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Post by lemming13 on Jul 16, 2010 14:56:58 GMT
As one who came to horror partly through Peter's anthologies, I would like to add my sincere regrets at his passing to the rest. I recently shared the Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories with my daughter (introducing a new generation to the genre proper as she showed a cheering disdain for Twilight), and she was also saddened to hear that the man responsible for it had passed away. RIP Peter.
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Post by dem bones on Jul 22, 2010 11:23:41 GMT
As one who came to horror partly through Peter's anthologies, I would like to add my sincere regrets at his passing to the rest. I recently shared the Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories with my daughter (introducing a new generation to the genre proper as she showed a cheering disdain for Twilight), and she was also saddened to hear that the man responsible for it had passed away. RIP Peter. Hi lemming13. very glad to have another fan of Peter Haining's aboard and delighted to learn that both yourself and your daughter enjoyed Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories. All the signs were that, had he lived, Mr. Haining would have become a fixture at Robinsons. I think his work for them - Haunted House Stories, Modern Ghost Stories, the posthumous True Ghost Stories, etc., - signalled a real return to form - after a few lean decades the early PH spirit was back and you could tell he was enjoying himself. He's much missed.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 19, 2015 18:04:51 GMT
Hard to believe that it's EIGHT years to the day we lost Peter Haining. Hardly the greatest tribute to his memory, but without his books it's very unlikely there would have been a Vault. Within a month of starting up on SuddenLaunch, Vault MK I was swamped in PH stub posts and excuses for "reviews." It's fitting that what, sadly, turned out to be his last interview was with Justin of Paperback Fanatic.
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Post by ropardoe on Jul 1, 2016 17:01:48 GMT
The latest Ansible has another example of Haining's unreliability:
'For a moment he stood there looking into her eyes. Between them was a bowl of hyacinths.' This is quoted in Wrotten English (2004), a merry book of literary lapses compiled by the late Peter Haining, who says the line comes from Under the Southern Cross by Elizabeth Robins. That 1907 novel is available at Project Gutenberg, so I idly checked ... and couldn't find this quote or anything remotely similar. It does however appear in one of Denys Parsons' collections of typos and oddments, Funny Ha Ha and Funny Peculiar (1965), credited only to 'A women's magazine'... The inference is that Peter Haining – sometimes described as a tiny bit bibliographically unreliable – lifted the Parsons quotation and added a spurious source for greater verisimilitude.
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Post by memizon on May 9, 2022 22:06:13 GMT
Same here. In my teens I used to religiously collect Haining's anthologies, in hardcover as best as I could. I even have a book from his library, 'The Black Witch', with his bookplate.
Best regards.
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