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Post by justin on Jan 3, 2009 18:42:28 GMT
I'm not sure if Dem ever listed his Tandem Horror checklist on this site? So apologies if he has but here's my checklist building on his sterling work with a few additions....
Fiction
Kiss of Death, Charles Birkin, 1964
When Graveyards Yawn, August Derleth, 1965
The Smell of Evil, Charles Birkin, 1965
The Tandem Book of Ghost Stories, Charles Birkin, 1965
The Tandem Book of Horror Stories, Charles Birkin, 1965
House of the Hatchet, Robert Bloch, 1965
The Twin Serpents, Ronald Scott Thorn, 1966 (is this horror? Copy not seen)
When Terror Stalked, Charles Birkin, 1966
A Dram of Evil, O J Olson, 1967
Tandem Horror 1, ed Richard Davis, 1967
Tandem Horror 2, ed Richard Davis, 1968
The Witchfinders, Ralph Comer, 1968
Tandem Horror 3, ed Richard Davis, 1969
The Mirror of Dionysos, Ralph Comer, 1969
So Pale, So Cold, So fair, Charles Birkin, 1970
Demon Lovers, Lucy Berman, 1970 (tame anthology)
The Open Grave, Alan Hull Watton, 1971
The Accursed, Claude Seignolle, 1971 (translation of French novel)
The Witches, Francoise Mallet-Joris (as above)
Cold Terror, Chetwynd-Hayes, 1973
Terror by Night, Chetwynd-Hayes, 1974
The Unbidden, Chetwynd-Hayes, 1974
Death can be Beautiful, Alfred Hitchcock, 1974
The Undertaker’s Dozen, David Forrest, 1974
Carnacki the Ghost Hunter, William Hope Hodgson, 1974
The Alabaster hand, A N L Munby, 1974
The Undying Monster, Jessie Douglas Kerruish, 1975
Non-fiction
The Vampire, Ornella Volta, 1965
Witchcraft in the World Today, C Wallace, 1967
Witches and Sorcerers, Arkon Drakual, 1969
Guide to the Supernatural, Raymond Buckland, 1970
Witches and their Craft, Ronald Seth, 1970
Secret Societies, Arkon Drakual,
Witchcraft For All, Louise Huebner, 1971
Into the Occult, Peter Underwood, 1972
Anatomy of Witchcraft, Peter Haining, 1972
Witchcraft in British History, Ronald Holmes, 1976
As ever, additions/corrections welcome!
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Post by dem bones on Jan 7, 2009 9:44:25 GMT
Hi Justin
Will see if i can dig up some more when things get back to *normal*, but from the list i note you've credited Tandem Horror 1 to Richard Davis. Perhaps i'm wrong, but I thought Davis only did Tandem Horrors 2 and 3, and the first book in the series is the Birkin-edited Tandem Book of Horror Stories?
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Post by Jaqhama on Jan 16, 2009 10:52:41 GMT
Hmm...I must have missed all the Tandem horror novels.
The only thing I can remember that I read published by Tandem was Lin Carter's Thongor of Lemuria series.
Or did Tandem publish the Gor novels also?
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Post by dem bones on Feb 3, 2009 9:23:19 GMT
Haven't double-checked, but i'm pretty sure the Gor's were inflicted upon us by Star, Jaq. Justin, I had a proper-ish look but couldn't find any more Tandems although you might like to consider A Laugh In Every Pocket which, on its own terms, is more terrifying than anything mentioned so far on this page. |
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Feb 9, 2009 17:32:34 GMT
Jaqhama, the Gor books appear to have been published by several publishers I think, mostly star, but tandem put some out as well. I'm not sure, as I don't have them now, but I think Grafton or Granada re-printed some as well. I built up a fair collection of the gor books, but then started reading the first one, & found it just seemed long winded & the style wasn't really working for me & promptly got rid of the lot to the charity shop. Now someone's going to tell me I made a big mistake  Justin mentioned Carnaki The Ghostfinder already, but I thought I'd add a cover scan for the tandom edition: |
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Post by dem bones on Mar 2, 2009 22:28:04 GMT
Didn't spot this one on the list.
Ralph Martin - The Man Who Haunted Himself (Tandem, 1970): Novelisation of pseudo-doppelganger movie starring Roger Moore as a perplexed bloke haunted by his dead spit.
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Post by pulphack on Mar 2, 2009 23:43:38 GMT
never read the book but the film is a cracker, albeit a little clunky in some ways. lots of OTT eyebrow acting from Sir Rog, and Basil Dearden handles it like it's still the fifties rather than the seventies (despite the groovy clothes and Sir Rog's 'tache). i'm making it sound a bit crap, but those flaws are just endearing, as the story is less doppleganger than psychological thriller, with the man Moore actually putting in more effort than he did in a dozen Bonds. the basic story was also ripped for his character to lead in an episdoe of the Persuaders - watch them close together and you'll soon see how good this film is next to the series episode.
incidentally, in relation to an earlier query on this thread you mention that the Gor books were published by Star, Dem - Tandem also did those little Spike Milligan books from the sixites like 'A Dustbin Of Milligan' and 'A Book Of Bits', as well as the script for his play 'The Bed Sitting Room' - Star republished these in identical covers and typeset. if i can recall it correctly (not having a Tandem on the shelves) they were over Gloucester Road way, which I'm pretty sure made them independent, as I can;t remember any other p/b or h/b publisher based down there. Possibly WH Allen bought up their rights and back catalogue to use for Star when they decided to start a p/b line (having been stalwartly h/b)? Tandem seem to vanish just before Star appear, and to do this would have saved some considerable time in staffing and start-up.
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Post by Steve on Mar 3, 2009 3:01:16 GMT
...if i can recall it correctly (not having a Tandem on the shelves) they were over Gloucester Road way, which I'm pretty sure made them independent, as I can;t remember any other p/b or h/b publisher based down there. Possibly WH Allen bought up their rights and back catalogue to use for Star when they decided to start a p/b line (having been stalwartly h/b)? Tandem seem to vanish just before Star appear, and to do this would have saved some considerable time in staffing and start-up. Going in way over my head here but I'll give it a go anyway and be happy to stand corrected. The Tandem story seems to start c.1963ish - based around this time at 33 Beauchamp Place, London SW3. I'm presuming they were independent initially but come the late 60s (1968?) they were owned by Universal Publishing & Distributing Corp. (i.e. American owned) and by 1970 Universal-Tandem Publishing Co. has relocated, as mentioned above, to 14 Gloucester Road, London SW7. Universal, I believe, also owned Award Books in the US, which would explain why I have an odd copy of the 'dollars' sequel A Dollar To Die For in an Anglo-American Award-Tandem edition. At some point in the early 70s (around the same time they launched the Target Books imprint, which will probably be familiar to Vault's Doctor Who fans) Tandem becomes just Tandem Publishing Ltd again but whether they'd actually separated entirely from Universal or not I couldn't tell you. Either way, in 1975 they were bought by Howard and Wyndham, owners of W.H. Allen, and subsequently swallowed up by the latter's "Paperback Division", i.e., it's after this that all the erstwhile Tandems (The Gor books, The Dollar westerns, etc.) start appearing as Star paperbacks. By the late 70s, Tandem seems to have pretty much disappeared. |
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Post by Jaqhama on Mar 3, 2009 3:17:04 GMT
Didn't spot this one on the list. Ralph Martin - The Man Who Haunted Himself (Tandem, 1970): Novelisation of pseudo-doppelganger movie starring Roger Moore as a perplexed bloke haunted by his dead spit. A bloke haunted by his dead spit.  Bloody hell, that would be terrifying wouldn't it? Followed around by a mouthful of deceased gobbings. Yeesh. Oh..spirit.  New story/title idea there: The Gobbings. |
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Post by killercrab on Mar 3, 2009 7:29:42 GMT
with the man Moore actually putting in more effort than he did in a dozen Bonds. >>
Yeah Moore was reputedly bored with playing The Saint and this film and Crossplot gave him the opportunity to stretch somewhat. I'm a fan too of the underated The Man who Haunted Himself - watch for uncredited Scottish darts player Jocky Wilson turning up in the Gentleman's Club scene ! Apparently he nipped out to the chippy and was refused re-entry to the club and threatened the doorman with a sausage.
Anyway ... the book the film was based on is THE STRANGE CASE OF MR PELHAM written by Anthony Strong. I'm assuming that the Tandem is a reprint of this ?
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Post by dem bones on Mar 3, 2009 9:28:45 GMT
I borrowed the cover from the sadly defunct 'Hammer Collect-ables' site so it's frustratingly tiny, but gives us some idea what to look for. The film - and an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents ... - are based on Strong's The Strange Case Of Mr. Pelham (Methuen, 1957, Doubleday 1957), but Ralph Martin's book seems to be a straight novelisation of the film. In case you're wondering at the lack of covers on this thread, you'll find many of 'em here at: Terrible TandemsJaq, for the first time ever, not a typo, just a bit of local slang. Dead spit = a ringer. |
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Post by pulphack on Mar 3, 2009 13:36:57 GMT
well, it's not the first time a novelisation has been made of a film that was actually based on a book in the first place, as we know only too well on this board...
but what a great picture - look at that tache! look at that intent expression - 'must not... move... eyebrows...' nah, that's a cheap shot. like ade said, the man had got into a rut that wasn't really of his own making, and the chance to do something with a bit more to it must have been one to relish.
steve - thanks for the Tandem background. i have some old Star's from the late seventies to early eighties (Alex Duncan vet books, as it happens), and in the back they still carry a selection of p/b's under the Tandem heading, so it must have been phased out gradually. i just checked that this morning (too lazy last night). i'd guess that the Target Dr Who sales must have attracted WH Allen's parent, as even then it must have been a lovely steady stream of income for what was probably a low-advance and paltry royalty (if not flat fee) line.
i wonder if they were one of the last flowerings of that 'mushroom jungle' era? the cheap and cheerless exploitation p/b houses. if so, then definitely indie. but where do Universal fit in? Dell bought into Mayflower (who were originally indie, i think) at the same time, as it enabled them to publish their stuff cheaply here, and also gave them a stream of cheap rights fodder for their midlist (which is how come Sexton Blake appears as a US paperback series for the first time). it's academic and of no real account really (except to boring bastards who like old books and don't get out enough, right?), but i wonder if there's anyone still out there who used to work for them, of the Haining, James, Austin generation?
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