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Post by dem bones on Feb 21, 2019 9:35:11 GMT
Further contenders for the-one-they're-all-talking-about! Andrew Brosnatch Estel Critchie [Arthur J. Burks] - Voodoo: ( Weird Tales, Dec 1924). Haiti - Worship of the Green Serpent. Unutterable carryings-on in cannibal country. Reprinted by Peter Haining as Cerimarie in The Evil People, but surely deserving another revival. Greye La Spina - The Scarf of the Beloved: ( Weird Tales, Feb. 1925). The Looting of a Grave - and What Befell Thereafter. A medical student resorts to grave-robbing with horrific consequences. Arguably better suited to the Not At Night ethic than CCT's selection, The Tortoise-Shell Cat.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 26, 2019 15:21:21 GMT
Orlin Frederick - The Throwback: (Weird Tales, Oct. 1926). A five-minute tale, about an atavism, a hark-back to primordial savage ancestors. Some men are ideally suited to the bloodiest battlefield. Such a one is Heinz, a closet sadistic killer, who takes to the Meuse-Argonne Campaign with terrifying enthusiasm. Account reads like how Dion Fortune's Blood Lust might have turned out had not busybody Taverner been around to ruin everything.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 14, 2021 5:38:20 GMT
Further inspired lunacy from the man who loved the dead!
C. M. Eddy, jnr. - Ashes: (Weird Tales, March, 1924). C. M. Eddy, jnr., Springs a Strange Yarn. "'At last I have achieved success,' he announced, holding up for our inspection a small bottle containing a colourless liquid. ‘I have here what will rank as the greatest chemical discovery ever known. I am going to prove its efficacy right before your eyes. Bruce, will you bring me one of the rabbits, please?’
Malcolm Bruce, down on his luck, successfully applies for a trial as Professor Van Allister's assistant. Things seem to be looking up for the new boy as the Professor spends most of the time locked away in the lab, leaving him alone with Miss Marjorie Purdie, world's most beautiful secretary, etc. At last the mad chemist emerges to proclaim his greatest ever achievement; a colourless liquid which can reduce anything it spills upon to a pile of white ash, the single fortuitous exception being the glass he uses both for the tubes to contain it and the containers to hold his guinea pigs. Miss Purdie is visibly upset at this demonstration so it is a good thing that Bruce is at hand to comfort her. Romance blossoms, everything looking rosy, turned out nice again — or so it seems.
Alas, Van Allister is desperate to try out his discovery on a human subject, and volunteers Bruce for the honour. As she has proved such a capable employee, Miss Purdie can watch!
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Post by dem bones on Aug 18, 2021 17:03:22 GMT
"Perhaps a dirty M'Bano could change his black body into a beast — but Herbie Tillson is an Englishman, even if he is a deuced queer one." T. Wyatt Nelson Pearl Norton Swet - The Man Who Never Came Back: ( Weird Tales, July 1932). A strange thrill-tale of the leopard-men of Africa — a shuddery story of a weird horror in the jungle. Herbie Tillson, 24, a clerk in the employ of West Coast Products Co., ships out from London to their Pambia, West Africa office. To his three new colleagues, Herbie is a frightfully decent, if slightly comical chap with two talking point peculiarities; he has six toes on each foot and, despite requiring powerful glasses during daylight hours, he can see perfectly in the dark. Bannister, who has been at the outpost the longest, is concerned when Herbie takes to wandering the Great Swabi forest at night and mixing with the despised M'Bano tribesmen, a violent bunch of reputed leftover Leopardman cultists. Wary that their friend is in danger, Bannister, O'Donnel and Vierling resolve to shanghai him aboard the first ship home, but then the body of the houseboy's wife is found mutilated by the river's edge ...
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