What Are Your Favorite Weird Tales ?
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The Vaults of Yoh-Vombus by Clark Ashton Smith
Weird Tales in the old magazine or just tales that are weird?
Like The Damned Thing and The Middle Toe Right Foot
Then there Algernon Blackwood he wrote many great supernatural tales like The Willows , which was greatly admired by H P Lovecraft. It a great story one of the best supernatural tales ever written and certainly fits the category or Weird Tales.
Classic !
Fishhead by Irving Cobb It was written 1913 and reads almost like an HP Lovecraft story.
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The Sombrus Tower By Tanith Lee
The Salem Horror by Henry Kuttner
The Salem Horror by Henry Kuttner
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Font know if anyone ever read those, but I loved those books when I was little. The one about the lady with spiders in her face was a really strange one. There's another about a scarecrow that came to life or something that was as equally weird. The pictures were the best part of it, though.
I wish I still had my little collection of those.
I wish I still had my little collection of those.
One that has stayed with me since I read it as a teen is The Upper Berth by F. Marion Crawford.
"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell. That's a good one that we read in school many years ago and it always stayed with me.
I have these in my classroom for my sixth-graders to read. They're only about $3.50 on Amazon.Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Font know if anyone ever read those, but I loved those books when I was little. The one about the lady with spiders in her face was a really strange one. There's another about a scarecrow that came to life or something that was as equally weird. The pictures were the best part of it, though.
I wish I still had my little collection of those.
Amazon.com: scary stories to tell in the dark
Ive read a few his stories . His story Casting of Runes was adapted into a movie in 1957 titled Night of the Demon.
Camera Obscura by Basil Copper was adapted to Rod Serling's Night Gallery and it was decent adaptation . The short story itself is first rate .
A Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson one the toes to be found The Anthology Adrift on the Haunted Seas ( The Best Short Stories of William Hope Hodgson) Hodgson was another writer much admired by H P Lovecraft. In addition to his short stories he wrote several supernatural novels the most famous of which is The House on the Borderland written 1908 ( a terrific book ).
A Voice in the Night was the basis for the Toho Studio 1963 film Mantango know here in the United States as Attack of the Mushroom People. Don't let the title put you off , The film is very good good , a sci fi Horror classic .
A Voice in the Night was the basis for the Toho Studio 1963 film Mantango know here in the United States as Attack of the Mushroom People. Don't let the title put you off , The film is very good good , a sci fi Horror classic .
Pigeons From Hell by Robert E. Howard a terrific horror story from the man who brought us Conan The Barbarian, King Kull, Bran mak Morn, Cormac Art , Solomon Kane and others.
This story was adapted for the Boris Karloff hosted 1960's Horror anthology series Thriller
This story was adapted for the Boris Karloff hosted 1960's Horror anthology series Thriller
I used to love Clark Ashton Smith, more so than Lovecraft even. I don't remember any titles though... I guess it's time for some rereads