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Post by dem bones on Mar 6, 2021 12:10:26 GMT
Sidney Stanley The Occupant of the Room
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Post by pbsplatter on Jan 10, 2023 16:54:43 GMT
Regarding the Mammoth Book of Malicious Mirrors:
The Mirror - Arthur Porges: Mr. Avery buys an old country house, which includes a large mirror, painted black. Not only does he scrape off the black paint, but he tells his children stories about a looking glass world on the other side of the mirror, and of the thing that lives behind it. One of the kids thinks he sees something, but surely he's just imagining things?
One day, the kids are left to their own devices when Ma and Pa Avery go to visit friends, and one of the kids gets the brilliant idea to put a second mirror up to the first so they can see the elusive corners of the mirror-world.
What happens next not only meets expectations, but exceeds them.
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Jan 19, 2023 13:55:43 GMT
Death by Umbrella! The 100 Weirdest Horror Movie Weapons. Publisher BearManor Media Release date Sep 13, 2016 About this ebook In horror movies, even the tools of the tree surgeon have become passé. Besides, why risk industrial deafness dispatching virgins with a chainsaw when you can use an egg beater, a deer antler, and yes, even an umbrella instead? Death by Umbrella: The 100 Weirdest Horror Movie Weapons is a fun-filled romp through the world of gore weaponry. Christopher Lombardo and Jeff Kirschner explore a variety of very odd weapons that have helped people meet their maker in horror films. These include deer antlers, exercise machines, curling irons, ears of corn and even basketballs thrown at high velocity (!) A must for horror fans,the book also features some really cool (and gory) illustrations and even a foreword by Troma legend Lloyd Kaufman. Authors Christopher Lombardo and Jeff Kirschner are Toronto horror journalists and hosts of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, a weekly celebration of low budget genre film. Table of Contents Foreword Introduction Chapter 1: Around the Home Chapter 2: Kitchen Nightmares Chapter 3: Do Not Operate Deadly Machinery Chapter 4: Sports and Recreation Chapter 5: Artistic Deaths Chapter 6: Tight Squeezes Chapter 7: Better Than a Poke in the Eye with a Sharp Stick Afterword About the Authors Acknowledgements
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Post by davelectro on Jul 29, 2023 14:15:19 GMT
Don't think it's been mentioned yet but Robert Bloch's 'The Hungry House', although about a haunted house, does feature mirrors/reflections front & center as an integral part of the story.
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Post by davelectro on Jul 29, 2023 14:17:19 GMT
Oh and hello all! Awesome forum, been lurking for a good while and have learned much from many knowledgeable posters here!
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Post by humgoo on Aug 25, 2023 12:45:17 GMT
Steve Duffy - Screen Burn: (Supernatural Tales#53, Autumn 2023). Battersea, 1983. Jake and Angie have little by way of furnishings in their new rented flat. Madly in love and twenty years old, it's enough for them to have each other, but a piece or two of new furniture obviously won't hurt. So when Jake spots a dusty TV set lying in a skip outside a terraced house on Ingelow Road, he helps himself to it and dutifully brings it home and has it installed. Soon Angie begins to see an old woman sitting in an armchair on the screen, regardless of the channels' programming. Worse than the old lady are the flies, a swarm of them, filling up the screen and buzzing. But of course Jake can't see or hear anything. Guess to whom the telly used to belong? Mr. Duffy could have pulled his punches, but he's obviously not a fan of happy endings. A story both creepy and depressing. Can't say you don't have your money's worth.
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Post by dem bones on Feb 14, 2024 17:59:39 GMT
A Strange Death-BlowA BRONZE automaton man, in a clock-tower at Venice, recently knocked out an inquisitive traveller's brains with a massive hammer moved by the machinery of the clock. The tourist got his head between the hammer and the bell just as the automaton struck the hour, a thing which it is his business to do twenty-four times a day. — The Day's Doings, 13 August 1870
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Post by toff on Feb 15, 2024 2:52:41 GMT
I'd expect stories about killer desktop, wall, or mantelpiece clocks; typewriters; films?
"The Mangler." Cavalier. December 1972
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Post by andydecker on Feb 15, 2024 11:14:16 GMT
Stephen King: The Monkey (Chapbook, 1980) Kids discover a a cymbal-banging monkey toy in their great uncle's house. It is cursed.
Stephen King: The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet (F&SF, 1984) There are Fornits (elves) in the typewriter,and something is out to get them - and the writer.
King surely likes his inanimate objects.
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Post by dem bones on Mar 1, 2024 11:19:44 GMT
Ghostly Furniture
Lively Jinks in a South Wales Public House.
THE latest ghost story comes at this appropriate season from Llanarthney, village on Lord Cawdor's estate in Carmarthenshire.
It is not, however, a real old Christmas ghost of the kind which made people shudder with the sound of clanking chains or the sight of a transparent figure in a dark corridor. The Welsh spirit seems to be quite up to date — if of a somewhat fantastic habit — for it has been chased by the local constable and has successfully evaded capture.
The ghost took possession of the Emlyn Arms, a well-known public-house on the main road between Llandilo and Carmarthen, occupied by an elderly couple named Morgan Meredith, and an adopted daughter.
He (it must be a gentleman ghost, the habits are not ladylike) was responsible for weird phenomena extending over several hours on Wednesday and Thursday of last week.
It appears that this West Wales spectre, throwing aside all the time-honoured performances of his ancestors in baronial halls, has become exceedingly active and aggressive. The occupants of the house had articles of furniture and other missiles hurled at them; and the daughter was cruelly struck on the face with a spoon.
Mr. Morgan was away from home at the time, and his wife and daughter were so terror stricken with the extraordinary disturbance that at 3.30 on Thursday morning they were forced to leave the premises and seek shelter in a neighbour's house. Then the village constable came on the scene. Police-constable Gwilym Jenkins and a postman named Daniel Morgan were summoned. The officer naturally concluded that burglars were ransacking the house, and called for volunteers and had the premises surrounded.
The intrepid officer entered the house, and was naturally astonished to find it alive with jumping furniture, while various missiles were flying about. Stones, bottles, glasses, saucepan covers, teapot covers, a toasting fork, and other articles jumped up and fell at Mr. Jenkins's feet. Hot cinders actually jumped from the fireplace and danced on the tables, and the blocks attached to the wooden horses in the beer cellar came upstairs unobserved from their fixed positions.
The search party were naturally bewildered, and are unable to account for such antics in a respectable house, and they eventually abandoned their futile investigations.
The affair has naturally caused no little uneasiness to the occupants of the wayside inn, who have been visited by numerous curious persons anxious to know more of this very lively ghost.
— Illustrated Police News, 8 January 1910
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