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Post by dem bones on Aug 29, 2021 12:37:50 GMT
Andrew Brosnatch Arthur Thatcher - The Last of the Teeheemen [Part 2]: Two-part Serial — Weird Adventures Among Dog-faced Savages. No sooner have Holton and Rosalie slain the dinosaur than they fall into the clutches of the Dog-faced savages, who escort them at spear-point to the cave of King Ugu. They are to be sacrificed and, provided Muto, the King's butcher passes them fit for human consumption, feasted upon in three days time. But first the Dog-faced armies lay siege to the newly repopulated and secured city of Teeheemen. Ugo's vastly superior numbers are repelled and suffer mass casualties — thanks, mostly, to Benton's time-bombs — but they'll be back tomorrow! The King is so disgusted at this outcome that he brings forward the sacrifice of Rosalie and Holton to the following dawn. To make matters worse, Muto pronounces favourably. "The flesh of the white queen is of good texture... It will be pleasing to the river gods that she die, and her flesh will be meat for the king's table." The pair are tightly bound and forced inside a prison cave to await their grisly doom. Eight Dog-faces guard the entrance, but there's little need - there's no way the white gods will escape this time. They reckon without Holton's amazing rope-chewing teeth. The rescue party reach the cave just as Holton as battling the guards. Liberated for what seems the umpteenth time, there's no way Holton and Rosalie will allow themselves to be retaken. The whites join with the Teeheemen for the final battle with the Dog-faces and I think you know who wins. I'm no literary critic but I suspect that what I just read was pretty terrible, albeit it's also charming and, sporadically, engaging on it's own terms; and all that action would have made for a terrific Amicus or Hammer movie in The Lost Continent/ At The Earth's Core tradition. Can't decide whether to begin Greye La Spina's Invaders From The Dark or wait until Wildside have reissued the May and June issues .....
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Post by dem bones on Oct 3, 2021 8:38:57 GMT
The seventh of the Wildside Weird Tales 1925 reprints is upon us. Farnsworth Wright [ed.] - Weird Tales Nov. 1925 (Wildside Press, Sept 2021). J. U. Giesy - The Wicked Flea Seabury Quinn - The Horror on the Links Charles G. Booth - Dust of Shun-Ti John Dwight - The Thing in the Pyramid E. Hoffmann Price - The Prophet's Grandchildren Nictzin Dyalhis - The Eternal Conflict Sidney Lanier - Song of the Hound (verse) Willis Knapp Jones - The Fading Ghost Tom Freeman - The Death Shower Alanson Skinner - Bad Medicine Tessida Swinges - A Mind in Shadow Greye La Spina - The Gargoyle [Part 2 of 3] Wilhelm Hauff - The Severed Hand David Baxter - Nomads of the Night Frank Owen - The Yellow Pool
The EyrieJ. U. Giesy - The Wicked Flea: Riproaring Story of a Flea That Grew to Gigantic Size. As recently revived in Daisy Butcher & Janet Leaf's Crawling Horrors where a consensus of two agreed that Mr. Giesy's mildly notorious story of benign mad scientist Xenophon Xerxes Zapt and his super-size pet parasite is no way as awful as it's reputation suggests. Andrew Brosnatch Seabury Quinn - The Horror on the Links: A Tale That Climbs Steadily to a Climax of Sheer Terror. First of the Jules de Grandin adventures, also introduces Dr. Samuel Trowbridge, Det. Sergeant Jeremiah Costello and Nora McGinnis. Dr. Otto Benekendorff, the insane sado-vivisectionist, escaped from a Paris asylum during WWI, and has not been heard of since. Unbeknown to the authorities, he has taken the name Dr. Kalmar and relocated to the old Means place on the Andover Road, Harrisonville, there to continue his vile experiments and wreak vengeance on Mrs. Cornelia Comstock who broke off their engagement when he showed her his pets. The initial murder is that of nineteen year old Sarah Humphries, a waitress at the Sedgemore County Club, whose horribly mutilated body is found in a bunker on the adjoining golf course. Young Paul Maitland raised the alarm, having himself been mauled by the assailant, a gorilla in evening dress. Costello suspects the lad has been at the hooch, but - name of an old one-eyed tom-cat! - de Grandin, recalling the horrors perpetuated by Benekendorff in his native land, rightly suspects a reenactment of The Murders in the Rue Morgue as scripted in a madman's brain! Quinn's first appearance in a British publication came the following year when Christine Campbell Thomson revived the story for More Not At Night. Two vignettes. Willis Knapp Jones - The Fading Ghost: The Suicide's Specter Explains His Demise To The Doctor. Protagonist believes himself an astral, having committed suicide 28 minutes ago, though he looks and feels solid enough to the doctor. Turns out the tension of the moment got the better of him, resulting in an hilarious sit-com mix up, though his identical twin may struggle to see the funny side. I very much enjoyed the same author's The Green Scarab. This one is unutterably ludicrous. Tom Freeman - The Death Shower: The Murderer's Deed Bore Unexpected Consequences. Crawley wires up the shower to electrocute Margaret Brinslow's husband so he can have that delicious body all to himself. Things don't go to plan.
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Post by helrunar on Oct 3, 2021 16:33:35 GMT
Love the scans. I'm curious about "The Gargoyle" by Greye La Spina.
cheers, H.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 4, 2021 6:21:47 GMT
Love the scans. I'm curious about "The Gargoyle" by Greye La Spina. Now that Wildside have provided us with two of the three instalments, I'll likely chance it. In fact, Mr. Brewer's endorsement has decided me! The Gargoyle. Andrew Brosnacht Alanson Skinner - Bad Medicine: Old Owl Man Undertakes to Witch the Indian Agent's Wife. "A dirty Indian hasn't any rights like white people anyway. I hate the whole boiling of them; they're no better than beasts! What the government had to give them this good valuable land for, anyway, is more than I can see. Why didn't they just take the land and let the Indian's starve?" Tired of an uncles constant goading over his servitude to Mrs. Flora Dachs, the Government authority's delightful second wife, Michael Angelo of the Thunder clan approaches his grandfather, the sorcerer, to work evil magic on her. What begins as a bit of a chore becomes a great pleasure when Old Owl Man learns of a dark deed in Mrs. Dach's past. Frank Owen - The Yellow Pool: His China Girl Harmonized With the Tint That He Loved. Two days lost in the deadly Panama swampland has sent Paul Beloit colour-mad — everything in his immediate vicinity must be yellow. Eventually he finds a golden girl to share his life, but theirs is a love story bereft of a happy ending. Tessida Swinges - A Mind in Shadow: Touching Tale of Child Psychology and Remorse. A boy holds himself responsible for baby brother's idiocy after little Freddy fell from a carriage and banged his head when they were out playing. Now the guilt ridden youth is stricken with diphtheria. In his delirium he overhears the doctor and nurse agree that it would be a mercy if the moron were to die and the elder kid survive. Which sets us up just so for an agreeably unspeakable outcome — until the author loses her nerve. After enjoying Bad Medicine and, brief as it is, The Yellow Pool, thought we were on a roll, but it was not to be.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 4, 2021 18:25:36 GMT
Andrew Brosnatch John Dwight - The Thing in the Pyramid: Strange Lure Draws Men to Destruction in This Mayan Landmark. Stephen Grayton, archaeologist, heads an expedition through the rain forests of the Belize River Valley in search of a lost Mayan city. They find it. The city is dominated by a pyramid, on the plateau of which is a bottomless well, fifty foot wide. Each night, one of the natives is drawn up the 499 steps to throw himself into the black void, until only the white men, Grayton and Captain Dan, remain. Can they find their way to the river before darkness falls? E. Hoffmann Price - The Prophet's Grandchildren: Sulu Folk- Tale Explains Why Mohammedans Never Eat Pork. The White Christ, Isa the Nazarene, makes a fool of his Black counterpart, Mahomet, when the latter attempts his public humiliation by demanding evidence of his supposed "miracles." Wilhelm Hauff - The Severed Hand: Weird Story Reprints No. 4: Eery Adventure of Zaleukos the Greek and the Purple Cloak. If a mysterious stranger asks you to cut off a dead girl's head because her bereaved father wants if for a memento mori, always first check that she has no pulse. Blinded by an improbably huge cash sum, Zaleukos the surgeon failed to do so — and look where it got him.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 6, 2021 8:43:51 GMT
Andrew Brosnatch Charles G. Booth - Dust of Shun-Ti: A Scream in the Night — a Sudden Death — and a Mystery. Sun-Yet is murdered in a Vancouver hotel room by a party intent on recovering a map identifying the whereabouts of a casket. Said casket purportedly contains the sacred dust of Shun-Ti, the last of the Yuen dynasty. An American adventurer, who discovered the corpse and removed the map from the dead man's blood-sodden jacket, becomes a person of interest to the cut-throat killer. Andrew Brosnatch David Baxter - Nomads of the Night: A Kansas Bat and a Four-Cornered Race of Death. The author of The Brown Moccasin returns with a second nature study, this one concerning the struggles of a brown bat to protect her four newborn babes from such lethal predators as a rat and a cunning gray owl. Well told, if a little incongruous in what was still essentially a horror magazine with sci-fi interludes.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 10, 2021 9:55:33 GMT
Andrew Brosnatch Nictzin Dyalhis - The Eternal Conflict: Complete Novelette of Cosmic Spaces — of Heaven and Hell. "Welcome, my servitor on Earth." A New York businessman and member of a top secret occult group is summoned by She, the Shining One, Love's Prototype, Mistress of the Universe and Co, to undertake a spying mission on her behalf in the demon-infested domain of her adversary — Lucifer, ruler of all Lords of Wrong! On arrival, he is set upon by a horror out of Hieronymus Bosch (well, it would like to be, anyhow) and swallowed whole. But the Goddess has chosen well for the job, Driven by fury, the puny human carves his way out of It's belly - only to fall direct into the clutches of Lucifer's army, who manhandle him to the Palace of the Arch-fiend. Despite his terror, the diligent prisoner makes a note of his surroundings. "It was a mighty city, I must say that. It seemed, in a way, much as the cities in the Middle Ages in Europe appeared; and that type anyone can imagine for himself, so I shall not bother to describe farther." Lucifer - who despises Earth more than any other planet in the universe - is amused by the prisoner's indomitable spirit and orders that he made comfortable at the Palace. It pleases the Evil One to invite his guest to attend the Infernal Council where he will reveal his strategy toward his enemies. Alas, "I dare not write what I heard and learned." Even the Shining One herself is under instruction from above to remain forever silent on the matter. Lucifer having tired of his sport, condemns the earthman to eternal cosmic indescribable torture. Has the Shining One abandoned her devoted warrior - or is she already mustering her armies for the latest battle in the eternal conflict? A golden twenty-plus pages of Nictzin Dyalhis pondering the duality of man and the meaning of love is a daunting proposition, hence my leaving The Eternal Conflict to last in the hope it would miraculously go away. Have to say I "enjoyed" it more than anticipated.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 9, 2023 8:48:39 GMT
Farnsworth Wright [ed.] - Weird Tales, Jan 1925 (Wildside Press, Feb. 2023) J. Schlossel - Invaders from Outside George Waight - The Electric Chair Armstrong Livingston - As Obligated E. Hoffmann Price - The Rajah's Gift Henry S. Whitehead - The Fireplace Lenore E. Chaney -White Man's Madness Irvin Mattick - Red and Black Strickland Gillilan - When We Killed Thompson Lady Anne Bonny - Wings of Power [Part 1 of 3] Seabury Quinn - Out of the Long Ago Cargray Cook - On the Highway Frank Belknap Long - The Ocean Leech Francis Hard - Two Crows (verse) C. Franklin Miller - Fog Arthur J. Burks - Luisma's Return Victor Lauriston - A Changeling Soul Herman F. Wright - The Specter Priestess of Wrightstone Arthur Thatcher - The Valley of Teeheemen [conclusion] Greye La Spina - The Remorse of Professor Panebianco, C. M. Eddy, Jr. - Arhl-a of the Caves, H. P. Lovecraft - The Festival, Laurence R. D'Orsay - Phantoms
The Eyrie Third issue under Farnsworth Wright's editorship. Andrew Brosnatch Herman F. Wright - The Specter Priestess of Wrightstone: Ghostly Legend of an English Castle. Wrightstone Castle, Hampton Bog, near Manchester. A beautiful druid priestess, interred alive in the castle walls, returns after several centuries to cut the throbbing hearts from two Counts and several servants. As related to the author by the present day Sir Manderville Wright, who, understandably, prefers to live in London. Seabury Quinn - Out Of The Long Ago: Werewolves - a Tale of Heredity An archaeological dig in the Welsh mountains disturbs a dog-headed Ancient Briton. Fondly remembered from The Werewolf Scrapbook thread. Andrew Brosnatch Strickland Gillilan - When We Killed Thompson: For Thirty Years He believed himself a Murderer. Since childhood, narrator has lived under a cloud, convinced the net is closing in, and soon he and the family will be charged with killing their lodger for his shirt and trousers. Reads like something left over from Baird's year at the desk. Andrew Brosnatch E. Hoffmann Price - The Rajah's Gift: Oriental Tale - One Glorious Hour of Crowded Life. To reward his twenty years faithful service, the rajah of Lacra-Kai reluctantly grants Zaid the Persian his heart's desire, even though in doing so he has signed the man's death warrant. EHP's Weird Tales debut.
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Post by andydecker on Oct 9, 2023 9:17:33 GMT
I guess Wright had a lot of inventory to deal with, and it is not that I dislike Brosnatch as an illustrator, but this cover says historical adventure.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 9, 2023 19:18:18 GMT
I guess Wright had a lot of inventory to deal with, and it is not that I dislike Brosnatch as an illustrator, but this cover says historical adventure. "In late 1926 Wright was able to tell Hoffman Price, "Thank God, we've just about used up the last of the stuff Baird bought when he was editor." - Robert Weinberg, The Weird Tales story, 1977. From the strap line, seems the cover story concerns a war between distant planets. Weinberg was of a mind that these early Weird Tales serials were uniformly terrible, and, if those few I've read are typical of the standard, he's not wrong. Andrew Brosnatch C. Franklin Miller - Fog: Prehistoric Patagonian Monsters— a Tale of Stark Terror. Bonner and Moisell come under attack from things in the mist and reeking man-eating fungus while dinosaur hunting in South America.
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Post by helrunar on Oct 9, 2023 21:45:26 GMT
Marvelous. Every home needs a spectral Priestess to dispose of annoying guests.
cheers, Hel.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 10, 2023 17:39:25 GMT
Andrew Brosnatch George Waight - The Electric Chair: Death Faced Him - or Else the Grisly horror of an Unknown Fate. "... As you will remember, the problem is this: if a man is faced with the choice of alternatives, one of which leads to certain death and the other to some unknown fate which may range from freedom on the one hand, to a slow, revolting form of torture ending in a loathsome death on the other hand- if he is faced with choice, which alternative will he select? That is our problem, and this evening I look to you to decide that problem by being faced with just such a choice." Professor Ainsworth, MAD SCIENTIST, seeks a guinea pig for an experiment in choice ... of deaths! With none forthcoming, he volunteers niece's Mildred's fiancée - never could stand the young fool! Cargray Cook - On the Highway: Wild Automobile Ride, with Death at the Wheel. Clairbourne celebrates his twenty-first with a race to the death versus a mystery motorist. Sometimes attributed to Oscar Cook, though it reads nothing like him. It's a safe bet this was another Edwin Baird purchase. Luisma's Return: (Weird Tales, Jan. 1925). Haiti — Death of Henry I, Emperor of the North. Eager to impress a visiting dignitary, the self-appointed Emperor has his General lead the men in a march off the clifftop to be broken on the rocks. Luisma — what's left of him — crawls back up. Also available in Armchair Fiction's Wizard of Weird Tales.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 11, 2023 13:31:24 GMT
Andrew Brosnatch Henry S. Whitehead - The Fireplace: A Weird Murder — and a Ghostly Revenge. Room 25, Planters Hotel, Jackson, Mississippi, 23 December 1912. The ghost of Mr Charles Bellinger appears to lawyer Callendar seeking justice. Sixteen years ago to the night, Bellinger was hacked to pieces by card cheats and burnt in the fireplace. Callendar vows to bring the murderers to book, but paid work takes priority ... The ghosts loses patience. Andrew Brosnatch Laurence R. D'Orsay - Phantoms: Crime — Dope — and a Haunted Conscience. A hophead batters wife Martha with an iron bar, disposing of her corpse in a shallow grave on the swamp. Their baby he abandons near Suisun where perhaps someone might find and care for it. With sobriety, the appalling realisation of what he's done. Their ghosts return during the night .....
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Post by dem bones on Oct 14, 2023 13:48:42 GMT
Andrew Brosnatch Greye La Spina - The Remorse of Professor Panebianco: Scientist Tries to Find the Physical Qualities of the Human Soul. The Professor requires a guinea pig to test his greatest invention — a crystal globe to entrap the departing soul at the moment of death. Wife Elena, wretched at playing second fiddle to his work, volunteers, hoping humanity will prevail and he'll refuse to accept her sacrifice. There's a fat chance of that, even if, belatedly, the Panebianco is to be overwhelmed by grief: "Elena! Can you really mean it? You fill me with the most intense, most vivid gratitude and admiration — and,' he added hastily as if with an afterthought, 'love.'" Andrew Brosnatch Victor Lauriston - A Changeling Soul: ( Tale of Tangled Personalities). Sandry, an Egyptologist, persuades love rivals to participate in a guaranteed harmless experiment in transmigration that requires them merely to fall asleep. Flora has recently chosen Philip Kingswell — healthy, handsome, smarmy —over John Folke, a miserable cripple The outcome of the perfectly safe, nothing can go disastrously wrong experiment is hugely beneficial to one party, quite the opposite to the other. Andrew Brosnatch C. M. Eddy, Jr. - Arhl-a of the Caves: Zurd the Coward — and the Love of Arhl-a for Wagh the Mighty. On learning that one of his women has been abducted, Wagh the Mighty, Stone Age Tarzan, swears death to her captor. He's already too late, beautiful Arhl-a proving eminently capable of fending for herself — until set upon in the jungle by a mad great ape! Can Wagh reach her before the creature does its worse? One for fans of the launch issue's Nimba, the Cave Girl.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 16, 2023 18:09:10 GMT
Lenore E. Chaney -White Man's Madness: Last of the Incas — The Lure of Gold. Treasure hunter John Martin breaks a leg while seeking an Inca shrine in the Peruvian Andes. Nursed by an ancient tribe, he repays the kindness by scheming to rob their temple of gold — if only he can locate it. To this end Martin marries Taia, the Uilca's beautiful, lovestruck daughter, only to be told that, now she has wed a white outsider, both are denied access to the Holy place. Martin, crazed with greed, next tortures a local boy, who spites him by dying without revealing the temple's whereabouts. At last, he trails an Indian to a cave under the waterfall ... Armstrong Livingston - As Obligated: The Baronet's Bathroom Bell Was Bewitched. Sir Geoffrey Coombe has an electric bell fitted just above the bathtub that he might summon a servant should ever the need arise. Hopkins the electrician dies mortified that, despite constant running repairs on non-existent faults, the damn contraption refuses to function. At the moment of his passing, Sir Geoffrey comes over unwell while taking a dip ...
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