Eggp’s Reviews > The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume One > Status Update
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01. John Blackburn - Aunty Green, 4 stars. Bitter millionaire plots his revenge on abusive foster mother.
02. Michael McDowell - Miss Mack, 4 stars. Insecure man is jealous of meek woman's new friendship.
03. Francis King - School Crossing, 4 stars. Resentful ex-teacher hallucinates a busy school crossing.
04. Richard Marsh - A Psychological Experiment, 2 stars. Cowardly murderer threatened by husky guy with newts.
— Oct 29, 2020 06:21PM
02. Michael McDowell - Miss Mack, 4 stars. Insecure man is jealous of meek woman's new friendship.
03. Francis King - School Crossing, 4 stars. Resentful ex-teacher hallucinates a busy school crossing.
04. Richard Marsh - A Psychological Experiment, 2 stars. Cowardly murderer threatened by husky guy with newts.
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15. Hugh Fleetwood - Something Happened, 3 stars. Brother and fellow employees of absent boss scorn a slow man.
16. Hugh Walpole - The Tarn, 3 stars [2018]
17. Gerald Kersh - The Gentleman All in Black, 2 stars. Homeless man claims in his youth he heard an important man sell his soul to the devil.
— Oct 31, 2020 05:10PM
16. Hugh Walpole - The Tarn, 3 stars [2018]
17. Gerald Kersh - The Gentleman All in Black, 2 stars. Homeless man claims in his youth he heard an important man sell his soul to the devil.
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12. M.G. Lewis - The Grim White Woman, 2 stars. Poem: spurned woman curses her lover and his progeny.
13. Charles Birkin - The Terror on Tobit, 3 stars. Headstrong young ladies insist on staying overnight on tiny island, despite warnings.
14. Forrest Reid - Furnished Apartments, 2 stars. As a young man, man was a lodger at an overly friendly fat woman's house for less than a day.
— Oct 31, 2020 04:41PM
13. Charles Birkin - The Terror on Tobit, 3 stars. Headstrong young ladies insist on staying overnight on tiny island, despite warnings.
14. Forrest Reid - Furnished Apartments, 2 stars. As a young man, man was a lodger at an overly friendly fat woman's house for less than a day.
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Wiki: "The cottage was one of the dozen modest dwellings that comprised the village of St Mark’s on one of the smaller of the
Scilly Islands
– relics of that lost land of Lyonesse."
— Oct 30, 2020 11:59PM
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Wiki: "Six more volumes would follow over the course of the decade, mostly consisting of
contes cruels
rather than supernatural tales."
— Oct 30, 2020 11:47PM
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09. Bernard Taylor - Out of Sorts, 3 stars. Housewife loses her patience with husband's latest string of affairs.
10. Christopher Priest - The Head and the Hand, 4 stars. Crippled dismemberment artist returns for his final performance.
11. Florence Marryat - The Ghost of Charlotte Cray, 3 stars. Publisher leads on ugly spinster for years, then marries a pretty young thing.
— Oct 30, 2020 10:23PM
10. Christopher Priest - The Head and the Hand, 4 stars. Crippled dismemberment artist returns for his final performance.
11. Florence Marryat - The Ghost of Charlotte Cray, 3 stars. Publisher leads on ugly spinster for years, then marries a pretty young thing.
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05. Stephen Gregory - The Progress of John Arthur Crabbe, 3 stars. Retarded boy has healing hands.
06. John Trevena - The Frozen Man, 2 stars. Dog sledders with a sick passenger get creeped out by aurora.
07. Michael Blumlein - California Burning, 4 stars. Father dies after a brief illness, bones will not burn.
08. Mary Cholmondeley - Let Loose, 4 stars. Visiting architect frees something while sketching in a tomb.
— Oct 30, 2020 11:27AM
06. John Trevena - The Frozen Man, 2 stars. Dog sledders with a sick passenger get creeped out by aurora.
07. Michael Blumlein - California Burning, 4 stars. Father dies after a brief illness, bones will not burn.
08. Mary Cholmondeley - Let Loose, 4 stars. Visiting architect frees something while sketching in a tomb.
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Wiki: "Setting down some of my things with a trembling hand on a rough stone shelf hard by, which had evidently been a credence table, I examined the work more closely."
— Oct 30, 2020 11:03AM
