Post by demonik on Nov 3, 2006 16:25:00 GMT -5
Startling Mystery Stories #15 (Health Knowledge Inc. Spring, 1970)
Paul Ernst - Horror Insured
Francis Flagg - By Hands Of The Dead
W. W. Jacobs - The Monkey's Paw
Henry Slesar - Cry Baby Cry
Robert A. W. Lowdnes - The Cases Of Jules De Grandin: Part II
Seabury Quinn - The Man Who Cast No Shadow
Seabury Quinn - The Man Who Cast No Shadow: Baron Cznezron must drink the blood of a virgin once every century to prolongue his evil existence. Together with his undead accomplice, (who was hung by an irate woman a few centuries back after a spate of child deaths), he abducts a beautiful girl and imprisons her in the caverns beneath Hazeltown House, Harrisonville.
Enter de Grandin, Trowbridge and Costello, just as the spreadeagled girl is about to have her throat slit ...
W. W. Jacobs - The Monkey's Paw: The Whites are entertaining Sergeant Major Morris. Morris has recently returned from India and shows them the idol in question. An old fakir had cast a spell on it because "he wanted to show how fate ruled peoples lives, and that those who interfered with it did so at their sorrow." Those who possess the idol are reputedly granted three wishes, but Morris isn't for putting it to the test and lobs it in the fireplace. Mr. White retrieves it and jokingly wishes for £200. The following day his son, Herbert is mutilated at the factory. His firm accept responsibility for the tragedy and offer compensation to the tune of £200. But the distraught Mrs. White just wants her boy back ...
Jacobs handles this story with remarkable economy, racing to a satisfying grim conclusion. Stephen King reworked this for his ace novel Pet Sematary and - of course - there's that EC variation, Wish You Were Here which shows up in Tales From The Crypt.
Not At Night content:None
Contenders:
Seabury Quinn - The Man Who Cast No Shadow
Paul Ernst - Horror Insured
Francis Flagg - By Hands Of The Dead
W. W. Jacobs - The Monkey's Paw
Henry Slesar - Cry Baby Cry
Robert A. W. Lowdnes - The Cases Of Jules De Grandin: Part II
Seabury Quinn - The Man Who Cast No Shadow
Seabury Quinn - The Man Who Cast No Shadow: Baron Cznezron must drink the blood of a virgin once every century to prolongue his evil existence. Together with his undead accomplice, (who was hung by an irate woman a few centuries back after a spate of child deaths), he abducts a beautiful girl and imprisons her in the caverns beneath Hazeltown House, Harrisonville.
Enter de Grandin, Trowbridge and Costello, just as the spreadeagled girl is about to have her throat slit ...
W. W. Jacobs - The Monkey's Paw: The Whites are entertaining Sergeant Major Morris. Morris has recently returned from India and shows them the idol in question. An old fakir had cast a spell on it because "he wanted to show how fate ruled peoples lives, and that those who interfered with it did so at their sorrow." Those who possess the idol are reputedly granted three wishes, but Morris isn't for putting it to the test and lobs it in the fireplace. Mr. White retrieves it and jokingly wishes for £200. The following day his son, Herbert is mutilated at the factory. His firm accept responsibility for the tragedy and offer compensation to the tune of £200. But the distraught Mrs. White just wants her boy back ...
Jacobs handles this story with remarkable economy, racing to a satisfying grim conclusion. Stephen King reworked this for his ace novel Pet Sematary and - of course - there's that EC variation, Wish You Were Here which shows up in Tales From The Crypt.
Not At Night content:None
Contenders:
Seabury Quinn - The Man Who Cast No Shadow