The Fantastic World Of Kamtellar (1980)
Mar 24, 2007 10:28:17 GMT -5
Post by Gloomy Sundae on Mar 24, 2007 10:28:17 GMT -5
R. Chetwynd-Hayes - The Fantastic World Of Kamtellar: Stories Of Vampires And Ghouls (William Kimber, 1980)
Jacket design: Roger Garland
Introduction:R. Chetwynd-Hayes
Kamtellar
Birth
Looking For Something To Suck
The Gibbering Ghoul Of Gomershal
Amelia
The Gibbering Ghoul Of Gomershal: "That, my angel is yer actual, no-nonsense common or graveyard ghoul. But d**n your best frilly knickers if I ever expected to see one."
Dashing, youngish Psychic Detective Francis St. Clare and his glamorous assistant and sparring partner Frederica 'Fred' Masters investigate a haunting in the graveyard surrounding Woodbine Cottage near Clavering. The monster is great, all ugly and slobbering, and Francis has a tough time luring it into his brilliant ghoul-destroying invention "the phantocage", but as RCH advises, the St. Clare stories were "written more for giggles than shudders."
Amelia: Anthony Knight finds a man dying of malnutrition in a back alley who warns him: "I'm done for. But you ... you ... you get out of here before she comes." Anthony legs it, but his conscience gets the better of him - what if an ambulance crew could have saved him? He returns to the scene and Greta, an old woman in one of the plush houses invites him in at the request of her invalid charge, the beautiful young Amelia Roland. Anthony is astounded - she is the double of a woman he met once twenty-five years ago and has carried a torch for ever since. Despite falling madly in love with her, something warns him he's in terrible danger. This proves to be the case.
Jacket design: Roger Garland
Introduction:R. Chetwynd-Hayes
Kamtellar
Birth
Looking For Something To Suck
The Gibbering Ghoul Of Gomershal
Amelia
The Gibbering Ghoul Of Gomershal: "That, my angel is yer actual, no-nonsense common or graveyard ghoul. But d**n your best frilly knickers if I ever expected to see one."
Dashing, youngish Psychic Detective Francis St. Clare and his glamorous assistant and sparring partner Frederica 'Fred' Masters investigate a haunting in the graveyard surrounding Woodbine Cottage near Clavering. The monster is great, all ugly and slobbering, and Francis has a tough time luring it into his brilliant ghoul-destroying invention "the phantocage", but as RCH advises, the St. Clare stories were "written more for giggles than shudders."
Amelia: Anthony Knight finds a man dying of malnutrition in a back alley who warns him: "I'm done for. But you ... you ... you get out of here before she comes." Anthony legs it, but his conscience gets the better of him - what if an ambulance crew could have saved him? He returns to the scene and Greta, an old woman in one of the plush houses invites him in at the request of her invalid charge, the beautiful young Amelia Roland. Anthony is astounded - she is the double of a woman he met once twenty-five years ago and has carried a torch for ever since. Despite falling madly in love with her, something warns him he's in terrible danger. This proves to be the case.