| Author | Message | ||
     Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.159.146.177 |
Not even a sodden Sooty hand-puppet, I guess. Is alone-ness just one stage above or below not existing at all? | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.251.40 |
Wrong website, mate. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.159.146.177 |
Got bathrooms on the mind. Mine is being reconfigured even as I speak. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.251.40 |
So is mine, as of this morning! Odd. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.159.146.177 |
Perhaps we are the same Proto-person? Mine was gutted, untiled and de-piped this morning in readiness for new 'bath' furniture in the next couple of days. Meanwhile, hand to foot. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.159.146.177 |
"Sweeney shifts from ham to ham Stirring the water in his bath. The masters of the subtle schools Are controversial, polymath." TS Eliot | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.110.159 |
I havne't looked at mine yet. There could be anything in there. A vast Nubian head which... ...probably a shower. | ||
| Darren O. Godfrey (Darren_o_godfrey) Username: Darren_o_godfrey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 205.188.117.80 |
And we who bathe here, bathe alone... | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
I always go in the bath with someone else. Tonight it was Ray Bradbury. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
One of those weird coincidences, Des - I only just re-read the other day Clive Barker's "Human Remains," in which a bath and its strange visitor figure most prominently.... | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
One of the weirdest short horror stories I ever read featured a man who was unable to take a bath alone because the universe wouldn't let him: 'The Laocoön Complex' (1937) by J.C. Furnas. A little masterpiece of surreal terror in the tub! | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
And then there is our very own Paul Finch's story - is it "The Green Bath"? I think it was in one of the Black Books of Horror? Sorry, too busy to check at the moment, so I may be wrong there. Anyway, that featured a bath I wouldn't particularly want to bathe in ... with or without anyone else!  Hey, perhaps that's an idea for a new anthology - a bathtub/shower related antho? | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.118.75.124 |
For some reason I'm reminded of Dr. Munoz sloshing away in his icy tub in Lovecraft's "Cool Air", yelling "More! More!" as his eyes literally fall from their sockets . . . | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.159.146.177 |
My life started with a tin bath that hung on the kitchen wall like a water-butt kissing bricks. We took it down every week and filled it with hot water, for me, me mum, me dad, and anyone else who didn't otherwise have a tin bath to use. | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
"No live organism can continue for long to bathe sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to bathe. This bath, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for 80 years and might for 80 more. Within, plug chains hung loosely, taps turned neatly, water was lukewarm, and the plug sensibly... plugged; silence lay steadily against the enamel and iron of the bath, and whatever bathed there, bathed alone." | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.159.146.177 |
That's a great quote, John. It may spoil it to know where it comes from! | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.118.75.124 |
Shirley Jackson (hint, hint). | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.118.75.124 |
A touch of bathos, to be sure. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.159.146.177 |
LOL. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.24.13.202 |
The bath anthology could be edited by Jonathan Oliver. [That's an example of biscuit humour btw. It's an acquired taste.] | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 166.216.226.83 |
And if the antho ends up taking a bath? (... this is the other fish in the barrel, next to the one Hubert shot....) | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.159.146.177 |
Gary Mc said: "I always go in the bath with someone else. Tonight it was Ray Bradbury."  You're never alone with a book. Image © Tony Lovell | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.26.216.33 |
I started editing a bath antho a few years back, but owing to a lack of quality submissions, I . . . yes, yes, all right . . . I pulled the plug on it. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.159.146.177 |
This is my Bath story (published in Peeping Tom in 1997) - this site is vanishing on 31 Dec 2011 along with the whole of the residua of the Weirdmonger Wheel. THE PLUG | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.118.72.208 |
The proposed anthology could not be complete without that lesbian vampire story based on the life of Elizabeth Bathory - I forget the title. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.159.146.177 |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Corday   |