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Post by dem bones on Jun 6, 2018 17:15:08 GMT
Suggested by Ramsey and Steve's comments on Fashion Victims thread. We've already touched on creepy dolls, malevolent toys, bedroom perils and renegade clothing. Further proof, as if any were necessary, that everything, ever, is out to get you. This one could run and run - you could likely cull a 'Mammoth' book from haunted mirror stories alone. You're right: it has 'dead rubber' stamped all over it. Paula Goodman, Twilight Zone, July-Aug 1985 M. R. James - The Malice of Inanimate Objects: Ghosts & Scholars 6, 1984: The Best Of Ghosts & Scholars, 1986). The persecution of Mr. Burton. The toiletries start it, but soon every household utensil and garden implement is in on the act. Guy de Maupassant - Who Knows?: The author's adventure-loving furniture so upsets him that he voluntarily takes up residence in a "mental home," there to live out his days in fear of a pilfering junk shop proprietor, "a monster with a bald head like a full moon." Edogawa Rampo - The Human Chair: ( Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination, 1956:Peter Haining [ed.], Beyond The Curtain Of The Dark, 1966). I think this spring is busted. Wait, that's not a spring ... R. Chetwynd-Hayes - The Chair: ( The Cradle Demon, 1978). It's fabulously haunted by a beautiful woman, so no surprise the antique causes untold trouble. Rosalind Ashe - Teething Troubles: (Ramsey Campbell [ed.], New Terrors: Vol 2, 1980). Attack of the paper napkins. Dona Tolson - Nice Old House: ( Startling Mystery Stories #7, Summer 1967). Night of the woman-eating sofa. Deirdre L. Kugelmeyer - Threshold: (Charles L. Grant [ed.], Shadows 4, 1981). Curse of the were-doorknob. Janet Hirsch - The Seeking Thing: ( Magazine of Horror #3, Feb. 1964). Day of the vampire burlap sack. Elliott O'Donnell - The Ghost-Table: Charles Lloyd [Birkin] ed., Creeps, 1932). Originally published in Weird Tales, Feb. 1928, where it famously claimed lead story duties over H. P. Lovecraft's The Call Of Cthulhu. Robert Bloch - Mr. Steinway: ( Fantastic, April 1954): Homicidal grand piano disposes of love rival Dorothy Endicott. Add, correct, etc.
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Post by helrunar on Jun 6, 2018 19:42:50 GMT
Great thread! I love that the title comes from something written by the Master. Not a tale I have read before... the quest continues! Ghosts & Scholars 1986 most likely means it may be more deeply and irredeemably buried beyond reach than the treasure of Abbot Thomas, however... For years I've heard stray bits and pieces about a movie (I think the title was simply The Bed) about a bed that eats people. Literally. No time to try and track it down for this thread--perhaps later. And then, there's this bit of crumpet from the immortal pen of Edward Gorey: www.brainpickings.org/2011/11/29/the-curious-sofa-edward-gorey/cheers, H.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jun 6, 2018 19:53:13 GMT
Ghosts & Scholars 1986 most likely means it may be more deeply and irredeemably buried beyond reach than the treasure of Abbot Thomas, however... Not at all. It appears in the Ash-Tree Press A PLEASING TERROR and a number of later publications, including inexpensive ebooks, that rip off A PLEASING TERROR.
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Post by Swampirella on Jun 6, 2018 20:04:37 GMT
I found it for you, Steve! (assuming there's only one deadly bed movie, I could be wrong): "Death Bed: The Bed That Eats" (1977) As of this moment, it's available on Youtube (with Spanish subtitles)....
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Post by dem bones on Jun 6, 2018 20:12:07 GMT
Ghosts & Scholars 1986 most likely means it may be more deeply and irredeemably buried beyond reach than the treasure of Abbot Thomas, however... Not at all. It appears in the Ash-Tree Press A PLEASING TERROR and a number of later publications, including inexpensive ebooks, that rip off A PLEASING TERROR. Or you can read it for free on the Ghosts & Scholars site: The Malice Of Inanimate Objects. Rest of the Ghosts & Scholars archive is very worth consulting.
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Post by Shrink Proof on Jun 6, 2018 21:25:24 GMT
Assuming that we're including movies in this miscellany of malice, may I nominate the Dutch horror movie "De Lift" ("The Lift") from 1984. The tag line - "for god's sake, take the stairs"...
Here's the trailer -
Recommended. (Subtitled too, for those who don't speak Dutch)
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Post by helrunar on Jun 6, 2018 21:31:49 GMT
Thanks Kev, Swampi and JoJo for those informative comments and links!
cheers, Steve
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Post by johnnymains on Jun 7, 2018 7:23:09 GMT
Can I throw my stories THE JACKET and THE BAG LADY into the ring?
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Post by Swampirella on Jun 7, 2018 10:45:29 GMT
I would imagine "The Bag Lady" fits here, but "The Jacket" (great story) sounds like it should be in the "Fashion Victims" section...
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Post by johnnymains on Jun 7, 2018 15:32:16 GMT
Maybe both; it does eat people, so is sentient in its own right...
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Post by dem bones on Jun 7, 2018 17:31:53 GMT
Thanks to Justin Marriott of 'Paperback Fanatic' & Co. for suggesting this pair: Plenty of bedroom activity HERE
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Post by dem bones on Jun 9, 2018 15:48:20 GMT
M. P. Dare - Fatal Oak: ( Unholy Relics, 1947). A pseudo-Gothic chair and tobacco-bowl, carved from a gallows pole and possessed by the earthbound spirit of one of it's victims. Both are spectacularly fatal to persons of "evil" inclination, as antique collector Montague Reval and errant wife discover to their cost. A. N. L. Munby - The Lectern: ( The Alabaster Hand, 1949). Squire Prandle looted the eagle-lectern from a village church while on military duty in Ulster. Back home on his estate, Prandle installs his ill-gotten treasure in the chapel. When a servant discovers his corpse, it resembles that of one who has been feasted upon by vultures. Christopher Woodforde - Lost and Found: ( A Pad in the Straw, 1952). Henry Selkirk, antiquarian, is attacked by a vampire Toby Jug. Has he discovered an item from King John's lost hoard? Anthony Horowitz - Bath Night: ( The Puffin Book Of Horror Stories, 1984). The antique tub is possessed by the spirit of a Victorian axe-murderer. Robert Bloch - The Skull Of The Marquis de Sade: ( Weird Tales, Sept. 1945: Bogey Men, 1963).
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Post by Swampirella on Sept 25, 2018 2:52:34 GMT
Since you mentioned it, Dem, let's see how many "haunted mirror" stories we can come up with (no doubt you're now sorry you mentioned it) I'll start off with:
E. F. Benson - The Chippendale Mirror (which I'm currently reading and enjoying)
and from perusing this page alone:
Robert Westall - The Borgia Mirror Robert Arthur - The Mirror of Cagliostro Denys Val Baker - The Face in the Mirror James Hadley Chase - The Mirror in Room 22 Haruki Murakami - The Mirror
Charles Cullum - Scarred Mirror
I'm sure there are plenty more that some of you can add....
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Post by dem bones on Sept 25, 2018 7:35:26 GMT
Since you mentioned it, Dem, let's see how many "haunted mirror" stories we can come up with (no doubt you're now sorry you mentioned it) I'll start off with:
E. F. Benson - The Chippendale Mirror (which I'm currently reading and enjoying)
and from perusing this page alone:
Robert Westall - The Borgia Mirror Robert Arthur - The Mirror of Cagliostro Denys Val Baker - The Face in the Mirror James Hadley Chase - The Mirror in Room 22 Haruki Murakami - The Mirror
Charles Cullum - Scarred Mirror I'm sure there are plenty more that some of you can add....
Some more. Have a feeling there is likely enough of these things for a 100 Little Horrible Haunted Mirrors compilation. 'Roger Malisson', Lady Celia’s Mirror ( 11th Fontana Ghost Stories, 1975) Rosemary Timperley, House Of Mirrors ( 15th Fontana Horror Stories, 1982) Algernon Blackwood, The Magic Mirror ( The Bystander, 16 March 1938) Ray Russell, The Devil's Mirror, 1980. David Williamson, A Reflection Of The Times, ( The Chameleon Man & Other Terrors, 2016) Donald Wandrei - The Painted Mirror ( Esquire, May 1937: August Derleth [ed], The Sleeping & The Dead, 1947: The Unquiet Grave, 1964) August Derleth - The Sheraton Mirror ( Weird Tales, Sept 1932) "The story of a strange and unearthly revenge accomplished from beyond the grave" - as are so many haunted mirror stories.
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Post by cromagnonman on Sept 25, 2018 9:39:45 GMT
Stephen King - "The Reaper's Image" (Startling Mystery Stories 12 Spring 1969: SKELETON CREW)
Robert E Howard - "The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune" (Weird Tales September 1929)
And going back to the general thrust of this thread; am pretty sure I once saw an odd Spanish film about a malignant telephone kiosk. Any details welcome. Or did I just hallucinate it on a combination of dodgy crab sandwiches and Cresta?
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