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Post by erebus on Feb 15, 2010 22:56:10 GMT
Can someone please put the Loch Ness pic up again. It does'nt seem to be showing anymore and I recall it being a great cover. Can't find the sod anywhere.
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Post by killercrab on Feb 16, 2010 1:44:24 GMT
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Post by dennistoun on Mar 3, 2010 19:55:19 GMT
Ah, Tremayne. For those of you who like a more ghostly chill, his short story collection Aisling and other Tales of Terror (Brandon 1992) is one of the best of its sort I've come across (at least until Connolly's Nocturnes).
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Post by cw67q on Mar 3, 2010 20:25:57 GMT
I knew Tremayne (Peter Berresford Ellis's ) through his regular series of historical essays in the irish Democrat back in the late 80s and early 90s when I regularly took and sold that publication.
A good few years later that I read a brief bio of Tremayne in an anthology and it took me a while to recall why PBE was such a familiar name. Until I stumbled upon this thread I hadn't realised that his horror writings were not just an occasional foray.
- chris
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Post by jamesdoig on Mar 5, 2010 8:35:19 GMT
And he's written a biography of E. Charles Vivian/Jack Mann (of Gees fame)/Charles Cannell that as far as I know has never been published. In 1997 he wrote an article on Vivian with Richard Dalby for the Book and Magazine Collector:
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Post by erebus on Mar 5, 2010 11:38:52 GMT
Thanks for the pic killercrab Has anyone actually read THE CURSE OF LOCH NESS ?? Any views welcome. I was one of those who was slightly let down by THE MORGOW RISES. Don't know if its me but Tremaynes books are a little bit to nice for me. I mean compared to the rest of the other writers works out there at the time Tremayne seemed to cut back on the violence a little .
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Post by killercrab on Mar 5, 2010 13:41:26 GMT
I'd class CURSE OF LOCH NESS as a nicer book than MORGOW. It's not what you expect. I prefered MORGOW overall which I enjoyed for it's setting. Tremayne isn't Shaun Huston so perhaps you would be better looking elsewhere if it's gorier stuff you crave! I should get around to reading KISS OF THE COBRA myself.
KC
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Post by erebus on Mar 5, 2010 19:30:40 GMT
Thanks killercrab. I am not a rampant gorehound though ( the Hutson thing perhaps derails people ) I just thought THE ANTS, SWAMP and ZOMBIE were very dull. I had hopes for MORGOW and it was indeed a better book and was'nt to bad but the attack scenes are necassary but are not evident. Like for example the reporter who is one minute stood on the shore and the next line of the book he's gone. I just sensed maybe Tremayne could of elaborate more so we get more of a feel of the creatures cruelty and threat. Ah well maybe your right perhaps I am deranged by too many early Hutson novels
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Post by andydecker on Mar 5, 2010 20:18:34 GMT
Ah well maybe your right perhaps I am deranged by too many early Hutson novels Don´t worry, I also tried to like his work, but it wasn´t for me. Thought it quite dull There can never be too much early Hutson
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Post by lemming13 on Aug 5, 2010 21:17:53 GMT
I confess to a fondness for Peter Tremayne - as a college student I had a fad on his stuff (it made a very refreshing break from English literature as personified by King Lear, Sean O'Casey who wasn't even English, and DH Lawrence, who should have been beaten to death by sweaty young men with daffodils. If he wouldn't have loved it.). And the college librarian did too, because they stocked ALL of it. Haven't even thought of it in years - thanks for the nostalgia! Oh, and though it isn't a proper review, just a word on his Dracula stories; think Twilight with Victoriana...
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Post by DemonSpawn on Apr 25, 2012 14:42:53 GMT
These look fantastic, and I shall have to investigate further.
Have to admit, I've never previously heard of Tremayne.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Apr 25, 2012 14:50:00 GMT
Tried to read The Ants but failed re boredom. However, ISTR that Angelus! (from his exclamation mark period) was pretty good - killings in a boys school and a lovely cover of a severed head in a jar (?)
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Post by erebus on Jun 17, 2012 15:27:29 GMT
Picked up The Curse of Loch Ness recently after much searching. Going to read his books again as I feel ive been a little unkind to him. And Angelus was a great read. On another note has anybody every actually seen that Sphere paperback of Trollnight anywhere ? Its elusive. Its brilliant artwork, and the storyline has me intrigued.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Nov 5, 2012 10:33:26 GMT
A recent bout of illness (nothing serious) saw me racing through a few tomes. As a complete sea change from Laymon's excesses, I polished off an ex-library (Hardback! Aieeee!) copy of Snowbeast! No excessive gore and no dodgy smut, but a rattling good tale of a Scots Yeti, a feverish monk, some rubbish climbers, a snowed-in Caledonian village, the Rob Roy Hotel - scene of much boozing and rabble-rousing by those who've had their dogs murdered, to raise a Universal Horror style group of villagers (with battery powered torches - and shotguns) to hunt down the beastie. Wildly mental volcanic hippie ending. Will try to throw up a cover later.
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Post by killercrab on Nov 5, 2012 10:54:30 GMT
Sounds top FM! I've not read any Tremayne in an age though I did run across a copy of THE HOUND OF FRANKENSTEIN that I must get to soon.
Glad you are on the mend.
KC
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