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Post by andydecker on May 30, 2021 12:24:59 GMT
It seems we don't have a thread for this. The deadly island. At first I thought only of Greek islands which are a place to avoid, as far as horror fiction goes. But I fear it is too limited. A close cousin to All at sea , but still its own.
These are all Beware of Greeks type of stories, but surely this is only the tip of Skull Island.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 30, 2021 12:30:09 GMT
Cloud on Silver by John Christopher
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Post by dem on May 30, 2021 12:41:31 GMT
Charles Birkin - The Terror On Tobit: ( Devil Spawn, 1936). T. K. Brown, III - Haunts of the Very Rich: (Richard Davis [ed], Years Best horror Stories 2, 1972). Mary E. Counselman - The Accursed Isle: ( Weird Tales, Nov. 1933: Christine Campbell Thomson, Terror By Night, 1934). Bassett Morgan - Island of Doom: ( Weird Tales, March 1932: Christine Campbell Thomson, Grim Death, 1934). Lady Eleanor Smith - No Ships Pass: ( Cassell's Magazine, April 1932; Tandem Book of Ghost Stories, 1965). Elizabeth Walter - The Island of Regrets: ( Snowfall & other chilling events, 1965).
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 30, 2021 12:42:48 GMT
Oh, is it only short stories?
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Post by Swampirella on May 30, 2021 12:43:57 GMT
Brian Lumley - No Sharks in the Med (worth multiple readings)
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Post by andydecker on May 30, 2021 12:56:34 GMT
Oh, is it only short stories? No. Everything is valid. These were just present as I read two of them in the last few days. |
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Post by helrunar on May 30, 2021 13:15:09 GMT
Dem, thanks for mentioning Bassett Morgan. Couldn't recall her name and I was about to go grab my copy of Not at Night (a Vault classic if ever there was one) off the shelf to bring her back to these tattered shores of memory.
I think she wrote the same story several times over but it doesn't matter because it's ALWAYS quite entertaining.
H.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on May 30, 2021 13:50:49 GMT
L P Hartley, "Podolo"
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Post by dem on May 30, 2021 13:56:07 GMT
Dem, thanks for mentioning Bassett Morgan. Couldn't recall her name and I was about to go grab my copy of Not at Night (a Vault classic if ever there was one) off the shelf to bring her back to these tattered shores of memory. I think she wrote the same story several times over but it doesn't matter because it's ALWAYS quite entertaining. H. Can't believe there's not been a collection of BM's stories - they don't all concern inter-species brain transplants, it just seems that way. Island of Doom is probably the best - certainly my favourite - but you really can't go wrong with her stuff. And it brought out the best in Joseph Doolin, too.  Joseph Doolin ( Weird Tales, Feb. 1932) Andreas, there must be hundreds of island stories in WT alone. |
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Post by ohthehorror on May 30, 2021 14:18:07 GMT
Richard Laymon - Island
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Post by humgoo on May 30, 2021 14:21:01 GMT
It seems we don't have a thread for this.
Thanks a lot Andy for creating this! It's one of those "why Peter Haining didn't have an antho for this" topics! |
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Post by cauldronbrewer on May 30, 2021 16:37:00 GMT
Lots of great stories in this thread already. I'm particularly keen on Lee's "The Gorgon," Smith's "No Ships Pass," and Hartley's "Podolo."
A few more:
A. Merritt - "The Moon Pool"
W. Fenimore (A. Merritt?) - "The Pool of the Stone God"
William Hope Hodgson - "The Voice in the Night"
William Hope Hodgson - "The Habitants of Middle Islet"
Margaret St. Clair - "The Island of the Hands"
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Post by mrhappy on May 30, 2021 17:01:46 GMT
H.T.W. Bousfield - "The Unknown Island" (1935)
A little chiller by an author whose supernatural/fantastic tales I would like to see gathered in a slim but enjoyable volume.
Mr Happy
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Post by dem on May 30, 2021 17:27:59 GMT
Richard Laymon also has The Maiden in Nancy Collins & Co's erotic horror selection, Dark Love, 1995. Algernon Blackwood - a Haunted Island: ( Pall Mall, April 1899, The Empty House & Other Ghost Stories, 1906. Brian Netherwood [ed.], Terror!, 1970, etc). Seabury Quinn - The Isle of Missing Ships: ( Weird Tales, Feb. 1926: The Adventures of Jules de Grandin, 1976) Edmund Hamilton - Pigmy Island: ( Weird Tales, Aug. 1930: Christine Campbell Thomson [ed.], Switch on the Light, 1931). Novels: Guy N. Smith - Night of the Crabs, 1976. Guy N. Smith - The Island, 1988. Robert E. Lory - Horrorscope #1: The Green Flame of Aries, 1974. |
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Post by Knygathin on May 30, 2021 18:35:48 GMT
H. G. Wells - The Island of Dr. Moreau
W. H. Hodgson - The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig', "The Island of the Ud"
H. P. Lovecraft - "Dagon", "The Call of Cthulhu"
C. A. Smith - "The Isle of the Torturers", "The Uncharted Isle", "The Master of the Crabs"
Thomas Ligotti - "Nethescurial"
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