Post by demonik on Nov 17, 2006 6:28:16 GMT -5
Magazine Of Horror #10 (Health Knowledge Inc., August, 1965)
Pauline Kappel Prilucik - The Girl At Heddons
Villiers de L'Isle-Adam - The Torture Of Hope
Seabury Quinn - The Cloth Of Madness
Gerald W. Page - The Tree
Robert W. Chambers - In The Court Of The Dragon
Kirk Mashburn - Placide's Wife
Joanna Russ - Come Closer
A. Hyatt-Verrill - The Plague Of The Living Dead
A. Hyatt Verrill - The Plague Of The Living Dead: (Amazing Stories, April, 1927). Dr. Farnham, unfairly ridiculed by polite society over his experiments to discover a serum that will indefinitely prolong human life, leaves America for the island of Abilone where he can get on with his work in peace. With three derelicts as his assistants and a menagerie to decimate, he's soon triumphed over death to the point where a rabbit he decapitates carries on with its business until Farnham sews its head back on its body. When the Sugar Loaf volcano erupts, his lab is destroyed but at least he has plenty of lovely human corpses to play with. Unfortunately, once revived, the dead turn on the living, a mad, cannibalistic, head-hunting mob who can't be destroyed! And so ugly! Even though several have lost a limb or three, the missing heads, hands and what-have-you fuse together on contact. Farnham must now find a way to rid the world of these savage, mindless mutants before they can take over the world!
Gerald W. Page - The Tree: Struck by a meteorite, the tree becomes a form of energy vampire, draining its victims whose deaths are officially recorded as heart failures. When the locals pour gasoline over it and burn it to a stump, the alien entity moves underground and heads toward town and richer pickings ...
Kirk Mashburn - Placide's Wife: The tight-fisted, stupid Placide kills his gipsy wife Nita when he suspects her of having an affair with a mysterious pedlar and discovers - via a blackened crucifix with mutilated saviour placed under his bed - that he's had a curse placed upon him. He hurls the crucifix at her corpse and it embeds in her neck. Before he and his equally dense friend Lebaudy can bury her, a cat settles on her breast and licks the blood away from her throat - and Nita returns as a werewolf! The pedlar who caused all the trouble is a vampire and he and Nita bring terror to the Cajuns before his accidental staking by Lebaudy. Nita avenges herself on her husband - who, once savaged by his were-wife is impaled by the sexton to round off a really bad day - and survives to feature in a sequel.
Villiers de L'Isle-Adam - The Torture Of Hope: Segovia. Having endured the torture chamber for a year and still not renounced his faith, Rabbi Aser Abarbanel is to be burned alive at tomorrow's auto de fe. No sooner has the Grand Inquistor broken this cheering news and left his cell however, than the Rabbi realises his tormentor has forgotten to lock the door behind him ...
Joanna Russ - Come Closer: Fifteen years ago, old Millie Cox left the gas tap on killing herself, her husband and their backward son who had recently been abused by "some men". Now another child has gone missing, and a member of the search party learns the awful truth when she pays a visit to the supposedly derelict Cox farmhouse.
Not At Night content: None
Contenders:
A. Hyatt-Verrill - The Plague Of The Living Dead
Seabury Quinn - The Cloth Of Madness
Kirk Mashburn - Placide's Wife
Pauline Kappel Prilucik - The Girl At Heddons
Villiers de L'Isle-Adam - The Torture Of Hope
Seabury Quinn - The Cloth Of Madness
Gerald W. Page - The Tree
Robert W. Chambers - In The Court Of The Dragon
Kirk Mashburn - Placide's Wife
Joanna Russ - Come Closer
A. Hyatt-Verrill - The Plague Of The Living Dead
A. Hyatt Verrill - The Plague Of The Living Dead: (Amazing Stories, April, 1927). Dr. Farnham, unfairly ridiculed by polite society over his experiments to discover a serum that will indefinitely prolong human life, leaves America for the island of Abilone where he can get on with his work in peace. With three derelicts as his assistants and a menagerie to decimate, he's soon triumphed over death to the point where a rabbit he decapitates carries on with its business until Farnham sews its head back on its body. When the Sugar Loaf volcano erupts, his lab is destroyed but at least he has plenty of lovely human corpses to play with. Unfortunately, once revived, the dead turn on the living, a mad, cannibalistic, head-hunting mob who can't be destroyed! And so ugly! Even though several have lost a limb or three, the missing heads, hands and what-have-you fuse together on contact. Farnham must now find a way to rid the world of these savage, mindless mutants before they can take over the world!
Gerald W. Page - The Tree: Struck by a meteorite, the tree becomes a form of energy vampire, draining its victims whose deaths are officially recorded as heart failures. When the locals pour gasoline over it and burn it to a stump, the alien entity moves underground and heads toward town and richer pickings ...
Kirk Mashburn - Placide's Wife: The tight-fisted, stupid Placide kills his gipsy wife Nita when he suspects her of having an affair with a mysterious pedlar and discovers - via a blackened crucifix with mutilated saviour placed under his bed - that he's had a curse placed upon him. He hurls the crucifix at her corpse and it embeds in her neck. Before he and his equally dense friend Lebaudy can bury her, a cat settles on her breast and licks the blood away from her throat - and Nita returns as a werewolf! The pedlar who caused all the trouble is a vampire and he and Nita bring terror to the Cajuns before his accidental staking by Lebaudy. Nita avenges herself on her husband - who, once savaged by his were-wife is impaled by the sexton to round off a really bad day - and survives to feature in a sequel.
Villiers de L'Isle-Adam - The Torture Of Hope: Segovia. Having endured the torture chamber for a year and still not renounced his faith, Rabbi Aser Abarbanel is to be burned alive at tomorrow's auto de fe. No sooner has the Grand Inquistor broken this cheering news and left his cell however, than the Rabbi realises his tormentor has forgotten to lock the door behind him ...
Joanna Russ - Come Closer: Fifteen years ago, old Millie Cox left the gas tap on killing herself, her husband and their backward son who had recently been abused by "some men". Now another child has gone missing, and a member of the search party learns the awful truth when she pays a visit to the supposedly derelict Cox farmhouse.
Not At Night content: None
Contenders:
A. Hyatt-Verrill - The Plague Of The Living Dead
Seabury Quinn - The Cloth Of Madness
Kirk Mashburn - Placide's Wife
