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Post by dem bones on Nov 20, 2018 11:31:19 GMT
Cover thankful not to by hosted by the Denver extortion racket. A further selection of spine-chilling tales and unspeakable horrors are unravelled by master storytellers of the ghostly and supernatural... Read of the child ghost determined to prove her innocence beyond death... Pale with terror as the shadowy Whistlers close in on the finder of a witch's bottle and its dreadful brew... Beware of innocent Hallowe'en games and looking into a mirror on that tormented night... Shake in your shoes with two young hikers as a deserted mining village is suddenly peopled around and through them ...
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mekong
New Face In Hell
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Post by mekong on Dec 17, 2022 12:19:21 GMT
Apologies for resurrecting an old thread! For the past month, I've been on a quest to find out a story that was in a childhood ghost anthology I own To explain, I live in South East Asia at the moment - and the book I am referring to is in storage in the UK, with no way to get at it I thought the story was called 'Feel Free' - I remembered the plot concerning a boy who lives, isolated from the world, in a house with his mother. His mother, in something like the premise of the film 'The Village', has convinced him that the outside world does not exist - ostensibly to protect him from the bad influences of society The only clues I had were: 1. It was in a paperback YA horror anthology, published in the early 80s in the UK 2. It has a pale blue cover, possibly 3. The was another story in it about a haunted house inhabited by a boy with a harelip - which after a lot of research I realized was The House of the Nightmare by Edward Lucas White As you can guess, searching for 'Feel Free' on google didn't have much success Nor did ' children's horror anthology with The House of the Nightmare - Edward Lucas White in it' have much success either! I was at my wits end trying to find out the name of the story and the anthology - thanks to this excellent board, I now realize that the story was 'Jack in the Box' by Ray Bradbury! Living apart from the outside world, Edwin shares residence with his mother in a vast secluded mansion. She raises him to be god, telling him that his father, the original god, was killed by beasts from outside the estate, and that if he ever extricates himself he too will die. The beautiful estate they share is described as a complete fantasy world created by Mother and embellished by Edwin. It was all he ever knew and thus he lacked any reason to question his mother's version.The book that I have been desperately trying to remember is Ghostly and Ghastly: 13 Macabre Tales chosen by Barbara Ireson (Beaver 1977) as referenced in this thread So, thank you very much for solving a mystery that's been raging in my head for the past few weeks - next time I'm in the UK, I'll go to my storage and recover Ghostly and Ghastly!
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Post by dem bones on Dec 17, 2022 12:38:55 GMT
That's lovely. I hope you enjoy the story and book just as much when you're eventually reunited.
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Post by pbsplatter on Jan 10, 2023 16:40:38 GMT
That same cover was used for a collection of 'true' ghost stories by Daniel Cohen that scared me half to death when I read it in kindergarten or first grade, to the point that I think I returned it and dropped it behind the bookshelves at the school library. . . Cohen was a staple of my youth; he wrote a great number of books on the paranormal and supernatural for kids and some for adults that I consumed voraciously.
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enoch
Devils Coach Horse
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Post by enoch on Jan 10, 2023 17:08:31 GMT
Cohen was a staple of my youth; he wrote a great number of books on the paranormal and supernatural for kids and some for adults that I consumed voraciously.
Good to see another Daniel Cohen fan here!
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Post by Swampirella on Jan 10, 2023 17:13:39 GMT
His covers are great, aren't they? I've read the "Phone Call" one but not the other. I did read Elliott O'Donnell's "Dangerous Ghosts", though.
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Post by pbsplatter on Jan 10, 2023 17:45:09 GMT
"Phone Call" was the one my mom wouldn't let me read as a kid (since I guess I was 'too young') but I devoured the rest of them, especially the Enyclopedia of Monsters.
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Post by helrunar on Jan 10, 2023 18:07:16 GMT
Love those covers. The one for Phone call from a ghost is a real scream!
Excellent finds!
Hel.
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Post by pbsplatter on Jan 10, 2023 18:27:28 GMT
In grave danger of hijacking this thread but I couldn't resist sharing this one
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Post by Swampirella on Jan 10, 2023 21:08:13 GMT
That's a cool cover too. I bought the Phone Calls book in the faint hope it would be something like the D. Scott Rogo non-fiction book of the same name.
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