gorelets Registered User
Posts: 5
(6/16/02 9:05 pm) Reply
Teasers
I'd love to hear about the stories that will be appearing in this antho...the line-up posted on TNHT page is promising. Any of the authors out there? Anyone wanna share a teaser summary about their tales (w/o giving away the ending of course).
-- MAA
Harry Shannon
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(6/17/02 1:48 pm) Reply
Anthology
One night a drunken Viet Nam vet finds an old war buddy hiding, terrified, in the back yard of his funky rental house...The police chopper overhead brings back some rather disturbing memories for the both of them...
You'll be reading "Blood and Burning Straw" at Horrorfind Weekend won't you? Anyone who's attending deffinately catch Harry's reading, this is a killer story.
Randy
KPBurke
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(6/18/02 12:27 pm) Reply
Teaser: They See You When You're Sleeping
Hey All,
Looking forward to reading Harry's story. My contribution is a truly nasty piece of work entitled "They See You When You're Sleeping" about a woman convinced that people are standing over her while she sleeps. These people seem to be planning the most horrendous of things but when she awakes, she's alone. Or is she...?
Mwoohahahahah
Best,
Kealan
gorelets Registered User
Posts: 7
(6/18/02 3:40 pm) Reply
Re: Teaser: They See You When You're Sleeping
Wow! Great concepts, Harry & Kealan. This is going to be an excellent read, dark in every sense of the word. Kealan's story sounds genuinely creepy -- and totally plausible! And Harry, you must have read Straub's KOKO, no? More power to you both.
A New Critter
My story features those Goddamn Ecuadorian flying eels, their caves, some mountain climbing, and one avalanche. There's a lot of boinging.
It's done in first person by a rather emotional guy, so you may have to wipe the spittle off your shirt when you're done reading. His spittle.
Quincunx
Quincunx is one of my personal favorites. A fantastic, gripping read. Mikey is very visual and visceral, he did a great job of bringing all the reader's senses into the story. Oh, and if you don't know what an eel is, watch the movie SPHERE, and there's also an eel in HANNIBAL.
By the way, Mikey, what does "Quincunx" mean?
Randy
prof10 Registered User
Posts: 1
(6/21/02 6:53 pm) Reply
Teaser: The Milk of Human Kindness
Well, I thought I had added a message, but I guess not.
Let me try this. If it works, I'll be a little more talkative.
John
prof10 Registered User
Posts: 2
(6/21/02 7:06 pm) Reply
Re: Teaser: The Milk of Human Kindness
Okay, it worked, so I'm in. BTW, I like the decor here.
Nice and dark and creepy. Reminds me of my wedding day.
THE MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS involves the near future.
Mark Rainey is a brutal serial killer in prison. The good ole
USA now has a "Guinea Pig" law which permits people to
perform extreme experiments on incorrigible types if there's
any chance at all those experiments can benefit humanity. Obviously it's a Nazi-like law that violates basic human values. Snowden, the warden, wants to tame Rainey, break his fierce, defiant will and make him love him like a lapdog.
He has previously tried various sadistic experiments on Rainey.
Now he's going to perform the most inhumane experiment of all. He's going to inject Rainey with a new drug, "The Milk of Human Kindness," which will make Rainey love EVERYBODY and especially him. It will "castrate his wayward will" and make Rainey love and worship Snowden, lick his hands with spaniel affection. Rainey vows to resist the drug with all his strength.
Snowden injects Rainey with a dose that is triple-strength.
The Meaning
Thanks for the kind words, Randy. I'm a firm believer in using all the senses in a story.
Quincunx is a word describing a shape - four things evenly spaced around one thing in the center. In the case of my story, it's the wound shape left by the goddamn Ecuadorian flying eels with their four teeth wounds spaced around the one tongue wound.
-Mikey-
gorelets Registered User
Posts: 10
(6/22/02 2:28 pm) Reply
quinky!
I had a suspicion that "Quin" meant five, but "cunx"...well... Looking forward to reading it! I do fear eels, very very much. Why? Not because they're slimy, but because they're fast.
John: Great seeing you! Your description has me floored. I'm sure a certain Deathrealm editor will seek you out and make you lick his boots. :-)
The turn around has been rather sporadic (3 to 6 weeks typically), that's simply because my life right now is rather sporadic. I've been running this show all on my own (Now I know how the man behind the curtain in Wizard of Oz felt) while still working a day job, and I'm sure most small press writers can relate. I do have some help now (2 saviors who I shall not name here) with the reading so the turn around times will be decreasing greatly.
Randy
Demonboy
Unregistered User
(6/28/02 6:41 am) Reply
nameless saviors
That's right, Jenny, on a recent trip to Mexico, Randy picked up a couple eel's eggs and they recently hatched. Don't be surprised if your manuscript comes back with a strange quincunx on them.
The Speeg Eel Project
Those eels are smart bastards too. They managed to crack all the water pipes and turn my basement into their own private aquarium. Needless to say, I can't do laundry without risking my life, and the Gas company has already lost two meter readers. I'm thinking of hiring a camera crew and a cryptozoologist. It's like a scene from a horror movie down there, and I keep hearing these noises, I think they are trying to climb through the vents.
Wait, what was that?
Aaaiiieee!!!
Demonboy
Unregistered User
(6/29/02 7:51 am) Reply
Eel Eggs, Eel Eggs, Rolly Polly Eel Eggs...
Randy--sounds like a scene from FROM BEYOND!
Re: Eel Eggs, Eel Eggs, Rolly Polly Eel Eggs...
Off the topic of Eels (and God how I hope they're not listening), I have to say that so far, the titles alone make the contents look like one of the most interesting in a long time.
Name That Story
One of the really great things about this bunch of stories is that the titles in no way give away the stories for the reader. You expect one type of story from the title and end up getting a nasty little surprise you didn't expect when you read them.
Harry Shannon
Unregistered User
(8/11/02 7:58 pm) Reply
Teeth/Blood and Burning Straw
Randy,
Actually, I have been wandering around like an idiot without having planned anything for Horrorfind. I may have to read an edited version of "Blood and Burning Straw" but it IS a good idea for a reading. Maybe I will see if I can get a version brief enough.
As for Straub's Koko, I have the book (in hardback from years ago!) but have never gotten around to reading it. I am a huge fan of military history, however, and devoured most solid books on WW2 and Viet Nam. Just finished "We Were Solidiers Once and Young" for example. Now you have me curious. "Koko" needs to move closer to the top of my pile.
Re: Teeth/Blood and Burning Straw
KOKO is a phenomenal book...one of Straub's best. Hairy...it's sooooooooo worth your time. The whole Blue Rose trilogy is, but then that's my opinion and I'm sorta a Straub slut.
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