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Post by franklinmarsh on Dec 2, 2015 19:22:00 GMT
Great stuff Dem & James. Jimmy Durante and Diana Ross would be proud.
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Post by jamesdoig on Dec 2, 2015 20:12:54 GMT
Nice that Vaulters like it. Lucy Sussex told me about it a little while ago and we felt it deserved a reprise. And you're right - quite explicit for the time. I'm not sure if it was first published in a magazine, but I doubt if any Victorian editor would have approved of it. Dawe became a popular author and published a couple of short story collections in John Lane's Keynotes series, as did Machen, Shiel, Marriott Watson etc.
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Post by ohthehorror on Dec 2, 2015 21:45:16 GMT
I was never much of a one for the ghost story, until I starting reading some of the stories in The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories, but I'm a real convert now. The pretty one's are a bonus of course, but then I'm a sucker for a pretty anything, even if it's pretty dead thing.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 2, 2015 22:14:05 GMT
I was never much of a one for the ghost story, until I starting reading some of the stories in The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories, but I'm a real convert now. The pretty one's are a bonus of course, but then I'm a sucker for a pretty anything, even if it's pretty dead thing. In that case, I've no hesitation in recommending Hugh Lamb's Victorian anthologies, most notably Victorian Tales Of Terror, Victorian Nightmares, Terror By Gaslight, Tales From A Gaslit Graveyard, and the two volume Gaslit Nightmares, though in truth, anything with the great man's name to it is quality. Am sure James would agree that The Old Piano would sit comfortably in any of the above.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2015 22:49:37 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. My wife was reading the couple of issues of MISTY we have lying around the house just the other night. A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to meet Pat Mills, founding editor of 2000AD and classic 'comic-nasty' Action and who, of course, did a lot of his early editorial and scripting work on Misty. Tell the truth, he's a bit of a hero of mine and was every bit as engaged and intelligent as his work suggests. He still has a real passion for those old girl's comics, and I believe that Misty is making a comeback next year.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2015 22:52:20 GMT
Enjoyed HIS BROTHER'S KEEPER. A sharp shock to start off with. The PDF of OLD PIANO is on its way to my phone for reading on the move tomorrow.
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Post by vaultadventcalendar on Dec 3, 2015 7:57:21 GMT
So there was dear old Oscar Williams, languishing in - some might say - hard won, terminal obscurity, until a bright spark on here (no names, no pack-drill, it was the Right Hon. Lord Probert, etc) gets it into his head to review The Dance Of Death, and - Pandemonium! Next thing you know, we've a full-scale revival on our hands not seen since the third coming of Charles Birkin. All I can tell you about Mr. Williams is that he was a mainstay of the 'Morris Thrillers' series, whose works include The Sign Of The Tiger, Death Stalks The River, Justice Never Sleeps, The Vengeance Of Sheeva, Devil's Luck (Mellifont Press, Dublin, 1934), Reparation and the four novella Harringay's Last Gamble. Prepare to be "totally oscared" ... Attachments:The Tooth.pdf (154.81 KB)
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 3, 2015 8:32:56 GMT
"The Tooth" seems awfully familiar, although I am not sure why. In any case, it reminded me of a famous story by Poe that also involves an obsession with teeth. Then there is the Shirley Jackson story (also entitled "The Tooth") about the lady who goes to the dentist. Just a few more and you would have an anthology on the theme of teeth.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 3, 2015 9:13:11 GMT
It could be arranged. Robert Bloch, Tooth or Consequence (one of many vampire visits dentist romps): Chris Fowler, On Edge; Alison Prince Kirsty: Galen C. Colin, Teeth; Myc Harrison, The Abscess; Poe, Berenice...
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Post by franklinmarsh on Dec 3, 2015 9:30:17 GMT
Lovely stuff. 'Beastly.' 'Courting'. 'On the films.' ' Shindy'. That Lord Probert is a proper caution and no mistake. 'Finis'.
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Post by pulphack on Dec 3, 2015 10:15:27 GMT
Stunning. And a defence worthy of Oscar Pistorius...
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Post by ohthehorror on Dec 3, 2015 10:30:30 GMT
That has to be an even weirder story than the one about the bed that started stalking someone. Being me I've no chance of remembering which anthology/collection I read it in, but I do remember it being very strange. There are certainly some 'unusual' stories around.
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Post by andydecker on Dec 3, 2015 17:15:49 GMT
Where do you even find these gems? Absolutly brillant.
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Post by mattofthespurs on Dec 3, 2015 17:55:00 GMT
Oh this just gets better and better...
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Post by Mike Brough on Dec 3, 2015 18:14:52 GMT
Seems a perfectly normal chap to me. Don't know what all the fuss was about - obviously self-teefence.
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