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Post by Swampirella on May 6, 2017 18:05:07 GMT
As I mentioned briefly in the Terror Tales of Cornwall thread; if anybody knows of any mermaid/merman horror short stories, please be so kind as to post details. I've already checked out the info in the Vault already; Nancy Holder's "Hear the Mermaid Singing", K-H. Strobl's story, Chris Priestley's "Father/The Mermaid", "Finn Blood", "Douglas Clegg's "The Little Mermaid" and Arthur J. Burk's "Bells of Oceana". Thanks in advance....
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Post by severance on May 6, 2017 18:31:54 GMT
"Blood-Bait for Hungry Mermaids" by John Wallace is an absolute riot and, last time I checked, was available at pulpgen.
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Post by Swampirella on May 6, 2017 18:58:01 GMT
Thanks a lot; I just downloaded it from a different site (that didn't want me to sign up).
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Post by mrhappy on May 6, 2017 20:22:21 GMT
Nancy Holder's "Hear the Mermaid Singing" One of my all-time favorite short stories. Unfortunately, she doesn't write near as much non-themed genre fiction as she used to. I've said it before and I will say it again: I have no idea why there isn't a collection of her short fiction. Her late 80's/early 90's material alone would make an outstanding book and would include three Stoker award winners! Maybe someday. Mr. Happy
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Post by doomovertheworld on May 6, 2017 20:48:30 GMT
"Blood-Bait for Hungry Mermaids" by John Wallace is an absolute riot and, last time I checked, was available at pulpgen. This sounds like a story I need to have in my life
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Post by cromagnonman on May 6, 2017 21:33:24 GMT
There's Robert E Howard's "Out of the Deep". Its a minor piece to be sure, seen in the wider context of Howard's output, but it ends pleasingly in characteristic chest thumping fashion. And the description of the monster is memorably horrible. Howard's sea horrors are interesting curios when one considers the fact that he may not even have seen the sea on more than a handful of occasions in his life.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2017 16:36:46 GMT
Some knob once wrote a story about an evolved siren set up on a remote motorway roundabout a few years back; it appeared in The Ninth Black Book of Horror, if memory serves.
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Post by Swampirella on May 7, 2017 18:15:07 GMT
So there is; thanks for pointing it out! "A Song A Silence" by John Forth. However, the text does mention "her legs swinging idly, like an adolescent" along with her having webbed hands. Maybe she's only a mermaid in water but has land legs...
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Post by dem bones on May 8, 2017 10:56:08 GMT
Boris Dolgov Carl Jacobi - Carnaby's Fish ( Weird Tales, July 1945) Read it hereYou might also like to try Seabury Quinn's The Merrow. ( Weird Tales, March 1948). Read it hereManly Wade Wellman's The Kelpie maybe qualifies as a borderline case, also 'Harley L. Court's super-spicy mystery, Lorelei of Lynnwold Light (though she has legs). Sev already mentioned the all-time mermaid classic!
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Post by dem bones on May 8, 2017 19:01:55 GMT
Arnold Kohn Ray Bradbury - Undersea Guardians ( Amazing Stories, December 1944). Morale raising World War II propaganda fiction. Another borderline case in that these mermaids and mermen have legs (and, in some instances, wear negligees). They're the victims of Nazi u-Boats, returned from Davy Jones' Locker to assist the war effort. Writing in Terror!, Peter Haining (mis?) credits the illustration to Ned Hadley. Probably not what we're looking for. Robert Bloch - Mr. Margate's Mermaid ( Imaginative Tales #4, March 1955). "Want wacky adventure? Meet Trina - every man should be so lucky!" Leroy Yerxa's Freddy Funk's Madcap Mermaid ( Fantastic Adventure, Jan. 1943). "The old fellow's paintings were marine miracles on canvas - but it wasn't a painting he was selling!"
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Post by Swampirella on May 8, 2017 23:52:44 GMT
Carl Jacobi - Carnaby's Fish ( Weird Tales, July 1945) Read it hereYou might also like to try Seabury Quinn's The Merrow. ( Weird Tales, March 1948). Read it hereManly Wade Wellman's The Kelpie maybe qualifies as a borderline case, also 'Harley L. Court's super-spicy mystery, Lorelei of Lynnwold Light (though she has legs). Sev already mentioned the all-time mermaid classic! I quite enjoyed "Carnaby's Fish"; "The Merrow" was also good but I enjoyed it slightly less. Thanks for the links and info!
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Post by Dr Terror on May 9, 2017 0:32:48 GMT
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Post by Swampirella on May 9, 2017 0:35:38 GMT
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Post by dem bones on May 11, 2017 12:49:38 GMT
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Post by ohthehorror on May 11, 2017 16:49:31 GMT
I must make sure to buy that one of these days; thanks for the tip off! It is a great collection. There was talk, if I remember correctly of another one. I wonder what happened to that? I'd love to see another hit the shelves, virtual or otherwise.
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