Tag: ghost stories
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Ghost Stories at Christmas?
Bill Ectric’s Place is celebrating Christmas with this website called Hypnogoria and the history of Christmas ghost stories: There’ll be parties for hosting Marshmallows for toasting And carolling out in the snow There’ll be scary ghost stories And tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago… So sang Andy Williams back in 1963 in his…
Bill Ectric
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Eerie Kipling
From the fine purveyors of the peculiar over at Wormwoodiana: In Wormwood 26, admired writer of the fantastic Colin Insole draws attention to the range and power of Kipling’s stories of the strange and supernatural. There are at least a handful (of Kiplings eerie tales) that might stand among the most effective in the field.…
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Weird Tales of Japan
I was back at 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting today, searching for the few entries I haven’t already read, when I came across this 1964 Japanese movie, released in the U.S. in 1965, known variously as Kwaidan, Ghost Stories, Weird Tales, and Kaidan. The back story is one of the most interesting I’ve read in…
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The Ghost From 100 AD
They say there are only so many stories to tell, just different ways to tell them. Take the classic ghost story about a spirit that cannot rest until something or other is resolved. I never realized how old that story was until I saw this. Pliny the Younger was an elected official in ancient Rome.…
Bill Ectric
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Brooding Scholars and Malevolent Spectres
The always-interesting Mark Valentine writing about Patrick Carleton at Wormwoodiana: In a contribution to a mailing of the ghost story correspondence society The Everlasting Club (new members welcome), the eminent anthologist and scholar of the field Richard Dalby revealed his researches into the little-known author of a single Jamesian tale, ‘Dr Horder’s Room’. This was Patrick…
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Haunted Tower, Occult Madness
Here’s an excerpt of the latest news from Wormwoodiana says: Championed by the eminent ghost story anthologist and scholar Richard Dalby, Lewis’ work has seen a revival which has included the hardback editions from The Ghost Story Press in 1994 and 2003, and now a paperback reprint (Shadow Publishing, 2014). Dalby, in his introductions, describes how he…
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Nightmare Abbey: The Raw Head & Bloody Bones Connection
A while back, I wrote about the legend of Raw Head and Bloody Bones, including the fact that it can be found in the 1550 edition of the Oxford Dictionary. More recently, during the course of my research for a book about author Steve Aylett, I’ve discovered another reference to the grisly tale. Upon learning…