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Post by cromagnonman on Feb 15, 2019 11:36:16 GMT
With horror stories continuing to circulate around a proposed Bergerac reboot, was delighted to make this opportune and welcome find in the Oxfam shop in Wimbledon yesterday. Cost me all of 49p. A salutary reminder that if Trevor Eve hadn't declined to continue as the Private Ear of Radio West there would never have been a Bergerac at all.
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albie
Devils Coach Horse
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Post by albie on Feb 15, 2019 13:15:03 GMT
Shoestring? This is pure horror! Brrrrr.
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Post by cromagnonman on Feb 15, 2019 14:18:24 GMT
Shoestring? This is pure horror! Brrrrr. No no no no no. Shoestring is classic old school entertainment. Now The Krankies Christmas annual of 1983, that is horror. The stuff of which waking nightmares are made. Er., or so they tell me.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Feb 15, 2019 14:49:38 GMT
Shoestring? This is pure horror! Brrrrr. No no no no no. Shoestring is classic old school entertainment. Now The Krankies Christmas annual of 1983, that is horror. The stuff of which waking nightmares are made. Er., or so they tell me. What about the Jimmy Savile Annuals?
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Post by jamesdoig on Feb 17, 2019 19:51:23 GMT
Another bookfair purchase, this one for $4 a 1980s reprint by Webb & Bower. I've never tried out these Wheatley mysteries, but it might be diverting:
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Feb 17, 2019 20:00:13 GMT
Oh good, the poison has been extracted.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Feb 17, 2019 20:03:31 GMT
Yet the tablet remains intact. I have to say sometimes science seems just like magic to me.
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Post by jamesdoig on Feb 18, 2019 6:08:44 GMT
Yet the tablet remains intact. I have to say sometimes science seems just like magic to me. Yes, I should try it and see what happens.
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Post by Shrink Proof on Feb 18, 2019 9:31:21 GMT
Yet the tablet remains intact. I have to say sometimes science seems just like magic to me. Yes folks, Science! From the people who brought you Religion....
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Post by kooshmeister on Feb 18, 2019 14:25:19 GMT
Ordered a copy of Victor Norwood's Night of the Black Horror, kindly recommend to me by the fine folks here at the Vault. I love how the question on the cover lacks a question mark.
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Post by David A. Riley on Feb 18, 2019 15:56:57 GMT
Ordered a copy of Victor Norwood's Night of the Black Horror, kindly recommend to me by the fine folks here at the Vault. I love how the question on the cover lacks a question mark. I had and read this book when I was at school. I enjoyed it then.
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Post by kooshmeister on Feb 22, 2019 18:15:36 GMT
Ordered a copy of Victor Norwood's Night of the Black Horror, kindly recommend to me by the fine folks here at the Vault. I love how the question on the cover lacks a question mark. Or not. Both of the Amazon sellers I attempted to acquire the book from have failed me. The first cancelled without explanation, the second informed me the book isn't in stock and they simply forgot to update. This leaves me with one existing option on Amazon, and if they're out of stock, too, then I'll have to try somewhere else. EBay has continually failed me; Night of the Black Horror never turns up on there. This is extraordinarily frustrating. Assuming Amazon Seller #3 doesn't come through, anyone know where I can nab this thing for a decent price?
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Post by dem bones on Feb 24, 2019 20:36:06 GMT
A creepy crawl of Sclater Street this morning proved more rewarding than is usually the case. Particularly pleased with Return of the Werewolf as am currently stalled on four novels - a slick 110 pager from the crab lord's golden era should get me back in the swing. Return of the Werewolf, uncredited. Wolfcurse, Steve Crisp Guy N. Smith - Return of the Werewolf (Nel, April 1977) Blurb: The werewolf that had scourged the Black Hill was long since dead. The villagers who lived nearby no longer listened on nights of the full moon for its chilling howl, no longer had need to bar and lock their doors against the supernatural strength of the half-man, half-beast.
Until the grave of the werewolf was found ripped open, despoiled, and the body gone! Gordon Hall, who had hunted the creature before, returned from London, but too late. Already mutilated sheep had been found, and a man attacked. Had the werewolf returned - or was some other ravening menace loose on the hills?Guy N. Smith - Wolfcurse (Nel, April 1977) Blurb: BLOOD. The sight of it, darkly streaked and spattered on his face. The feel of it, stickily encrusted round his mouth. The smell, cloying, stifling. The taste, warm and sweet in the throat.
BLOOD. But whose? Dear God, what had he done? He dropped to his knees and howled his despair and anguish.Edith Wharton - The Ghost-Feeler: Stories of Terror and the Supernatural (Peter Owen, 2002; originally 1996) Peter Haining - Introduction
The Duchess at Prayer The Fullness of Life A Journey The Lady's Maid's Bell Afterward The Triumph of Night Bewitched A Bottle of Perrier The Looking Glass Blurb: Far removed from the comfort and urbane elegance associated with Edith Wharton's famous novels, the stories in this collection deal with vampirism, isolation and hallucination.
While convalescing from typhoid fever, the nine-year-old Edith Wharton was given a book of ghost tales to read. Not only setting back her recovery, this reading opened up her fevered imagination to 'a world haunted by formless horrors.' So chronic was this paranoia that she was unable to sleep in a room with any book containing a ghost story, even being moved to burn such volumes.
She outgrew these fears in her early twenties but retained a heightened, or what she called 'Celtic', sense of the supernatural, considering herself not 'a ghost-seer' - the name applied to those people who have claimed to have witnessed apparitions - but rather a 'ghost-feeler,' someone who senses what cannot be seen.A Finnis (ed.) - 13 More Tales of Horror (Scholastic, 1994) Susan Price - The Cat-Dogs Diane Hoh - The Piano Malcolm Rose - The Devil's Footprints Stan Nicholls - Softies Garry Kilworth - The House That Jack Built Colin Greenland - The Station With No Name Philip Pulman - Something To Read Jill Bennett - Killing Time Graham Masterton - J.R.E. Ponsford David Belbin - The Buyers Chris Westwood - Closeness Margaret Bingley - The Ring John Gordon - Bone MealBlurb: The Nightmare Returns! A terrifying journey into horror - thirteen more tales guaranteed to fill you with fear. What are the mysterious creatures stalking the woods at night, and who will be their next prey? A chilling game of cat and mouse. Who is the mysterious party guest in the frighteningly real costume? Every breath he takes is death. Isn't it lucky that the beautiful ring is so cheap? It's all she wants for her birthday. Only this gift drives Kate out of her mind... Thirteen master storytellers invite you on a roller coaster ride through the imagination. How much terror can you take?
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Post by jamesdoig on Mar 18, 2019 9:26:00 GMT
Just received this from Swan River Press - very nicely produced book: Bending to Earth: Strange Stories by Irish Women, ed. Maria Giakaniki and Brian J. Showers ContentsIntroduction, Maria Giakaniki and Brian J. Showers The Dark Lady, Anna Maria Hall The Child's Dream, Lady Jane Wilde The Unquiet Dead, Lady Augusta Gregory The Woman With The Hood, L.T. Meade The Wee Grey Woman, Ethna Carbery The Blanket Fiend, Beatrice Grimshaw The First Wife, Katherine Tynan Transmigration, Dora Sigerson Shorter Not to be Taken at Bed-Time, Rosa Mulholland The Red Woollen Necktie, B.M. Croker The De Grabooke Monument, Charlotte Riddell A Vanished Hand, Clotilde Graves Biographical Notes
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Post by helrunar on Mar 18, 2019 12:44:06 GMT
That looks and sounds fascinating.
cheers, Steve
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