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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 9, 2016 18:50:23 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. Worryingly autobiographical for me
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Post by dem bones on Dec 9, 2016 19:01:04 GMT
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! Thanks, Scarlet. Think we used Kecksies on a previous calendar and I'm very tempted by The Folding Doors but as it's easily available via that link ..... The main weakness of this years VAC - other than my extremely ropey vintage selections - is a lack of contemporary female authors. It just kind of fell that way.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 9, 2016 22:25:20 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 ... Wow,what a prophet. That's a bit worrying
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Post by vaultadventcalendar on Dec 10, 2016 8:11:34 GMT
Day ten. More short, nasty Aus horror, courtesy of Ernest Favenc (see What The Rats Brought on the 2014 VAC). Murder and madness in the wilds. Badly injured in a confrontation with Aborigines, the sole survivor of the skirmish has no option but to remain behind overnight with the dead while a cattle hand rides for help. Fear can do terrible things to the mind ....
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Post by jamesdoig on Dec 10, 2016 21:10:10 GMT
Day ten. More short, nasty Aus horror, courtesy of Ernest Favenc (see What The Rats Brought on the 2014 VAC). Murder and madness in the wilds. Badly injured in a confrontation with Aborigines, the sole survivor of the skirmish has no option but to remain behind overnight with the dead while a cattle hand rides for help. Fear can do terrible things to the mind .... Brutal story, and his liberal use of the 'N' word says a lot about colonial times.
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 10, 2016 21:53:53 GMT
I found it hard going too, because of the "N" word. Glad it was only 3 pages, to be honest.....
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Post by ohthehorror on Dec 10, 2016 21:55:17 GMT
I must be blessed. I'm not so easily offended.
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 10, 2016 22:10:49 GMT
I know it was acceptable at the time the story was written (as far as I know) but the frequency with which it was used just made me squirm every time I encountered it.
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Post by ohthehorror on Dec 10, 2016 22:13:36 GMT
oops. Sorry miss scarlett, that came across a lot harsher than I'd intended. I'll blame it on the cider
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 10, 2016 22:19:51 GMT
oops. Sorry miss scarlett, that came across a lot harsher than I'd intended. I'll blame it on the cider Duly noted; have another one on me! I wonder what Dem has in store for us tomorrow?
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Post by ohthehorror on Dec 10, 2016 22:21:35 GMT
I'm still holding out for a sea monster.
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 10, 2016 22:31:28 GMT
You just might get one, at some point. Hopefully in the Calendar rather than under your tree. I'm now just looking forward to anything written after about 1960
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Post by vaultadventcalendar on Dec 11, 2016 7:54:45 GMT
Day eleven. An eerie tale of the fanged doom that came to the house of Johnson .... Don't worry if you've not heard of today's special guest contributor - we hadn't either! Hardly surprising when you realise this young ghoul-finder is all of eleven years old! Remember the name. Provided he is prepared to put in the hard work, we predict a bright future for master Ramsey Campbell. Vault of Evil - Tomorrow's Stars Today Thank you, Ramsey!
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 11, 2016 9:51:02 GMT
Still, I cannot help but be a bit concerned that a young child should have such a morbid imagination.
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Post by ripper on Dec 11, 2016 10:33:19 GMT
I usually save the day's calendar offering until night, but I couldn't resist reading Ramsey's tale written at such a tender age. Was this his first story?
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