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Post by David A. Riley on Nov 28, 2015 16:01:53 GMT
VaultAdventCalendar hard sell (and it's proving to be). A user-friendly, understated promo to lure the innocent. Chrissie Demant Many thanks to those who have so kindly donated stories in the wake of yesterday's threat! Will hold back on the aggressive begging emails & pms for rest of day while I study the manuscripts. That's a great piece of artwork!
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Post by mattofthespurs on Nov 28, 2015 16:36:06 GMT
Reminds me of the 'Misty' comics that I have been reading recently. I should have written a story about a 13 year old girl plagued by Jimmy Saville a black cat that turns into Jason Voorhees.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 29, 2015 17:23:04 GMT
Reminds me of the 'Misty' comics that I have been reading recently. I should have written a story about a 13 year old girl plagued by Jimmy Saville a black cat that turns into Jason Voorhees. Can only be a matter of time before multi-purpose bogeyman Saville claims centre-stage in a ghost or horror story. That's assuming he hasn't already. One of my favourites, too. First appeared in an issue of The Goth some years back.
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Post by vaultadventcalendar on Dec 1, 2015 8:33:20 GMT
Right. Morbidity for the masses. No turning back, etc. Your starter for 24 is: "Include 'pure but proud' heroines, have as many villainesses as you please, work in heroes that dash unperturbed, with their courage unshaken, from disaster to disaster and anchor the whole firmly to the happiest possible ending if you would compose a true thriller." This was the advice given to Marian Hobson of the Sarasota Herald Tribune (August 19, 1934), by the remarkable Major George Fielding Eliot (1894-1971), advice he was happy to disregard when writing for Weird Tales. Major Eliot's military career was no bed of roses. He joined the Australian army in 1914 as a second lieutenant and saw action in several of World War I's bloodiest conflicts, including Gallipoli and Passchendaele, so small wonder his brief pulp career culminated in the widely reprinted The Copper Bowl (December 1928), a story described by critic Reginald Smith as "undoubtedly the most effectively gruesome and sickening horror tale to appear during the entire history of Weird Tales, or anywhere else for that matter." On the evidence of the slick and nasty The Justice Of The Czar ( Weird Tales, August 1928), and His Brother's Keeper, it's clear that Captain Eliot had a worrying fondness for torture tales.
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Post by ohthehorror on Dec 1, 2015 10:32:03 GMT
Oh my god, that was depressing...! Merry Christmas lads, it's all downhill from here.
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Post by mattofthespurs on Dec 1, 2015 11:37:01 GMT
Perfectly grim to start of the festive season!
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Post by andydecker on Dec 1, 2015 18:33:29 GMT
Nice start!
Copper Bowl is an unforgettable tale.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 1, 2015 18:44:41 GMT
Another Major George Fielding Eliot quote from the same interview which may have some bearing on His Brother's Keeper.
A story that appears to have been composed with the minimum of effort is often backed up by months spent in absorbing atmosphere from so called 'dry' history books and encyclopaedias, long biographies and intimate histories of the period in which the story is laid. The story will then possess that certain touch which sets it apart immediately from the tale composed by light-heartedly putting together such closely inter-related subjects, as Chinese daggers, gentle southern heroines and the typical swashbuckling hero."
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Post by Mike Brough on Dec 1, 2015 19:33:25 GMT
Nice start. More please.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Dec 1, 2015 20:15:46 GMT
"What a horrible, dreadful thing...!"
Excellent.
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Post by vaultadventcalendar on Dec 2, 2015 8:22:15 GMT
To best of my knowledge, prior to today's offering, the only story I'd read by the hugely prolific W. Carlton Dawe (1865-1935) is the malodorous Coolies, ( Yellow and White, 1895), an account of a mutiny by the eighteen-hundred strong human freight of a ship bound for Singapore, as exhumed by Hugh Lamb for his splendid Victorian Nightmares. James Doig, who kindly supplied the following slab of Victorian melodrama at its bloodiest, promised us "an over-the-top, gruesome ghost story." If anything, James, I reckon you undersold it!
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Post by ripper on Dec 2, 2015 9:22:21 GMT
Excellent start to this year's calendar, Dem. Nicely nasty.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 2, 2015 9:30:21 GMT
You've James to thank for The Old Piano, Rip. Victorian vileness at its miserable best. I've a massive pash for the ghost.
Apologies for lack of illustrations; am hopeful that side of the operation picks up next week. Unless .... maybe there's a reader or two out there would be up for depicting death in the torture chamber, a gory ghost, or who knows what diabolical horrors are in store over coming days? If so, please go for it!
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Post by mattofthespurs on Dec 2, 2015 9:31:31 GMT
I liked that one! Might have helped that I used to live less than 5 miles from Hadley Wood. Another cracker!
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Post by Mike Brough on Dec 2, 2015 19:08:09 GMT
I liked it, too. A nice straightforward ghost story - they don't write 'em like that these days.
I don't recall many other early-20th Century writers that were quite as direct about s-e-x. 'By force he accomplished his desires', 'I knew what part that couch had played in the sad drama'!
Like dem, I've got a bit of a lech, sorry, pash for the ghost. Luxurious golden hair, a pale, sad beautiful face with large eyes. And a gash in her throat. What else can a man ask for in a dead bird?
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