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I've been trying to find out the name of a horror novella that I read when I was about 10-12. It might have just been a short story but I'm fairly sure it was somewhere around 30-50 pages long. All I remember about the story is that it had a woman with a pet lemur in it and that something caught fire, some monster with globes at the ends of its arms escaped and the lemur was found dead at the end. Sorry if that's vague, but I don't remember anything else. I either read it in a fontana horror collection, a pan books horror collection or a hitchcock collection. I'm fairly sure that I read The Ash Tree in the same collection, but I could be wrong. I'd guess that the story was written some time between 1900-1950, it was probably set in an old house or a village, it had a male protagonist/narrator and I'm fairly sure there was a primate theme to it. Other than that, I can't remember. Any ideas? |
Can anyone identify this horror novella?
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techierob 336 posts
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It sounds a lot like H.P. Lovecraft. -
Spanky 15,030 posts
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Registered 17 years agoDreams in the Witch House has a big rat with a human face called Brown Jenkin, not a lemur though. -
techierob 336 posts
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Registered 14 years agoNice trys, cheers. The story did have a bit of a lovecrafty/stokery feel to it, although this was before I remember reading any lovecraft so I could be a bit off.
Anyway, it's not any lovecraft story I've read since. I'm certain it was a lemur because I had to look up what a lemur was when I first read it.
The main reason I'm trying to track it down is because the story didn't make any sense to me at a time so I'm going to have to read it again to work out wtf was going on.
Oh, and the collection I read it in might have had The Fly in it as well -
techierob 336 posts
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Registered 14 years agoRight. I've tracked down some of the old horror compilations that I used to read and got the story lists. The following stories are all ones I must have read but none appear to be the one I'm after:
The Ash-tree - Montague Rhodes James
It's a Good Life - Jerome Bixby
Whole Town's Sleeping - Ray Bradbury
Lady's Man - Ruth Chatterton
Evening Primrose - John Collier
The Cocoon - John B. L. Goodwin
Vintage Season - C. L. Moore
The Whistling Room - William Hope Hodgson
Our Feathered Friends - Philip MacDonald
The Fly - George Langelaan
Second Night Out - Frank Belknap Long
Side Bet - Will F Jenkins
Told For the Truth - Cyril Hume
Pieces of Silver - Brett Halliday
For what it's worth, a few of those might be freely available on project gutenberg. -
davidspiegler 1 posts
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Registered 5 years ago@techierob its the Cyril Hume story. I don't understand it either. Google it for a review. 'cyril Hume nerd truth'. The reviewer is wrong. I think the woman had sex with the lemur. -
Lemur-Faced Horror Adventures. -
Enemy Mine -
Spanky 15,030 posts
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Registered 17 years agoA reply 8 years in the making 
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cov 2,426 posts
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Registered 17 years agoi'm trying to remember a horror novel I read as a kid... set in an American small town, focussed on children, something to do with milk being infected and driving the children homicidal. Thought it was Robert mccammon but its not... any ideas? -
Vortex808 14,597 posts
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Registered 12 years agocov wrote:
John Gummer- The Milkening?
i'm trying to remember a horror novel I read as a kid... set in an American small town, focussed on children, something to do with milk being infected and driving the children homicidal. Thought it was Robert mccammon but its not... any ideas? -
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