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Post by David A. Riley on May 4, 2018 11:17:14 GMT
I've always admired Derleth, especially as, back in the day, his anthologies (reprinted in the UK in hardcover, I think by Gollancz, then paperback, which is how I bought them at the time)were highlights for me. I always liked his stories too, apart from his Lovecraft pastiches.
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Post by Michael Connolly on May 4, 2018 12:10:08 GMT
I have seen reprinted a letter to the young Ramsey Campbell in which he describes a woodwind performance of this nature. When I read that letter in Letters to Arkham: The Letters of Ramsey Campbell and August Derleth, 1961-1971, I nearly dropped the book. Then, I do live like a monk (Rasputin).
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on May 4, 2018 13:51:42 GMT
As president of the Mildred Clingerman Society, I beg to differ. We just had our 50th International Congress this March in Bombay, gathering some 2,000+ eager enthusiasts for a week of panel discussions, book swapping, and general partying. Clingerman is the number one selling foreign author on the Indian subcontinent. Can you prove it is not so?
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on May 4, 2018 14:11:15 GMT
Then, I do live like a monk (Rasputin). I am getting "mixed signals" here.
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Post by helrunar on May 4, 2018 15:23:47 GMT
JoJo Lapin, I really enjoy the desert-dry humor of your posts. (And I just realized that your "avatar" is a photograph of Robert Aickman. Fab! He reminds me rather of composer John Ireland.)
And I'm sure Mildred Clingerman, wherever she is, must be delighted by the phantasmagoria of your wit.
In the meantime, I await the launching of a Mildred Clingerman thread in "Our favorite authors."
cheers, Helrunar
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Post by helrunar on May 4, 2018 16:02:25 GMT
Mildred Clingerman's work was saluted by Anthony Boucher. Who knew? And she was presented posthumously with an award named after Cordwainer Smith in 2014. Her work has been collected in a volume which bears the somewhat ominous title The Clingerman Files. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_ClingermanH.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on May 4, 2018 17:03:51 GMT
I just realized that your "avatar" is a photograph of Robert Aickman. No, that is me. While a fine writer, Aickman was by no means a handsome man. This is him:
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Post by elricc on May 4, 2018 17:26:44 GMT
An Innsmouth look, fleshy lips, fishy eyes
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Post by helrunar on May 4, 2018 18:43:51 GMT
How strange. The photo in your avatar came up a few days ago when I ran a search on Aickman. I think the point of the latter was to make sure I spelled his name properly. I had never even heard of him until a couple of years ago when I happened upon a youtube video that was Mark Valentine giving a tour of his library. So many treasures. Aickman and Sarban were amongst the writers of whom he spoke glowingly. Up until that moment, I'd never heard of either.
cheers, H.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on May 4, 2018 21:21:53 GMT
Embrace the mystery! I do.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on May 5, 2018 19:52:59 GMT
Poetry. No offence, but poetry and me only very seldom get on so can't comment. You and me both. I have two friends who are poets, but I'm afraid I still don't get it. And the idea of reading, say, 36 sonnets about fungi from Yuggoth fills me with the wrong kind of dread. Tomb of Dracula is just a reprint. Marvel already reprinted the whole series in their Essential b/w omnibus series some years ago. Currently they do a hardvover reprint in the original colour. Except the Magazine stuff of course, which was b/w to begin with. I own Volumes 1-3 of that Essential set. The silver lining of the black and white printing is that the pencils and inking come through gloriously. Palmer's work, in particular, is outstanding.
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Post by dem bones on May 7, 2018 6:43:40 GMT
You and me both. I have two friends who are poets, but I'm afraid I still don't get it. And the idea of reading, say, 36 sonnets about fungi from Yuggoth fills me with the wrong kind of dread. And yet ... belt the same words out over a guitar/bass/drum riff and like as not I'd be raving "brilliant lyrics!" Not sure this would work in the case of Fungi from Yuggoth, mind. Not sure I'd want to find out. Stephen Jones (ed.) - Dark Horizons #10 (British Fantasy Society, Autumn/ Winter, 1974) David Lloyd Stephen Jones -Editorial Fiction Mike Chinn - The Second Dragon Glen E. Symonds - Children Singing John Hurley - A Shade Upon The Radiance Verse Stephen Walker - Of The Rings Of Jar Coon Gordon Larkin - Come To Clay Peter Wilcockson - A Prisoner Of The Snow Articles David A. Sutton - The Cosmic In Films The Writer In Fandom: Eddy C. Bertin Mike Ashley - The Unsuccessful Successor: A Look At Fantasy Fiction A Checklist of Fantasy Fiction
Letters of Comment. Tony Francis, Alan Hunter, David A. Sutton. Artists this issue. David Lloyd, Jim Pitts, Stephen Jones, Alan Hunter."I'm sure some of you never expected to see my byline on this editorial, especially after the recent track record by editors of DH" quips Mr. Jones, a veteran of two issues at the helm. Glen E. Symonds - Children Singing: A haunted roundabout in the grounds of the derelict Ash wood sanatorium. The ghosts of children who died in the tuberculosis epidemic welcome an old man into their spectral ranks. Stephen Jones writes of this one, "a beautifully atmospheric ghost story which reminded me of the work of M. R. James." Can't say it did me, but a decent tale all the same. Sad. Mike Chinn - The Second Dragon: Part one of two. I don't have access to issue #11, so will skip for time being. John Hurley - A Shade Upon The Radiance: Mirro, newly arrived on the planet, fatally misinterprets a world-destroying statue's intentions. We most of us would have, to be fair. Very .... wordy. Mike Ashley - The Unsuccessful Successor: A Look At Fantasy Fiction; Brief history of Lester del Rey's short-lived (four issues) 'fifties pulp with checklist. Would love to see this one reprinted in Paperback Fanatic with sample interior illo's, the cover art reproduced in full glorious colour. Wider in scope than the same author's too brief 'Cosmic In Music.' References particular scenes from The Exorcist, The Shuttered Room, Night Of The Demon, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Haunted Palace, Zardoz, Fanastic Voyage, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Don't Look Now, etc. Doubles as unintentional companion piece to Ramsey Cambell's article on Bergman and modern horror cinema in previous issue. The Writer In Fandom: Eddy C. Bertin: Already commented upon elsewhere. See The Whispering Horror. Alan Hunter Letters less curmudgeonly than we've become accustomed, although Tony Francis regards #8 a "dismal magazine." David A. Sutton reminds us that #9 was Stephen Jones' first attempt at a fanzine, so issue hugely historically significant in the great scheme of things. He and Alan Hunter struggled to make sense of J. A. Le Saux's short-short Splat!, though Mr. Francis found it "well written, and the macabre twist at the end was pure comedy."
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Post by dem bones on May 9, 2018 6:40:14 GMT
"Colour printing was still hugely expensive, but I had found a small printer in London's West End who could turn out colour photocopies at a price that made the process economical. I therefore decided that my final Dark Horizons would be a trial-run for this new colour cover process, and it would also serve as a 'pilot' for the ambitious fantasy periodical that David [A. Sutton] and I were planning." - Stephen Jones, Jim Pitts and 'Fantasy Tales', The Fantastical Art Of Jim Pitts, Parallel Universe, 2017. Stephen Jones (ed.) - Dark Horizons #15 (BFS, 1976) Jim Pitts Stephen Jones - Editorial
Fiction: Adrian Cole - City of Gargoyles William Thomas Webb - Daggerbroth Brian Sibley - Bear Brian Mooney - The Witch of Nuide David A. Sutton - The Collector Andrew Darlington - A Multitude of Realities
Verse: Christine V. Power - Night-Wings Keith Richmond - Parting Gordon Larkin - Ffathnarion John Hurley - The Salph or the Go-Between Simon Ounsley - The Truth About Waterfalls Marion Pitman - The People of the Hills
Letters of Comment Brian Lumley, David A. Sutton, Loay Hall,Wayne Warfield. Artwork this issue: Jim Pitts, Stephen E. Fabian, John Grandfield, Brian Sibley, Chris Tomms, Russell Nicholson, Alan Hunter, Stephen Jones, David Lloyd, David L. Fletcher. With this, his seventh issue, Stephen Jones steps down after a Methuselah esque two years in the editor chair, leaving DH in better shape than he'd found it. Would we ever see his like again? Mr. Jones bows out on a fiction special, a compilation of what he regards the best work submitted to the magazine during his tenure. The emphasis is on horror & supernatural. Brian Sibley - Bear: Kim's Christmas present from Uncle Victor, official family black sheep, is a big fat, fluffy teddy bear. A ghoulish short-short definitely worthy of revival. Come to think of it, why not a Best Of Dark Horizons fantasy-horror anthology? David A. Sutton - The Collector: Guyler swipes a bronze vase from the grave of George Priddy, Magician, "Finally Joining His Audience In Heavenly Retirement," for his private death museum (We're given the guided tour: "Along the walls he had framed prints of the paintings of Bosch, Breughel, Pitts, Jones and other masters of the horrific.") The macabre engravings of a sorcerer and a hideous gnome add much to its appeal, but oh, that revolting stench! Guyler sets to work with the Brasso. Brian Mooney - The Witch of Nuide: A farmer falls foul of the local crone. As recently encountered on Werewolf Scrapbook thread. Jim Pitts William Thomas Webb - Daggerbroth: Narrator paces the platform of an oppressively lonesome railway station in the back of beyond. The silent, cadaverous youth studying a note book and a guard in festering uniform tossing papers to the breeze don't make for ideal company. It is all very disconcerting. What if there is no train and he's abandoned here forever? Adrian Cole - City Of Gargoyles: A one-man spacecraft crash-lands in the Komos desert. The dwarf-like Grubbers - a miserable race who have no fondness for aliens - insist there is no way off the plateau of Yllarnodym, Dnarev will just have to make a life there. He's heard of this place before - a lost city, whose temple is said to be awash with riches. With nothing better to do until rescue arrives, Dnarev explores the sacred, gargoyle-festooned temple to find corridors heaped with skulls or decorated with the skeletons of the impaled. A wall mural depicts the rise and fall of the city, culminating in an obscene depictions of degenerate Grubbers cavorting with demons in orgies of torture and destruction. Clawed figures approach from the shadows. Andrew Darlington - A Multitude Of Realities: Two Government Officials arrive at the Tavern to investigate the old man's "lunatic" and, possibly, heretical claims of alternate worlds and man's limited concept of reality.
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Post by dem bones on May 10, 2018 6:58:47 GMT
John Heron, ed - Dark Horizons #18, British Fantasy Society, July 1978) Dave Carson J. G. Heron - Editorial
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David A. Sutton - Ben's Beeches Ken Dickson - His Winter Hobby Ken Cowley - Dracula Reflects Mark Clay - Shulungu Ray Panhandler - The Lurking Shadow On The Threshold Of The Shunned House's Doorstep (The Big Heap): With biographical notes by Adrian Cole.
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Peter Valentine Timlett - The Magic Of The Imagination Mike Barrett - Sturgeon In Perspective: "The Passion, The Magic And The Outrageous."
Artists this issue. Dave Carson, Jim Pitts, Alan Hunter.Mike Barrett's appreciation of Theodore Sturgeon as genre-blending, pigeonhole-defying master of weird fiction and Peter Valentine Timlett's celebration of fantasy as "the most exciting and magical of all forms of fiction" notwithstanding, it's the fiction steals #18. John Heron's editorial begins "Welcome to my first edition of Dark Horizons ..." David A. Sutton - Ben's Beeches: Dryads haunt the Spinney which partially explains the local thug's affinity with the trees, the woodland having acquired such a dreadful reputation than done dare venture within after dark. Our narrator, a keen amateur mycologist who has been on the receiving end of Ben's fists and boots on more than one occasion, inadvertently catches him in the act with a naked woman who materialises from the threes while the disembodied faces of her sisters whisper gleeful encouragement. The Dryads are possessive in every sense of the word and when Ben gets too cocky for his own good and brings his girlfriend to the beeches after a night in the pub, the spectral ones show their displeasure by raping him body and soul. Ken Cowley - Dracula Reflects: As resurrected on the 2017 Vault Advent Calendar. Ken Dickson - His Winter Hobby: A nature ramble in the Fens with Walter Janion, a downtrodden, misanthropic City office worker who lives for the bleak midwinter when he can escape to the countryside and commune with nature. It is early November. Walter takes full advantage of Arctic conditions to drive to Norfolk and wander the wilderness, alone save for ..... whatever has left those huge footprints in the snow! Walter follows the trail to a cave beneath a waterfall - the lair of an ogre and it's mate! The rude furniture suggests that, while the creature's table manners leave much to be desired, it is not without intelligence, so will doubtless realise that Walter is not like other humans but a true friend! Mark Clay - Shulungu: A Wyvern attacks a caravan train to rescue several supposedly 'mythical' creatures from human captivity. Plenty of blood, dismemberment and charred flesh but unfortunately author introduces a talking Un*c*rn just when i was getting into it. Good story, mind. Ray Panhandler - The Lurking Shadow On The Threshold Of The Shunned House's Doorstep (The Big Heap): See Don't Go To The Horror Convention.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 4, 2018 16:48:40 GMT
Phil Williams (ed.) - Dark Horizons #31 (BFS, 1990) Bob Covington Phil Williams - Editorial: A New Dawn
Fiction: Ramsey Campbell - The Worst Fog of the Year Guy N. Smith - The Ginger Bear D. F. Lewis - The Groundling Michael Reed - Dreams for Sale
Articles: Paddy McKillop - Okay, So Maybe He Was a Tad Weird Robert Parkinson - Joe R. Lansdale: Man from the South Stephen Gallagher - Roots of a Writer David Phillips - A Guy with a Tale to Tell
Artwork this issue: Bob Covington, Dave Carson, Dallas Goffin, Alan Hunter, Martin McKenna Dark Horizons returns with latest new editor after an absence of four years. The Worst Fog of the YearAnother film story, in which the watcher finds himself pulled into events on the screen. This one comes with two endings. I like the 'arse' ending best. Ramsey Campell - The Worst Fog Of The Year: "But you saw what he did to them. You saw how they were stuffed with earth." Gaunt, film critic on the local paper, is drawn into the screen to play starring role in horror feature, The Worst Fog Of The Year (1970). Have not read the alternative version but would like to as I feel the "arse ending" sells a properly creepy story short. NSOH, that's my trouble. Michael Reed - Dreams For Sale: The old market trader buys dreams and brings them to life. The narrator sells his bloodiest nightmare for fifty guineas. Alan Hunter The Ginger Bear Guy N. Smith - The Ginger Bear: Old Michelle Wildig won't stand for trespassing no matter that the bridle path running past her cottage is a public right of way. When the local police refuse to act on her complaint, she reverts to human sacrifice. David Phillips - A Guy with a Tale to Tell: Unashamedly fannish three page feature on the prolific GNS, includes following intriguing snippet. Paddy McKillop - Okay, So Maybe He Was a Tad Weird: Non-fiction. The life and crimes of Ed Gein (!). This issue does not lack for variety, that's for sure.
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