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Post by dem bones on Dec 10, 2017 14:36:00 GMT
Great story. What a offbeat beginning. All I can do is echo Andy's sentiments...and yet another author completely new to me. V. pleased that you both appreciated it. I get a Death Line vibe from The Lost Valley. No all-important tube station or James Manfred OBE, but very similar scenario relocated to remotest Eastern Europe. And, as with 'the man,' the villagers are victims of a monstrous crime. You'll find The Lost Valley in the Crime Writer's association's Butcher's Dozen. Seems it was written specifically for the collection, as the other stories had seen prior book or magazine publication.
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Post by Shrink Proof on Dec 10, 2017 15:36:04 GMT
I know it's not really the done thing with advent calendars but I've been reading these out of sequence (sorry Dem!). "The Snowman" was eerily appropriate here in the Scottish Highlands where everything is currently blanketed in snow....
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Post by dem bones on Dec 10, 2017 17:18:03 GMT
I know it's not really the done thing with advent calendars but I've been reading these out of sequence (sorry Dem!). "The Snowman" was eerily appropriate here in the Scottish Highlands where everything is currently blanketed in snow.... Whatever sequence best suits is fine by me, Dr. Proof. The running order is, of course, painstakingly crafted to the minutest detail. Anyone who suggests I just bang up whatever story I managed to speed-type on a given day doesn't know what they're talking about! The Snowman is among seven titles selected by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz ( Scream Factory #10) as "the worst short stories to appear in Weird Tales during the thirties," a judgement which seems particularly ludicrous when we consider the same decade saw the coming of Dana Carroll's The Ocean Ogre and E. W. Mayo's Dream Justice. Both are reproduced in 100 Wicked Little Weird Tales, co-edited by ..... Stefan R. Dziemianowicz.
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Post by ripper on Dec 10, 2017 18:15:17 GMT
I know it's not really the done thing with advent calendars but I've been reading these out of sequence (sorry Dem!). "The Snowman" was eerily appropriate here in the Scottish Highlands where everything is currently blanketed in snow.... I was thinking the same this morning when I saw all that white stuff. Thankfully, no snowmen have appeared. In fact, it has been eerily quiet most of the day. Do children still play in the snow?
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Post by ripper on Dec 10, 2017 18:19:21 GMT
I know it's not really the done thing with advent calendars but I've been reading these out of sequence (sorry Dem!). "The Snowman" was eerily appropriate here in the Scottish Highlands where everything is currently blanketed in snow.... Whatever sequence best suits is fine by me, Dr. Proof. The running order is, of course, painstakingly crafted to the minutest detail. Anyone who suggests I just bang up whatever story I managed to speed-type on a given day doesn't know what they're talking about! The Snowman is among seven titles selected by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz ( Scream Factory #10) as "the worst short stories to appear in Weird Tales during the thirties," a judgement which seems particularly ludicrous when we consider the same decade saw the coming of Dana Carroll's The Ocean Ogre and E. W. Mayo's Dream Justice. Both are reproduced in 100 Wicked Little Weird Tales, co-edited by ..... Stefan R. Dziemianowicz. I have only limited exposure to stories from Weird Tales, but I thought The Snowman was pretty good. I can't understand why Mr. Dziemianowicz considered it to be so bad.
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Post by Shrink Proof on Dec 10, 2017 18:42:37 GMT
I know it's not really the done thing with advent calendars but I've been reading these out of sequence (sorry Dem!). "The Snowman" was eerily appropriate here in the Scottish Highlands where everything is currently blanketed in snow.... I was thinking the same this morning when I saw all that white stuff. Thankfully, no snowmen have appeared. In fact, it has been eerily quiet most of the day. Do children still play in the snow? Round these parts plenty of kids have been out in the recent snow, happily Bruegeling....
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Dec 11, 2017 2:16:41 GMT
The Snowman is among seven titles selected by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz ( Scream Factory #10) as "the worst short stories to appear in Weird Tales during the thirties," a judgement which seems particularly ludicrous when we consider the same decade saw the coming of Dana Carroll's The Ocean Ogre and E. W. Mayo's Dream Justice. Both are reproduced in 100 Wicked Little Weird Tales, co-edited by ..... Stefan R. Dziemianowicz. What are the other six? If I've seen this list, I've completely forgotten about it. And does he have similar lists for the other decades of the magazine?
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Post by dem bones on Dec 11, 2017 6:47:13 GMT
The Snowman is among seven titles selected by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz ( Scream Factory #10) as "the worst short stories to appear in Weird Tales during the thirties," a judgement which seems particularly ludicrous when we consider the same decade saw the coming of Dana Carroll's The Ocean Ogre and E. W. Mayo's Dream Justice. Both are reproduced in 100 Wicked Little Weird Tales, co-edited by ..... Stefan R. Dziemianowicz. What are the other six? If I've seen this list, I've completely forgotten about it. And does he have similar lists for the other decades of the magazine? The column in question is Stefan's regular The Horror Pulpit in Scream Factory #10, Autumn 1992, and .... I may have done him a slight injustice. In the interest of accuracy, the relevant section begins "A good many shorter works in Weird Tales qualified as some of the worst weird fiction of the thirties," and he goes on to provide seven examples; it could be he was implicating that the following are the tip of a very big iceberg. Anyway, joining Loretta's The Snowman on the roll of shame; Grantville S. Hoss - The Frog (June, 1930) Joseph Scott Douglas - The Blue Woman (Sept 1935) Forbes Parkhill - Coils Of The Silver Serpent (Feb. 1936) Ronal Kayser - The Albino Deaths (March. 1936) John R. Speer - Symphony Of The Damned (April, 1937) John R. Speer & Carlyle Schnitzler - The Carnal God (June, 1937)
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Post by vaultadventcalendar on Dec 11, 2017 6:53:10 GMT
Day ElevenThe last of this year's blasts from the past is an eerie tale from one of pulp fiction's great genre-hoppers. Westerns, Sci-Fi, Crime, Mystery, Detective, Sexton Blake, Horror, Supernatural, Brit-Spicy, Children's .... if there was a paying market, Sydney J. Bounds would write for it. According to his friend, collaborator and literary agent Phil Harbottle, his final tally was "almost four dozen published novels and hundreds of short stories:" it's very difficult to provide an exact figure as, throughout his sixty year career, Syd wrote under a variety of pseudonyms and house names. "He was ... completely without ego and bombast. Syd lived only to write - and died when he stopped." Today's featured story, Cardillo's Shadow was the first of his two contributions to The London Mystery Magazine (#20, Autumn, 1954; the second being film-crew-in-peril classic, The Relic # 82, Sept. 1969, around the same time as he cracked the The Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories). Hope it gets your week off to a shivery start. Attachments:CARDILLOS SHADOW.pdf (72.49 KB)
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Dec 11, 2017 13:52:38 GMT
The column in question is Stefan's regular The Horror Pulpit in Scream Factory #10, Autumn 1992, and .... I may have done him a slight injustice. In the interest of accuracy, the relevant section begins "A good many shorter works in Weird Tales qualified as some of the worst weird fiction of the thirties," and he goes on to provide seven examples; it could be he was implicating that the following are the tip of a very big iceberg. Anyway, joining Loretta's The Snowman on the roll of shame; Grantville S. Hoss - The Frog (June, 1930) Joseph Scott Douglas - The Blue Woman (Sept 1935) Forbes Parkhill - Coils Of The Silver Serpent (Feb. 1936) Ronal Kayser - The Albino Deaths (March. 1936) John R. Speer - Symphony Of The Damned (April, 1937) John R. Speer & Carlyle Schnitzler - The Carnal God (June, 1937) Thanks. Of those, the only one I've read is "The Frog," which I encountered in 100 Creepy Little Creature Stories (co-edited by Mr. Dziemianowicz himself!). At first I suspected I might've read "The Carnal God," but it turns out I was thinking of Clark Ashton Smith's "The Charnel God" (which is too good to be on any "worst" list).
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Post by dem bones on Dec 11, 2017 17:11:33 GMT
Ah yes, the thinking man's Nigel Kneale's The Pond. Arguably. Have read Symphony Of The Damned too but all memory is wiped. On the basis of Mr. Dziemianowicz's synopsis, will happily tackle Ronal 'Dale Clark' Kayser's The Albino Deaths if the opportunity ever arises. To answer your other query, the column spans the four decades of the original WT: will list other titles mentioned when time permits, possibly on another thread. Scream Factory #10 was a 'Bad Horror' theme issue by various hands, a cheap laugh at perceived duds, not intended to be taken too seriously, etc. It will come as no surprise to anyone, ever (with possible probable exception of JoJo) that several of these dishonourably mentioned have met with a warm reception on Vault.
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 11, 2017 18:48:06 GMT
Loved today's story, thanks!
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 11, 2017 18:57:16 GMT
It will come as no surprise to anyone, ever (with possible probable exception of JoJo) that several of these dishonourably mentioned have met with a warm reception on Vault. What is this about then? And here I was, finally starting to feel like "one of the gang."
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Post by jamesdoig on Dec 11, 2017 19:14:24 GMT
It will come as no surprise to anyone, ever (with possible probable exception of JoJo) that several of these dishonourably mentioned have met with a warm reception on Vault. What is this about then? And here I was, finally starting to feel like "one of the gang." Of course, violent disagreement is a sign that you're part of the gang.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 11, 2017 19:18:46 GMT
What is this about then? And here I was, finally starting to feel like "one of the gang." Of course, violent disagreement is a sign that you're part of the gang. No, you are wrong!
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