alansjf
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Post by alansjf on Jun 16, 2008 17:50:04 GMT
I'm sure regulars to this board are already aware of the Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural paperbacks issued by Wordsworth. Well, they've just added two new anthologies to their list, both edited by Mark Valentine:
- The Werewolf Pack
- The Black Veil & Other Tales of Supernatural Sleuths
According to Amazon, the pub. date for both was June 12, but I'm not sure if they actually have copies in stock yet.
Both worth a look, I think. And there are collections by J.H. Riddell and Amelia B. Edwards on the horizon too...
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Post by dem bones on Jun 16, 2008 21:04:59 GMT
Rats! How could I have overlooked adding the Wordsworth antho's to the Vault 'site'?
Well, better late than ever, and a good opportunity to revive this excellent post from a much missed friend ......****** [/color] Posted by The Duke (Nov 9th, 2006) I have recently been alerted to the Wordsworth series of Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural and have to applaud the publishers for reviving some of the old masters at the very affordable price of £2.99. In case anyone has not yet seen the full series (they are all freely available thro' Amazon), I thought you might appreciate the following as some of the covers are definitely worth recording for posterity (apologies dem if these have been posted elsewhere or if this is the wrong place!): Details, in published order, as at 9 November 2006: (check back for updates as more titles are released)Publisher: Wordworth Editions Ltd, Ware, Herts_____________________________________________________Uncanny Stories(1 May 2006 (ISBN: 1-84022-492-4)) _____________________________________________________Dracula’s Guest and Other Stories(1 May 2006 (ISBN: 1-84022-528-9)) _____________________________________________________Tangled Skein(10 Jun 2006 (ISBN: 1-84022-527-0)) _____________________________________________________Wagner the Werewolf(10 Jun 2006 (ISBN : 1-84022-530-0) [/i]) _____________________________________________________Casebook of Carnacki the Ghost Finder(10 Jul 2006 (ISBN: 1-84022-529-7)) _____________________________________________________The Power of Darkness : Tales of Terror(10 Jul 2006 (ISBN: 1-84022-531-9)) _____________________________________________________Strange Tales(20 Jul 2006 (ISBN: : 1-84022-532-7)) _____________________________________________________The Haunted Hotel & Other Stories(20 Jul 2006 (ISBN: 1-84022-533-5)) _____________________________________________________Terror by Night : Classic Ghost & Horror Stories(10 Sep 2006 (ISBN: 1-84022-534-3)) _____________________________________________________The Bell in the Fog & Other Stories(10 Sep 2006 (ISBN: 1-84022-540-8)) _____________________________________________________Return from the Dead(10 Oct 2006 (ISBN: 1-84022-452-5)) _____________________________________________________The Bishop of Hell & Other Stories(20 Oct 2006 (ISBN: 1-84022-537-8)) _____________________________________________________The Crimson Blind & Other Stories(20 Oct 2006 (ISBN: 1-84022-538-6)) _____________________________________________________Aylmer Vance: Ghost-Seer(Robert Murray Gilchrist (ISBN: 1-84022-539-4)) _____________________________________________________A Night on the Moor & Other Tales of Dread(Robert Murray Gilchrist (ISBN: 1-84022-541-6)) More to come ... ...[/center] In loving memory of Bob 'The Duke' Rothwell, Dennis Wheatley enthusiast and friend of Vault. RIP.
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alansjf
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Post by alansjf on Jun 16, 2008 21:14:33 GMT
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Post by dem bones on Jun 16, 2008 21:34:39 GMT
Thanks Alan. And to think I picked up their editions of Sweeney Todd or The String Of Pearls and Wagner The Werewolf on Charing X Road less than a fortnight ago and it still didn't jog my memory.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jun 17, 2008 11:35:58 GMT
What a fine looking collection that is.
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Post by redbrain on Jun 17, 2008 15:39:37 GMT
There are plenty of excellent books in this Wordsworth series. Glancing, today, at the introduction to The Temple of Death -- A C & R H Benson -- I discovered that A C wrote the words to Land of Hope & Glory. (Words of which I cannot but think when listening to Elgar's music -- thanks a bunch ACB. Still, the blighter did write some fine stories, too.)
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Post by benedictjjones on Jun 23, 2008 10:33:31 GMT
there's a discount bookshop in waterloo that stocks most of the wordsworth editions. i think it's three for a fiver but not 100% on that.
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Post by troo on Jul 2, 2008 9:44:43 GMT
Oooo, how I missed this thread I'll never know!
*Checks bank balance*
Um.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 20, 2008 16:18:24 GMT
Two recent budget (£2.99) anthologies from the superb Mystery And The Supernatural series. If anyone can provide a list of contents to either or both then please do so! Mark Valentine (ed.) - The Black Veil And Other Tales of Supernatural Sleuths (Wordsworth Mystery & the Supernatural, July 2008) The Gateway of the Monster… The Red Hand… The Ghost Hunter
To Sherlock Holmes the supernatural was a closed book: but other great detectives have always been ready to do battle with the dark instead. This volume brings together sixteen chilling cases of these supernatural sleuths, pitting themselves against the peril of ultimate evil. Here are encounters from the casebooks of the Victorian haunted house investigators John Bell and Flaxman Low, from Carnacki, the Edwardian battler against the abyss, and from horror master Arthur Machen’s Mr Dyson, a man-about-town and meddler in strange things. Connoisseurs will find rare cases such as those of Allen Upward’s The Ghost Hunter, Robert Barr’s Eugene Valmont (who may have inspired Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot) and Donald Campbell’s young explorer Leslie Vane, the James Bond of the jazz age, who battles against occult enemies of the British Empire. And the collection is completed by some of the best tales from the pens of modern psychic sleuth authors. Mark Valentine (ed.) - The Werewolf Pack (Wordsworth Editions, June 2008) The wolf has always been a creature of legend and romance, while kings, sorcerers and outlaws have been proud to be called by the name of the wolf, it s no wonder, then, that tales of transformation between man and wolf are so powerful and persistent. This original collection offers some of the greatest, rarest and most unusual werewolf stories ever. From the forests of Transylvania to the ordered lawns of an English country estate, here are all the classic aspects of the tale. You will encounter shadows that lope under the moon, chilling howls, family curses, crimson feasts, the desperate chase and the deathly duel. But you will also find the werewolf in less expected guises as an adversary for Sherlock Holmes, as a myth of the Wild West, and as a figure restored to its origins in folk and fairy tales. With an informative introduction by Mark Valentine that follows the traces of the werewolf in literature, and its links to Dracula, Jekyll & Hyde, and The Hound of the Baskervilles, this superb collection will make you fear the full moon. Also, for those who go in for same, as of September 2008, Wordsworth are making 300 of their titles - including selections from the Mystery & Supernatural series - available as E-books: Details:
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Post by alansjf on Aug 23, 2008 18:49:58 GMT
Here you go:
THE WEREWOLF PACK:
Introduction - Mark Valentine The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains - Captain Frederick Marryat The White Wolf of Kostopchin - Sir Gilbert Campbell The Other Side - Count Stenbock The Terror in the Snow - B. Fletcher Robinson A Werewolf of the Campagna - Mrs Hugh Fraser The White Wolf - Andrew Lang The Boy and the Wolf, or The Broken Promise - Andrew Lang William and the Werewolf - F.J. Harvey Darton The Undying Thing - Barry Pain Gabriel-Ernest - Saki The She-Wolf - Saki The Thing in the Forest - Bernard Capes Among the Wolves - Vasile Voiculescu The Shadow of the Wolf - Ron Weighell The Clay Party - Steve Duffy The Tale Untold - Gail-Nina Anderson Loup-garou - R.B. Russell
THE BLACK VEIL:
Introduction - Mark Valentine The Warder of the Door - Robert Eustace & L.T. Meade The Story of Sevens Hall - E. & H. Heron The Gateway of the Monster - William Hope Hodgson The Red Hand - Arthur Machen The Haunted Woman - Allen Upward The Ghost with the Club-foot - Robert Barr The Curious Activities of Basil Thorpenden - Vernon Knowles The Necromancer - Donald Campbell Waste Manor - L. Adams Beck The House of Fenris - John Cooling The Prince of Barlocco - Mark Valentine The Legacy of the Viper - C.P. Langeveld The Sheelagh-na-gig - Mary Anne Allen The Black Veil - A.F. Kidd Like Clockwork - R.B. Russell Spirit Solutions - Rosalie Parker
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Post by dem bones on Aug 25, 2008 6:46:51 GMT
Thanks ever so for posting these, Alan, and good to see some Ghost Story Society/ Haunted Library names represented. Will add these to Vault on WordPress with next update - you're stacking up the credits on there!
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Post by alansjf on Aug 25, 2008 11:19:42 GMT
Yeah, I think these are pretty good selections. Nice mix of old and more recent material, and much of it unfamilar. I'd like to see Valentine put together some more of these anthologies.
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Post by allysonbird on Aug 25, 2008 18:39:53 GMT
I've started doing library talks in South Yorkshire on the history of supernatural and horror fiction. I always mention the Wordsworth series.
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Post by alansjf on Aug 25, 2008 19:38:09 GMT
They're a great place to start, especially as an affordable alternative to the wonderful, but often wonderfully expensive, Ash Tree Press collections. I'd really like to see a H. Russell Wakefield collection from Wordsworth, and some A.M. Burrage, but I assume there are copyright issues preventing that. Still, if you're looking to put together a core library of classic supernatural fiction, £2 or £3 a pop is hard to beat.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 25, 2008 19:53:45 GMT
I think I've posted this elsewhere, but Derek at Wordsworth recently left a message on the WordPress blog which addresses the copyright issue and so may bear repeating here:
Thanks for the kind words. As a small publisher (just three of us work here) we really appreciate it when our efforts are noticed. We welcome suggestions for new titles, the only requirement is that the books have to be out of copyright (70 years from the author’s death), as we would struggle to make them available for £2.99 if we have to pay royalties. Just in passing, we’ll be doing a second edition of The String of Pearls in the next few months, which will feature a completely new introduction from Dick Collins, in which he covers his latest research, and reveals who he is now sure is the true author of the original story.
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