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Post by helrunar on May 4, 2017 20:28:08 GMT
I just read the obit and by another curious coincidence, I have a copy of the cloth edition of Tales of Witchcraft on a very small shelf of personal books I keep here in my office area. I hadn't paid attention to the fact that Mr. Dalby was the editor although I've had the book for a couple of years now. The notice: wormwoodiana.blogspot.com/H.
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Post by mrhappy on May 4, 2017 20:37:55 GMT
This is very sad news indeed. His name on a book was a seal of quality in my eyes. If there was a Mount Rushmore of horror scholarship, Richard Dalby would be a part of it.
May he rest in peace.
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Post by David A. Riley on May 4, 2017 20:49:34 GMT
Though I never had the privilege of meeting him, his has been a familiar name to me for as far back as I can remember. He'll be sadly missed.
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Post by jamesdoig on May 4, 2017 21:02:53 GMT
That's sad news - he was someone I really admired. His Dracula's Brethren is now available - I've meant to pick up a copy, but haven't had a chance yet. I've a nice copy of The Sorceress in Stained Glass, picked up years ago:
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Post by Swampirella on May 4, 2017 21:06:23 GMT
Sad news. My condolences to those who knew him. I forget how or why but in the mid 1970s I owned the cloth edition of The Sorceress in Stained Glass. I had completely forgotten about the book (like many others I once owned) until I saw a notice about it on here a couple of weeks ago while trawling through some of the older boards. May his spirit fly free. H. Very well put; please add my condolences as well.
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Post by dem bones on May 5, 2017 11:53:00 GMT
So sorry to hear this sad news. Very beautiful obituary from Mark V.
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Post by Michael Connolly on May 5, 2017 13:06:23 GMT
This is very bad news about Richard Dalby. As he wrote much material on Dracula, which I am in the middle of re-reading, I kept thinking about him before I heard the news. When another book dealer found me a copy of The Sorceress in Stained Glass, he must have got it from Richard as it was signed by him. I had some dealings with him and, on request, he also signed Masters of Fantasy 3: M.R. James (British Fantasy Society, 1987) and Flaxman Lowe: Psychic Detective (Ghost Story Press, 1993), both of which he edited. The loss is very real.
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Post by michaelscollins on May 5, 2017 17:21:03 GMT
Very sad news to hear about Richard Dalby's death. His 90s collections inspired a long held passion for horror fiction for me.
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Post by Michael Connolly on May 6, 2017 12:28:48 GMT
It was only when I got home yesterday did I remember that I am actually re-reading stories from a book edited and introduced by by Richard Dalby: The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson (Robinson, 2001). During the correspondence that we had when I bought books from him and I sold some to him, Richard mentioned that he had written a book-length index to every writer of supernatural stories. However, he was unable to find a publisher for it. Does anyone know anything about this?
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Post by ropardoe on May 6, 2017 14:13:27 GMT
Very sad news to hear about Richard Dalby's death. His 90s collections inspired a long held passion for horror fiction for me. Richard had suffered from type 1 diabetes throughout his life, and apparently he died in his sleep from hypoglycaemic shock (I think it's hypo not hyper!). If you've got to go, that's probably one of the better ways of doing it. I don't know what will happen to his huge book collection but hopefully he'd made arrangements for it to go somewhere where it will be taken care of and be available for reference, rather than being sold off piecemeal.
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Post by dem bones on May 8, 2017 11:00:28 GMT
Dug out one of Richard's catalogues, this one dated 1991. As you can see from sample page, Richard favoured a no frills fanzine approach which, for me, made the catalogues that bit extra special.
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Post by helrunar on May 8, 2017 11:43:06 GMT
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Post by dem bones on May 8, 2017 18:59:29 GMT
Nice portrait of John Silence, too! I've never seen a portrait of the great psychic investigator... H. It was the fact he used illustrations won me over - it was very space age for 1991. Had a rifle through a stash of old catalogues earlier and can't find another from Richard, so am wondering if there were any more after #1? Am sure there must have been, as I bought Hugh Lamb's The Taste Of Fear from him and it isn't listed in the above. It would be most unlike me to get rid of anything with staples.
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Post by Michael Connolly on May 9, 2017 12:31:25 GMT
Nice portrait of John Silence, too! I've never seen a portrait of the great psychic investigator... H. It was the fact he used illustrations won me over - it was very space age for 1991. Had a rifle through a stash of old catalogues earlier and can't find another from Richard, so am wondering if there were any more after #1? Am sure there must have been, as I bought Hugh Lamb's The Taste Of Fear from him and it isn't listed in the above. It would be most unlike me to get rid of anything with staples. I received another book catalogue from Richard Dalby a few years ago. It was the same format as the one illustrated. I also got my copy of the Taste of Fear from Richard. It is autographed by Hugh Lamb. I've just attached a bigger and better picture of the excellent cover. Note this from ISFDB: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?276972 "Notes: Contents from Vault of Evil, so a little suspect[!]. Attachments:
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Post by Michael Connolly on May 9, 2017 13:33:33 GMT
He's very shy:
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