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Post by ropardoe on Jun 5, 2017 17:27:27 GMT
Very exciting news just announced on the Sarob Press site (http://sarobpress.blogspot.co.uk/):
EARLY BIRD NEWS: Later this year, and if all goes to plan, Sarob Press will be publishing a twentieth anniversary SIGNED edition of Ron Weighell’s fabled The White Road. Although there are one or two things left to iron out, this newly typeset and re-imagined edition (with new design, art etc) is likely to contain 25* of the stories from the original ‘Ghost Story Press’ volume (with mostly minor revisions/corrections etc and presented in the author’s preferred order) PLUS a brand new novella (provisionally) entitled ‘Out of the Hidden Land’ featuring archaeologist James Calder-Stuart from ‘The Secret Place’. Details of what will be an extremely popular and a truly bumper book will be available late this summer. *A few of the minor, or otherwise available, stories from the original edition have been left out to be replaced by Ron’s new novella.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Jun 6, 2017 13:14:49 GMT
Very exciting news just announced on the Sarob Press site (http://sarobpress.blogspot.co.uk/): EARLY BIRD NEWS: Later this year, and if all goes to plan, Sarob Press will be publishing a twentieth anniversary SIGNED edition of Ron Weighell’s fabled The White Road. Although there are one or two things left to iron out, this newly typeset and re-imagined edition (with new design, art etc) is likely to contain 25* of the stories from the original ‘Ghost Story Press’ volume (with mostly minor revisions/corrections etc and presented in the author’s preferred order) PLUS a brand new novella (provisionally) entitled ‘Out of the Hidden Land’ featuring archaeologist James Calder-Stuart from ‘The Secret Place’. Details of what will be an extremely popular and a truly bumper book will be available late this summer. *A few of the minor, or otherwise available, stories from the original edition have been left out to be replaced by Ron’s new novella. Here are the original contents of The White Road. I've marked the best ones with an asterisk. Introduction...ix I. GODS AND STRANGERS: Summonings by Theurgy The Lycurgus Cup...1 Carven Of Onyx...11 China Rose...33 The Ghosting From Channel 19...51 The Secret Place...59 Some Day I'll Find You...79 Second Death...85 The Shadow Of The Wolf...101 The Tunnel Of Saksaksalim...115 Mater Dolorosa: A Fragment...129 Lock Fast The Lock...133 The Boat Called Millions Of Years...145 The Greater Arcana...151 In The Shaft...167 Laid Down And Guarded...173 * Which Way I Fly...185 The Stryx...193 Necropolis...205 Byerly Mount...209 II. DARK DEVOTIONS: Antiquarian Horrors The Circle Of The Hieroglyphs...231 An Empty House...243 Diminish Like The Word...257 "Bishop" Asgarth's Chantry...275 The Box Parterre...285 Againbite...299 * The Resurrection Brass...315 * The First Turning Of The Second Stair...327 The Ram Head Ring...343 The Case Of The Fiery Messengers...353 * III. SORCERY AND SANCTITY: Machenesque Fantasies Hôn, Thôn, Fedar, Fen ...377 The Fire Of The Wise...383 The Chestnut Husk...395 The White Road...399 Bibliography...453 Notes sarobpress.blogspot.co.uk/
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Post by ropardoe on Jun 6, 2017 14:16:08 GMT
Very exciting news just announced on the Sarob Press site (http://sarobpress.blogspot.co.uk/): EARLY BIRD NEWS: Later this year, and if all goes to plan, Sarob Press will be publishing a twentieth anniversary SIGNED edition of Ron Weighell’s fabled The White Road. Although there are one or two things left to iron out, this newly typeset and re-imagined edition (with new design, art etc) is likely to contain 25* of the stories from the original ‘Ghost Story Press’ volume (with mostly minor revisions/corrections etc and presented in the author’s preferred order) PLUS a brand new novella (provisionally) entitled ‘Out of the Hidden Land’ featuring archaeologist James Calder-Stuart from ‘The Secret Place’. Details of what will be an extremely popular and a truly bumper book will be available late this summer. *A few of the minor, or otherwise available, stories from the original edition have been left out to be replaced by Ron’s new novella. Here are the original contents of The White Road. I've marked the best ones with an asterisk. Introduction...ix I. GODS AND STRANGERS: Summonings by Theurgy The Lycurgus Cup...1 Carven Of Onyx...11 China Rose...33 The Ghosting From Channel 19...51 The Secret Place...59 Some Day I'll Find You...79 Second Death...85 The Shadow Of The Wolf...101 The Tunnel Of Saksaksalim...115 Mater Dolorosa: A Fragment...129 Lock Fast The Lock...133 The Boat Called Millions Of Years...145 The Greater Arcana...151 In The Shaft...167 Laid Down And Guarded...173 * Which Way I Fly...185 The Stryx...193 Necropolis...205 Byerly Mount...209 II. DARK DEVOTIONS: Antiquarian Horrors The Circle Of The Hieroglyphs...231 An Empty House...243 Diminish Like The Word...257 Bishop Asgarth's Chantry...275 The Box Parterre...285 Againbite...299 * The Resurrection Brass...315 * The First Turning Of The Second Stair...327 The Ram Head Ring...343 The Case Of The Fiery Messengers...353 * III. SORCERY AND SANCTITY: Machenesque Fantasies Hôn, Thôn, Fedar, Fen ...377 The Fire Of The Wise...383 The Chestnut Husk...395 The White Road...399 Bibliography...453 Notes sarobpress.blogspot.co.uk/It'll be interesting to see which stories are omitted. I agree with your asterisks, but I also have a particular fondness for "The Tunnel of Saksaksalim" - underground London is always a good setting for supernatural horrors.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Jun 8, 2017 12:46:43 GMT
My copy is of The White Road is autographed by Ron Weighell in green ink (hmmmm). It also has a severe production glitch - there’s a spot of tippex after the word “Look” on line 6 of p.3. To whom do I complain twenty years too late?
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Post by helrunar on Jun 9, 2017 14:32:44 GMT
I read "Carven of Onyx," which I think was originally published in the Tales of Witchcraft anthology edited by the late Mr. Dalby--I've been reading through that. The tale weaves strands of Jamesian antiquarian vestiges with some moments reminiscent of Machen and a sudden, shocking eruption of unspeakable Lovecraftian cosmic horror in a bizarre twist.
It was fabulous work and I must read more by him.
cheers, H.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Oct 4, 2017 13:25:30 GMT
The new edition of The White Road is on its way: sarobpress.blogspot.co.uk/Here's the cover of the new edition: I prefer the simplicity of the cover of the first edition:
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Post by helrunar on Oct 4, 2017 16:32:14 GMT
That's the ancient Egyptian god Khnum in the new painting. I wonder if that relates to one of the tales. I haven't read The White Road. The satyr on the original cover is so cute.
H.
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Oct 11, 2017 14:12:30 GMT
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Post by ropardoe on Oct 11, 2017 18:11:08 GMT
I think I'm right in calculating that the following are the stories missing from the new edition (to make way for the new novella, which is the subject of the dust jacket): "The Ghosting From Channel 19", "Some Day I'll Find You", "The Shadow Of The Wolf", "Mater Dolorosa: A Fragment", "In The Shaft", "Which Way I Fly", "The Case Of The Fiery Messengers", and "Hôn, Thôn, Fedar, Fen". I don't recall too much about most of those, but I'll miss "The Case of the Fiery Messengers", in which M.R. James encounters both Aleister Crowley and Sherlock Holmes!
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Oct 11, 2017 18:40:05 GMT
I think I'm right in calculating that the following are the stories missing from the new edition (to make way for the new novella, which is the subject of the dust jacket): "The Ghosting From Channel 19", "Some Day I'll Find You", "The Shadow Of The Wolf", "Mater Dolorosa: A Fragment", "In The Shaft", "Which Way I Fly", "The Case Of The Fiery Messengers", and "Hôn, Thôn, Fedar, Fen". I don't recall too much about most of those, but I'll miss "The Case of the Fiery Messengers", in which M.R. James encounters both Aleister Crowley and Sherlock Holmes! The Shadow of the Wolf is another Sherlock Holmes story. Both it and The Case of the Fiery Messengers appeared in The Irregular Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, which is the only Ron Weighell collection I currently own. (I also recently abandoned my own approach to a 'Holmes meets M.R. James' story as I realised that, though a different case altogether, it had too many parallels with Weighell's tale for my own comfort.)
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Post by andydecker on Oct 12, 2017 17:10:21 GMT
I tagged Mr. Weighell's Holmes book. As a lot of these things are more miss then hit, has anybody read this?
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Post by Michael Connolly on Oct 13, 2017 12:53:05 GMT
I tagged Mr. Weighell's Holmes book. As a lot of these things are more miss then hit, has anybody read this? The School and Holmes website has details of the contents of The Irregular Casebook of Sherlock Holmes here: www.schoolandholmes.com/weighell.htmlIt collects "The Case of the Fiery Messengers", "The Shadow of the Wolf", "The Curse of Nectanebo", "The Sect of the Salamander" and "The Black Heaven". The first two are the best.
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Post by andydecker on Oct 13, 2017 21:09:17 GMT
Thanks! This looks good. Now and then I like my dosis of Holmes.
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Post by andydecker on Oct 15, 2017 10:04:25 GMT
A belated thanks for the link. Overwhelming info-source. Wonderful!
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Post by andydecker on Dec 2, 2017 16:13:21 GMT
I just read the Chapel of Infernal Doom in New Horror 27 for the first time. This is a remarkable piece of work.
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