craigee
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Post by craigee on Aug 27, 2020 16:07:51 GMT
Hi,
Apologies if this is in the wrong place, I am really not sure where to post it. Years ago when I was about 11 or 12, so in 1981 or 2, I read a story in an anthology, the title of which escapes me, which I think was called Pipe Dream. It was about a young woman who was dating a man who has unusual and highly aromatic pipe tobacco which had a secret ingredient that he did not reveal. She wanted to get him some for his birthday and kept trying to discover the secret ingredient. He also had an unusually large fireplace and the different pitches of pipe tobacco were all named after girls... No prizes for guessing what the secret ingredient was. I have looked online for it for years but no joy. Can anyone help or know who this story is by at all?
Many thanks
Craig
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Post by Swampirella on Aug 27, 2020 17:22:15 GMT
Hi, Apologies if this is in the wrong place, I am really not sure where to post it. Years ago when I was about 11 or 12, so in 1981 or 2, I read a story in an anthology, the title of which escapes me, which I think was called Pipe Dream. It was about a young woman who was dating a man who has unusual and highly aromatic pipe tobacco which had a secret ingredient that he did not reveal. She wanted to get him some for his birthday and kept trying to discover the secret ingredient. He also had an unusually large fireplace and the different pitches of pipe tobacco were all named after girls... No prizes for guessing what the secret ingredient was. I have looked online for it for years but no joy. Can anyone help or know who this story is by at all? Many thanks Craig Hi, Craig:
Below are two pipe- related stories, the one you want is neither but I can highly recommend "The Meerschaum Pipe" and would love to read "Mordechai's Pipe".
A. V. Milyer - Mordecai’s Pipe : (Weird Tales , June 1936). When Peter Mordecai, sadistic child-killer, is executed, Mr. Pettigrew, as notorious in his own way for "my bad taste in gruesome curios" is gifted Mordecai's briar pipe by the prison warden. The delighted ghoul feels a strange compulsion to smoke it ...
Hopefully somebody else can help you out...
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Post by dem on Aug 27, 2020 17:49:29 GMT
Hi Craigee I'm pretty sure the story is Alan Dean Foster's Pipe Dreams, published in Alfred Hitchcock's Stories to be read with the Door Locked and again in I Want My Mummy. You can download a pdf of the latter for free via Luminist Archives. Here's the direct link |
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Post by Swampirella on Aug 27, 2020 18:06:02 GMT
Hi Craigee I'm pretty sure the story is Alan Dean Foster's Pipe Dreams, published in Alfred Hitchcock's Stories to be read with the Door Locked and again in I Want My Mummy. You can download a pdf of the latter for free via Luminist Archives. Here's the direct linkI bow before your encyclopedic knowledge & memory! |
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Post by Swampirella on Aug 27, 2020 18:33:24 GMT
Hi, Apologies if this is in the wrong place, I am really not sure where to post it. Years ago when I was about 11 or 12, so in 1981 or 2, I read a story in an anthology, the title of which escapes me, which I think was called Pipe Dream. It was about a young woman who was dating a man who has unusual and highly aromatic pipe tobacco which had a secret ingredient that he did not reveal. She wanted to get him some for his birthday and kept trying to discover the secret ingredient. He also had an unusually large fireplace and the different pitches of pipe tobacco were all named after girls... No prizes for guessing what the secret ingredient was. I have looked online for it for years but no joy. Can anyone help or know who this story is by at all? Many thanks Craig I just read it via Dem's link; it's a mighty fine story! Too bad googling it didn't help you but this way it helped you and all of us. |
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Post by craigee on Aug 30, 2020 7:21:33 GMT
Hi Craigee I'm pretty sure the story is Alan Dean Foster's Pipe Dreams, published in Alfred Hitchcock's Stories to be read with the Door Locked and again in I Want My Mummy. You can download a pdf of the latter for free via Luminist Archives. Here's the direct linkI bow before your encyclopedic knowledge & memory! Thank you so much! That is the one I was after and it is the Hitchcock anthology that I read it in when I was a kid. Thanks for solving that mystery! Much appreciated! |
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Post by craigee on Aug 30, 2020 7:22:19 GMT
Hi Craigee I'm pretty sure the story is Alan Dean Foster's Pipe Dreams, published in Alfred Hitchcock's Stories to be read with the Door Locked and again in I Want My Mummy. You can download a pdf of the latter for free via Luminist Archives. Here's the direct linkI bow before your encyclopedic knowledge & memory! Thank you! That is fantastic!!!! |
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Post by craigee on Aug 30, 2020 7:24:59 GMT
Hi Craigee I'm pretty sure the story is Alan Dean Foster's Pipe Dreams, published in Alfred Hitchcock's Stories to be read with the Door Locked and again in I Want My Mummy. You can download a pdf of the latter for free via Luminist Archives. Here's the direct linkI bow before your encyclopedic knowledge & memory! As you can tell by my many odd responses I don't know how this board works so I think I have thanked you in about 4 places, but thanks (I hope now directly) and for the link, I'm recuperating from an operation and will read it while resting up! Brilliant 🙂 |
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Post by dem on Aug 30, 2020 16:16:55 GMT
Hope you enjoy it the second time around. We wish you a speedy recovery!
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