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Post by dem bones on Oct 29, 2018 22:27:16 GMT
Steve Holland [ed] - The First UK Paperback & Pulp Bookfair Official Souvenir Booklet (Zeon, 7. Sept 1991) Maurice Flanagan - Introduction Steve Holland - Introduction
Steve Holland - Lionel Fanthorpe/ Bibliography Lionel & Patricia Fanthorpe - The Secret Journey of Father Riviere Phil Harbottle - E.C. Tubb/ Bibliography E.C. Tubb - The Lost World Steve Holland - Sydney J. Bounds/ Bibliography Sydney J. Bounds - Footprints David Whitehead - Guy N. Smith/ Bibliography Guy N. Smith - Why Me?
Steve Holland - Denis Gifford Steve Holland - Philip Harbottle Steve Holland - Steve Holland Steve Holland - Denis McLoughlinBucking the trend, a fanzine for a special occasion. Gloriously lo-fi production, concise articles rich on information, invaluable biblio's (including confirmation that Syd Bounds was responsible for three Sexton Blakes: Peter Saxon's White Mercenary, Desmond Reid's The Girl Who Saw Too Much, and Arthur Kirby's Touch Of Evil), and original fiction, Guy N. Smith's contribution being a love story.
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Post by helrunar on Oct 30, 2018 3:15:17 GMT
And I suppose I will go to my grave wondering just what Guy N. Smith wrote under the epochal heading Why Me? ...
Beautiful scans! A real treasure.
cheers, Steve
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Post by dem bones on Oct 30, 2018 10:56:13 GMT
And I suppose I will go to my grave wondering just what Guy N. Smith wrote under the epochal heading Why Me? ...It reads like an out-take from a novel, a potted back story provided for two minor players before they're torn to pieces by a Bat from Hell, The Slime Beast, or what have you. Linda, 33, mother of two, wed to a former convict, takes a cleaning job at the home of Gary Newman, the "quite famous" novelist. They hit if off from the start. With Gary's own marriage in its death throes, it's only a question of when, not if, they fall into one another's arms. Plenty of potential for BAD SEX but GNS unsportingly settles for slushy romance. Pretty lightweight, possibly personal (?), OK for what it is, but suffers through lack of outbreak of The Pestilence. E.C. Tubb's The Last Word is more like it, a punchy horror vignette chronicling the decline of a hotel receptionist who forgets words at the rate of one a day. Have already met, and enjoyed, Sydney J. Bounds' ghost story Footprints in Time For Murder ... ... but it's the Fanthorpes steal it with a five pager detailing the exorcism of the undead, demoniacally possessed Father Saunière in the vaults beneath the Church of Saint Mary Magdalene, Rennes-le-Château ....
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Post by dem bones on Oct 30, 2018 10:59:38 GMT
Fond Memories: Official Bettie Page Newsletter (Washington D.C., undated, c. 1995/5) Editorial by 'Ray,' photos from Glamourcom 3, and an article, Arline Hunter: In The Shadow Of Marilyn by Steve Sullivan. Otherwise, reproductions of photo's, magazine covers and clippings featuring the "notorious" Bettie Page, much-loved 'fifties pin-up and pop culture icon. The "Adults Only" is likely a precaution, as the shots are very tame - even the Irvine Klaw spread discreetly avoids anything suggestive of a bondage session. Thanks, Mr. Saucecraft! (will treasure it).
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Post by dem bones on Jul 6, 2019 14:37:28 GMT
Kevin & Sandie Carlyon [ed's] - Beltane Fire (St. Leonards on Sea, East Sussex Winter 1997) Articles on various aspects of "Modern witchcraft" by shy, retiring rabid publicity fiend Kevin 'High Priest of British Witches' Carlyon and his then-recent Bride, Sandie. Highlights include The Lure of Doom at Beachyhead concerning a return visit to Britain's #1 suicide spot: Voices from the Void: Electric Voice Phenomena and how you, too, can "Record your own spirit voices!," Sandie's love-letter to the Avebury stone circle, and The Spirit of Radio Caroline; a celebration of the pirates. Also, newspaper clippings relating to the Carlyon's recent adventures in mumbo jumbo, etc.
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Post by helrunar on Jul 10, 2019 13:55:45 GMT
Those are interesting scans. I think the co-editor would have more accurately described himself as "Kevin Carlyon, insatiable PR hound and public nuisance of British Witches." But it's all a matter of perspective, I suppose.
Love the cauldron advert. You have such a cool collection, Kev.
cheers, Steve
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Post by dem bones on Jul 11, 2019 19:33:02 GMT
Those are interesting scans. I think the co-editor would have more accurately described himself as "Kevin Carlyon, insatiable PR hound and public nuisance of British Witches." But it's all a matter of perspective, I suppose. Love the cauldron advert. You have such a cool collection, Kev. cheers, Steve The most amazing thing about the cauldron ad is the delivery charge. You'd be lucky to mail a rizla paper for £6 these days. Seems a mite unfair to single out KC as a rabid publicity ghoul when he was but one of many self-proclaimed 'Britain's High Priest Of Wiccans' or what have you prominent on the 'nineties "scene." Cases in point: Britain's Queen of Black Witches' (various claimants, often 'Satanic survivors'), King Arthur of the Britons, 'Britain's Number One Psychic,' etc. They were all at it. Also a plethora of self-styled/ mail order 'Laird's, 'Lord's, 'Bishop's & Co. To say nothing of legion 100% GENUINE undead v*mp*res ..... It was a wonderful time to be into something else. Anyway, Beltane Fire. Decent read. Will try dig out some issues of the impressive Pagan Dawn from same period .....
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Post by helrunar on Jul 11, 2019 22:09:02 GMT
Would love to see any and all issues of Pagan Dawn available. I think I may have seen the odd scan from a couple of numbers of that over the years. Seems as if they published some interesting material.
You definitely have a point about the frenzy of self-promotion amongst those who inhabit sundry occultnik realms, particularly from folk who do it for a living. We've got lots of them over here, obviously.
cheers, Steve
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Post by dem bones on Jan 24, 2020 18:18:42 GMT
Would love to see any and all issues of Pagan Dawn available. I think I may have seen the odd scan from a couple of numbers of that over the years. Seems as if they published some interesting material. You definitely have a point about the frenzy of self-promotion amongst those who inhabit sundry occultnik realms, particularly from folk who do it for a living. We've got lots of them over here, obviously. cheers, Steve Sorry it took so long, Steve. These were given me by a lovely couple named Brian & Trish who I delivered to on my round. They had a massive pentagram on their door, and if I remember, when a council team were redecorating, one of them asked if it would be OK to paint around it. "I wouldn't if I were you ...." The 'zines, as you might expect, are among the more accomplished on these threads. To give you some idea: Jem Dowse [ed.] - Pagan Dawn #129 (Samhain, 1998) Neil Geddes-Ward, The Witching Hour From the Editor PF News Pete Jennings - Letter from the President Tony Kemp - International Affairs PF Conference 1998.
Francis Denton - Response to 'Paganism Today' and 'The Interfaith Debate' Amarhasach - The Interfaith Debate: Another view Pagan News Jami Farrell-Roberts - Starhawk in Lyminge Forest Chesca Potter - The Greenwood Tarot Pete Jennings - Norse Tradition Magic Serena Roney-Dougal - Spirituality of the Aquarian Age Marc Hadley - The Pagan god Fiona Wiggins - Witch Coven? Pagan Federation - Disabled people and pagan events Link - Every Day is Sacred
Reviews Letters Readers Forum Pagan Groups & Moots Pagan Network Pagan Magazines Pagan Personal/ Services Poetry Pagan EventsJem Dowse [ed.] - Pagan Dawn #130 (Spring, 1999) Front: Philip Tonkyn, More Returning From The UnderworldBack: Sharyn Turner, Sky Dance PF News PF European Conference 99 Earth Day 99 Pagan News International Affairs
Audrey May - FGM: Abusing the Female Those Crazy Christians: collected by Rolf Caroline Wise - A Pagan Dawn: Summer Solstice at Stonehenge Michael Berman - The Fertile Void John Kerr - Imboiic at Emain Macha King Arthur Pendragon - Wizards, Witches and Warriors Steve Hounsome - Practical Paganism Katherine Kimberley - The Witches of Dagenham Ergot: Forgotter Sister of the Corn Kim Dent Brown & James Pengelly - A Modern Sacred Site Arlea Hunt-Anshutz - Magick: Another Social Skill Helen Brittain - Staring Out
A Witch Abroad Damh the Baird - Druidic Rambling Book & Music Reviews, edited by Mike Francis Letters Readers Forum Doreen Valiente - The Charge of the God (Verse)
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Post by helrunar on Jan 24, 2020 18:34:22 GMT
Oh god, "King Arthur Pendragon".... I hate it when my eyes roll that fast, it's bloody painful.
Lovely to see Chesca Potter writing (or being interviewed about) her Greenwood Tarot. I was fortunate to get one of those decks just before they went OP. Stunning artwork. Long out of print now and there is some controversy, which is a shame.
These zines look so interesting. I noticed Imbolc somehow became Imboiic when means me think of "I boink" which would really happen at Beltane, but one mustn't be too hidebound.
cheers, Steve
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Post by dem bones on Apr 20, 2020 10:22:11 GMT
Foss Hagman & Cathal Tohill [eds.] - Ungawa! #1 (Deadwood Productions, London, undated; c. 1989/90) Notes from the Bunker: Editorial Moose McGill - Russ Meyer 1967
Film Reviews The Head, The Hypnotic Eye, She Devils on Wheels, Promises, Promises, Blind Eyes sees All, The incredibly Strange Creatures who Stopped living and Became Mixed Up Zombies, Rat Fink a Boo Boo
Micheal Flores - The Human Tornado Speaks: an Interview with Rudy Ray Moore Honey Parker - Ten Films that Shook the World: #1. Empire of the Senses
Books: Sylvere Lotringer, Overexposed: Treating Sexual Perversion in America. Lee Francis, Hollywood Madam. Nick Tosches, Hellfire: The Jerry lee Lewis Story. Anthony Summers & Stephen Dorril, Honeytrap. John Waters, Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters. Heine Hohne, The Order of the Death's Head: The Story of Hitler's S.S.. Martin A. Lee & Bruce Shlain, Acid Dreams: the CIA,LSD and the Sixties Rebellion. Peter Bogdanovitch, The Killing of the Unicorn: Dorothy Stratten.
John Mulholland - Bad Girls Go To Hell. The Films of Doris Wishman. Pierre Charles - The Franco File: Part 1. Interview with Jess Franco. Cathal Tohill & Laam Killer - On the Bongo Beat. Various music compilations Wail on the Beach, Teenage Riot, The Big Itch, Black Rock 'N Roll and "rockabilly wildman" Charlie Feathers' All Tore UpSome mags just seem to try too hard, and this, for me, was one of them. A short lived (four issue) cult exploitation sleaze pop culture rock 'roll 40-pager which, despite sensational subject matter and class interviewees (Rudy Ray Moore is on fine form), didn't seem to click. Even features on Bettie Page (issue #2) and John Saxon (#4) couldn't help it. Can't put my finger on why, but whole thing has a lacklustre, by-numbers feel about it. That said, I'm sure there were plenty out there adored it. The Fantasy Inn - where I bought it - was a neat bookshop on Charing Cross Road which burnt down circa 1990.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 20, 2020 12:10:31 GMT
This is more like it! Mark Gibbons [ed] - Revelations #1 (British Parapsychological Research Centre, June 1999) Terrifying reports from the paranormal front-line, includes Memories of an Abductee, The Scammonden UFO Mystery, a tenacious haunting by a teenage girl, a woman under psychic attack from the police, and a BPRS Sighting Report Form in case you spot anything paranormal going on. Perhaps most unsettling of all, Patrick Gibbons account of a BPRS investigation at The House of the Beavers, a converted barn where a girl's alleged meddling with the ouija board had sparked alleged Poltergeist activity. In short, by the time the last member of the team had packed up at 2.30 the following afternoon, "Nothing paranormal happened at all." File under: "What can it all mean?"
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Post by dem bones on Apr 22, 2020 10:19:37 GMT
Angela Readman & Lee Powell (eds.) - The Penny Dreadfull #3 (Gateshead, Oct. 1994) "Gothic writings for the dark at heart." 92 pages of bewitched Halloween special include Angela Readman - very much the driving force - on Beasts, Beliefs & the Alter-Ego in Victorian fiction and The Mysterious Case of Spring Heeled Jack. Justin of I3 Candles talks about Halloween, Tanya Lloyd samples 'Occult Fiction,' original gloomy stories by Drewand Carter and Gabriel Ernest Vane ("From The Book of Ruins"), plus the regulation poetry, Gig/ CD/ fim/ video/ book reviews and interviews (Witching Hour, I3 Candles, Jyrki of Two Witches, and Sundown, Sunrise author Jackie Askew). Mike Don [ed] - Dreamberry Wine (Manchester, Sept-Oct 1995). Another sample issue of this neat second hand book catalogue cum fanzine, incorporating multiple SF/ Horror/ Fantasy book reviews. This particular number includes an interview with Stephen Baxter, original fiction by Jen Albinson and Ady Lake, and lively letters column, Rocket Mail, with contributions from, among others Ian Covell, George Hay, Ken 'rent-a-row' Lake, Jean Mills, Alex Vasilkowsky and Simon Clark. This next is edited from ancient file found on my hard drive. Have been unable to locate copy of issue in question, hence lack of cover scan. Kevin & Sandie Carlyon (eds.) - Beltane Fire (St. Leonards-on-sea , Winter, 1999-2000). An umpteenth jamboree bag of Earth Magic and general spookiness from the Carlyon's and friends. Lead article Spirit's Having Flown finds Kevin and Sandie cast adrift on the allegedly haunted Radio Caroliine ship. Four days and The Ross Revenge all to themselves ... until, that is, the stowaway in the yellow so'wester puts in an appearance. Extreme noise pollution in the night, equipment failure, ghostly Bee Gee records - and that's not even the half of it. Anna Franklin and Christine Penn contribute thoughtful essays on Candles - there's so much more to 'em than meets the eye; made me feel a bit of a Philistine for ever having lit a Marlboro from one. Also, The Magical Scents of Nature, the phantom of Bloxworth Manor and latest stupid exchange of pleasantries between rival 'v**p*re'-interest camps.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 29, 2020 10:29:59 GMT
Not sure I ever knew who was behind this marvellous service, but join the mailing list and each quarter or so you'd receive an envelope stuffed to bursting with fliers for Goth-interest gigs, tours, 'zines, events, Dollie Alezzia's hair extensions (phone only; "cheap rates, professional service"), the occasional werewolf musical, and, in the case of Celluloid Cloud inc., a complete hand-drawn 'psychedelic jewellery' catalogue. This selection (most of them, anyhow) from a mail-out dated 1st May 1998. Have doctored home addresses where possible. It's up to the individual if they want to contact a long defunct PO Box.
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Post by dem bones on May 2, 2020 11:15:39 GMT
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