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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 6, 2010 19:09:22 GMT
Thanks! I have had his novel AS IF BY MAGIC lying around for a long time---it was a Christmas gift from my father, who I think picked up a remaindered copy at random---but never read it.
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Post by noose on Oct 9, 2010 19:16:24 GMT
Has anyone noticed before that the Campbell Thompson story Behind the Yellow Door has the same kind of secretarial ending as The Library by Hester Holland? They are really quite eerily similar...
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 10, 2010 12:22:48 GMT
Chris Massie's "A Fragment of Fact" is a head-scratcher, somewhat like an Aickman story in miniature.
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oatcakeredux
Crab On The Rampage
I STILL know where the yellow went.
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Post by oatcakeredux on Dec 17, 2010 19:38:12 GMT
Probably old news to you, but a lovely new reprint of this volume - with the Scary Cat cover - has recently come out! Is a full run of reprints too much to hope for?...
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Post by dem bones on Dec 17, 2010 19:47:54 GMT
Probably old news to you, but a lovely new reprint of this volume - with the Scary Cat cover - has recently come out! Is a full run of reprints too much to hope for?... I think Mr. Noose, the artist formerly known as All Things Horror, might know something about it, oatcake. The Pan Book of Horror Stories Re-issued!
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 18, 2010 3:31:53 GMT
Just reflecting on the copper bowl again. It was one of those stories that just got you. I read it about the same age I think and it just lingers
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Post by patblack on Sept 14, 2011 8:09:40 GMT
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Post by David A. Riley on Sept 14, 2011 8:18:11 GMT
An absolutely brilliant review. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Sept 14, 2011 15:08:28 GMT
An absolutely brilliant review. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Second that. Excellent reading
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Post by patblack on Sept 14, 2011 22:20:57 GMT
Cheers! Will have a review of volume 2 up on the site soon - will post a link to the Pan 2 thread.
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Post by erebus on May 9, 2012 12:36:21 GMT
I didn't buy the recent reisssue. Don't think many people did sadly. I saw it in a half price book shop. When I went back next day to get it, it had shut down. I still have the severed head version of this though and I read it through again recently. Horrors in the Museum is without a doubt the books best tale for me. And Mr Lovecraft would be proud. Back to the the cover though. I always thought of it as a buried corpse in soil and mud as opposed to a severed head. And when I read Submerged the second tale in the book. I imagined this to be the corpse of the drowned woman who gets tangled in the roots. This was when I was younger I may add.
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Post by noose on May 9, 2012 13:02:12 GMT
The re-issue sold reasonably well, but not as well as hoped. Hence the reason there isn't a Pan reboot...yet. But I'm still working on it. The re-issue can be found on amazon, worth getting for my introduction alone...
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Post by erebus on May 9, 2012 13:10:43 GMT
Consider it done
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Post by DemonSpawn on May 9, 2012 16:01:09 GMT
I have an extremely scruffy copy of the fangy cat, or I think I do, but it may have been in the big load of books I got rid of a year ago due to it being so very scruffy.
Edit: As it turns out, I don't think I still have it, although I do still have the second. Going through a bookcase I haven't looked at in some time has, however, made me realize I still have books I thought I had thrown out or had forgotten ever buying in the first place. D'oh!
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Post by Nightmare on Nov 15, 2012 15:39:52 GMT
I just finished reading Pan Book of Horror Stories #1 and it was OK.
Raspberry Jam happened to be my favorite story due to the descriptions of the characters, ending, etc.
A Fragment of Fact had potential, but it became confusing at the end.
The Mirror, Mirror writing seemed a bit jarring to me and I still wasn't sure what the point of the story was.
I thought Submerged was quite well-written.
Surprisingly, The Copper Bowl didn't disgust me.
His Beautiful Hands was good and reminded me of the Mad Love movie and one EC comics story (I can't remember the name. The Hand?)
The Kill wasn't bad, but the ending seemed very telegraphed.
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