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06-14-2006, 09:49 PM
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Looking for an old story
I'm wondering if anyone can point me to a website or forum that discusses old horror anthologies. I'm looking for a story that I read back in high school (c.1975). I don't have a title or author, just a brief description of the plot. It really creeped me out and still gives me nightmares 30 years later. The weird thing is that nothing much happens in the story - just someone walking through a forest that seems "wrong", finding a dead spot and experiencing an overwhelming sense of dread, and realizing it's too late to make it back to safety before dark. For some reason I seem to think the author was European...don't know for sure. Any leads?
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06-15-2006, 02:29 AM
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Hmmm... that's not really a whole lot to go on... but from your description, sounds like it could be:
Ramsey Campbell Robert Aickman M.R. James From the time period, I'd say that Campbell or Aickman are the most likely culprits.
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06-15-2006, 09:23 AM
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Yes, the description is really thin. I know it's not Ramsey Campbell - he also wrote a piece that gave me nightmares and I'd have remembered if he was the author.
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06-15-2006, 11:43 AM
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Ive read this one, in fact I have it in a collection that's lying on my floor. Give me a minute, and I'll have it.
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06-15-2006, 11:46 AM
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Fishhead by Irvin S. Cobb...it was written LONG before the time period though.
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06-15-2006, 12:43 PM
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Maybe it could be a short tale of Ambrose Bierce
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06-28-2006, 07:27 PM
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You know, I kinda wish this guy would come back. I just re-read Fishhead, and Im pretty sure thats the one he's looking for. Would like to know if I was right...
By the way, Fishead is a really cool story, I recomend it.
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06-28-2006, 08:10 PM
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I have a story,that i have only read once by Ramsey Campbell,that i think could b the story in question.. Its from an anthology i have titled Night Visions:The Hellbound Heart and also has that story of Clive Barkers which,by the way Hellraiser was based on. Anyway the anthology has3 stories by Lisa Tuttle and 7 stories by Ramsey Campbell in it and if i am not mistaken it is the first story by RC titled "In the trees" that i think may be the story, altho eden does not think it is.I may re-read it tonite to find out..however..even if its not the story ,it is fairly similiar.,and as with many of Ramsey's stories,very bizarre and eerie,in the style only he can write!
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06-28-2006, 08:14 PM
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My bad.."In the trees" is copyright 1986..wrong time period i guess..but..still..very similiar story!
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06-29-2006, 10:34 AM
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checking in
Thanks for the suggested titles - next time I'm online buying used books (which is often) I'll get both stories. I'm always up for Ramsey Campbell, since he's already scared the hell out of me once. I don't remember why I thought the author was European (Swedish? Norwegian?). Must have been something in the author's name or the story setting.
BTW - Has anyone read "The Hollow Man" by Norman Partridge? Short but tres scary.
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