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Post by dem bones on Sept 16, 2023 10:59:53 GMT
 Prudence O'Shea (Jasmine Chatterton) Photo: Florence Vandamm, The Bystander, 2 April 1913 Enthused by the overwhelming response to the Kensington News pdf (no one the least interested, etc.), have compiled another sampler, this time culled from society weekly The Bystander (1903-1940, merged with/ absorbed into The Tatler thereafter). I've restricted each volume to a manageable four stories in original format (or good as), and, where possible, provide text alternatives. The larger facsimile files are of necessity hosted on Mediafire, the text only versions appended here as attachments. The plan is to sling together at least three more micro-antho's from the same source, maybe even a compilation of non-genre items. Alternatively, you can find these stories for yourself on the British Newspaper Library Archive. Vol 1. Prudence O'Shea - The Merry Ghost, 11 September 1929 Margaret Butcher - A Ceremony, 25 October 1939 Arnold Golsworthy - A Lapse Into Life, 9 February 1910 Charles Birkin - Happy Christmas, 24 November 1939 Includes a (delightful, I thought) supernatural sex comedy, a graveyard grim quiet horror, a macabre experiment in reanimation, and a spiteful seasonal something from that gadfly about town and darling of the society pages Charles "he looks so ill!" Birkin. Cover star Prudence O'Shea's other contributions to the Bystander include The Pathetic Touch (Dec. 25 1925), built around a chance encounter in a park between a man whose daughter has fallen for a bad hat and a writer struggling to get started on the next of her popular weepie stories; and The Girl in Pink Pyjamas (17 April 1929) Archie plays the gallant to a half-naked damsel locked outdoors on a freezing night. Steve Holland provides a typically excellent biography of the sometime actress, model, designer, author and agent on Bear Alley. Facsimile pages: MediafireLo-fi Text only versions Attachments:Bystander stories1.pdf (158.84 KB)
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stepan
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Post by stepan on Sept 16, 2023 13:43:56 GMT
Always happy to read anything written by Charles Birkin
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Post by dem bones on Sept 16, 2023 19:09:29 GMT
... An eerie railway mystery, terror at the thirteenth hole, a mellifluous banshee and a particularly callous revenge ...  Walter Goetz By Proxy, 17 November 1937 Claudia Parsons - Singing Phantom, 20 November 1936 Herbert Adams - The Haunted Golf Course, 7 July 1926 Noel Langley - Station Permanently Closed, 20 November 1936 Book Reviews, 11 January 1911. Facsimile pages: MediafireLo-fi Text only versionsAttachments:Bystander stories 2.pdf (185.1 KB)
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Post by dem bones on Sept 17, 2023 19:28:47 GMT
Vol 3Marjorie Bowen - Phemie Gilchrist, 11 January 1911 Wilfred Gavin - Weird Stories review, 19 December 1928 Stephen Saint - The New Sin, 23 March 1910 Gerald Kirsh - Dr. Ox Will Die At Midnight, 22 September 1937 Ford Madox Hueffer - The Medium's End, 13 March 1912 Pat Charles, Brilliant Brunettes illustration, 11 January 1933 Facsimile pages: MediafireLo-fi Text only versionsAttachments:Bystander stories 3.pdf (181.15 KB)
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Post by Shrink Proof on Sept 18, 2023 20:34:53 GMT
"Station Permanently Closed" was an interesting take on the abandoned Tube station concept. Almost all the versions of this idea that I've encountered have been based on a train unexpectedly stopping at a now-closed down station, following which an unsuspecting passenger gets off and only realises his/her mistake as the train moves off. All subsequent trains just roll through non-stop, leaving the protagonist marooned and increasingly desperate as all exits are locked or bricked up. The idea of someone wandering along the track to check it out was a welcome change. But not for him, of course.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 18, 2023 21:19:53 GMT
"Station Permanently Closed" was an interesting take on the abandoned Tube station concept. Almost all the versions of this idea that I've encountered have been based on a train unexpectedly stopping at a now-closed down station, following which an unsuspecting passenger gets off and only realises his/her mistake as the train moves off. All subsequent trains just roll through non-stop, leaving the protagonist marooned and increasingly desperate as all exits are locked or bricked up. The idea of someone wandering along the track to check it out was a welcome change. But not for him, of course. I was hoping that one might interest you. Reminded me of Joyce Marsh's [/i] Woman in the Green Dress[/i]. Jack Adrian revived Station ... in one of the Ash Tree publications. A personal stand-out of the Bystander's is Marjorie Bowen's tale of a doomed romance between the sister of a fugitive Covenanter and a dashing young Cavalier .... Vol 4 ..... Her beautiful hands, deep in the woods, suffering for his art, the things in the wardrobe, weird scenes at the Christmas panto .... Archibald Sutherland - "Mary Take Care Of Your Hands", 2 April 1913 Saki - The Interlopers, 17 January 1912 V. H. Friedlaender - "The Vampire", 11 March 1908 Daphne Du Maurier - Terror, 16 December 1928 William Templeton - Nobody Loves a Fairy, 29 November 1939 Facsimile pages: MediafireLo-fi Text only versions |
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Post by Swampirella on Sept 18, 2023 21:53:08 GMT
Thanks for transcribing these, Dem! I just started on Vol. 2 and am quite enjoying them, despite the lack so far of blood and gore.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 19, 2023 14:49:59 GMT
There must be so many forgotten stories in these magazines just waiting to be discovered. Will you look at another magazine after this one?
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stepan
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Post by stepan on Sept 19, 2023 15:50:20 GMT
There must be so many forgotten stories in these magazines just waiting to be discovered. Will you look at another magazine after this one? It would be great if that other magazine turned out to be Hutchinson's. |
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Post by dem bones on Sept 21, 2023 17:08:23 GMT
Random story notes 1. Arthur Ransome - Post-Mortem: (21 November 1906). Gruesome end to a psychic's astral adventure when the girl whose mind he's been probing drops dead of shock on learning a black man is sweet on her! Gerald Kersh - Dr. Ox will Die at Midnight: (22 September 1937). A psychiatrist raises the alarm that Papke the Ripper has escaped his padded cell at the Magog Asylum. Owen Oliver - The Tom Toms: (11 July 1928). A cursed emerald wrenched from a sacred voodoo drum reduces a looter to gibbering madness. Ford Madox Hueffer - The Medium's End: (13 March 1912). South, embezzler, confidence trickster and bogus spiritualist, somehow succeeds in manifesting the spirit of Anne Boleyn at a "sĆ©ance." Charles Birkin - Psychical Research: (15 Feb 1939). Vera's first visit to Izra Saar, the all-seeing clairvoyant of Maida Vale. Read here if you must. Algernon Blackwood - The Magic Mirror : (16 March 1928). A Thibetan centenarian schemes to conquer Monte Carlo with mumbo jumbo. Later lent its title to Mike Ashley's collection of 'lost' Blackwood supernatural & mystery stories. Prudence O'Shea - The Merry Ghost: (11 September 1929). Newly-wed Audrey is initially aghast to discover their lovely Golders Green mansion is haunted by the ghost of a girl no better than she ought to be. Both she and her husband fast come to appreciate her wicked influence. Herbert Adams - The Haunted Golf Course: (7 July 1926). The ghost of a madwoman reputedly haunts the churchyard overlooking the 13th hole at Groatbridge. Horace Horsnell - The Real Ghost: (17 Nov. 1913). A stranger at the inn contributes to the ghost talk with an account of a Suffolk parson who dabbled in spiritualism ... H. T. W. Bousfield - The Haunted Ghost: (16 Feb. 1938). A priest rids a Buckinghamshire manor house of its resident ghosts; an abandoned mother who jumped in the river clutching her infant child. Horace Horsnell - The Haunted Ghosts: (25 Dec. 1912). A rich American is desperate to own a Haunted house. The estate agent hires a ghost to play phantom cavalier on Christmas Eve. Nina Toye - The Mummified Emperor: (16 February 1916). On no account must word leave this room that his Imperial Majesty is dead. Prudence O'Shea - Pathetic Touch: (Dec. 25 1925). A father's tale of misery is as manna from Heaven to a young author of seasonal misery porn. Charles Birkin - Insult to Injury (6 May 1936). Marian is graced with a hospital visit from Lady Bleughblar, the ghastliest, most malicious gossip on the cocktail circuit. John Collier - Bottle Party: (24 Nov. 1939: also Esquire October 1939; Of Demons and Darkness, 1965). A conniving Genie fixes it for New York artist Franklin Fletcher to enjoy a romp on the tiger-skin rug with the most beautiful woman in world history. What can possibly go right? Leonard Merrick - Frankenstein II: (22 June 1904). A hit stage comedy sucks the financial life from its creator, robbing him of the leading lady he loves in the process. Charles Birkin - Point of View (6 March 1940). Husband and wife stage-actors audition for lead roles in a Hollywood movie. Will they get their big break? William Templeton - Nobody Loves a Fairy: (29 Nov. 1939). Thisbe the panto fairy settles her score with the Demon King and his bit of fluff. A. Whatoff Allen - Redress: (22 March 1922). Socially awkward and hopeless in matters of the heart ā "Three hours at the Grand Guignol leave my collar less limp than do three minutes tĆŖte-Ć -tĆŖte with a woman" ā Tony somehow finds the courage to consult the magnificent Sybil on a matter of delicacy. |
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Post by dem bones on Sept 21, 2023 19:32:34 GMT
Nightmare on the autopsy table, curse of the Mummy's hand, three pages of abject misery and a night on the tiger skin rug with the most beautiful woman ever.  Tony Castle, The Vamp 13 April 1937 , 21 November 1906 Holloway Horn - The Serious Young Man, 5 January 1927) Fraser Hill - The Alphabet of Hell, 27 October 1909 John Collier - Bottle Party, 24 November 1939 'Caviare' - Hors d' Oeuvres: The Fairy Ball at Grosvenor House, 8 February 1933 Facsimile pages: MediafireLo-fi Text only versions |
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Post by andydecker on Sept 22, 2023 10:08:47 GMT
Wonderful scans! Thanks!
I guess the contemporary readers dismissed these just as throwaway products like we do with our magazines. But the level of craft here is astounding. Hard to believe that this was seen as worthless commercial art.
Also a thank you for the download. Aside from the stories I loved the celebrity page. I only read (and saw) about such things in works from Agatha Christie or Conan Doyle - or Downton Abbey - , but it is a treat to see such a thing in a historic document. To think that FB was bad.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 23, 2023 17:49:41 GMT
Aside from the stories I loved the celebrity page. I only read (and saw) about such things in works from Agatha Christie or Conan Doyle - or Downton Abbey - , but it is a treat to see such a thing in a historic document. To think that FB was bad. I've set aside and transcribed enough stories for at least one more download. Will bulk this one out with another celebrity page, some reviews and a few odd items for that full magazine experience. In the meantime; Random story notes 2.  Bert Thomas: (5 May - 18 August 1920). Sir Kenneth Satinwood, sportsman and millionaire, seemingly vanishes during Zara, the Oriental Snake Charmer's performance at the Felicity Music Hall, leaving Lady Syringa, his sixteen-year old bride of but one week, in deadly peril from the Man with the Twisted Nose. Six-part serialised melodrama ā "possibly the most intensely human document these celebrated Authors have ever penned" ā each one-page episode ending on a cliffhanger. Arnold Golsworthy - A Lapse Into Life: (9 February 1910). A young man persuades an eminent scientist to briefly reanimate his murdered father, so he might share the secret formula ... Saki - The Interlopers: (17 January 1912) Trapped beneath a fallen tree in the Carpathian Mountains, two sworn enemies finally settle a generations-old family feud as they await the .... rescue party. Charles Birkin - Happy Christmas: (24 November 1939). Katherine selects the perfect gift for a detested love rival. Holloway Horn - The Serious Young Man: (5 January 1927). An Antique dealer's assistant finds out just why one should never steal a ring from the mummified hand of an Egyptian Princess. Mrs. Baillie-Saunders - The Pre-Existence Party: (23 Jan. 1907). Mrs. AĆÆda Dree-Hazey's sĆ©ance ends in chaos as five attendees squabble over which of them is the authentic reincarnation of Mary, Queen of Scots. V. H. Friedlaender - "The Vampire": (11 March 1908). Aubrey Hurst's hit play comes at great personal sacrifice, albeit, thankfully, not his own. Leonard Merrick - The Girl on Satan's Knee: (8 April 1908). A struggling artist resolves to change career if he fails to convince a certain model to pose in Mephistopheles lap for his poster-in-progress. Marjorie Bowen - Phemie Gilchrist: (11 Jan. 1911). With the Cavaliers closing in, a fugitive Covenanter turns to his beloved sister for a last favour. Margaret Butcher - Ceremony: (25 October 1939). It's Aunt "our lovely octogenarian" Gertrude's special day tomorrow, and nobody could be more excited than her 37-year-old niece! Archibald Sutherland - "Mary Take Care Of Your Hands": (2 April 1913). Mother always said they were her fortune, and Mary's perfect hands are the reason she is in such demand as an artist's model. Would be a frightful shame were anything terrible to happen to them. Bruce Woodhouse - The Ghost of Caveworth Manor: (1 Dec. 1929). A travelling salesman recalls the terrifying night he spent in a notorious haunted house just beyond Vernlake village. Stephen Saint - The New Sin: (23 March 1910). By the terms of an embittered man's ill, eleven of his twelve children can claim their share of his fortune only when the disinherited black sheep is dead. Muriel Hine - Through the Open Window: (6 July 1910). A cuckolded husband duels with his wife's young lover in the garden. As reliably reported by the curtain-twitcher next door, who is especially enjoys the tragic sequel. Charles Birkin - DĆ©jeuner: (15 June 1938). John and Wisteria dine at a cafĆ© reputed to serve the best food on the Riviera. Reads like a reworked and much diluted The Cockroach for a respectable market. Walter R. Brooks - The Jessingham Ghost: (20 Nov. 1936). Edward struggles to shake off the family ghost, murdered by her husband in 1478 "for good and sufficient reason." Furious at his taking a fiancĆ©e, Lady Elizabeth is sworn to haunt him wherever he goes, until a pair of pink garters save the day. |
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Post by dem bones on Sept 25, 2023 14:37:06 GMT
Jungle horrors, a puppet ruler, duel in the back garden, and another sweet old lady. Also, Lady Eleanor 'Satan's Circus' Smith on two-reel comedies ("Frank vulgarity is quite unknown to them, and the dizziest heights of humour are considered to have been scaled when an obscene old man is to be observed peering at a half-nude girl through opera-glasses. Then follows, with devastating sameness, a chase in motor cars and an orgy of pie-throwing." - she's no fan of The Three Stooges, either) and 'Caviar's back for another gossip, which leads on quite smoothly to a Birkin vignette.  Winifred C. Honey, The Mischievous Monkey 30 Nov 1928 , 27 November 1935 Muriel Hine - Through The open Window, 6 July 1910 Nina Toye - The Mummified Emperor, 16 February 1916 Lady Eleanor Smith - Film Notes: Cut out the Comedies, 7 August 1929 Arthur Mills - The Mosquito Net, 21 Oct. 1936 'Caviare' - Hors d'Oeuvres, 13 April 1932 Charles Birkin - Enterprise, 22 July 1936 Facsimile pages: MediafireLo-fi Text only versions |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 25, 2023 14:55:18 GMT
I love the art.
The Walter Goetz By Proxy is an interesting style. It reminded me of something, possibly some of the work of Charles Addams, of Addams Family fame.
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