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Post by dem bones on Jul 28, 2019 8:19:24 GMT
Best have some more then. Three to be getting on with ... Barry Cuff - The Damned Spot (Holloway House, 1970). Scanned from Sleazy Reader #8. "More devilishly perverse than ROSEMARY'S BABY!" Angus Hall - To Play The Devil (Sphere, 1971) threadG. M. Wilson - Death on a Broomstick (Keyhole, 1981: originally Robert Hale, 1977) Blurb: Was Mrs. Sibley, the fat, elderly lady found dead tangled up with a broomstick on the East Anglian marshes, really a witch? The small Norfolk town was agog with the mystery, but Inspector Lovick was not convinced that witch-like flying had caused her death. There was a bruise on her head indicating her body could have been thrown out of a helicopter...
He and nice Miss Purdy, Mrs. Sibley's landlady who had had nothing but trouble since the sinister woman had rented the top of her house, joined forces to discover the mystery and found they were dealing with an evil infinitely more terrifying than conventional witchcraft.
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Post by andydecker on Jul 28, 2019 11:35:39 GMT
Another two ... Victor Jay - Devil Soul (Belmont 1970 156 p.) The rip-off of The Devil Rides Out. This is a pseudonym of Victor Banis, who as Viktor Samuels wrote the lame re-telling of Dracula as The Vampire WomanJ.B.Herman - Black Sabbat (Major Books 1979, 240 p) I don't know, if this is a genuine horror novel or a gothic.
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Post by helrunar on Jul 28, 2019 12:00:34 GMT
Those are great covers. Don't believe I'm familiar with any of those authors, or the titles.
The title Death on a Broomstick makes me think of this novel Broomstick in the Hallway, circa 1966. I got it because the cover seemed so promising, but stalled when I began to read the thing. One of those rural soap operas about a woman returning to her childhood manor house home and childhood boyfriend. There was witchcraft afoot, but there were also a lot of stupid people poorly described and discussed in long, tritely written swathes of woolgathering.
H.
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Post by dem bones on Jul 28, 2019 16:33:04 GMT
James Moffat - The Naked Light (NEL, 1970) Rave reviews!Baldwin Hills - Simon, King Of The Witches (NEL, 1972) Not so much
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Post by helrunar on Jul 28, 2019 20:04:55 GMT
What fun. Star of Simon, King of the Witches Andrew Prine had an "instrument" that became legendary after his nude spread in Viva, a competing mag in the same genre as Playgirl, in '73 or thereabouts. I wonder whether the novelization makes more sense than the film. It was said to be based on a memoir by California occultist Carroll "Poke" Runyon.
Thanks Kev!
Steve
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Post by dem bones on Jul 29, 2019 22:11:56 GMT
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Post by helrunar on Jul 29, 2019 23:40:58 GMT
Juicy! Thanks, Kev! I think I may once have dated the model on that Michelet cover. An offbeat edition of one of the more venerable works on the subject.
Thanks to a comment on a thread elsewhere, I learned today of the occult-themed fictiions of "Peter Saxon." Lots of zesty posts in the Vault for me to read up about these.
SRS
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Post by Swampirella on Apr 30, 2020 11:15:40 GMT
I can't help but think this is already here somewhere, I just can't find it, despite a diligent search of this (sub) thread & a bit of "Phwoar". Rowena Morrill's covers for "Isobel" by Jane Parkhurst certainly deserve a place here:
Ms. Morrill deservedly has her own book:
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Post by andydecker on Apr 30, 2020 14:02:50 GMT
Thank you, Swampi! Absolutly stunning. Why is this missing in my collection? A must have.
I looked it up immediately and of course it is rare and ridiculously expensive.
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Post by helrunar on Apr 30, 2020 14:04:55 GMT
Hi Swampi, those are on here somewhere, but always worth seeing again! The top one might be in a thread called something like "Down the back of the Vault."
cheers, Hel
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Post by Swampirella on Apr 30, 2020 14:32:34 GMT
Thank you, Swampi! Absolutly stunning. Why is this missing in my collection? A must have.
I looked it up immediately and of course it is rare and ridiculously expensive.
Too bad I got rid of the copy I had as a teenager, probably because I was embarrassed by the lurid cover . I had no idea it was so rare & expensive, those who want to can read it here:
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Post by helrunar on Apr 30, 2020 18:40:33 GMT
For what it is worth, I sometimes find much more reasonable prices on Abebook compared with some of the other sites or options. Last night I was discussing an occult book published in the 1990s with a friend and he looked it up and complained that the copies he saw were listed in the 175 dollar range. I checked and found a copy of it on Abe for US$7.62.
I think in some cases the extreme prices are yet another instance of this tiresome "bookjacking phenomenon."
It's very nice that somebody took the time to scan the book and post it to that site. Thanks Swampi for that link.
H.
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Post by Swampirella on Apr 30, 2020 19:06:40 GMT
For what it is worth, I sometimes find much more reasonable prices on Abebook compared with some of the other sites or options. Last night I was discussing an occult book published in the 1990s with a friend and he looked it up and complained that the copies he saw were listed in the 175 dollar range. I checked and found a copy of it on Abe for US$7.62. I think in some cases the extreme prices are yet another instance of this tiresome "bookjacking phenomenon." It's very nice that somebody took the time to scan the book and post it to that site. Thanks Swampi for that link. H. You're right, Steve, Abebooks usually has the lowest prices around, so I always check them first. You're welcome for the link!
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Post by jamesdoig on May 1, 2020 5:05:07 GMT
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Post by andydecker on May 1, 2020 10:19:20 GMT
I never was a fan of Rowena. Her work was nice and very well done, no doubt about it, but I always viewed her as too similar to Vallejo.
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