Vault Advent Calendar 2017?

[dem bones]

.... because it's by no means a certainty that there will be one. Self having made such a bodge of providing finishing touches to 'The Worst of the Vault Advent Calendar' sampler (now scheduled for 2018), could be there's little appetite for another dose of seasonal suffering, but thought I'd ask. To save time, have paraphrased relevant stuff from last years appeal.

Chrissie Demant

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What we need!
Short horror & supernatural fiction, conte cruels, illustrations, bonus stuff for exciting 'Vault stocking fillers' department that nobody ever reads. Everything.

Guidelines.
Just look at previous calendars.

Alternatively, suggested themes include spectres, mummies, pervy priests & creepy nuns, trad. ghouls, man-eating plants, black sorcery, gorgons, sport-horror crossovers, nature is revolting, women in peril, giant insects, MAD SCIENTISTS, werewolves, vampires, spicies), grave-robbers, The Festering rip-offs ... whatever you fancy.

NO BRAINY STUFF NOBODY CAN UNDERSTAND. NO NICENESS.

NEW FACES, OLD FACES EQUALLY WELCOME.

Want to join the VAC scene? Please send your stories & pics, etc to whitechapelgothicAT.gmail.com and will get back to you ASAP .

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Advanced warning. Without being even more of a drama queen than usual, run up from now to new Year will see much of my idle time consumed in battling a substantial amount of real-life crap. Consequently, opportunities to scan vintage material/ fire off aggressive begging emails to friends and associates will be so limited as to be non-existent. If there's been little by way of proof-reading in the past, I can guarantee that this time there will be none whatsoever. Even should we achieve minor miracle of acquiring 24 stories, potential for entire project flat-lining at any given moment is very real.

Bearing all of the above in mind, maybe you agree that it would be a sin not to, so lets see how we go ...

[helrunar]

Kevin, I am so sorry to hear about the real life crap.  I can't tell you how relieved I was over the US Thanksgiving holiday weekend to finally get a quiet evening to myself so I could watch the classic saga of a delightful 200 year old Witch Vampiress returning to decimate her family in spectral revenge (Mario Bava's BLACK SUNDAY).  Now that was a bit of welcome holiday cheer.

Wishing you all the best!

Steve

[Jojo Lapin X]

It cannot have been a year already. It must not have been.

[dem bones]

Sincere thank you to the three gents who answered yesterday's cry of distress. Forget that '?' in the thread title. As things stand there most certainly WILL be a 2017 Calendar. It's just that this one might end a little prematurely .. on December 4th.

[Swampirella]

A Vault Advent Calendar is the best Christmas present I could ask for!

[vaultadventcalendar]

Previous offences to be taken into account ...

The Ghosts of Christmas Past

2010

The then ....

• 1. Russell Gray - Fresh Fiances For The Devil's Daughter
  
• 2. Richard Middleton - The Conjurer
  
• 3. William Spencer Churchill - Man Overboard!
  
• 4. Thomas Burke - The Chink And The Child
  
• 5. André de Lorde - At The Telephone
  
• 6. William Mudford - The Iron Shroud and G. W. M. Reynolds - The Iron Coffin
  
• 7. Mrs. E. M. Winch - à la Tartare
  
• 8. H. B. Marriott-Watson - The Devil Of The Marsh & bonus story on Best Horror & Supernatural Of The 19th Century thread: Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch - The Gravedigger's Daughter
  
• 9. Frederick C. Davis - The Molemen Want Your Eyes
  
• 10. Hans Heinz Ewers - Tomato Sauce
  
• 11. Mrs. Henrietta D. Everett - The Crimson Blind
  
• 12. Villiers de l'Isle-Adam - The Desire To Be A Man
  
  The mostly Now
  
  
• 13. Thana Niveau - From Hell To Eternity
  
• 14. Mark Samuels - The Cannibal Kings Of Horror
  
• 15. David A. Riley - The Shadow by the Altar
  
• 16. John Llewellyn Probert - Bother In The Belfry & bonus link to the same author's Ophelia on Gray Friars site
  
• 17. Oscar Cook - Tembuku
  
• 18. Craig Herbertson - A Game of Billiards
  
• 19. Franklin Marsh - The Morris Men
  
• 20. Richard Stains - The Sucking Pub
  
• 21. Anonymous (Craig Herbertson) - "After I Kill Her"
  
• 22. Stephen Bacon - The Strangled Garden
  
• 23. Johnny Mains - With Deepest Sympathy
  
• 24. Charles Black - Tourist Trap
  

2011

The Then .....

• 1. Anthony M. Rud - A Square Of Canvas
  
• 2. Michael Annesley - Rats
  
• 3. Vera A. Gadd - The Road
  
• 4. Philip Murray - Hangman's Cottage
  
• 5. George Benwood - The Interrupted Honeymoon
  
• 6. 'Sapper' - Touch And Go
  
• 7. Hester Holland Gaskell - High Tide
  
• 8. Richard Middleton - The Wrong Turning
  
• 9. A. L. Davis - The Skull
  
• 10. Guy Preston - A Lover Came To Sunnamees
  
• 11. Oswell Blakeston - The House Opposite
  
• 12. Kenneth Myer - Ghost Of Fleur-De-Lis Court
  
• 13. Zita Inez Ponder - His Wife
  
• 14. Warden Ledge - Legion Of Evil
  
• 15. Frederick Cowles - The Thing From The Sea
  

The Now (ish)

• 16. Johnny Mains - Head Soup
  
• 17. John Llewellyn Probert - The Comeback Kid
  
• 18. David A. Riley - His Pale Blue Eyes
  
• 19. Craig Herbertson - The Navigator
  
• 20. Matthew Crossman - The Right Choice
  
• 21. Mary Danby - Quid Pro Quo
  
• 22. Franklin Marsh - The Morris Men/ Krol
  
• 23. Charles Black - A Bit Tasty
  
• 24. Craig Herbertson-Gift
  

2011 Bonus: Daughter Of Vault Advent Calendar

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Frederick Cowles - The Headless Leper
Dagney Major - The Children Of Bondage
L. A. Lewis - The Author's Tale
V. Herbertson - Drip[/ul]

2012

The Old ....

1. Robert Leslie Bellem - Blood For The Vampire Dead
2. Lyllian Huntley Harris - The Vow On Halloween
3. H. R. Wakefield - Ghost Hunt
4. George G. Toudouze - Three Skeleton Key
5. Norah C. James - Helping Mummy
6. Sapper - The Black Monk
7. Pearl Norton Swet - The Medici Boots
8. J. Wesley Rosenquest - Return To Death
9. John Bender - Nightmare Island
10. Sydney J. Bounds - The Relic
11. Alice Perrin - The Bead Necklace
12. Philip Murray - The Charnel House

The New

13. Thana Niveau - That Sound
14. John Llewellyn Probert - The Trendelenberg Concerto
15. David A Riley - They Pissed On My Sofa
16. Franklin Marsh - A Delicate Undertaking
17. Craig Herbertson - It Could Have Been Me
18. Paul Finch - Down In The Dying-Rooms
19. Ramsey Campbell - Snakes And Ladders
20. James Doig - Soup
21. Johnny Mains - Mrs Claus and the Unfortunate Immaculate Conception
22. David A Riley - Retribution
23. Charles Black - Death On The Line
24. Craig Herbertson - It Was Christmas Eve In The Workhouse

Bonus Extras

26. Franklin Marsh - Stille Nacht
27. Hugh B Cave - The Corpse On The Grating
31. Alex Miles - Glory And Splendour

2013

1. Charles Lloyd Birkin The Cockroach
2. Robert Leslie Bellem - I Am A Monster
3. William Fairlee Clarke - The Poor Nun Of Burtisford
4. Allison V. Harding - The Underbody
5. Lyle Wilson Holden - The Devil Plant
6. 'Flavia Richardson' - Behind The Blinds
7. David H. Keller - Tiger Cat
8. T. F. Powys - The Hunted Beast
9. David A. Sutton - The Fetch
10. Ramsey Campbell - The Childish Fear
11. Michel Parry - The Last Bus
12. Franklin Marsh - The Late Bus
13. Thana Niveau - And May All Your Christmases . . .
14. Craig Herbertson - Any Old Iron
15. Gary Power - The Road To Hell
16. Anna Taborska - Fish
17. David A. Riley - Soft Little Fingers
18. John Llewellyn Probert - Keeping It In The Family
19. Matt Crossman - One Night In A Bavarian Forest
20. 'Roland Caine'(Michel Parry) - Red Christmas
21. Johnny Mains - The Were-Dwarf
22. Craig Herbertson - Two Weeks
23. Charles Black -The Overcrowded Train
24. Paul Finch - A Christmas Yet To Come

Post-Christmas Bonus stories

Allison V. Harding - Guard In The Dark
David A. Riley - Lurkers
David H. Keller, M.D. - The Jellyfish


Vault Stocking fillers & frillers.

Richard Ab-Stains - Daffodil Bitch Killer: Part 1
P. S. - An Actor Of Parts/ Michael Avallone - The Vampire Sleeps (Vault Stocking Friller Library)
A Ghost Haunted Our Photos

2014

Photo: Simone Solon

The Then

1. Charles Birkin - Marjories On Starlight
2. Rupert Grayson - Blood
3. Richard Middleton - Love At First Sight
4. Miriam Allen deFord - Laughing Moths
- Bonus story: John Gawsworth - How It Happened
5. August Derleth - Headlines For Tod Shayne
6. Viola Bowker Ririe - House Of Evil
7. Hugh Orford - Plastic Horror
8. Ernest Favenc - What The Rats Brought
9. H. R. Wakefield - Woe Water

The Now

10. Mary Ann Allen - Ne Resurgat
11. Ramsey Campbell - Cat And Mouse
12. 'Roland Caine' [Michel Parry] - Eye Of The Beholder
13. Thana Niveau - The Whispering Woman
14. Franklin Marsh - Notes
15. Craig Herbertson - The Last Mass
16. Anna Taborska - Dirty Dybbuk
17. Gary Power - Deeper Than Dark Water
18. Drew Salzen - Fragmented Fears
19. Johnny Mains - Sticking Your Head Out Is Dangerous
20. David A. Riley - The Bequest
21. Charles Black - Grey
22. Reggie Oliver - Quieta Non Movere
23. Paul Finch - Snow Joke
24. John Llewellyn Probert - Last Christmas
30. Herbert Van Thal - The Mask
31. Craig Herbertson - Layby

Stocking Thrillers

- Bumper Stocking Filler:
Anna Taborska - Mrs. Smythe regrets going to the day spa
Mort Golding - Baby Picture
Franklin Marsh - Lost In America

- Edith Bagnold - The Amorous Ghost

2015

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Then ....

1. Major George Fielding Eliot - His Brother's Keeper
2. Carlton Dawe -The Old Piano
3. Oscar Williams - The Tooth
4. M. P. Dare - A Nun's Tragedy
5. Rosa Praed Campbell - Miss Crosson's Familiar
6. Oscar Quiroga - The Decapitated Chicken
7. Marjorie Bowen - Kecksies
8. Irvin S. Cobb - January Thaw
9. Fritz Leiber - The Spider
10. Rosa Mulholland - The Haunted Organist

....Now

11. John Llewellyn Probert - In The Dining Room Of The Damned
12. Craig Herbertson - All In The Game
13. Thana Niveau - Guinea Pig Girl
14. John Forth - Goodbye, Ghosts
15. Franklin Marsh - Bah Humbug
16. David A. Riley - Dead Ronnie And I
17. Drew Salzen - Three Episodes From Horley Hall
18. Gary Power - Ben's Best Friend
19. Charles Black - The Revelations Of Dr. Maitland
19. Anna Taborska - Autumn
20. Matthew Crossman - Sweet Meats
21. Tom Johnstone - Zero Hour
22. Johnny Mains & Bryn Fortey - Curse Of The Monster
23. Kate Farrell - The Efficient Use Of Reason
24. Paul Finch - The Unreal

Last rites

24. Jo Jo Lapin X - Jim Wood

Stocking Fillers

Anon - Jack El Destripador
Rosa Praed Campbell - The House Of Ill Omen
Anna Taborska - Picture This
Craig Herbertson - Listen

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2016

Chrissie Demant

1. H. Thompson Rich - The Purple Cincture
2. Gaston Leroux - The Woman With The Velvet Collar
3. Carl R. Green & William R. Stanford - Tarantula!
4. Oswell Blakeston - The Hut
5. Marcus Clarke - Cannabis Indica
6. Wallace West - The Phantom Dictator
7. Bassett Morgan [Grace Jones] - Gray Ghouls
8. Reginald Rose - Parlor Game
9. Ralph Thornton (?) - I Was A Teenage Werewolf
10. Ernest Favenc - In The Night
11. Ramsey Campbell - The Oak Chest
12. John Forth - Mary Kelly's Face
13. Andrew Darlington - Taxidermy
14. Franklin Marsh - Bastards
15 - David A. Riley - Romero's Children
16. Johnny Mains - Resuscitation Andy
17. Craig Herbertson - Merry Christmas, Motorway Man
18. Anna Taborska Arthur's Cellar
19. Kate Farrell - A Murder Of Crows
20. Drew Salzen - Random Room: Celebrity Stalker
21. James Doig - Malware
22. Noah Brown - A Surprise For Sarah
23. John Llewellyn Probert - Lord Of The Dance
24. Paul Finch - December
24. JoJo Lapin X - Spaceman
24. Charles Black - The Last Tweet

[vaultadventcalendar]

Bloody kisses to all who've sent in stories, pictures, photo's, messages of support, get worse soon cards & co. Still plenty of vacant slots need filling. Please bear with me on the correspondence front - will get back to you all over next couple of days.

[andydecker]

I really love your logos.

[vaultadventcalendar]

You seriously are too kind, Andy.

Chrissie Demant

Day One:
I'm not even sure what time is doing to us is legal but, eleven stolen months later .... here we go again, again. So, play safe, begin with a supernatural shocker from the Not At Night's, and hope for the best. This is The Black Hare from 1933's Keep on the Light. 'Flavia Richardson' does folk horror as Susan and Elizabeth take up residence in the country cottage bequeathed them by an uncle they never knew. Understated by Behind The Yellow Door standards, but then most things are.

Attachments:

The Black Hare.pdf (93.94 KB)

[ripper]

Congratulations on undertaking the 8th advent calendar, Dem. Christmas wouldn't be the same without it and your hard work putting it together is very much appreciated.

An entry from the Not at Nights is always welcome; my collection from that series is rather poor, so I am looking forward to reading this one tonight.

[helrunar]

What a treat!  Thanks Kev and whoever worked on this story!

I love that you included a photo of CCT, too!

cheers, H.

[David A. Riley]

What a rollicking good start to the Calendar!

[helrunar]

I'd put Flavia's short little shocker about a nasty relic of the ancient Egyptian Bast cult on my list of something to type up for the project, but since this work by her leads off this year's collection, I presume you wouldn't want something else from her pen.

Looking forward to further gems!

H.

[vaultadventcalendar]

Day Two

Derrick Sayer

There should be another Not At Night along shortly, but in the meantime, here's a pretty Pan-horrorish little something from sixty Christmases ago. All I can tell you about Alan L. Onions is that this was his solitary contribution to Norman Kark's London Mystery Magazine (#33, June 1957: the same issue featured Shamus Frazer's classic, The Fifth Mask), and it's a properly horrible one. Fans of a certain James Herbert trilogy may well enjoy this visit to ....

Attachments:

The Tip.pdf (131.75 KB)

[Swampirella]

Due to your enticing description, I can't wait to read this one! But will probably have to for a few hours, thanks to real life. Thanks so far to everyone involved (& in advance) for this year's Calendar.