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demonik
Your Parasol Babe From Hell

Everything Dies

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Strange Assembly Feb 21, 2007 15:57:15 GMT -5

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Post by demonik on Feb 21, 2007 15:57:15 GMT -5

Strange Assembly (Unicorn, 1932)

M. P. Shiel - The Flying Cat
Sir Ronald Ross - The Vivisector Vivisected
Frederick Carter - The Black Lad
Herbert E. Palmer - The Franc-Tireur's Escape
Arthur Machen - The Gift Of Tongues
Hubert Crackenthorpe - A Fellside Tragedy
Francis Marsden - The Mask
Stephen Graham - Ilya Vilka
Rhys Davies - The Journey
Stephen Hudson - A Fragment
Wilfred Ewart - Londoners
Frederick Carter - The Harrying Of The Dead
M. P. Shiel - A Night In Venice
Arthur Machen - The Rose Garden

The first of the Gawsworth-edited horror-ish collections. I've not seen a copy myself, but half a dozen of the stories reappear in the monstrous Thrills, Crimes & Mysteries.

Last Edit: Feb 21, 2007 15:57:47 GMT -5 by demonik

From the first, I set myself against "literature"; the story was the thing, and no amount of style could persuade me to select a story that lacked genuine, unadulterated horror. For those who wanted something high-brow there was plenty.

Christine Campbell Thomson

artlongjr
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Strange Assembly Feb 22, 2007 17:49:45 GMT -5

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Post by artlongjr on Feb 22, 2007 17:49:45 GMT -5

I think the only story I've managed to track down in this collection was "The Vivisector Vivisected" by Sir Ronald Ross, which as I recall I found in one of Peter Haining's anthologies. I believe that Haining stated in his introduction that Ross was a Nobel prize winner. I also might possibly have seen one or both of the Machen stories, but I can't remember if they were horror-related.