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Post by dem bones on Jan 27, 2008 21:13:49 GMT
Mark Valentine (ed.) - All Hallows: The Journal Of The Ghost Story Society #1 (1989)  Colin Langeveld
Tina Rath - A Visit To Blastings Manor!
Graham Hope - Mr. Wilmot's Experiences
Godfrey Brangham - Richard Middleton: A Look At His Supernatural Fiction
Andy Sawyer - Lieutenant Cables
Arthur Machen - Tom The Well Beloved
Chris Lamerton - W. W. Jacobs: The Man Who Wrote The Monkey's Paw
Rosemary Pardoe - The Demon In The Cathedral
Saki - The Hedgehog
Artwork: Colin Langeveld, Allan Hunter, Dallas Goffin, Jason de Donno, Will Owen, H. R. MillarMark Valentine (ed.) - All Hallows: The Journal Of The Ghost Story Society #2 (1990)  Colin Langeveld
John Whitbourn - Every Little Breeze ....
Richard Dalby - Ernest R. Suffling: Norfolk Antiquary
Ron Weighell - Lock Fast The Lock
Steve Rasnic Tem - The Dancers In The Leaves
Joel Lane - The Double Edge: Robert Aickman's Supernatural Stories
Lynn McConchie - Lovers All Awry
Alan S. White - Thomas Heaphy and A Wonderful Ghost Story
Artwork: Colin Langeveld, Allan Hunter, Dallas Goffin, Jason de Donno.
Thought I'd give The Ghost Story Society their own thread because as well as the annual All Hallows there are the special booklets and newsletters, all of them excellent. Just spent a pleasant few hours revisiting Joel Lane's excellent article on Robert Aickman and the original fiction in #2. John Whitbourn - Every Little Breeze ....: "The decor was student bedsit meets cultivated taste: Joy Division posters and Japanese Lacquer, Roger Dean and Sir Peter Lely. If pressed to analyse or incited to bitchiness, I would have said that one part of Ms. Saxon suffered from arrested development." Narrated by the hapless Mr. Oakley. Laura Saxon, the young manageress of The Young Dude Disco, Goldenford, hears voices on her tape recorder that have no business being there and what they have to tell her is far from comforting. Another case for Biscombe's finest, Mr. Bretwalda and his colourful entourage from the Argyll. Ron Weighell - Lock Fast The Lock: Charles Adams relates the terrible story of 'Mr. Smith', a customer of the London-based Lammas Books, whose proprietor, "The Dealer", was infamous for his ability to obtain repressed occult works. The Dealer was in the habit of requesting a small favour in return for his assistance and Smith was prevailed upon to translate a manuscript, The Passage of Heavens and Hells which, it transpires, is actually an incantation to raise the dead. When his own beloved wife dies shortly afterward, what is Smith to do but chant the ritual? The experiment is only partially successful and Mrs. Smith is condemned to an appalling life in death. Utterly horrible, I'm delighted to say! Lynn McConchie - Lovers All Awry: Short tale of a bookshop owner who notices people passing by in the street though none of his customers can see them. These he comes to refer to as "the Others" and eventually he spots a beautiful woman among them but she can no more enter his world than he hers - until he dies. Steve Rasnic Tem - The Dancers In The Leaves: An old woman is troubled by the ghosts of her past which, well, dance in the leaves of the trees in her back garden. Mr. Charles Goode, psychic detective, explains that he is unable to end the haunting so they may as well join the dance - and they do. Not exactly terrifying but, as with Lovers All Awry, quite charming if you go in for gentle spook stories.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 30, 2008 9:07:16 GMT
I'm not sure if this is still the case but when I was a GSS member you'd get the annual All Hallows and a yearly 'special booklet' thrown in with your membership. Here's numbers 1-4 (I don't have any more). A. M. Burrage - Un-Paying Guests (GSS Special Booklet #1, 1989)  Dallas GoffinCompiled and edited by Jack Adrian who had published a selection of Burrage's uncollected work as Warning Whispers for Equation the previous year. Jack Adrian - Introduction
A. M. Burrage - Un-Paying Guests
A. M. Burrage - Behind The Panels
A. M. Burrage - The Black Diamond TreeWhen Spirits Talk: The True Story Of Ghost Stories (GSS Special Booklet #2, 1990)  Alan HunterCompiled and edited by Mike Ashley Mike Ashley - Introduction: What The Spirits Told
Victor Rousseau - Child Or Demon: Which?
Urann Thayer - A Soul With Two Bodies A. F. Kidd & Rick Kennett - No 472 Cheyne Walk: Carnacki: The Untold Stories (GSS Special Booklet #3, 1992)  Allen KoszowskiEdited by David Cowperthwaite A. F. Kidd & Rick Kennett - Introduction: The Birth Of A Booklet
A. F. Kidd - The Darkness
Rick Kennett - The Silent Garden
A. F. Kidd & Rick Kennett - The Steeple Monster
A. F. Kidd - Matheson's Inheritance
Out Of The Past: The Indiana Ghost Stories Of Anna Nicholas (GSS Special Booklet #4, 1992)
Compiled and edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Jessica Amanda Salmonson - Introduction: Local Color Ghosts
Anna Nicholas - Out Of The Past
Anna Nicholas - an Occult Experience
Anna Nicholas - Was It All A Dream?
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Post by dem bones on Feb 1, 2008 20:18:55 GMT
Here's some notes on issue 1. Tina Rath - A Visit To Blastings Manor!: ( Yellow Advertiser, Dec. 1985). "Here, in the Blue Room, the fourth Duke diced with his dissolute cronies for the possession of his lovely young wife, on their wedding night. The evil old Marquis of Braintree won, but she stabbed him to death in defence of her honour and was hanged at Tyburn for murder. The judge sobbed as he pronounced her death sentence and three jurymen committed suicide later. After dark, the click of dice, drunken laughter and terrified screams can be heard from within."A guided tour of the lavishly haunted manor whose history is commendably bloody. As the terrified party return to the coach a final shock awaits them. Rosemary Pardoe - The Demon In The Cathedral: A Jamesian Hoax: An expose of a 'true' haunting as reported in Fate magazine for Sept. 1977. The Ghosts & Scholars supremo exposes the 'facts' as an outrageous pilfering from M. R. James An Episode In Cathedral History relocated to Mexico (!) Saki - The Hedgehog: ( Morning Post, 19 Aug.1913). Mildly less savage than Saki's usual all-out attacks on the civilised classes. The obnoxious, ever-sparring Mrs. Dole and Mrs. Hatch-Mallard lock horns over which of their family ghosts will reveal itself to the SPR's Miss Bleek when she visits Exwood. As it turns out, they're both disappointed, but Hugo Norwood's diplomacy saves the day. Andy Sawyer - Lieutenant Cables: School legend has it that chunks of old boy 'L. T. Cables' were splattered across the building when, during the war, he sacrificed himself by scooping up a bomb and running with it rather than let the pupil's perish. It's a nice, gory story to frighten the new boys with. Nothing more to it than that. So whose spectral hand grabbed a pupil by the ankle as he smuggled a consignment of cigs to Waterloo House that night. Graham Hope - Mr. Wilmot's Experiences: ( Oxford Point Of View #9, Feb. 1904). The late Prof. Joseph Timmons, self-appointed "greatest psychical philosopher the world ever produced", is distraught when he discovers that, for all his incontrovertible proof to the contrary, there is an afterlife. And he's in it. Arthur Machen - Tom The Well Beloved: Short non-fiction account of Machen's encounter with a spectral cat. And here's what you got in #3 and #4 (relax: I don't have any more) Mark Valentine (ed.) - All Hallows: The Journal Of The Ghost Story Society #3 (1991)  Colin Langerveld
Ron Weighell - The Boat Called Millions Of Years (2nd in GSS Ghost Story Competition)
Richard Dalby - H. Russell Wakefield (1888-1964)
Hugh Lamb - Terror And Enchantment: E. H. Visiak's Fiction
I. L. Chavert - The Lumber Room (Joint 3rd in GSS Ghost Story Competition)
Andy Sawyer - Poor Ivan (Joint 3rd in GSS Ghost Story Competition)
Artwork: Colin Langeveld, Allan Hunter, unknown, N. Dalby, R. H. StoneMark Valentine (ed.) - All Hallows: The Journal Of The Ghost Story Society #4 (1992)  W. T. Horton
Jan Arter - The Genius Of This Lady: Vernon Lee
R. B. Russell - The Reverend Douglas Delves
Andy Sawyer - Drums In The Night
John Howard - The Ghost Stories Of Fritz Leiber
A. Langley Searles - W. James Wintle
Jean Lorrain - The Spectral Hand (translated by Francis Amery)
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Post by williemeikle on Apr 1, 2008 1:57:54 GMT
I was in numbers 7, 11, and 19...
I posted the cover of no. 7 over in the "Ark" thread... I'll dig out the contents list tomorrow if I remember.
Willie
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Post by williemeikle on Apr 1, 2008 12:20:46 GMT
All Hallows #7  Editorial Articles ______ News and Notes Film News and Notes Haunted Post Bag Notes and Queries The Legislation Built on Lies and Hypocrisy - a discussion on censorship and "video nasties"In Pursuit of The Countess of Lowdnes Square by Jack Adrian Ghost Story Cover Art 4 - Felix Kelly by Richard Dalby Hacked to Bits - Ramsey Campbell talks about movie censorship Fiction _____ The Witch's Room by A F Kidd Illustrated by A F KiddDancers by William Meikle Illustrated by Dallas GoffinDead Man's Pears by Barbara Roden Illustrated by Pat WalshWalk This Way by John Whitbourn Illustrated by Alan HunterReviews Obituaries Competition Bargain Books Small Ads The Haunted Market Place ___________________________________________________ My story, Dancers, has since been reprinted many times, and can currently be read here www.halloweenghoststories.com/featured/Willie |
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Post by dem bones on Jan 26, 2019 10:13:59 GMT
Picked this up In Gerry's Comix, Books, Posters etc, in Westbourne shortly before Christmas, scanned then promptly mislaid it ... until now. First issue I've seen since the early nineties and fair to say it had come a long way in the interim. Think this one is toward the end of the run? Our dear friend James gets everywhere! Barbara Roden & Christopher Roden [eds.] - All Hallows #41 (Ghost Story Society, Feb. 2006) Contract for 'Can Such Things Be?' by 'Keith Fleming' Paul Lowe Margaret Oliphant's The Open Door Barbara Roden - Editor's notes
Barbara Roden - News and notes
Roger Dobson - Film news and notes
The Haunted Postbag: Nigel Robert Wilson, Ken Cowley, Don Tumasouis, Roger Dobson.
James Doig - The Identity of Keith Fleming
A. D. Dawson - Margaret Oliphant: Writing the Supernatural
Reggie Oliver - The Scholar and the Story-Teller
James Doig - Pleasing Terror: An interview with John Harwood
Ramsey Campbell - Ramsey Campbell, Probably
Gary McMahon - Haunted Cinema 33: Session 9
Fiction:
Brian Day - She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Mark Nicholls - A Family Communion
Sarah Monette - Drowning Palmer
Brian Wright - Haunted House
Edward Pearce - What Happened in Westholme Woods
David A. H. Newman - Ghost Past Imperfect
Benjamin X. Wretlind - The Bridge
Gail-Nina Anderson - The Chapel of St Thomas
Stephen Volk - A Whisper to a Grey
Geoffrey Warburton - The Wainwright Glass
Stephen Benz - La Mendiga
Peter Bell - Resurrection
Reviews: Roger Dobson, Douglas Campbell, China Mieville, Christopher Roden, Brian J. Showers, Joel Lane, Gary Fry, Reggie Oliver, Simon Kurt Unsworth, Michael Dirda, Gary McMahon, Jim Rockhill, Deborah McMillion-Nering
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Post by helrunar on Jan 26, 2019 13:58:11 GMT
That looks very cool. Love the cover painting. Good old Mrs Oliphant.
I don't know anything about "Keith Fleming," but I'm sure James's essay made fascinating reading!
cheers, Steve
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Post by helrunar on Jan 26, 2019 14:01:03 GMT
And wow, somebody translated a Jean Lorrain story in an early issue. Well, I'm impressed.
This all looks fabulous, with great names and fascinating topics.
cheers, Steve
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Post by jamesdoig on Jan 26, 2019 19:45:14 GMT
I don't know anything about "Keith Fleming," but I'm sure James's essay made fascinating reading! Not sure about fascinating, but I think the interview was with John Harwood (not 'James Campbell', which looks like a transcription error!), the Australian author who wrote a couple of excellent books: The Ghost Writer and The Seance. Well worth reading. |
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Post by Shrink Proof on Jan 26, 2019 19:58:05 GMT
Have the various editions of "All Hallows" every been reissued as a compendium or even a "Best Of/Greatest Hits"- type thing? Just wondered. And if anyone knows it'll be one or more of the residents of this Institute for Incurables...
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Post by dem bones on Jan 26, 2019 20:25:53 GMT
I don't know anything about "Keith Fleming," but I'm sure James's essay made fascinating reading! Not sure about fascinating, but I think the interview was with John Harwood (not 'James Campbell', which looks like a transcription error!), the Australian author who wrote a couple of excellent books: The Ghost Writer and The Seance. Well worth reading. Apologies, James - my lapse. Now fixed. |
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Post by dem bones on Jan 27, 2019 20:13:14 GMT
Have the various editions of "All Hallows" every been reissued as a compendium or even a "Best Of/Greatest Hits"- type thing? Just wondered. And if anyone knows it'll be one or more of the residents of this Institute for Incurables... Doesn't look like it, though would be happy to be informed otherwise. Such a pity Messrs. Dziemianowicz, Weinberg & Greenberg didn't compile a 100 ... anthology derived from stories featured in All Hallows and Ghosts & Scholars. |
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Post by Michael Connolly on Jan 28, 2019 11:11:54 GMT
Have the various editions of "All Hallows" every been reissued as a compendium or even a "Best Of/Greatest Hits"- type thing? Just wondered. And if anyone knows it'll be one or more of the residents of this Institute for Incurables... Doesn't look like it, though would be happy to be informed otherwise. Such a pity Messrs. Dziemianowicz, Weinberg & Greenberg didn't compile a 100 ... anthology derived from stories featured in All Hallows and Ghosts & Scholars. A Best of Ghosts & Scholars anthology was supposed to have appeared from the Ash-Tree Press. Unfortunately, as it and the affiliated All Hallows and the Ghost Story Society no longer exist, such an anthology will never appear. |
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Post by Shrink Proof on Jan 28, 2019 17:27:32 GMT
A Best of Ghosts & Scholars anthology was supposed to have appeared from the Ash-Tree Press. Unfortunately, as it and the affiliated All Hallows and the Ghost Story Society no longer exist, such an anthology will never appear. Shame. That's at least one sale they've missed then, as a copy would definitely have been squeezed onto the overloaded shelves here at Shrink Towers. |
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Post by dem bones on Apr 26, 2019 15:14:18 GMT
From #41. The first is a deadly effective Gothic Horror mummy-fashion victim crossover.
Brian Day - She Wore A Yellow Ribbon: Jared, tomb-looter and swindler, is beset by mummies and skeletons in the catacombs of Guanajuato. Timeless theme, skilfully handled.
Brian Wright - Haunted House: Since the accident, Melvyn has developed the unwelcome ability to see dead people all about him. The haunted man plans a holiday with his mother, but is there anywhere he can visit and not be plagued by spectres? Somehow he arrives at conclusion that an Amusement Park is the safest bet. Multiple ghosts include phantom hitch-hikers and a mutilated motorcyclist.
David A. H. Newman - Ghost Past Imperfect: A spectral practical joker pranks a national newspaper into running an anniversary piece on a non-existent "railway disaster."
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