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Post by dem bones on May 27, 2009 8:56:49 GMT
That's an odd cover, Johnny! I went through a Manson stage at one time. It's an odd book too. Ed Sanders was a member of beat combo The Fugs and (I think) an Underground journalist so his writing style makes Alex (R) Stuart look positively square. I thought he made a fine fist of the book - must have taken guts, too, and i gather he got some grief from Family members and, probably, hangers on after it was published. Have you heard his much bootlegged Lie album, FM? Strange doesn't really cover it but .... he had something in the singer-songwriter department. There's a later 'album' of him giving a proto- Unplugged "performance" in prison, most notable for his sharing of green concerns and the fact that someone appears to be strangling themselves in the next cell. Here's a 77 reprint of The Family
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Post by jamesdoig on Jun 9, 2009 9:03:14 GMT
A few stray Panther Lovecraft covers... The Haunter of the Dark, 1963 Contents The Outsider The Rats in the Walls Pickman's Model The Call of Cthulhu The Dunwich Horror The Whispers in darkness The Colour out of Space The Haunter of the Dark The Thing on the Doorstep The Music of Erich Zann The Lurking Fear, 1970 Contents The Lurking Fear The Shunned House In the Vault Arthur Jermyn Cool Air The Moon-Bog The Nameless City The Unnamable The Picture in the House The Terrible Old Man The Hound The Shadow Over Innsmouth The Shadow Out of Time The Tomb, 1975 The Tomb The Festival Imprisoned With the Pharaohs He The Horror at Red Hook The Strange High House in the Mist In the Walls of Onyx The Evil Clergyman The Beast in the Cave The Alchemist Poetry and the Gods The Street The Transition of Juan Romero Azathoth The Descendant The Book The Thing in the Moonlight The Shuttered Room and Other Tales of Horror, 1970 Contents The Survivor Wentworth's Heritage The Peabody Inheritance The Gable Window The Ancestor The Shadow Out of Space The Lamp of Alhazred The Fisherman of Falcon Point The Dark Brotherhood The Shuttered Room The Horror in the Museum: Great Tales of Supernatural Terror Contents Hazel Heald, The Horror in the Museum H.P. Lovecraft and Elizabeth Berkeley, The Crawling Chaos Sonia Greene, Four O'clock Hazel Heald, Winged Death C.M. Eddy jnr, The Loved Dead C.M. Eddy jnr, The Ghost-Eater William Lumley, The Diary of Alonzo Typer Adolphe de Castro, The Electric Executioner Zealia Bishop, The Mound
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Post by dem bones on Jun 9, 2009 20:33:24 GMT
Thanks James. Never seen that particular edition of Haunter In The Dark before. Looks like whoever painted it used the C. Lee Frankenstein's monster as his model. The Bob Fowles one for Horror In The Museum is delicious.
The Shuttered Room has passed through my hands at least twice. Never could get on with Derleth's collaborations with HPL. It's probably the height of sacrilege to say it, but much of the time i don't really get on with Lovecraft beyond his greatest hits and really early work which had more of the trad bad horror story about it.
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Post by jamesdoig on Jun 10, 2009 2:58:14 GMT
Yeah, he looks like the Hammer Frankenstein's monster - nice green complexion! Not a particularly inspired cover though - Panther's best years were certainly the 1970s.
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Jun 10, 2009 12:28:02 GMT
Thanks James. Never seen that particular edition of Haunter In The Dark before. Looks like whoever painted it used the C. Lee Frankenstein's monster as his model. The Bob Fowles one for Horror In The Museum is delicious. The Shuttered Room has passed through my hands at least twice. Never could get on with Derleth's collaborations with HPL. It's probably the height of sacrilege to say it, but much of the time i don't really get on with Lovecraft much beyond his greatest hits and really early work which had more of the trad bad horror story about it. Dem, you're not alone on that. Despite being a Lovecraft fan, I still need to get back to his novels, I've read all of his short stories (collaborations/revisions included, apart from quite a few of the Derleth ones), but only read At The Mountains Of Madness, from his novels. I did start The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward, but it just didn't grab my interest fully & seemed a bit long winded. It will certainly get another go at some point, I want to at least get my way through the novels once. James, those covers are great & I love that Horror In The Museum one too. I've probably said it before, but when I see that Lurking Fear one, I can't help thinking of those whack-a-mole games .
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jun 10, 2009 12:56:05 GMT
I found with Lovecraft enjoyment of the longer works definitely depended on mood and circumstance. I remember reading Well's Time Machine and finishing it at 4-am. One of the few books to make an almost visceral attack on my psyche and I think largely because of the eerie silence around my reading.
Lovecraft was a huge favourite of mine as a teen and you needed leisure and dark moody hillsides out of the window to get thoroughly trapped
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Post by allthingshorror on Jul 6, 2009 16:43:00 GMT
Very chuffed with the Van Thal copy, only found that today - and the De Sade one's been knocking around for a while, mulling whether I should stick it up or no. Not horror, but as always with De Sade...
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Post by allthingshorror on Sept 27, 2009 15:00:15 GMT
Going through boxes up in the loft and found: Black Diamonds ('64) + The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz ('63)
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Post by jamesdoig on Dec 29, 2009 6:33:36 GMT
Picked up this today - hadn't seen a copy before. Looks like they must have had a series in mind a la Pan and Fontana. The First panther Book of Horror, ed Anthony Rampton, 1965 Contents Roald Dahl, Man From the South Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial Martin Armstrong, Sombrero Joan Aiken, Dead Language Master L.P. Hartley, Someone in the Lift Algernon Blackwood, The Insanity of Jones Graham Greene, A Drive in the Country J.C. Moore, Decay Bram Stoker, Dracula's Guest Hugh Walpole, The Silver Mask Charles Dickens, The Trial for Murder Amelia B. Edwards, A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest Michael Arlen, The gentleman From America Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Post by dem bones on Dec 29, 2009 20:17:52 GMT
it was reprinted in 1968 so presumably must have sold well which makes it the more disappointing that Anthony Rampton didn't have a longer run as an anthologist. a few of the public domain stories are perhaps over-familiar, but this was where i first read Hugh Walpole's creepy The Silver Mask, and i don't remember seeing Amelia B. Edwards A Night On The Borders Of The Black Forest anywhere else until Wordsworth's recent collection of her stories as All Saint's Eve. Dennis Rolfe
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Post by marksamuels on Jan 14, 2010 23:28:42 GMT
I am such a tart, Johnny. I used to have both of those editions until I switched to Machen hardbacks!! And now I want them back. (It gets worse) And then when Mrs S left me for good in October she not only took the paperback Machens in the house (OK they were hers, but y'know) she also took the digital camera I used to employ to put stuff on here. Tres damage. Quelle fromage. Mark S.
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Post by jamesdoig on Mar 16, 2010 8:52:34 GMT
Another '60s Panther anthology. Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death, ed Michael Sissons, 1964. Contents Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death J.B. Priestley, The Other Place William Link and Richard Levinson, Child's Play Ray bradbury, The Whole Town's Sleeping Fitz-James O'Brien, What Was It? A.E. Coppard, Silver Circus Daphne du Maurier, Kiss Me Again, Stranger John Metcalfe, The Smoking Leg Conrad Aiken, Silent Snow, Secret Snow Richard Matheson, The Children of Noah Margaret Irwin, The Earlier Service C.S. Forester, The Man Who Didn't Ask Why Eric Linklater, Sealskin Trousers
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Post by allthingshorror on Mar 16, 2010 9:44:26 GMT
What a beautiful cover.
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Post by dem bones on Mar 16, 2010 18:11:50 GMT
Michael Sissons' In The Dead Of Night is another beauty, both in terms of cover and content - it's a shame he didn't get a longer crack at it. a Panther horror that's become something of an obsession with me is R. C. Bull's Great Tales Of Terror (1963) which, as far as i'm aware, i don't think i've ever seen a copy of. i sure could use a cover scan/ table of contents if any kind reader can oblige.
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Post by severance on Mar 16, 2010 19:15:25 GMT
a Panther horror that's become something of an obsession with me is R. C. Bull's Great Tales Of Terror (1963) which, as far as i'm aware, i don't think i've ever seen a copy of. i sure could use a cover scan/ table of contents if any kind reader can oblige. According to Steve Holland at Bear Alley, this was a reprinting of Great Tales of Mystery originally published in 1960 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. From a seller on abe, authors include Edgar Allan Poe, William Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Barr, Arthur Morrison, G.K. Chesterton, R. Austin Freeman, Ernest Bramah, Freeman Wills Croft, Edgar Wallace and Leslie Charteris - so emphasis appears to be on mystery rather than terror.
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