Mine definitely says "flu" when Hop Frog is helping them get ready in their costumes. But at the end, it does say flax. Just a typo, maybe??
Discussion: Hop-Frog by Edgar Allan Poe
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Doc Creed --- did you receive 20th Century Ghosts-- if so pick for next week?
Yep, got it right here. How about "Best New Horror"?
I came across Hop-Frog for the first time in the Arbor House Treasury of Horror. This was the collection that The Crate was published in and Steve wrote the intro. I bought this anthology just for The Crate but found many other good tales in this one. I think it was in 1981 or 1982.
Thanks for recommending this story, Joe. It was markedly different in tone than the few others I've read by him. I liked it, though.
I just located the book and read Steve's intro and here's a little of what Steve says about Hop-Frog:
"...it involves a chain, a pulley, and a torch...but I'll say no more - it is also rather funny, in a rather twisted way."
"...it involves a chain, a pulley, and a torch...but I'll say no more - it is also rather funny, in a rather twisted way."
FYI - the Roger Corman/Vincent Price movie where Hop-Frog makes an appearance is Masque Of The Red Death.
no problemI was watching Castle Rock and couldn't get away in time.
Agreed! Definitely a different tone than I expected going in.
Mine says "flu" as well. I couldn't find a definition but, in context, I believe it to be the leavings of flax when it's been spun. It would be dun-colored and fluffy. And quite flammable.
I love Poe and this is one of his perfect stories. Like "Fishhead" it is as precise and quick as a scalpel. Gets in, sets up the action and gets out, leaving us horrorstruck and laughing. Laughing because it is the blackest of black humor. I hope those two dears found a safe place to live and did so happily ever after.
No, I went further back. A great actor in Wild Wild West and one of the players in the episode of Star Trek where Kirk kisses Uhura, Plato's Stepchildren. If you watched how he kind of hopped along as he walked, he immediately sprang to mind. Good story. Very fairy tale.
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No, I went further back. A great actor in Wild Wild West and one of the players in the episode of Star Trek where Kirk kisses Uhura, Plato's Stepchildren. If you watched how he kind of hopped along as he walked, he immediately sprang to mind. Good story. Very fairy tale.
Michaelito Loveless!!! Brilliant character actor Michael Dunn. He's who I thought of, too.
...same thing I did and the reward was, as you say, a bunch of other great tales...I came across Hop-Frog for the first time in the Arbor House Treasury of Horror. This was the collection that The Crate was published in and Steve wrote the intro. I bought this anthology just for The Crate but found many other good tales in this one. I think it was in 1981 or 1982.
...I thought of the same actor!!!...we are nothing but brilliant!....No, I went further back. A great actor in Wild Wild West and one of the players in the episode of Star Trek where Kirk kisses Uhura, Plato's Stepchildren. If you watched how he kind of hopped along as he walked, he immediately sprang to mind. Good story. Very fairy tale.
Joe Hill, "Best New Horror" from 20th Century Ghosts.