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Post by allthingshorror on Feb 7, 2009 12:24:44 GMT
Thanks gents. Here's one that's bugged me for ages: who painted those Hugh Lamb covers? They're very beautiful. Hugh says that they are by an artist called Alan Lee. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Lee
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Post by dem bones on Feb 7, 2009 17:06:15 GMT
I've admired that man's artwork for so many years without being able to put a name to him. Thanks John and Hugh for putting that right! Why oh why are these guys and girls so seldom acknowledged in the credits? Don't publishers realise most of us only buy their rotten books for the covers?
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Post by dem bones on Feb 24, 2009 0:01:28 GMT
allthingshorror has turned up a nasty-sounding little something by Wallace Hildick, Vandals (1981). Non-horror, but certainly of interest. Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde and Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle find themselves sharing London's theatre land with a crazed killer in Nicholas Meyer's The West End Horror: A Posthumous Memoir of John H. Watson, M.D. (1977 - Alwyn slaughters it on Trash Fiction) and John "The Snake" Godey's inspired The Taking Of Pelham 123 (1974, 1975): "The plot is simple. Four men hijack a tube train and demand a million dollar ransom. It is a thrill a minute trip, beautifully capturing the feel of all the people involved and the city itself. I recommend it to the last line." ( Daily Mirror)
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Post by allthingshorror on Mar 1, 2009 17:15:36 GMT
Coronet 1977 THE STORY OF ONE MAN AND HIS DOG
In the small town of Covington, a divorced college professor named Alex Bauer finds an abandoned puppy, takes it home, and grows to love it - unaware that an experimental canine development installation a hundred miles away a very specially bred pup is missing.
Then one day, a sudden, savage incident drives the dog into the woods, where among outcasts and strays he reverts to the primal instincts of his spieces, to kill.
So begins Covington's ordeal and Alex Bauer's private hell. The pack of killer dogs set off a cataclysm of horror which sweeps a countryside - the chilling vortex will grip the reader with a shock of recognition that reverberates long past the final page...not because it could happen, but because it is happening. Now!Cujo on PCP! I am rather upset, two chapters in and there hasn't been a death yet. But there HAS been a dog that has bitten through extreme protective clothing and metal plating to draw blood on a mans thigh! Did find a review on the book, which you can find here: www.legendsmagazine.net/118/dogs.htmBest lines of review has to be - I'd probably only pass it along to somebody I don't like. And then let them wonder why Robert Calder has a better time with canine sex scenes rather than that of his own species. I find that kind of disturbing. And sadly, no mention of a film of that name on IMDB. Also typed in Robert Calders name - no dice.
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Post by bushwick on Mar 1, 2009 18:24:57 GMT
Not horror (but pretty horrible), I recently read 'Dark Master' by Raymond Giles, in Coronet from 1975 but originally Fawcett Publications from 1970.
This is a 'slaver', 'IN THE TRADITION OF MANDINGO' as the cover says. Pacey and brutal stuff that sets the hero up as a kind of black Edge, on the vengeance trail, by the end of the book but I'm not sure if there were any sequels. More use of the word 'nigger' than in all Dr Dre's recorded output combined, I would imagine this is pretty historically accurate. Prurient and exploitative stuff no doubt, but I guess there's no way of sweetening up this kind of stuff. Features a truly horrific rape scene just comprising of the (white) rapists' dialogue, the usual beatings etc, mixed in with period romance. The kind of book that would never get written nowadays. I read this one at home during a recent week off - alas, no scanner, but the cover would give most 'right-thinking' people fits - a painting of a black slavemaster, in a suit, beating a shirtless black slave, whilst a busty blonde looks on 'aghast, nearly falling out of her dress... Not one for public transport...
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Post by allthingshorror on Mar 1, 2009 18:26:57 GMT
a painting of a black slavemaster, in a suit, beating a shirtless black slave, whilst a busty blonde looks on 'aghast, nearly falling out of her dress... Not one for public transport... Definately not one for a Dr Dre concert either I would imagine...
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Post by killercrab on Mar 1, 2009 18:35:31 GMT
This is a 'slaver', 'IN THE TRADITION OF MANDINGO' as the cover says. Pacey and brutal stuff that sets the hero up as a kind of black Edge, on the vengeance trail, by the end of the book but I'm not sure if there were any sequels. >>
Perhaps not direct sequels but Giles penned the Sabrehill Slaver series -
Slaves of Sabrehill Rebels of Sabrehill Rogue Black Storm over Sabrehill Hellcat of Sabrehill
Better take another week or two off...
KC
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Post by killercrab on Mar 1, 2009 18:40:40 GMT
And sadly, no mention of a film of that name on IMDB. Also typed in Robert Calders name - no dice. >>
I don't believe this was ever made much like Cliff Tremlow's The Pike - another book promising a big screen adaption. There is a decent Dogs style American tv flick called The Pack - got it around here somewhere.
KC
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Post by ghostwriter2109 on Mar 1, 2009 18:55:04 GMT
With The Pike...Cliff had all the financing in place and about three weeks from the start of principal photography, the Scandinavian perfume company that had bank rolled the project went bust.
The actual mechanical pike still exists...two were made and one is in the middle of Lake Windermere...it crashed and burned during the press launch...with Joan Collins in attendance, as she was to have been the star turn.
One of my favourite pulp novels.
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Post by killercrab on Mar 1, 2009 19:52:21 GMT
The Pike is good - Devour is better by Paul Adams - Futura 1981. I can't think of any redeeming comments to say about the book.
'Snapping jaws , tearing flesh and quiet rivers become a nightmare bloodbath'
Like I said - nothing redeemable.
KC
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Post by lobolover on Mar 1, 2009 23:35:21 GMT
Coronet 1977 THE STORY OF ONE MAN AND HIS DOG
In the small town of Covington, a divorced college professor named Alex Bauer finds an abandoned puppy, takes it home, and grows to love it - unaware that an experimental canine development installation a hundred miles away a very specially bred pup is missing.
Then one day, a sudden, savage incident drives the dog into the woods, where among outcasts and strays he reverts to the primal instincts of his spieces, to kill.
So begins Covington's ordeal and Alex Bauer's private hell. The pack of killer dogs set off a cataclysm of horror which sweeps a countryside - the chilling vortex will grip the reader with a shock of recognition that reverberates long past the final page...not because it could happen, but because it is happening. Now!Cujo on PCP! I am rather upset, two chapters in and there hasn't been a death yet. But there HAS been a dog that has bitten through extreme protective clothing and metal plating to draw blood on a mans thigh! Did find a review on the book, which you can find here: www.legendsmagazine.net/118/dogs.htmBest lines of review has to be - I'd probably only pass it along to somebody I don't like. And then let them wonder why Robert Calder has a better time with canine sex scenes rather than that of his own species. I find that kind of disturbing. And sadly, no mention of a film of that name on IMDB. Also typed in Robert Calders name - no dice. Hmm, this seems interesting. How is the style, is it laid back or does it do any moralisms or unecessary cursings?
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Post by lobolover on Mar 1, 2009 23:37:02 GMT
This is a 'slaver', 'IN THE TRADITION OF MANDINGO' as the cover says. Pacey and brutal stuff that sets the hero up as a kind of black Edge, on the vengeance trail, by the end of the book but I'm not sure if there were any sequels. >>Perhaps not direct sequels but Giles penned the Sabrehill Slaver series - Slaves of Sabrehill Rebels of Sabrehill Rogue Black Storm over Sabrehill Hellcat of Sabrehill Better take another week or two off... KC For a moment, I thought this was a song
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Post by allthingshorror on Mar 2, 2009 9:07:59 GMT
The book so far - isn't bad - im only on chapter four. It's not turgid, but I've not been reading it as quickly as I could be as I'm currently sampling Gears of War 2 on the 360. I've sent the author off an email to see if he'll agree to be interviewed about it...
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Post by Johnlprobert on Mar 2, 2009 9:48:51 GMT
All I know is that when Halls of Horror did a Pete Walker career article it mentioned he was up to direct the sequel to 'The Dogs' which was going to be called - surprise - 'The Cats'!
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Post by Steve on Mar 2, 2009 16:58:22 GMT
All I know is that when Halls of Horror did a Pete Walker career article it mentioned he was up to direct the sequel to 'The Dogs' which was going to be called - surprise - 'The Cats'! Oddly enough I was looking through some old issues of HoH last night and came across that very same footnote - what, I ask you, are the odds? But not only that, the 'Media Macabre' section of HoH #15 contains the following; Now, as you may well remember, many a film was announced in those hallowed pages as being on the cards or in the offing or what have you and you'd get all excited only to find that it never actually materialised. Dogs, though, did get made, with David McCallum no less. And what's more, the extensive 'Video Listing' in HoH #30 tells us that it even got a British video release - although the accompanying review, "Cheap and boring. A dud.", doesn't suggest anything to salivate over. However, apart from the title and the fact that it came out in 1976, the film doesn't seem to have anything else in common with Robert Calder's book. So that was all a bit of a waste of time really. Sorry. Still, that's a nice picture of an angry dog, isn't it?
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