Post by demonik on Apr 16, 2006 13:16:45 GMT -5
L. A. Lewis - Tales Of The Grotesque: Uneasy Tales (Philip Allan, 1934)
Lost Keep, Hybrid, The Tower Of Moab, The Child, The Dirk, The Chords Of Chaos, The Meerschaum Pipe, Haunted Air, The Iron Swine, Animate In Death
"Squadron Leader Leslie Allin Lewis (1899-1961) was a veteran of both world wars, flying Sopwith Camels over France in 1918 and Hurricanes over England in 1940. He was also one of the best writers in the macabre and supernatural genre between wars. A collection of his unusual and excellent stories was published in 1934 under the title Tales Of The Grotesque.
From Richard Dalby's introduction to Haunted Air in The Mammoth Book Of Ghost Stories 2, 1977.
Officially a Creep, a modern edition, edited by Richard Dalby was published by the Ghost Story Press in 1994, and includes what seems to be L(eslie) A. Lewis's only other contribution to horror fiction, The Author's Tale - ghosts get down to some serious bondage and caning fun (!) - from Christine Campbell Thomson's Terror By Night. Prior to that, the excellent Hugh Lamb had revived a few of the stories for his anthologies. Hopefully, I'll come back on The Child and The Meerschaum Pipe, both of which are particularly good.
L. A . Lewis - The Child: The narrator, a city boy and motorcyclist - though not, as he hastens to point out, the type "that carries a leggy flapper on the pinion and sports a cigarette holder a yard long": What's the matter with him? - investigates an alleged haunting at a gamekeepers cottage in the woods near 'Wailing Dip'. Some years before, a woman who'd murdered her children had escaped from the local asylum and was last seen near the site. She was heavily pregnant at the time. The woman is presumed dead down a pot hole, but who or what has been stealing poultry from the village these past years and what did a poacher see that scared him to death?
Lost Keep, Hybrid, The Tower Of Moab, The Child, The Dirk, The Chords Of Chaos, The Meerschaum Pipe, Haunted Air, The Iron Swine, Animate In Death
"Squadron Leader Leslie Allin Lewis (1899-1961) was a veteran of both world wars, flying Sopwith Camels over France in 1918 and Hurricanes over England in 1940. He was also one of the best writers in the macabre and supernatural genre between wars. A collection of his unusual and excellent stories was published in 1934 under the title Tales Of The Grotesque.
From Richard Dalby's introduction to Haunted Air in The Mammoth Book Of Ghost Stories 2, 1977.
Officially a Creep, a modern edition, edited by Richard Dalby was published by the Ghost Story Press in 1994, and includes what seems to be L(eslie) A. Lewis's only other contribution to horror fiction, The Author's Tale - ghosts get down to some serious bondage and caning fun (!) - from Christine Campbell Thomson's Terror By Night. Prior to that, the excellent Hugh Lamb had revived a few of the stories for his anthologies. Hopefully, I'll come back on The Child and The Meerschaum Pipe, both of which are particularly good.
L. A . Lewis - The Child: The narrator, a city boy and motorcyclist - though not, as he hastens to point out, the type "that carries a leggy flapper on the pinion and sports a cigarette holder a yard long": What's the matter with him? - investigates an alleged haunting at a gamekeepers cottage in the woods near 'Wailing Dip'. Some years before, a woman who'd murdered her children had escaped from the local asylum and was last seen near the site. She was heavily pregnant at the time. The woman is presumed dead down a pot hole, but who or what has been stealing poultry from the village these past years and what did a poacher see that scared him to death?