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Post by humgoo on Sept 2, 2021 7:13:03 GMT
Imaginary? As we all know here on the Vault, they're anything but. Charles Birkin - Little Boy Blue ( The Smell of Evil): Birkin goes ghostly. What do you expect? A happy ending? Shamus Frazer - Florinda ( Chillers for Christmas): Another nasty one. Small wonder Birkin handpicked it for The Tandem Book of Ghost Stories. Peter Tremayne - The Samhain Feis ( Halloween Horrors): Seriously, who doesn't want to meet a new friend on Halloween, especially when you're in Ireland? Rosemary Timperley - Harry ( The Third Ghost Book): Super possessive brotherly love. Always creeps me out, this one. John Collier - Thus I Refute Beelzy ( Of Demons and Darkness): Over-anthologised, but it's always comforting to see a progressive parent get his comeuppance. A.M. Burrage - Playmates ( Between the Minute and the Hour): Rich and having nothing better to do, bachelor and historian Everton adopted eight-year-old Monica (whose deceased father, a mad poet, was a casual acquaintance) just to test his theories about bringing up children. Homeschooling! Monica is left to her own resources, browsing the enormous home library to learn whatever she likes, while Everton acts as a cold, scientific observer of his ward. Having no one of her own age to play with, Monica invents seven imaginary friends—at least that's what Everton thinks. Not nasty at all, but very charmingly told as we can expect of Burrage. Marian Abbey - Watching Over You ( New Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories): Good ghost alert! Anthony Boucher - Mr. Lupescu ( The Unquiet Grave): Boo! Bogus imaginary friend. Be Careful What You Imagine! Tulpa Interlude Tony Richards - The Brother ( Nightmares) Jennie Howarth (from a story by Paula Milne) - The Exorcism of Amy ( Spooky) Frank Baker - Miss Hargreaves [novel]: "Two young men imagine an elderly poetess who then appears. A perfectly realised novel of comic supernaturalism."— Tartarus Press Supernatural Fiction Database
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Post by dem bones on Sept 2, 2021 9:14:00 GMT
Brilliant! Struggling to think of any! I guess David H. Keller's The Thing in the Cellar and Stephen King's The Boogeyman are more (not so) imaginary enemies? How about the long dead girl in John Gordon's Never Grow Up? The narrator spills his heart over her grave but there's no indication there's anything left of her to hear. Oh, and Lance Salway, Such a Sweet Little Girl in Mary Danby's Spooky Tales.
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Post by Dr Strange on Sept 2, 2021 13:26:41 GMT
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Post by dem bones on Sept 2, 2021 15:21:49 GMT
Maybe these? Davis Grubb - Where the Woodbine Twineth: ( One Foot and the Grave, 1966). August Derleth - The Lonesome Place: ( Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Feb. 1948: Night's Yawning Peal, 1952). Multiple tulpa. Theodore Sturgeon - The Professor's Teddy Bear: ( Weird Tales, March 1948: The Unexpected, 1961). John Keir Cross - Esmerelda: ( The Other Passenger: 18 Strange Stories, 1944: 7th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories. 1971). David Campton - At the Bottom of the Garden: ( Years Best Horror VI, 1978). Been some time since I read this, but, as I (mis?)remember it, it qualifies. Girl always banging on about her special friend at bottom of the garden. No-0ne believes her. Ends really horribly.
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Post by Dr Strange on Sept 2, 2021 15:42:25 GMT
At novel length there is Thomas Tryon's brilliant The Other (1971).
It was also filmed in 1972, with the film now supposedly having some degree of "cult status" about it, but I don't think I have ever seen it. I am sure there will be at least one person here who has.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Sept 2, 2021 15:47:46 GMT
At novel length there is Thomas Tryon's brilliant The Other (1971). It was also filmed in 1972, with the film now supposedly having some degree of "cult status" about it, but I don't think I have ever seen it. I am sure there will be at least one person here who has. I have seen it, and read the novel, but I am not a big fan. I recently also made the mistake of rereading Tryon's LADY. Now that is offensive crap of the first order.
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Post by Dr Strange on Sept 2, 2021 16:12:01 GMT
I liked the book, though I think I might already have had a fair idea of what was going on even before I started it. I can't remember exactly when I got around to reading it, but it was only in the last 10 years or so. What I've read about the film suggests it was shown fairly regularly on TV in the late 70s/early 80s, but I am pretty sure I never came across it and it doesn't seem to be available on disc. I can see why the premise might not really work in a film - but it does seem to have its fans, and so I am curious about it.
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Post by Middoth on Sept 2, 2021 16:28:47 GMT
Mr. Ram by Jean Ray (The Black Tales of Golf 1964)
Mr. George by August Derleth (Weird Tales, March 1947)
The Words of Guru by Cyril M. Kornbluth ( Stirring Science Stories, June 1941)
Harvey by Mary Chase (play) The Thing by R. Chetwynd-Hayes (The Seventh Pan Book of Horror Stories)
He by Lovecraft
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Sept 2, 2021 17:11:49 GMT
it doesn't seem to be available on disc. I can see why the premise might not really work in a film - but it does seem to have it's fans, and so I am curious about it. I am pretty sure I have it around somewhere in one home video format or another. The film cheats the viewer outrageously, of course.
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Post by andydecker on Sept 2, 2021 17:51:51 GMT
At novel length there is Thomas Tryon's brilliant The Other (1971). It was also filmed in 1972, with the film now supposedly having some degree of "cult status" about it, but I don't think I have ever seen it. I am sure there will be at least one person here who has. I have seen it, and read the novel, but I am not a big fan. I recently also made the mistake of rereading Tryon's LADY. Now that is offensive crap of the first order. Sounds like an endorsement
Its been ages like I read Harvest Home, which may be the Patient Zero of Folk Horror or not. I am not sure. Any Folk Horror in Weird Tales?
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Post by andydecker on Sept 2, 2021 17:57:59 GMT
I liked the book, though I think I might already have had a fair idea of what was going on even before I started it. I can't remember exactly when I got around to reading it, but it was only in the last 10 years or so. What I've read about the film suggests it was shown fairly regularly on TV in the late 70s/early 80s, but I am pretty sure I never came across it and it doesn't seem to be available on disc. I can see why the premise might not really work in a film - but it does seem to have it's fans, and so I am curious about it. Isn't it on Youtube?
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Post by Dr Strange on Sept 2, 2021 18:04:49 GMT
I liked the book, though I think I might already have had a fair idea of what was going on even before I started it. I can't remember exactly when I got around to reading it, but it was only in the last 10 years or so. What I've read about the film suggests it was shown fairly regularly on TV in the late 70s/early 80s, but I am pretty sure I never came across it and it doesn't seem to be available on disc. I can see why the premise might not really work in a film - but it does seem to have it's fans, and so I am curious about it. Isn't it on Youtube? Don't think so. I can't really watch films on YouTube, I always end up fast-forwarding through bits, which I never do with discs.
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Post by Dr Strange on Sept 2, 2021 18:10:52 GMT
Its been ages like I read Harvest Home, which may be the Patient Zero of Folk Horror or not. I am not sure. Any Folk Horror in Weird Tales? I don't think I have ever read Harvest Home, but it seems to owe quite a lot to Shirley Jackson's The Lottery - which was first published in The New Yorker in 1948.
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Post by andydecker on Sept 2, 2021 18:42:49 GMT
Don't think so. I can't really watch films on YouTube, I always end up fast-forwarding through bits, which I never do with discs. I know what you mean. The quality on youtube is often so terrible - or the movies too - that I also often do some fast-forwarding. Normally I do this only on stuff taped on the hard-drive of my tv-gizmo.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Sept 2, 2021 18:48:31 GMT
I don't think I have ever read Harvest Home, but it seems to owe quite a lot to Shirley Jackson's The LotteryThat I would not say, as "The Lottery," although it deals with a peculiar custom, does not seem to me to involve the supernatural in any way. But I always felt that T E D Klein's THE CEREMONIES owes a lot to HARVEST HOME.
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