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Post by dem bones on Mar 11, 2018 10:26:11 GMT
James, you beat me to it with the spectacular Mystic ad. Scanned it last night (from WOH #2) along with this disappointingly restrained plug for Psychic Eye ( New Witchcraft #4). Other than WOH, Witchcraft/ New Witchcraft, I wonder if any of these other Dallruth publications actually got off the ground? Have a copy of the fourth, sadly, final issue, by which time it had added 'New' to the title. That would explain this ad, which had me a bit confused: This ad ( New Witchcraft #4 again), pretty much confirms that they were one and the same publication. I don't think so. If this is the story I think, it is quite well chosen, though.
The Tchen-Lam's Vengeance first appeared in Other Worlds for December 1951 with the strap-line, "There in the Gobi the miracle of transference of bodies took place; but the real horror came when it happened in an American beauty parlour." No question where New Witchcraft found it as they even helped themselves to the same strapline!
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Post by andydecker on Mar 11, 2018 14:06:04 GMT
These are some well done photos. The one in the second row middle could be a paperback cover.
Yes, that is the one. I read this a short time ago when checking something Bloch. It is one of his tongue-in-cheek stories, which seems split together. The first half could have been a pre-war Weird Tales Story never sold, the second half does a 180 which is Kind of bizarre.
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Post by sadako on Mar 1, 2023 17:50:53 GMT
I miraculously picked up a complete run of all nine World of Horror magazines at the time. But am now stumped as to when they were published. Issue 2 has a full-page advert for the London release of Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (IMDB has that as October 1974 for the UK),but I seem to remember that there was a prolonged break between issues 1 and 2. Issue one mostly talks about the movies of 1972 and cannibalises many two-page spreads from Target magazines (that ran through 1972). Anyone know accurate publishing dates for all the World of Horrors?
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Post by andydecker on Mar 1, 2023 18:23:04 GMT
To play detective :-) I browsed the issues at Archive. The Jack the Ripper production written up in issue 3 has been on the stage from 1974 to 1975. The pictures in issue 2 are mostly from 1971/1972 movies like Lady Frankenstein. As there are no dates in the small print, you idea of a publishing gap seems to be vaild.
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Post by jamesdoig on Mar 1, 2023 19:58:50 GMT
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Post by andydecker on Mar 1, 2023 20:47:11 GMT
I never noticed how many stories by well known writers were among the cluttered layout.
David, can you remember how your work came to be published in the magazine?
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Post by dem bones on Mar 3, 2023 18:18:29 GMT
#1 Not seen. The "Frightening fiction: Three Tales To Make Your Blood Curdle" include [Anonymous] - Creature From The Tomb and John Mills - The Thing in the Greenhouse, have no idea of the third title. If anyone has details would be very grateful were you to provide them. Cover claim to the contrary, turns out there were just the two "tales to make your blood curdle." All articles, stories and artwork unattributed. Anon [ed.] - World of Horror #1 (Gresham Publishing Group, 1972 [?]) Editorial
Scream Scene The Making of a Monster Creature from the Tomb The Price of Horror Christopher Lee Horror Gallery The Thing in the Greenhouse The Monsters are Coming Horror Japanese Style Taking the Wraps off the Mummies Lon Chaney-Man of a Thousand Disguises A Plague of Zombies Petrifying Pin-ups Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
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Post by helrunar on Mar 3, 2023 18:21:22 GMT
What a beautiful painting for the cover of New Occult (if that's what that is). She's reminding me of the bright green crocus-sprouts I saw whilst on my way to the bus stop this morning.
Excellent scans!
cheers, hel.
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Post by andydecker on Mar 3, 2023 18:34:32 GMT
Still love the NEL ad.
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Post by dem bones on Mar 3, 2023 19:08:21 GMT
What a beautiful painting for the cover of New Occult (if that's what that is). It's actually the illustration for The Thing in the Greenhouse, though it would suit both. I'm sure Mr. Haining must have had some hand in World of Horror? The fantastic NEL poster is a giveaway.
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Post by helrunar on Mar 3, 2023 19:19:41 GMT
Was Peter Haining an editor for NEL? I don't know of any connection. The advert is a lot of fun. I really love all the Sixties and Seventies stuff.
H.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Mar 3, 2023 20:51:13 GMT
jamesdoig link has August 1974 as the date for issue one. Can you work it out from the NEL books? Were any published after 1972? A quick look has 1973 for The Magic Eye.
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Post by dem bones on Mar 3, 2023 22:06:42 GMT
jamesdoig link has August 1974 as the date for issue one. Can you work it out from the NEL books? Were any published after 1972? A quick look has 1973 for The Magic Eye. Mostly 1971-1972. Dracula Returns (in the circle) is 1973, possibly imminent? Think that particular edition of The Monk is also from same year. The ad would suggest it's pre-1974, at any rate. Will have a proper look tomorrow. That really is a marvellous selection.
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Post by dem bones on Mar 4, 2023 10:42:53 GMT
Top Row; L-R Baldwin Hills - Simon, King of the Witches (1971) Laird Koenig & Peter L. Dixon ā The Children Are Watching (1972) Sybil Leek - Cast Your Own Spell (1972) 'Alfred Hitchcock' - This One Will Kill You (1972) Peter Haining [ed] - Beyond the Curtain of the Dark (1972) Rhiannon Hughes (ed) ā Legends Of The Mist (1972) Matthew Lewis - The Monk (1973) CircledRobert Lory - Dracula Returns 2nd Row; Raymond Giles - Night of the Vampire (1970) Richard Harrington ā Hellfire Today (1972) Francis King - Sexuality, Magic & Perversion (1973) Valentine Penrose - The Bloody Countess (1972) Brian Ball ā Devilās Peak (1972) Raymond Giles - Night of the Griffin (1971) Daniel P. Mannix - The Hell-fire Club (1972) 3rd Row; Mary Shelley - Frankenstein *Kathryn Paulsen - The Complete Book of Magic & Witchcraft (1970) Baron Boris Ramon - The Magic Eye (1973) June Johns - Black Magic Today (1971) Francis King - Ritual Magic (1972) Eden Grey - The Tarot Revealed *__________ * Not sure about this pair, as I couldn't locate NEL editions of either (which is not to say they don't exist!); they look like straight reissues of Signet's Frankenstein (1965) and The Tarot Revealed (1969). Maybe NEL acted as UK distributor? Corrections, aditional info welcome, etc.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Mar 4, 2023 13:50:42 GMT
The Night of the Griffin has a good cover featuring a woman running away from a Griffin, which, as jamesdoig points out in the following thread, makes a change from the usual woman getting scared and running away from a light in the window of an old house. This unfortunate 1970s "dolly bird" has to face not only the terrifying light in the window, but a Griffin in all its glory as well! She must be strong willed, I'd obviously have fainted on the spot. Perhaps if she had then the Griffin could then have carried her a bit like here: Night of the Griffin thread: vaultofevil.proboards.com/thread/985/raymond-giles-night-griffin
The author of The Night of the Griffin, Raymond Giles, also wrote Plantation pulps. vaultofevil.proboards.com/thread/2942/dark-master-raymond-giles
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