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Post by dem bones on Aug 15, 2020 12:32:44 GMT
Finally, I think Rosemary 'Mary Ann Allen' Pardoe's super The Cambridge Beast may have been written as a tribute to The Horn Of VapulaDo we have enough gargoyle stories for a DIY thread ( In the Shadow of the Gargoyle having proved perhaps not that great)? We can but try. To get things started. Greye la Spina - The Gargoyle : ( Weird Tales, Sept/ Oct/ Nov 1925: Robert Weinberg [ed.] Lost Fantasies #3: The Gargoyle, 1975). Lewis Spence - The Horn Of Vapula: ( The Archer in the Arras, and Other Tales of Mystery, 1932: Michel Parry [ed.] Sixth Mayflower Black Magic, 1977) David Eynon - The Sixth Gargoyle: ( Weird Tales, Jan. 1951: Dziemianowicz, Weinberg, & Greenberg, [eds] 100 Wild Little Weird Tales, 1994). Adrian Cole - City Of Gargoyle: (Stephen Jones [ed.], Fantasy Tales 15, Winter 1976). Roger Johnson - The Watchman: (Rosemary Pardoe [ed.] Best of Ghosts & Scholars, 1986 : Paul Finch [ed.], Terror Tales of East Anglia, 2012) Mary Ann Allen [Ro Pardoe] - The Cambridge Beast: (David Cowperthwaite & Jeff Dempsey [eds.] Dark Dreams 6, 1988) John Whitbourne - John Whitbourn – Peace On Earth, Goodwill To Most Men: (Richard Dalby [ed.] Mystery for Christmas, 1990). Daniel Fox - High Flying, Adored: (Stephen Jones & David A. Sutton [eds.], Dark Voices 4, 1992) Syd J. Bounds - Downmarket: (Stephen Jones [ed.] Mammoth Book of Monsters, 2007). John Llewellyn Probert - At Midnight I Will Steal Your Soul: ( Wicked Delights, 2010). From story notes and memory, these, so please don't hesitate to point out errors. |
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Post by Dr Strange on Aug 15, 2020 12:56:15 GMT
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Post by cromagnonman on Aug 15, 2020 13:00:38 GMT
Clark Ashton Smith - "The Maker of Gargoyles" (Weird Tales August 1932, reprinted in TALES OF SCIENCE AND SORCERY)
Robert Westall - "The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral" (1991)
There's also Bok from DOCTOR WHO AND THE DAEMONS by Barry Letts, if he counts.
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Post by cromagnonman on Aug 15, 2020 13:01:26 GMT
AAAAaaaaaaaarrrrghhhh. Snap!
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Post by dem bones on Aug 15, 2020 13:10:30 GMT
 T. Wyatt Nelson: ( Weird Tales, Aug. 1932). The story of a nightmare horror loosed upon a medieval French village by Blaise Reynard the stone cutter.AAAAaaaaaaaarrrrghhhh. Snap! oh, for pity's sake! Fritz Leiber - Conjure Wife: (Twayne, 1953: Haunt of Horror #1 & #2, June, Aug 1973) |
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Post by Shrink Proof on Aug 15, 2020 13:47:37 GMT
Slightly off topic, but hopefully not so far off as to attract the wrath of Dem's Moderation (you know the drill - "no-one expects the Spanish Inquisition...") - here goes:-
The weirdest gargoyles I've ever encountered are at Busta House (pronounced Booster House), which is a thoroughly excellent hotel in Shetland. Originally a 16th-century manor house, before becoming a hotel it was bought just after WW2 by Sir Basil Neven-Spence, who seems to have been exactly the sort of person you'd expect him to be with a name like that - a former Major in the Army Medical Corps, landowner, Lord Lieutenant of Shetland and the local Member of Parliament.
During his time in London representing the good people of Orkney & Shetland, the Houses of Parliament were being renovated, as they had been damaged by wartime bombing. Some of the gargoyles from the House of Commons had been so badly mauled by the Luftwaffe that they were considered to be beyond repair, so they were removed and replaced with brand new ones. Neven-Spence convinced the builders to give him the damaged gargoyles rather than just dump them, and he had them shipped all the way up to Shetland. He then placed them in the grounds of Busta House. So even now you can see shrapnel-damaged dragons on the lawns, with slashed faces, damaged eyes and ears blown off, staring blankly out to sea.
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Post by helrunar on Aug 15, 2020 14:20:26 GMT
That is a very cool story, Dr Shrink Proof. There's a not terribly good recent photo of one of the maimed gargoyles here: glasgowgallivanter.com/tag/busta-house/"The Horn of Vapula" is a marvelous tale for a yarn, contriving to sound both eerie and vaguely pornographic. For some reason I suspect the story itself is rather a crushing disappointment--hope to be proven wrong on that account, some day yonder. cheers, Hel |
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Post by Dr Strange on Aug 15, 2020 16:12:28 GMT
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Post by cromagnonman on Aug 15, 2020 16:38:04 GMT
First came across this on one of those barmy 'OMG - how-the-hell-do-we-explain-this' style websites: 20th century character discovered in medieval carving expose. Seriously, there are people out there who should never have been let out of the womb. |
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Post by dem bones on Aug 15, 2020 17:39:03 GMT
Vault logo incorporates detail from a photo of one of the bride of dem's home made gargoyles. He lives above a bookcase in front room. |
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Post by Dr Strange on Aug 15, 2020 18:38:16 GMT
First came across this on one of those barmy 'OMG - how-the-hell-do-we-explain-this' style websites: 20th century character discovered in medieval carving expose. Seriously, there are people out there who should never have been let out of the womb. I can't remember where I came across it first, but when I was searching for the photo just now I kept seeing a quote from the minister at the abbey saying that he didn't think the stonemason had deliberately copied the alien from the film. But he did, and he fessed up to it just a few months ago - traditionalbuildingshealthcheck.org/the-story-behind-paisley-abbeys-alien-gargoyle/ |
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Post by pbsplatter on Jan 22, 2023 12:21:41 GMT
Harlan Ellison - Bleeding Stones
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