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Post by dem bones on Feb 21, 2011 20:40:38 GMT
Thanks for the guided tour, lord p! i'm very glad you've enjoyed your first sustained burst of shudder pulp action as, up until recent years, these authors and the terrifying magazines they hacked for rarely got a look in when it came to 'the history of horror' articles and even when they did (case in point, Ron Goulart's Cheap Thrills), it was to be condemned and despised. If someone offered me one issue apiece of Horror Stories, Terror Tales and Thrilling Mystery over the entire back-catalogue of Ex-Occidente titles, etc ...
have rooted out Man Out Of Hell, The Buyer Of Souls - "Powerless to fight the obscene forces with which my own Diane had become allied, I sought the aid of the Devil's Mistress. Little did I suspect then, that in so doing I had sold my soul to Satan!" - and Frozen Energy to add to the pair Sev found on pulpgen so will try add some comments later in week. You have to love the Red Circle sub-editors. Wake Not the Dead .... Willis Payne, mortician, is plunged into a maelstrom of mystery when he asks the question: "Are the dead really dead?" ... A Complete Novelette of Weird Orgies!"
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Feb 28, 2011 19:00:50 GMT
Reading these "weird menace" stories and realizing that the genre was widely popular in the 1930s suddenly shines a new light on the horror thrillers produced in Hollywood at the time. They often have little to do with traditional supernatural fiction, but they do seem inspired by the shudder pulps. In particular pre-Code efforts such as MURDERS IN THE ZOO (1933) or the completely bizarre proto-slasher film TERROR ABOARD (1933), but also more mainstream films like THE BLACK CAT (1934).
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Post by andydecker on Feb 14, 2023 8:34:46 GMT
John H. Knox - Reunion in Hell (Dancing Tuatara Press, 2010, 248 pages) Contents: John Pelan - Introduction: John H. Knox: Poet Laureate of the Perverse
Men Without Blood - Horror Stories, Jan 1935 Children of the Black God - Dime Mystery, Aug 1936 The Sea of Fear - Thrilling Mystery, Sep 1937 The Thing that Dined on Death - Thrilling Mystery, Apr 1936 Reunion in Hell - Terror Tales, Mar 1936 Master of Monsters - Horror Stories, Dec 1935 Gallery of the Damned - Dime Mystery, Jan 1936.
Cover added because in the Vault a thread without a cover is like a grave without a headstone.
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