Abandon Hope - We're VAULT

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No New Posts Welcome to Vault

Welcome to Vault: Tell us something about yourself if you feel so inclined.

111 754 Fantastic Literature's Illustrated May list
by captainfantastic
May 14, 2013 5:29:32 GMT
No New Posts Plan 9 Channel 7: Newsdesk

Vault Of Evil's answer to the Burley Observer: New publications, forthcoming events, bookfairs, signings, etc. All the scoops two years after they happened, etc.

293 2,653 Ray Harryhausen RIP.
by ripper
May 14, 2013 12:36:13 GMT

British Horror Anthologies: 1914 to Present Day

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No New Posts Peter Haining (1940-2007)

A one-man publishing industry. Celebrated the legend of Britain's most prolific horror anthologist.

75 498 Peter Haining - The Television Sherlock Holmes
by demonik
Apr 8, 2013 19:40:38 GMT
No New Posts Sixties and Seventies - Pan & Fontana, Michel Parry, Richard Davis, Hugh Lamb & Co.

Demon flower power! Michel Parry, Richard Davis, Hugh Lamb, Ramsey Campbell, David Sutton, Brian A. Netherwood, Charles Birkin's return, Alex Hamilton et al.

148 823 John Burke - Tales of Unease
by stretfordditto
Apr 16, 2013 21:26:58 GMT
No New Posts Pan Horror Stories (and 'Dark Voices')

Herbert Van Thal's hideous legacy. Sadistic thrills!

82 1,038 My Own Little Homage To The Pan Anthologies
by truegho
May 19, 2013 2:35:55 GMT
No New Posts Aickman, Barnard, Chetwynd-Hayes & Danby. The Fontana Horror, Ghost, Tales of Terror series' ... and beyond.

The wonders of Mary Danby, Robert Aickman, R. Chetwynd-Hayes and Christine Barnard & Co.

98 648 The Psychic Detective
by Johnlprobert
Mar 24, 2013 11:25:40 GMT
No New Posts Eighties, Nineties, Noughties: Big Fat Books

Richard Dalby, Mike Ashley, Stephen Jones & the Robinson Mammoth series's. Blimey, that's a big one!

144 1,498 Close to the Bone . by Mark Morris
by andydecker
Apr 21, 2013 17:35:44 GMT
No New Posts Robinson Mammoth Books of New Horror & Co.

Best New Horror, and Mammoth Monsters, Dracula, Frankenstein, Zombies, Werewolves, Jack The Ripper, etc.

57 591 Constable Robinson July-Dec 2013
by andydecker
May 15, 2013 16:12:57 GMT
No New Posts favourite Short Stories ... Your DIY anthologies

Werewolves, zombies, vampires and ghosts, vindictive vegetables, dastardly dolls, plants hate you, etc. Anthologies that should have been.

61 713 The Gallery of Terror
by blindcat4
May 8, 2013 17:53:01 GMT
No New Posts Favourite Authors

The Men and Women whose work you always look out for.

104 1,108 Chainsaw Terror - Hutson
by erebus
May 18, 2013 14:35:49 GMT
No New Posts Ramsey Campbell

Scared Stiff - The short story collections and novels of the Brichester Terror!

25 255 UK edition of Secret Stories
by algernon
May 9, 2013 2:09:31 GMT
No New Posts Basil Copper (1924-2013)

Welcome to the Academy of Pain!

20 171 Basil Copper 1924 - 2013
by mains
Apr 14, 2013 14:14:04 GMT

Gruesome Cargoes & Perturbed Spirits: 1914-59

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No New Posts Between The Wars : Gruesome Cargoes

The first golden age of the British Horror Anthology. On the one side the Not At Night and Creeps series, on the other, the Century Books, Thrills, The Supernatural Omnibus, Cynthia Asquith's first Ghost Book etc.

78 539 R. R. Ryan
by jamesdoig
May 14, 2013 21:05:42 GMT
No New Posts Not At Night: 1925-1936

Christine Campbell Thomson's Not At Night Anthologies. 170 tales of mad scientists, evil surgeons, unlikey brain transplants, tropical horrors, circus freaks, vampires, werewolves, man-eating plants, enormous spiders, the re-animated dead & Co.

23 113 Not At Night - The 'Weird Tales' 100
by demonik
Jan 23, 2013 0:11:31 GMT
No New Posts Creeps: 1932-1936 & Charles Birkin

Charles Lloyd/ Birkin's Creeps series. 158 stories, similar obsessions to the above but with added unhealthy cannibalism and leprosy fixations.

33 244 Beyond Midight
by Dr Terror
Apr 26, 2013 23:41:07 GMT
No New Posts 'Forties and 'Fifties: Post War, Pre Pan Horror.

1940-1959: R.C. Bull, John Keir Cross, Anne Ridler, Kay Dick, the return of The Ghost Book and the road to Herbert Van Thal.

31 271 H. P. Lovecraft - Cry Horror!
by killercrab
Apr 11, 2013 10:02:37 GMT

Gothic, Victorian, Edwardian. The stuff that Wordsworth Editions are made of.

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No New Posts From Walpole & Monk Lewis to the first World War.

Gothic Bluebooks, Penny Dreadfuls, Victorian Tales of Terror from a Gaslit Graveyard, Edwardian eeriness, Wordsworth Mystery & The Supernatural editions.

122 1,489 Horace Walpole - The Castle Of Otranto
by thecoffinflies
May 17, 2013 19:32:37 GMT

American horror anthologies and vintage pulp magazines

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No New Posts American Gothic

Mostly modern, certainly post-pulp, post-seventies horror anthologies from the US. Kirby McCauley, Martin H. Greenberg, Michele Slung, YBH, Splatterpunks, Shadows, Whispers, etc.

Sub-boards: Years Best Horror Stories Series I -XXII, Martin H. Greenberg (1941 -2011)

155 724 Ghoul : Brian Keene
by erebus
Apr 29, 2013 9:48:52 GMT
No New Posts Paperback Library * Ballantine * Fawcett * Manor * Dell * Lancer * MacFadden

Paperback Library, mid-sixties-early seventies: Dark Shadows overkill, Marilyn Ross, Horror meets Romance, Goth girls on the run, outrageous retitling of Stoker novel, gorgeous, often entirely inappropriate cover artwork. Now extended to include other board favourites, BALLANTINE and MANOR BOOKS.

56 368 Slime
by kooshmeister
Apr 27, 2013 8:18:49 GMT
No New Posts Robert E. Lory & Donald F. Glut

Dracula Returns, The New Adventures Of Frankenstein, Horrorscope, Bugged, More Tales Of The Frightened, The Empire Strikes Back, and the 'Brother Blood' mystery solved at last.

20 112 Robert Lory Challenge to Dracula #9
by truegho
May 19, 2013 2:42:22 GMT
No New Posts The Fantastic Pulps

America's finest: From 'Weird Tales', 'Strange Tales' The Shudder Pulps and the 'Spicy' titles to 'Shock', 'Web Terror Stories', 'Startling Mystery Stories', 'Magazine of Horror', 'Witchcraft & Sorcery, etc. And the creepy anthologies derived from same!

109 624 Robert Weinberg - Weird Menace Classics 1-6
by cauldronbrewer
May 15, 2013 11:58:30 GMT
No New Posts Robert Bloch: Tales in a Jugular Vein

Robert-Bloch-The-Man-Who-Wrote-Psycho and his Closet Full of Skeletons.

33 194 Robert Bloch - Firebug
by severance
Oct 22, 2012 16:31:03 GMT

Horror across the Continents

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No New Posts Vintage Horror across the Continents

Vault Versus The Rest Of The World! Euro Terror, Australian pulp, macabre Oriental shockers & Co.

30 279 Australian Pulp
by jamesdoig
May 6, 2013 9:58:49 GMT

The novels: The Great British Horror Pulp Explosion of the '60's, '70's & '80's

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No New Posts Nasty Nel's

New English Library: Ultra-Trashy Horror Novels! The marvels of Robert Lory, Guy N. Smith, Brian Ball, Raymond Giles, Martin Jenson, Errol Lecale, Etienne Aubin - All the old masters!

144 1,624 Latest Finds!
by jamesdoig
May 18, 2013 5:36:52 GMT
No New Posts Nel: The Non-horror/ Non-Fiction stuff

They also went in for some truly inspired exploitation numbers!

27 79 Gillian Freeman - The Leader
by Craig Herbertson
May 2, 2013 9:28:04 GMT
No New Posts The House Of Hamlyn

Spiders, Pestilence, Tricycles and Slime! Death to Brainy Horror! Richard Lewis, Gary Brandner, John Halkin, Edward Jarvis, Lewis Mallory, Nick Sharman, Marc Olden, Gerald Suster, Daniel Farson & Co.

75 434 James Farber - Blood Island
by H_P_Saucecraft
Apr 13, 2013 19:34:30 GMT
No New Posts Rivals of the Rats

When Animals Attack! Bugs, slugs, maggots & rabbits versus mankind.

46 272 Arthur Herzog - The Swarm
by doomovertheworld
Apr 20, 2013 8:12:52 GMT
No New Posts Morbid Mayflowers, Sordid Spheres, Ghastly Graftons, etc.

Sphere, Mayflower, Corgi, Panther, Arrow & Co. were determined NEL didn't have it all their own way.

175 654 Brian Hodge - Nightlife
by erebus
Apr 24, 2013 11:48:56 GMT
No New Posts Guy N. Smith

From the Sucking Pit they came: Crabs, Slime Beasts, Throwbacks - the lot.

75 598 The Unseen
by erebus
Mar 11, 2013 11:16:21 GMT
No New Posts Dennis Wheatley novels, tasty Witchcraft & Black Magic 'non-fiction'

Vault explore the world of black sorcery, ghosts, haunted houses, and all things unexplained via a bunch of commendably seedy paperbacks.

Dedicated to the memory of Bob Rothwell, Wheatley enthusiast and friend of Vault who passed away 26/12/06.

65 339 J. F. Straker - The Goat
by demonik
Apr 18, 2013 8:06:25 GMT
No New Posts 'Peter Saxon' and all things Five Star

Wheatley without the party political broadcasts. The Guardians series, The Torturer, Scream And Scream Again, etc. Now extended to include all things W. Howard Baker, W. A. Ballinger, Wilfred McNeilly, Five Star and the 'Sexton Blake' books.

43 270 Peter Saxon - Scream And Scream Again
by Johnlprobert
Mar 24, 2013 11:37:12 GMT
No New Posts John Burke: "A relatively unsung Brit pulp hero"

From Dr. Terrors House Of Horrors and The Plague Of The Zombies to London's Burning: Blue Watch Blues via The Smashing Bird I used To Know. John Burke: The man who novelised the world!

24 168 The Sorcerers: The Original Screenplay by John Burke
by mains
May 17, 2013 10:35:45 GMT
No New Posts The Vault Lists & Bibliographical Aids

Reference works: the most useful Guides to Horror and Pulp fiction!

43 499 Digit Books
by Craig Herbertson
Apr 22, 2013 7:10:07 GMT

Magazine Rack

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No New Posts Paperback Fanatic, Pulp Mania & Paperback Dungeon

If you like this board, you'll love these magazines.

44 445 Paperback 25: 'Weird Tales' Special
by demonik
Apr 3, 2013 12:41:40 GMT
No New Posts Horror Magazines, Comics & Graphic Novels

Favourite horror and ghost publications new and old!

73 610 The NEW Famous Monsters of Filmland
by truegho
May 19, 2013 2:44:52 GMT
No New Posts Cut, Paste & Photocopy: Fanzines & Small Press pre-2000

Your favourites from pre-internet days when everyone with access to a stapler and a pot of correction fluid was an editor.

26 464 Vampy Crew
by demonik
Nov 8, 2012 23:21:11 GMT
No New Posts Ghosts & Scholars/ Haunted Library

Magnificent series of booklets by authors writing in the tradition of M. R. James. Some more than others ...

19 119 Sequel to Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows
by The Lurker In The Shadows
Apr 9, 2013 20:08:51 GMT

It's the new thing: Post-Millennium horrors

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No New Posts New Horror: Post 2000

In thirty years time, we'll be collecting this stuff and moaning "Books were better then ...." Modern novels, single author collections - if it's not an anthology, it goes here.

114 699 Hammer books
by demonik
May 16, 2013 17:11:32 GMT
No New Posts new horror-interest mags, small press, ezines, pdfs.

Bedabbled!, Kontinental X, Filthy Creations, One Eyed Grey, Black Static, etc. - the horror press now.

44 461 Bedabbled! Brit Horror & Cult Cinema mag
by algernon
Feb 8, 2013 11:41:50 GMT

Miscellany Of Misery. Yet More books, film, TV, Radio, Music, Agro!, Sav. West, Sci-Fi, etc.

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No New Posts Phew! Rock 'n Roll!

"Pop and Rock filth ...": Bands real and fictional, horror and music, etc.

78 604 TURN THAT NOISE DOWN!
by Knygathin
Apr 26, 2013 21:36:45 GMT
No New Posts Horror Films, My TV Hell, Ghastly Radio, etc

Favourite horror films, terrifying sit-coms, chilling radio - a nice mixed bag.

186 2,261 The Saint!
by demonik
May 15, 2013 17:34:40 GMT
No New Posts Book of the horror film/ TV show, etc.

Survived the movie? Try the speed-written novelisation. Film/ TV novelisations & tie-ins.

90 793 Dr. Who
by ripper
Apr 24, 2013 17:41:11 GMT
No New Posts AGRO!

Bikers versus London! Hells Angels, Skins, Boot Boys, Bovver Girls, Punks and Teeny Bopper Idols. The Spawn of Richard Allen. Bring back Rollermania!

19 146 Richard Allen - Boot Boys
by glampunk
May 15, 2013 18:09:10 GMT
No New Posts CRIME!

Murder, Mystery & Suspense. Crime & Detection, Jack the Ripper, Villains - that type of caper. Vault at large in the murky Underworld!

84 428 Paul Finch - Stalkers
by paulfinch
Apr 1, 2013 18:20:10 GMT
No New Posts Paperback Covers: The Best and Worst. Favourite Artists & Photographers

Because there's nothing like a great jacket design ...

38 425 Wolf Hunter cover
by andydecker
Feb 14, 2013 19:30:25 GMT
No New Posts Saucy! Spicy! Dreadful!

"Confessions ...", "Art Of Coarse ...", "What Rugby Songs Did Next", that type of thing ...

32 241 Long Distance Lorry Driver
by ripper
Apr 17, 2013 9:12:58 GMT
No New Posts Vault Of Sci-Fi! Futuristic Fantasy

Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Sci-horror crossovers, Sword & Sorcery, the works.

75 666 Arthur C. Clarke
by Craig Herbertson
May 15, 2013 10:11:13 GMT
No New Posts WAR!, Men's Adventure & General Tough Guy stuff

War Pigs! Sven Hassell, Klaus Netzen, Leo Kessler, Wolf Kruger & the Legion of the Damned versus The Destroyer, The Executioner, The Inquisitor & other scary named fellows.

13 70 The Quiller Novels
by andydecker
May 10, 2013 17:05:56 GMT
No New Posts Brit Westerns

Piccadilly Cowboys, Brit Westerns, Spaghetti Western novelisations or other related topics

25 133 Jubal Cade 3 : The Hungry Gun
by benedictjjones
Aug 25, 2012 20:11:39 GMT
No New Posts Terrify the Small! Scary Books & Comics for the very young

Scary books and comics aimed at the young adult market. Vincent Scarybloke, 'Uncle Montagues Tales of Terror', Armada Ghost & Monster series, 'Misty', 'Shiver & Shake', 'Bunty' 'Whizzer & Chips', etc.

84 526 The Three Investigators
by madeleymade
May 6, 2013 17:11:45 GMT

Realm Of Dusk: Members' Section

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No New Posts Seriously off topic

Mindless rubbish, Members Photo's, Happy Birthdays, Suggestions, Board Junk & So on

173 3,180 Books which are possibly good but you can't finish
by ripper
May 6, 2013 12:51:39 GMT
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Need help loading images, searching the site, identifying the title or author of a vaguely remembered horror story?

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146 1,456 Mrs Amworth 1975 British Short
by valdemar
May 19, 2013 4:53:20 GMT
No New Posts Swap Shop

Place where members can swap their doubles. You can also put your Want Lists here if you like.

54 275 Hell House by Richard Matheson Wanted
by truegho
May 19, 2013 2:39:53 GMT
No New Posts Sealed Section: No one lived there.

(formerly The Workshop Of Filthy Creation). Members' short fiction, articles, artwork, dramatisations, bloody poetry, limericks, etc.

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