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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jul 12, 2021 11:59:45 GMT
Please list the oddest ways of killing people in horror or detective fiction.
What are the most weird methods used by fiends in stories to do away with unfortunates? (repeating same words as from last thread as can't be bothered to write any new ones)
I'm sure the strange imaginations of pulp writers have given us some really bizarre and exotic methods. Can you tell us about them and name the stories they came from.
Thank you.
Edited to say thinking about this we don't really want to give away too much do we and spoil the plots. Perhaps we can just hint and suggest, while not spoiling it for a new reader.
It's a bad choice of thread, I didn't think. Oh well.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jul 12, 2021 12:28:24 GMT
I can't think of any. Here is the closest off the top of my head.
Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
A beautiful girl (like me), locked away (like me), tends a garden of poisonous plants (not like me), and a young man spots her from his window and falls in love (a common occurrence with me). What could possibly go wrong?
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Post by Middoth on Jul 12, 2021 14:27:31 GMT
" Devils in the Dust" by Arthur J. Burks The fiend lures peasants in the gale where they are tortured by his doubles.
"forget the title" by Stephen Barr
the author of one of the most original detective stories about a locked room (a man killed someone and burned himself to cinder. It turned out, the killer disappeared without a trace).
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jul 12, 2021 18:26:50 GMT
" forget the title" by Stephen Barr It is "The Locked Room to End Locked Rooms" (aka "The Locked House") by Stephen Barr. But it is terrible. |
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Post by Middoth on Jul 12, 2021 19:38:11 GMT
Jojo Lapin X you'd better offer something exciting for mademoiselle Tuvstarr.
a lot of thanks for title.
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