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Post by Swampirella on Jan 20, 2020 23:18:38 GMT
There must be dozens of horror stories featuring that old method of public humiliation after death/salutary warning to others from the 1700s-early 1800s. At least I hope there are. No doubt I've read several & forgotten them. So I just have this to get started with:
Except for Murder F. E. Evans (London Mystery Magazine June 1957) Harry Chastleton speeds away from eerie Flexton Gibbet as fast as he can. He unwisely stops to give a man who flags him down a lift, and is soon without his car. But was he unwise? A neat little story from a time long before anybody thought to build a service area/McDonald's next a gibbet such as at Caxton.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 21, 2020 10:01:09 GMT
Here's some:  Virgil Finlay: ( Weird Tales, May 1940). Both Hag and Nobleman Swung That Same Evening. Elizabeth Walter - The New House: ( Snowfall & Other Chilling Events, 1965: The Spirit Of The Place & Other Strange Tales, 2017). Charles Birkin - Hosanna!: My Name is Death, 1966) David A. Riley -Out of Corruption: ( Mammoth Book of Zombies, 1993: The Lurkers in the Abyss, 2013. Frederick Cowles - The Witch Finder: ( The Night Wind Howls, 1938: 2nd Mayflower Book of Black Magic, 1974) Tod Robbins - Cock-Crow Inn: ( Who Wants a Green Bottle? and Other Uneasy Tales, 1926: Creeps, 1932).  Andrew Brosnatch: ( Weird Tales, May 1925). Walking gibbets - Skeletons - and the Old Age of Francois Villon. |
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Post by elricc on Jan 21, 2020 12:16:29 GMT
Just to say I live very near a famous haunted gibbet site, Black Toby in Suffolk, (Tobies Walks on the map), if anybody comes across a story about this let me know
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Post by johnnymains on Jan 21, 2020 17:34:52 GMT
Perhaps The Gibbet Inn by Thomas Muirson from Pan Horror 21 could be included?
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Post by Swampirella on Jan 21, 2020 20:38:35 GMT
It certainly should be; it's one of those I've read & forgotten about. Thanks for adding it to the list!
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Post by dem bones on Jan 22, 2020 12:58:15 GMT
 Ronald Clyne: ( Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Dec. 1944: originally Neolith # 2, Feb. 1908). You can weigh a man's sins in earthly scales, but you cannot weigh his soul. A midnight raid on the cemetery. At risk to their own necks, Tom o' the Roads three partners in crime cut down what little is left of him from the gallows tree, give his bones decent burial in the sepulchre of an Archbishop (who they deposit into a hastily dug grave). Even Angels can't bring themselves to score such loyalty a sin. |
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