Alexis Duque, The Gift
First, a huge apology from our members for not posting lately…real life in all its entanglements has intervened of late. But we are back, and will be updating regularly from now on!
Here is a gift to you in penance- a short and very creepy story that I’ve finally tracked down after obsessively searching for decades…much like the search of this story’s protagonist.
I originally found this story in Alfred Hitchcock’s Stories to Stay Awake By. If Alfred Hitchcock Presents had still been on TV in the 1970’s, this tale could have been adapted quite nicely into a half-hour sting-in-the-tail episode (and would have showcased Hitch’s interest in increasingly graphic nudity and sexual violence as reflected in Frenzy and his uncompleted film Kaleidescope). The author ‘Adobe James’ is the horror nom de plume of late author and Sherlockian playwright James Moss Cardwell; he also wrote horror stories as ‘James McArdwell’. Little beyond that is known of him.
Ladies and gentlemen…
Here is a gift to you in penance- a short and very creepy story that I’ve finally tracked down after obsessively searching for decades…much like the search of this story’s protagonist.
I originally found this story in Alfred Hitchcock’s Stories to Stay Awake By. If Alfred Hitchcock Presents had still been on TV in the 1970’s, this tale could have been adapted quite nicely into a half-hour sting-in-the-tail episode (and would have showcased Hitch’s interest in increasingly graphic nudity and sexual violence as reflected in Frenzy and his uncompleted film Kaleidescope). The author ‘Adobe James’ is the horror nom de plume of late author and Sherlockian playwright James Moss Cardwell; he also wrote horror stories as ‘James McArdwell’. Little beyond that is known of him.
Ladies and gentlemen…
may I present The Ohio Love Sculpture
1 comments:
Hi Ms Bluehour
Think i first read this one in a collection of erotic horror stories Michel Parry edited as 'Linda Lovecraft', 'The Devil's Kisses' (Corgi, 1976), and, yes, it's a creepy one alright.
Enjoyed your intro and thanks for unmasking 'Adobe James'!
My best to you
demonik
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