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Post by andydecker on Jun 27, 2021 11:55:05 GMT
Having just watched the new Severin edition of Kinski's Nosferatu in Venice - a classic case of what could have been but isn't, but the extras are nice - and now stumbling this week upon good old Daphne and her tale, I was reminded how much I love Venice as a backdrop. It has it all: decay, canals and surely things that live in the mud, mad monks, tales of torture and treason. It should have been a great place for Don Sebastian. Just recently I read a comic book story in one of those Australian reprints about Lee Falk's The Phantom in Venice with some very well done art.
But I had a hard time to remember if I have read horror stories about Venice. And came up blank. Except of course this one.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jun 27, 2021 12:40:16 GMT
But I had a hard time to remember if I have read horror stories about Venice. And came up blank. There are many. Just off the top of my head: Robert Aickman, "Never Visit Venice" L P Hartley, "Podolo" Simon Raven, "The Islands of Sorrow"
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Post by dem bones on Jun 27, 2021 13:13:54 GMT
Our friend David A Sutton devoted an anthology to the subject, Phantoms of Venice, which includes his own splendid La Serenissima.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jun 27, 2021 13:45:07 GMT
Our friend David A Sutton devoted an anthology to the subject, Phantoms of Venice, which includes his own splendid La Serenissima. I know that one, but it was not on the top of my head.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jun 27, 2021 13:56:53 GMT
Amelia B Edwards, "The Story of Salome" Wilkie Collins, "The Haunted Hotel"
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Post by andydecker on Jun 27, 2021 13:59:09 GMT
Thank you! Never saw this. Seems to be one of those really hard to get books from the small press.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jun 27, 2021 14:05:51 GMT
Zofloya; or, The Moor: A Romance of the Fifteenth Century by Charlotte Dacre.
Gothic novel.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jun 27, 2021 14:16:28 GMT
I'd imagine there are several with the Carnevale di Venezia as the backdrop.
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Post by dem bones on Jun 27, 2021 14:25:04 GMT
Thank you! Never saw this. Seems to be one of those really hard to get books from the small press.
It's since been reprinted by Shadow Publishing: Phantoms of Venice
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jun 27, 2021 14:35:31 GMT
I like these sort of things. Where you can search for early stories with a setting. Must be a few in other languages.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jun 27, 2021 14:43:39 GMT
This island in the lagoon is a perfect setting. Poveglia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PovegliaWas a quarantine station for plague and other diseases. Was the site of a mental hospital. Allegedly a mad doctor experimented here on patients with crude lobotomies. Sounds charming. A couple of graphic novels are set here too. Has anyone read them? Sandman graphic novel Endless Nights, the story Death and Venice. Linda Medley's graphic novel Castle Waiting.
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Post by Dr Strange on Jun 27, 2021 15:01:05 GMT
Simon Raven - "Remember Your Grammar" (1975)
LP Hartley - "Three, or Four, for Dinner" (1932)
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Post by helrunar on Jun 27, 2021 15:12:33 GMT
Good ones, Dr Strange.
Simon Raven's novel The Survivors--which was the book that made me a Raven fan (so embarrassing given Raven's shameless lack of any scintilla of political correctness, but fortunately at my advanced age I long ago abandoned ALL shame)--is set in Venice, and does have some shadings of horror--even hints of the supernatural. The old Pagan gods are never very far away in Raven's realm. The Survivors is the final novel in Raven's Alms for Oblivion sequence, but can be read on its own and enjoyed, for those of us who like this sort of thing. It was the first book in the sequence I read.
H.
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Post by helrunar on Jun 27, 2021 15:16:11 GMT
Also, superfluous to add, Visconti's film Death in Venice is superb. The child who played Tadzio is now a haggard, disturbed old dude with really long hair who has been the subject of a documentary. Life really can be more horrific than anything published by Herbert van Thal.
H.
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Post by weirdmonger on Jun 27, 2021 15:30:17 GMT
Also, superfluous to add, Visconti's film Death in Venice is superb. The child who played Tadzio is now a haggard, disturbed old dude with really long hair who has been the subject of a documentary. Life really can be more horrific than anything published by Herbert van Thal. H. He was the actor who played the old man who jumped to his death in MIDSOMMAR. The Visconti film is my favourite film. Thomas Mann who wrote DiV was a big influence on Aickmanās work.
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