Macabre stories
Relying on the macabre for effect
Style: Average
Attitude: Take Care → Unobjectionable
George Archer finds himself under attack from a group who want the information in a diary of which he possesses the only remaining fragment.
Some grotesque scenes involving reanimation of men and animals by mechanical means. A fraudulent séance with a serious element. Possibly lethal violence used in self-defence by the protagonists.
Adventure, Macabre, SciFi
Style: Average
Attitude: Take Care → Unobjectionable
Kernel Fleck, able to see lights invisble to everyone else, frightens his parents when he returns from a mysterious absence with his younger brother Art.
Some shocking scenes as innocent people are killed grotesquely. Kernel's devotion to rescuing his younger brother. Dervish & Shark's loyalty to Kernel.
Fantasy, Horror, Macabre
Style: Average
Attitude: Take Care → Unobjectionable
Grubbs Grady sees his family horribly killed and is taken in by his father's mysterious brother who explains that the family is cursed and that he must learn to defend himself from demons and to play chess to help fight the curse.
Brief but shocking, grotesque horror, enough to send the main character into an asylum. Otherworldy demonic creatures and their master. Grubbs' family's closeness contrasted with his father's infidelity to his wife when away on business.
Fantasy, Horror, Macabre
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Style: Good
Attitude: Unobjectionable
A funfair comes to a small town and a couple of boys, Jim & Will, discover some rather sinister attributes of the fairground owners and crew, notably a carousel which can make you older or younger.
Classic, Macabre