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Post by andydecker on Feb 24, 2009 12:20:23 GMT
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Post by dem bones on Feb 24, 2009 12:47:15 GMT
Thanks andy. I saw a very poor scan of The Stalking's pigs head cover for the first time yesterday, and was hoping you'd post a detailed one. It's lovely! Could be that I messed up on Cannibals - that might be a Hamlyn cover I posted, not an Arrow (I don't have a copy), and if so, mebbe someone will kindly point out the error of my ways? If you're worried about resizing the scans, and you've not already done so, i've no hesitation in recommending that you download the magnificent free image-editing software programme irfanview
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Post by Steve on Feb 25, 2009 1:28:13 GMT
Could be that I messed up on Cannibals - that might be a Hamlyn cover I posted, not an Arrow That one is the Sheridan Book Co. Who they? No idea. Shed any light, Pulps? All I know is that they put out a load of Guy N. Smith titles in the early 90s, all of which had previously appeared in Hamlyn or Arrow or Sphere or Grafton as the case may be. Had some quite nice covers (and the odd ropey one) - that Cannibals one you posted certainly p*sses all over the Arrow, if you'll excuse the less than elegant expression.
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Post by justin on Feb 25, 2009 12:24:34 GMT
I'm pretty much in awe of Hack's knowledge of publishing houses! I can make one contribution before the encyclopaedia gets here...
Sheridan were a remainder publisher in that they specialised in producing books that went straight to discount shops and sold for a couple of quid. I think they did no more than three or four of Guy's titles.
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Post by Steve on Feb 25, 2009 13:07:39 GMT
Sheridan were a remainder publisher in that they specialised in producing books that went straight to discount shops and sold for a couple of quid. Ta - that figures actually as, come to think of it, most of my Sheridans seem to have come from those cheap remainder places. That being the case - I wonder how much, if any, of the artwork was original to these editions? Can't see them spending a lot on the design front if they were just going to knock them out cheap. I know the cover painting for Mania (elderly lady with cleaver - Les Edwards?) has appeared elsewhere but can't remember where offhand. They did quite a few. I've got half a dozen on the shelf here - CARNIVORE (1993) MANIA, PHOBIA, ENTOMBED, CANNIBALS, THE BLACK FEDORA (all 1994) - and looks like they also gave us; THE MASTER, LOCUSTS, CRABS' MOON around the same time. Any more?
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Post by dem bones on Feb 25, 2009 14:41:08 GMT
I know the cover painting for Mania (elderly lady with cleaver - Les Edwards?) has appeared elsewhere but can't remember where offhand. Years Best Horror #17, Steve, and i think it may even have showed up somewhere else. For some reason i'm thinking of a metal CD, but that can't be right, can it? I know Gordon Crabbe's illustration of the screaming bloke in the trees for Chetwynd-Hayes' Night Ghouls has since been resurrected as some band's cover artwork, but i forgot to make a note of their name. And, yes, the old biddy with the cleaver is a particularly effective Les Edwards.
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Post by Steve on Feb 26, 2009 0:26:17 GMT
Cheers, don't know about any metal bands but I looked the painting up on Les Edwards's website and it seems it's got around quite a bit. As well as Year's Best Horror and Mammoth Book of Best New Horror it's also seen some action in central/eastern Europe, including a stint on the cover of the Romanian edition of Stephen King's Dolores Claiborne of all places. Apparently Sphere commissioned it originally in 1989 for the Smith book. The Mania cover looks much darker though than the original painting (which you can see at Les's site, as I say, on page 2 of the 'Vintage' section of his gallery) and the colours are more muted. The original is really very striking indeed.
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Post by Johnlprobert on Feb 26, 2009 8:41:28 GMT
The cover of Best New Horror One made it onto the album cover of a metal band called Krokus I believe, if my Fangoria advert-inspired memory is to be relied on
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Post by dem bones on Mar 5, 2009 19:48:44 GMT
"It all starts with the discovery of a dead hedgehog in a boiler shed... Meanwhile, not many miles away, a man watches in disbelieving horror as his own body is eaten alive... For deep beneath the surface of the earth, the maggots are multiplying, lurking in the blackness until the time is ripe to burst out on an unsuspecting world..."Maggots! I can't believe i left Maggots off the original list! And nobody picked me up on it. For shame! Some more, too! Graham Masterton - Family Portrait (1984) Neil Gaiman & Kim Newman - Ghastly Beyond Belief (1985) Edward Jarvis - Maggots (1986) "The squirming menace"John Halkin - Bloodworm (1987) Richard Lewis - Spiders (1987) *not sure if they reprinted any of his others?* M. R. James - A Warning to the Curious (1988) You said it.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 8, 2009 18:47:50 GMT
Much as i love flame babe on the 'seventies Wheatley cover, i have to admit that the eighties ones are the best - a kind of black magic equivalent of the fancy dress orgies on the Sphere Confessions ... covers. Pity Linda Lee didn't make more of an effort. Probably sulking because her strange story doesn't involve any abduction by Satanists and, therefore, wasn''t going to sell.
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