Mary Danby - Fontana Horror 10
Apr 12, 2007 11:28:28 GMT -5
Post by Gloomy Sundae on Apr 12, 2007 11:28:28 GMT -5
Mary Danby (ed.) - The 10th Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories (Fontana, 1977)
"Fifteen tales of spine-chilling horror ..."
Angus Wilson - Mummy To The Rescue
Ray Bradbury - The Smiling People
Harry E. Turner - Now Showing At The Roxy
C. D. Herriot - The Trapdoor
Charles Lloyd (Charles Birkin) - A Low Profile
John Collier - De Mortuis
Roger Malisson - A Little Knowledge
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Brazilian Cat
R. Chetwynd-Hayes - A Sin Of Omission
E. F. Benson - The Thing In The Hall
Margot Arnold - Acid Test
Elizabeth Walter - Telling The Bees
David Langford - At The Corner Of The Eye
Barnard Stacey - The Devil's Ape
Mary Danby - Keeping In Touch
Roger Malisson - A Little Knowledge: Martha Hudd, an alienated 11 year-old bullied by her overbearing mother, builds a temple to Kali in the woodshed. Nobody pays any attention to her until uncle Jim comes to stay. When he sees popstar Mitchie McGee almost torn to pieces by fans after Martha has blasted him out for kissing a girl, Jim momentarily wonders if the child really does have some terrifying powers after all. But that way is madness.
Another tidy horror from the underrated Malisson.
Harry E. Turner - Now Showing At The Roxy: Stan Rabble and Lou Rouser are rival cinema owners and their war is bitter indeed. Before one of them inflicts an unmerciful double-bill on the public to top all that has gone before, between them the pair have have tortured their clientele with The Son Of The Thing From The Slime, The Return Of The Curse Of the Hunchback Werewolf, The Nymphomaniac Mummy From 20,000 Fathoms Beneath The Earth's Crust Meets The Boneless Snakeman, I Was A Sex Mad Teenage Vampire Dolly Bird From Outer Space, Bluebeard's Journey Into The Intestines Of A Whale, I Was Dracula's Transvestite Masseur and The Heart Transplant, Voodoo Drug Addict, Thigh Booted Nun Meets Abbot & Costello On Ice.
Plus two.
R. Chetwynd-Hayes - A Sin Of Omission: Putney. Mr. Faversham, 52, impossible wife, etc., is mithered by a middle aged man in a cloth cap who wants to borrow a fiver. When the stranger continues to pester with menaces - I know where you live: I only borrow from those as can afford it: "Ain't you a Christian, Guv?" - Mr. Faversham decides discretion is the better form of valour and legs it, with the beggar in hot pursuit until ... he keels over on the pavement. The wretch gasps for his digitalis pills, but Mr. Faversham slips away and leaves him to it. Later, he learns from the local newspaper that when Dr. Withers examined the body he was perplexed as to how the tattoo of the black snake coiled around the dead man's torso has disappeared ....
Mary Danby - Keeping In Touch: Alistair, recovering from a breakdown after his wife fled to Amsterdam with her lover, is invited to all the best Chelsea parties by friends keen to keep an eye on him. After one such gathering, he drives home drunk and knocks down a young man with an Afro. Seeing as the lad's dead, there doesn't seem much point in his hanging around just to get into trouble. At the next night's gathering, he's imposed upon to create a Frankenstein monster for a game of charades ...
"Fifteen tales of spine-chilling horror ..."
Angus Wilson - Mummy To The Rescue
Ray Bradbury - The Smiling People
Harry E. Turner - Now Showing At The Roxy
C. D. Herriot - The Trapdoor
Charles Lloyd (Charles Birkin) - A Low Profile
John Collier - De Mortuis
Roger Malisson - A Little Knowledge
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Brazilian Cat
R. Chetwynd-Hayes - A Sin Of Omission
E. F. Benson - The Thing In The Hall
Margot Arnold - Acid Test
Elizabeth Walter - Telling The Bees
David Langford - At The Corner Of The Eye
Barnard Stacey - The Devil's Ape
Mary Danby - Keeping In Touch
Roger Malisson - A Little Knowledge: Martha Hudd, an alienated 11 year-old bullied by her overbearing mother, builds a temple to Kali in the woodshed. Nobody pays any attention to her until uncle Jim comes to stay. When he sees popstar Mitchie McGee almost torn to pieces by fans after Martha has blasted him out for kissing a girl, Jim momentarily wonders if the child really does have some terrifying powers after all. But that way is madness.
Another tidy horror from the underrated Malisson.
Harry E. Turner - Now Showing At The Roxy: Stan Rabble and Lou Rouser are rival cinema owners and their war is bitter indeed. Before one of them inflicts an unmerciful double-bill on the public to top all that has gone before, between them the pair have have tortured their clientele with The Son Of The Thing From The Slime, The Return Of The Curse Of the Hunchback Werewolf, The Nymphomaniac Mummy From 20,000 Fathoms Beneath The Earth's Crust Meets The Boneless Snakeman, I Was A Sex Mad Teenage Vampire Dolly Bird From Outer Space, Bluebeard's Journey Into The Intestines Of A Whale, I Was Dracula's Transvestite Masseur and The Heart Transplant, Voodoo Drug Addict, Thigh Booted Nun Meets Abbot & Costello On Ice.
Plus two.
R. Chetwynd-Hayes - A Sin Of Omission: Putney. Mr. Faversham, 52, impossible wife, etc., is mithered by a middle aged man in a cloth cap who wants to borrow a fiver. When the stranger continues to pester with menaces - I know where you live: I only borrow from those as can afford it: "Ain't you a Christian, Guv?" - Mr. Faversham decides discretion is the better form of valour and legs it, with the beggar in hot pursuit until ... he keels over on the pavement. The wretch gasps for his digitalis pills, but Mr. Faversham slips away and leaves him to it. Later, he learns from the local newspaper that when Dr. Withers examined the body he was perplexed as to how the tattoo of the black snake coiled around the dead man's torso has disappeared ....
Mary Danby - Keeping In Touch: Alistair, recovering from a breakdown after his wife fled to Amsterdam with her lover, is invited to all the best Chelsea parties by friends keen to keep an eye on him. After one such gathering, he drives home drunk and knocks down a young man with an Afro. Seeing as the lad's dead, there doesn't seem much point in his hanging around just to get into trouble. At the next night's gathering, he's imposed upon to create a Frankenstein monster for a game of charades ...