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Post by dem bones on Jan 28, 2011 19:36:48 GMT
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but Ann (the dedicatee) was then his wife. She was my editor at Century for The Influence and Ancient Images. is Ann the lady who assisted him in writing his erotic fiction? i think it is another wife, Michaela ("she of the intense and unblinking eyes") who comes under the microscope in our thread for Suster's The Offering. Skip the "review", scroll down until Mark begins warming to his theme is my advice!
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Post by oldcroc on Mar 25, 2012 2:17:46 GMT
I just got a copy of 'Blowfly' autographed "Thank you for your help on this. David Loman ne Holman". I see a David Holman co-authored the NEL 'Fleshbait'. Note there is a character called "Gerald Schuster" in 'Blowfly'. Is David Holman Gerald Suster? Or was there a David Holman indeed? Cheers Tony Extract from a great letter I received from Stephen Sennitt re The Fanatic- "Gerald Suster as author of Blowfly? I met Gerald on the 'occult scene' in the mid-1980s and talked to him on several occassions about his novels and pseudonyms, but he never mentioned 'David Loman' to me. However, by that time Gerald had become a 'serious' occultist, going on to write books on Crowley, Israel Regardie and the tarot. I was one of the few 'serious occult types' who had a big interest in more pop-cultural subjects, like comics and pulps and paperbacks. So perhaps Gerald wanted to forget 'David Loman' amongst the curiously (and ironically) image-conscious London occult scene of the 1980s...? Of course Gerlad returned to pulps in the late 890s with The God Game and The Labyrinth of Satan, two great sequels to his first Arthur Machen inspired novel, The Devil's Maze. Gerald was great fun; could sometimes be a pain in the a*se- very much like his books, if that doesn't sound too cliched... when he dies several years ago we'd lost touch more or less."
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Post by dem bones on Jan 1, 2017 12:51:29 GMT
Gerald Suster - The Devil's Maze (Sphere, 1979) Blurb: The Black Lodge has met. In the treacherous, flitting shadow-world that exists on the fringes of 'respectable' Victorian London, a ‘Blood Quest’ is being arranged. The malevolent Dr Lipsius and his voracious disciples have picked their victims. Now the death-trap must be baited with sweet and tempting lures, in order that the Darkness may do battle with the Light.
Soon, a man and a woman will enter a deadly labyrinth. Perverse pleasure, dark designs and sinister forces: all will lead back to the black heart of THE DEVIL'S MAZE . . . Four chapters into this, and it certainly does owe a considerable debt to Machen. Very different to the other Suster's I've read, but he's beginning to work his magic.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Jan 3, 2017 13:17:48 GMT
Gerald Suster - The Devil's Maze (Sphere, 1979) Blurb: The Black Lodge has met. In the treacherous, flitting shadow-world that exists on the fringes of 'respectable' Victorian London, a ‘Blood Quest’ is being arranged. The malevolent Dr Lipsius and his voracious disciples have picked their victims. Now the death-trap must be baited with sweet and tempting lures, in order that the Darkness may do battle with the Light.
Soon, a man and a woman will enter a deadly labyrinth. Perverse pleasure, dark designs and sinister forces: all will lead back to the black heart of THE DEVIL'S MAZE . . . Four chapters into this, and it certainly does owe a considerable debt to Machen. Very different to the other Suster's I've read, but he's beginning to work his magic. How are you getting on with this? I don't think it worked at all as a pastiche.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 3, 2017 14:45:46 GMT
Not getting on with it at all is the answer to that, Michael, though the fault is my shot concentration rather than Suster's talent as an author. I'm not sure it is intended as pastiche. Tribute seems nearer the mark.
Will begin again from scratch when match fit. Think I need to ease back into the swing of things with some short stories before attempting a novel.
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Post by Middoth on Nov 22, 2021 10:22:19 GMT
Of course "The Devil's Maze" did not appear in electronic format. But Suster's tarot manual was found. Who knows if it’s even better. The style of his speech immediately found its way to my heart:
"There is no need for the present writer to imitate his predecessors and waste space and time by describing the cards: this seems a pointless exercise in view of the facts that the designs vary from pack to pack and moreover, you have eyes"
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Post by helrunar on Nov 6, 2023 13:46:52 GMT
Love the camp élan of that Sphere cover. I had some close friends over yesterday to celebrate the Samhain festival (it was a very nice get-together but wouldn't rate as an outtake from The Devil Rides Out). One of my friends brought Suster's book The Legacy of the Beast to loan. Never having read anything by the generous friend of the publicans, I was delighted to have a crack at seeing what he had to say about Crowley.
Funny thing--the cover photo chosen for this US edition (by venerable US occult publisher Samuel Weiser--they ran a famous occult bookshop in NYC for many years) shows Crowley in country gent trilby hat with pipe clenched firmly between teeth. Reminds me so much of all those "men's books" authors our much missed friend Cro Magnon Man used to collect in his lengthy bibliographies.
Hel.
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Post by helrunar on Nov 6, 2023 19:02:14 GMT
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