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Post by cauldronbrewer on Jan 28, 2021 15:21:25 GMT
Beast in the Cellar interlude
Richard Matheson - Born of Man and Woman (Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1950)
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Post by Dr Strange on Jan 28, 2021 17:07:57 GMT
Reggie Oliver (who provided the above drawing for Anna Taborska's Arthur's Cellar, as well as writing numerous ghost and horror stories of his own) is the nephew of Stella Gibbons.
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Post by helrunar on Jan 28, 2021 18:05:09 GMT
Wow! That's amazing, Dr Strange. Thanks!
Hel
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Post by dem bones on Jan 30, 2021 7:29:15 GMT
Photo: Patricia FanthorpeJohn Glover A Room without a Door, Jacynth Hope-Simpson, Who Knows? Twelve Unsolved Mysteries (Heinnemann, 1974). Hampshire Telegraph & Naval Chronicle, Sat 1 Oct. 1892 No mention of any 'vampire' in the entry quoted - in it's entirety - above. Was there an earlier edition of Haunted Homes .... Is this the source for the castle's 'vampire' legend? Photo: Colin & Janet Bord
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Post by andydecker on Jan 30, 2021 21:19:02 GMT
The more often I see the picture of this house, the more I think Hell House.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 31, 2021 22:04:19 GMT
Answer my own stupid question; Ingram, then, far from promoting any vampire tradition, was openly scornful of any such suggestion, but the "legend" of the blood-lusting servant (male or female) persists to the present day.
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Post by Dr Strange on Feb 1, 2021 1:44:08 GMT
That "kind of vampire" description seems to get repeated a lot, but it's not clear what it's supposed to mean. In Oliphant's The Secret Chamber, Lord Robert seems to be some variation on the "psychic vampire" - as he is able to exert his influence on the heirs after they have been introduced to him, and seems to be sustained by feeding off the misery that follows.
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Post by dem bones on Feb 10, 2021 18:00:37 GMT
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Post by dem bones on Oct 7, 2021 7:53:45 GMT
John Alfred Taylor - Gie Me Something ta Eat Afore I Dee: (John DeChancie & Martin H. Greenberg [eds.], Castle Fantastic, 1996: Paul Finch [ed] - Terror Tales of the Scottish Lowlands, 2021). Three centuries have elapsed since Malcolm MacDonald was walled up alive by Covenanter relatives. The forgotten prisoner of Drumtrodden Castle is best left that way. Sharyn McCrumb - The Monster of Glamis: (Maxim Jakubowski & Martin H. Greenberg [eds.], Royal Crimes, 1994: Foggy Mountain Breakdown & Other Stories, 1997). Told in the form of letters to "Dearest Wills," aged nine, from his mother, a Princess you may have heard of, concerning what really became of Rudolf Hess following his capture on landing in Scotland in 1941. Diana believes an identical fate has since befallen the real Sarah Ferguson who pried too deeply into Windsor family affairs.
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Post by ripper on Oct 10, 2021 17:22:52 GMT
In The Ripper and the Royals by Melvyn fairclough, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, is said to have been spirited away and held at Glamis after his faked death in 1892, dying there decades later. Due to the co-operation of the Bowes-Lyon family in looking after PAV, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon was given in marriage to the future George VI.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 17, 2022 13:28:22 GMT
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Post by dem bones on Sept 15, 2023 20:21:22 GMT
Photos; Maude A. Craigie-Halkett: Glamis Castle, the Forfarshire seat of the Earls of Strathmore, which is popularly supposed to be haunted. The following is, according to Vanity Fair, the most generally accepted version of the famous ghost story of Glamis Castle : "Hundreds of years ago the Lord Glamis of that day was playing cards with another noble of Angus. So engrossed did they become that they forgot it was Saturday night, and that Sunday was fast approaching. An old retainer, who ventured to remind the players of the time, only got sworn at for his pains, and both averred they would go on playing, if needs be, till Doomsday. As it struck twelve, so the legend runs, a man dressed in black appeared, who informed them that he had taken their lordships at their word, and, according to the tradition, the walls are supposed to have closed in on them forthwith. It is said that every year, on the night in question, the spirits of these two gamblers play cards in the secret room of the Castle, when the rattle of dice is heard, and other noises, more or less mysterious." — The Bystander, 27 September 1905 For Dr. Strange.
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Post by helrunar on Sept 16, 2023 0:46:45 GMT
I love all your Monster of Glamis Castle posts! So much fun.
cheers, Hel.
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