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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2015 19:54:07 GMT
Bizarrely, THE OLD PIANO is the second cursed/haunted/possessed piano story I've read this week, the other being Bloch's MR. STEINWAY.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2015 20:02:57 GMT
For some reason I imagined the tooth with a cartoon face and a squeaky voice.
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Post by Johnlprobert on Dec 3, 2015 21:24:00 GMT
Wonderful to see old Oscar getting some (un)deserved exposure on the only site that might possible appreciate him.
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Post by ohthehorror on Dec 3, 2015 21:44:46 GMT
For some reason I imagined the tooth with a cartoon face and a squeaky voice. I couldn't get Nanny McPhee out of my head no matter how hard I tried.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 3, 2015 22:19:23 GMT
Wonderful to see old Oscar getting some (un)deserved exposure on the only site that might possible appreciate him. Will always be grateful to you for turning me on to the great Oscar - I think. So, who's going to launch the Valancourt petition? 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. Guy de Maupassant's Who Knows?? Mind you, it's not just the bed. Every stick of furniture gets in on the act.
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Post by ohthehorror on Dec 3, 2015 23:07:01 GMT
Damn, is that ever going to bug me now. I remember at one point he encounters it at the end of a pathway through the headstones. And I'm pretty sure it ends badly for him in his bedroom, or at least, in his bedroom anyway.
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Post by vaultadventcalendar on Dec 4, 2015 8:00:32 GMT
Whole world may be going to Hell in a handcart (again), but we're still "Christmas Crackers" on Vault, the home of festive mirth! Chrissie Demant Today's involuntary contribution comes from M. P. Dare (1902-1962) - Marcus to his mother, Paul to his friends - archaeologist, occultist, psychic, sometimes-bookseller, convicted church-looter and library book pilferer. Although relatively prolific in historical works on Leicester's cemeteries and churches, sadly, (or, depending on your point of view, mercifully - he has his critics), Dare produced only a single collection of ghost stories, Unholy Relics & Other Uncanny Tales (Edward Arnold, 1947), 13 tales of "fiction - and yet not fiction," featuring his altar-ego, Gregory Wayne, and fellow historian and life-long friend Alan Granville, with whom he shares a manor-house in the Midlands, and several harrowing supernatural adventures. For this reader, the collection is the closest we have to a Lurid Ghost Stories Of An Antiquarianin that, although the book is dedicated to Montague Summers (no comment), the style is Montague Rhodes James if he'd held his nose and written for the pulps. I think Rosemary Pardoe puts it best in The James Gang: A Bibliography Of Writers In The M. R. James Tradition (Haunted Library, 1991). While conceding that Bring Out Your Dead and The Demoniac Goat and the title story qualify for inclusion, Ro ends the brief entry with a cautionary "Dare was too over-the-top to be a true Jamesian," which is certainly one way of putting it. Tragically, Dare took his own life when Police launched an investigation into the Cambridge bookshop where he was employed. Attachments:A NUNS TRAGEDY.pdf (143.61 KB)
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Post by mattofthespurs on Dec 4, 2015 9:36:23 GMT
I enjoyed that one too. Good imagery. Not a fan, I must say, of accents being written as they are spoken in stories. I would have preferred to have the dialogue written as normal with a sentence telling me what sort of accent the character spoke in. It kind of brought the proceedings to a grinding halt whilst I slowly worked through what the character was saying. Good story though
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Post by ripper on Dec 4, 2015 10:05:03 GMT
'A Nun's Tragedy' is, I think, one of the creepier tales in Dare's collection, and probably my favourite of his tales--you can't beat a nasty nun story.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 4, 2015 10:10:21 GMT
I enjoyed that one too. Good imagery. Not a fan, I must say, of accents being written as they are spoken in stories. I would have preferred to have the dialogue written as normal with a sentence telling me what sort of accent the character spoke in. It kind of brought the proceedings to a grinding halt whilst I slowly worked through what the character was saying. Good story though I agree with you, Matt, might have been better if Dare had at least watered down the old gardener's closing monologue, but no way was I going to tamper with it. That said, fixed a few typos in original printed version, which isn't bad going seeing as I can't spell, and my proof-reading skills are non-existent. Should A Nun's Tragedy appeal, Dare's mildly saucy The Haunted Drawers from the same collection can be found amongst the Vault Kinky Classics.
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Post by ohthehorror on Dec 4, 2015 12:35:50 GMT
Haven't got to today's offering just yet due to initiating the Christmas festivities, otherwise known as putting up the Christmas tree, and that always involves several large whiskeys so I'm rather looking forward to it. I started reading 'The Whimpus' last night in bed and there's a character that insists on speaking like that, which if it didn't look like being a really good story might have turned me off.
Anyway, hopefully I won't be too full of whiskey later today to sample today's offering. Keep up the good work dem, I'm loving them so far.
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Post by Dr Terror on Dec 4, 2015 13:17:34 GMT
damn, is that ever going to bug me now. I remember at one point he encounters it at the end of a pathway through the headstones. And I'm pretty sure it ends badly for him in his bedroom, or at least, in his bedroom anyway. Are you thinking of The Coffin by Anna Taborska?
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Post by ohthehorror on Dec 4, 2015 14:16:00 GMT
damn, is that ever going to bug me now. I remember at one point he encounters it at the end of a pathway through the headstones. And I'm pretty sure it ends badly for him in his bedroom, or at least, in his bedroom anyway. Are you thinking of The Coffin by Anna Taborska? Ah, you're right, I am. Just checked my copy of her collection and it wasn't a bed at all. Don't know why I thought it was now :eek:
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Post by Mike Brough on Dec 4, 2015 19:37:16 GMT
Not the best of the 4 to date but still better than 95% of the cac we see published these days. (Mr Campbell, excepted.)
Keep up the good work, dem.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Dec 4, 2015 21:42:04 GMT
Slow to start, dripping in atmosphere, lovely illustration, blummin' spooky.
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