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March 7, 2021PLACEHOLDER REVIEW:
"Ingredient X" by H. Russell Wakefield - A young man of some wealth, following his father's bad business decision, finds he must start a job and take a shabby one-room flat. But the grim little room features oddities at night, like a locked bathroom, recurrent sightings of a slinking dog in the hallways, strange sounds, and an uncertain geography. Nicely done, would make a good short film, and deliberately more atmospheric than the previous.
"The Coffin of Lissa" by August Derleth - a man suffers hideously under the tortuous hands of the Inquisition and eventually finds himself in the "Coffin of Lissa" (that is to say, an "Iron Maiden"). Again, Derleth juvenilia striving for the effect of Poe's "The Pit And The Pendulum" but, at an abbreviated length, merely succeeding at being an overwrought conte cruel with a cheat ending.
"Ingredient X" by H. Russell Wakefield - A young man of some wealth, following his father's bad business decision, finds he must start a job and take a shabby one-room flat. But the grim little room features oddities at night, like a locked bathroom, recurrent sightings of a slinking dog in the hallways, strange sounds, and an uncertain geography. Nicely done, would make a good short film, and deliberately more atmospheric than the previous.
"The Coffin of Lissa" by August Derleth - a man suffers hideously under the tortuous hands of the Inquisition and eventually finds himself in the "Coffin of Lissa" (that is to say, an "Iron Maiden"). Again, Derleth juvenilia striving for the effect of Poe's "The Pit And The Pendulum" but, at an abbreviated length, merely succeeding at being an overwrought conte cruel with a cheat ending.
May 2, 2017
Great ghost stories!
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