Creeps & Not At Night links Jessica Amanda Salmonson has a page on the
Creeps series (including the non-anthology titles) at
Violet Books. Jessica also provides this link to the much missed rbadac's essay,
The Best of the Creeps Series.
Tartarus have the contents and several cover scans of
Creeps and
Not At Night originals.
Robert Weinberg has cover scans of the
Not At Night's and various other mouthwatering goodies in the unmissable
Rare Books section of his site. He kindly granted me permission to reproduce them on here but there's plenty good reason to investigate his page for all the other juicy stuff!
Calenture has taken a look at the
Not At Night's on his
Haunted Dolls House blog.
During the summer of 2006, I had my first go at contributing an article to wikipedia. Nothing too fancy, just some basic details about Charles Birkin's
Creeps anthologies. I must admit, I'd forgotten about it until I came across a reference while looking for something else. I don't know who was responsible, but someone at
Seele-brennt.com/ has expanded my dire footnote into a thing of beauty - and they've even included several of the plot synopsis' from this board.
Here's the link:
Charles Birkin Now if only someone can tart up the
Christine Campbell Thomson entry I can die a happy man.
Franklin Marsh, has dramatised
Meshes Of Doom from Birkin's
Horrors, and I'm sure he'll show you the results if you ask him nicely.
Thanks to Charles Black for putting me on to the Birkin content on Yahoo group
Horrabin Hall.
As ever, you'll need a pesky Yahoo passport to join, but it's worth the effort for anybody interested in any and all aspects of horror & supernatural fiction. If you look in the 'files' you'll find Steve Duffy's splenetic review of Midnight House's
The Harlem Horror collection and a rather more favourable one of the same publisher's
A Haunted Beauty. Both criticisms are essential.
Dig deep into the posts, and you'll even unearth John Pelan 's introductory essay to
The Harlem Horror and posts pro- and anti- the author's uncompromising output.
I'm not sure if this is the piece in it's entirety (i.e., as it appears in
Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 2003), but Stephen Jones article on the
Not At Night's can be found on-line at:
Curiosities It reads like a precis of Mike Ashley's essay
Unlocking The Night in the Jones edited
Gaslight & Ghouls, which, of course, it most likely is.
Thrills Links Thanks to Art Long, jnr. for directing us toward Steve Eng on
John Gawsworth (Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong) (1912-1970) which also features interesting snippets from Oswell Blakestone.
Roger Dobson on
John Gawsworth : King of RedondaSupernatural Fiction Database
Contents & Covers of the
Thrills volumes.
