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Post by johnnymains on Aug 16, 2019 19:19:10 GMT
Yeah - I think the same thing can be said about Bela Lugosi's 'The Bat' - the first appearance in print of a transcription of a radio play that Bela seemingly wrote and performed in 1955 - the year Bela was sent to a sanitarium for three months to get off drugs and married a woman 33 years his junior. Sadly Peter doesn't give a broadcast date (but does list NBC in the acknowledgements page) - but no matter how hard I look I just cannot find a trace of this particular radio show - the Bela Lugosi blog has a list of all known recordings - ( there are some recordings missing from this) but they say: "[...]He may have actually made over 200 broadcasts, stage productions [...] Of his known radio appearances, precious few appear to have survived." So if this one HAS survived, why is Peter the only person to know about it? I've done hundreds of archive searches - both newspaper, NBC recordings, Library of congress, archive.org, old time radio shows (the closest comes in 1950 when Dracula played by Lugosi tries to buy a ladies skull to turn it into amongst other things a tobacco jar 'whenever I stuff my pipe I'll think of you') Best case scenario - it's something that he managed to get a recording of - or maybe sent from a fan but still not discovered yet by the public and has remained lost after the Haining archive has been sold on- worst case, and this would be bonkers - he wrote it himself, passing it off as Lugosi knowing that nobody would ever question him cos he was Peter Haining. "Bela knew his house was haunted ... there's the bat .... the howling dogs ... the weird woman ... the coffin-like boxes ..." The Bat is an extract from the uncredited (Forrest J. Ackerman ?) Lugosi's Haunted House, Famous Monsters of Filmland #59, Nov. 1969. So that means Haining the radio story up? Sigh. From his Bat intro: With his vocal gift, he was also something of a storyteller too, and in 1955, the year before he died, read the following story on NBC radio claiming that it was actually based on fact. True or not, just imagine as you read it Lugosi's voice speaking and I am sure the effect will be as chilling as anything else you find in these pages...
cheers Dem - be good to read Forries' whole piece now! But what balls to have as Haining's book came out in 1995 - Forrest didn't die till 2008 - the chances are that someone with such a keen interest in the genre would want to read..oh, I'll shut up now.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Aug 16, 2019 20:06:24 GMT
"Bela knew his house was haunted ... there's the bat .... the howling dogs ... the weird woman ... the coffin-like boxes ..." The Bat is an extract from the uncredited (Forrest J. Ackerman ?) Lugosi's Haunted House, Famous Monsters of Filmland #59, Nov. 1969. So that means Haining the radio story up? Sigh. From his Bat intro: With his vocal gift, he was also something of a storyteller too, and in 1955, the year before he died, read the following story on NBC radio claiming that it was actually based on fact. True or not, just imagine as you read it Lugosi's voice speaking and I am sure the effect will be as chilling as anything else you find in these pages...
cheers Dem - be good to read Forries' whole piece now! But what balls to have as Haining's book came out in 1995 - Forrest didn't die till 2008 - the chances are that someone with such a keen interest in the genre would want to read..oh, I'll shut up now. Audacious!
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Post by johnnymains on Aug 16, 2019 20:18:33 GMT
Yup, utterly. Just had a scan of the offending piece sent to me. Balls the size of watermelons. Thanks again, Dem.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 26, 2021 15:05:39 GMT
Anon [ed] - The Tales of Nosferatu: Short Stories Showcasing the Evolution of the Vampire Legend (Read, 2018) Elizabeth Grey - The Skeleton Count or, The Vampire Mistress James Malcolm Rymer - The Vampyre’s Story (extract from Varney the Vampyre; or, The Feast of Blood) Alexandre Dumas & Paul Bocage - The Pale Lady Julian Hawthorne - The Grave of Ethelind Fionguala Mary Cholmondeley - Let Loose Count Eric Stenbock - A True Story of a Vampire Frank Norris - Grettir at Thorhall-Stead Morley Roberts - The Blood Fetish Gustav Meyrink - The Land of the Time-Leeches Charles Caldwell Dobie - The Elder Brother Henry Kuttner - I, the Vampire James Robinson Planche - The Bride of the Isles Eugène Sue - Les Vampires Bela Lugosi - The Bat Val Lewton - The Cat People Ron Goulart - Vampirella For those who prefer their Peter Haining anthologies sans Peter Haining — and approx. half the original content. The same publishers' Gothic Tales of Vampires: Terrifying Tales of the Undead looks to be a stripped down The Midnight People. Wouldn't be the least surprised if there's more of this goes on.
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Post by andydecker on Oct 26, 2021 16:50:39 GMT
Anon [ed] - The Tales of Nosferatu: Short Stories Showcasing the Evolution of the Vampire Legend (Read, 2018) Elizabeth Grey - The Skeleton Count or, The Vampire Mistress James Malcolm Rymer - The Vampyre’s Story (extract from Varney the Vampyre; or, The Feast of Blood) Alexandre Dumas & Paul Bocage - The Pale Lady Julian Hawthorne - The Grave of Ethelind Fionguala Mary Cholmondeley - Let Loose Count Eric Stenbock - A True Story of a Vampire Frank Norris - Grettir at Thorhall-Stead Morley Roberts - The Blood Fetish Gustav Meyrink - The Land of the Time-Leeches Charles Caldwell Dobie - The Elder Brother Henry Kuttner - I, the Vampire James Robinson Planche - The Bride of the Isles Eugène Sue - Les Vampires Bela Lugosi - The Bat Val Lewton - The Cat People Ron Goulart - Vampirella For those who prefer their Peter Haining anthologies sans Peter Haining — and approx. half the original content. The same publishers' Gothic Tales of Vampires: Terrifying Tales of the Undead looks to be a stripped down The Midnight People. Wouldn't be the least surprised if there's more of this goes on. This reads strange. For instance Ron Goulart's Vampirella was a series of novels - so this must be an extract - and there are dozens of post-war stories which are better examples of some literary topical evolution. Even if you stop in the 70s (again Goulart) - after which the evolution of the vampire in horror fiction began in earnest - this seems to be very random.
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Post by Middoth on Oct 26, 2021 17:23:19 GMT
This reads strange. For instance Ron Goulart's Vampirella was a series of novels - so this must be an extract - and there are dozens of post-war stories which are better examples of some literary topical evolution. Even if you stop in the 70s (again Goulart) - after which the evolution of the vampire in horror fiction began in earnest - this seems to be very random. if the editor had any hidden thought at all, then this is most likely the transfer of the vampire figure into pop culture (comics in this case)
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Post by dem bones on Oct 26, 2021 17:50:24 GMT
This reads strange. For instance Ron Goulart's Vampirella was a series of novels - so this must be an extract - and there are dozens of post-war stories which are better examples of some literary topical evolution. Even if you stop in the 70s (again Goulart) - after which the evolution of the vampire in horror fiction began in earnest - this seems to be very random. Goulart's contribution is an extract from Vampira #1: Bloodstalk, and makes a little more sense in Haining's chunky original where he provides linked commentary between the stories. The Tales of Nosferatu is clearly a condensed version of Haining's original — they even repeat his *ahem* mistakenly attributing authorship of The Skeleton Count to Elizabeth Grey and The Bat to Lugosi. The Tales of Nosferatu also drops the following. Paul Monette - Nosferatu (an extract from Nosferatu: The Vampire) Peter Tremayne - Son of Dracula 'Jimmy Sangster' [John Burke] - Dracula: Prince of Darkness Simon Raven - Incense for the Damned (extract from Doctors Wear Scarlet) Marilyn Ross - Dark Shadows (extract from The Secret of Collinwood) Stephen King - One for the Road Anne Rice - Interview with the Vampire (extract from Interview with the Vampire) Clive Sinclair - Uncle Vlad Ray Russell - Sanguinarius Woody Allen - Count Dracula Ray Bradbury - West of October Richard Matheson - First Anniversary Theodore Sturgeon - So Near the Darkness Roger Zelazny - Dayblood William F. Nolan - Getting Dead Basil Copper - Reader, I Buried Him Richard Laymon - The Bleeder Jack Sharkey - Dracula: The Real Story
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Post by Middoth on Oct 26, 2021 17:56:10 GMT
Thanks to Ray Russell, the English have learned about such typical Slavic names as Dorottya, Darvula; Thorko and Ujvary. I wish I could see you trying to pronounce them
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Post by andydecker on Oct 26, 2021 18:15:37 GMT
Goulart's contribution is an extract from Vampira #1: Bloodstalk, and makes a little more sense in Haining's chunky original where he provides linked commentary between the stories. The Tales of Nosferatu is clearly a condensed version of Haining's original — they even repeat his *ahem* mistakenly attributing authorship of The Skeleton Count to Elizabeth Grey and The Bat to Lugosi. The Tales of Nosferatu also drops the following. Paul Monette - Nosferatu (an extract from Nosferatu: The Vampire) Peter Tremayne - Son of Dracula 'Jimmy Sangster' [John Burke] - Dracula: Prince of Darkness Simon Raven - Incense for the Damned (extract from Doctors Wear Scarlet) Marilyn Ross - Dark Shadows (extract from The Secret of Collinwood) Stephen King - One for the Road Anne Rice - Interview with the Vampire (extract from Interview with the Vampire) Clive Sinclair - Uncle Vlad Ray Russell - Sanguinarius Woody Allen - Count Dracula Ray Bradbury - West of October Richard Matheson - First Anniversary Theodore Sturgeon - So Near the Darkness Roger Zelazny - Dayblood William F. Nolan - Getting Dead Basil Copper - Reader, I Buried Him Richard Laymon - The Bleeder Jack Sharkey - Dracula: The Real Story After reading this - I confess I was too lazy to check the Haining, shame on me - the only verdict of The Tales of Nosferatu is don't bother.
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