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Post by vaultadventcalendar on Dec 6, 2016 10:48:52 GMT
Chilling that proboards should experience difficulties just as we're about to run .... Day six. "What was it about "Willy Pan", the screen cartoon, that seemed to fascinate so many people? It seemed to be a drug on their very minds — what new terror was behind it?" Topical. Wallace West (1900-1980), made his first sale to Weird Tales in 1926 with the werewolf yarn Loup Garou (published in the October 1927 issue). Primarily an author of science fiction shorts, he sporadically dabbled in the macabre throughout a lengthy, genre-spanning writing career. According to Robert A. W. Londres, A Thing of Beauty ( Magazine of Horror #1, Aug. 1963) was rejected by Farnsworth-Wright as "too horrible" for publication, which surely swayed Peter Haining to include it in The Unspeakable People: Twenty Of The World's Most Horrible Horror Stories (Leslie Frewin, 1967). Farnsworth-Wright was perhaps overly squeamish as, to a modern audience at least, the story is hardly that terrifying. This, on the other hand ...
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Post by vaultadventcalendar on Dec 7, 2016 6:37:25 GMT
Pete Kuhlhoff ( Weird Tales, Jan. 1954. *) Day seven. While there is plenty of truth in the above, I do have a particular favourite of the great lady's brain transplant stories, Island Of Doom, which served as my introduction to her work via the beloved Arrow Not At Night compilation. Am guessing those interested in such material will already have a copy, so have opted for an earlier story ploughing the same fertile subject matter, Gray Ghouls, which is not quite to readily available. This one went down so well with the readers on it's initial Weird Tales appearance (July 1927), it spawned a near identical sequel, The Devils Of Po Sung (Dec 1927). * The picture illustrates another Bassett Morgan terror tale, Tiger Dust, but needs must in a crisis and truth is it might have been created for either story.
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Post by mcannon on Dec 7, 2016 13:05:39 GMT
Day seven. While there is plenty of truth in the above, I do have a particular favourite of the great lady's brain transplant stories, Island Of Doom, which served as my introduction to her work via the beloved Arrow Not At Night compilation. Am guessing those interested in such material will already have a copy, so have opted for an earlier story ploughing the same fertile subject matter, Gray Ghouls, which is not quite to readily available. This one went down so well with the readers on it's initial Weird Tales appearance (July 1927), it spawned a near identical sequel, The Devils Of Po Sung (Dec 1927). Bassett Morgan was actually Grace Jones? Good Lord - not _this_ Grace Jones, I assume? It's rather a pity that Morgan's WT contributions have never been collected, if only because I love the idea of book with a title like "Great Brain Transplant Stories from Weird Tales" that turns out to be a single author collection. Mark
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Post by ripper on Dec 7, 2016 13:22:17 GMT
Pete Kuhlhoff ( Weird Tales, Jan. 1954. *) Day seven. While there is plenty of truth in the above, I do have a particular favourite of the great lady's brain transplant stories, Island Of Doom, which served as my introduction to her work via the beloved Arrow Not At Night compilation. Am guessing those interested in such material will already have a copy, so have opted for an earlier story ploughing the same fertile subject matter, Gray Ghouls, which is not quite to readily available. This one went down so well with the readers on it's initial Weird Tales appearance (July 1927), it spawned a near identical sequel, The Devils Of Po Sung (Dec 1927). Bassett Morgan was actually Grace Jones? Good Lord - not _this_ Grace Jones, I assume? View AttachmentIt's rather a pity that Morgan's WT contributions have never been collected, if only because I love the idea of book with a title like "Great Brain Transplant Stories from Weird Tales" that turns out to be a single author collection. Mark [/quote] If it's THAT Grace Jones then Russell Harty could count his blessings that he got off so lightly.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 7, 2016 13:42:00 GMT
Bassett Morgan was actually Grace Jones? It turns out Grace Jones is actually much, much older than we thought.
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Post by ohthehorror on Dec 8, 2016 1:50:21 GMT
Wow, that Willy Pan story was seriously impressive.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 8, 2016 7:12:31 GMT
Wow, that Willy Pan story was seriously impressive. I'm so glad this one got a bite. Must have read The Phantom Dictator several times down the years, gets me every time. Boring Vac update. 1. Phase II of Operation scrounge, i.e., the widespread circulation of nauseating begging emails, has yet to be implimented. 2. We still have vacancies at the inn. 3. Will be running the contemporary stories from Monday 12th onward - if not before ....
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Post by vaultadventcalendar on Dec 8, 2016 8:15:23 GMT
Day eight. Have raved elsewhere about the short lived horror anthology in bi-monthly digest format that was Shock, the gist being that it is even more superb than everything else I've fêted as a "masterpiece" this past decade. Over three precious issues (May, July, September 1960), co-editors '?' and 'Lulubel the spider' (aka Bart Anders) blended tried and trusted horror classics with hackwork of varying quality to splendid effect. Reginald Rose (the same Reginald Rose best remembered for his film and television work?) was responsible for this particularly fiendish original. Attachments:PARLOUR GAME.pdf (55.5 KB)
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Post by ripper on Dec 8, 2016 11:04:31 GMT
Day eight. Have raved elsewhere about the short lived horror anthology in bi-monthly digest format that was Shock, the gist being that it is even more superb than everything else I've fêted as a "masterpiece" this past decade. Over three precious issues (May, July, September 1960), co-editors '?' and 'Lulubel the spider' (aka Bart Anders) blended tried and trusted horror classics with hackwork of varying quality to splendid effect. Reginald Rose (the same Reginald Rose best remembered for his film and television work?) was responsible for this particularly fiendish original. The name was ringing a faint bell but I had to look up his credits. Twelve Angry Men and the four he did for Euan Lloyd are probably the ones I am most familiar with. I didn't know about his genre fiction so I am looking forward to reading this one tonight.
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Post by jamesdoig on Dec 8, 2016 21:34:56 GMT
Day eight. Have raved elsewhere about the short lived horror anthology in bi-monthly digest format that was Shock, the gist being that it is even more superb than everything else I've fêted as a "masterpiece" this past decade. Over three precious issues (May, July, September 1960), co-editors '?' and 'Lulubel the spider' (aka Bart Anders) blended tried and trusted horror classics with hackwork of varying quality to splendid effect. Reginald Rose (the same Reginald Rose best remembered for his film and television work?) was responsible for this particularly fiendish original. This one is nicely fiendish - keep them coming!
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 9, 2016 3:54:43 GMT
Day eight. Have raved elsewhere about the short lived horror anthology in bi-monthly digest format that was Shock, the gist being that it is even more superb than everything else I've fêted as a "masterpiece" this past decade. Over three precious issues (May, July, September 1960), co-editors '?' and 'Lulubel the spider' (aka Bart Anders) blended tried and trusted horror classics with hackwork of varying quality to splendid effect. Reginald Rose (the same Reginald Rose best remembered for his film and television work?) was responsible for this particularly fiendish original. If, by any chance, you're still in need of old stories for the Advent Calendar, I've just started on the free Marjorie Bowen stories. I think either of these two would fit right in "The Breakdown" and "One Remained Behind". ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/bowen/marjorie/Just a thought, thanks again for the daily delights!
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Post by ripper on Dec 9, 2016 9:40:53 GMT
Parlour Game really hit the spot when I read it last night, and Reginald Rose is another author of whom I shall be keeping an eye out for more of his stories. I note he was also creator of "The Zoo Gang," a short-lived ITC series from 1974, undeservedly obscure nowadays, but a must-watch for me when it was shown on friday nights all those years ago.
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Post by vaultadventcalendar on Dec 9, 2016 11:56:05 GMT
Day nine: Today's hair-raising, saliva-dripping anti-classic first appeared uncredited in the début issue of a slimline Brit horror magazine, Screen Chills and Macabre Stories (born Nov. 1957, died Nov. 1957). When, thirty years later, Peter Haining revived this movie adaptation miniature for Werewolf: Horror Stories Of The Man Beast, he attributed authorship to screenwriter ' Ralph Thornton', (Herman Cohen & Aben Kandel) so will go with that if only for convenience sake. Not much else to say, really, except, *ahem* "enjoy"
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 9, 2016 17:14:44 GMT
Loved 'Parlour Game#.
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Post by ohthehorror on Dec 9, 2016 18:18:14 GMT
Parlour Games was creepy. I'll look forward to becoming a pensioner. You can get away with that kind of thing when you're old and decrepit.
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