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Post by helrunar on Sept 29, 2021 18:59:11 GMT
Beautifully composed passages, Dr Strange. I found this sentence about R. Murray Gilchrist on the Interwebs: 'His friend, Eden Phillpotts wrote that "no record or estimate of the conte in English letters can be complete without study of his contributions thereto."' And I got an absurdly inflated pleasure from imagining the likely looks on the faces of a typical 21st century audience were that to be read aloud...
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Post by andydecker on Sept 29, 2021 20:16:09 GMT
If there was any direct influence (and I am not saying there was), then it would have to be Murray Gilchrist (died 1917) being an influence on CAS: Murray Gilchrist actually was one of those Victorian "decadent" writers that CAS seemed to be aping. Groan. I should have know this, shouldn't I? I confess I forgot what the thread was about and wrote nonsense :-) |
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Post by Michael Connolly on Sept 29, 2021 21:27:04 GMT
Daniel Petersen [ed.] I am Stone - The Gothic Weird Tales of R. Murray Gilchrist (British Library Tales of the Weird, 2021) Mauricio Villamayor
Contents
Introduction
A Note from the Publisher
Part I - Dead Yet Living
The Crimson Weaver
The Return
The Lover's Ordeal
A Night on the Moor
Midsummer Madness
The Pageant of Ghosts
The Priest's pavan
Dame Inowslad
Part II - Useless Heroes The Mancuscript of Francis Shackerley
The Basilisk
Witch In-Grain
The Grotto at Ravensdale
Excerpts from Witherton's Journal: Also a Letter of Crystella's
Bubble Magic
Dryas and Lady Greenleaf
The Stone Dragon
Part III - Of Passion and Death The Lost Mistress
The Writings of Althea Swarthmoor
The Noble Courtesan
The Holocaust
Roxana Runs Lunatick
The Madness of Betty Hooton
My Friend
Sir Toby's Wife
Part IV - Peak Weird
The Panicle
A Witch in the Peak
A Strolling Prayer
Notes on the Text
Story Sources
Has three more stories than the Wordsworth book, A Night on the Moor & Other Tales of Dread. These are The Holocaust, Sir Toby's Wife and A Strolling Player. I'm only familiar with The Basilisk, Witch In Grain, Dame Insowald and probably forgetting another couple - so looking forward to getting stuck in.
One of Gilchrist's collections was unfortunately titled A Peatland f*g**t. |
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Post by jamesdoig on Sept 29, 2021 21:29:48 GMT
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Sept 30, 2021 20:45:07 GMT
I really struggled with the Wordsworth collection - the overly ornate language and the repetition of similar themes across stories really put me off, and reminded me quite a bit of Clark Ashton Smith's writing (which I know will seem like a recommendation to some). That sums up my experience with Gilchrist--though I do like CAS in small doses. |
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Post by toff on Dec 13, 2021 22:10:07 GMT
Sunless Solstice: Strange Christmas Tales for the Longest Nights (Oct 21 2021) Manley, Frederick - Ghost at the Cross-Roads [Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, volume 3 (2018)] Galbraith, Lettice - Blue Room [Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories, volume 19 (2020)] Peattie, Elia Wilkinson - On the Northern Ice [Ghostly Winter Tales: A Fourth Collection of Classic Ghost Stories for Christmas (2018)] Wintle, William James - Black Cat [Richard Dalby's Chillers for Christmas (1989)] Thurston, E. Temple - Ganthony’s Wife [Richard Dalby's Shivers for Christmas (1995)] Walpole, Hugh - Mr. Huffam [Richard Dalby's Shivers for Christmas (1995)] Lawrence, Margery - Man Who Came Back [Richard Dalby's Mystery for Christmas (1990)] Wakefield, H. Russell - Third Shadow [ www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?79590 ] Du Maurier, Daphne - Apple Tree [Seth's Ghost Story for Christmas (2019)] Spark, Muriel - Leaf-Sweeper [Richard Dalby's Mystery for Christmas (1990)] Aickman, Robert - Visiting Star [Richard Dalby's Horror for Christmas (1992)] Turner, James - Fall of Snow In doing my own collections, I'd made a spreadsheet of the stories included in Christmas ghost/horror anthologies by other publishers.
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Dec 14, 2021 0:14:23 GMT
Sunless Solstice: Strange Christmas Tales for the Longest Nights (Oct 21 2021) Manley, Frederick - Ghost at the Cross-Roads [Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, volume 3 (2018)] Galbraith, Lettice - Blue Room [Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories, volume 19 (2020)] Peattie, Elia Wilkinson - On the Northern Ice [Ghostly Winter Tales: A Fourth Collection of Classic Ghost Stories for Christmas (2018)] Wintle, William James - Black Cat [Richard Dalby's Chillers for Christmas (1989)] Thurston, E. Temple - Ganthony’s Wife [Richard Dalby's Shivers for Christmas (1995)] Walpole, Hugh - Mr. Huffam [Richard Dalby's Shivers for Christmas (1995)] Lawrence, Margery - Man Who Came Back [Richard Dalby's Mystery for Christmas (1990)] Wakefield, H. Russell - Third Shadow [ www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?79590 ] Du Maurier, Daphne - Apple Tree [Seth's Ghost Story for Christmas (2019)] Spark, Muriel - Leaf-Sweeper [Richard Dalby's Mystery for Christmas (1990)] Aickman, Robert - Visiting Star [Richard Dalby's Horror for Christmas (1992)] Turner, James - Fall of Snow In doing my own collections, I'd made a spreadsheet of the stories included in Christmas ghost/horror anthologies by other publishers. What are your favourite of these stories? |
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Post by toff on Dec 14, 2021 1:27:29 GMT
What are your favourite of these stories? For my books I'd been concentrated on the Victorian-Edwardian, so I hadn't had much of a chance to read stories from later decades. Only the first three of those were Victorian. Maybe next year I'll have the time to read more recent things. |
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 14, 2021 1:31:46 GMT
What are your favourite of these stories? For my books I'd been concentrated on the Victorian-Edwardian, so I hadn't had much of a chance to read stories from later decades. Only the first three of those were Victorian. Maybe next year I'll have the time to read more recent things. Whatever your reading matter, I hope you'll enjoy your time here in the Vault! |
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Post by toff on Dec 15, 2021 0:42:45 GMT
Thanks - I've long preferred forums to social media! Whatever your reading matter, I hope you'll enjoy your time here in the Vault! |
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Post by dem on Dec 15, 2021 16:38:41 GMT
In doing my own collections, I'd made a spreadsheet of the stories included in Christmas ghost/horror anthologies by other publishers. Hi Toff. I love it when people take the time and effort to do things like that. I'm guessing that runs to a few hundred stories at least? Echoing Swampi, I hope you enjoy your time here and please keep us posted on any forthcoming BL antho's. |
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Post by dem on Dec 19, 2021 17:47:40 GMT
Lucy Evans & Tanya Kirk [eds] - Sunless Solstice: Strange Christmas Tales for the Longest Nights (Oct 21 2021)  Mauricio Villamayor
A Note from the Publisher
Frederick Manley - The Ghost at the Cross-Roads
Lettice Galbraith - The Blue Room
Elia Wilkinson Peattie - On the Northern Ice
William James Wintle - The Black Cat
E. Temple Thurston - Ganthony’s Wife
Hugh Walpole - Mr. Huffam
Margery Lawrence - The Man Who Came Back
H. Russell Wakefield - The Third Shadow
Daphne Du Maurier - The Apple Tree
Muriel Spark - The Leaf-Sweeper
Robert Aickman - The Visiting Star
James Turner - A Fall of Snow Blurb: 'Like any other boy I expected ghost stories at Christmas, that was the time for them. What I had not expected, and now feared, was that such things should actually become real.'
Strange things happen on the dark wintry nights of December. Welcome to a new collection of haunting Christmas tales, ranging from traditional Victorian chillers to weird and uncanny episodes by twentieth-century horror masters including Daphne du Maurier and Robert Aickman.
Lurking in the blizzard are menacing cat spirits, vengeful trees, malignant forces on the mountainside and a skater skirting the line between the mortal and spiritual realms. Wrap up warm - and prepare for the longest nights of all. "A cloven hoof! The divil!" cried everybody. Frederick Manley - The Ghost at the Cross-Roads: An Irish Christmas Night Story: ( South London Press, 23 Dec. 1893). "God shelter all poor travelers!" Derry Goland, King's County, 24 December, 1843. A young stranger, frozen and exhausted, arrives at the home of Andy Sweeny and family to share his uncanny adventure. Lost in a snow blizzard, facing death through exposure, he was rescued by a sinister stranger who asked only in return that he bide a while at the milestone for a few hands of cards. Our initial suspicions as to this Good Samaritan's identity are confirmed. Lettice Galbraith - The Blue Room: ( MacMillans, Oct. 1897: The Shadow on the Blind & Other Stories, 2007). Young Calder-Maxwell and the indomitable Miss Erristoun turn amateur occult detective to solve the mystery of the haunted bedchamber at Mertoun Towers. Will the gay young things identity their entity - which is fatal only to woman - among the works in the old Laird's impressive library of demonology? Nicely, though ending not great. Narrated by Mrs. Marris, loyal servant to the family for over half a century. Elia Wilkinson Peattie - On the Northern Ice: ( The Shape of Fear, & Other Ghostly Tales, 1898). Narrator skates across the frozen river to attend the Christmas wedding at Echo Bay, even though the bride-to-be is the woman he loves. A shadowy figure lures him from his usual route. Story also appears anonymously in W. Bob Holland's 25 Great Ghost Stories as The Spectre Bride: A short story from the Lake Regions. E. Temple Thurston - Ganthony’s Wife: ( The Rossetti, & Other Tales, 1926). Northanger relates an uncanny experience of his own at the Stennings' Christmas house. Ganthony identifies the corpse of a woman who died on reaching a Buddist Monastery as that of his mysterious new bride, a woman 'no better than she should be' whom he was no more capable of resisting than he would be the Angel of Death. Passing along Jermyn Street at Christmas, Northanger picks up a prostitute whose face is eerily family from Ganthony's engagement photograph. Quite the enigma; would be equally at home in Mike Ashley's Glimpses of the Unknown on first page of this thread.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 19, 2021 20:02:38 GMT
How many of these volumes are they planning? It is already somewhat overwhelming.
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Post by Dr Strange on Dec 19, 2021 20:33:56 GMT
These are listed for publication next year (and would bring the total number of books in the series to 31) - Shadows On The Wall: Dark Tales by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman ed. Mike Ashley (due 13th Jan).  Blurb: Suddenly he began hastening hither and thither about the room. He moved the furniture with fierce jerks, turning ever to see the effect upon the shadow on the wall. Not a line of its terrible outlines wavered.The disquieting tales of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman explore a world of contrast, where the supernatural erupts out of authentically drawn portraits of New England life. This is a world of witchcraft, secrecy, domestic spaces turned uncanny and ancestral vengeances inflicted upon the unfortunates of the present. Collecting the best of the author’s strange tales – including 'The White Shawl', which was unpublished during her lifetime – this volume casts a light on an underappreciated contributor to weird fiction and the shadowy corners of a dark imagination. The Ghost Slayers: Thrilling Tales Of Occult Detection ed. Mike Ashley (due 24th March).  Blurb: Occult or psychic detective tales have been chilling readers for almost as long as there have been ghost stories. This beguiling subgenre follows specialists in occult lore – often with years of arcane training – investigating strange supernatural occurrences and pitting their wits against the bizarre and inexplicable. With tales featuring the most prominent psychic detectives such as William Hope Hodgson’s Carnacki, the Ghost Finder and Algernon Blackwood’s Dr. Silence, this new collection also includes rare and never-before-reprinted cases investigated by the likes of Flaxman Low, Cosmo Thor, Aylmer Vance and Mesmer Milann. Our Haunted Shores: Tales From The Coasts Of The British Isles eds. Emily Alder, Jimmy Packham & Joan Passey (due 23rd June).  Blurb: From the unsettling expanses of mud flats to foreboding cliffs and treacherous reefs, the coasts of the British Isles have provided inspiration for storytellers for millennia, creating a rich literary and cultural significance for these spaces in between the land and sea. The shoreline can be a destination for pleasure, but it is also the rife with peril. In this new collection, the founders of the Haunted Shores Research Network have curated a chilling literary tour of the coasts of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, including tales of woeful shipwreck, lighthouse terrors and uncanny revenants amid the bustle of the harbourside. |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 19, 2021 20:47:20 GMT
Who is buying them? They are not inexpensive. Is it a print-on-demand operation?
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