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Post by dem bones on Aug 26, 2017 11:24:32 GMT
This looks a likely contender. Scan via the Heftromanarchiv (thank you). Was first alerted to Projekt Haifisch by Andy Decker's article, Wolfhart Luther and his Little Horror Empire in Pulp Horror 6
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 14, 2017 3:16:54 GMT
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Post by Swampirella on Jan 31, 2020 22:14:45 GMT
Mermaid Beach - Leslie Vardre - London Mystery Magazine December 1962
An eerie story rather than a horror story, but good enough for this thread. Workmates Brett and John travel south down the Cardigan coast of Wales. They find themselves on a deserted beach with a dilapidated beach hut. Brett suggests they use the place as a week-end getaway and stay in the cabin. An old man is helpfully just passing by; he tells them the locals don't visit the beach at night, certainly not when the wind is blowing from the sea and "she" can be heard. Three men have drowned, all with smiles on their lips. Exit old man. Brett scoffs at this and suggests they return next Saturday for the weekend. John, fearing derision, agrees. They have a pleasant Saturday but on Sunday a storm comes up. They retreat to their cabin to wait it out. Suddenly the start to hear a woman's voice, singing. They're a bit creeped out, until Brett remembers they forgot their radio they'd put in one of the dunes while swimming. What a relief! Brett goes out to retrieve it before it's ruined. John goes to get some towels for Brett to dry off with, only to see the radio tumble out. He's unable to leave the cabin (good for him) and Brett's body is found washed up not far away. Naturally, he's also smiling.
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Post by dem bones on Feb 6, 2020 19:24:02 GMT
Herbert Pizer T. S. Morton - The Mermaid: ( The Idler, Oct. 1909). As the yacht nears a rock off the Greek coast, a slug-like monstrosity takes the form of a beautiful woman to lure a crewman into its arms and drain him of blood.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 19, 2020 11:01:28 GMT
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Post by dem bones on May 28, 2022 11:54:37 GMT
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Post by ripper on Jun 1, 2022 18:02:31 GMT
Lindemann's Catch, a segment from the Night Gallery anthology series of the early 70s, and novelised in Night Gallery 2. Not sure, maybe written by Rod Serling.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Sept 15, 2022 19:24:45 GMT
Into the Drowning Deep (Obrit, 2017), by Mira Grant--pen name of Seanan McGuire--would definitely fit here. It seems at least partly inspired by the pair of mermaid pseudo-documentaries produced by Discovery Communications in the 2010s--so much so that a fictional documentary cable television network sponsors the novel's fateful mermaid-hunting expedition.
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gloomy sundae
Crab On The Rampage
dem in disguise; looking for something to suck
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Post by gloomy sundae on Nov 7, 2022 17:32:40 GMT
S. L. Howe - Gwen: (Paul Finch [ed.] - Terror Tales of the West Country, 2022). "I'm a mermaid or a siren, whichever you prefer." "You're not .... You have legs, see? Mermaids have tails." "That's silly. How would I come on land to seduce unsuspecting victims, if I had a tail?" Fair point. Artist aka Pagan Stone, Raven Dane, Sam Stone & Co., chronicles the sad demise of a lonesome middle-aged alcoholic. If cirrhosis of the liver doesn't finish him, a glamorous visitor from the ocean will happily oblige. - dem
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Post by amoconejos81 on Nov 14, 2022 11:32:29 GMT
The author J. J. STRATING, in his book SEA TALES OF TERROR ©1974, in the introduction, opined that an anthology of sea terror, if there is no mermaid story, is an incomplete book. In that book on this subject he published AUGUST DERLETH'S story THE FISHERMAN OF FALCON POINT, on the back of the book he said THE SINISTER CALL OF A MERMAID.
Another of the stories that can be read as a mermaid story is THE WOMAN by RAY BRADBURY (FAMOUS FANTASTIC MYSTERIES, OCTOBER 1948). (Had she heard the Siren sea calling death to her doomed love de ella? Surely not here on a modern beach, but a soulchulling warning told her he had heard it too...)
I also knew the classic THE SONG OF THE SIRENS by EDWARD LUCAS WHITE, my opinion, something long and I didn't like the ending, it goes off topic, at least the last page.
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Post by pbsplatter on Dec 31, 2022 1:03:22 GMT
Tanith Lee's "The Mermaid", which appeared in Charles L. Grant's Final Shadows
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 31, 2022 4:41:42 GMT
I just came across this terrifying mermaid story, along with several other excellent horror tales:
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