sept 27, 2015 3:10:30 GMT
Variation on a theme - JK Potter clearly likes the head-on-the-hand thing:
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Post by jamesdoig on Sept 27, 2015 21:47:19 GMT
Giant hand:
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Post by dem bones on Sept 28, 2015 7:16:54 GMT
Here's a beauty sent me by Mr. Fanatic ....
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Post by dem bones on Sept 16, 2016 5:18:01 GMT
Sheila Hodgson - The Beckoning Hand. ( Knock, Knock, Whitminster Press, 2016). Not read it myself, but according to Ian Bunting, writing in the Ghost & Scholars M R James Newsletter #30, the occasion is a seance and "it's a highly atmospheric story involving a ghostly hand which creates all kinds of mayhem in the darkness of a suburban dwelling, creeping along the skirting board, grabbing ankles, and throwing objects, before revealing a murderer amongst a group of believers." Stars George Masterman and M.R. James. Lesser souls might argue that this story doesn't really exist and the entire volume is but a figment of Ian Bunting's fertile imagination, but next they'll be telling us that Gregory Pendennis is not a best selling author of black sorcery novels.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 28, 2016 17:57:43 GMT
A terror-tale about a weird surgical operation and a ghastly horror that stalked by night. Margaret Brundage Harold Ward - Clutching Hands Of Death: ( Weird Tales, March 1935). "Where there had been two mangled stumps there were now two hands. Big hands they were - horrible hands, the fingers stubby, muscular, the nails thick, the backs covered with coarse black hair ...." World War One. Among the earliest casualties on the French front, Sergeant John Hurst, whose hands are blown apart by a grenade. This is wonderful news for the great surgeon, Colonel Ernest, who had longed for opportunity to perform a pioneering transplant. Unfortunately for Hurst, his missing limbs are replaced with those of Bill Duxton, the notorious London Throttler! Sergeant Hurst returns to England where he meets and falls in love with Joan Beresford. The future is looking rosier than he had any right to expect - until the hands turn treacherous. They scrawl obscene love letters to his fiancé. They try to strangle him as he sleeps, the first of several attempts on his life. Sharp objects are a source of constant dread. Hurst breaks off the engagement and moves to a lonesome hunting shack in the forest, with just his dog for company. The local farmer community are soon on the alert for a nocturnal prowler given to strangling their livestock. Worse is to follow when the fiend progresses to girls, women, children .... Nine papes of total brilliance. Should have been in the Not At Night's. Joseph Doolin
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Post by dem bones on Oct 29, 2016 3:07:37 GMT
Ralph Snider Franz Habel - The Long Arm: ( Weird Tales, Oct. 1937). Insidiously crawling and groping, the long arm reached out on its errand of death. Roy Wallace Davis - The Avenging Hand: ( Weird Tales, Feb. 1926). See 100 Creepy Little CreaturesAugust W. Derleth - Altimer's Amulet: ( Weird Tales, May 1941). There are Always Curses and Such - But How About a Pair of Hands, Chopped Off at the Wrists .... Running Along on Fingertips?.
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Post by Dr Strange on Nov 26, 2016 14:12:32 GMT
"Let Loose" by Mary Cholmondeley, available in Dracula's Brood amongst others - Richard Dalby (ed.) - Dracula’s Brood: Rare Vampire Stories by Friends and Contemporaries of Bram Stoker (Crucible, 1987, Equation, 1989) Mary Cholmondeley - Let Loose: Wet-Waste-On-The-Wold, Yorkshire. When Sir Roger Despard, a man of many vices, lay on his deathbed, he did so denying God and his Angels, declaring that all were damned as he, and that Satan was strangling him to death. Taking a knife, he cut off his hand and swore an oath that, if he were to go down and burn in hell, his hand would roam the earth and throttle others as he was being throttled. Thirty years after his death, a young man persuades an old clergyman to open the crypt …
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Post by helrunar on Nov 26, 2016 15:34:25 GMT
The name Wet-Waste-on-the-Wold strikes me as funny in that endearing there-will-always-be-an-England kind of way.
cheers, H.
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Post by Dr Strange on Nov 26, 2016 16:27:11 GMT
I know what you mean H, but I actually found it quite an unpleasant story - not so much for the thing let loose from the crypt, but for what happens to the young man's faithful dog companion. Dashed un-English if you ask me. (On the other hand, apparently "Cholmondeley" is pronounced "Chumley" - which seems very Olde England.)
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Post by dem bones on Aug 4, 2017 17:27:03 GMT
Fiendish. Truly fiendish. August Derleth - Altimer's Amulet: ( Weird Tales, May 1941). There are always curses and such - One expects them - But how about a pair of Hands, chopped off at the wrists .... Running along on Fingertips?
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Post by Dr Strange on Oct 17, 2020 11:54:51 GMT
Jessie Douglas Kerruish - The Wonderful Tune (At Dead of Night, ed. Christine Campbell Thomson, 1931; reprinted in Queens of the Abyss, ed. Mike Ashley, 2020). There's a wandering hand in this one, amongst other things.
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Post by humgoo on May 17, 2021 7:04:34 GMT
Tim Stout - Goodnight, Irene ( The Doomsdeath Chronicles, 1980): an army of severed hands led by a cat, pitted against a termagant.
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Post by ripper on May 18, 2021 10:45:53 GMT
The Blood Fetish by Morley Roberts, originally in The Strand, I believe, and reprinted in Dalby's Vintage Vampire Stories. A sceptical anthropologist receives a shriveled hand from a dying rival. Said hand turns out to have vampiric tendencies.
At least one of the Commando-sized Pocket Chiller Library comics. The one I am thinking of was possibly called Hand of Evil, but I can't be sure.
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on May 21, 2021 13:17:30 GMT
Asimov's Hands by Anonymous. I thought the author was Sam Dawson, but I've been proved incorrect. Anyone know who wrote this one? I'm told it's very good.
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