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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jul 17, 2021 14:02:25 GMT
Please share places that were used in horror/ghost/pulp fiction that you have visited, and whatever impression each made on you. Was it a building that someone populated with ghosts? Was it a wood or hill or lake or mountain where strange things from other times still lurked? Was it a village or even town where you walked in the Footsteps of madmen! Was the place like you expected from the novel or story? Tell us the name of the tale and share your experiences!
Edited to say can also be films or TV.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jul 17, 2021 14:20:57 GMT
I've visited several cathedrals, especially here and in France, and there must be stories set in some of them. But I can't think of any.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jul 17, 2021 14:36:11 GMT
In James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, two brother's who have become enemies meet each other atop Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh, during a thick fog, and a monstrous face looms out of the gloom. It's very evocative. You get a fine view of the city and beyond from there. It's very nice. Some routes up are harder than others. I've never been up during a fog or mist, but it has been wet. Have any of you?
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Post by weirdmonger on Jul 17, 2021 16:09:30 GMT
I've visited several cathedrals, especially here and in France, and there must be stories set in some of them. But I can't think of any. My favourite cathedral is Ely. Read Facial Justice by LP Hartley. (Just being a go between here).
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Post by helrunar on Jul 17, 2021 16:39:29 GMT
A "go-between"--nice touch, WeirdMonger!
cheers, H.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jul 17, 2021 18:50:11 GMT
I have visited Thermae Palace, the enormous old beach hotel in Ostend, Belgium, featured in Harry KĆ¼mel's 1971 film, LE ROUGE AUX LĆVRES (DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS).
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Post by ripper on Jul 17, 2021 19:17:14 GMT
Guy N. Smith's pulp horror novel Bats out of Hell is initially set on Cannock Chase in Staffordshire, which I know very well having lived on its edge all my life. There are bats over there, occasionally get one straying onto our garden, but no killer varieties.
Cannock Chase is often featured in books on the paranormal as there have been alleged sightings of big cats, werewwolves, bigfoots or should that be bigfeet, fairies, UFO crashes, black-eyed children and so much more. It's the site of a series of infamous child murders in the 1960s (the investigation was bigger than the one for the Moors murderers), and I live literally yards from where the victim of a beheading post WWI lived.
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Post by Swampirella on Jul 17, 2021 19:50:53 GMT
Guy N. Smith's pulp horror novel Bats out of Hell is initially set on Cannock Chase in Staffordshire, which I know very well having lived on its edge all my life. There are bats over there, occasionally get one straying onto our garden, but no killer varieties. Cannock Chase is often featured in books on the paranormal as there have been alleged sightings of big cats, werewwolves, bigfoots or should that be bigfeet, fairies, UFO crashes, black-eyed children and so much more. It's the site of a series of infamous child murders in the 1960s (the investigation was bigger than the one for the Moors murderers), and I live literally yards from where the victim of a beheading post WWI lived. I was wondering whether to re-read the Pat Molloy book about those murders, now that you've mentioned it, I think I will. Just finished Nick Redfern's "Man-Monkey" where Cannock Chase is mentioned several times, but I've read more about it elsewhere.
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Post by ripper on Jul 17, 2021 20:51:52 GMT
Guy N. Smith's pulp horror novel Bats out of Hell is initially set on Cannock Chase in Staffordshire, which I know very well having lived on its edge all my life. There are bats over there, occasionally get one straying onto our garden, but no killer varieties. Cannock Chase is often featured in books on the paranormal as there have been alleged sightings of big cats, werewwolves, bigfoots or should that be bigfeet, fairies, UFO crashes, black-eyed children and so much more. It's the site of a series of infamous child murders in the 1960s (the investigation was bigger than the one for the Moors murderers), and I live literally yards from where the victim of a beheading post WWI lived. I was wondering whether to re-read the Pat Molloy book about those murders, now that you've mentioned it, I think I will. Just finished Nick Redfern's "Man-Monkey" where Cannock Chase is mentioned several times, but I've read more about it elsewhere. I have heard of the Molloy book but never read it. It's a shame that the victims of that monster Morris seem to have been forgotten. I was very young when he claimed his last victim, Christine Derby, but recall seeing posters asking for information on her disappearance and being told at school not to get into the cars of people we didn't know. Again, haven't read that particular Redfern book, but the Chase is also mentioned in his book on UFO crashes, one near Penkridge (about 6 miles from where I live) in 1965 and one on the Chase itself in 1974. Oh, and there were alleged sightings of a crocodile-like creature in a stream a mile or so from our house around 15-20 years ago.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jul 17, 2021 21:41:29 GMT
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jul 17, 2021 22:10:03 GMT
Not a book or film as such, but Whitstable has a bench and a place called Cushing's View. The bench was presented to the town by the actor and was partly in memory of his late wife I think, as her name is on it too, and the view was popular with the great horror star. Such a nice place Whitstable. I think oysters are popular there.
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Post by Shrink Proof on Jul 18, 2021 8:48:23 GMT
Not a book or film as such, but Whitstable has a bench and a place called Cushing's View. The bench was presented to the town by the actor and was partly in memory of his late wife I think, as her name is on it too, and the view was popular with the great horror star. Such a nice place Whitstable. I think oysters are popular there. There were horrors in Yorkshire too, though not like Cushing's View. Scarborough had Savile's View, courtesy of Scarborough Council, in honour of famous resident Jimmy Savile, sign erected soon after he died. And then soon afterwards torn down (but vandalised first). At the same time that his massive gravestone/memorial in a prime spot in the cemetery was removed and ground into rubble for hardcore, following which his Freedom of the Borough was cancelled. Funnily enough, in the three decades before that, the Council leader claimed to be ignorant of what everyone else in Scarborough knew - that Savile was a weapons grade child abuser. But he'd only been the local police chief after all, so you couldn't expect him to have kept up with the word on the street....
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Post by ripper on Jul 18, 2021 10:19:17 GMT
Rugeley is 3 miles from where I live. In 1839 Christina Collins was murdered on a canal narrow boat and her body thrown overboard. Her body was recovered and carried up some steps now known locally as the Bloody Steps. Two men also on the narrow boat were convicted of her murder. Colin Dexter used the crime as inspiration for his Inspector Morse novel The Wench is Dead.
Clive Ward used the William Palmer case in his story Doctor's Orders. Palmer was a doctor who poisoned a number of people in Rugeley in the mid-19th century and was hanged.
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Post by Swan on Jul 18, 2021 12:17:32 GMT
Not a book or film as such, but Whitstable has a bench and a place called Cushing's View. The bench was presented to the town by the actor and was partly in memory of his late wife I think, as her name is on it too, and the view was popular with the great horror star. Such a nice place Whitstable. I think oysters are popular there. There were horrors in Yorkshire too, though not like Cushing's View. Scarborough had Savile's View, courtesy of Scarborough Council, in honour of famous resident Jimmy Savile, sign erected soon after he died. And then soon afterwards torn down (but vandalised first). At the same time that his massive gravestone/memorial in a prime spot in the cemetery was removed and ground into rubble for hardcore, following which his Freedom of the Borough was cancelled. Funnily enough, in the three decades before that, the Council leader claimed to be ignorant of what everyone else in Scarborough knew - that Savile was a weapons grade child abuser. But he'd only been the local police chief after all, so you couldn't expect him to have kept up with the word on the street.... With his links to every level of the elite he had become untouchable, and knew it. If he had ever been caught I'm sure he'd have "killed himself" in jail before trial. It's sickening viewing to see footage of some of his shows where he is surrounded by crowds of young girls, bussed in for the occasion, and probably from some children's home. There is a particularly vile one where Gary Glitter is there, and on Savile's invitation seats himself between two young girls puts his arms around their shoulders and says "I get two".
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Post by Swan on Jul 18, 2021 12:40:44 GMT
What a cheerful thread this has become! I suggest the Princess does a thread on more cheerful stuff. I was going to say cuddly monsters, but there have been some of those in real life too. Perhaps stick to fiction.
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