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Post by helrunar on Dec 17, 2020 14:12:00 GMT
The Very Honorable Malcolm Timperley! A name of legend!
Gorgeous photo, perfect for today (we're being gradually buried by a massive snowstorm here), and I look forward very much to reading the yarn. Yesterday was insane, so I have yesterday's tales to savor as well.
cheers, Hel
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 17, 2020 15:22:43 GMT
Day four Malcolm Timperley Ruined church at CromartyUnlive from a haunted Highlands railway tunnel, many thanks to Malcolm Timperley for providing both today's eerie story and the glorious photo (above). Lost in the Time of Mists first appeared on The Horla where you'll find a vast selection of original supernatural horror fiction to devour. I really enjoyed the story, thank you! I'm looking forward to reading some/all of The Horla's stories, when I get the chance. |
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Post by Shrink Proof on Dec 17, 2020 15:37:27 GMT
The Very Honorable Malcolm Timperley! A name of legend! That's His Excellency The Most Honourable Sir Malcolm Timperley, Prince of Darkness and Lord High Executioner to you... |
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Post by humgoo on Dec 17, 2020 15:50:54 GMT
A hell of a good start - both the story and the image are hard acts to follow.... And yet they've been followed. Very well done everyone! Thank you very much! |
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Post by ripper on Dec 17, 2020 16:18:50 GMT
An author that I am unfamiliar with, but I liked the story very much, and shall be checking out more on the website.
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Post by samdawson on Dec 17, 2020 16:48:12 GMT
Awfully good story and picture too. It looks like grade 4 paper with the sky burnt in by hand: is it, or is it digital?
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Post by Shrink Proof on Dec 17, 2020 17:31:30 GMT
Awfully good story and picture too. It looks like grade 4 paper with the sky burnt in by hand: is it, or is it digital? Thanks a lot. The picture is entirely digital, taken on an overcast day last September in Cromarty, Scotland. Olympus OM digital cameras provide a range of special effects settings, two of which are labelled "Dramatic Tone", one in black & white and one in colour - this is the former. It was tweaked on the laptop afterwards to ramp up the contrast (gloominess) even more. The Lovecraftian-looking sky came from shooting using a polarising filter. |
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Post by samdawson on Dec 17, 2020 17:39:24 GMT
It's a lovely pic, and a very terse story. Hadn't realised that (sigh) digital could substitute for what was once a hard-learnt darkroom technique (seen to advantage in the opening credits of The Sweeney)
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Dec 17, 2020 20:00:58 GMT
Both the story and the photograph are wonderfully spooky.
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Post by Shrink Proof on Dec 17, 2020 22:01:16 GMT
Both the story and the photograph are wonderfully spooky. Many thanks. |
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Post by helrunar on Dec 18, 2020 5:09:01 GMT
It was very cool to read a short-short story by Donald Wollheim; thanks Kev for bringing that to light (or darkness, as the case may be).
I enjoyed Lord High Executioner Timperley's spectral fragment very much, too.
Excited to see what lurking depravity the morrow shall bring!
H.
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Post by dem on Dec 18, 2020 11:13:36 GMT
 Chrissie DemantI don't know if 2020 Calendar will be happening - I hope so with it being the 10th anniversary - all I can say that if it does, me and my 8 year old daughter Marnie have co-written a horror story together called "THE DUNGEON OF MY DEAD DADDY'S HEAD" , and I can say, without a shadow of a doubt, that her part of the story was her idea, she has spoken all her stuff with me typing it out like Barbara Cartland's secretary - she's not allowed to see the bits I've written although she has a flavour of it, and it's proper Vault material. It's about me giving a story to the Vault Xmas calendar every year, but now she wants a slice of the action and needs to retire (kill) me as quickly as possible. Thanks to Johnny & Marnie Mains for donating The Dungeon of my Daddy's Head, as recently introduced by the co-author on the 2019 Calendar thread ... here's your chance to read it. Attachments:THE DUNGEON.pdf (86.7 KB)
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 18, 2020 11:32:51 GMT
Chrissie Demant Day fiveI don't know if 2020 Calendar will be happening - I hope so with it being the 10th anniversary - all I can say that if it does, me and my 8 year old daughter Marnie have co-written a horror story together called "THE DUNGEON OF MY DEAD DADDY'S HEAD" , and I can say, without a shadow of a doubt, that her part of the story was her idea, she has spoken all her stuff with me typing it out like Barbara Cartland's secretary - she's not allowed to see the bits I've written although she has a flavour of it, and it's proper Vault material. It's about me giving a story to the Vault Xmas calendar every year, but now she wants a slice of the action and needs to retire (kill) me as quickly as possible. Thanks to Johnny & Marnie Mains for donating The Dungeon of my Daddy's Head, as recently introduced by the co-author on the 2019 Calendar thread ... here's your chance to read it. Wonderful artwork from Chrissie; I should enjoy "The Dungeon" equally as much later this morning.
EDIT: I loved it; especially of course reading about Vault members.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Dec 18, 2020 15:18:10 GMT
I had a blast reading "The Dungeon." I'm hoping Mr. Mains won't mind if I say that the parts by his co-author were my favorites. He'd better watch himself...
The illustration is a perfect fit for the story.
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Post by johnnymains on Dec 18, 2020 16:01:14 GMT
What astounding artwork by Chrissie. Marnie heartily approves - I'm going to have to put a lock on the knife drawer.
Thanks to everyone who reads - I certainly do have to watch my back - Miss Mains, the world's youngest horror author!
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