RT @TheWebbyAwards: Plans tonight? Now you have them - Watch the 17th Annual Webby Awards hosted by @pattonoswalt http://t.co/d3DCAXo1oD #w
Very proud of my Critic's Choice Award nom. But I SINCERELY want Molly Shannon to win in my category. 'Cuz she crushed on ENLIGHTENED.
RT @JennyJohnsonHi5: Just ran into this grumpy fucker at LAX. @pattonoswalt http://t.co/uICVSka94D
"As you wish" -- Boba Fett, EMPIRE STRIKES BACK; Westley and The Grandfather, PRINCESS BRIDE

Join the List!

SPEW

Page 50 of 84 posts   |  View Archive   
   
   
   
Jump to:
 

Mon, Oct 16


31 HORROR STORIES -- "Thus I Refute Beelzy" (1940)

@ 1:00 PM

John Collier -- which one do I pick? The super-short "The Chaser" (shorter than "The Clock"!), which is a disturbing story about why love potions only cost a dollar? "Evening Primrose" has been so over-adapted, -anthologized, and -remembered it was pointless. And "Bottle Party" while not really a horror story, has one of the most horrifying and disturbing last lines ever written.

But I like "Thus I Refute Beelzy", if only because it uses a sitcom format to tell its story. One that ends with a nasty, nasty...bite.



Post Comment
 

Posted by: hdefgf @ 6:00 PM on 1.24.2010
it was a bad story

 
 
Posted by: Geekgasm @ 3:16 AM on 7.24.2011
I'm listening to Vincent Price read it right now ...

 
 
Posted by: Linde Aseltine @ 1:41 PM on 10.24.2011
Patton!! Oh my god! I was doing a search of my favorite short stories from long ago and your post came up on Google!!

I read "Thus I Refute Beelzy" when I first started writing short stories myself when I was 12 or 13!

You're the first person I've ever met who actually read this story! And it's even more random that you posted about it last week!

Crazy!!

 
 
 
 
 
   
   
   
Jump to: