Annual Macabre 2004: The Last 'Queer Stories from Truth'
- Edited by Jack Adrian
- ISBN: 1-55310-077-8 (978-1-55310-077-5)
- Format: Hardcover, xxxix + 141pp
- Publish Date: December 31, 2004
- Original Price: C$52.00 / US$43.00 / £25.00
- Genre: Horror
- Publication Type: Anthology
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About
Annual Macabre 2004: The Last 'Queer Stories from Truth',for most of its life, the weekly publication Truth, which was more generally concerned with politics, finance, and general muck-raking, ran, in each issue, a short fiction feature called “Queer Story”. After publication of a number of stories, they were gathered and published as anthologies titled Queer Stories from “Truth”. The short stories were odd, peculiar, strange, macabre, weird, and at times outright supernatural, and some illustrious names contributed weird tales to the forum, including H. R.
Wakefield (whose “Annyversry” is an early version of the tale later published as “The Fire-Watcher’s Story”), A. B. Cox, and Rosemary Timperley. Jack Adrian has collected together thirty-one of these stories; short, sharp shocks which introduce the supernatural into the lives of everyday people.
Edition Details
- This is a full clothbound edition limited to 500 copies.
Contents:
- Introduction
- The Exchange
- A Psychic Mystery'
- The Damned Spot
- "Dusty Death"
- The Escape
- The Dream Giver
- Bitter Almonds
- The Cab in Sloane Square
- Goolang
- Michael Leinster's Picture
- The End of the World
- The Spade in the Night
- Exeat
- The Last Appointment
- Exit
- Annyversry
- The Fisherman
- Open Sesame
- Strange Company
- Little Old Lady
- The Bright Room
- Traveller's Tale
- Thin Air
- "Pobson"
- The Sisters
- The Parson Vanishes
- The Man at the Door
- Brambles
- Hell, Twice Daily
- Poltergeist
- The Dagger
- Sources and Acknowledgments
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External Links
- Jack Adrian. ISFDB entry for Jack Adrian
- Annual Macabre 2004: The Last 'Queer Stories from Truth'. ISFDB entry for Annual Macabre 2004: The Last 'Queer Stories from Truth'