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Post by Calenture on Apr 20, 2007 18:32:45 GMT -5
Fontana, 1978. Uncredited cover. Fall in at the Double - L P Hartley The Man on the Ground - Robert E Howard Round the Fire - Mrs Crowe The St Christopher Medallion - James Turner Melody in a Minor Key - Mary Williams One Who Saw - A M Burrage Never, Never Leave Me - Terry Tapp Thirteen at Table - Lord Dunsany The Ghost of Dorothy Dingley - Daniel Defoe Masks and Voices - Rosemary Timperley The Late Arrivals - K B Hill The Doll's Ghost - F Marion Crawford The Sutor of Selkirk - Anonymous The Three Sisters - William Wymark Jacobs Siren Song - Barbara Joan Eyre Madam Crowl's Ghost - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu The Sad Ghost - R Chetwynd Hayes ... who can tell me the contents of the following books? Hugh Lamb - A Tide Of Terror
The 14th Fontana Book Of Ghost Stories
R. Chetwynd-Hayes - Tales Of Fear & Fantasy (Fontana, 1977) Merci. I think only 5 of these are new, and I'd first turn to the F Marion Crawford or W W Jacobs stories of the reprints. But that's just my first impression so perhaps I'm wrong. I hope someone has the other 2 books. Just noticed - A M Burrage wrote the very scary The Waxwork which can be found in Alfred Hitchcock's Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do On TV and The 5th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories. So that's probably a plus. |
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Post by Gloomy Sundae on Jul 18, 2007 15:07:38 GMT -5
This is the Fontana Ghost I'm missing, but I've found a few of the moldy oldies elsewhere and it looks a strong selection
W. W. Jacobs - The Three Sisters: Malletts Lodge, a dreary, desolate house on the marshes and home to Ursula, Tabitha and Eunice, three loveless spinsters living out their days in mutual misery. On the death-bed Ursula, the eldest, instructed Tabitha to leave her room untouched and lock it as she will want it when she returns to fetch she and Eunice at the moment of their own deaths. Tabitha wasn't best pleased at her demands, less so when she learned the old coot had left her money to Eunice who promptly decided it would remain unspent until enough interest has been acquired to sponsor a children's hospital!
The years pass and the lodge becomes ever more depressing. Encouraged by the faithful servant, Ursula decides to move out as Ursula's presence seems to have infested the place and her weak heart can't take the strain of waiting for her ghost to materialise. On the eve of her departure, however, a ghastly figure steals into her room ....
Jesus, but this is a grim one!
L. P. Hartley - Fall In At The Double: Philip Osgood buys a house in the West Country at an outrageously low price on account of it’s hard to let status. During WWII it was occupied by the army and there was some nasty business involving the martinet of a Lieutenant-Colonel, Alexander McCreeth, who drowned in the river. Local gossip has it that he was done in by his own men. When Alfred, his impossibly cheerful manservant, reports being disturbed by banging noises in the night and repeated cries of “fall in at the double”, the narrator realises that the incident is to be reenacted. Fortunately, Alfred is on his game and caps his marvellous performance with a killer kiss off line.
F. Marion Crawford - The Doll’s Ghost: Belgravia. Lady Gwendoline Lancaster-Douglas-Scroop disfigures Nina her favourite doll in a fall downstairs. Being a practical child she sets to digging her a grave but the under-nurse has other ideas and drops off the casualty at Mr. Pucker the doll doctor. The gentle old German performs a magnificent emergency salvage operation but grows so attached to Nina - she reminds him of his beloved daughter Else - that he finds parting with her too painful. Else is assigned the job of returning the doll to Cranston House but come midnight she’s still not returned home. Understandably distraught, Mr. Pucker scours the city for her, convinced that she’s been murdered. The doll’s ghost comes to his assistance ….
J. S. Le Fanu - Madam Crowl’s Ghost: Old Mrs. Joliffe relates a terrifying incident from her youth when, as a thirteen year old, she first arrived at Appelwaite House to wait on Lady Arabella Crowl. Her ladyship, 93, dying and three-quarters demented is a handful and the servants often resort to the leather straitjacket to curb her excesses. In her youth she had been a beauty and caught the eye of the widowed Squire Crowl. After they wed, his son by his first marriage vanished presumed drowned on account of his hat being found by the lake. In reality, his fate was even grimmer and the secret is exposed when the mad old horror finally breathes her last.
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Post by Calenture on Jul 20, 2007 7:09:17 GMT -5
...Ursula decides to move out as Ursula's presence seems to have infested the place and her weak heart can't take the strain of waiting for her ghost to materialise... Shouldn't the first name here be Eunice? Yes, I've just checked - Eunice is persuaded to leave by the old servant, Martha. You're right, it's a grim story. I loved it, too! |
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