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Post by dem bones on Apr 18, 2008 14:44:54 GMT
Mark Samuels unlive from Highgate Village! My current fave YouTube video features our dear friend Mr. S reading an extract from his The White Hands. Love the spooky music and what sounds like a skeleton creeping up on the author as he concentrates on his book! You can also catch the clip on Mark's homepage: Mark Samuels As to the story itself: from old board Mark Samuels - The White Hands: More fun and games in Highgate Cemetery featuring the undead Victorian authoress Lilian Blake, whose The Reunion & Others is "supreme in the field of supernatural literature" according to her obsessive literary executive, creepy Alfred Muswell (we later learn he's been banned from visiting her grave by the FOHC because he's become such a nuisance. Now there's a touch of social realism if ever there was!). Murder, grave robbing, a book that drives people insane (the as yet unpublished The White Hands & Other Tales) ... as Ade would say: what is there not to like?
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Post by David A. Riley on Apr 18, 2008 15:01:34 GMT
I won this book of Mark's in an auction at the Friends of Arthur Machen Dinner a month or so back and can heartily recommend this story. There are some absolutely blinding descriptions in it.
As an aside young Mark does appear to have been zombiefied in that picture. Must have been that creeping skeleton. There might have been more flesh on its bones than you supposed.
David
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Post by marksamuels on Apr 18, 2008 17:21:25 GMT
How very kind ! Dem, that figure creeping up on me in the background is probably the Barclaycard debt collector...  I'm trying to summon up the energy to do another video on You-Tube; this time based on my story "A Gentleman from Mexico", which will appear in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #19. Luckily for all concerned, I won't be making a personal appearance in the video this time. It'll just be images that I shot whilst over in Mexico, with a voice-over reading. I hope that you enjoy the rest of The White Hands and Other Weird Tales, David. Cheers! Mark S. |
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Post by carolinec on Apr 18, 2008 19:18:17 GMT
ooo, this sounds interesting! I must admit, I have a bit of a thing about live horror readings - and it didn't occur to me that I might find some on YouTube! Truth be known, I'm a bit "out of date" and I've only just discovered YouTube really.  Anyone know of any other horror story readings on there you could direct me towards too? ;D |
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Post by dem bones on Apr 18, 2008 21:47:02 GMT
Tip us off when A Gentleman from Mexico goes up, Mark. Caroline, here's a few to be getting along with: Ramsey Campbell reading H. P. Lovecraft's The OutsiderPart 1Part 2Part 3.... and Mark E. Smith reading HPL's The Colour Out Of Space |
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Post by carolinec on Apr 18, 2008 22:35:45 GMT
Excellent - thanks Dem! Now all I've got to do is find time to listen to them ...  |
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Post by coral on Apr 18, 2008 22:47:55 GMT
Ace one Mark!
All of you who write stuff should do one of these, imagine a thread of Vault writers vids, it would probably be a bit odd, but hellishly entertaining
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Post by dem bones on Apr 19, 2008 6:41:59 GMT
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Post by Johnlprobert on Apr 19, 2008 9:01:50 GMT
That's a great creepy little video!
I must say I'm tempted to have a go myself...
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Post by eddempster on Apr 19, 2008 9:43:28 GMT
I might be able to drum up some support for this on my forum, too. We looked into doing podcasts of live readings a few years ago, but we didn't have many stories to work with at the time. For anybody who's interested, I found this mp3 audiobook of Christopher Walken reading Poe's The Raven - www.megaupload.com/?d=AKX8CQDU just choose the 'free' option and wait a few seconds for it. |
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Post by dem bones on Apr 19, 2008 10:24:46 GMT
That's Cafe Doom isn't it, Ed? I've just updated the 'our members sites & boards' thread and added the cafe, All Things Horror and Willie Meikle. Go for it, John. You're guaranteed at least one viewer before you've even put a battery in your camera! |
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Post by eddempster on Apr 19, 2008 10:30:08 GMT
That's Cafe Doom isn't it, Ed? I've just updated the 'our members sites & boards' thread and added the cafe, All Things Horror and Willie Meikle. Go for it, John. You're guaranteed at least one viewer before you've even put a battery in your camera! Yep - thanks, Dem. Must revive our links page, too. I went to the trouble of setting up a portal, but I don't tend to use it. |
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Post by carolinec on Apr 19, 2008 10:33:00 GMT
All of you who write stuff should do one of these, imagine a thread of Vault writers vids, it would probably be a bit odd, but hellishly entertaining Great idea - as long as I'm only a watcher/listener, rather than having to do a vid myself!  |
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Post by eddempster on Apr 19, 2008 18:58:06 GMT
Here's a reading of one of my flash fiction shorts. I wrote it for a collection called 'Bits of the Dead', but it was rejected because they were "looking for stories with a little more umph." Sadly it's only in audio format, but perhaps better than nothing  www.archive.org/download/EdDEmpsterTheLastSupper/LastSupper.mp3See what you think. It's only 500 words long, 3mb, three minutes. |
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Post by jkdunham on Apr 19, 2008 22:30:38 GMT
I wouldn't have said that was lacking umph.
Were they expecting a sex scene and a car chase?
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