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Post by bookfindergeneral on Mar 25, 2018 22:49:08 GMT
I'd love to find a ghost/horror story paperback anthology from early 70's
One particular story has an illustration. Someone sleeping in a bed sees a hideous deformed shadow which has long thumbnails and hair down back.
a sort of hump-backed shadow most notable for the nails...very scary
thanks in advance
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Post by Michael Connolly on Mar 26, 2018 14:39:17 GMT
I'd love to find a ghost/horror story paperback anthology from early 70's One particular story has an illustration. Someone sleeping in a bed sees a hideous deformed shadow which has long thumbnails and hair down back. a sort of hump-backed shadow most notable for the nails...very scary thanks in advance The description sounds like "Thurnley Abbey" by Perceval Landon that has appeared in dozens of anthologies: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?73932 |
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Post by jamesdoig on Mar 26, 2018 20:19:04 GMT
There's a nice one in my favourite childhood anthology, More Tales to Tremble By, but I don't think it's the one: 
Always liked the cover:
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Post by bookfindergeneral on Mar 28, 2018 18:44:17 GMT
Thanks for the help guys.
Its not either of those...or at least its not that particular picture or book. Also I wouldn't be able to say whether it is thurnley abbey because its only the picture I can recall rather than the story.
the book was possibly a blue cover (maybe an aiden chambers-style). we had it in our house in the early 70's.
picture depicts the shadow of a huge humped back ape-like figure with dense hair down the spine and thumbnails like an iguanadon !!!!
nb that Thurnley abbey story is very gruesome ...well done
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