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Post by dem bones on Dec 21, 2007 8:46:30 GMT
Stating the bleeding obvious but I'm sure The Fantasy Centre and New Worlds (downstairs at Murder One in the Charing X Road) are also worth trying.
PS: Along with John Sayles' Piranha (Nel, 1978) you might like to consider Stephen King's Cujo (Macdonald, 1981, Futura, 1982) for 'When Animals Attack'? Soppy St. Bernard is bitten by rabid bats, goes berserk, kills everyone, etc.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Dec 21, 2007 8:52:14 GMT
Justin - it just gets better and better. Top stuff. Re the book - I had flashbacks to the golden days of Book Of Football and World of Wildlife - 'Month by Month Paperback Fanatic will build into a comprehensive and indispensable guide to the worst of Britsploitation paperbacks and their creators - you owe it to your children to collect the lot. Superb lavishly tooled binders available.' Ade - brilliant cover.
One minor complaint. Where was the Sphere UK cover for Slime? I'll put it up here as soon as poss.
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Post by Dr Terror on Dec 21, 2007 13:28:13 GMT
Justin, you've given me even more books to look out for. Thanks!
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Post by bradstevens on Dec 21, 2007 16:12:54 GMT
Stating the bleeding obvious but I'm sure The Fantasy Centre and New Worlds (downstairs at Murder One in the Charing X Road) are also worth trying. Sadly, since Murder One moved to their new location (which is still on Charing Cross Road), New Worlds is no longer a part of the shop. They still have a pretty good selection of second hand crime/pulp novels downstairs, though.
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Post by justin on Dec 21, 2007 19:32:14 GMT
Good suggestions gang...
Maxim at Murder One has stocked The Fanatic in small quantities. I'm visiting tomorrow, so hopefully they've all sold and they'll take some more.
Fantasy Centre have a policy of no new mags, as I suspect they have a warehouse full of unsold Interzones, but I'm giving it a go tomorrow. One of the owners Erik can be a bit cranky on his day, so it could go either way...
I hadn't considered The Cinema Store. I'll drop in samples.
Re Pirahna and Cujo... note to self, never, ever describe any article as the definitive, last-word. This backs up Andy's comment about publishing a magazine and collating the(welcome) corrections/additions afterwards ahead of any book project. The Fanatic Scrapbook, hmmm.
Just received a copy of Lovecraft in Britain, a BFS chap-book which has been making me think about the format. A5 but perfect bound with a nice spine. It looked and felt gooood.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 21, 2007 19:56:07 GMT
Good suggestions gang... One of the owners Erik can be a bit cranky on his day, so it could go either way... Oooh! Wouldn't it be exciting if he read that about 30 seconds before you enter the shop .... I agree with Andy. Actually, when (notice that: 'when' not 'if') you get to the book stage I think Vault could be of use to you as the PF readers have lists like the 'When Animals Attack' one to work from. I'm sure between us we'll come up with a few additional titles. I think 'definitive' is what one aims for but, rarely - if ever - achieves, and there's no shame in 'as close to definitive as possible'.
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Post by killercrab on Dec 22, 2007 2:43:25 GMT
Fanatic 3 arrived on monday - so far I've read the Animals Amok piece and Tralins interview. I think the animals piece could easily of stretched to being a two part feature - stuff like GNS' CRABS books get barely a mention.Perhaps Justin's previous expansive look at them in his GNS overview could be incorporated in part. Couple of books that might also fit :
PHASE IV ( ants) THE FURIES ( Wasps) KISS OF THE COBRA
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Post by Calenture on Dec 28, 2007 17:44:03 GMT
...The Fanatic Scrapbook, hmmm. Just received a copy of Lovecraft in Britain, a BFS chap-book which has been making me think about the format. A5 but perfect bound with a nice spine. It looked and felt gooood. I've got that Lovecraft in Britain, and the more I look at it, the more possible it seems to transfer Paperback Fanatic to that A5 format. The cover scans in LiB are about 1/3 the size of those in PF, but they remain attractive. The idea of a chunky A5 illustrated reference book for the bedside table is also pretty good. But I can see this idea will get quite a bit of batting around... and I wouldn't be surprised to see a 4th "test run" format change before any decision is made. I feel slightly guilty about getting carried away about psychic detectives and supernatural sleuths. By the time we'd finished, covering those stories seemed an impossible task. People are forever reminding me that this board, Paperback Fanatic and Beyond the Groovy Age of Horror are all primarily focused on 1970's stuff... But somehow I always get diverted. Anyway, I imagine that article's a few issue's away yet. Looking at some of the new scans that appeared since I read the proof, I noticed an unfamiliar cover for Quinn Reade's Quest of the Dark Lady which boasts "16 pages of drawings". Checking the text, you mention that "Quinn Read" was actually Ben Haas, and give Belmont Tower as publisher, 1969. My copy's Belmont, 1969, with no drawings. *grumble* My copy's cover is by Jeff Jones, of course. But I'm a bit puzzled by your scan (below), which looks like another Jones, but seems to have an odd square signature at lower left. Anyway, keep hard at work on the Psychic Detectives, won't you. How many issues do you think the article will fill? Five, six?
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Post by Steve on Dec 28, 2007 21:09:04 GMT
Looking at some of the new scans that appeared since I read the proof, I noticed an unfamiliar cover for Quinn Reade's Quest of the Dark Lady which boasts "16 pages of drawings". Checking the text, you mention that "Quinn Read" was actually Ben Haas, and give Belmont Tower as publisher, 1969. My copy's Belmont, 1969, with no drawings. *grumble* My copy's cover is by Jeff Jones, of course. But I'm a bit puzzled by your scan (below), which looks like another Jones, but seems to have an odd square signature at lower left. Let me through, I'm a paperback fanatic! You know what's happened here, Rog, don't you? You'll laugh when I tell you... What you've got is the original 1969 Belmont paperback, while this one; is a later reprint - about 1976 I'm told. The "16 pages of drawings" were from various sources and not by Jeff Jones, so don't fret. The cover is by Jones though, as you suspected. That "odd square signature" is how he used to sign his stuff (I think it's a 'J', is it?) This later Jeff Jones cover painting had been used previously on another Belmont sword & sorcery paperback; Lin Carter's The Quest of Kadji. There were two versions - one with a black background, and another one, which I owned at one point, with what I assume was originally a white background... although by the time it fell into my hands it was more of a creamy, off-white colour. The second version of Quest of the Dark Lady - the "in the tradition of Conan" one with the 16 pages of drawings - was also published in the UK by Paramount Books.
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