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Post by dem bones on Jun 14, 2021 8:50:42 GMT
Edith Ross - Out of the Shadows of Madness: (Aug./Sept. 1931), What is it? Who is it? Worse than any feverish nightmare's distortion, the hideous brainchild of genius roams the earth to strew death and insanity in its path. "Any one of the attendants here at the asylum will tell you I am sane. It is absurd to keep on saying that I am mad — and it is cruel — on, worse than cruel — to keep me here." Meet Andre Pierson, writer of weird fiction/ madman in denial [take your pick]. When story begins, Pierson has taken up residence at the remote Grey Rose plantation house to concentrate on a series of shockers featuring his most horrific creation to date; La Mort, an evil, hunchbacked killer dwarf. Pierson knuckles down. The stories, his finest work yet, good as write themselves, but .... something's wrong. As we bangs out his manuscript it is as though there is an unseen presence drooling over his shoulder! The room takes on a fetid reek. Pierson catches sight of an obscene creature leering from the mirror. Something picks up Pierson's faithful hound, Blinker, snaps the poor old fellah in half. A bestial-chuckle puts the willies up Martha the cook, who quits with immediate notice. No sooner has Pierson fled the property than a nine year old girl is savagely murdered and mutilated in the local village. La Mort is loose on the world. The author invests in a witch-dagger and returns to Grey Rose for a showdown with the monster from his own brain!
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Post by dem bones on Jun 16, 2021 10:21:30 GMT
Carl T. Pfeufer Wilbert Wadleigh - The Prehistoric Phantom: (March 1931). Out of the dim past, before Adam, came a specter into the House of the Living Dead, and .... Hungry and fed up with being an object of scrutiny at all times, Williams, the most dangerous inmate of the Pelham House of the Insane, twists apart the bars of his cage to escape into the Oakmont countryside. Three psychics studying his case agree that the madman is possessed by a prehistoric elemental because he likes his meat raw and his favoured weapon is the club, Now Williams aka the "chicken-stealing ghost" attacks a farm with inevitable grisly consequences. Can he be stopped before he eats someone important?
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Post by dem bones on Jun 17, 2021 13:09:07 GMT
Carl T. Pfeufer W. H. D. Bence - Midnight Sorcery: (April 1931) "Refrain from dabbling in the mysteries!" cautioned the old book on magic, at the end: but underneath was scrawled the words; "Too late!". Monte Cernier village in the Swiss Jura, present day. Jules Maury, herb doctor, is furious at having been overlooked in the will of the late uncle, Edwouard Bourquin, in favour of the dead man's brother. When the latter puts Edwouard's cottage up for auction, it is bought by our narrator, a single father, who laughs off Maury's threat that, if he can't live at La Loge then no-one else shall. Shortly after moving in, while browsing Bourquin's library, narrator finds a volume on magic and demonology compiled by sixteenth century sorcerer, Capellarius of Amsterdam. It seems someone has recently consulted the volume for a certain formula. Meanwhile the village is plagued by the nightly visits of a loup garou with odd-coloured eyes - the distinctive feature of the covetous Jules Maury! This story is more in keeping with something Weird Tales would publish over ... come to think of, I don't suppose there is a typical Ghost Stories story.
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Post by dem bones on Jun 21, 2021 7:24:29 GMT
The revelation of the anthology, however, is the mysterious Tibbits, whose Green Death (which could have been called "The Green Lodge," as it reminds me of a certain H. R. Wakefield story) George Tibbitts - Green Death: (Dec. 1931 - Jan. 1932). Who were the slimy green Things who took possession of Rodney Stearns' house — and then battled for his body and soul? Can such things be?. Successive owners of the Hollows, Norgate, are possessed by the spirit of a debauchee who throttled a prostitute in the bridal room. Over the past decade the property has seen a gardener drowned, a maid clawed by slimy green "monkeys" from the marshes, at least one murder, and several cases of insanity. Fearless Robert Stearns, big game hunter, is the latest to fall under the evil spell. Narrator Ted Craig tragically suggests he throw a weekend party to lift the mood. Mr. Brewer not kidding. Wonder if Wakefield was ever made aware of the ... similarities?
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Post by humgoo on Jun 21, 2021 8:23:14 GMT
Mr. Brewer not kidding. Wonder if Wakefield was ever made aware of the ... similarities? Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and all that ... Just love this kind of blatant rip-off! They don't do that anymore (or do they?) ...
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Post by dem bones on Jun 21, 2021 13:16:50 GMT
A ghost caught on camera in The Thing That Limped Gordon Malherbe Hillman - The Thing That Limped: (July 1931). Your favourite psychic detective, Cranshawe, now faces a gangster war in the Bloody Seventh which involves an invisible murderer who baffles gunmen and police alike! Cranshawe, master of the supernatural and uncanny, investigates a series of bizarre murders in gangland, an unseen someone or something having taken to strangling mobsters and bent cops on Death Corner. Things have been peculiar since Big Jeff Gennara's #1 machine-gunner, the Limping Kid, inexplicably went missing this time last year.
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Post by dem bones on Jun 22, 2021 15:50:03 GMT
Clare Angell Jack D'Arcy (as told by Robert Patten) - The Gospel of a Gangster's Ghost: (Nov. 1930) From the cell of a doomed man comes this last confession of the Wages of Sin. Red and Lombardi jointly rule the Underworld until a conniving broad comes between them. Frances leans on Red to kill his best pal and take sole command of the criminal empire. Lombardi's ghost won't let either rest until Frances is doing hard time and Red has joined him in the world hereafter via the electric chair. Stuart Palmer - White Witch of Stoningham: (July 1931). Witches still live! Here is one who doomed her lover to certain destruction with beauty pledged to the service of Evil. The population of a Vermont village decreases from 842 living souls to one ghost following the brief visit of Felicia Malpas, Fantasia to her confidantes, a gifted medium and powerful sorceress. Fantasia takes besotted twenty-year-old Eben Hey as her pupil and lover, teaching him to work spells benign and black, until he is almost her magical equal. When Fantasia takes her leave of Stoningham, Eben begs to follow, no matter what is required of him to do so. One of the darker stories in Vol II - there have been a few - and a good place to end. Not sure that Fantasia is a white witch, exactly, but who really cares?
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Post by dem bones on Sept 29, 2021 20:53:09 GMT
Harry A. Keller [ed] - Ghost Stories, Jan. 1927 (Gwandanaland Comics, 2017) George William Wilder - Editorial: Never Scoff at a Ghost Alan Van Hoesen - The Specter of the Yellow Quarter Edwin A. Goewey - Johnny Kelly's Christmas Ghost Mark Mellen - "They Who Play with Sacred Things — " Edmund Snell - The Black Spider J. Paul Suter - The Woman with Two Souls Samri Frikell [Fulton Oursler] - Can the Spirits of the Dead be Photographed? Ralph Durham - Out of a Gleaming Tomb Ray Cummings - They Hanged a Phantom for Murder Lyon Mearson - Pawn of the Unseen [Part 4 of 7] Victor Rousseau - The Doll That Came to Life Norman G. Thwaites - "What a Man Sows — " Robert Sneddon - NEXT!—Within Four Creeping Walls Wilbert Wadleigh - Under the Spell of the Red Circle [Part 2 of 4] Frank Belknap Long, Jr. - The Man Who Died Twice Spirit Tales: Timely Topics of Current Interest $10,000 for Ghosts Stella - Were You Born in December? A cheapskate facsimile reprint, not the best print job - the text is blurred in places, though not indecipherable - but welcome as ever. The splendid action photographs up the entertainment value several notches.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 14, 2021 7:06:41 GMT
Victor Rousseau - The Doll That Came to Life: Was it only a doll? How then could it talk?. Mrs. Temple keeps her late daughter's bedroom as a shrine filled with all the little girl's toys. Daily she sews in Doris's room, "the happiest in the house." Unfortunately, the nosey neighbours get wind of this, mutter among themselves that Mrs. Temple is losing her mind, and persuade her to consult showbiz spiritualist, Mr. Craven . This gaudy fellow proceeds to demolish the shrine — whereupon the house comes under attack from a poltergeist. Time to call in somebody who knows what they're doing. Doctor Martinus. Mrs. Temple requests that the charlatan Craven and the great psychic detective pool talents to oust the evil spirits and bring peace to dear, dead Doris. Martinus, much to his Man Friday, Branscombe's astonishment, accepts, though, as we are to discover, his motives are not without malice. Craven, "pompous, over-fed and evidently obsessed with the idea of his own importance," proposes a seance, during the course of which he ultimately comes to grief. The focus of the haunting is a porcelain doll, possessed by the elemental residue of a killer strung up by a lynch mob. The little girl's father was prominent among their number. Colonel Norman G. Thwaites - "What a Man Sows — ": Sow kindness and reap kindness. Sow brutality and reap a terrible reward." Forber and Robertson's cruelty toward the Africans is repaid on their return to Pall Mall where they are persecuted by an invisible strangler. J. Paul Suter - The Woman with Two Souls: Can two souls merge into one?" A day on from her death in a car accident, Sally Gordon dances onstage with her twin sister, Sally, at Bertolli's Theatre, a final performance for their father and his best friend, the manager, who mentored the girls from childhood. Spirit Tales: Timely Topics of Current Interest: A Newark man blames his wife's insanity on her involvement with a woman minister, the head of a ghost cult, whom the police chief confirms is "a witch within the meaning of the statute." William Fuld, a manufacturer of billiard tables, is astonished that the invention he marketed as a novelty item has met with massive commercial success. The product in question? the ouija board. How a clairvoyant located a missing jewel; and:
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Post by dem bones on Sept 1, 2022 15:43:34 GMT
George Bond [ed.] - Ghost Stories: Sept. 1929 (Fiction House, 2021: originally Constructive Publishing Corp., 1929) Ben Conlon - The Varsity Murder A Football Hero Uncovers a Gruesome Mystery in a Morgue Harry Rogers, D.D. - Phantom Lips This Young Clergyman Betrayed His Sacred Calling. Read of His Weird Punishment Lloyd Greer - "I'll Come Back to Haunt You !'' A Ghastly Experience with Deadly Explosives—and a Malignant Ghost — in a Chemist's Laboratory China's Spectral Emperor Anonymous - Bride of the Unknown: A True Story Passion —Jealousy—and a Fantastic Revenge—Against the Stark Background of the Kentucky Mountains Archie Binns - The Intruder at the Masquerade How a Mysterious Dancer Brought Terror and Romance Into a Gay Ballroom Am I a Prophetess? Tito Schipa - The Scarred Hand. A True Story The Famous Opera Singer Tells of His Own Amazing Adventure in a Murder-Haunted Castle Gordon Hillman - Panic in Wild Harbor What Was the Lurking Horror that Terrorized This Quiet New England Village? H. Thomson Rich - The Thing that Came Home from the War Can LOVE Draw a Dead Man Back to His Bride — Though the Sea Itself Separates Them? Was this Supernatural? Oscar Wilde, Great English Satirist - The Canterville Ghost How a Rude American Family Frightened a Titled British Ghost Half Out of Its Wits! Howard Thurston - Do Dead Men Ever Tell Tales? The Greatest Living Magician Tells All He Knows about Mediums and Their Tricks Alan Schultz - The Man with the Sabre Cut The Little Dancer Falls into Murtha's Trap— but Unearthly Forces Befriend Her Achmed Abdullah - Renunciation Did the Spirit World Grant Strange Solace to This Forsaken Lover? Clinton Tolliver - The Clue of the Black Dragon Chinatown Conceals the Awful Secret of Millicent Courtney's Uncanny Disappearance Wilbert Wadleigh - Haunted Hollywood The Thrilling Conclusion of This Astounding Novel of the Moving-picture Studios Count Cagliostro - Spirit Tales The Brown Man of Croglin — The Screaming Skull — and Other True Stories Robert Napier - The Meeting Place Amazing True Experiences with the Supernatural-Contributed by Our Readers Robert Napier - The Prison Warden's Story P. F. Bullock - Georgia's Famous Ghost R. McT. - Spirits in Iceland Jennie McLoughlin - Ectoplasm — or a Soul? Alice D. - Some More About Vampires H. Williams - Phantoms on the South Seas Kemp - A Specter with a Conscience Frank R. - Can a Miser Come Back?
Stella King - Were You Born in September? What the Stars Foretell for Every Day This Month Robert Lee Foster, jnr, as told to Ben Conlon - The Varsity Murder. Part 1 of 5: When the fraternity boys chose a morgue for their initiations, they little dreamed what a chamber of horrors their rendezvous with prove. "This is a very severe test, for you must untie the necktie from around the dead man's neck, and bring it back to us." 20-year-old Robert is encouraged to enrol at New York's Cornfields College, by Prof C. Darwin Cornier, top psychologist and authority on the occult sciences. Cornier knew his father, 'Happy Dick,' and believes Robert has inherited highly developed psychic abilities. Robert has a better reason for joining Cornfields — his all-consuming crush on sorority girl, Miss Avis Brent. Robert is concerned that, unless he acts fast, he'll lose Avis to Bob Harter, the college's grid-iron star. Robert, no bad player himself, wins a place on the team. Next, an after-hours visit to Bells Private Mortuary for his initiation to Alpha Ro frat ...
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Post by humgoo on Sept 1, 2022 15:52:10 GMT
George Bond [ed.] - Ghost Stories: Sept. 1929 (Fiction House, 2021: originally Constructive Publishing Corp., 1929) Facsimile edition? Good quality? Can you provide a link? I don't seem to be able to find it on Am*z*n. Thanks!
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Post by dem bones on Sept 1, 2022 16:37:03 GMT
George Bond [ed.] - Ghost Stories: Sept. 1929 (Fiction House, 2021: originally Constructive Publishing Corp., 1929) Facsimile edition? Good quality? Can you provide a link? I don't seem to be able to find it on Am*z*n. Thanks! Am*z*nAm*z*n.uk Yes, a facsimile, not perfect but a huge improvement on the Gwandanaland, Jan 1927 (above). US price a bargain.
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Post by humgoo on Sept 1, 2022 17:10:59 GMT
Ordered! Thanks a lot! I like the disclaimer on the copyright page:
"No attempt has been made to politically correct any language deemed inappropriate to the modern reader."
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Post by Swampirella on Sept 1, 2022 17:12:41 GMT
Ordered! Thanks a lot! I like the disclaimer on the copyright page:
"No attempt has been made to politically correct any language deemed inappropriate to the modern reader."
Good for them. It would probably have taken years if they had attempted it. Enjoy it (unexpurgated)!
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Post by dem bones on Sept 3, 2022 5:59:30 GMT
Even if you felt so inclined, can't see how you could interfere much with a facsimile. Edit the content, and it would no longer be one. The story below was sent to GHOST STORIES by the woman who suffered all the heartbreak and horror pictured in this poignant human document. Not one fact in her amazing narrative has been altered.[Name withheld] - Bride of the Unknown: A True Story: "Gilbert, I am yours through life and death — for all eternity." When Gilbert, an accomplished fiddler, and Sallie wed, they are most surely the happiest couple the Kentucky mountains have ever known, so no surprise their joy is short-lived. Gilbert is set on fathering four kids — two of each, boy, girl, girl, boy in that order — but fate or whatever decides otherwise. "Each year I gave birth to a still-born child, until five lay yonder beneath the poplar." Gilbert takes to playing his mournful music at all hours until the day Sallie finds him propped against the tree. Stone dead, cold to the touch — yet still his corpse plays on! Sallie is too young for widowhood, and when Big Dan Flynn bashfully requests her hand in marriage, she forgets her pledge to husband MK I. Fatally for both, Gilbert hasn't. God, but I love Ghost Stories!
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