gloomy sundae
Crab On The Rampage
dem in disguise; looking for something to suck
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Post by gloomy sundae on Apr 27, 2018 15:45:50 GMT
And it's time for a confession - a bunch of tales I wrote in early 1974 were originally intended as fillers for horror comics Marvel were proposing to publish. Gerald Conway (ed.) Haunt Of Horror #1 (Marvel, June 1973) Gray Morrow Fritz Leiber - Conjure Wife (Part 1) John K. Diomede - The First Step Robert E. Howard - Usurp The Night Harlan Ellison - Neon A.A. Attanasio - Loup Garou R.A. Lafferty - Ghost in the Corn Crib David R. Bunch - Seeing Stingy Ed Beverly Goldberg - A Nice Home Ramsey Campbell - Night Beat
Articles: Editorial: The Unspoken Invocation Dennis O'Neil - Lurker In The Family Room Author's Page Baird Searles - Boo Kreviews "In The Wind": Coming next issue.Gerald Conway (ed.) Haunt Of Horror #2 (Marvel, Aug. 1973) Kelly Freas Fritz Leiber - Conjure Wife (Part 2) Dennis O'Neil - Devil Night Arthur Byron Cover - Pelican's Claws Anne McCaffrey - Finders Keepers Ron Goulart - Kilbride Howard Waldrop - Mono No Aware John K. Diomede - The Jewel in the Ash
Articles: Editorial: Conditional Terror Lin Carter - Digging Up Atlantis "In The Wind ...." Author's Page
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gloomy sundae
Crab On The Rampage
dem in disguise; looking for something to suck
Posts: 25
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Post by gloomy sundae on Apr 27, 2018 15:47:42 GMT
Frank Brunner Ron Goulart - Kilbride: Otterson has spent eleven years pitching movie and TV ideas in Hollywood with little to show for it. To keep the wolf from the door he's been scripting a soap for Channel 14, Romance In A Gothic Castle, while awaiting the big break he just knows is just around the corner. That he's fallen truly, madly, creepily in lust with a 23 year old blonde actress who doesn't want to know him has added extra urgency to his quest for fame. Meribelle Heather, first appeared on the show as third werewolf victim but, thanks to Otterson's machinations, has since become a series regular. One day his producer gives him a set of musty old occult books to use as props. Otterson, desperate enough to give anything a whirl, perfors a ritual, summons a squat, scaly green Demon, Kilbride, who, it turns out, is hot stuff in the original idea's department. They collaborate on a series of hit scripts! Two weeks into the partnership, Otterson has made it. A mansion in the Hollywood Hills, the front cover of Time magazine, banging Meribelle on a regular basis, an alliance with Fellini .... The demon grows resentful at its lack of recognition. Who is the real brains behind the operation? Why should he mooch in the shadows while Otterson basks in glory? Why won't Meribelle let him give her a seeing to? It's not like he hasn't sent her flowers. Time to remind that creep Otterson who's boss. a. a. Attanasio - Loup Garou: Haiti. Syreeta, powerful Mambo Priestess, is dead. Houngan Baah, the most feared voodoo magician on the island, arrives at the hut of her sons, Nappy Head and Robo, and offers to pay handsomely for her bones. Syreeta having left instructions that they neither destroy nor give away her skeleton, they refuse. The Hougan threatens the entire village with death and misery unless they relent. The reign of terror begins with the abduction and mutilation murders of several children by a werewolf ... David R. Bunch - Seeing Stingy Ed: It's pretty obvious the tight-fisted proprietor of the feed store has mightily aggrieved his assistant, but why is the kid braiding balls of twine into a rope? Beverly Goldberg - A Nice Home: Debbie, two-and-a-half-years-old daughter of a drunken dad and negligent mum decides it's time to fire her parents ... - dem
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Post by helrunar on Apr 27, 2018 20:06:40 GMT
I had that first issue of the 1970s Haunt of Horror (wasn't there an earlier book in the Fifties with this title?). I think it got sold at a yard sale or thrown out when my folks sold up in Maryland. I remembered that "John K. Diomede" (an alias for George Alec Effinger) series "The First Step," but only vaguely. It was billed as a new classic horror/occult investigator series along the lines of Jules de Grandin or John Silence. The main character was named Dr. Warm, but apparently only got to tepid (sorry, that one was really bad). Only two stories were written in the series. I don't know if this is because the new mag folded abruptly. I remember I never saw issue #2: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?28031Great scans! cheers, H.
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Post by jamesdoig on Apr 27, 2018 21:30:55 GMT
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Post by helrunar on Apr 27, 2018 23:21:54 GMT
That book looks fab, James. Mr Shen of Shensi--that's a real blast from the past.
cheers, H
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Post by dem bones on Feb 19, 2020 9:04:39 GMT
Finally landed a copy of this in Any Amount of Books at weekend .... Fritz Leiber - Conjure Wife (Penguin, 1969: originally Twayne, 1953) Blurb: Take a look at your wife. Or, if you're not married, take a look at someone else's wife. Now imagine her as a witch. Imagine that all women are witches ... and everything that we men think we do from our own free will is just exactly have made us do with their spells. You think that‘s ridiculous? That's what Norman Saylor thought. So, when he found his wife practising witchcraft, he forced her to stop. Then all hell broke loose. And we mean hell.
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Post by helrunar on Feb 19, 2020 15:03:08 GMT
That's quite a find, Kev! Gorgeous cover. I own a much less stylish paperback of that novel which I found in one of our local shops years ago but apart from an initial fiddle through the first few pages, have never gotten on with reading it properly.
Marvelous film version from 1962, Night of the Eagle. Last year thanks to Daily Motion I finally saw the 1940s film adaptation, Weird Woman, starring a rather listless Lon Chaney Jr... Elizabeth Russell was the most memorable as a neurotic victim of the most malignant of the "Witches"--in this version, there seemed to be more of a focus on a psychological explanation for the events. Had some effective moments, though.
cheers, Steve
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Post by sadako on Oct 31, 2023 0:30:49 GMT
Honestly, this digest was the first thing I ever bought in the US, on our first family holiday to the US, on the first night we arrived in Manhattan after the flight from London, England. I was 11 and mad about comics and that cover grabbed my attention. I don’t think I realised it wasn’t a comic, but I treasured it and still have it. Bought it off a newstand in the foyer of the Hotel Commodore (as was) next door to Grand Central! Only recently bought issue 2, nearly fifty years later!
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