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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Nov 25, 2021 14:44:29 GMT
Pigeons from Hell by Robert E. Howard is one of the silliest tiles I've seen. On another thread Cauldronbrewer said this: Apparently his Pigeons from Hell is very good, but I have to say the title sounds silly. I don't know why an editor would use that title, and some of Howard's other story titles are well done, so what possessed him. Maybe it's because I'm British and my view of pigeons are of the type that poo on your car, and old people feed. Maybe they are exotic to a man from Texas. Perhaps someone should write Chihuahuas from Hades. I'm from north of Texas, but pigeons don't exactly carry menacing connotations here, either. Maybe this one would pair well with "The Dreadful Rabbits" by Gans T. Field (a.k.a. Manly Wade Wellman) under the "least scary titles" banner. Do you know other stories that have silly titles but the content is actually good? And would a title put you off reading a story? |
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Post by Middoth on Nov 25, 2021 15:00:35 GMT
"The Inglorious Rise of the Catsmeat Man"
"The Hoppity-Jump"
"The Jumpity-Jim"
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Nov 25, 2021 16:00:08 GMT
I know I did a thread with weird titles, burt this thread is different. These are just very bad.
I believe people mentioned films with bad titles, that were actually decent too.
Like Die, Monster, Die! the British title of which was Monster of Terror.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Nov 25, 2021 16:07:09 GMT
There were those blackploitation movies where it was insultingly assumed black Americans would only go to see films with black in the title, or if the title was in jive.
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Post by Middoth on Nov 25, 2021 16:14:24 GMT
"Even the Dead are Lucky Sometime"
nothing else comes to mind
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Nov 25, 2021 16:33:54 GMT
There are some titles that aren't bad as such, they just seem to be a basic statement of something. It's common in horror and ghost stories, and I'm wondering if the very plainness of the title is meant to give an extra level of strangeness to the events around it.
I noticed it with Lovecraft and titles like The Picture in the House and The Street.
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Post by humgoo on Nov 25, 2021 16:41:03 GMT
I don't have this one but are you sure the story itself is not silly? Kinda suspicious ... (RCH wins hands down when it comes to "creative" titles anyway.) |
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Post by Middoth on Nov 25, 2021 16:43:19 GMT
You seem to be talking about this sort of titles: "The House", "Rain", "The Tree", Wind", "The Well", "Ghost',etc Just minimalism, not everyone can come up with a name like "The Doll Who Ate His Mother"
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Post by pbsplatter on Jan 10, 2023 17:03:24 GMT
āThe Finger of Fearā by Charles Birkin comes to mind
āāYer Skinās Jesās SoftānāPurty,ā He Said (Page 243)ā by Chet Williamson
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