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Post by dem on Oct 29, 2008 20:22:05 GMT
Richard Davis (ed.) - Vincent Price Presents: The Price Of Fear, Edited by Richard Davis (Everest, 1976) Vincent Price - Vincent Price Presents ...
John Dyas - Foreward
Richard Davis - A Few Words ...
Rene Basilico - Fish
Roald Dahl - William And Mary
Stanley Ellin - Speciality Of The House
Bram Stoker - The Squaw
A. M. Burrage - The Waxwork
Elizabeth Morgan - Lot 132
William Ingram - Blind Man's Buff
Richard Davis - Guy Fawkes Night Blurb: SHIVER WITH FEAR
For Vincent Price's late-night horror show, The Price of Fear, the BBC dramatized the most chilling stories they could find, drawing on talented new writers as well as established masters of terror like Roald Dahl and Bram Stoker.
The programme was enormously successful in the UK and abroad, and to date three series have been made.
Now the best of the stories have been collected in this skin-crawling anthology, designed to keep the reader, shivering with fear all through the night ...
From the publishers of the elusive Ups & Downs Of A Handyman, Dr. Phibes collects his favourites from the BBC series he lent his name to back in the mid-'seventies. No big surprises in the author department, but this is a strong selection ranging in subject matter from high street cannibalism, medieval torture, haunted portraits and a bad night at the Chamber of Horrors. Pan Horror fiends will know all about Richard Davis's truly terrifying contribution from #4. It's been so long since I read the Basilico, Morgan and Ingram contributions that refresher course required before commenting further, but can remember thinking this was a well tasty collection on first acquaintance. 
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Post by allthingshorror on Oct 29, 2008 22:14:50 GMT
Brilliant anthology, and found an immaculate copy of it recently - but then bumped into Les Edwards and his wife Val who remembered that was one of the books Les did the artwork for and didn't have a copy of....
So I handed it over - and am now on the hunt for another copy - so if anyone finds one gimme a shout!
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Post by carolinec on Oct 29, 2008 23:05:46 GMT
Hmm, I'm sure I've got an audiobook (cassette) of this lying around somewhere from waaaay back. Must go and try to find it now ...
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Post by Dr Terror on Oct 29, 2008 23:14:02 GMT
BBC7 November 1
The Price Of Fear
The Man Who Hated Scenes
Vincent Price and Peter Cushing star in this tale of meek man's revenge. A millionaire stops his wife's affair with a firm hint.
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Post by dem on Aug 7, 2010 17:25:20 GMT
The Birkin in Midnight House thread sent me off on one, trying to work out how many episodes there were - 22 by the looks of it - and who wrote the original stories. Slightly disappointed that An Eye For An Eye has nothing to do with the horrible Birkin morsel of the same name, neither is Blind Man's Buff a dramatisation of the H. R. Wakefield story. There's a very useful episode guide at The Digital Deli (have filled in the gaps where possible) and as i write, Mp3's of many of the broadcasts can be downloaded gratis from Fear You Can Hear. The one that has me stumped is Never Gamble With A Loser - does that title ring any bells? Robert Arthur - The Man Who Hated Scenes
Rene Basilico - Fish
Charles Birkin - So Pale, So Cold, So Fair (adapted as Meeting in Athens
A. M. Burrage - The Waxwork
R Chetwynd-Hayes - The Ninth Removal
Roald Dahl - William and Mary
Richard Davies - Guy Fawke’s Night
Stanley Ellin - Specialty of the House
William Ingram - Soul Music
William Ingram - An Eye for An Eye
William Ingram - Blind Man’s Bluff
William Ingram - Come As You Are
William Ingram - The Family Album
William Ingram - Not Wanted on Voyage
William Ingram - Goody Two Shoes
William Ingram - To My Dear, Dear Saladin
William Ingram - Out of the Mouths
William Ingram - Is There Anybody There?
Elizabeth Morgan - Lot 132
Jack Ritchie - Remains to be Seen
Bram Stoker - The Squaw (adapted as Cats Cradle)
? - Never Gamble With A Loser |
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Post by helrunar on Apr 20, 2017 1:16:32 GMT
Lovely snap of VP with Avril Angers and Michael Gwynne. I did a bit of research on Angers last Summer while doing a short review of the pulpy film Devils of Darkness (from 1965) in which she was one of the brighter elements. She stole the big climactic scene, too. Wonder if she and VP ever did any film or television work together.
A lot of these were on both youtube and archive dot org, last I checked.
cheers, H.
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