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Post by dem bones on Jan 12, 2008 10:29:46 GMT
Peter Coleburn (ed.) Winter Chills: #1 (British Fantasy Society booklet #9, 1987)  Dallas Goffin
Ramsey Campbell - A New Life
Sydney J. Bounds - Something Old, Something Evil
Peter Tremayne - Deathstone
David Sutton - Lady Megalith
Brian Lumley - Late Shopping Great independent publication from the BFS. Does anyone have any more of these? Charles tells us "there were at least 8 issues. From 5 onwards it dropped Winter from the title." R. Chetwynd-Hayes - The Hanging Tree: Christmas with the Fortesque family and friends, and the young, romantically inclined Movita is busy spinning fantasies around the family ghost, that of a young man who killed his lover then hung himself from a tree in the garden during the previous century. Her insistence that she's seen him has the household despairing for her sanity, all save Miss Mansfield who realised Movita is psychic and inadvisedly intervenes on her behalf. Another Victorian spook show, partly told from the point of view of the vampiric spectre. Ramsey Campbell - A New Life: A man drowns in the Danube while attempting to rescue a little girl. He awakens on a slab in a darkened cell, bandaged from head to toe and discovers to his horror that his mind no longer has any control over his body. Two men enter the room, the first a young, sad looking fellow, the second, a hunchback, cowled and brandishing a torch. The man on the slab learns that he has been the donor in an unsuccessful brain-transplant operation. Baron Frankenstein mopes over another failure. David Sutton - Lady Megalith: Somebody blew up the druid stone circle, 'the Dancing Maidens', on Cumlock Edge. Robert is delighted to purchase the severed "head" of the most prominent maiden and heaves it into his back garden. Unfortunately, he works long hours at the DSS which means wife Helen is alone with the thing when it requires a blood sacrifice. Sydney J. Bounds - Something Old, Something Evil: Archaeologist Prof. Marcus Gregory thinks he's cracked it when the BBC film his excavation of the locally shunned Merlin's Barrow. But after he's fallen into an underground tunnel to the ancient burial ground, the crew, volunteers and even Sarah "who had previously indicated that she was not adverse to indulging a TV personality" give him the cold shoulder. Unfortunately for him, he can't see what others can - the hideous shadow of something that dogs his steps ... Brian Lumley - Late Shopping: The narrator's nightmare of a red eye in the shopping precinct which consumes consumers and returns them to the outside world minus their souls. He ponders the reality of it all.
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Post by weirdmonger on Jan 31, 2008 22:06:05 GMT
Does anyone have any more of these?  Artists in order: Martin McKenna, Jim Pitts, Allen Koszowski, Charles Dougherty, Bob Covington |
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Post by dem bones on May 6, 2019 16:08:43 GMT
Winter Chills #1 cont.  Alan Hunter ( Lady Megalith) : Laid low by a mysterious stomach illness and assured by his London agent that both his popularity and talent are in decline, Fergus Finnucane, the world famous composer, returns to County Clare with teenybopper wife Catherine to recuperate, plot his next move. Their cottage comes replete with precious garden ornament, the Deathstone. "Apparently it subsumes all things evil to itself ...."
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