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Griff (Griff)
Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.93.21.74
| | Posted on Saturday, June 07, 2008 - 05:17 pm: | |
I suspect when we look back there were always indications that we'd like "horror".
Anyone remember a hardback A4 sized book featuring a pale plump man wondering through a castle full of sinister and disturbing things?
Best of all and one of the first inklings I'd be drawn to the dark was a series of books featuring a little boy who talked to a cat and featured lost people who lived behind a waterfall - but wanted to come back to this world for some reason. There was no blood or gore, it was simply unsettling. The author created a superb menaceing and unsettling atmosphere.
Does anyone remember that series of books featuring the cat and the lost people? |
Gcw (Gcw)
Username: Gcw
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.151.123.101
| | Posted on Saturday, June 07, 2008 - 10:02 pm: | |
Errmmmmmmmmmmm....
no.
gcw |
Gcw (Gcw)
Username: Gcw
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.151.123.101
| | Posted on Saturday, June 07, 2008 - 10:02 pm: | |
gcw... |
Adriana (Adriana)
Username: Adriana
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.230.239.233
| | Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 07:19 am: | |
No, but I'd LOVE to read it!!! |
Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.145.131.242
| | Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 11:15 am: | |
Me too. I love mysterious books like that.
I have a memory of a book in which some kids have a weird adventure in a dreamlike place; all I remember are the feelings and the fact there was a 'touchstone' in it. It haunts my memories as much as any 'real' place. |
Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.145.131.242
| | Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 11:25 am: | |
What was on the cover, Griff?
Was it Lucy Boston? |
Griff (Griff)
Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.93.21.74
| | Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 01:44 pm: | |
Can't remember but the colour illustrations inside can only be described as unsettling.
Something wasn't quite right about the entire situation. The words eerie and unsettling were made for it. |
Griff (Griff)
Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.93.21.74
| | Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 01:50 pm: | |
There was no overt horror just scenes of him separted from others in increasingly lonely locations. Often there would be people in the background but he was almost invisible to them. It gave me a feeling of growing dread as a kid when I read the books. |
Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.145.131.242
| | Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 06:37 pm: | |
Oh, I have a story like that, still in first draft. Had it lying round for ages. A bit 'interior'.
I underestimate the use of props in stories, and plot mechanics. They can really move stuff along. |
Huw (Huw)
Username: Huw
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 218.168.190.211
| | Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 05:22 am: | |
Sounds interesting. What was 'inappropriate' about it, though? |
Griff (Griff)
Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.93.21.74
| | Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 09:49 am: | |
It was very subtle and disturbing.
I still can't put my finger on what it was. |
Griff (Griff)
Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.93.21.74
| | Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 09:54 am: | |
Why was it 'inappropriate'?
Not sure if it was or not, but it created a sense of growing melancholic atmosphere and dread in a clever and subtle way.
It was also part of a series! |
Griff (Griff)
Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.93.21.74
| | Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 09:56 am: | |
"Gloomy books for young minds" (c)
Guaranteed to inject melacholia into the most cheerful of nipper!
Or your money back. |
Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.145.131.242
| | Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 10:25 am: | |
Sure it's not the Green Knowe books?
This is killing me! |
Griff (Griff)
Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.93.21.74
| | Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 11:14 am: | |
It was a series of books that involved the boy and his "friend" the cat. |
Griff (Griff)
Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.93.21.74
| | Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 11:14 am: | |
This was in the late 70s. |
Albie (Albie)
Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.195.244.67
| | Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 01:08 pm: | |
It wasn't a book. It was the past you are trying to block because it drives you mad.
I WAS that cat! |
Griff (Griff)
Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.93.21.74
| | Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 01:12 pm: | |
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Albie (Albie)
Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.195.236.131
| | Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 02:05 pm: | |
Miaow! Miaow, I tell you! |
Albie (Albie)
Username: Albie
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.195.236.131
| | Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 02:10 pm: | |
You must have known that.
You'll be telling me next that ERASERHEAD isn't all about the assassination of JFK. |
Griff (Griff)
Username: Griff
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.93.21.74
| | Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 - 02:34 pm: | |
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