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Post by killercrab on Jun 4, 2008 1:29:39 GMT
 BLOOD SUMMER by Louise Cooper - Nel 1976 I pinched this scan from Dem's review at the old Vault and am posting my response from there too! ( Totally agree with your assessment - the cover really gives the wrong impression. I found it not trashy and too girly ( to be frank and un-pc) - Anne Rice in waiting. With vampire books I want the cheesy cliches - not depressive moralising and groaning. I certainly won't be reading anymore of Cooper's prose - though I understand she has a following. A good cover on the wrong book.) My view hasn't changed either .. still dig the cover though. ade |
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Post by jkdunham on Jun 4, 2008 1:53:19 GMT
Haven't read Blood Summer but I quite enjoyed the other 'Keith Sharwood' book, In Memory of Sarah Bailey. And a lovely cover by Tony Masero. |
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Post by killercrab on Jun 4, 2008 2:11:01 GMT
Not a cheap one to get hold of - though frankly I was so under enthused by BS that I'm not in a rush. Your recommendation certainly makes me think again. Agreed on the cover - coulda' sworn it was a photo.
ade
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Post by manitoudoll on Jun 17, 2008 22:31:26 GMT
This cover person looks like one of the vampire women from "Return of Count Yorga".
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Post by killercrab on Jun 18, 2008 2:35:13 GMT
If *only* it had been the literary equivalent of YORGA!
Big fan of both films - have you tried any of Robert Lory's Dracula books? I always think Yorga when I think of them. Ever seen THE DEATHMASTER - the unofficial third Yorga film? Quarry plays a vampiric commune leader - terrific film.
ade
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Post by killercrab on Jun 22, 2008 15:12:55 GMT
This cover person looks like one of the vampire women from "Return of Count Yorga".>> More than looks like - it is ! Here's a still I ran across last night.  Judith Lang ( Erica) becomes a vampire in Count Yorga , Vampire - AIP , 1970. |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jun 22, 2008 20:00:29 GMT
I'm a sucker for vampire girls really. Particularly Italian vampires.
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Post by coral on Jun 22, 2008 21:32:33 GMT
I'm intrigued, Craig, why Italian ones specifically?
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jun 22, 2008 22:08:41 GMT
I'm afraid I'm utterly transparent and superficial, Coral. The reason is below.  not the best picture of Barbara Steele. She was sex on legs in the black and white movies. |
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Post by Calenture on Jun 22, 2008 23:17:00 GMT
I'm intrigued, Craig, why Italian ones specifically? I'm afraid I'm utterly transparent and superficial, Coral. The reason is below. not the best picture of Barbara Steele. She was sex on legs in the black and white movies. Um... I thought Barbara Steele was British. Oh dear, I'm going to regret starting this, I'm off to bed!  |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jun 22, 2008 23:34:30 GMT
Yes she is but does she look Italian.  |
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Post by jkdunham on Jun 23, 2008 1:06:25 GMT
Here's a still I ran across last night. Judith Lang ( Erica) becomes a vampire in Count Yorga , Vampire - AIP , 1970.Well, that explains why Masero's painting looks so much like a photo. He didn't try very hard to cover his tracks, did he? I suppose the general public didn't have the same access to film stills back then. I still think it's a great cover. |
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Post by killercrab on Jun 23, 2008 8:11:22 GMT
Well he did some dental work.
The still comes from The Movie Treasury HORROR MOVIES - Tales of Terror in the cinema by Alan Frank - Octopus books , 1974. Octopus tended to reprint these books with some regularity , so it's possible Masero worked from one such volume - In Memory Of Sarah Bailey coming out in 1977.
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Post by jkdunham on Jun 23, 2008 18:35:45 GMT
The still comes from The Movie Treasury HORROR MOVIES - Tales of Terror in the cinema by Alan Frank - Octopus books , 1974. The Movie Treasury series! That brings back memories... did you have them too? I had that Horror Movies one (possibly still have it somewhere), Christopher Lee as Dracula getting staked on the cover, right? I also had the Philip Strick Science Fiction Movies - had them all, I think... Thriller Movies, Western Movies, Gangster Movies, and another one by Alan Frank called Monsters and Vampires (maybe that was the one with Christopher Lee on the front, I forget now...) Now I come to think of it, is that Horror Movies book the one that Mark Gatiss mentions having as a kid on the Blood On Satan's Claw commentary? He says something about being fascinated by stills from the film, The Frozen Dead. |
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Post by franklinmarsh on Jun 23, 2008 21:22:18 GMT
Horror Movies had Dr Terror on the hardback, Lee in the hawthorns from Satanic Rites in paperback. The stills from The Frozen Dead (in glorious colour if memory serves) were Dana Andrews examining a row of arms, and a disembodied female head (with exposed brain?). Monsters & Vampires had C Lee extracting the stake from Risen From The Grave. I had Crime and Western, me bro had Horror and Sci-Fi. Great days!
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