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Post by hugegadjit on Oct 29, 2020 1:15:23 GMT
I'm the Curious Orange tonight... can anyone tell me the name/author of the horror stories:
1) An armaments manufacturer and an artist have been love rivals for the same lady, the latter wins, the former invites the couple to his plant, but an experimental gas from the labs gets out of control
2) Might be a Dylan Thomas one, a lady uses her charms to persuade a naive lad to aid her in some sort of atrocity, written from her point of view
3) A kid gets the idea that angels are vicious predatory beings with beaks, it becomes an obsession, and drives his mother somewhere rather dark
4) Pretty sure it's called 'The Boomslang' and I read it in an eighties anthology on a Suspense Theme, which also included Sredni Vashtar - would quite like to track down that anthology again
Thanks in anticipation
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Post by Dr Strange on Oct 29, 2020 1:22:48 GMT
1) is Comrade Death by Gerald Kersh.
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Post by hugegadjit on Oct 29, 2020 1:46:21 GMT
Thanks Doctor!
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Post by Swan on Jul 2, 2021 17:24:49 GMT
I'm the Curious Orange tonight... can anyone tell me the name/author of the horror stories: 2) Might be a Dylan Thomas one, a lady uses her charms to persuade a naive lad to aid her in some sort of atrocity, written from her point of view Dylan Thomas could be The True Story. |
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Post by Dr Strange on Jul 3, 2022 21:45:02 GMT
I'm the Curious Orange tonight... can anyone tell me the name/author of the horror stories: 1) An armaments manufacturer and an artist have been love rivals for the same lady, the latter wins, the former invites the couple to his plant, but an experimental gas from the labs gets out of control 2) Might be a Dylan Thomas one, a lady uses her charms to persuade a naive lad to aid her in some sort of atrocity, written from her point of view 3) A kid gets the idea that angels are vicious predatory beings with beaks, it becomes an obsession, and drives his mother somewhere rather dark 4) Pretty sure it's called 'The Boomslang' and I read it in an eighties anthology on a Suspense Theme, which also included Sredni Vashtar - would quite like to track down that anthology again Thanks in anticipation 1) Comrade Death by Gerald Kersh. 2) The Old Woman Upstairs by Dylan Thomas (a variant of The True Story). 3) Angel Face by Celia Fremlin. All 3 can be found in The 7th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories, ed. Mary Danby, from 1972. Regarding 4) there is a Stephen King story called Autopsy Room Four that involves a boomslang, but it was first published in 1997. |
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