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Post by wallace on Feb 19, 2011 3:50:20 GMT
Also these (mainly mysteries): T.H. White - Darkness at Pemberly LeFanu - Rose & The Key -Uncle Silas -Guy Deverell -Wylder's Hand
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Meyrink/Busson - The Golem/The Man Who Was Born Again Various German - The Man Who Lost His Shadow
Pierre Louys -Bilitis (ill. Lindsay) C. Rossetti - Goblin Market Lovecraft - Supernatural Horror In Literature
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Post by lemming13 on Feb 23, 2011 16:42:40 GMT
I confess to having had quite a collection of Thrift editions on my shelves until I got my Kindle - when I replaced them with electronic versions . I now have a very, very complete collection of Bierce and Blackwood (I know, dem, they can be heavy sometimes, but there are gems among the lead which have not seen anthologising - well, not to my knowledge anyway). Cw, I've read Moonfleet; it's not a bad ripping yarn, quite a fast paced read and none of the dramatised versions I've seen actually does it real justice. But I much prefer Russell Thorndike's Dr Syn stories when it comes to smugglers.
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Post by asenath on Mar 10, 2012 4:50:39 GMT
I own nearly all of these volumes from Dover. In the early 80's, Dover was one of the few companies where I could purchase authors like Blackwood, M.R. James, Le Fanu, Bierce and others at a reasonable price. It was a pre-internet age and acquiring the books you wanted took a lot more work. At the time, Dover didn't accept credit cards or phone orders. I had to write the company for a catalog , fill out the order form, mail it in with a check or money order. It usually took about 4-6 weeks for your merchandise to arrive. And I eagerly awaited every package. Thank goodness, for Dover!
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Mar 10, 2012 5:00:42 GMT
I own nearly all of these volumes from Dover. In the early 80's, Dover was one of the few companies where I could purchase authors like Blackwood, M.R. James, Le Fanu, Bierce and others at a reasonable price. It was a pre-internet age and acquiring the books you wanted took a lot more work. At the time, Dover didn't accept credit cards or phone orders. I had to write the company for a catalog , fill out the order form, mail it in with a check or money order. It usually took about 4-6 weeks for your merchandise to arrive. And I eagerly awaited every package. Thank goodness, for Dover! Catalogues - those were the days. Far more exciting that the internet. Quoting - if you look on the right hand side of the message box you'll see 'quote' in white - just right click on it and the message box will appear with the section quoted in it.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Mar 10, 2012 5:01:41 GMT
Its just under
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Post by asenath on Mar 12, 2012 11:25:14 GMT
I own nearly all of these volumes from Dover. In the early 80's, Dover was one of the few companies where I could purchase authors like Blackwood, M.R. James, Le Fanu, Bierce and others at a reasonable price. It was a pre-internet age and acquiring the books you wanted took a lot more work. At the time, Dover didn't accept credit cards or phone orders. I had to write the company for a catalog , fill out the order form, mail it in with a check or money order. It usually took about 4-6 weeks for your merchandise to arrive. And I eagerly awaited every package. Thank goodness, for Dover! Catalogues - those were the days. Far more exciting that the internet. Quoting - if you look on the right hand side of the message box you'll see 'quote' in white - just right click on it and the message box will appear with the section quoted in it. Yes, I loved the old Barnes & Noble newsprint catalogues too-I spent hours browsing through those. I'd call my order in to the New York office and talk to the lady with the wonderful New York accent. I really miss that. Thanks for the quoting advice.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Mar 12, 2012 12:44:49 GMT
I still have the odd catalogue lying around - printed on photocopied sheets from bookshops or dealers long since gone. It's almost impossible to look at them though as you see utter bargains that you passed up on.
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Post by Knygathin on Apr 4, 2012 20:03:31 GMT
The more I look at that Ambrose Bierce Ghost & Horror Stories volume, the more it creeps me out. Quite excellent artwork, disturbingly warping the dimensions of the photograph.
I used to be less enthusiastic about Dover, thinking them a too big publisher without the specialized sense for the supernatural. But they have acquired a very gifted staff of book designers, who seem to do dedicated and genuine research for each project.
Arthur Machen's The Hill of Dreams is another great Dover cover art.
Best Ghost Stories of J. S. Le Fanu is a favorite of mine. Top quality paperback, on acid-free paper.
The recent Dover of A Voyage to Arcturus has a conceptually interesting cover; The shadow of a smart chap spying out over an alien landscape, composed so that it is you who are holding the book who is casting that shadow! Very appealing design I would say.
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Post by Knygathin on Apr 6, 2012 1:39:37 GMT
that Ambrose Bierce Ghost & Horror Stories volume... warping the dimensions of the photograph. Well . . . this is a glimpse into non-Euclidean geometry. The face is passing out beyond the three dimensions. That evil wide mouth musing over terrible deeds... and then everything above, the angles and proportions of the nose and eyes (which no longer add up numerically!) and brow, go haywire into madness. The spiritual Abyss, where "up" and "down" has lost its meaning, blends with matter here, and bends it like clay away from normal senses. Here is a notion of what goes on in those cyclopean ruins that Cthulhu emerges from. I wish more fantastic Art was as bizarre as this.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 6, 2012 7:57:29 GMT
it's striking, i'll grant you, way preferable to 99% of today's ph*t*shop crap, but i'm still only getting a photo of a hooded guy in a real classy coat.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Apr 6, 2012 11:10:24 GMT
i'm still only getting a photo of a hooded guy in a real classy coat. I always saw it as a photo of a hooded guy in a coat, but now I see the face. I would like to un-see the face.
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Post by Knygathin on Apr 6, 2012 21:06:32 GMT
Published in 1964. I wonder what tools they used back then to manipulate a photo in that way? Bulging projecting-lenses, or mirrors perhaps.
Today anyone could theoretically do that with photoshop . . . the crux is to know, and have a taste for, what parts to manipulate and how much, so it becomes creepy. Only a person with artistic talent and feeling for the bizarre can do that. Photoshop doesn't make people into artists, even if their efforts may look superficially impressive at first sight . . . but then you realize that the majority of it is just crap, like you say demonik.
There is more to that strange photo. Is that the guy's face at the outset, or is he wearing a mask? If it is a mask, it sure isn't just a simple "paper bag" over his head. I looks organic . . . with a scar or something running above the nose.
This is the kind of picture you can keep analyzing, but you will never fully solve its mystery . . . it will continue to creep and haunt you!
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Post by Knygathin on Apr 6, 2012 21:54:22 GMT
I am not all dead sure that photo is manipulated. This could also be a case of an exceedingly deformed freak. It's not impossible . . . I have worked in a hospital and seen some very strange cases, but those unfortunate individuals are hidden away from the public.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Apr 7, 2012 16:57:07 GMT
Published in 1964. I wonder what tools they used back then to manipulate a photo in that way? Bulging projecting-lenses, or mirrors perhaps. That cover is, of course, not from 1964. I do not have my copy at hand, but I believe it is by J K Potter.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 7, 2012 18:26:00 GMT
That cover is, of course, not from 1964. I do not have my copy at hand, but I believe it is by J K Potter. I think you're right on both counts, JoJo, certainly as to the date. the edition i took the scan from is copyrighted 1964, but it's likely that Dover regularly repackaged the books without providing information on how many editions they'd run to. Bought my copy new from Books etc in Charing Cross Road sometime in the early 'nineties - got the Conan-Doyle and both Le Fanu editions around the same time - and there was even a small display! Dover often credit the cover photographers but, unless i've missed it, not on this occasion.
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