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Post by dem bones on Nov 24, 2008 15:43:46 GMT
This is Vault of Evil or British Horror Pulp Plus! That 'Plus' covers a number of sins but essentially we are, and always have been, a celebration of vintage Brit horror & pulp fiction, preferably in slimline paperback with a memorably outrageous cover. We've never restricted ourselves to horror - have a look in the 'morbid miscellany' category or whatever it's called - that should give you a good idea of Vault's favoured material.
Also, equally important to many of us, there's a big horror anthology fetish thing going on. I tend to think of it as a punky attempt at bibliography with loads of people chipping in covers and content. You are perfectly entitled to think it's garbage.
And that is what this board is about.
But! The world did not end in 1979 - it just feels that way sometimes. New horror. Some would prefer we didn't touch anything post the death of the Hamlyn nasties, and probably as many again wish we wouldn't touch anything before 1990! The new horror people have their own section now (and - if you really can't abide that - don't moan 'til you've read the ' ...opt out' thread in this section).
Vault. Because reading is fun, ain't it?
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riju
New Face In Hell
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Post by riju on Aug 6, 2009 6:42:55 GMT
Hello!
I am new to this "vault", but I have been going through some of the messages posted here for quite some time, because of two reasons: 1. I am a fan of Basil Copper's horror & fantasy-based works, and so far this has been the only site where something meaningful can be found on that subject. 2. My other favourite horror writers are all from UK/GB, starting with Bram Stoker, R.L. Stevenson, to present day authors like Peter Crowther, Stephen Gallagher, Kim Newman, (and of course) Ramsey Campbell, et.al.
I would like to receive information regarding these authors' works and the methods required to procure them (even in India, which is my home).
Thanking all of you,
Riju Ganguly
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Post by Steve on Aug 6, 2009 16:39:16 GMT
Welcome to Vault, Riju.
As you've probably seen already, Basil Copper and Ramsey Campbell both have their own sub-boards in the 'Favourite authors' section. Stephen Gallagher and other writers you mention certainly have their fans here. If you've got any specific questions that you can't find the answers to, by all means ask and I'm sure someone will do their best to help. If you're looking to buy out-of-print books by these authors you might want to try Abebooks - it doesn't always tend to be the cheapest option, and postage costs can be high, but there are booksellers there from all over, some of whom are bound to have what you're looking for. The site allows you to check the price of postage to various countries, including India.
P.S. I'm sure dem will be thrilled to hear that there is someone out there who finds Vault 'meaningful'.
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Post by samheath on Sept 30, 2009 12:10:58 GMT
New member here. Before reading this forum I hadn't come across the term 'new horror'. Does this refer to horror after a specific date? Or horror with a contemporary (whatever that means) style? Do we get post-new-wave-of-post-modern-new-horror as well?
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Sept 30, 2009 12:24:06 GMT
As one of the board's resident evil numpties I am probably not the best chap to answer the question but it just occured that its sort of obvious to me what vault of evil is about and I wonder if its an age thing. That is, if you are of a certain age it will help you just see what its about and if you are younger the boundary's would be a bit mixed. New Horror to me started in the eighties. (1880s)
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Post by Dr Strange on Sept 30, 2009 12:47:16 GMT
New member here. Before reading this forum I hadn't come across the term 'new horror'. Does this refer to horror after a specific date? Or horror with a contemporary (whatever that means) style? Do we get post-new-wave-of-post-modern-new-horror as well? If you look at the forum list, "New Horror" is conveniently described as "post-2000". Maybe a bit arbitrary, but how could it be anything else - everything was new once. I think equating "new" with "this decade" is fair enough for now, but what are we going to do when we move into the next decade? New New Horror? Unless Dem's idea of "new" is actually "this century", in which case we don't need to worry about it just yet.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 3, 2009 12:28:00 GMT
Thanks for joining, sam, and i hope you have an *ahem* interesting time with us. i think you'd get a different answer from each of us about what "new" horror means. my personal reference point is Chris Morgan's introduction to his Dark Fantasies collection back in 1989, No Slime, No Chainsaws, a very passionately argued and, doubtless sincere attack on the Hamlyn 'nasties' and call for a more, if you like, cerebral horror. The genre was becoming very fractionalised at the time and two years earlier, the late, great Karl E Wagner caught the wind of change in his introduction to Years Best Horror Stories XV (1987), What's in a name?.
"There seems to be a great deal of hair-splitting and hair-pulling in recent years over definitions and distinctions throughout the various genres and sub-genres of science fiction and horror. The term "horror" seems to offend some readers and writers. The word tends to conjure grotesque and overplayed images and concepts. Outdated and unsubtle. Time for something new, more update. ("No dear, I don't write horror, I write dark fantasy don't you know.") Or maybe something with a harder edge to it. ("Piss off and die! I'm a new wave writer!")
i think we can safely assume that our core members are not in the least offended by the term 'horror' and most are unashamedly fond of the "grotesque and overplayed images and concepts. Outdated and unsubtle"! It's not, as seems to be the misconception, that we are ALL anti everything published post-Hamlyn, but the bias on Vault is toward pre-nineties, because that's what we set out to celebrate.
and you're right, Dr Strange. come 2011 there might have to be a rethink. "New stuff that's newer than the other new stuff"?
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Post by Dr Strange on Oct 3, 2009 14:38:13 GMT
Dem, I am pleased to see that you know when to mark a change of decade. Were you (like me) annoying the hell out of everyone on Jan 1st 2000, by pointing out that they were celebrating the start of the new millenium a year too soon?
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Post by thecoffinflies on Nov 5, 2009 11:01:54 GMT
If you were doing that on Jan 1st 2000, Dr Strange, you were in fact a day too late...most were (incorrectly) celebrating the day before
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Post by Dr Strange on Nov 5, 2009 11:40:08 GMT
If you were doing that on Jan 1st 2000, Dr Strange, you were in fact a day too late...most were (incorrectly) celebrating the day before There being no year zero, the new millenium began (midnight) Jan 1st 2001... i.e. 2000 years after Jan 1st in the year 1.
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Post by thecoffinflies on Nov 5, 2009 12:42:53 GMT
Yes I know that. New millenium began in 2001 not 2000. What I meant was that most were celebrating from Dec 31, not waiting till Jan 1st...it wasn't funny tho, and now I look like an even bigger fool than you took me for! Never mind
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Post by Dr Strange on Nov 5, 2009 14:34:11 GMT
Yes I know that. New millenium began in 2001 not 2000. What I meant was that most were celebrating from Dec 31, not waiting till Jan 1st...it wasn't funny tho, and now I look like an even bigger fool than you took me for! Never mind Ah, sorry. And sorry to everyone else too - if anything should be moved to the "seriously off-topic" bin then this is it. If you really want to get confused, come up to the north of Scotland for New Year... where in some remote areas they still refer to "Old New Year" (round about Jan 12th), which is a sort of folk memory going back to when the Julian calender was still used. These days, though, it's really just an excuse to carry on the celebrations well beyond the point where permanent brain damage is a likely result. (So, I will use that as an excuse for not getting the joke.)
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Post by geraldrice76 on Aug 30, 2011 14:31:05 GMT
Hello, everyone. I'm from America, looking to broaden my horizons and I stumbled across your forum. Hoping to learn something interesting and meet new people.
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Post by Dr Strange on Aug 30, 2011 15:17:48 GMT
Hoping to learn something interesting Damn, the "Abandon all hope" sign has fallen down again.
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asenath
Crab On The Rampage
The Thing on the Doorstep
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Post by asenath on Feb 28, 2012 22:37:33 GMT
Hello all! I'm new here and I'm delighted to have found Vault of Evil. I've been a fan of British horror since I was a tot--sometime in the 60's. I love M.R. James, Machen, Blackwood, Wakefield, Sarban, Eleanor Scott, Ramsey Campbell and a lot of others I can't think of right now. I'm behind on my reading when it comes to contemporary horror, so I'm open to suggestions. Also please pardonmy typos--I just bought a Kindle Fire and I'm still adjusting to the keyboard. Thanks all!
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