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Post by jamesdoig on Feb 9, 2018 21:06:11 GMT
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Post by helrunar on Feb 9, 2018 22:37:34 GMT
Those are incredible finds, especially the Arkham House HPL volume (if that's what that is). Love that gorgeous PARADE Witchcraft cover, and the "John Guidfollow"cover is ultra cool.
Really wish I could come visit your collection! It's so generous of you to take the time to post these gorgeous scans.
H.
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Post by jamesdoig on Feb 10, 2018 20:44:38 GMT
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Post by andydecker on Feb 10, 2018 21:25:37 GMT
Tcouldn't resist this, though it has an awful cover:
This look like an actual painting.
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Post by helrunar on Feb 11, 2018 0:30:40 GMT
Thanks for these two! That Dion paperback really evokes what I think of as the Man, Myth and Magic. Year?
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Post by jamesdoig on Feb 11, 2018 8:08:20 GMT
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Post by jamesdoig on Feb 11, 2018 8:09:52 GMT
[/a][/quote]This look like an actual painting. [/quote] Doesn't say who it is, though. I've a battered copy of the same book somewhere, so this was an upgrade.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Feb 13, 2018 2:06:21 GMT
And picked up these two Spheres this morning - a buck each:
I love the Glen Carrig cover (good story, too). I don't have either of those, but I do own Sphere's edition of The Night Land. Now, there's a novel that would get my vote for "most brilliant novel that's also virtually unreadable."
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Post by mcannon on Feb 13, 2018 2:42:16 GMT
[/a][/quote]I love the Glen Carrig cover (good story, too). I don't have either of those, but I do own Sphere's edition of The Night Land. Now, there's a novel that would get my vote for "most brilliant novel that's also virtually unreadable."[/quote]
I finally managed to read "The Night Land" (in that same Sphere edition) a few weeks ago, almost 40 years after my first, failed attempt - I think I made it about 50 pages in the first time. Either I'm now made of sterner stuff or I was in a particularly masochistic mood.
I'd second your vote; a magnificent concept (is it the first full "dying Earth" novel?), but appallingly executed. WHH may have wanted to convey a feel for the strangeness of the world that he created, but did he have to do so by creating such a garbled, stilted style of narration?
I must admit that I cheated a little; as I got used to the style I found I was able to lightly skim parts of the novel, specifically those increasingly common sections in which the narrator pontificates on the nature of Love - or whatever it was he was on about.
Still, at least I can now say that I've read it, but in all honesty, "Ulysses" was a much easier grind. At least it hasn't diminished my appreciation for Hodgson's other fiction, and I'd like to think that if he lived longer (and it's the centenary of his death around the end of March) he might have revisited the "Night Land" world. I'm tempted to try the rewrite of "The Night Land" that was published a few years ago - has anyone read it?
Mark
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Feb 13, 2018 12:49:51 GMT
I finally managed to read "The Night Land" (in that same Sphere edition) a few weeks ago, almost 40 years after my first, failed attempt - I think I made it about 50 pages in the first time. Either I'm now made of sterner stuff or I was in a particularly masochistic mood. I'd second your vote; a magnificent concept (is it the first full "dying Earth" novel?), but appallingly executed. WHH may have wanted to convey a feel for the strangeness of the world that he created, but did he have to do so by creating such a garbled, stilted style of narration? I must admit that I cheated a little; as I got used to the style I found I was able to lightly skim parts of the novel, specifically those increasingly common sections in which the narrator pontificates on the nature of Love - or whatever it was he was on about. Still, at least I can now say that I've read it, but in all honesty, "Ulysses" was a much easier grind. At least it hasn't diminished my appreciation for Hodgson's other fiction, and I'd like to think that if he lived longer (and it's the centenary of his death around the end of March) he might have revisited the "Night Land" world. I'm tempted to try the rewrite of "The Night Land" that was published a few years ago - has anyone read it? Mark I read The Night Land a year or so ago and had much the same experience--I quickly resorted to skimming the dull, repetitive parts. I think it's the only way to make it through the book. But it is worth reading, both for the original-for-its-time "dying earth" concept and the portrait of the enigmatic beings menacing the remnants of humanity. WHH gives them such evocative names: The House of Silence, the Thing That Nods, and so on. I'm generally opposed to rewriting an author's work, but The Night Land cries out for it. I haven't read the rewrite, though folks seem to like it. I'd be interested to see an abridgment that cuts WHH's text down to half or even a third of its original length (I know that The Dream of X is the author's own abridgment, but I don't imagine it fixes the issues in the original).
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Post by jamesdoig on Feb 14, 2018 6:51:54 GMT
I read The Night Land a year or so ago and had much the same experience--I quickly resorted to skimming the dull, repetitive parts. I think it's the only way to make it through the book. But it is worth reading, both for the original-for-its-time "dying earth" concept and the portrait of the enigmatic beings menacing the remnants of humanity. WHH gives them such evocative names: The House of Silence, the Thing That Nods, and so on. I'm generally opposed to rewriting an author's work, but The Night Land cries out for it. I haven't read the rewrite, though folks seem to like it. I'd be interested to see an abridgment that cuts WHH's text down to half or even a third of its original length (I know that The Dream of X is the author's own abridgment, but I don't imagine it fixes the issues in the original). [/quote] Here's the Sphere edition, for the record:
And the novella length version:
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Post by jamesdoig on Feb 16, 2018 20:54:55 GMT
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Post by helrunar on Feb 19, 2018 23:48:19 GMT
Wow, an entire article on Valerie van der Elst! Great find!
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Post by helrunar on Feb 20, 2018 15:49:31 GMT
Is Biblio-curiosa available for purchase online? The shipping costs (to the US) are most likely prohibitive as I presume it is a UK or OZ pub, but I checked google and all I saw were some blog reviews of older issues.
cheers, Steve
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Post by jamesdoig on Feb 20, 2018 19:50:11 GMT
Is Biblio-curiosa available for purchase online? The shipping costs (to the US) are most likely prohibitive as I presume it is a UK or OZ pub, but I checked google and all I saw were some blog reviews of older issues. cheers, Steve Shipping costs shouldn't be too prohibitive - email Chris at cathob[at]zip.com.au (with [at] being the @)
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