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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Sept 4, 2021 22:59:09 GMT
The only one is Sherlock Holmes The War of the Worlds
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Post by Swampirella on Sept 5, 2021 0:08:21 GMT
Thank you. I will look on my ebook site to see if any are available for loan. But I think it is unlikely. The Archive has one book, but sadly it says "Borrow Unavailable". Maybe that'll change.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Sept 6, 2021 11:25:51 GMT
I'm interested in the John the Balladeer, what more can you tell me? Between 1951 and 1987, Wellman wrote a series of short stories and five novels about a wandering guitarist named John. The series draws heavily on Appalachian folklore and folk music; Wellman lived in North Carolina for decades and knew the culture in great depth. John uses white magic--often in the form of songs--to defeat a variety of evil wizards, witches, and monsters, as well as to help people facing supernatural dilemmas. I think the short stories are stronger than the novels (this seems to be the consensus among fans), though the latter are worth reading, too. For much more commentary, there's also a thread about Wellman's fiction. Here's John havin' a pluck. Do si do y'all. Take yer partner by the neck.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 7, 2021 9:21:48 GMT
Elliott O'Donnell - The Grey Piper and the Heavy Coach of Donaldgowerie House, Perth: ( Scottish Ghost Stories, 1911: Brian Netherwood [ed.], Medley Macabre, 1966). Elliott O'Donnell - The Drummer of Cortachy: ( Scottish Ghost Stories, 1911). H. D. Everett - The Pipers Of Mallory: ( The Novel Magazine, May 1917: The Crimson Blind & Other Stories, 2006). Arthur Machen - Drake's Drum: ( Living Age, 14 June 1919: John Gawsworth (ed.), Thrills, Crimes & Mysteries, 1935). Elizabeth Walter - The Drum: ( Snowfall & Other Chilling Events, 1965: The Spirit of the Place & Other Short Stories, 2017). Leon Garfield – The Restless Ghost: (Pamela Lonsdale (ed.), Spooky, 1984). Lanyon Jones - The Call Of The Piper: ( When Dusk Comes Creeping, 1985). Ra Goli - The Pied Piper of Essex: (Andrew Garvey & David Saunderson [eds.], The Spooky Isles Book of Horror, 2018).
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Post by Middoth on Sept 7, 2021 10:04:29 GMT
Maese Pérez el organista by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (Leyendas)
El Miserere by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (Leyendas)
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Post by Middoth on Sept 7, 2021 12:17:14 GMT
Tchériapin by Sax Rohmer «Tales of Chinatown», 1922
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Post by dem bones on Sept 12, 2021 5:07:41 GMT
Anon [A. Apel] - Dance of the Dead: (1811: Peter Haining, [ed.] - Great British Tales of Terror, 1972. Charles M. Skinner - The Death Waltz: ( Myths & Legends of Our Land, 1896: Ronald Curran [ed.], Witches, Wraiths and Warlocks: Supernatural Tales of the American Renaissance, 1971. Jack Bradley - Haunted Hands: ( Weird Tales, June 1930: Christine Campbell Thomson [ed.], Switch on the Light, 1931. G. G. Pendarves - From The Dark Hills of Hell: ( Weird Tales, Jan. 1932). Francis James - Save the Last Waltz—For Death: ( Horror Stories, Feb-March 1938). Russell Gray - Song of Evil Love: ( Sinister Stories, Feb. 1940). Ruth Sawyer - Fiddler, Play Fast, Play Faster: ( The Long Christmas, 1941: Christine Bernard [ed], Armada Ghost 2, 1968). Eric Frank Russell - The Rhythm of the Rats: ( Weird Tales, July 1950: Peter Haining, [ed.] - The Black Magic Omnibus, 1976) Robert Bateman - The Hands of Orlac, 1961).
William Goldstein - Dr. Phibes, (1971, 2014).
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Post by dem bones on Sept 22, 2021 7:49:46 GMT
Mary Eugene Pritchard - On a Haunted Piano: ( Ghost Stories, May 1927). Many a person has mediumistic powers, and doesn't know it. Loretta Mackay didn't know until —. Atlanta, Georgia. The ghost of Edith, the drowned Civil War suicide bride, nightly returns to the old Whitson place to play We'd Better Bide a Wee on her beloved rosewood piano. Eventually the soaked spectre appears to, and confides in the new boarder, Loretta Mackay, who sets her troubled spirit free. J. H. (James Henry) Yoxall, MP - The Flautist: A Weird Story: ( Pearson's, May 1903). George Albert Greenup, a soloist in the band at the Alcazar restaurant, Oxford Street, buys a ten shilling flute from a slum shop. Greenup's playing improves so dramatically that he's auditioned for Hugh Griffin's orchestra and duly hired on a princely wage. In his cups, Greenup concedes his good fortune is all down to the magic flute, gets angry and attempts to smash it. Whereupon the wind instrument/ deadly snake hybrid shows it's vicious side. Truly terrible! Anthony Gittens - The Third Performance: ( The Evening Standard Book of Strange Stories, 1933: Peter Haining [ed.], Dr. Caligari's Black Book, 1968). The Symphonie de la Morgue Souterraine proves fatal to harpists.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 23, 2021 18:14:58 GMT
Hugh Rankin Carl Jacobi - The Satanic Piano: ( Weird Tales, May 1934). A gripping tale of occult terror and a marvellous musical invention. Nine months on from his release from the St. Mary's Institute for the Insane, James Wilson Farber, mad scientist with mesmeric powers, invites Bancroft, our narrator, to his studio on the London Embankment. Bancroft is a concert pianist and composer of the popular Satanic Dance, and Farber has chosen him to break in the greatest invention in history — a midget piano powered by human thought. At last Bancroft can translate the music playing in his head direct to keyboard! Alas, Farber seeks to improve on perfection. He abducts Martha Fleming - Bancroft's fiancee, a gifted pianist in her own right - and her African maid, Kari, an obea woman (!), intent on transferring their souls into the piano that it will compose and play on it's own accord! With Kari dead and dissected, Farber turns his scalpel to Martha .... Alan Hunter Fiona MacLeod (William Sharp) - By the Yellow Moonrock: ( The Dominion of Dreams/ Under the Dark Star, 1910: Jeff Dempsey [ed.], By the Yellow Moonrock, 1988). Rory MacAlpine the piper is lured to the standing stones on Dalmonadh Moor by the sweet music of the woman of his nightly dreams. Bernard Capes - The Vanishing House: ( The Sketch, 5 Jan. 1898 : Hugh Lamb [e.], Gaslit Nightmares II, 1991).
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Post by dem bones on Sept 26, 2021 8:20:42 GMT
Andrew Brosnacht: William E. Barrett - The Music of Madness: ( Weird Tales, March 1926). Unutterable Tortures, in a Temple of the Lost Atlantis. The narrator, who insists, appearances to the contrary, that he is a white man, has been reduced to begging on the streets of Rio de Janeiro. The poor wretch relates the horrific tale of how he and a German explorer were captured by Atlantean scientists and secured in a jungle temple for experimental vivisection. The ghouls dissected the German (who "squealed like a pig") and extracted the narrator's soul by means of a sweet melody played upon instruments resembling stringed snakes. They then transferred it into the horribly mutilated body of a black, and vice versa, hence his current plight. Alternatively, it could be that he's a xenophobe wrecked by drug abuse.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 6, 2021 18:40:40 GMT
"I am Death's Nocturne! I am the ghost of the music which slays!"Robert Leslie Bellem - Death's Nocturne: ( Spicy Mystery Stories, July 1936). Two men had died — from the weird melody of the old violinist? Could music thrust claws into the flesh of an innocent girl? Twenty years ago, Leopold Czernich, the finest violin virtuoso of his day, reportedly killed himself when his wife died giving birth to a child by one of three students under his tutorship. Czernich died cursing them. Now two of the three, Fernano Spanille and Gustav Brunne, have joined him in the grave, stricken down while performing his demon-gibbering melody, Nocturne Macabre. The last survivor is Mischa Obelonski, the world famous violinist. Obelonski is glad his two great contemporaries are dead as he hated both. Tonight he will perform the morbid melody with impunity, safe in the knowledge that, as he never slept with his beloved master's wife, he has nothing to fear. Pianist Jim Holden begs him to reconsider. Jim is engaged to Nelia Freeman, who lives across the way from Obelonski's mansion tending her kindly old father, David, a wheelchair bound cripple ( "he's an expert violin-maker, you know, even though he is paralyzed from the waist") . Tonight, as the maestro rehearsed Nocturne Macabre, the bloated, putrescent, goatee bearded ghost of Leopold Czernich attacked Nelia in her bedroom - Jim has examined the evidence for himself! "So what?," retorts the violinist. Nelia's problems are no concern of his! Tonight he will perform the suicide's masterpiece — or die in the attempt!
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 6, 2021 19:20:54 GMT
The typeface used for the story's title looks more 70s than 30s. Very odd.
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Post by Knygathin on Sept 26, 2023 10:43:05 GMT
David Lindsay - The Haunted Woman (1922). Very creepy violin player.
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