Peter Hammill - Killers Angels Refugees at last

[dem bones]

Christmas came early ...

It seemed a dead cert that rain would stop play at yesterday's Brick Lane market, but figured i'd stagger along on the off-chance, and blooming eff was that a shrewd move. Friend Richard the back of the van man braved the elements to deliver yet more paperback gold, frankenstein and phwoar: a demon nun offering from the great John Tigges of Vessel and Slime repute; Mary Danby's 6th Armada Ghost Book: W. Howard Baker's The Judas Diary in Zenith, Woolworths sticker still intact: a tasty looking Sphere from Frank 'Prince Jack: The True Story Of Jack the Ripper' Spiering: but, to be treasured above all, aeons after my copy was nicked by a git, a Christmas reunion with Peter Hammill's Killers, Angels, Refugees. A pauper friendly £2 the lot.

John Tigges - Garden Of The Incubus (Star, 1982)

Blurb:
When innocent young Roberta entered the convent at St. Paul's, she seemed content with her new life of chastity and devotion - until a mysterious voice called out to her.

"YOU BELONG TO THE MASTER AND NO ONE ELSE!"

From that moment of satanic confrontation she was powerless to resist the voice which controlled her every action, until she was ultimately filled with an unquenchable lust for a demon from the depths of hell.

Frank Spiering - Berserker (Sphere, 1983)

Les Edwards

Blurb:
From the frozen mists it comes ... an unspeakable evil that will chill the earth until the end of time ....

A brilliant New York doctor in love with. a professional beauty, Christian Bangsted had come a long way from his tribal past in the land of freezing snow. Or so he thought.

But no man can escape his fate. Darkly, murderously, out of the terrifying whispered; myths of an Eskimo childhood – the razor-sharp chasms and bone-cold mists – a demon, has stepped. To clash in ultimate battle with the last of the sacred shamans. With a man who cannot begin to fathom the terror that lurks beneath the ice. With Christian Bangsted.

NOW NO ONE IS SAFE FROM THE FOUL EMBRACE, THE BURNING EYES, THE SAVAGE SPELL OF THE BERSERKER.

Mary Danby (ed.) - 6th Armada Ghost Book (1984)

Mary Danby -Introduction

Ruth Ainsworth - Mirror Mirror on the Wall
Kay Leith - Mackrin Mains
Pat Klacar - The Ghost with a Long Memory
Terry Gisbourne - Cobwebs
Mary Clarke - Splendid Ancestor
Christine Pullein-Thompson - Isobel's Pony
Louise Francke - Alicia
James Turner - The Model
Sydney J Bounds - Room at the Inn
Mary Danby - Edward

Blurb:
Ghosts! Ghosts! Ghosts!
Some weird, some wicked, some friendly, some frightening ....
A haunted castle ...a phantom pony ... a house of horror ... a. nightmare which comes to life ...
Ten tales of spooks and spectres to give you the cold, cold creeps!


W. Howard Baker - The Judas Diary (Zenith, n.d.)

Blurb:
This was Richard Quintain's Most Chilling assignment — to find and kill a British newspaperman, influentially related by marriage to an American politician of near Cabinet rank, because Franklin was believed to be a traitor.

But what of Liliane, the beautiful, black haired Eurasian girl? Was she his accomplice — or his self-appointed executioner?

Donald J. Sobol - Still More Two-Minute Mysteries (Scholastic, 1975}

David Barnett

Blurb:


HOW DOES HE DO IT?
The clever, sharp detective Dr. Haledjian unerringly solves the cases of ... THE BARBECUE MURDER ...THE BATHING BEAUTY ...THE FATAL OVERSIGHT ...THE FROZEN SUSPECT ...THE ITALIAN SPORTS CAR ...THE MURDERED VOCALIST and 57 others.

Match your wits with Dr. Haledjian. All the clues are given. See if you come up with the answers he does. Solutions appear at the end of each story.

Bob Barling

Blurb:
This is a collection of old and new, imagination and intuition - the complete Peter Hammill. For the first time ever, we have gathered together the lyrics to all the songs ever recorded by Van Der Graaf Generator and Peter Hammill. But this is only the beginning — there are also poems, the lyrics to a few newer songs and six short stories, plus explanatory notes to some of the lyrics and a complete discography. All in all, a collection that reflects the changes and developments Peter has been through over the last four years.

Peter's talent as a lyricist has long been recognised but this collection of his written work reveals wholly new dimensions. He is not just a musician-turned writer, he is a musician and a writer: The two facets of his talent both complement and highlight each other and though neither derives anything from the other, they are mutual both in source and effect. Here, surely, is the answer to all these cynics who dismiss the rock world as brash, ephemeral and devoid of any real meaning — musical, literary or spiritual.

[Robert Adam Gilmour]

I got my first Hammill solo albums (Chameleon and Silent Corner) this year and although I had heard VDGG's Pawn Hearts years ago and liked it a great deal, I only really fell in love with Hammill from these solo works. Cant wait to hear this, but I want In Camera first. I'm a little intimidated by the size of his discography, as if Legendary Pink Dots, Guided By Voices/Pollard, Boris and many others hadnt given me enough to worry about.