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Post by ropardoe on Nov 25, 2016 10:47:37 GMT
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Post by dem bones on Nov 25, 2016 12:37:57 GMT
Not me, but will look forward to meeting it in several hundred 'Classic horror & supernatural' anthologies over the rest of the century.
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Post by ropardoe on Nov 25, 2016 14:23:48 GMT
Not me, but will look forward to meeting it in several hundred 'Classic horror & supernatural' anthologies over the rest of the century. Yes, except that unlike everything published in his lifetime, which will be out of copyright in a few weeks, this story will be in copyright for the next seventy years so will cost editors MONEY!
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Post by dem bones on Nov 25, 2016 18:20:52 GMT
Peter Haining would have been all over The Haunted Ceiling. My guess is someone like Vintage will pay up and run it in a 'Ghost & Horror Stories of H. G. Wells' selection.
Ro, a lot off subject, but is Ken Cowley still with us?
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Post by ropardoe on Nov 26, 2016 10:09:07 GMT
Peter Haining would have been all over The Haunted Ceiling. My guess is someone like Vintage will pay up and run it in a 'Ghost & Horror Stories of H. G. Wells' selection. Ro, a lot off subject, but is Ken Cowley still with us? The Wells story manuscript was discovered at the University of Illinois, and it sets me wondering, not for the first time, just how much else there is to be discovered in American universities. Porcheddu and Murphy recently found the manuscript of "The Ash-Tree" (thought lost) at the University of Indiana, and they also say they've found an apparently early version of "Martin's Close". And then there was the correspondence between August Derleth and M.R. James at the University of Wisconsin, some of which has now been brought to light (see my "M.R. James and the 'native of Wisconsin'" in G&S Newsletter 17 in 2010), but I suspect there may be more. No, Kev, sadly Ken Cowley is not still with us. He died a few years ago. A lovely bloke - curmudgeonly at times, but cuddly with it.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 26, 2016 20:55:18 GMT
No, Kev, sadly Ken Cowley is not still with us. He died a few years ago. A lovely bloke - curmudgeonly at times, but cuddly with it. I'm so sorry to hear that, much as I kind of expected it. He was a lovely bloke, Ken, bought some wonderful paperbacks (and a much treasured shudder pulp poster) from him, shared a lively correspondence when letter writing still existed. Looking back through his price catalogues is an "if I knew then what I know now" experience.
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