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Post by ripper on Dec 22, 2015 9:01:21 GMT
Zero Hour was rather creepy. The 'volunteer' employees reminded me somewhat of the Autons, who featured in several Dr. Who serials.
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Post by ohthehorror on Dec 22, 2015 9:32:24 GMT
Today's Curse of the Monster has now made my 'favourite stories ever' list. What a beautiful piece of writing, and an all round fantastic story. I'm always a sucker for a good monster story, but this one excelled. I'm not entirely sure I'd see it as an altogether terrible curse though, I mean, just look at this bit and tell me it's a curse( ), I could think of numerous people I'd enjoy testing out my new found teeth and nails on. Really enjoyed this one. Excellent.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 22, 2015 10:47:41 GMT
Zero Hour was disquieting. There's something about this kind of dislocated atmosphere that unsettles me - too close to the truth? Zero Hour was rather creepy. The 'volunteer' employees reminded me somewhat of the Autons, who featured in several Dr. Who serials. Plenty more where that came from in Horror Uncut! which, I'm extremely proud to say, contains work by no less than six authors who have been kind enough to contribute to our wretched calendars. Not a feel-good read by any means ("too close to the truth?"), but, as mentioned once or twice, this reader's "favourite" anthology of 2014.
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Post by Mike Brough on Dec 22, 2015 18:57:57 GMT
Today's Curse of the Monster has now made my 'favourite stories ever' list. What a beautiful piece of writing, and an all round fantastic story. I'm always a sucker for a good monster story, but this one excelled. I'm not entirely sure I'd see it as an altogether terrible curse though, I mean, just look at this bit and tell me it's a curse( ), I could think of numerous people I'd enjoy testing out my new found teeth and nails on. Really enjoyed this one. Excellent. Totally agree, horror. That story's from the top of the deck. I suspect a lot of us were on Rothmere's side. The horror... the power.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2015 19:41:46 GMT
thank you very much, both. It really is a boost to see such a positive response. Will be sure to let Bryn know! We've started (or Bryn has, at least) a prequel, which fixates on Lord Rothmere and his Whitechapel days...hopefully finished within the next decade!
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Post by vaultadventcalendar on Dec 23, 2015 6:55:19 GMT
Chrissie Demant. Granny takes a trip. Day 23: If this years VAC has again been dominated by Mortbury Press authors, Parallel Universe have more than done their bit, providing excellent stories by David A. Riley, Johnny Mains & Bryn Fortey, Irvin S. Cobb and today's guest author, Kate Farrell, whose recently published first collection, And Nobody Lived Happily Ever After is a must-have for fans of the fiendish Conte Cruel. After a thirty-plus year career as an actress (see Kate David - her several screen credits include 'Mrs. Lovell' in a three-part adaptation of Ruth Rendell's A Guilty Thing Surprised, 'Bessie' in the 1983 Jane Eyre mini-series starring Timothy Dalton, and 'Petal' in One's Bitten Two's Shy, a particularly suspenseful episode of Chucklevision), Kate turned her hand to writing in 2005 and soon discovered that she is pathologically incapable of writing a happy ending, thereby ensuring the ignominy of a Vault appearance was only a matter of time. You can keep tabs on the author via her official site My Name Is Kate Farrell and its rather more up to date Facebook satellite. But before you do, spare a hug for the adorable Belén, who is a little down in the dumps and needs reassurance that she's just as popular as her suddenly famous bestest friend.
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Post by Mike Brough on Dec 23, 2015 7:10:41 GMT
That's my kind of kid - totally focused and doesn't let the little things get in the way of achieving her goals. She can come and work for me when she's older. But perhaps I'll move to a ground-floor office first.
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Post by ripper on Dec 23, 2015 9:55:11 GMT
Well done to Johnny and Bryn for a fine and enjoyable tale.
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Post by vaultadventcalendar on Dec 24, 2015 10:33:35 GMT
Almost there .... Chrissie Demant Prolific horror author, best selling crime novelist, screenwriter, journalist and editor of Gray Friar's popular Terror Tales series, Paul Finch has a love for the supernatural festive tale and can be relied upon to set you up rosy for a disturbed Christmas night's sleep. The Unreal is what you get when you take one obnoxious celebrity Ghost-hunter and set him loose on a theatre where the oversized marionettes left over from a production of A Christmas Carol have yet to be removed. Mr. Finch tells us that the story first saw publication in the Wigan Little Theatre Christmas Newsletter for 2014, "which was only circulated to members, so I very much doubt that any of your regulars will have seen it before." To see you through the holiday, you might like to pay a visit to Paul's Walking In The Dark blog where you'll find another Christmas chiller, Krampus.
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Post by ripper on Dec 24, 2015 11:31:13 GMT
Dem's description of Kate Farrell's tale was very apt--delicious :-). Really enjoyable.
I am going to save Paul's story for tonight. It's blowing a bit of a gale here and miserably damp, so just the atmosphere for one of Paul's uniformly excellent yarns.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 24, 2015 14:14:02 GMT
And the last word, as is so often the case, to M. Jo Jo Lapin X.
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Post by Mike Brough on Dec 24, 2015 14:35:53 GMT
Mr Finch's tale is a meaty start to the celebrations.
But why pick on the atheists, Mr F?
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Post by Mike Brough on Dec 24, 2015 14:37:42 GMT
And a little sorbet to cleanse the palate from Jo Jo.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 24, 2015 14:40:19 GMT
What is my secret? Hard work. Lots of research. Aspiring young authors, take note.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 24, 2015 16:02:43 GMT
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