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Post by noose on Feb 13, 2012 20:45:31 GMT
brilliant, brilliant news!
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Post by dem bones on Apr 23, 2012 11:54:32 GMT
The publication of The Female Of The Species & Other Tales (check your mailbox tomorrow, mr. piglingbland ) reminded me it's about time we added this non-fiction effort to the Richard Davis biblio. If anything, it's maybe more horror-magazine-in-card-covers than 'Encyclopaedia', especially notable for an outrageously gifted contributors list. Suppose we shouldn't be too surprised that this copy came from a remainder shop. Richard Davis - The Encyclopaedia Of Horror (Hamlyn, 1987: originally The Octopus Encyclopaedia Of Horror, 1981) Peter Cushing - Preface Richard Davis - Introduction
Tom Hutchinson - Evil Monsters Michel Parry - The Frankenstein Saga Richard Cavendish - The Devil's Army Basil Copper - Vampires & Werewolves Michael Ashley - The Supernatural Richard Davis - The Undead Douglas Hill - Travelling Beyond
Richard Davis & Denis Gifford - The Catalogue (comics) Basil Copper had already done for the undead and their lonesome cousins in his somewhat idiosyncratically "researched" The Vampire: In Legend, Fact & Art and its Werewolf companion. Michel Parry in his many guises proved over again that he was capable of one of the truly great histories of horror in film and literature if he ever turned his mind to such a project. Mike Ashley's history of the ghost story is a particularly useful introduction to the genre - all the big names, several who should be, and a respectful bow to that most incorrigible of ghost-hunters, Elliott O'Donnell. Stacks of illustrations throughout, though for some reason a number are tinted and the eyes painted red, not sure that works.
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Post by andydecker on Nov 6, 2013 20:22:24 GMT
While checking something I came upon a German collection of stories by Richard Davis. Published in February 1977 as Vampire Horror Paperback No 44 the book has no information in the small print. It is just a collection of 8 stories.
The Inmate Female of the Species The Sick Room A Day out Guy Fawkes Night A nice cut of the joint Elsie and Agnes The Lady by the stream
As was the custom of this imprint there is no information about the writer or the stories.
Does anyone know how this book came about?
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Post by dem bones on Nov 10, 2013 14:41:14 GMT
While checking something I came upon a German collection of stories by Richard Davis. Published in February 1977 as Vampire Horror Paperback No 44 the book has no information in the small print. It is just a collection of 8 stories. The Inmate Female of the Species The Sick Room A Day out Guy Fawkes Night A nice cut of the joint Elsie and Agnes The Lady by the stream As was the custom of this imprint there is no information about the writer or the stories. Does anyone know how this book came about? Hi Andy. Will double-check, but I can recall no reference to this book in the recent Shadow Publishing collection, The Female Of The Species & Other Terror Tales which includes an extensive bibliography. Whether bootleg or legit, it's quite a find.
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Post by andydecker on Nov 11, 2013 15:37:42 GMT
Hi Andy. Will double-check, but I can recall no reference to this book in the recent Shadow Publishing collection, The Female Of The Species & Other Terror Tales which includes an extensive bibliography. Whether bootleg or legit, it's quite a find. It is a damn strange book. I mean, how did it come together? Met Mr. Davis the Editor of Pabel Publ at a Book Fair and said: here is a bunch of my stories nobody wants to collect so you can translate them and put them together for your imprint? Pabel was a serious Publisher who did tons of british novels and covers at the time. I can't see the editor browsing through Fontana Horror and saying: wow, I like that guy. Lets put his stories together without a contract. Nobody will notice. Which admittably was true. Chances are nobody would have noted.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 11, 2013 18:46:40 GMT
It is a damn strange book. I mean, how did it come together? Met Mr. Davis the Editor of Pabel Publ at a Book Fair and said: here is a bunch of my stories nobody wants to collect so you can translate them and put them together for your imprint? Pabel was a serious Publisher who did tons of british novels and covers at the time. I can't see the editor browsing through Fontana Horror and saying: wow, I like that guy. Lets put his stories together without a contract. Nobody will notice. Which admittably was true. Chances are nobody would have noted. Well, bearing in mind Richard Davis was editing Years Best Horror at the time, I'm sure somebody would have brought it to his attention, and how come the publisher got hold of all his published stories (to that date) so easily? The only other horrors Mr. Davis wrote were for children's anthologies, so am guessing he would have been complicit in the affair. Do you have a scan of the cover artwork?
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Post by andydecker on Nov 19, 2013 9:22:57 GMT
Here is the cover. Especially for the collections they just took a random cover they bought in lots and put it on.
8 x würgende Angst (Chocking Fear times eight)
Eight stories by Richard Davis
Vampir Horror-Stories 44 (February 1977) Copyright by Richard Davis and Pabel Publishing
145 pages
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Post by David A. Riley on Nov 19, 2013 9:48:24 GMT
How strange that Richard Davis's first collection of his own horror stories should be in translation in German.
And that it's taken till recently for a collection in English, long after his death, to get into print courtesy of Shadow Publishing.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 19, 2013 10:41:51 GMT
Thanks Andy. I hope David A Sutton gets to see the above, would be very interested in his comments. As to the John Holmes artwork, it had previously appeared on the cover of Peter Haining's The Ghouls (Orbit, 1974)
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Post by piglingbland on Nov 28, 2013 9:27:17 GMT
I was completely unaware of the German publication of a collection of Richard's stories... I'm not even sure that his wife knows about it! I did have contact (through an agent) with Erich Pabel, publishers as they published a cut-down version of New Writings in Horror 1, in 1976. The "Vampir Horror Stories" logo appears on that too. Whether Richard' stories were filched will no doubt remain a mystery... but as far as I recall, we did receive payment for the German edition of NW1.
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Post by David A. Riley on Nov 28, 2013 10:43:16 GMT
We did get payment for NW1 from Germany. Not only did you forward me a cheque, David, but a contributor's copy of the book, which I still have.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 28, 2013 13:24:24 GMT
Thank you, the Davids. It's been mentioned above that Vampir Horror Stories paperbacks were frequently adorned with cover artwork familiar from UK anthologies, but I don't recall seeing that rather fetching Iron Maiden wannabe elsewhere. Would not be surprised if one of our regulars can come up with a match.
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Post by andydecker on Nov 28, 2013 17:28:59 GMT
Unfortunatly there is no credit on the cover art for Mr. Sutton's anthology. It could be from everywhere.
If Mrs. Davis would like to have a copy of this, PM me. I would gladly send a copy.
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Post by ripper on Dec 9, 2018 16:18:04 GMT
Just reading the latest comments on HughLamb/Huge Lamp etc. I don't have any problem with Mr Lamb, but whenever I read of a Richard Davis anthology, I always get visions of Richard Davies, who played cynical Mr Price in Please Sir!
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