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Thrills
Feb 17, 2007 11:50:15 GMT -5
Post by Calenture on Feb 17, 2007 11:50:15 GMT -5
Thrills: Twenty Specially selected new stories of Crime, Mystery and HorrorCover and 12 full-page illustrations by Norman KeeneAssociated Newspapers Ltd. Undated. The Mysterious Fluid by Oswell Blakeston The Golden Gong by Thomas Burke The Haunted Bungalow by Charles Duff How it Happened by John Gawsworth The Unnecessary Undoing of Mr Purgle by Herbert de Hamel Twopence For the Toll by Kenneth Hare The Murder at the Fossicker's Club by Edgar Jepson An Accident by Edgar Jepson Act of God by Philip Lindsay Blackmail by John Lindsay A Modern Delilah by Anthony M Ludovici The Vicar's Crime by G R Malloch Madrilene by Francis Marsden The Divorce by E H W Meyerstein Fifty Thousand Pounds by R Edison Page The Kidnapped Collector by R Edison Page A Case For Deduction by M P Shiel and Fytton Armstrong The Count by Simon The Shop on the Corner by L A G Strong The Cutting by E H Visiak
Below are the details given at The Supernatural Fiction Database, which shows the same cover above very different details. Clearly there's something wrong here, unless Gawsworth used Keene's cover twice. I've checked these stories; not one title appears in both anthologies. Thrills, Associated Newspapers Ltd (London), [1936] Includes: "The Shadow" by E.H. Visiak, "Hunger" by P. Lindsey, "The Eyes of Obi" by E.E. Page, "The Uncharted Islands" by E.H. Visiak & J. Gawsworth, "The Woman With the Bundle" by K. Hare, "The Skull" by A. L.Davis, "The Rattlesnake" by J. Rowland, "Chinese Mask" by J. St. C. Muriel, "The Ninth Year" by R.E. Page, "Sacrifice" by S. Dewes, "Broken" by H. Yalden, "The Hand" by R. Middleton, "The Falls Scandal" by M.P. Shiel & F. Armstrong, "Eccentric Lady Tullswater" by R. Middleton, "The Execution of Damiens" by H.H. Ewers, "Murray's Child" by R. Middleton & G. Dundas, "The Cat-Lovers" by E.H.W. Meyerstein, "The Tube of Radium" by R.E. Page, "Coincidence" by F. Carter, "The Woman Avenge" by E. Jepson, "High Politics" by G.R. Mallock, "The Signet Ring" by F. Marsden, "The House Opposite" by O. Blakeston, "My Friend Trenchard" by E. O'Duffy, "Boxbug Paints His Kitchen" by E.H.W. Meyerstein, "On Lighthouse Rock" by J. Lindsey, "Secret Service Work" by E. Jepson, "Gilmartin" by Mary F. McHugh, "Decision" by J. St. C. Muriel, "Death for the Gander" by Simon, "The Case of the Absconding Financier" by E. Jepson, "Really Was a Bluetit" by E.H.W. Meyerstein, "Helping Mummy" by Norah C. James, "The Jingling Telephone" by R.E. Page & K. Jay, "Carson" by E.H. Visiak, "The Ride" by Mary F. McHugh, "A Whistling Woman, and a Crowing Hen" by E.H.W. Meyerstein, "Summer Harvest" by H. MacLaren, "Cruelty in Sunlight" by P. Henderson, "The Lost Meadow" by E. Jepson, "The Disappearance" by Simon, "The 'Master'" by M. P. Shiel and F. Armstrong, "The Announcement" by N. Barker, "The Fakir of Teheran" by F. Carter, "The Shifting Growth" by E. Jepson & Gawsworth. This continues a topic begun here.
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Thrills
Feb 17, 2007 16:22:36 GMT -5
Post by artlongjr on Feb 17, 2007 16:22:36 GMT -5
The Supernatural Fiction Database doesn't list your anthology's contents, for some reason. Donald H. Tuck gives the info for "Thrills" in the Anonymous Anthologies section with the story listing-it's the same as yours, with the copyright date given as 1936. It's the "Crime, Creeps and Thrills" anthology that starts off with "The Shadow" by E. H. Visiak.
Have you had a chance to read the stories in "Thrills"? Any good horror gems?
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Thrills
Feb 18, 2007 5:05:40 GMT -5
Post by demonik on Feb 18, 2007 5:05:40 GMT -5
The Gawsworth story is excellent and very brief, too. I read it again quite recently, a nasty, first-person account of a double murder. Not at all sure of the others in here, but Oswell Blakeston and Nugent Barker are always worth a read. I'm determined to get stuck into the three bulky volumes I have soon as, like the Creeps they seem to be very neglected.
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Thrills
Feb 18, 2007 18:49:09 GMT -5
Post by Calenture on Feb 18, 2007 18:49:09 GMT -5
Have you had a chance to read the stories in "Thrills"? Any good horror gems? I would have said "No" to your question, but in the past day I've found a few good ones - including one mentioned by Dem', How it Happened by Gawsworth - and a total classic by Simon. For those prepared to risk spoilers, here's the write-up: The Count by Simon: It is impossible to properly synopsise this story by the author of The Flying Worm; Simon’s style is essentially conversational; he’s given to filling a basically simple narrative with brilliantly inventive anecdotes, any one of which would make a good story in itself. I’d like to scan the story and make it available here, it’s brilliant pulp, but for the time this will have to do. The narrator is travelling in Spain when his train makes an unexpected overnight stop at a small village. There is no hotel, but he’s told that he should simply send his card to the Count, who is known for his hospitality. In due course he is quite comfortably ensconced in a room in the Count’s large villa. When he’s persuaded to leave the window open, he remembers that Dracula was a Count and wonders if the open window will admit a greater menace than mosquitoes, then reflects that driving a stake through the heart of one’s host is hardly good form. The next morning he is annoyed by an American guest, Homer George, who insists on attaching himself despite the narrator’s obvious snubs. George is suspicious of the Count’s reclusive ways and tells a bizarre anecdote of how the Count had once had the body of his predecessor exhumed. He also explains why it is that the Spanish are cruel to animals – because they believe the animals to be possessed by demons for which there is still no room in hell. Persuading the narrator to join him, Homer George sets out to spy on the Count one night in his tower room. But the American has a terrible accident and the narrator is taken at gunpoint by the Count. Then the Count reveals the nature of his experiments. He has isolated a microbe: “What do you think went into the Gadarene swine? At last I have isolated the bacillus infernalis. Science is vain unless it helps man to salvation. Evil a microbe! Don’t you see what it means to have discovered the most insidious disguise of the devil... Still you laugh? Perhaps that is well, for you won’t object, then, to having a few of these microbes injected into your bloodstream?” Later: I've scanned the story, and you can now read it here. Dem', it looks like we might need a Fiction From the Books section?
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