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From: iroderic@alfred.carleton.ca (Ian Roderick)
Subject: Re: Any PHANTASM fans out there?
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 06:06:32 GMT

In <BvKr81.8C9@acsu.buffalo.edu> v120p993@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Kevin F Hulme) writes:


>Hello. I am a big fan of the 2 Phantasm movies, and would like to hear 
>comments from people who share my interests. I have some 1988 interviews
>with cast/crew, and they spoke of a third and final chapter to the story,
>if the second film did well. Has anyone heard anything?? What is Don
>Coscarelli (the director) up to nowadays? Is ther any way I can contact
>him or someone to obtain any info on this topic?? Thanks in advance.

>                                Kevin

Kevin, I have only seen PHANTASM II (some the first snuck right by me)
and I thought it was one of the most nihilistic horror films I have
ever seen.  I thought it was great.  All I wanted to do when I left
the cinema was go home and shower it off.  One of the few films I've
ever seen that has had that kind of emotional impact.  I especially
liked the whole scenario of small towns being wiped out with the urban
centres remaining completely unawares.  I guess it comes from all
those cross Canada moves as a kid.  BTW, I have always kept my eye out
for the first PHANTASM but I have had no luck.

Ian (where's my sig?)
From: moon!cyberden!verge@well.sf.ca.us
Newsgroups: alt.horror
Subject: Hello!
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 92 21:07:04 PDT
Organization: Indescribable Creations

HELLO THERE!
    (WHERE'S THE VOLUME ON THIS THING?!) Ahem . . . .
    Please allow me to introduce myself--
    --I'm a man of wealth (relative) and taste (subjective)--
    --who is a insatiable mail-writer, interested in exchanging "E" with 
folks into dark and evil fiction, media and stufflikethatthere: ravenous 
Barker fan, like Masterton, Jeter (though his cyberstuff is better), 
Basil Cooper (Great White Space), Colin Wilson (Mind Parasites), been 
going through Abyss titles (good concept, bad books), Lovecraft, No King 
(what Old Hat idea is gonna make it to the bestseller lists this week?), 
Vachss (for real horror), Thomas Page (Sigmet Active), Metzger (anyone 
have a copy of Big Gurl?), Shirley (In Darkness Waiting), The Haunting, 
Society, Evil Dead, creepy Japanime (Supernatural Beast City!) blah, 
blah, blah--have a Zanti Misfit on my desk, a cenobite delivers the mail, 
my computer licks my brain, and--oh, god--don't get me started on my 
genitals . . . .
Send E and we'll play . . . .


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From: jpurlia@qualcomm.com (John Purlia)
Subject: John Farris
Followup-To: alt.horror
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc.
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 15:02:23 GMT

Who else besides me finds John Farris to be an excellent author?  I was
extremely skeptical of him before I dared to make my first purchase because
I thought he was lumped into that "supermarket" brand of horror, but each
of his novels has been great!  I especially recommend "Son Of The Endless
Night" and "The Axeman Cometh" (which probably frightened me more than
anything I've ever read).  There's one other that was pretty cool as well
that I can't quite recall...  "Wildwood" or something like that.

What can people tell me about him?

...........................................................................
John Purlia          : My brain; not my company's brain.  My brain says...
jpurlia@qualcomm.com : "The Toolbox giveth, and the Tech Notes taketh away"
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From: lorenzo@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Eric J. Lorenzo)
Subject: Re: BIG movie list!!
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 22:30:12 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.131635.1@woods.ulowell.edu> mcduffeek@woods.ulowell.edu 
writes:

>	Stephen King has had his name removed from any association with THE
>LAWNMOWER MAN (New Line), PET SEMETARY 2 (Paramount), and the upcoming
>CHILDREN OF THE CORN II: THE FINAL SACRIFICE (Miramax).  Since he didn't have 
>anything to do with the films, and/or he feels they don't relate to his work, 
>he doesn't want his name connected with them.

	Geez, why does Hollywood keep doing this?  Do they think sequels to
movies that no one thought were good in the first place is worth the effort?  I
just don't get it sometimes...
-- 
       --    O   The race is not always              Eric J. Lorenzo
     ---   </\_       to the swift,                 (AKA: Rico & Spam)
   ----  -\/\        but to those who         lorenzo@Rintintin.Colorado.EDU
      ---   /_       keep on running.  -?         also: @UCSU and @Spot
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From: leeks@scott.skidmore.edu (SHANNON LEEK)
Subject: Kings latest novel
Organization: Department of Math and Computer Science, Skidmore
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 20:35:50 GMT

I recently read this book this summer, and I also was disturbed by it.  
Being a woman myself I was amazed that King could get into his female 
characters head.  It proves what a good writer he is, but I think it was 
a little too eerie for me.  I'd love to hear others opinions.
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From: jbrown@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (James S Brown)
Subject: Re: Salem's Lot
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 22:04:29 GMT

In article <1992Oct10.065613.8903@news.vanderbilt.edu> MANEJWZA@ctrvax.vanderbi
lt.edu () writes:
>
>Salem's Lot is one of my favorite horror stories. The movie is incredible.
>The setting is just so dream like.  I've had about 10 dreams (that I can
>remember) about the Salem's Lot setting.
>    Interestingly enough, except for Halloween movies, nothing has
>fascinated me nearly as much.
>
>
>                                  --Z--

A lot of my friends, including people who (quite rightly, I think) love the 
book, hate the movie.  I thought it was okay, but then I don't hate David Soul 
the way some people do.  Actually, he was quite good in a TV movie a few years 
back, called, I think, the FBI Murders . . . there was a really gruesome (for 
TV) shootout towards the end of it.

But about Salem's Lot, I think the standard complaints about  book-movie 
conversions holds true here--people who love the book (any book) can usually 
expect to be disappointed by the movie, if only by the differences between the 
director's vision and their own.  Agree, disagree, examples?
-- 
Jim Brown [jbrown@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu]
OSU English Dept.
Columbus, OH  43210                 Like Woody sez:  Take it easy--but take it.
614-292-6065
From: leifmk@Lise.Unit.NO (Leif Magnar Kj|nn|y)
Newsgroups: alt.horror
Subject: Re: Candyman
Date: 16 Oct 92 23:06:30 GMT
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology

In article <1992Oct13.160909.9705@mdd.comm.mot.com>, cvanous@mdd.comm.mot.com (Cindy Vanous) writes:

  [Stuff deleted]

 > No offense, but you recal wrong.  Candyman was a character (well, sort of
 > a character ... more of a major plot point) in Barker's short story
 > "The Forbidden", from The Books Of Blood.  Physical description:  grotesque
 > face, hook for a hand, and a gaping hole in his chest ... filled with live
 > bees.  Now THAT I'd like to see the special effect for!
 > 
 > The character you're thinking of from "Damnation Game" is the Razor-Eater.
 > One of the CREEPIEST individuals Barker's ever invented, I must say.
 
  Agreed.  And *that* is saying something.

 > - The Cypherkat  (self-proclaimed expert on how to eat a chocolate bunny)
 >  

Leif Kj|nn|y
leifmk@lise.unit.no
Organization: Freshman, MCS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.horror
Date: Tue,  6 Oct 1992 23:26:46 -0400 
From: Peter Jason Ward <pw2j+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: King short stories

One story of his is called 'Crouch End' and the only place I've ever
seen it is in  a collection called "New Stories of the Cthulhu Mythos"  
It's nice, and short.
                                                 Peter Ward
From: cs177wbd@sdcc5.ucsd.edu (Eddie the 'ead)
Newsgroups: alt.horror
Subject: Stephen King - List of Uncollected Short Stories
Date: 9 Oct 92 23:35:19 GMT


Here's a list of some (all?) of SK's uncollected short fiction.
There's some other stuff that hasn't been published such as "An Evening
at God's" (some play he wrote) and "Squad D" for a still unpublished 
"The Last Dangerous Visions" edited by Harlan Ellison.

Sometime later this year Cemetary Dance is to publish a new story
"Chattery Teeth."

After "Dolores Claiborne" hits the bookstores on Nov 23, SK's next book is
Nightmares and Dreamscapes.  This sounds to me like an anthology so maybe most
of the following stories will be included.

ed


----

The stories are followed by one source of the story.  Many have seen
reprints in other anothologies and such.


"Before the Play"  Whispers #17/18 Aug 82
"The Blue Air Compressor"  Onan Jan 71, Heavy Metal Jul 81
"The Cat From Hell"  The Year's Finest Fantasy ed. by Terry Carr
"The Crate"  Gallery Jul 79
"Crouch End"  New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos ed. by Ramsey Campbell 80
"Dedication"  Night Visions: The Skin Trade ed. by Douglas Winter 88
"The Doctor's Case"  The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ed. by Martin Harry Greenburg and Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh 87
"Dolan's Cadillac"  Castle Rock #2-5 85
"The End of the Whole Mess"  Omni Oct 86
"The Fifth Quarter"  Twilight Zone Feb 86
"The Glass Floor"  Startling Mystery Stories Fall 67
"In a Half World of Terror"  Stories of Suspense #2 66
"Home Delivery" Book of the Dead  ed. by John Skipp and Craig Spector 89
"It Grows on You"  Marshroots 75
"The Moving Finger" Fantasy and Science Fiction 12/90
"Man With a Belly"  Cavalier
"My Pretty Pony" 89
"The Night Flyer"  Prime Evil ed. by Douglas Winter 88
"The Night of the Tiger"  Fantasy and Science Fiction Feb 78
"Popsy"  Masques II ed. by J.N. Williamson 87
"Rainy Season"  Midnight Graffiti #3 Spring 89
"The Reploids"  Night Visions: The Skin Trade ed. by Douglas Winter 88 
"The Revelations of 'Becka Paulson"  Rolling Stone Jul 19/Aug 84
"Skybar"  The Do-It-Yourself-Bestseller ed. by Tom Silberkleit and Jerry Biederman 82
"Slade"  Maine Campus
"Sneakers"  Night Visions: The Skin Trade ed. by Douglas Winter 88 
"Suffer the Little Children"  Cavalier Feb 72
"The Weeds"  Cavalier May 76
"You Know They Got a Hell of a Band" Shock Rock ed. by Jeff Gelb 92


"The Crate" and "The Weeds" were collected in the comic adaptation of
  "Creepshow."
"The Revelations of 'Becka Paulson" appeared in the limited edition of
  "Skeleton Crew" and highly revised as a portion of "The Tommyknockers."


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From: bcrooks@cwis.unomaha.edu (Barbara F. Crooks)
Subject: Tanya Huff
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 19:51:29 GMT



For those of you who really enjoy vampire and/or werewolf novels, I 
strongly recommend "Blood Price" and "Blood Trail" by Tanya Huff. 
I think anyone who enjoys horror and detective stories will really
like these books.
From: wwg2101@venus.tamu.edu (GILPIN, W.W.)
Subject: Re: Frightening Halloween ideas wanted
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 21:21:00 GMT

>  Some ideas I'm toying with:
>    *  the group is lead into a pitch black room, suddenly a curtain falls
>       and a wall of entangled bodies is exposed (probably with a slow
>       strobe light) perhaps some of the hapless figures are strung up, or
>       on torture devices, etc.
>    *  the group walks into a lightless room.  After a few moments they realize
>       something is in one corner, something large.  It calls to them,
>       and converses with them explaining that they are now in it's domain
>       (hell), and invites them to partake of it's unique pleasures.  Then
>       go on to display to previous two notions, or worse.  This would be
>       to most difficult because the thing would _have_ to be realistic.

I'm faced with a similar problem. Our dorm is putting on a haunted house
for Halloween and I'm kinda in charge of the first floor. We have a 60 ft
hall with residence rooms doors opening onto the hall and two bathrooms.
The TV room is also available which is right in the middle of the hallway
(basically two residence rooms with the wall between knocked out and mostly
empty), so most of the possibilities reside in there. There's a stairway
up to the other floors at the end of the hall and around a corner. Any ideas
that you or other netters have would also be welcome here! NOTE: we will
only have about 3 hours to set this thing up, since it's a one-nighter.

One thing that you may find interesting and not too expensive would be to
suspend lengths of chain from the ceiling a la HELLBOUND. The sound of the
chains clanking together combined with the darkness of the room and the shadows
make for a very chilling effect. You might want to consider adding this touch
to your room of dead/dying bodies.

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From: cvanous@mdd.comm.mot.com (Cindy Vanous)
Subject: Re: Candyman
Organization: Motorola, Mobile Data Division - Seattle, WA
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 16:09:09 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.135343.16789@moci.uucp> @moci.uucp writes:
>lorenzo@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Eric J. Lorenzo) writes:
>: ...[about the film "Candyman"]...   
>: Also having a local sneak preview here on
>: Thursday night at midnight, I kind of want to get an idea of what I'm going
>: to have to wait in line for.  Clive Barker was also mentioned in the 
>: commerical, what role did he have in the making of this film?  Thanks in
>: advance.
>: ..
>
>Hi Eric.  As I recall, the "Candyman" was a resurrected psycho in Barker's
>book "The Damnation Game", responsible for at least one very disturbing
>act of cannabalism (don't read on a full stomach! :-).

No offense, but you recal wrong.  Candyman was a character (well, sort of
a character ... more of a major plot point) in Barker's short story
"The Forbidden", from The Books Of Blood.  Physical description:  grotesque
face, hook for a hand, and a gaping hole in his chest ... filled with live
bees.  Now THAT I'd like to see the special effect for!

The character you're thinking of from "Damnation Game" is the Razor-Eater.
One of the CREEPIEST individuals Barker's ever invented, I must say.

Anyone who wants a quick summary of the plot of "The Forbidden" can e-mail
me at cvanous@mdd.comm.mot.com and I'll send it to you.

Oh, yeah ... I also have to say that I have NO idea what the movie's going
to be about, since the ads seem to bear no resemblance to the story that
Candyman is from.

- The Cypherkat  (self-proclaimed expert on how to eat a chocolate bunny)
From: harsh@flammulated.owlnet.rice.edu (Anish Harshad Masharani)
Newsgroups: alt.horror
Subject: Re: Stephen King - List of Uncollected Short Stories
Date: 16 Oct 92 20:40:27 GMT
Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas

I've seen _My Pretty Pony_ several times on this group, and saw it as a big, 
picture book looking thing at Waldens.
Could anybody tell me what it's about?
--
Both God and the government watch over us constantly,
	but we don't pay God taxes.

					The King of Fools
From: 00pahill@bsu-ucs.uucp
Newsgroups: alt.horror
Subject: re: King works
Date: 7 Oct 92 17:55:27 GMT

There was a STephen King short storyclaled Word processor of the Gods that
appeared on the show "Tales of the Darkside" he also has one on the Tales from
the Darkside" movie that is totally cool.
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.horror
Date: Wed,  7 Oct 1992 18:31:11 -0400 
From: John Charles Fiala <jf2z+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Any PHANTASM fans out there?
	<iroderic.718437992@cunews>

In <BvKr81.8C9@acsu.buffalo.edu> v120p993@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Kevin F
Hulme) writes:


>Hello. I am a big fan of the 2 Phantasm movies, and would like to hear 
>comments from people who share my interests. I have some 1988 interviews
>with cast/crew, and they spoke of a third and final chapter to the story,
>if the second film did well. Has anyone heard anything?? What is Don
>Coscarelli (the director) up to nowadays? Is ther any way I can contact
>him or someone to obtain any info on this topic?? Thanks in advance.

>                                Kevin

Most cool!  Phantasm and it's sequel are some of my favorite horror films.
A third would be cool... see if they could finally get rid of HIM.  :)

-john
"Kiss me, I'm Irish"
"Eat me, I'm Danish"
jf2z+@andrew.cmu.edu   
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From: mch@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca (Mark C. Henderson)
Subject: Re: King works
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Surrey, British Columbia, CANADA
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 19:59:13 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.125527.10187@bsu-ucs.uucp> 00pahill@bsu-ucs.uucp writes:
>There was a STephen King short storyclaled Word processor of the Gods that
>appeared on the show "Tales of the Darkside" he also has one on the Tales from
>the Darkside" movie that is totally cool.


I think (I'm not completely sure on this) that Starmont House publishes
a King bibliography which should give you a complete list of short
stories and novels.

I don't know their phone number off hand, but their in the U.S. 
(Mercer Island, WA), so directory assistance for AC 206 should be able 
to help you if you want to contact them. 

(usual disclaimer: I have no affiliation with Starmont House whatsoever
except as an occasional customer).

Mark
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From: C.D.Hall@cm.cf.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.horror
Subject: 'dummies' taking over
Date: 14 Oct 92 09:01:31 GMT
Organization: University of Wales College of Cardiff
X-Mailer: Cardiff Computing Maths PP Mail Open News Gateway
X-Mts: smtp

A few queries about films featuring ventriloquists'(sp?) dummies taking over their owners 

Last night I watched, and enjoyed , the old British classic 'Dead Of Night', one of the stories of which featured a ventriloquist whose dummy had taken over his personality.

I've never seen 'Magic', but was wondering if it was based on this short story from 'Dead Of Night'. Also, is 'Magic' worth seeing? Surely Anthony Hopkins must be worth watching?

Finally, on the same subject, I seem to recall seeing yet another version of the same type of tale on (I believe) 'The Twilight Zone' many years ago. In this story, two of the dummies were 'really' alive - one evil and one good. I don't remember the full details, except that in the end the evil dummy tricks his master into 'killing' the good dummy. The story ends with the evil dummy laughing at thg mistake the man has made. Does anyone remember this?

 Or can anyone provide a list of other films/books dealing with the same subject?
From: mikecap@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Michael Vince Caprio Jr)
Newsgroups: alt.horror
Subject: CANDYMAN
Date: 16 Oct 1992 06:13:59 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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      -==\ = /---/~~\ 
     / ------- \ ~~~~       (Picture of Tom, having been horribly mutilated  
    /      '    |                 by    the   CANDYMAN!!!!)
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into the silence of the high mountains where the eye ranges freely through the
still pure air and fondly traces out the restful countours apparently built for
eternity."  - Albert Einstein    ***E-mail mikecap****
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From: scarrobi@shearson.com (Steve Carrobis)
Subject: Re: BIG movie list!!
Reply-To: scarrobi@shearson.com
Organization: Lehman Brothers, Inc.
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 13:26:33 GMT

In article 22508@news2.cis.umn.edu, donnell@seahorse.micro.umn.edu (Your Heinous) writes:
> In article <1992Oct14.144457.20427@ucselx.sdsu.edu> maxc1104@ucselx.sdsu.edu (Avoid normal situations.) writes:
> >In article <1992Oct14.010137.25679@news2.cis.umn.edu> donnell@mantaray.micro.umn.edu (Your Heinous) writes:
> >>In article <Bw1J64.CAt@news.udel.edu> demes@chopin.udel.edu (James A Demes) writes:
> >>>In article <1992Oct13.004947.4904@news.uit.no> kjetilja@stud.cs.uit.no (Kjetil Jacobsen) writes:
> >>>>In article <1992Oct12.223012.18523@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>, lorenzo@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Eric J. Lorenzo) writes:
> >>>>>In article <1992Oct12.131635.1@woods.ulowell.edu> mcduffeek@woods.ulowell.edu 
> >>>>>writes:
> >
> >  [ other stuff about King things deleted ]
> >
> Yeah, but neither is truly accurate to King's vision. Carrie is a lot
> closer to the source than "The Shining", though. Not that either of these
> are bad, or lesser. I just thought "Dead Zone" was the most accurate
> translation of King to the screen. 
> 
> 					--Judex--

i whole heartedly agree... 

---
Steve C. 

 ==> A wise man once told me - There ARE NO Wise Men !
                             - Just fools who think they are.
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 I understand you need someone to do work.
 I don't do work, but, I know this guy who does.
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From: v111pczf@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Christian T Fraboni)
Newsgroups: alt.horror
Subject: Candyman...Incredibly intense.....
Date: 16 Oct 92 20:31:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


     I'll only say that the intensity/suspense factor was most incredible!
I've never been so "disturbed" by a movie in my entire life.
     It is definately a must see!!!

                                  -Chris 
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From: @moci.uucp
Subject: Re: Candyman
Organization: ICOM, Inc., West Allis, WI
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 13:53:43 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

lorenzo@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Eric J. Lorenzo) writes:
: ...[about the film "Candyman"]...   
: Also having a local sneak preview here on
: Thursday night at midnight, I kind of want to get an idea of what I'm going
: to have to wait in line for.  Clive Barker was also mentioned in the 
: commerical, what role did he have in the making of this film?  Thanks in
: advance.
: ..

Hi Eric.  As I recall, the "Candyman" was a resurrected psycho in Barker's
book "The Damnation Game", responsible for at least one very disturbing
act of cannabalism (don't read on a full stomach! :-).

Unfortunately, I can't tell you a thing about the film.  I'm hoping they
didn't just take the Candyman out of the story's context to make a 
slasher flick, though.  Please post a review (with the spoilers separated
out!) when you see the movie, I'm curious about this one as well.  Thanks!

Dave Ruske        ...!uwm.edu!moci!dave        GEnie: D.RUSKE1
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