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Post by cauldronbrewer on Aug 1, 2021 16:44:17 GMT
Jack Woodford - The Band of Gold : A Fearsome Tale of Plastic Surgery. To win back her toy boy lover, Mrs. Zander colludes with a struck off surgeon to steal her young love rival's comely body. Farnsworth Wright should have introduced a monthly department, 'Edwin Baird selects another masterpiece of horror' to keep us from guessing. We've been rough on old Baird lately, haven't we? The publishers made a good call in handing Wright the reins instead.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 1, 2021 18:19:05 GMT
We've been rough on old Baird lately, haven't we? The publishers made a good call in handing Wright the reins instead. It was Baird purchased and published The Rats in the Walls, The Loved Dead, and The Phantom Farmhouse, for three - no-one can take that from him. I'm grateful to him for several personal favourites including The Hermit of Ghost Mountain, Beyond the Door, A Square of Canvas, The Golden Caverns, The Vow on Halloween, etc, etc. Also, the readers' response to those early issues is akin to the enthusiasm I've seen from contributors to Paranormal Romance forums - they clearly love what they're reading, are extremely grateful for a magazine that meets their needs. Farnsworth Wright proved the correct appointment but no question we owe Baird a debt. And I'm 15 pages into The Last of the Teeheemen. It's nothing to laugh about.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Aug 1, 2021 18:41:05 GMT
We've been rough on old Baird lately, haven't we? The publishers made a good call in handing Wright the reins instead. It was Baird purchased and published The Rats in the Walls, The Loved Dead, and The Phantom Farmhouse, for three - no-one can take that from him. I'm grateful to him for several personal favourites including The Hermit of Ghost Mountain, Beyond the Door, A Square of Canvas, The Golden Caverns, The Vow on Halloween, etc, etc. Also, the readers' response to those early issues is akin to the enthusiasm I've seen from contributors to Paranormal Romance forums - they clearly love what they're reading, are extremely grateful for a magazine that meets their needs. Farnsworth Wright proved the correct appointment but no question we owe Baird a debt. Nicely put. I also think Dorothy McIlwraith deserves praise for steering the magazine through some tough times. We've been rough on old Baird lately, haven't we? The publishers made a good call in handing Wright the reins instead. And I'm 15 pages into The Last of the Teeheemen. It's nothing to laugh about. I see what you did there. That's all I can say.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 2, 2021 8:34:24 GMT
Nicely put. I also think Dorothy McIlwraith deserves praise for steering the magazine through some tough times. So true. Really, she had it toughest of the three. Following the man, no Lovecraft or Howard to rely upon (to name but the most famous of several reliable contributors gone to their graves before she took over in an emergency), massive competition from better paying markets, the inevitable "its not as good as it used to be" from the old lags. To this day I'd have preferred if WT have ended with her final issue. Andrew Brosnatch Arthur Thatcher - The Last of the Teeheemen: Part 1: Two-part Serial — Dog-faced Savages and Strange Beasts. Five years on from their previous adventure in the Brazilian valley of Teeheemen, Captain Holton, Herman van Otter and Bruce Benton return with three natives and Mr. Robert Sharon, father of a young woman reportedly kidnapped by a savage dog-faced cannibal tribe loyal to King Ugu. Their duel mission is to rescue Rosalie Sharon and, more important by far, slay the last of the dinosaurs from which the valley takes its name, and return its carcass to the States. After a brief set to with a sabre toothed tiger, the party arrive in the once thriving lost city to find it abandoned. What could have caused the chieftain Duros and his 30,000 people to have fled their home? The answer is forthcoming when they venture upon a group of savages tormenting a solitary slave ploughing a field. They recognised the brutalised grafter as Duros himself! Provoked beyond endurance, the chieftain grabs a spear from an assailant and drives it clean through him, whereupon the whites and guides join the fray. The liberated Duros explains that the few thousand of his people to survive the war with Ugo's invading dog-faced nation have been imprisoned or enslaved like himself. Over 25, 000 have been eaten! In less time than it takes to tell, Duros and the whites have overcome the guards at seven separate prisons to release 5,000 men women and children back to the city. Meanwhile, Holton has found and freed a delighted Rosalie. "How wonderful! You can never realise the life I have lived in this savage country since I was first captured by the horrible men with claws instead of fingers and toes. My dear father, how he has suffered too! And to think that he never ceased to search for me, and now he is about to succeed after all this time!" They are not out of the woods yet. As the couple head back to the city, they are attacked by the last of the mighty dinosaurs! Is it carnivorous? enquires Rosalie, as it charges the tree behind which they've taken shelter. Afraid so. Holton realises their best hope is to blind it. He aims for the eyes .... Gordon Philip England - Adventures of an Astral: Weird Story in Lighter Vein. "Upon hearing me state coolly that I, the man she had married, was a frequent visitor to the spiritual world and an avowed devotee to the cult of spiritualism, Lucetta uttered a piercing scream and fell unconscious." In deference to his wife, the author promises to forsake astral travel for a new hobby, and duly sets out for Monte Carlo to take up gambling. Ruined within a week and in debt to a mad Russian, he reneges on his vow, only to spend so long away from his body that it is embalmed, en-coffined, collected by a heartbroken Lucetta and loaded aboard a ship home to America. The Grenadier sinks to the bottom of the sea! At least Lucetta is among the few survivors, but how to retrieve his body from a vault? The agony is intensified by an old love rival, Edward Grant Thomson, another devotee to spiritualism, who is not slow to console the rich young widow, and nightly torments the destitute spirit as to his progress in that direction. So help me, I enjoyed both.
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Post by helrunar on Aug 2, 2021 13:38:48 GMT
Those tales really sound off the hook. The England one reminds me of this astral sex story in one of those early 1950s US horror comics I found out about thanks to your astute curatorial guide-notes. I read it on that comic books plus site.
cheers, H.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 3, 2021 8:19:23 GMT
Andrew Brosnatch Edith Lyle Ragsdale - The Burning Wrath of Allah: Desert Tale —Fiendish Revenge of an Arab Sheik. Prof. John Hunt and soldier of fortune Billy Dean camp on the outskirts of Hazad village, intent on locating a centuries-old meteorite, worshipped locally as 'the Burning Wrath of Allah,' and shipping it home to America for study. Sheik Abu-Rashid politely asks he do no such thing. Angered by Hunt's defiance, Abu-Rashid warns that things can only go badly with him should he profane the sacred rock. That same night, Hunt receives a midnight visitor to his tent. Shahrazad, dutiful daughter of the Abu-Rashid, is sweet on Billy Dean, and offers to lead them to the meteorite. We suspect a trap, but the Princess, tragically for her, is true. Hunt is captured by the Arabs. The Sheik's vengeance is truly appalling. Very surprised CCT overlooked this one. Willis Knapp Jones - Bright Eyes of Adventure: Hatred — Quick Poison — and New World Romance. Peruvian Countess de Torre plots to murder the Viceroy for killing the husband she despised (it's an honour thing). The handsome, dashing Viceroy knows her game but insists he loves her so much he will drink wine from the poisoned glass if she so desires. Strap-line — tells you everything — you need to know. John H. Green - Seven Men in A Tank: Unusual Crime in an Oil Field. Bill Hickman, highly respected Sheriff of Smackover, investigates the mysterious and terrible drowning of seven young labourers at the Arko Tank farm during his re-election campaign. Grim vignette, reads like a certain Jim Thompson novel in miniature.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 4, 2021 9:49:38 GMT
Andrew Brosnatch G . Frederick Montefiore - Black Curtains: Miser's Gold - and Blood. "I want to paint something different ... something to wake them up! Gruesome, perhaps, but with a touch of pathos and the ever-necessary feminine interest!" No sooner has Victor Stapleton thought these thoughts than Fland the mad miser, his neighbour the other side of the black curtain, invites the young painter to his room for a game of "find my gold, and its yours!" Truth to tell, Stapleton is more interested in persuading the old creep's gorgeous grand-daughter to pose for him. Where is she, by the way? CCT's selection from the issue for that same October's launch Not At Night. Henry S. Whitehead - The Thin Match: To Set Something on Fire Was Her Highest Wish Adventures of a plucky Scandinavian sister of Swan Vesta, ostracised by the other matches as a skinny, misshapen reject. She proudly fulfils her destiny in Labrador as Pete the trapper, freezing inside a snowbound shack, comes under relentless attack from a hungry lynx. Samuel M. Sargent, Jr. - The Dane: A Night of Terror with a Mad Dog. Lost in a snow blizzard, two trappers are saved when they chance upon the cabin of Scarred Lowell, so named on account of his hideously mutilated face. The old recluse relates how, twenty years ago to the night, he came by his wounds.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 6, 2021 5:48:51 GMT
Andrew Brosnatch Volney G. Mathison - The Death Bottle: Tale of Death — and the Sea —and Black Sigurd Fearful that his dying father, Captain of the Eider, will disinherit him in favour ot a native orphan, Black Sigurd Knudsen laces the old man's medicine with strychnine. Saintly Chortka, the supposed beneficiary of the Captain's new will, attempts to save Sigurd from himself. George Ballard Bowers - A Gaddaan Alaad: Filipino Crime and Retribution. Domingo, thrown from his horse while crossing the river after a poor day's hunting, takes out his anger on two boys playing there-in by lancing them clean through their thin bodies. When his daughter, Maria, falls sick, he realises he must confess all to placate the gods. The law allows for poetic licence, so Domingo substitutes 'fawns' for 'boys' and returns home fully expecting to see his little Maria restored to health. The God's are not the mugs he takes them for.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 11, 2021 12:16:06 GMT
Reaching the end of March 1925 issue. Carlos G. Stratton - A Pair of Mummies: An Egyptian-Babylonian Story. An archaeologist is drawn to the ruins of ancient Babylon to seek out the tomb of a pair of suicides — a Princess and her forbidden lover, an Egyptian physician-magician. Soul mates reincarnated and reunited, or perhaps the more prosaic possibility of a madman's mummy theft from the British Museum? Jan Dirk - Radio V-Rays: Disaster Befell Two Youths Who Listened in an Interplanetary Radio. San Francisco. Dick Jarvis and Stan Ross, engineering students and pioneering radio enthusiasts, design a monstrous apparatus they believe will have the capacity to tune into red planet frequencies. The mechanics of the thing entirely lost me, but seems the Martians are still smarting over their recent The War of the Worlds defeat, and the young boffins don't live to celebrate their success. Margaret McBride Hoss - The Weird Green Eyes of Sari: He Lost His Soul to a Green-eyed Thing From the Sea. Phil Sanborne has loved Mary McKee from childhood - until, that is, he comes under the spell of Sari Threnow, a cruelly beautiful, soul-stealing mermaid. For the most part a horror highlight of the 1925 issues but marred by the weakest ending. As revived by the Ackerman for Rainbow Fantasia.
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Post by Middoth on Aug 11, 2021 13:16:03 GMT
The Weird Green Eyes of Sari such title should not be missed.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 11, 2021 19:17:09 GMT
Andrew Brosnatch: Fletcher R. Milton - The Flaming Eyes: Complete Novelette — Hypnotic Incense — Perils — A Stolen Idol. New Mexico. Andrew Bishop, archaeologist, is gifted a bronze devil, stolen on impulse from a Temple in India, which he converts to an incense burner. On visiting a Hindoo Curio shop to buy joss-sticks, he is first cursed by the proprietor, then handed a box of 'special' incense blocks when the fellow's mood swings alarmingly to obliging pleasantly plump chap. That night, on lighting the first block, he is transported to a room, where two mad flaming eyes watch over all and a terrified blonde, armed with a knife, stalks an unseen presence in the dark. Bishop's vivid adventures continue over a series of nights until he is down to the last block of drugged incense. The girl finally confides to Bishop that she is Lenore Brandt. as in, daughter of the murdered looter of the temple! Bishop and Ms. Brandt are now officially in love, but can he rescue her from the temple before the flaming eyes scorch both to cinders? OK, if unduly long, convoluted and confused as this terrible synopsis.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 23, 2021 14:00:07 GMT
Farnsworth Wright [ed.] - Weird Tales, April 1925 (Wildside Press, Aug. 2021) Nictzin Dyalhis - When the Green Star Waned Harry Harrison Kroll - Bloody Moon Joel Martin Nichols, Jr. - The Lure of Atlantis C. M. Eddy, Jr. - Deaf, Dumb, and Blind James W. Bennett & Soong Kwoen-Ling - The Soul-Catching Cord Donald E. Keyhoe - The Grim Passenger H. Thompson Rich - Little Island Seabury Quinn - Servants of Satan #2: Giles and Martha Corey J. B. Powell - The Dark Interval Hasan Vokine - Sleigh Bells Greye La Spina - Invaders from the Dark [Part 1 of 3] Frank Owen - The Wind That Tramps the World Alexander J. Snyder - Treasure Frank K. Shaw - Back From Dust Arthur J. Burks - Strange Tales from San Domingo #3: Daylight Shadows Francis Hard - The Dark Pool (verse) Eudora Ramsay Richardson - The Haunting Eyes Robert Eugene Ulmer - The Headless Horror Walter G. Detrick - Through the Horn Gate Edward Hades - The Electronic Plague Arthur Thatcher - The Last of the Teeheemen [Part 2 of 2] Nellie Cravey Gillmore - The White Scar William Sanford - Grisley's Reception
The EyrieLatest reissue from Wildside Press. When the Green Star Waned aside, I'm not sure too many of the stories have seen previous reprint, although we've bumped into The Grim Passenger on the mummy thread. Either Christine Campbell Thomson didn't receive this issue or she wasn't all that taken with the contents. Seems like there's no escaping Arthur Thatcher and his rotten Teeheemen.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Aug 23, 2021 20:35:55 GMT
Latest reissue from Wildside Press. When the Green Star Waned aside, I'm not sure too many of the stories have seen previous reprint, although we've bumped into The Grim Passenger on the mummy thread. Either Christine Campbell Thomson didn't receive this issue or she wasn't all that taken with the contents. Seems like there's no escaping Arthur Thatcher and his rotten Teeheemen. The Eddy story has appeared in the some of the "Lovecraft's revisions" anthologies. I've seen negative commentary about it, but I kind of liked it when I read it back in high school. The La Spina serial is a conventional but entertaining werewolf story. "When the Green Star Waned" is a monumental achievement in crapola.
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Post by helrunar on Aug 23, 2021 21:30:52 GMT
When I looked at that mag cover, all I could think is that that poor chap's rather overly large willy had come tumbling out of the inadequate garment he had donned for his startling plummet through the astral realm. No doubt I was mistaken.
I do find that large willies show up unexpectedly in the most surprising places, however.
H.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 24, 2021 9:54:04 GMT
"When the Green Star Waned" is a monumental achievement in crapola. Andrew Brosnatch Nictzin Dyalhis - When the Green Star Waned: Evil Beings From the Dark Side of the Moun Attack Aerth. The people of Aerthhave been enslaved by Lunarians, a race of seemingly indestructible, levitating formless cannibal blobs from the Moun, aka, the most evil region in the entire galaxy. The dire situation warrants investigation by a Venhez space patrol, who are duly shocked by what they find. Aerthlings were never a particularly intelligent species - you only have to study their history; that terrible world war in ancient times! - but they deserve better than this. "So utterly abhorrent were conditions on Aerth that our Supreme Council decreed that such must be abolished at any cost. Not the planet, but the state of affairs prevailing. For they feared that the very Aether would become putrescent, and moral degeneracy reach eventually to every planet of the Universal Chain!" The Venhezians' considered response is to mount a clean-up campaign, annihilating Aerthling and Lunarian alike, albeit the latter are, to all intents and purposes, unkillable. Even the Blastors - deadliest weapon known to any planet - prove ineffective. Ron Ti, the Venezians #1 genius, ponders what seems an unsolvable problem — until the chance intervention of his musically-inclined "love-girl" .... Is this one of those space opera things? Celebrated by WT readers in it's day though stories popularly has considerably declined in recent years. Personally, I could have done with some detail on the Lunarians' 'ghastly orgies' as there was little else to cling on to. Harry Harrison Kroll - Bloody Moon: A Thrilling Tale of the Kentucky Caves. An Indian Princess curses a family of settlers who wiped out her peaceable tribe. As recently mentioned on Appalachian & Southern horror thread.
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