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Post by Dr Strange on Apr 30, 2019 16:43:25 GMT
I know I read one fairly recently about a couple attempting to count the number of stones in a circle (never a good idea), but I can't remember who it was by or where I read it - which is annoying the hell out of me.
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Post by Swampirella on Apr 30, 2019 17:00:20 GMT
I know I read one fairly recently about a couple attempting to count the number of stones in a circle (never a good idea), but I can't remember who it was by or where I read it - which is annoying the hell out of me. BBC Archive has something lamely amusing "1976 - Nationwide: The Rollright Stones" which (of course) I'm unable to include here in any way.... |
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Post by helrunar on Apr 30, 2019 17:29:28 GMT
Sure, Swampi. I hope you enjoy the book. I need to get a new copy at some point--I gave mine as a present to a friend some years back.
Best, Steve
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Post by helrunar on Apr 30, 2019 17:33:46 GMT
Again, perhaps not really on topic here, but I recall years ago (at least ten years ago now) attending a talk by well known occult teacher and author R. J. Stewart. He talked about visiting some stones that were on the property of somebody's farm. He and his friends knocked on the door to ask permission to walk out into the field to look at the stones. He said there was a woman who had just been on her computer who came to the door--it was a fully modernized farmhouse, somewhere in Ireland or Scotland I think, though I honestly couldn't say for sure.
She welcomed them to go out to look at the stones, but then added: "Now you're not going to try to touch or move the stones, are you?" They assured her they simply wanted to look. There was a pause, and then she said thoughtfully, "well, that's good. The last person that touched one of those stones was very sorry they ever laid hand to it afterwards." Of course there was a story but I can't now recall just what happened. I have heard of people getting what feels like electric shocks when touching stones at these sites.
When we were in Ireland, we did touch some of the stones, but in a reflective and respectful way. We certainly did not push at, or attempt to dislodge, any of the stones. There were no negative consequences.
H.
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Post by ropardoe on May 1, 2019 10:22:35 GMT
"Sisters Rise" by Christopher Harman in the Ghosts & Scholars Book of Folk Horror is another. As is Elsa Wallace's "The Suppell Stone" in Ghosts & Scholars 34.
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Post by Michael Connolly on May 1, 2019 12:28:07 GMT
N. Dennett, "The Menhir", Panics (1934) and The Sorceress in Stained Glass (1971) edited by Richard Dalby. has always been one of my white whale books, along with Jean Ray's Ghouls in My Grave and E.H. Visiak's Medusa. But reading your post prompted me to search again, and I found a copy of it for sale at a halfway reasonable price, so now I'll have a chance to read Dennett's tale. I didn't realize that I had so much influence. |
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Post by cauldronbrewer on May 1, 2019 15:37:29 GMT
I didn't realize that I had so much influence. In all seriousness, the denizens of the Vault have had a major impact on my reading--and book-purchasing--habits. It makes me wonder whether the board has ever sparked a run on any rare horror tomes... |
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Post by Swampirella on May 1, 2019 15:55:00 GMT
I didn't realize that I had so much influence. In all seriousness, the denizens of the Vault have had a major impact on my reading--and book-purchasing--habits. It makes me wonder whether the board has ever sparked a run on any rare horror tomes... Same here; I've often ended up buying a book described in the Vault, such as happened yesterday. It wouldn't surprise me if a run had been sparked at some time or other.... |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on May 1, 2019 16:02:44 GMT
It makes me wonder whether the board has ever sparked a run on any rare horror tomes... I think we already discussed recently the impact Vault has had on the price of EAT THEM ALIVE. |
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Post by cauldronbrewer on May 1, 2019 16:11:17 GMT
I think we already discussed recently the impact Vault has had on the price of EAT THEM ALIVE. Good point. Now maybe someone needs to write a story about members of an online horror forum who conspire to create demand for an obscure novel and then sell copies of it at inflated prices, only to learn that it's a coded grimiore with instructions on how to unleash eldritch abominations. |
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Post by elricc on May 1, 2019 16:55:02 GMT
Roger Johnson, The Scarecrow in A Ghostly Crew, not read it for a long time but that had a stone circle and a deadly scarecrow
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Post by jamesdoig on May 1, 2019 23:26:29 GMT
N. Dennett, "The Menhir", Panics (1934) and The Sorceress in Stained Glass (1971) edited by Richard Dalby. Probably worth mentioning that Richard Dalby thought N. Dennett was Eleanor Scott of Randalls Round Fame. In the latest Wormwood, Peter Bell makes a case for Eleanor Scott as Mark Hansom, who wrote supernatural thrillers for Wright & Brown in the 1930s. |
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Post by cauldronbrewer on May 2, 2019 11:37:13 GMT
Probably worth mentioning that Richard Dalby thought N. Dennett was Eleanor Scott of Randalls Round Fame. In the latest Wormwood, Peter Bell makes a case for Eleanor Scott as Mark Hansom, who wrote supernatural thrillers for Wright & Brown in the 1930s. Interesting. I've read four of Hansom's novels ( The Shadow on the House, The Beasts of Brahm, Master of Souls, and Sorcerer's Chessmen) and found them fairly entertaining, so now I'm even more curious about "The Menhir." |
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Post by Middoth on May 2, 2019 12:23:43 GMT
The Living Stone by E. R. Punshon (Dracula's Brood 1992, ed. Richard Dalby)
The Keepsake by Paul Huson (1981)
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Post by andydecker on May 2, 2019 18:13:06 GMT
I think we already discussed recently the impact Vault has had on the price of EAT THEM ALIVE. Good point. Now maybe someone needs to write a story about members of an online horror forum who conspire to create demand for an obscure novel and then sell copies of it at inflated prices, only to learn that it's a coded grimiore with instructions on how to unleash eldritch abominations. I bought a lot of books I read on the Vault about, but a lot more I found in the Paperback Fanatic. In the last years only at online-sellers like Am*z*n Marketplace, as foreign postage has become too expensive. So Ebay is out. But I never had the impression that new reviews had any impact on pricing. On the other hand there isn't a real special market for foreign books in Germany. There are of course a few speciality shops who sell genre novels at inflated prices, but I don't think they do much business. Especially after Ebook "reprints" became avaiable. |
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