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Post by allthingshorror on Feb 20, 2009 22:58:26 GMT
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Post by marksamuels on Feb 21, 2009 1:34:57 GMT
I love this anthology. I picked up a complete set of the 1940s US Farrar & Reinhart hardback first editions (SLEEP NO MORE, WHO KNOCKS and THE NIGHT SIDE) back in the early 1990s for £4.95 each. The covers are great, and the illustrations by Lee Brown Coye are hellishly shuddersome. He's probably my favourite weird artist.
When I get back to Blighty in ten days I'll have to dig the books out.
Mark S.
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Post by marksamuels on Feb 21, 2009 1:38:25 GMT
Btw, isn't that tale called "Johnson Looked Back" rather than "Johnson Looked Nice"?  Mark S. |
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Post by allthingshorror on Feb 21, 2009 6:24:29 GMT
Yes you are right. It was getting late and my camp side was obviously showing....  |
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Post by dem bones on Feb 21, 2009 11:47:10 GMT
Any chance of some scans, then, Mark? I don't think I've ever seen the Reinhart covers. Got the Sleep No More you mention from 1944, but it's minus dust-jacket. God knows, that Panther artwork is beautiful, but Lee Coye is no slouch either: there's a knowing weirdness to his stuff that perfectly compliments Derleth's selection. I particularly like this pair for Count Magnus and The Occupant of the room. That Armed Service edition is a lovely find. I'm wondering if these special editions for the troops were printed up at the time the book proper (as it were) went to press? I had a minor grumble about Sleep No More being Derleth's 'most obvious' selection, or some such nonsense, on Vault Mk. I, but that was before I sussed it was actually his first, and as such, it's a blinding debut! Johnson, regardless of whether he looked back or merely nice, comes to a terrible end - the last few lines of that story are up there with the grimmest horror fiction has to offer. |
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Post by lobolover on Feb 28, 2009 23:41:40 GMT
Ive seen a paperback of this on the internet before, but though it suposeldy didnt have a ton of those stories, id did have a mix of the things in and not in panther.
So, is the 65 the last full reprint or ?
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Post by marksamuels on Mar 4, 2009 16:58:21 GMT
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Post by dem bones on Mar 4, 2009 18:31:12 GMT
Thanks ever so, Mark. I might have some more of his work spread over magazines, but the only other book i have illustrated by Lee Coye is Hugh B. Cave's Murgunstrumm from 1977. By now, Coye had started working these crossed stick motifs into his pictures - he'd been spooked by coming upon various weird arrangements of them in the woods, i think - and Karl Wagner used the story as his inspiration for Sticks. Years later, Wagner's story would in turn influence the guys who made The Blair Witch Project. Sadly, I think Coye was dead by then (?) - would have been good to know what he made of it all. Glad you made it home safely. From avoiding the heart-devouring Feathered Serpent Cult of Texcoco, to avoiding Mr. Farson's somewhat less exotic 'The Creep' in Tesco's. Never a dull moment in the life of Mr & Mrs. S! |
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Post by lobolover on Mar 4, 2009 23:18:42 GMT
so, has there been any recent reprint of the full book?
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Post by bushwick on Mar 5, 2009 18:56:57 GMT
Love Lee Brown Coye, a really unique artist. There's a lot of his stuff in that 'Terror!' book by Peter Haining about the old pulp magazines.
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Post by dem bones on Mar 5, 2009 20:35:08 GMT
That's the one. Lovely book! Haining calls him "the master of the mouldering corpse"!
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