RE: RARA-AVIS: MW Wellman's "Noir Feel": Beaver

From: Todd Mason ( Todd.Mason@tvguide.com)
Date: 13 May 2004


Which Wellman short was that, btw? I'm embarrassed to not know (or remember) off the top... TM

-----Original Message----- From: Jim Beaver Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 1:59 PM To: rara-avis@icomm.ca Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Chandler's "Noir Feel" for LA (was Denise Hamilton)
 I recently reread an old short story by Manly Wade Wellman set in the 1800s. A sea captain of a slave ship, in order to avoid being caught with contraband slaves on board by a British man-of-war, orders the slaves shacked to the anchor chain. He drops anchor and the slaves go overboard with it. No more evidence. Years later, back in the Carolinas in his home, he is visited by the monstrous fish-eaten ghostly carcasses of the slaves he sent overboard, who surround his home and drive him mad.

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