GAROVORKIN Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 In this thread topic they can be short stories, novellas , novels and even poetry can be a vehicle for a Weird tale . We can even throw in Graphic novels and Comic books too. What are choices? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 Well, your posts are pretty weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAROVORKIN Posted August 10, 2017 Author Share Posted August 10, 2017 19 hours ago, Darth Richard II said: Well, your posts are pretty weird. True. Okay ILL start with The City of the Singing Flame by Clark Ashton Smith Beyond the Singing Flame by Clark Ashton Smith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAROVORKIN Posted August 11, 2017 Author Share Posted August 11, 2017 Pigeons From Hell by Robert E Howard. it was adapted for the 1960's horror anthology Television show Thriller hosted by Boris Karloff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur Posted August 11, 2017 Share Posted August 11, 2017 GRRM's The Pear-Shaped Man is creepily weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrusOctavianus Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 The Tale of Satampra Zeiros by Clark Ashton Smith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Marquis de Leech Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 It warms my heart to see the Clark Ashton Smith love. Necromancy in Naat. An ending only Smith could have pulled off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAROVORKIN Posted August 12, 2017 Author Share Posted August 12, 2017 The Salem Horror by Henry Kuttner A Voice In The Night by William Hope Hodgson The 1963 science fiction horror film Mantango also know as Attack of the Mushroom people is loosely based on this story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo498 Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 Lovecraft: The Outsider maybe because this was the very first weird tale in a narrower sense (other then more common/traditional spook/ghost stories) I encountered. Then the one with the Hare's foot or whatever it was. Apparently it was something else because I cannot find it with these search words. It is a talisman that grants wishes (and they are used foolishly in the story). I just read "Necromancy in Naat"; it's a little too close to being involuntarily silly for me. I prefer The Tale of Satampra Zeiros (read this a while ago), now checking "Singing Flame" (not sure I have read that one, probably not). Of novellas, for sheer weirdness, I found that Blackwood's "The Willows" deserves its reputation, it is fairly slow, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAROVORKIN Posted August 13, 2017 Author Share Posted August 13, 2017 The Sombrus Tower by Tanith Lee A knight on a quest to reach a mysterious tower and thats as much as I will say about this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAROVORKIN Posted August 13, 2017 Author Share Posted August 13, 2017 Bats Belfry by August Derleth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAROVORKIN Posted August 13, 2017 Author Share Posted August 13, 2017 Camera Obscura by Basil Copper. this one was adapted for Rod Serling tv series Night Gallery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Marquis de Leech Posted August 13, 2017 Share Posted August 13, 2017 20 hours ago, Jo498 said: Then the one with the Hare's foot or whatever it was. Apparently it was something else because I cannot find it with these search words. It is a talisman that grants wishes (and they are used foolishly in the story). I just read "Necromancy in Naat"; it's a little too close to being involuntarily silly for me. I prefer The Tale of Satampra Zeiros (read this a while ago), now checking "Singing Flame" (not sure I have read that one, probably not). The Monkey's Paw? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAROVORKIN Posted August 13, 2017 Author Share Posted August 13, 2017 The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson . I would so love to see a film adaptation of this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HexMachina Posted August 13, 2017 Share Posted August 13, 2017 8 hours ago, GAROVORKIN said: The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson . I would so love to see a film adaptation of this one. The Night Land by Hodgson is also pretty weird but substantially longer and a really chore to get through Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAROVORKIN Posted August 13, 2017 Author Share Posted August 13, 2017 The Red Swimmer by Robert Bloch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAROVORKIN Posted August 13, 2017 Author Share Posted August 13, 2017 4 minutes ago, HelenaExMachina said: The Night Land by Hodgson is also pretty weird but substantially longer and a really chore to get through The main problem with the Night Land is the pseudo archaic wring style Hodgson chose to write with. It ruins what could have been a pretty good book. The Imagery of that dark earth is quite interesting , there is an illustrated version of the The Nightland that can be found online . Ive seen mention of a book a called The Nighland Retold by James Stoddard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Marquis de Leech Posted August 13, 2017 Share Posted August 13, 2017 43 minutes ago, GAROVORKIN said: The main problem with the Night Land is the pseudo archaic wring style That, and the ludicrous love story. Absolutely amazing setting though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAROVORKIN Posted August 14, 2017 Author Share Posted August 14, 2017 1 hour ago, Roose Boltons Pet Leech said: That, and the ludicrous love story. Absolutely amazing setting though. Its flaws keep it from being a great book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo498 Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 18 hours ago, Roose Boltons Pet Leech said: The Monkey's Paw? of course! I have one fat pbck volume of Hope Hodgson but being not really enthusiastic about the two I read (ghost pirates and the one with the shipwreck in the country of strange monsters that pound things to pulp) and not sure I can take the archaic style, I hesitated about trying the othes, especially "The Night Land". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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