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View Full Version : Story: 'Repeat Performance' JoeP 12-08-2006, 22:04 Hi all, Just another one from my box of stories, this time a ghost story. Repeat Performance. (http://sheffieldwriters.ath.cx/SFStoryArchive/1155467703.doc) Hope folks enjoy. :) Jabberwocky 13-08-2006, 11:43 God that was a good one. I dont usually go for ghost stories but i liked that. absynthfairy 13-08-2006, 17:30 Really enjoyed that Joe - what an interesting concept....:) Mantaspook 20-08-2006, 00:12 That was an enjoyable yarn, I particularly liked the natural flow of the dialogue, although it's not very scary for a ghost story - I’d probably have cast Karlweitz as a rotting corpse in the very best “American Werewolf in London” style. :) JoeP 20-08-2006, 00:27 Mantaspook - I think my ghost stories are probably influenced by Ray Bradbury rather than Poe! If you want blood curdling visceral horror from beyond, then I've been fancying writing a story based on HP Lovecraft's 'C'thulu Mythos', so maybe I should get that going. :) Mantaspook 20-08-2006, 01:03 Steady on Joe P, introducing a character like Nyarlathotep to the gentle souls on the writing forum without an 18 certificate can only result in tears before bedtime! Methinks my next story is to have a ghostly theme, lets have a competition, Winner of the best ghost story gets to co-admin the Forum for a week :D pattricia 20-08-2006, 11:58 Mantaspook - I think my ghost stories are probably influenced by Ray Bradbury rather than Poe! If you want blood curdling visceral horror from beyond, then I've been fancying writing a story based on HP Lovecraft's 'C'thulu Mythos', so maybe I should get that going. :)I like Ray Bradbury stories.He leaves you guessing & using your own imagination.Well done. JoeP 20-08-2006, 12:25 Steady on Joe P, introducing a character like Nyarlathotep to the gentle souls on the writing forum without an 18 certificate can only result in tears before bedtime! Methinks my next story is to have a ghostly theme, lets have a competition, Winner of the best ghost story gets to co-admin the Forum for a week :D Prizes for competitions are supposed to be GOOD things! Is the second prize 'Being Co-Admin for TWO weeks'? :) I have a couple of stories which features a Victorian 'scientific detective' (imagine the X Files crossed with Sherlock Holmes and a little bit of 'Cribb'), and one of those features the dreaded Necronomicon. I've wondered about doing a 'Mythos' type tale that has a technology background.... But yes, would DEFINITELY have to put a notice up saying taht this story might screw up your sleep! :) JoeP 20-08-2006, 12:28 I like Ray Bradbury stories.He leaves you guessing & using your own imagination.Well done. Thank you! He's always been quite an influence on me - I suppose my main influences have been Bradbury, Arthur C Clarke, Stephen King, HP Lovecraft and Phillip Dick. With a little Conan-Doyle and a soupcon of Hemmingway. My head's a weird place. :) Sierra 23-08-2006, 20:37 Very nice, Joe. I love spooky stories. One of the scariest things I ever read as a kid was a short story about the Welsh? custom of sin eating. I'd never heard of that before, and it freaked me out a little. :) Sierra katy1981 23-08-2006, 20:40 Hi all, Just another one from my box of stories, this time a ghost story. http://www.communitynet.org.uk/SFStoryArchive/1155467703.doc Hope folks enjoy. :) im really tempted to read that but im scared of ghosty things soo i darent *gets frustrated at herself* is it scary? Sierra 23-08-2006, 20:43 im really tempted to read that but im scared of ghosty things soo i darent *gets frustrated at herself* is it scary? Not that scary, katy. Go on and read it, it's a lovely story. You'll like it. :) Sierra shoeshine 23-08-2006, 22:54 Not that scary, katy. Go on and read it, it's a lovely story. You'll like it. :) Sierra Go on katy1981, would we mislead you in this?........ Sierra, you are evil.......... :hihi: :thumbsup: |