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Post by dem bones on Jun 29, 2021 7:23:48 GMT
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jun 29, 2021 13:32:13 GMT
Thinking of the Horror in the City thread I started made me think of fiends also. There are certain types of fiends that you imagine existing in a certain type of city aren't there. When they are taken out of that setting then they seem incongruous. However that doesn't have to be a bad thing, if it adds to the story and is done well, or is just good fun. This one seems a bit too odd though, but maybe the artist has took a bit of licence (such as not bothering to read the book) with the brute. Even for '70s New York he might stand out, especially if there was a Ripper style murderer on the loose.  |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jun 29, 2021 13:57:43 GMT
There are lots of very gifted authors on this site (none of which, to be honest, I have read, or had even heard of before coming on here, but then they are all alive) who are at the very forefront of the horror field! (shameless bigging them up here)
I'm guessing these wondefully imaginative people have conjoured up a fiend or two in their time, from the dark cubby-holes of their astonishing minds (still bigging up). Please share your favourite fiends from your own work with us.
Then we can decide if you are a black-hearted fiend in waiting (which I'm guessing most of you are, as most of you are men and men are beasts)!
Edited to say I'm assuming they are all alive. Several seem unsavoury characters and their is a whiff of the undead about them, mentioning no names, but they know who they are!
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Post by Dr Strange on Jun 29, 2021 15:13:51 GMT
I have a problem with this cover, which is that the Ripper figure in silhouette at the bottom is ambiguous in terms of which direction he is walking in. For some reason, I always see it as showing him walking in the opposite direction to the girl - so they have just passed each other, and her facial expression is saying "what a weird looking guy". I'm sure this is completely wrong, and he is supposed to be following her - but I still see it the other way. Maybe it's some sort of test. |
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Post by andydecker on Jun 29, 2021 15:44:30 GMT
I never fail to marvel that even fringe magazines like Web Terror Stories managed to get somehow great cover art. |
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Post by samdawson on Jun 29, 2021 15:53:06 GMT
Edited to say I'm assuming they are all alive. Several seem unsavoury characters and their is a whiff of the undead about them, mentioning no names, but they know who they are! Heh, Heh, Heh. |
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Post by samdawson on Jun 29, 2021 15:54:06 GMT
Absolutely, it feels impossible to see it as anything but a figure walking away
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Post by andydecker on Jun 29, 2021 15:57:24 GMT
I have a problem with this cover, which is that the Ripper figure in silhouette at the bottom is ambiguous in terms of which direction he is walking in. For some reason, I always see it as showing him walking in the opposite direction to the girl - so they have just passed each other, and her facial expression is saying "what a weird looking guy". I'm sure this is completely wrong, and he is supposed to be following her - but I still see it the other way. Maybe it's some sort of test. Rabbit or Duck? 
Count me in in the opposite direction camp.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jun 29, 2021 16:19:15 GMT
Edited to say I'm assuming they are all alive. Several seem unsavoury characters and their is a whiff of the undead about them, mentioning no names, but they know who they are! Heh, Heh, Heh. Like Michael Connolly you obviously have no reflection Samdawson. How do you shave in the morning? |
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Post by samdawson on Jun 29, 2021 17:05:36 GMT
Garn, I do my best to laugh like an old pair of leaky bellows and in response I am asked about my shaving habits. I am tempted to answer that the last time I had a shave it was at a barber's in Fleet Street
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jun 29, 2021 17:12:48 GMT
Garn, I do my best to laugh like an old pair of leaky bellows and in response I am asked about my shaving habits. I am tempted to answer that the last time I had a shave it was at a barber's in Fleet Street Am I now in conversation with a pie? Have the wicked Sweeney and Mrs Lovett done there stuff to you? (Turning very surreal here). Having a vision of a pie bouncing on a keyboard to type reply. |
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Post by samdawson on Jun 29, 2021 17:23:37 GMT
Pshaw!
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jun 29, 2021 18:10:17 GMT
samdawson do you have any characters you have used more than once in stories?
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Post by samdawson on Jun 29, 2021 18:32:30 GMT
Yes, one rather nasty piece of work (closely based on someone I used to know), who appears in two stories written probably 10 or 15 years apart (so he's older in the second one). Also, bit players in one story later got a story of their own, one of four that had roots in a particular setting. I've found great pleasure in inventing/adapting a village or town or part of London, giving it a name and having it appear across a number of stories, often years apart - and enjoy seeing other people doing the same in their writing.
I hope one day to have a collection of reprinted stories published, which would for the first time allow me to bring together those stories which use those particular settings so other readers can join the fun.
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Post by Swampirella on Jun 29, 2021 18:45:08 GMT
I have a problem with this cover, which is that the Ripper figure in silhouette at the bottom is ambiguous in terms of which direction he is walking in. For some reason, I always see it as showing him walking in the opposite direction to the girl - so they have just passed each other, and her facial expression is saying "what a weird looking guy". I'm sure this is completely wrong, and he is supposed to be following her - but I still see it the other way. Maybe it's some sort of test. I too can only see him walking away. She had a lucky break, but for how long? |
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