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Post by Swampirella on Sept 17, 2021 16:15:57 GMT
Since nobody else seems to have time, I'll start us off:
The Third Shadow - H. Russell Wakefield, Weird Tales, November 1950. Read it here:
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Post by dem bones on Sept 17, 2021 17:02:05 GMT
Basil Tozer - Pioneers of Pike's Peak: ( The Strand, Sept. 1897, & Co.) William J. Makin - The Black Laugh: ( Strange Tales, Jan. 1932). Lorretta Burroughs - The Snowman. ( Weird Tales, Dec. 1938). Twice in one day. L. T. C. Rolt - The House of Vengeance: (Hugh Lamb [ed], The Taste of Fear, 1976 (which reminds me, I need a rematch). Thana Niveau – The Face: (Paul Finch [ed.], Terror Tales of Wales, 2014). Kevin Williams - Am Fear Liath, the Grey man of Ben Macdui: (Andrew Garvey & David Saunderson [eds.], The Spooky Isles Book of Horror, 2018. Virtually everything involving sasquatch/ a yeti/ the abominable snowman, & Co.
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Post by Middoth on Sept 17, 2021 17:15:46 GMT
The Moon Stricken by Bernard Capes ( At A Winter's Fire, 1899)
The Place of Pain by M. P. Shiel (1914)
Abominable by Fredric Brown (1960)
The Glamour of the Snow by Algernon Blackwood (Pan's Garden, 1912)
Death in Peru by Joseph Payne Brennan (Mystic Magazine, January 1954)
The Woman with the «Oily Eyes» by Dick Donovan
The Devil's Elixirs by E. T. A. Hoffmann (episode from the novel, 1815)
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Post by Dr Strange on Sept 17, 2021 17:42:24 GMT
E.F. Benson - The Horror Horn ( Hutchinson's Magazine, Sept 1922; Visible & Invisible, 1923) Simon Bestwick - The Moraine ( Terror Tales of the Lake District ed. Paul Finch, 2011) Michelle Paver - Thin Air: A Ghost Story (2016)
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Post by humgoo on Oct 24, 2021 5:50:24 GMT
A. N. L. Munby - The White Sack ( The Alabaster Hand, 1949): The Black Cuillin, Isle of Skye. Marchand, after relishing the majestic view of Loch Coruisk, parts with his companion to go on alone. Bad decision. Exhausted, he falls asleep on a stone slab and dreams of the watermill near his childhood home and its sinister owner. He is locked up by the miller in a store-room, where the "great white sacks which lined the walls seemed to be moving, slowly but none the less surely, inwards." This nightmare turns out to be a presage, as a fabric-like creature is awaiting him between the now mist-shrouded peaks.
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Post by weirdmonger on Sept 10, 2022 15:11:33 GMT
THE HORROR-HORN by E.F. Benson
Amid the strains of Puccini, this is a Swiss hotel to match that of the sanatorium in the Swiss mountain snow of Mann’s ‘The Magic Mountain’ (reviewed by me at length in 2013), and Benson has somehow turned one scene into the Swiss snowy mountain of a very effective horror story, perhaps expressing the human fears then of the bestial that many white men feared in those days, and which came out in history. Benson removed the cannibalism of Mann (see passage quoted from the Mann below), and replaced it with the ripped-off hindleg of a chamois, shame!
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“Scarcely daring to venture, but following an inner compulsion, he passed behind the statuary, and through the double row of columns beyond. The bronze door of the sanctuary stood open, and the poor soul’s knees all but gave way beneath him at the sight within. Two grey old women, witchlike, with hanging breasts and dugs of fingerlength, were busy there, between flaming braziers, most horribly. They were dismembering a child. In dreadful silence they tore it apart with their bare hands—Hans Castorp saw the bright hair blood-smeared—and cracked the tender bones between their jaws, their dreadful lips dripped blood. An icy coldness held him. He would have covered his eyes and fled, but could not. They at their gory business had already seen him, they shook their reeking fists and uttered curses—soundlessly, most vilely, with the last obscenity, and in the dialect of Hans Castorp’s native Hamburg. It made him sick, sick as never before. He tried desperately to escape; knocked into a column with his shoulder—and found himself, with the sound of that dreadful whispered brawling still in his ears,…” – Thomas Mann (The Magic Mountain — published in 1924 the same year as The Horror- Horn? The preternaturality of the literary gestalt!?)
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