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Replicant (2001) – Theatrical Trailer – © Metropolitan Filmexport & Millennium Films
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fiction treasury
I get goose bumps thinking about some of tales in this collection. It’s a feast for any horror fan – forty-seven short stories and six poems selected by Marvin Kaye with Saralee Kaye. The selections focus on psychological terror rather than blood and gore. As Kaye says in his introduction “Any story that gave my jaded spine a chill seemed to present proper credentials for membership in the club.” These are not the more well known horror tales that appear over and over in anthologies, some are not readily available anywhere else.
I have several favorites among them. “The Bottle Imp,” an intriguing spin on making a pact with the devil, was written in 1891 by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. Keawe, a native of Hawaii, buys a strange bottle from an elderly man who tells him the imp in the bottle is responsible for his wealth. The imp will also grant Keawe whatever he wishes. Of course there is a catch. If he dies with the bottle in his possession his soul will burn in Hell. It must be sold for less than its purchase price and he may not dispose of it or give it away. Stevenson throws some twists and turns into the story and Keawe faces some horrifying choices.
“Dracula’s Guest” was published posthumously after Bram Stoker’s death and was probably intended to be the first chapter of his novel “Dracula.” The narrator is Jonathan Harker on his way to Transylvania on Walpurgis Night, the first of May, when witches and demons are about. He doesn’t heed the coachman’s superstitious warnings and he leaves the safety of his hotel to wander in the forest alone where he has an eerie feeling he’s being watched. When he comes across an ancient tomb in an old graveyard he realizes just how foolish he’s been.
“Flies,” by Isaac Asimov, was first published in June 1953. It’s a short science fiction story about a group of former college students who meet at a reunion twenty years after graduation. They discuss their achievements and Casey tells them he does research on insecticides. Ironically the flies seem to bother him and no one else.
British novelist Tanith Lee provides a different take on the Cinderella story. “When the Clock Strikes” her heroine turns into a witch who swears allegiance to Lord Satanas.
“Lazarus” by Leonid Andreyev is a retelling of the miraculous return to life described in the scriptures. Lazarus returns home after being dead for three days and family and friends celebrate his resurrection. He’s dressed grandly but his days in the grave left him with a bluish cast to his face and reddish cracks on his skin. His temper is changed as well. He’s no longer cheerful and carefree and he’s unwilling to talk about the horrors he’s seen.
“The Flayed Hand” was written by Guy de Maupassant. A young student acquires a shriveled hand, severed at the wrist from a deceased sorcerer. He intends to use it as the handle to his door-bell to frighten his creditors, but the owner wants it back.
The strength of this collection is in its diversity. It’s divided into five sections, each with stories that are unique and chilling. Some of the stories are written in a dated style that may not appeal to readers who like more contemporary literature. But the prose sets the mood and creates an atmosphere that invokes a sense of dread that is so perfect for this type of story – the kind that makes your skin crawl. This is a book to be picked up and read over and over again.
Publisher: Doubleday & Company Inc. (May 1985)
ISBN: 978-0385185493
Pages: 623
Table of Contents
Introduction by Marvin Kaye
Fiends and Creatures
Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker
The Professor’s Teddy Bear by Theodore Sturgeon
Bubnoff and the Devil by Ivan Turgenev, English adaptation by Marvin Kaye
The Quest for Blank Calveringi by Patricia Highsmith
The Erl-King by Johann Wolfgang Von Goëthe, English adaptation by Marvin Kaye
The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Malady of Magicks by Craig Shaw Gardner
Lan Lung by M. Lucie Chin
The Dragon Over Hackensack by Richard L. Wexelblat
The Transformation by Mary W. Shelley
The Faceless Thing by Edward D. Hoch
Lovers and Other Monsters
The Anchor by Jack Snow
When the Clock Strikes by Tanith Lee
Oshidori by Lafcadio Hearn
Carmilla by Sheriden LeFanu
Eumenides in the Fourth Floor Lavatory by Orson Scott Card
Lenore by Gottfried August Bürger, English adaptation by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Black Wedding by Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated by Martha Glicklich
Hop-Frog by Edgar Allan Poe
Sardonicus by Ray Russell
Graveyard Shift by Richard Matheson
Wake Not the Dead by Johann Ludwig Tieck
Night and Silence by Maurice Level
Acts of God and Other Horrors
Flies by Isaac Asimov
The Night Wire by H.F. Arnold
Last Respects by Dick Baldwin
The Pool of the Stone God by A. Merritt
A Tale of the Thirteenth Floor by Ogden Nash
The Tree by Dylan Thomas
Stroke of Mercy by Parke Godwin
Lazarus by Leonid Andreyev
The Beast Within
The Waxwork by A.M. Burrage
The Silent Couple by Pierre Courtois, translated and adapted by Faith Lancereau and Marvin Kaye
Moon-Face by Jack London
Death in the School-Room by Walt Whitman
The Upturned Face by Stephen Crane
One Summer Night by Ambrose Bierce
The Easter Egg by H.H. Munro (“Saki”)
The House in Goblin Wood by John Dickson Carr
The Vengence of Nitocris by Tennessee Williams
The Informal Execution of Soupbone Pew by Damon Runyon
His Unconquerable Enemy by W.C. Morrow
Rizpah by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Question by Stanley Ellin
Ghosts and Miscellaneous Nightmares
The Flayed Hand by Guy de Maupassant
The Hospice by Robert Aickman
The Christmas Banquet by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Hungry House by Robert Bloch
The Demon of the Gibbet by Fitz-James O’Brien
The Owl by Anatole Le Braz, translated by Faith lancereau
No. 252 Rue M. Le Prince by Ralph Adams Cram
The Music of Erich Zann by H.P. Lovecraft
Riddles in the Dark (Original Version, 1938) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Afterword
Miscellaneous Notes
Selected Bibliography
Gail Pruszkowski reviews for “Romantic Times BOOKreviews” magazine and her work has been published in the “Cup of Comfort” Anthologies.
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humanoid on alien
It was mentioned on a biology blog that archaeological engravings from the Tiwanaku civilization in Bolivia are unlikely to be depicting an ancient astronaut for the reason that, even with an aquatic tail, the creature still looks too much like a human. The underlying argument was that the evolution of life forms is so diverse that it is highly unlikely an alien would come out looking even remotely like us. In essence, this is the opposite side of the pendulum to Hollywood’s consistent imaging of aliens as humanoids.
The biologist ignored the decorative and symbolic imagery added by the Tiwanaku artists and did not consider the given premise of an aquatic alien inside helmeted spacesuit. I have to assume, therefore, the biologist noted that the creature had two arms and two eyes, and since humans have two arms and two eyes, the biologist concluded that this cannot be an alien.
What should intelligent aliens look like? Or, to phrase it another way, what should we expect interstellar travelers who come here to look like? This is not a complete unknown. If the aliens are capable of interstellar travel, they obviously achieved higher technology. What is necessary to achieve technology? My opinion on this is that to achieve technology, a life form would need a complex brain and the ability to see and manipulate objects. This implies eyes, fingered appendages, and perhaps a head relatively large compared to overall body size. The Tiwanaku alien has all these features.
The biologist might counter that the issue is not that aliens have eyes, but the number of eyes. Here on Earth, higher animal forms evolved with two eyes. For example, mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and insects all have two eyes, but on another planet the number of eyes would be different. There, perhaps, the life forms would randomly have one, three, four, or even ten eyes. Is that true? Is the number of eyes a random event in the evolutionary process?
Astronomers searching for extraterrestrial intelligence are looking for planets similar to Earth regarding temperature and chemical composition because they know life evolved here, so it is logical to assume that life might also evolve on other similar planets. Likewise, with similar planetary history, we might expect the evolutionary process on those other planets to progress similarly to how it progressed here.
Question: Was the evolution of animal life with two eyes on Earth a random event, so much so that we should expect extraterrestrial life to have a different number of eyes? I think not. Why? It is called natural selection or survival of the fittest. Two eyes are the minimum required to give depth perception and concentrated focus. Perhaps early on Earth there were animals with five or ten eyes, but with a brain too small to orientate five directions, such species quickly became extinct. Only two eyes survived. Should we expect something radically different on another Earth-like planet? No. It is reasonable to expect intelligent aliens to have two eyes, just like humans.
It is also reasonable to expect alien life forms to be imaginable from the diversity of life forms we see on Earth, past and present. The Tiwanaku alien has features similar to a fish (fish mouth that seems to be breathing inside a water-filled helmet), features similar to a lobster (sea creature with two forward appendages for manipulating objects), and features similar to humans (large head and fingered upper appendages). Only four fingers are depicted in the Tiwanaku drawings, versus our five, but this easily falls within evolutionary feasibility. The alien’s three-pod aquatic tail is also an imaginable evolutionary development.
I think the biologist’s appreciation for the potentially enormous diversity of life forms in the universe is admirable. For those life forms that develop higher technology, however, it is likely, not unlikely, that they will have something in common with humans.
This article referred to Bella Online Biology comments on the Tiwanaku Alien pages of the CrypticThinking.com website.
About the Author:
By Gersiane De Brito, from Fortaleza, Brazil, referring to Tiwanaku engravings displayed on the Tiwanaku Alien I and Tiwanaku Alien II web pages.
Article Source: ArticlesBase.com – Tiwanaku Alien and Evolution
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The Cryptoterrestrials: A Meditation on Indigenous Humanoids and the Aliens Among Us $10.80 What if the “aliens” are not from other planets? In THE CRYPTOTERRESTRIALS, Mac Tonnies proposes that at least some accounts of alien visitation can be attributed to a humanoid species indigenous to the Earth, a sister race that has adapted to our numerical superiority by developing a surprisingly robust technology. At the same time, this groundbreaking work attempts to reconcile the mythological … |
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