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Post by dem bones on Feb 16, 2021 9:26:24 GMT
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Feb 16, 2021 12:26:42 GMT
Stoker has been often unjustly maligned. But to put him on the cover for Rymer is either pretty cheeky or really off-putting. You decide. The Delphi Classics ebook of the complete works of Stoker also contains all of VARNEY THE VAMPIRE as a sort of lengthy appendix.
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Post by Swampirella on Feb 16, 2021 12:33:37 GMT
The best examples of these 2 I could find, curses on whoever defaced the Haunted Houses cover!
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Feb 16, 2021 14:30:58 GMT
I went for editions with "better" covers when I bought copies of The Undying Monster and Rod Serling's Triple W, but I do love these covers, too. The best examples of these 2 I could find, curses on whoever defaced the Haunted Houses cover! Great color scheme on the Chilling Ghost Stories cover. The red-eyed horses are beautiful.
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Post by cromagnonman on Feb 16, 2021 15:19:27 GMT
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Post by andydecker on Feb 16, 2021 15:34:50 GMT
curses on whoever defaced the Haunted Houses cover! My first thought! I will never understand why anyone over 5 can do such a thing. "It's a pigman, Jerry! I'm tellin ya the pigman is alive. The governments been experimenting with pigmen since the fifties", Cosmo Kramer. :-) These ARE great.
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Post by andydecker on Feb 16, 2021 15:43:53 GMT
Is the Pargeter a good novel? Not got around to it. It was off my friend's market stall when he was having a three-for-a-£1 morning. Here's the details. Edith Pargeter - A Bloody Field In Shrewsbury (Sphere, 1974: originally McMillain, 1972). Thanks. I dimly remember reading one of her Cadfael novels when they were popular. I gathered that Shrewsbury is even before The War of the Roses. Which never did interest me much. I am more into the Tudor era and the Civil War. Even bought Antonia Fraser's book about Cromwell, but didn't get far. There is a thing as too small print.
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Post by helrunar on Feb 16, 2021 15:45:03 GMT
Edith Pargeter was aka Ellis Peters, well known as the author of the Cadfael books. I bet that's a well-written historical novel. The cover looks like a still from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, however.
H.
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Post by helrunar on Feb 16, 2021 15:46:41 GMT
The Fontana Snail of Horror and Rod Serling's Were-sheep are memorable.
H.
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Post by cromagnonman on Feb 16, 2021 17:01:16 GMT
Not got around to it. It was off my friend's market stall when he was having a three-for-a-£1 morning. Here's the details. Edith Pargeter - A Bloody Field In Shrewsbury (Sphere, 1974: originally McMillain, 1972). Thanks. I dimly remember reading one of her Cadfael novels when they were popular. I gathered that Shrewsbury is even before The War of the Roses. Which never did interest me much. I am more into the Tudor era and the Civil War. Even bought Antonia Fraser's book about Cromwell, but didn't get far. There is a thing as too small print. You're not wrong Andy; Battle of Shrewsbury was 1403. No great dynastic squabble this one, more a squalid debt reclaimation effort forced on the defaulting ingrate usurper Bolingbroke by his creditors. And much as I love a good shit & entrails Medieval set to I'll concede its a battle which would be largely forgotten now if Shakespeare hadn't preserved it in the climax of Henry lV Part 1 ["two paces of the vilest earth is room enough" and all that jazz]. One of those battlefields I've always wanted to traipse across but have never done so yet. Though I seem to remember Neil Oliver - he of the perpetually windswept Caledonian elf locks - digging it up for a tv show years ago: [rather more sympathetically than Time Team who preferred to employ the Tim Taylor approach to archaeology with industrial excavators for trowels]. Probably the battle's most lasting legacy has been the preservation of protagonist Henry Percy's moniker 'Hotspur' in the name both of a comic and a football team. To which one particular North London tribe would aver there is no distinction between the two.
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Post by dem bones on Feb 16, 2021 20:02:20 GMT
Good golly, do I love threads of this sort. Ok, let's see what my shoebox of dubious and/or guilty delights can contribute: Our Frank at the apex of his modelling career. The Stewardess Strangler. It really is a terrific read, too. As are these. Seventies' Sphere's had a flair for the dynamic action photo.
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Post by helrunar on Feb 16, 2021 20:19:06 GMT
Glorioski Dem! Looks as if the model on that Ray Russell cover shoot got confused and thought Auntie Grizelda's prize family heirloom crucifix was a teatime biccie!
They really should provide proper fodder for these lasses!
cheers, H.
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Post by helrunar on Feb 16, 2021 20:20:40 GMT
I wonder if the story on that Stewardess Strangler photo isn't that the agent told Bill Conrad he was working on the next Rod Serling werewolf tome.
Priceless, really...
H.
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Post by andydecker on Feb 17, 2021 8:46:03 GMT
A few more. Here some German crime paperbacks from the 70s to 80s. All these imprints, which did publish only crime and had a distinct layout identity - are long dead and gone. Some translations, some originals.
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Post by andydecker on Feb 17, 2021 8:51:23 GMT
Probably the battle's most lasting legacy has been the preservation of protagonist Henry Percy's moniker 'Hotspur' in the name both of a comic and a football team. To which one particular North London tribe would aver there is no distinction between the two. Thanks for the info. Interesting. I don't know about the football team, but I remember reading about the name 'Hotspur', some WWII ship or something.
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