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Post by dem bones on Sept 1, 2016 19:13:50 GMT
Have no idea who wrote it or what book it appears in. Protagonist commits some offence or other - perhaps a hit and run? - and is put on trial for his life by a terrifying jury consisting of Jack the Ripper and other infamous characters from history.
Any ideas?
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Post by jamesdoig on Sept 1, 2016 22:08:23 GMT
Have no idea who wrote it or what book it appears in. Protagonist commits some offence or other - perhaps a hit and run? - and is put on trial for his life by a terrifying jury consisting of Jack the Ripper and other infamous characters from history. Any ideas? Whatever it is, it sounds like the source of the classic Treehouse of Horror Simpsons episode with the Jury of the Damned, including the starting lineup of the 1976 Philadelphia Flyers. |
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Post by dem bones on Sept 2, 2016 8:24:19 GMT
Have no idea who wrote it or what book it appears in. Protagonist commits some offence or other - perhaps a hit and run? - and is put on trial for his life by a terrifying jury consisting of Jack the Ripper and other infamous characters from history. Any ideas? Whatever it is, it sounds like the source of the classic Treehouse of Horror Simpsons episode with the Jury of the Damned, including the starting lineup of the 1976 Philadelphia Flyers. It's driven me crazy for years. Thought I'd struck gold with Mary E. Counselman's Night Court, but no, not that one. |
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Post by dem bones on Jan 22, 2019 18:03:52 GMT
Stephen Vincent Benét - The Devil And Daniel Webster: (Saturday Evening Post, October 24, 1936). Hapless farmer Jabez Stone sells his soul to Old Scratch for the usual seven years of outrageous prosperity. Webster, the hottest lawyer ever to come out of New Hampshire, faces a Devil-appointed jury to win it back.
Hope I'm wrong, but this may well be the story referred to above, treacherous memory having invented the hit and run and appointed Jack the Ripper a place on the jury.
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Post by ripper on Jan 24, 2019 13:46:11 GMT
I feel pretty sure that there have been a number of 'jury of the dead' type stories in horror comics down the years. Could it have been one of those you saw rather than a text story, Dem?
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Post by dem bones on Jan 24, 2019 20:33:01 GMT
I feel pretty sure that there have been a number of 'jury of the dead' type stories in horror comics down the years. Could it have been one of those you saw rather than a text story, Dem? It's definitely something I read in a horror anthology. Am now pretty sure it was indeed The Devil And Daniel Webster - my superb brain merely immeasurably improved upon a classic of American literature. |
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