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Post by timothymayer on Oct 20, 2009 19:32:25 GMT
I really love this board, just wish I had more time to spend reading it.
I've been a big fan of the British paperbacks every since a little book shop near my home town started carrying "imported" paperbacks. I fell in love with all the neat watercolor covers on the Michael Moore fantasy editions. This must have been in 1975. Then a few other places near where I lived began getting the Neville Spearman Clark Ashton Smith reprints.
But what did it for me was a trip to Canada the next year where I picked up some Birikin collections: SO PALE SO COLD SO FAIR, etc.
Anyway, keep up the excellent work. I had no idea there were biker and skinhead novels sold in the UK.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 20, 2009 21:03:13 GMT
That's very kind of you, rummah. i see you've not put a link to your blog, so .... Z-7's Headquarters: i've been following it on and off since it was Dark Sanctuary (?), and i'm particularly fond of the enlightening posts on Karl E. Wagner's Essential Books, notably J. U. Nicolson's Finger Of Fear and Alexander Laing's elusive The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck. Don't know if this snippet is of use, but, just in case you weren't aware, Robert Bloch was another big fan of Cadaver ... and nominated it as his all time favourite in Steve Jones & Kim Newman's Horror: 100 Best Books (Xanadu, 1988): "One of the most grisly and evocative readings of a misspent lifetime." Good to hear from you, and hope you enjoy So Pale, So Cold, So Fair! |
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Post by timothymayer on Oct 21, 2009 2:05:31 GMT
Much obliged. I've modified my profile, hope it helps things a bit. "Rummah" is a pen name I sometimes use.
Wish I still had that copy of the Birikin collection. I'm afraid it was traded off years ago. I do remember it scaring the BeJesus out my 18-year-old self.
Glad you enjoy my reading log. Someday I will finish all those books on the Wagner lists. It's a lot easier to find reprints of them today than it was 25 years ago when I first encountered the lists.
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Post by Dr Strange on Oct 21, 2009 9:29:15 GMT
Hi there. I see some John Franklin Bardin on your website. I've got a Penguin paperback with "The Deadly Percheron", "The Last Of Philip Banter" and "Devil Take The Blue-Tail Fly" collected together. Didn't think quite so much of the last two (maybe I'd developed some sort of tolerance after the shock of the first), but "The Deadly Percheron" is... well I can't really think of a way to describe it adequately. "Fantastic" is right (in every way), but just doesn't do it justice. Hallucinatory, disturbing, Lynchian before there was a David Lynch? Anyone else on the Vault read this? It's not horror, but it is very, very strange.
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Post by timothymayer on Oct 24, 2009 2:19:37 GMT
Yes, "The Deadly P" is one strange book. As I said in the review, after the 1/2 mark the plot starts to run backwards.
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Post by jamesdoig on Oct 24, 2009 4:32:37 GMT
I've heard on a couple of lists that Mark Hansom's The Shadow on the House will be published by Ramble House in the next week or two - introduced by John Pelan. That's another rare item from KEW's Twilight Zone lists that's now available.
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