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Post by dem bones on Oct 2, 2023 10:07:00 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. ... and the unattributed "Mary Take Care of Your Hands" is very 'twenties-early 'thirties Weird Tales. Norman Morrow More story notes. As with the earlier batches, have included the odd non-genre item. Algernon Blackwood - The Reformation Of St. Jules: (29 Dec. 1937). An elaborate hoax involving cloud-writing and a loudhailer is taken as a direct warning from God that those who flock to the resort must repent their ways. Noel Langley - Station Permanently Closed: (20 Nov. 1936). Was the underground station locked for good with a commuter marooned on a platform? Frank Elias - The Spook's Charter: (22 Dec. 1920). The disgruntled ghosts of Wraith Castle take industrial action at Christmas. Charles Birkin - Enterprise: (22 July 1936). Bright young things confide in dear Mrs. Goodheart that someone is leaking embarrassing stories about their private lives to a society scandal rag. Arthur Mills - The Mosquito Net: (21 Oct. 1936). Flynn plans an appalling death for young Grimsby, whom he suspects of sleeping with his wife. If it means introducing malaria to the camp, so be it. You can't make an omelette without cracking an egg. Daphne Du Maurier - Terror: (16 Dec. 1928). The little girl daren't fall asleep for fear the things in the wardrobe will come for her ... J. B. Harris-Burland - The Coward: (24 April 1907). Harry Lennox is terrified of ghosts. Mona, his fiancƩe, refuses to marry him until he's spent a night in the local haunted house. Prudence O'Shea - Ghosts!: (1 Dec. 1923). Author of Christmas ghost stories encounters real thing in Kensington Gardens. Maurice Lane-Norcott - Ghosts That Have Haunted Me: (1 Dec. 1934). Improbable encounters with the shades of Sir Edwin Landseer and his stag, cricket legend W. G. Grace, and William Gladstone. As a rule, the Christmas numbers favoured "humorous" faux ghost stories. Algernon Blackwood - By Proxy: (17 November 1937). A gangster's mean and twisted revenge on a woman who double-crossed him. Harry Low
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Oct 2, 2023 12:15:14 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. His other work looks even more like that of Charles Addams.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 4, 2023 14:51:25 GMT
J. S. Goodall "I think, in not many years' time, we shall talk of Christmas Numbers as now we talk of antimacassars and crinolines. We shall wonder how on earth we were ever careless enough to live in a period of history when such things were actually allowed to be. " - How Christmas Numbers Kill Christmas, ( The Bystander, 15. Dec. 1909). The gist of the author's gripe is that Christmas has become too commercialised, it begins earlier every year, mince pies in September, Christmas specials all published and read before November is done, etc., etc., .... from those sampled, unlike the often magnificently morbid Victorian Christmas ghost story, those published in The Bystander are revoltingly light, 'humorous', misery-free zones. I really wouldn't bother if I were you. Vault Bystander Christmas number samplerHow Christmas Numbers Kill Christmas, 15. Dec. 1909 Prudence O'Shea - Ghosts!, 1 Dec. 1923 H. T. W. Bousfield - The Haunted Ghost, 16 Feb. 1938 Anna Kingsley - The Mumford Luck, 9 Nov. 1938 Mrs. Baillie-Saunders - The Pre-existence Party, 23 Jan. 1907 Horace Horsnell - The Haunted Ghosts: A Christmas Eve Tragedy, 25 Dec. 1912 Bonus Christmas Card: William Boneyard & Thomas Wysard - The Jolly Churchyard: A Seasonable Frolic: [verse], 2 Dec. 1932 Facsimile pages: MediafireLo-fi Text only versions
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Post by stricik on Oct 4, 2023 15:14:37 GMT
Why did the like button disappear from the site?
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Oct 4, 2023 18:09:58 GMT
Prudence O'Shea - Ghosts!, 1 Dec. 1923 bearalley.blogspot.com/2014/09/prudence-oshea-jasmine-chatterton.htmlPrudence O'Shea 12 March 1893 - 26 June 1982. "Prudence O'Shea had a varied career under a number of names. She was an actress, model, designer, author and agent over the years, yet surprisingly little seems to be known about her." "While rehearsing, Miss O'Shea met a girl who was to play a large part in her life. She was Melisande, one of the most beautiful girls on the stage. The two became firm friends. In one of their hard-up periods, Miss O'Shea and Melisande met a young man named Carlos. He showered presents on them, and later revealed, when Melisande was going to America, that the money he had spent on them was obtained by forging his wife's name. Carlos saw Melisande off on the train. She would not kiss him. He committed suicide on the platform." This last event, if true and it seems a bit unbelievable, must be in the papers. With a bit more information you could probably find it using your sources. you could find the original interview too, it's from June 1930.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 5, 2023 8:58:18 GMT
Many thanks, our lady of a thousand noms de plume. Looking back, I referenced Steve Holland's biography in the thread opener introducing Ms. O'Shea's The Merry Ghost; never thought to seek out the original article though, which, as you suggested, was not difficult to locate in the BNL archive. Details of the Carlos tragedy could prove trickier - sadly, from what I can gather, rail suicide has never fallen out of fashion. I strongly suspect the original source for the Dundee Evening Telegraph piece is the author's own five-page biographical introduction to her then recently published debut novel, Famine Alley. The Sketch, 11 June 1930. Dundee Evening Telegraph, 2 June 1930. Midland Daily Telegraph, 30 Oct. 1936.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Oct 5, 2023 9:53:32 GMT
Many thanks, our lady of a thousand noms de plumeI don't know what you mean, but it's nice you speak French. I would have replied sooner but I've just recovered from posting myself to the local supermarket to pick up a pint of milk (see The Sketch 11 June 1930). However due to our dreadful postal service I took over a week to arrive, and I ended up in a local tandoori restaurant instead. It was a frightful adventure. And no you can't see me off at the station when I leave for America, the Melisande episode was quite enough thank you, and I wasn't even there!
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Post by dem bones on Oct 5, 2023 10:14:38 GMT
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Oct 6, 2023 11:33:11 GMT
I won't make a habit, but could you look up the Morning Post for the 16th October, 1822. It should have A WELL-AUTHENTICATED GHOST STORY (FROM THE EDINBURGH OBSERVER.) I saw it on a site and I'm curious what the original story looks like. Thank you.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 6, 2023 16:31:09 GMT
While I'm here; depending on which stories they use, this report might suit Wordsworth's proposed Machen anthology.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 20, 2023 12:09:57 GMT
Jack Gordge: Stage Fright, 8 June 1927 Frederick Carter: The Puritan: An Allegory, 23 April 1913 Bystander Sampler 7; Stage FrightStephen Saint (Basil Macdonald Hastings) - The Man and the Cat: (19 Jan. 1910). John Lang - Coincidence: (1 April 1936) Custos - The Three Bullets: (12 Sept. 1917). Stephen Saint - One Night on the Barren: (2 Sept. 1909). Basil MacDonald Hastings - The Ghosts Go West:(25 Dec. 1926) Download from Mediafire Facsimile pagesText only
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Post by dem bones on Oct 20, 2023 13:03:09 GMT
Stephen Saint (Basil Macdonald Hastings) - The Man and the Cat: (19 Jan. 1910). A Nightmare on Clapham Common. Jim Bevan has a pathological hatred of felines, and the loathing is mutual. Wouldn't be out of place in the first Pan Horror book. J. B. Harris-Burland - The Coward: (24 April 1907). Mona Dixon challenges fiancĆ©e Harry to confront his fear of ghosts by spending a night alone in the notoriously haunted Black House. Saki - The Pond: (21 February 1912). Mona Waddacombe, fatalist, tragic heroine, pioneering Goth, is stoically resigned to an early death. Today she discovered the woodland pool ... Fraser Hill - The Alphabet of Hell: (27 October 1909). Mourning his beloved wife's death, Rudolph Hastings learns their baby was fathered by another man. Now George Kenyon is demanding to take away his son. A horror story bleak as it sounds. Ford Madox Hueffer - The Medium's End: (13 March 1912). Under pressure to deliver, South, a phony spiritualist, successfully manifests the ghost of Ann Boleyn (well, some of her, at least). On a similar note ā Horace Horsnell - The Real Ghost: (17 Nov. 1913). A Sussex parson's obsession with spiritualism summons a visitor from the haunted realm. Basil MacDonald Hastings - The Ghosts Go West: (25 Dec. 1926) The American buyer ships Sleevelove Hall across the ocean to reassemble in Ohio. Sir Godfery Dampier and his grandson, who between them have haunted the pile every Christmas since 1451, refuse to let their proud record slip. Predates Eric Keown's Sir Tristram Goes West by almost a decade. Stephen Saint - One Night on the Barren: (2 Sept. 1909). Sworn enemies, each believing himself the father of a dead whore's child, lost and dying by inches in a snow blizzard. Custos - The Three Bullets: (12 Sept. 1917). Waggish officers prepare a night fright for a newcomer to "haunted" Link Grange. Leonard Merrick - The Suicides in the Rue Des Vents: (31 January 1906) Macabre comedy. A lovelorn comedian breaks into the empty house at number 13 to hang himself, only to find another troubled soul swinging from the rafters.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Oct 20, 2023 13:28:17 GMT
Some of these writers are very obscure, and don't turn up on a brief internet search. It's to be expected really, no doubt popular writers of today will suffer the same fate when our descendants plug themselves into the world brain of the future. Leonard Merrick seems to have been admired and respected by many of his contemporaries and later writers. He was called a writers writer.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 31, 2023 10:27:14 GMT
A K MacDonald, Sylvan Frolic, 13 May 1931 International News Reel, Be-witchery!, 30 Nov. 1928 "I settled back in my seat with a copy of The Bystander." ā Seabury Quinn, Birthmark, Weird Tales, Sept. 1941. Bystander Sampler #8: Be-witchery! Be-witchery (30 November 1928) Stephen Saint - Love's Web: (14 September 1910) The Puritan: An Allegory; Illustration by Frederick Carter Sydney Tremayne - The Glass Over The Door: (5 April 1911) The Salon of the Smothered Screams: The Grisly Legend of Burton Agnes Hall, Yorks. (24 November 1909) H. M. Raleigh - The Thirteenth Carol-Singer: (1 December 1935) Saki - The Pond: (21 February 1912) Sylvan Frolic, (13 May 1931) Download via Mediafire Facsimile pagesText only From those stories read to date, it appears Basil MacDonald Hastings (1881-1928) applied the "Stephen Saint" byline to his horror and fantasy stories. As title suggests, Ranleigh's is a Christmas ghost story. If you've not read Saki's The Pond ... maybe you should. ā Daily Mirror, 22 February 1928 ā The Bystander, 29 February 1928
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Post by dem bones on Dec 3, 2023 11:00:33 GMT
R. Panell [?], The Bystander Folio of Fantasie in Prose, Verse and Picture, 6 December 1911. E, Morrow, The Condemned Cell, 27 December 1911. ā Charles Landem, Morrison's Mirror, The Bystander, May 25, 1904 Charles Lande - Morrison's Mirror: ( The Bystander, May 25, 1904 J. B. Harris-Burland - The Coward: ( The Bystander, April 24, 1907 Stephen Saint - A Problem in Continency: ( The Bystander, May 11 1910 Horace Horsnell - The Real Ghost: ( The Bystander, November 17 1913 Albert Bailey, The Devil's Own Luck, 27 December 1922. E. Morrow , A strike of Spectres?, 27 December 1922. Spook of Sir Marmaduke; "The ghost business is not what it was. Look at the class of people we have to haunt nowadays." Download via MediaFire Original PagesText Only
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