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Post by dem bones on May 28, 2020 17:28:00 GMT
Mary Danby [ed.] - Armada Ghost Book 12 (1980) Tony Richards - Someone Drowned David Langford - The Chess Set Patricia Leitch - Devil Horse Terry Tapp - The Proving R. Chetwynd-Hayes - The Cat Room Rosemary Timperley - Kept In Joyce Marsh - Studderley Tower Terry Tapp - Dressed for the Occasion Sydney J. Bounds - The Haunted Village Mary Danby - The Red Miller
Interior artwork, Peter Archer Blurb: Ten haunting new stories to give you the midnight creeps ...
A dead hand, rising from a pool .... A phantom witch-woman, steeped in evil ... A devil horse that gallops over the moors ... Who wails in THE HAUNTED VILLAGE? What is the fearful secret of THE CAT ROOM? Find out - if you dare! Rosemary Timperley - Kept In: Third former Tom Arden is handed a half hour detention for disrupting young Miss 'Lanky' Lambert's English lesson. He's soon joined in the classroom by a deathly pale first year whose clothes are approximately half a century out of date. Bill Farrer was burnt alive when a fire swept through the building while he was awaiting punishment from the fearsome Miss Lancaster. Tom smells smoke ... R. Chetwynd-Hayes – The Cat Room: Sabrina Goodridge is persecuted by a warlock's familiar which creeps from the fireplace after dark. Her bedroom also notable for its wallpaper depicting rows of cats heads which open wide in the night. Sydney J. Bounds - The Haunted Village: The sad ghost of Sarah haunts the model village at Branscombe. She is concerned for her twin sister, Jane, who has been packed off to an orphanage. The Pelham family adopt Jane at Christmas. Really mawkish. Syd obviously saving himself for the splendid Ghost Hunter in Armada Ghost 13. Mary Danby - The Red Miller: The Barratt family buy the long- disused tower windmill at Garston and set up home. Ten year old Paul is nightly disturbed by the ghost of 'the Red Miller' who, according to his elder brother, strangled little children and ground them to flour. Unfortunately for the reader, this proves far from the truth.
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Post by helrunar on May 28, 2020 18:17:21 GMT
Cool cover. The Timperley story sounds good, very much up to par for this reliably talented author.
The rest, alas, does not inspire much confidence for the remainder.
Thanks, Kev!
S.
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Post by dem bones on May 29, 2020 10:39:19 GMT
Tony Richards - Someone Drowned: Young Jeff Hollis, fishing at the weirpool, hooks a small, ghostly human hand. Last year a boy named Alan Weeks drowned at this treacherous black spot. He doesn't want others to suffer the same fate. Tragedy averted, worst luck. The single story from #11 repeated in The Green Ghost & Other selection. David Langford - The Chess Set: The late Aunt Dorothy wills a chess set carved in human bone to her great-niece, Ann Castle, and challenges her to a winner-takes-all contest. This one is excellent - eerie, proper ending and everything. Terry Tapp - Dressed for the Occasion: My Claire, that sure is a killer vintage frock you're wearing this evening ... Another good one. See fashion victims. Patricia Leitch - Devil Horse: He's not a murdering black phantom stallion of the swamp but the victim of a cruel misunderstanding. Do-gooder sister - elder brother combo set its weary spirit free.
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Post by andydecker on May 29, 2020 13:01:32 GMT
A spectacular cover!
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Post by dem bones on May 29, 2020 18:38:14 GMT
Cover artist criminally unaccredited as usual, but looks to be a Peter Archer. Terry Tapp - The Proving: A hundred years dead, Jody must now decide what type of ghost he will be, benign or malevolent, soother, healer, haunter, nightmare rider, banshee, mind searcher (the voyeurs choice) or poltergeist? Alternatively, he may prefer to experience another human cycle. Joyce Marsh - Studderley Tower : Fifteenth Century. Lord Studderley informs eight year old daughter Lady Alyce that she is to wed a boy not much older than herself. Even as he speaks, Alyce's beloved pet monkey, Bobo, creeps from under her skirt and mauls him. His Lordship, furious, has the creature thrown on the fire. Alyce climbs to the top of the watchtower, launches herself into the moat to drown. Five hundred years later, Dad takes little Lissy on a day trip to the haunted castle ruins ... Not a personal favourite Armada Ghost Book, as too many cop out endings. For me, Dressed for the Occasion and, especially, The Chess Set stand out.
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