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Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2000 7:17 pm Post subject:

Help! I feel alone. Am I the only one who feels like they're the only horror reader on the planet? I walk into the horror section of the bookstore and, with one glance, I can tell if a book is out of place, because I am the only one who touches them. I say to people, "I just finished reading Hearts in Atlantis" and they say, "ooh, Stephen King... I saw Carrie and it is so scary!" I say, "Don't you think it's fascinating how clearly you can trace the influence of people like MR James onto Lovecraft onto Bloch, and in turn on to King?" I get blank stares. So, I am hoping that I can get in touch with people who actually read the same stuff as me. When I read a good story, I want to be able to tell someone!! I am mainly a short story reader, but I delve into novels if there's something worth reading. I think it's really cool that you guys like Lansdale, because I've recently discovered him and he is just incredible! Well, I guess there's not much of a point here except to say, thanks for the reassurance that there are other people like me out there. P.S. I've never posted on a message board before, so be easy on me! Submitted By: Deena

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Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2000 7:26 pm Post subject:

Deena you have come to the right place! Welcome and I hope you stick around. I know exactly how you feel. When I go to my local bookstore I'm always the only one in the horror section. But what I've found in the last couple of years is that there are lots and lots of us out there but for some strange reason we are scattered away from each other. And I'm glad to see you're discovering Lansdale. He is my all time favorite writer and his books never fail to impress me. Deena, you are with friends here. We have lots of great discussions and I hope to see you within them. Submitted By: Mr Self Affliction

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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2000 1:38 am Post subject:

Thanks for the encouragement. I need to catch up on the history of this message of this board... Like, for example, how long has it been up? How many people regularly post? I guess I'll pick up on that as I go along. I hope others will post a response so that I get to meet them! Again, thanks for making me feel welcome. Submitted By: Deena

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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2000 1:57 am Post subject:

The Cabinet has been up since 1997. In fact, it was one of the first horror internet sites. I've been posting here at a regular basis for about a year now and I write book/movie/comic book reviews for the site as well. The Board's really been picking up lately and thanks to The Wolf, Fenriz, Layback and several others we've been having a lot of great conversations. I truly encourage you to visit often. The Cabinet is hitting its stride and I plan on bringing a few new things to this board within the next couple of weeks. I think everybody will be happy with the new changes. Submitted By: Mr Self Affliction

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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2000 2:54 am Post subject:

Hey all, Welcome aboard Deena! Not wanting to contradict you Mr Self Affliction, I thought I should note that The Cabinet has actually been around since 1994 (back in the Mosaic/pre-Netscape days). In 1997 it moved to drcasey.com and adopted the look that you see before you. I honestly can not remember when the literature board got started on the site - I THINK it was towards the end of 1997. This growth of activity on this board is absolutely amazing over this last month or so. Thank you guys! Hopefully you can put up with me as well, since I plan on contributing a LOT more here than before! Mr Self Affliction is right though - this site is FINALLY starting to head in the direction that I always wanted it to. Starting is the key word here. From here on out, we are going full steam ahead and will be constantly evolving - changing the look and structure of the message boards was just a small step in the grand scale of things. I hope you all will stick around and see where we go from here! Best, -Casey Submitted By: Casey

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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2000 3:17 am Post subject:

Damn! Well you heard the man. The sites been around since 1994. Oh well, so I don't know everything. Submitted By: Mr Self Affliction

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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2000 9:20 pm Post subject:

Deena, you are not alone, infact, will you marry me? Hehehe. It's just I could so relate to what you first said up there about walking into a store and finding out immediately if anything is out of place. I do that all the time. I truly hope you continue posting on this message board, and if it's any encouragement to you, you are the best virgin message board user I've ever encountered. Does flattery get me anywhere? I resereve the right, without sounding like a brag to announce that I am in fact the main veteran of this message board. I started here a good long while even before Mr. Self Affliction and he's become as regular as a potted plant here and has been so for a long time now, as I believe he mentioned. I've been on and off for a long while too but now it seems I'll stay for a good while. I've really missed having a woman's touch in these parts. Hope and Hunting Girl were two fellow hobnobbers that I used as horror sparring partners but they have gone on to other pastures it seems. So what are your favourite short stories? You show me yours I'll...I mean, I'll tell you mine What Lansdale have you discovered? Submitted By: Fenriz

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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2000 11:23 pm Post subject:

Fenriz, I won't marry you! Flattery may get you somewhere, though Isn't Racheala a girl? I've seen that name. It could take years to list my favorite short stories... Do you have that long? Here's some of the best: "That Hell-Bound Train" by Robert Bloch "The Forbidden" by Clive Barker "The Wendigo" by Algernon Blackwood "Orange is for Anguish, Blue for Insanity" by David Morrell "Mad Dog Summer" by Joe Lansdale "The Confession of Brother Blaise" by Jane Yolen "Chiliad pts 1&2" by Clive Barke "The Crowd" by Ray Bradbury That's just off the top of my head. I read a couple short stories by Lansdale, like Mad Dog Summer and The Night They Missed the Horror Show, then I picked up "Writer of the Purple Rage" and I was hooked. He is so raw and creative. He ensnares you from the first word. So, you said you'd show me yours? I'll be anxiously waiting... Submitted By: Deena

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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2000 1:35 am Post subject:

Deena, My first introduction to Lansdale came through his collection WRITER OF THE PURPLE RAGE as well but if you want the best of the best, you just have to pick up his two previous collections BY BIZARE HANDS and BESTSELLERS GAURENTEED. BG contains my own personal favorite Lansdale story, "My Dead Dog, Bobby." Are you aware that Joe has lengthened his short story, "Mad Dog Summer" into his brand new novel THE BOTTOMS? Right now THE BOTTOMS is available through Subterranean Press (www.subterraneanpress.com) but will run you $150. However, the novel will be coming to the mass market this fall (I think September) from Mysterious Press and will run you a more reasonable price. I've read the book (you can catch the review here on The Cabinet) and really enjoyed it. Lansdale basically expands on "Mad Dog Summer." Well, I think I've rambled on long enough about Champion Joe. Oh! Don't be scared by Fenny's flirtations. He's harmless...until you cross him. Then you better watch out. Submitted By: Mr Self Affliction

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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2000 2:25 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the warning about Fenny - I'll just have to stay one step ahead of him Keep the Lansdale recommendations coming... I need someone to tell me this kind of stuff! Thanks for your help. Submitted By: Deena

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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2000 6:10 pm Post subject:

I'm really beginning to like you, Deena. That list you got there shows you are a woman of refined taste. That a great and solid mix of new and old stuff. Let me comment. "The Hellbound Train" by Robert Bloch. This man has so many great short stories I don't even know where to begin to point out ny favourite. "The Hellbound Train" won Bob the Hugo Award in 1959 if I'm not mistaken. I've not read this tale but I'm sure it must be a cream of the crop story. To show you mine, as it where, when it comes to Bloch I'm very partial to "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper", a much reprinted story and a monster riff on ol' saucy Jack. "The Forbidden" by Clive Barker. Oh yes, I'm eternally in awe of Barker's "Books of Blood." This is a commendable pick from those volumes. All the stories are divine but I think "In the Hills, the Cities" is the most mindreeling and unforgetable. "The Wendigo" by Algernon Blackwood. I've not read this on either but I just consulted my "Dracula Book of Horror Stories" and it's reprinted there! I'll have to get around to reading this story since you think so highly of it. My favourite Blackwood is "The Willows". This was H. P. Lovecraft's favourite story too. I can well understand it. "The Willows" is one of the best horror stories I've had the pleasure of being exposed to. Orange is for Insanity, Blue for Anguish" by David Morrell. What a pick! I've read this story in a Norwegian translation of Doug Winter's anthology "Prime Evil" and it ruled and reigned! Thankfully, I got Morrell's collection "Black Evening" recently and I can't wait to read this story in its original language. "Mad Dog Summer" by Joe R. Lansdale. I'm so glad you've discovered "Joe's" and liked it. After reading his novel "The Nightrunners" I thought, "this is one of the most raw and raunchy horror novels I've read. It's practically like being beaten up verbally." I thought that Lansdale would actually be too "tough" for many readers. I love it, Mr Self Affliction loves it and I'm glad you do. Nothing can come between Lansdale and us Jane Yolen. I've read some short stories, and I believe, a poem by her. Didn't stick with me, but then again, what I read weren't horror neither. "Chiliad pts 1&2" by Clive Barker. Oh yeah, mmm-bop, ho hee, yeah yeah yeah. Barker again. The Chiliad intro and outro for "Revelations" was something else. So simple, yet everything Barker tells turn magical and alluring with some simple twists of the pen. These pieces also showed Barker with a new story telling structure. Truly fine and dandy, yes siree. "The Crowd" by Ray Bradbury. Remind me about this one. I have read very little short fiction by Bradbury. Indeed novels also, but I've managed to pack away "Something Wicked This Way Comes" which is too good for words and "A Graveyard for Lunatics" which I thought was plain bad, as in boring. My favourite Bradbury short story is "The Playground". A brilliant exercise in childhood terror! Well ma'am, you sure impressed this fella. That was a most intriguing array of stories you've got stacked there, but I know what you mean; we could go on with this "I'll show you mine, you show me yours" routine for a very long time. There's too much good out there to ever catch them all in a simple list on a message board. But I promised I'd show you mine (are you really sure you're up for it? ) so here goes. "Mirror Man" by Steve Rasnic Tem. This is one of my favourite short story writers. He makes me cry, he makes me creep, he makes me shiver, he makes me weep. Try him, woman! He's too have a collection out from Ash-Tree Press nowsabouts. "The Original Dr Shade" by Kim Newman "The Companion" by Ramsey Campbell. This has got to be one of the best short stories ever written. A man is takes a ghost ride in a rundown fairground. He comes face to face with all his insecurities and worst fears. In the hands of master scribe Campbell it isn't possible to do a more elegant and shiversome piece of fiction. The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs. Mu hunch is that this is one of those stories you would have liked to include in your list but forgot? Before "Pet Sematary" there was "The Monkey's Paw", I tell you! And what a Paw! A classic chiller of the first order if there ever was one. Some other's I like a lot. "To Receive is Better" by Michael Marshall Smith "The Outsider" by H. P. Lovecraft "Calcutta, Lord of Nerves" by Poppy Z. Brite "The Dead Love You" by Jonathan Carroll PS Yeah, with a beautiful and exotic name such as Rachaela I sure hope she's a girl. She hasn't been here that long but I'm delighted she's dropping by. Like you, she strikes me as a woman of rare and exquisite taste in literature. Besides, she must be a girl. Why else would I be so anxious to spank her? Submitted By: Fenriz

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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2000 8:15 pm Post subject:

So its short stories now. I see your game. Well to add to Deena's and Fenny's list I would like to give you my favorite short stories: "The Deathbird" by Harlan Ellison (this is my favorite Ellison story and I'm in awe of it) "Popsy" by Stephen King (this was actually the first short story I ever read. I was so taken back by it that I knew I had to read more and more and more) "Pig Blood Blues" by Clive Barker (this is my favorite story from the BOOKS OF BLOOD which may sound strange but it's right up my "uhhhhh...that was a weird one" ally) "The Emissary" by Ray Bradbury "My Dead Dog, Bobby" by Joe R Lansdale (short and sweet, I like this one for the same reasons I like "Pig Blood Blues" but this one's even stranger) "Dead Man's Hand" by Norman Partridge (this is a sequel to his novella, "The Bars on Satan's Jailhouse" another excellent story. It's one of those horror/western stories in the same vein as Joe R Lansdale's DEAD IN THE WEST novel) "Haunted By The Horror King" by William Browning Spencer (this is an absolutely hilarious story in which a man thinks that Stephen King is stealing his thoughts and sleeping with his wife) "Too Short A Death" by Peter Crowther "Pennies From Hell" by Darrell Schweitzer "What You Make It" by Michael Marshall Smith (this guys written a bunch of great stories and I could have listed any number of them but I chose the title story to his collection WHAT YOU MAKE IT because it is simply one of the best ones I've read) "Night After Night of the Living Dead" by Christopher Fowler (he's another guy like Smith, he just keeps them coming) "Only The End Of The World Again" by Neil Gaiman (this is a great story mixing werewolves with Lovecraft) That's my list. Fenny, I just read my first Steve Rasnic Tem story ("What Slips Away") and really enjoyed it. I'm going to track down more of his stuff and buy his new collection CITY FISHING from Silver Salemander Press. Head over to their website to order and take a look at the excellent Alan M Clark cover ( www.horrornet.com/silver.htm ) Submitted By: Mr Self Affliction

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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2000 8:37 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the link to Steve Rasnic Tem and his new book CITY FISHING (What a weirded out title), Mr Self Affliction. I will most certainly order this book as fast as possible. If I could order one book in the entire universe it would be this one. I am there! If you others are smart you should do so too! And if you have read Steve Rasnic Tem you have probably already done so. Submitted By: Fenriz

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Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2000 12:09 am Post subject:

Deena, you're right--I am a girl Fenny just left my name off because he hasn't gotten to spank yet. I'll jump in now with my favorite shorts, stories that is: "Fairy Dust" by Charles Birkin. "Stillborn" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman "By Bizarre Hands" by Lansdale "Red" by Richard Christian Matheson "Resettling" by Steve & Melanie Tem "The Memory of Wood" by Lisa Tuttle ...and, of course, anything by Michael Marshall Smith. I'm not a big fan of his novels, but I love his short stories. Which brings up another issue. I read constantly, you'll never find me without a book. But I prefer short stories to novels. Anybody else have this affliction? Submitted By: rachaela

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Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2000 4:38 am Post subject:

The heat is closing in on you, Rachaela! Mr Self Affliction. I just ordered a deluxe edition of CITY FISHING. Had a look at the artwork - amazing. This will the most anticipated collection I've ever waited for. Three dozen shorts from this unique writer - whooo-eee! This has to be THE book to get. I'm glad you said that about Michael Marshall Smith, Mr Self Affliction for I bought "What You Make It" some time ago. This guy is one of the best new writers out there. And, Rach and Self, your're right, all his short stories deserves to be on a "best of" list. He just seems to have a knack at it, I suppose. Rachaela, "Stillborn" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman. That's one of the many stories that I should have mentioned. Happy that you did. I can't get that creepy ending out of my mind. I think it's a show of great skill to write scary tales that are as short as this one. I haven't read the Tem couple's story but anything with Tem in it is right up there among the best if you ask me. Yet again I must commend you on your taste. [All this is just making you extra more deliciously spankable, of course.] "By Bizarre Hands" by Joe R. Lansdale. This was my first ever Lansdale story. It's so twisted and sick you just got to like it. The main character in this story is sure a king sized rumphole. To answer the question from Rachaela. I mostly read all the time too. I've entirely stopped watching TV, for example. Something I did a lot in my notorious pre-reading days. My movie watching has lately slackeed off considerably too, but make no mistake, I love movies...when they're good! But I'm very picky and most films made dosen't really cater to my taste. Short stories was a major preference back when I got hooked on reading but more and more these days I find myself reading novels instead. But nothing can beat some cold beers and a truckload of hot stories! I very much like to go back and read my favourite short stories again and again, just enjoying the flavour and fragrance of them, so to speak. Submitted By: Fenriz

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