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Post by paulfinch on Dec 22, 2023 9:05:44 GMT
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Post by paulfinch on Feb 28, 2023 14:16:06 GMT
No need for anyone to sweat on this. I'm 95% certain I have a result. LEAVING LILY was a 1975 BBC drama, a one-off screenplay written by Graham Baker, which doesn't seem to have much presence online, but in the admittedly very brief synopsis I've managed to dig up, there was just enough info to trip my memory and fill in a few gaps. It's about a soldier going off to war, and how he spends his last day on Civy Street in the Norfolk village of his birth, with his sweetheart, Liy (not Meg, but I now recall that he refers to her all the way through as 'Lil', so it's a single syllable name and not massively dissimilar). The fearsome, war-ravaged spectre slowly encroaching on the pair - and it's a bit of a SPOILER, this - is himself, so it's basically a portent that he will be killed when he gets to the front. That's how I remember it, at least. I'm 95% certain this is the play I remember.
As you all were ; )
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Post by paulfinch on Feb 28, 2023 8:00:38 GMT
Don't know if anyone can help with this. I know there's been lots of of British supernatural anthology TV over the years, but I remember one episode of one series that particularly spooked me, though the name of it now eludes me. Unfortunately, I don't have an exact date - early/mid 1980s maybe (or perhaps a bit earlier) - but it involved a WW1 soldier returning home even though he'd been reported dead. It had a very working class aura about it, and I think the soldier's sweetheart was a girl called Meg. You never saw much of the soldier, just his boots and puttees etc, all caked in mud as he got steadily closer to home (the implication being that he actually was dead). It was very frightening by the standards of those shows. For years I laboured under the impression that it was The Demon Lover, which was an episode in in Shades of Darkness, but yet I re-watched that last night for the first time in years, and it was something else entirely. I don't suppose anyone can offer a clue on this?
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Post by paulfinch on Nov 3, 2021 8:37:11 GMT
Glad you enjoyed, DB, and everyone else who's had a say.
Thanks all, for this very generous write-up.
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Post by paulfinch on Oct 29, 2021 10:23:33 GMT
Glad you're enjoying, DB.
Sarob have done some fabulous books. I agree, it would be marvellous to see some pb editions.
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Pigs!
Sept 1, 2021 17:09:27 GMT
Post by paulfinch on Sept 1, 2021 17:09:27 GMT
Here are a few for ya ... apologies if I'm doubling up on any that have already been posted. Also, I can only mention the anthologies or mags I originally saw these stories in. I don't have dates for all of them, and some might be older than mentioned.
Pig's Dinner - Graham Masterton (Mammoth Book of Terror, 1991) And Eight Rabid Pigs - David Gerrold (Night Screams, 1995) The Pig That Ate My Father - David Kendall (The Edge #5) Finding A Pig's Ear In The Pantry - Marc Harris (Nasty Piece Of Work #3) Pig - Roald Dahl (Best of Roald Dahl) The Pig – Edward Lee (Sex, Drugs And Power Tools) Great Pig Mother – Damien Sin (Singapore Horror Stories Vol 1)
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Post by paulfinch on Dec 1, 2020 15:42:01 GMT
Not yet. But there's still time.
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Post by paulfinch on Dec 1, 2020 14:34:38 GMT
That's correct, R.
SPARROWHAWK is a Victorian ghost story set during a bitterly cold Christmas.
Without wanting to sound like I'm pushing it too much, it was shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award in the capacity of Best Novella.
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Post by paulfinch on Nov 30, 2020 15:39:12 GMT
Sounds like you enjoyed it overall, DB.
Very good to hear.
Thanks for the write-ups.
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Post by paulfinch on May 9, 2017 12:43:19 GMT
Not sure whether D will let me do this ... but I meant to mention on here a couple of days ago that I've recently posted some background info to TERROR TALES OF CORNWALL on my blog. Feel free to pop over there now, if you wish, though you'll need to scroll down a bit, as I've made another post since then: paulfinch-writer.blogspot.co.uk/
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Post by paulfinch on Mar 4, 2016 10:57:41 GMT
I always thought the best one was Blitzfreeze, which told how the unit broke out of the Stalingrad encirclement. It was incredibly vivid, with astonishing battle scenes, but I seem to recall some controversy about Hassel not actually being present at the real event and having learned about it from former members of Viking SS, who he made contact with after the war.
Either way, it's a damn good read.
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Post by paulfinch on Feb 12, 2016 15:04:08 GMT
As a quick update, guys. Lynda Rucker and Adam Nevill's stories have already been selected for reprint in Year's Best anthologies.
Lynda in Year's Best Weird (Mike Kelly)
Adam in Year's Best Horror (Ellen D).
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Post by paulfinch on Feb 9, 2016 13:55:32 GMT
Thanks for that, D.
Glad you enjoyed and approved.
Just a quick note. TERROR TALES OF THE OCEAN was officially published in December, so if it is a contender for Anthology of the Year - which I sincerely hope it is - it's going to have to be for 2015 rather than 2016. But hey, I'm splitting hair a bit there. Really glad you thought it a worthwhile effort. All the authors did us proud, not to mention Neil Williams's cover, which is frankly gobsmacking.
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Post by paulfinch on Jan 25, 2016 13:35:40 GMT
The factual interludes are very enjoyable to research and write, D. With Ocean, I could have produced another 20 there were so many myths and legends to choose from. Glad you're having fun with it so far.
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Post by paulfinch on Jan 3, 2016 23:18:53 GMT
Sorry guys ... I can only say that it's still under discussion. There are one or two issues that need to be ironed out first.
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