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Post by dem bones on Mar 25, 2016 13:17:48 GMT
 Lawrence RatzinFace it. Halloween has been stolen by the corporates & yuppies along with everything else they can get their grasping hands on. Time we outsmarted these tossers by relocating our festivities to another calendar slot, and this is as good as any. Night's dark whatever the time of year, and there is the added advantage of a three day event rather than just the one evening. Best of all, with its themes of betrayal, crucifixion, resurrection, mob violence, and suicide, Easter has inspired (or at least partially so) some marvellous horror & supernatural short fiction. Case in point, the following undertaker's dozen. Stephen Volk - Easter Manly Wade Wellman - The Golgotha Dancers Dulce Gray - The Brindle Bull-Terrier Tom Johnstone - The Easter Bunny Mary Danby - Lorimer's Bride Roger Johnson - The Dog Saki - The Easter Egg Charles Birkin - Hosanna! Guy Preston - Thirty Jack Oleck - Collector's Item F. Tennyson Jesse - Treasure Trove X. L. - A Kiss Of Judas Leonid Andreyev - Lazarus Admittedly, it's top heavy on stories pondering what became of the thirty pieces of silver, and Lazarus isn't exactly Easter specific, but I'd buy it. Not so sure about novels. The only three I could think of off the top of my head were Black Easter, Paul Finch's Sacrifice and J. G. Eccarius's anarchist offering, The Last Days Of Christ The Vampire (rematch scheduled). Please feel free to add your own, especially the obligatory blatantly obvious ones I missed. |
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Post by ropardoe on Mar 26, 2016 12:30:52 GMT
Time we outsmarted these tossers by relocating our festivities to another calendar slot, and this is as good as any. Night's dark whatever the time of year, and there is the added advantage of a three day event rather than just the one evening. Best of all, with its themes of betrayal, crucifixion, resurrection, mob violence, and suicide, Easter has inspired (or at least partially so) some marvellous horror & supernatural short fiction. Case in point, the following undertaker's dozen.
Please feel free to add your own, especially the obligatory blatantly obvious ones I missed. Well, no one else seems to want to add to the list, and on the basis that any stories relating to the Wandering Jew have to be Easter related (whichever bit of folklore you connect to his origins), I can offer one from Mark Valentine's Seventeen Stories - I think it's "The Antioch Imperial" (no, not a posh mint!). Black Easter, by the way. is one of my absolutely favourite supernatural novels - I've read it countless times. |
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Post by rawlinson on Mar 26, 2016 13:22:59 GMT
There's also Alan Ryan's Death to the Easter Bunny.
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Post by dem bones on Mar 26, 2016 21:02:42 GMT
Well, no one else seems to want to add to the list, and on the basis that any stories relating to the Wandering Jew have to be Easter related (whichever bit of folklore you connect to his origins), I can offer one from Mark Valentine's Seventeen Stories - I think it's "The Antioch Imperial" (no, not a posh mint!). Black Easter, by the way. is one of my absolutely favourite supernatural novels - I've read it countless times. Thanks for the suggestions. Needless to say, I've read neither. There's also Alan Ryan's Death to the Easter Bunny. I've not read Eugene Sue's The Wandering Jew yet, either. 850 pages of tiny print is challenge too far, though I enjoyed the same publisher's edition of his The Mysteries Of Paris. The Last Days of Christ The Vampire is very funny, or so it seemed to me back in the 'nineties. "Read the book. Soon you will see the graffiti. Then you will live the reality ...." David G. Rowlands' Mr. Batchel story, The Saints Which Slept (A Fragment), qualifies, even if it is far too nice for present purposes. |
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Post by dem bones on Mar 27, 2016 10:55:45 GMT
Virgil Finlay illustration for Seabury Quinn's Roads ( Weird Tales, January 1938), a fantasy linking a Roman Centurion, the crucifixion on Mount Calvary, and the origins of Santa Claus. "The best story Seabury Quinn ever wrote - and perhaps the most outstanding ever published by Weird Tales" (Peter Haining). Not sure you'll find too many takers on either score, Mr. H!
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Mar 27, 2016 10:57:02 GMT
On Easter Sunday, the Easter Bunny rises from his volcano on Easter Island! This is my somewhat unusual belief.
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Post by bobby on Jun 18, 2016 15:39:41 GMT
"Without Sin" by Nancy A. Collins is an alternate version of the Second Coming featuring a Rambo-like Jesus who (among other things) eats babies.
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Post by dem bones on Jun 18, 2016 16:59:58 GMT
"Without Sin" by Nancy A. Collins is an alternate version of the Second Coming featuring a Rambo-like Jesus who (among other things) eats babies. Thanks Bobby! Which reminds me .... Antony Lopez - The Second Coming (New English Library, April 1975)  Jacket design: Antony Dominy |
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