Get Well Soon, Robert Weinberg!

Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 09:03:48 +0100
Subject: Christine Campbell Thomson By Daylight Only
From: whitechapelgothicATgmail.com

Hi Robert

i hope you'll excuse me contacting you over something so trivial, but Abe are selling a first edition of Christine Campbell Thomson's By Daylight Only and one of our readers has pointed out that the cover illustration, while identical in every other respect to the one on your rare books page, is red, not green. He wants to know which came first!

The adebook ad is here:

and, just to prove that i really do get asked questions like this, the query is here:

You may remember, i wrote you on your message board requesting permission to use the 'Not At Night' & 'Creeps' scans back in 2006 and you very kindly said 'yes'. It was a BIG help and as you can see, i'm still flying the flag for CCT and Birkin!

Hope all is well, and thanks for your time

kev
Vault Of Evil



Kev--

an unbelieveable month here. I do not know which jacket came first, tho I suspect it is the red one as I think my jacket was for a reprint.

sorry for the long delay in getting back to you but I am going through a horror month of my own. Details to follow.

I am always looking for nice copies of the Creeps series in dj in case you ever run into them. I have most of the non-anthology books but only a few of the actual series in dj (I do have the whole series but no djs).

best

bob

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How I Spent My Labor Day -- this past Sunday night, Sept 6, I woke up at 3 am. Not unusual for me, a very poor sleeper. I'm not sure why I woke, maybe a noise or whatever. I sat up in bed, still groggy. And for the first time in 30 years living in this house, sleeping in this bedroom, I somehow lost my balance and fell sideways off the bed. Headfirst into a 1/4" glass door bookcase about two feet away from the bed. My head hit the glass and shattered it, driving big pieces of glass into my forehead, and face (along with little slivers of glass as well). Needless to say, the crash woke up Phyllis and Matt. brave troopers, they quickly wrapped my very bloody face and head in a towel and called 911. Off I went to the hospital. Where I have been until this evening (Thursday) undergoing tests to make sure I did not have a heart attack, a stroke, or get shot by an alien death ray. All tests have been negative so far, so they let me go home. I have 23 stitches in my head and face to be removed in a few weeks. I also have a large cut under my left eye which makes me realize I almost lost that eye, and who knows, if a sliver of glass had gone in just right... At present, I look like Frankenstein's monster with deep cuts clearly visible on my bald head.

in any case, just wanted to let you know if you were expecting a letter from me, you will not be getting a response until next week. I am taking a few days off. I will answer everyone as I always do but it will be a little longer than my usual long response team. If this sounds like a bizarre excuse to take a few days off, beware, Matt took photos of me in the hospital and I will send them to you to give you nightmares. they are truly frightening.

btw, all of the books in that bookcase are fine. I had them in mylar jackets.

be well everyone and stay away from bookcases with glass doors.

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Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light!

Dylan Thomas