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Post by dem bones on May 29, 2021 9:55:18 GMT
Thanks for purchasing, Swampirella! Enjoy the reads. We're just five sales away from reaching our charity fundraising target now, thanks to you buying. That really is good news. It's only taken - two weeks? Pretty good going! Hope you will share your thoughts, Swampi. Glad you liked '11:59'. Atypical for a horror collection, I'm sure, but I liked the idea of going of on a tangent. Reproducing the pubs of my youth was a bittersweet experience. I did! Found it very moving. Are you planning a collection?
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Post by iant on May 29, 2021 10:49:44 GMT
Myself and fellow BHF5 scribe Andrew Llewellyn are working on a collaboration due in early 2022. Spoken in Whispers. We'll probably use a couple of our BHF contributions in it, but the rest will be all new. Illustrated throughout by Sekene Paxton-Brooks and proofed by our good pal Darrell. We even have thoughts on a further follow-up.
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Post by andydecker on May 29, 2021 11:35:52 GMT
After the endorsement I also ordered No.5 as an ebook. I am not a fan of the PDF format, but as the first look confirmed, the book is nicely done. As someone who is out of tune with the music world I appreciated the list of the original songs at the end.
But that the file omits the cover is a bit disappointing, though.
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Post by dem bones on May 30, 2021 9:53:52 GMT
Simon J. Ballard – Good Girl Gone Bad: A serial killer stalks Oxford, targeting gay men. Tonight Jay Edwards, the self-styled 'Robyn the Ripper' (he's a Rihanna fan), pays a visit to New Carterton and the home of his hot Grindr date. 'SpunkPig.' it transpires, is a Satan-worshipping man mountain bent on performing human sacrifice ...
Neil Pike – Welcome Home: When McCabe's son, Raymond, falls foul of a Manchester loan shark, the old man faces a stark choice. Sign over the deeds to his 2000 acres of land and six properties, or idiot boy dies. Horribly. Fortunately, McCabe's estate include Riverhead Cottage, a dilapidated hovel, home to a problematic tenant.
Sam Dawson – The Village Green Preservation Society: Cruddley vs. Belgravian Gentlemen Amateurs. Just another game for the away side, a bitter grudge match for the hosts, who have a 140 year-old score to settle with the toffy-nosed Metropolitan tossers. In keeping with the noble spirit of the game, villagers extend their opponents all due courtesy and pre-match entertainment in the form of a traditional Morris Dancing display. The charms of 'Orchid Jill, spirit of the trees,' are not lost on the visitors' #1 ladies man.
Darrell Buxton – Memory Of A Free Festival: A short companion piece of sorts to Polish in BHF Horror #3 (feat. Tod Slaughter), an unvarnished account of author's encounter with dark forces while taking a piss on the third morning of the 1995 Reading festival. Raises alarming probability that a former Queen of all our hearts breakfast TV presenter is the Anti-Christ.
This book would make a great basis for a TV anthology series.
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Post by iant on May 30, 2021 14:03:35 GMT
A TV anthology series, ah if only!
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Post by darrell on May 30, 2021 16:55:00 GMT
As the story submissions were coming in, earlier this year, it occurred to me that four or five of them might make good episodes of an anthology movie.
However, I co-wrote an Amicus-style, 1970s-set screenplay about three years ago and haven't been able to attract interest in it, so I figured "why go through all that again?"
Maybe I'll do it the other way round and turn the screenplay into a novel...
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Post by dem bones on May 30, 2021 17:31:09 GMT
Andrew Llewellyn – Hamburger Lady: Michael Johnson, a psychopath and sex fiend, somehow convinces the parole board that he is entirely rehabilitated and no longer a danger to the public. On his release, Johnson's first port of call is the hamburger joint at Montgomery, to meet Charlotte, the buxom blonde been writing him love letters throughout his lengthy incarceration. The dumb silly is already making wedding plans!
Charlotte doesn't show. Johnson is on the verge of throwing a fit until she calls to explain, never-believe-it, car-won't-start, oh-I'm-such-a-ditz and she'll have to walk. Maybe he could he meet her halfway, in Oakwood Cemetery?
Darkest of the tales to date, unflinching as TG themselves. Proposed TV series will not be for softies.
Later
Damn, the series got cancelled!
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Post by iant on May 30, 2021 17:46:49 GMT
Andy is full of darkly brilliant stuff like this!
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Post by dem bones on May 31, 2021 8:04:47 GMT
Jez Conolly – Dead Babies: Set during the 'Sod the Jubilee' summer of 1977. What 11 year old Vincent Furnier (no relation) did on his holiday. First five weeks, narrow boating with parents, a complete wash out, really boring, 'cept for when they saw that dog. Last week, when he, Andrew and Nathan formed their top secret club, made up for it though, especially when Andy's dopey big sister said her boyfriend had got her pregnant and she was scared what her parents would say and she didn't want babies and ... That Pieces of Mary vibe. Pop culture references abound. Vincent's English teacher is so in for a treat marking his homework.
Brian Gregory – Daniel: A dead soldier returns from the desert conflict to mourn his mum and catch up with the bullying, racist drunken World's best dad ever who ruined both their lives. B. Taupin lyrics, gloomy to begin with, take on an even grimmer significance. I still hate that bloody mawkish song, mind.
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Post by greatestmate on May 31, 2021 14:25:55 GMT
Very glad that you felt Hamburger Lady to be a worthy namesake to the TG track it was inspired by. It was my very first work of fiction and I enjoyed writing it so much that it sparked me off on a new trajectory in writing. 13 story anthology (written by Ian Taylor and myself) 'Spoken in Whispers' is now in production.
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Post by dem bones on Jun 1, 2021 19:44:15 GMT
Wayne Mook – Two Seconds: Narrator engaged in psychic battle with Dierdre, a charismatic black witch intent on the sacrifice of their mutual friend at the old Woodson place. Dierdre's been no fun since mother cast a spell to strike her blind when she chose to pursue the Left Hand Path. Not sure I quite got all that was going on in this one.
Ian Millsted – Seasons In The Sun: While awaiting A Level results, Maddie takes summer work at a seaside kiosk. But when old Pat, the guardian spirit of the beach, dies on the eve of her departure for University, the torch is passed to a new chosen one, someone with the welfare of the beach at heart. Maddie brilliant career is over before it began. It's my honest belief that parks and churchyards have their guardian spirits too, though the load may be shared by two or three people. Simon J. Ballard – Television Rules The Nation: When sexually adventurous Erica and Mark move to Brading village on the Isle of Wight, their first thought is to convert the cellar into a home S&M dungeon. That their new home is haunted by a demon only adds to their excitement.
Ian Taylor – The Passenger: Driving home in pouring rain, Colin Selkirk, insurance broker, stops to pick up a man in grey on a country road - only for the miserable fellow to vanish into thin air! On hearing his story, George, landlord of the local pub, strongly advises Colin take a different route home in future. The phantom hitcher is known locally as 'The Warning,' and no good will come of meeting him twice. A nice Tales of the Crypt vibe to this one.
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Post by iant on Jun 1, 2021 21:30:53 GMT
Wayne Mook – Two Seconds: Narrator engaged in psychic battle with Dierdre, a charismatic black witch intent on the sacrifice of their mutual friend at the old Woodson place. Dierdre's been no fun since mother cast a spell to strike her blind when she chose to pursue the Left Hand Path. Not sure I quite got all that was going on in this one. Ian Millsted – Seasons In The Sun: While awaiting A Level results, Maddie takes summer work at a seaside kiosk. But when old Pat, the guardian spirit of the beach, dies on the eve of her departure for University, the torch is passed to a new chosen one, someone with the welfare of the beach at heart. Maddie brilliant career is over before it began. It's my honest belief that parks and churchyards have their guardian spirits too, though the load may be shared by two or three people. Simon J. Ballard – Television Rules The Nation: When sexually adventurous Erica and Mark move to Brading village on the Isle of Wight, their first thought is to convert the cellar into a home S&M dungeon. That their new home is haunted by a demon only adds to their excitement. Ian Taylor – The Passenger: Driving home in pouring rain, Colin Selkirk, insurance broker, stops to pick up a man in grey on a country road - only for the miserable fellow to vanish into thin air! On hearing his story, George, landlord of the local pub, strongly advises Colin take a different route home in future. The phantom hitcher is known locally as 'The Warning,' and no good will come of meeting him twice. A nice Tales of the Crypt vibe to this one. I'll gladly take the Crypt vibe comment, thank you. A very early draft of The Passenger won a Young Writers competition in Manchester in the early 90s. I didn't attend the celebration as I was on a lads holiday in Greece... which inspired further stories, so I guess I was doing the right thing! ;-)
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Post by dem bones on Jun 2, 2021 6:58:15 GMT
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Post by dem bones on Jun 3, 2021 10:56:17 GMT
Neil Pike - Fade to Grey: War on drugs; the final chapter. The Government hand MicroTech Solutions a lucrative contract to develop self-cloning mini-machinery primed to seek out and destroy the cannabis plant. What could possibly go right?
Ken Shinn - Nasty: An investigative reporter tracks down a theme-driven serial killer, whose murders replicate the blood-splattered, entrails-spilling death scenes of select video nasties. Sick and twisted as one would hope from subject matter. Ending may come as a jumbo surprise. Be sweet if the band got to see this one.
Darrell Buxton - Disco Duck: Nerve-end shredding "this town ain't big enough for the both of us" drama. Jack, a serial killer who takes his cue from the seven magnificent deadly disco smashes, had it all his own way — until the Carrot-top Killer arrived on the scene.
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Post by jepersonoatcake on Jun 3, 2021 11:15:32 GMT
'Sick and twisted as one would hope'...I'm delighted that you think so, dem bones! This is perhaps the grossest and most repugnant tale that I've written to date, and I found it - heh heh - a great deal of fun to do so...
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