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Post by dem on Dec 29, 2023 14:33:51 GMT
The usual annual round-up of books/ mags/ films/ music/ whatever brought some pleasure into our lives over the past twelve months. AnthologiesEd Hulse [ed.] - Satan Lives For My Love! Ed Hulse [ed.] - Mistress of Death and Desire Paul Finch [ed.] - Tales of Terror from the Mediterranean Alastair Gunn [ed.] - 13th Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories Allen Grove [ed.] - Valancourt Book of Christmas Ghost Stories Vol 2 Alan Jenkins [ed.] - Ghost Stories Mike Ashley [ed.] - Fighters of Fear Fiona Snailham [ed.] - Holy Ghosts Jeffrey Shanks [ed.] - Zombies in the Pulps Amy Myers [ed.] - Second Book of After Midnight Stories Hugh Lamb [ed] [ed.] - A Tide of Terror Pulp reissuesUncanny Tales, May 1939 Terror Tales, Nov 1934 Weird Tales, July 1923 Strange Tales, Sept 1931 CollectionsTina Rath - Talking to Strangers and Other Warnings David A. Sutton - The Evil Bones Ramsey Campbell - Just Behind You (current read, still some way to go but v. decent so far) Seabury Quinn - Demons of the Night Mary Williams - Where No Birds Sing Non Fiction & 'Non Fiction'Brian J. Frost - The Essential Guide to Mummy Literature Elliott O'Donnell - Strange Cults & Secret Societies of Modern London (thank you, the staff at Watney & Whitechapel libraries) Ro Pardoe - The Black Pilgrimage 2 Robert Weinberg - Horror of the 20th Century (favourite horror art book since Peter Haining's Terror!Jessie Adelaide Middleton - Another Grey Ghost Book Simon Kuper - The Best of Charlie Buchan's Football MonthlyW H Tantum & C. L. Droste - The Lusitania Case (Anthology of contemporary press reports from British, American and German media). NovelsJustin Evans - The White Devil P. McCartney - Who Sups With The Devil? Gypsy Rose Lee - The G-string Murders NovellaDavid A. Riley - Lucilla Fanzines/ Mags/ comicsPaperback Fanatic # 47 & 48 - Refreshed, rejuvenated, relaunched! Battling Britons # 5 Ghosts & Scholars 44 & 45 Charles Black tribute in Phantasmagoria # 22 (various hands, collated by David A. Riley) Dan McGachey & Mike Dorey - Nightmare ExpressPost-Victorian pre-WW2 ghost & horror fiction in The Bystander, The Sketch, The Tatler & Co. - thank you, British Newspaper Archive! TVSteve Coogan horribly convincing as J. Savile throughout The Reckoning, never more so than in the opening episode. Other than a few Caroline Munro hosted horrors and the odd Ghost Stories for Christmas on Talking Pictures, didn't really bother much with TV unless there was some football to watch. Enjoyed the Women's World Cup through July & August, particularly the performances of Spain (whose ultimate triumph — they played odds-on favourites England off the pitch — was the more impressive when you consider that this was essentially their second XI), Japan (who thumped the eventual winners 4-0), Colombia (dramatic late win V. fancied Germany), Haiti (desperately unlucky to lose to England, as were Nigeria), Rep of Ireland, Jamaica, France, and the Swedish giants — never more so than when they sent home the USA. Those We Have Loved (as ever, will be ashamed to recall someone I overlooked the minute this is posted) RIP George Alagiah Burt Bacharach Jane Birkin Ronald Blythe Eric Burgess Sir Bobby Charlton Christopher Fowler Barry Humphries Rudolph Isley Glenda Jackson Francis Lee Shane MacGowan Len Maynard David McCallum Tony McPhee Gordon McQueen John Motson Sinead O'Conner Andy Rourke Mark Samuels Mark Stewart Terry Venables Tom Verlaine Gianluca Vialli Kevin Geordie Walker Raquel Welch Fay Weldon Benjamin Zephaniah The Thomas Neale, Watney Market The Dean Swift, Shadwell |
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Post by ripper on Dec 30, 2023 11:54:08 GMT
Paul Finch's collections The Christmas You Deserve and In A Deep Dark December (re-read of the latter).
No specific Wimbourne Victorian Ghost Stories volume edited by Alastair Gunn, I enjoyed all of the ones I have read.
Criminal Tales, A Gallows Guest List and Dancing The Hangman's Reel by Grahame Farrell (accounts of historic murders).
The Fall Of The House Of Thomas Weir (Casebook of Johnson and Boswell 1) by Andrew Neil Macleod
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Post by andydecker on Dec 30, 2023 14:05:51 GMT
2023 was a lousy, terrible year external as well as internal. So too many late night purchases online. Despite this shopping I guess I re-read more from the shelves than new stuff. Quite a few of those books (well, too many) listed here are still sitting on the to-read pile. A lot of them were recommendations here in the Vault. Thanks all. AnthologiesEd Hulse [ed.] - Mistress of Death and Desire Paul Finch [ed.] - Tales of Terror from the Mediterranean Paul Finch [ed.] - Terror Tales of the West Country Paul Finch [ed.] - Terror Tales of Cornwall Edward Stasheff [ed.]– Averoigne Archives Edward Stasheff [ed.]– Averoigne Legacies Pan Books 20+21 CollectionsComplete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard Robert Silverberg – Collected Stories 6, 7, 8, 9 Ramsey Campbell – The Inhabitant of the Lake Ramsey Campbell – Visions from Brichester Ramsey Campbell – Holes for Faces Ramsey Campbell - Fearful Implications The complete works of Algernon Blackwood Steve Duffy – The Night comes on NovelsC. L. Werner – Castle of Blood Peter Fehervari – The Reverie Peter O‘Donnell – Modesty Blaise Ramsey Campbell – Fellstones Ramsey Campbell – The Lonely Lands Non FictionS. T. Joshi – Ramsey Campbell, Master of Weird Fiction Rich Handley & Lou Tambone – From Bayou to Abyss Troy Howarth – The Haunted World of Mario Bava Marcos Legaria – L‘Affaire Barlow Richard Allan – Aventures Sextraordinaires (French autobiography) Will & Ariel Durant – The Story of Civilization, vol. X Audiobooks
Dan Abnett – The Magos Dan Abnett – Ravenor 3 Dan Abnett - Pariah Lee Child – Reacher 1 ComicsToo many. Honourable mentions: Dan McGachey & Mike Dorey - Nightmare Express Doug Moench - Aztec Ace Complete Casefiles of Judge Dredd 3+4 Gou Tanabe – H. P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness (Manga is not my cup of tea, but this has stunning artwork) Hellboy – Koshchei in Hell (The rest of the Hellboy comics I bought this year was mediocre or (sadly) a waste of money. Like Chris Roberson‘s The House of Lost Horizons. A boring mess with dull artwork without any atmosphere spread over 5 long issues.
Fanzines
Justin Marriott's work
Movie & TVProfessor T – Season 2 Death in Paradise - Season 11 Brokenwood - Season 4 + 5 Black Butterflies (Les Papillons Noirs) French crime noir miniseries, dark and violent The Flight Attendant Ahsoka (surprisingly watchable) Reacher (not as good as the adapted novel, but a lot of fun) HIMYM (again) Read again this year:James Ellroy – Brown's Requiem (as a first novel this is still powerful reading) Collin Wilcox – The Disappearance Bill Pronzini – Quicksilver (and a few other early ones) John D. MacDonald – The Deep Blue Goodbye (and a few other early Travis McGee) Ed McBain (a few early ones) RIPIan Gibson Ray Stevenson Keith Giffen Enrich John Romita sr. William Friedkin Mark Margolis Richard Roundtree Tina Turner John Jakes Anne Perry |
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Dec 30, 2023 14:21:23 GMT
Work in progress. Several were sugegsted by my friends on here. What a useful site.
Fiction
Coelebs In Search of A Wife - More, Hannah
Daughters of England (Daughters of England, #20) - Carr, Philippa
Before I Croak - Babiashkina, Anna
Five Stories of Ferrara - Bassani, Giorgio
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis - Bassani, Giorgio
The Golden Apples of the Sun - Bradbury, Ray
The Martian Chronicles - Bradbury, Ray
House Mother Normal - Johnson, B.S.
The Appointment - Müller, Herta
The Doll Maker - Sarban
Ringstones - Sarban
Kirkland Revels - Holt, Victoria
Kitchen - Yoshimoto, Banana
On Horseback and Other Stories - Maupassant, Guy de
The Old Rectory - Bloom, Ursula
Arrival of the Snake-Woman and Other Stories - Senior, Olive
Wide Sargasso Sea - Rhys, Jean
Dat's Love and Other Stories (Library of Wales Book 47) - Brito, Leonora
HERmione - H.D.
Nightwood - Barnes, Djuna
Millenium Hall - Scott, Sarah
The Strange Story of Linda Lee - Wheatley, Dennis
White Magic: Russian Emigre Tales of Mystery and Terror - Maguire, Muireann
London by Night - Hayward, William Stephens
The Works of Rudyard Kipling: Volume III The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories - Kipling, Rudyard
The House on the Borderland - Hodgson, William Hope
Carnacki the Ghost-Finder - Hodgson, William Hope
The House on Parchment Street - McKillip, Patricia A.
Miss Mole - Young, E.H.
The Dream Time - Treece, Henry
All Aboard For Ararat - Wells, H.G.
The Time Machine - Wells, H.G.
Non Fiction
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol 6: 1665 - Samuel Pepys
Five Women Painters - Grimes, Theresa
The Selected Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (Lives and Letters) by Lady Mary Wortley Montague (1986-04-01)
The Royal Interiors of Regency England Watkin, David
The Fruit in the Seed, Chapters of Autobiography Leigh, Margaret Mary 1894-
Walsingham: The history of a famous shrine - Gillett, H M
Alfred Hope Patten: The Shrine of Our Lady at Walsingham - Yelton, Michael
Religion and The Rebel - Wilson, Colin
Bela Lugosi and the Monogram Nine - Rhodes, Gary D.
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds - Halliday, Thomas
Shepperton Babylon - Sweet, Matthew
The Brontës' web of childhood, - Ratchford, Fannie Elizabeth
Domesday: A Search for the Roots of England - Wood, Michael
Lord Byron at Harrow School: Speaking Out, Talking Back, Acting Up, Bowing Out - Elledge, Paul
Tales of Old Middlesex - Hall, Mike
A Different Face: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft - Sunstein, Emily W.
Daughter of Earth and Water: A Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Gerson, Noel B.
12 femmes d'Orient qui ont changé l'Histoire - Sinoué, Gilbert
Light and Twilight - Thomas, Edward
Men of Dunwich: The Story of a Vanished Town - Parker, Rowland
East of Kinabalu - DAVIDSON, DATUK LESLIE
Politics and Genre in the Works of Elizabeth Hamilton, 1756-1816 - Grogan, Claire
Gogmagog: The Buried Gods - Lethbridge, Thomas Charles
Flemish Cities Their History and Art - Gaunt, William
The Sign of Angellica: Women, Writing, and Fiction, 1600-1800 - Todd, Janet
Lace Collars and Cocoa Cups: A Young Girl's Letters, 1912-1920 - SEBASTIAN, Hilda (Edited by Louise Roberts)
The Existential Pleasures Engineering - Florman, Samuel C.
Engineering Philosophy - Bucciarelli, Louis
Sherlock Holmes in Tibet - Wincor, Richard
Defining Science: William Whewell, Natural Knowledge and Public Debate in Early Victorian Britain (Ideas in Context, Series Number 27) - Yeo, Richard
Notation of Medieval Music: With A New Introduction by James McKinnon - Parrish, Carl
The City of Dreadful Night - Kipling, Rudyard
Simone Weil: A Brief Introduction - Plant, Stephen
The Great Formal Machinery Works: Theories of Deduction and Computation at the Origins of the Digital Age - Plato, Jan von
A Long Way from Euclid (Dover Books on Mathematics) - Reid, Constance Bowman
Hilbert - Reid, Constance Bowman
Virgins of Venice: Broken Vows and Cloistered Lives in the Renaissance Convent - Laven, Mary
Life and Death in a Venetian Convent: The Chronicle and Necrology of Corpus Domini, 1395-1436 (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe) - Riccoboni, Bartolomea
Paternal Tyranny (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe) - Tarabotti, Arcangela
Forbidden Fashions: Invisible Luxuries in Early Venetian Convents (Costume Society of America Series) - Campagnol, Isabella
A Sea without Fish: Life in the Ordovician Sea of the Cincinnati Region- Davis, Richard Arnold
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Dec 30, 2023 14:57:47 GMT
Will & Ariel Durant – The Story of Civilization, vol. X I've heard that this is a good series in general. This volume centres on Rousseau I believe. |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 30, 2023 18:30:40 GMT
I am currently reading that one. I find it heavy going and am not sure I understand its popularity. It did teach me a new verb, "graunch." I am pretty sure I never saw or heard it before. Child uses it at least twice in the novel.* *Edit: Three times, actually. |
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Post by Shrink Proof on Dec 30, 2023 18:57:33 GMT
And so we made it round the sun once again (just). The roll of honour includes the following (not all produced in 2023 but encountered then by me):-
RIP
All those already mentioned by Dem plus
Gordon Lightfoot
Pete Brown
Anthologies
The Dusk (J Hirschhorn-Smith, ed.) - Terrific collection from SideReal Press.
Unquiet Grove (M Beech, ed.) - An almost as good collection from Egaeus Press. Brilliantly illustrated.
Out of the Darkness (D Coxon, ed.) - Another good read. Much more sensibly priced than the above two and all profits to mental health charity.
Polar Horror (from the British Library Tales of the Weird series) - Fine stuff, most of which I read while well north of the Arctic Circle...
Isolation (D Coxon, ed.) - A storming selection with some heavyweight names. Worth checking out.
The Haunting Season - Ghost stories for long winter nights. Recommended.
Songs of the Northern Seas - Arctic tales from Egaeus Press. A more modern version of the Polar Horror anthology.
Non-Fiction
Weird Walk - The book of the magazine. Not as comprehensive as The Old Stones or Julian Cope's epic The Modern Antiquarian but the enthusiasm of the writers is great fun.
The Odditorium - Revision notes on a whole range of eccentrics, obsessives and weirdos in a cheery, highly readable style. By Jo Keeling & David Bramwell (he of radio weirdness and the band Oddfellow's Casino).
Collections
The Sea Change - Helen Grant - Predictably good.
Wyrd & Other Derelictions - Adam L G Nevill - A brilliant idea, but I won't spoil the surprise. Not one to read until after the antidepressants have kicked in.
Strange Epiphanies - Peter Bell - Finally a Bell collection at a price that wouldn't worry the Sultan of Brunei.
Keyhole - Matthew G Rees - Weird tales from the man who edicted the now-defunct online magazine "Horla". Definitely worthwhile.
Time of Passing - John Gaskin - Latest (and possibly last) collection from a 21st Century MRJ. If it is the last, he leaves a terrific body of work.
Nine Ghosts - Simon Bestwick - A wide range of haunted places and people.
And a final mention for Tales From the Ruins, a collection of post-apocalyptic tales from Black Beacon Books. One that I genuinely enjoyed because the stories were good and NOT because one of mine is in it. Honest.
Here's wishing all fellow passengers on this Trans-Cyberian Express a smooth ride in 2024 and a million thanks to our driver Dem for keeping it on the rails.
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Post by andydecker on Dec 30, 2023 22:12:25 GMT
I am currently reading that one. I find it heavy going and am not sure I understand its popularity. It did teach me a new verb, "graunch." I am pretty sure I never saw or heard it before. Child uses it at least twice in the novel.* *Edit: Three times, actually. I heard it as a translated audiobook. I guess the prosaic style is a bit simple at first, if one doesn‘t like this, but at the end I even didn‘t mind the many hard to swallow coincidences. I liked the painstaking detection with its endless theories and arguments. There must be something in the package because there is nothing original here. But at the end I could understand the appeal. It is an unapologetic power fantasy, which over the course of its existence only has become more relevant. The hero who lives off the grid, who is stronger than everybody and takes no cheek from anybody without any consequences. |
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Post by jamesdoig on Dec 30, 2023 22:42:31 GMT
Pity I can't remember what I read earlier in the year! A few standouts:
Novels
Ramsey Campbell, The Searching Dead
Pat Barker, The Women of Troy
Pat Barker, Border Crossing
John Connolly, Every Dead Thing
John le Carre, Silverview
Isaac Asimov, Foundation Trilogy
Roger Franklin, Shark!
Non-Fiction
Anonymous, A Woman in Berlin
Frazetta Book Cover Art
Scarred for Life volume 2
Bill Schelly, James Warren: Empire of Monsters
John Sutherland, The Literary Detective, 100 Puzzles in Classic Fiction
Clive James, Glued to the Box
Anthologies/collections
Clark Ashton Smith, A Vintage From Atlantis
William Lindsay Gresham, Grindshow
Flannery O'Connor, Everything that Rises Must Converge
The Best Horror Stories (Hamlyn)
John Miller, Polar Horrors
Michael Wheatley, The Lure of Atlantis
Michael Wheatley, The Horned God
TV
Slow Horses - just finished season 3
Ghost Story for Xmas - Lot No. 249 (aka Lot No. 250)
One Piece
American Horror Story - Season 12
Foundation
Pagan Peak
Vigil
Legacy of Monsters
Silo
The Last of Us
Movies
Run Rabbit Run
Talk to Me
Megan
A Haunting in Venice
Malum
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Mags
Paperback Fanatic
Ghosts & Scholars
Bizarrism
Biblio-Curiosa
Green Book
Websites
Vault of Evil - Yay!
Keep up the great work, Dem!
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 31, 2023 0:49:35 GMT
No books really stand out from this year that's almost past; I read so much that most of them tend to blur together after a few weeks. As for movies/tv series, I did actually enjoy "Indiana Jones & The Dial of Destiny", as well as "10 Pound Poms".
The most enjoying reading material has been all the Sketch/Tatler stories (and others) that Dem has so thoughtfully transcribed for us all. Thanks again!
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Post by ripper on Dec 31, 2023 12:19:21 GMT
I've been struggling to recall novels I read this year and the only two I can think of were both by Le Carre, Smiley's People and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Can't quite decide if it was late last year or early this year when I read for the umpteenth time The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse, but as it's by the master himself it really doesn't matter.
I'd like to add some to the RIP list...
Ryan O'Neal, Sir Michael Parkinson, Sir Michael Gambon, Tony Bennett, Sinead O'Connor, Astrud Gilberto, Tina Turner, Jim Brown, Stella Stevens, Jeff Beck.
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Post by humgoo on Dec 31, 2023 13:19:07 GMT
Stuff that's stuck with me: Sam Dawson - Folly ( The Ghost & Scholars Book of Follies and Grottoes, Sarob, 2022). Sometimes I'm worried about Mr Dawson. It takes its toll to keep writing this kind of stuff, and this one is even madder than " Between" or " Visiting Hours". Keep 'em coming! (And hopefully it will be included in an enlarged edition of Pariah & Other Stories to reach a wider audience.) Steve Duffy - Screen Burn ( Supernatural Tales#53, Autumn 2023). Mr Duffy has been so prolific in recent years it's difficult to keep track of his works (note to self: investigate the Nightmare Abbey issues), and there's always something new up his sleeve I no longer know what to expect. John Dickson Carr - Persons or Things Unknown ( The Sketch, Christmas Number, 1938). "The House in Goblin Wood" may be the best thing Carr ever wrote according to pundits, but I like this one even better. Jamesian vibes galore. F. M. Mayor - The Kind Action of Mr. Robinson ( The Room Opposite, 1935). Selling your soul inadvertently to old Nick is really bad business. Very glad to have finally read it. Thanks a lot Solar Press! Michelle Paver - Dark Matter (2010) [novel]. The only thing better than an Arctic story is an Arctic ghost story. Ruth Rendell - A Judgement in Stone (1977) [novel]. Don't mess with the maid. An interesting take on the servant problem. Lockwood & Co. [TV series]. Really liked the ghostly epidemic and children-put-to-work-in-dangerous-jobs premises. Am also reading the book (note to self: get the sequel to The Spirit Hollows by Mr Brewer, which is about an alternate Appalachia plagued by elementals). Yuyu Hakusho [TV series]. When I grew up in colonial Hong Kong, the comics we read were Japanese manga (in Chinese translations), and instead of buying them we usually rented them at comic rental shops (known in Cantonese as "manga houses", RIP). Yuyu Hakusho was then one of the most popular series. This live-action adaptation has raised many purist eyebrows but there's a lot to like (the English dubbing is also very thoughtfully done). Personal highlight: Went on a trip to the UK, mostly to Cornwall and Wales, in September. Number of ghosts and monsters sighted: zero. Which gives the lie to those Terror Tales of … books (naturally I used them as travel guides). Made a point of taking a look at every second-hand bookshop I passed by (charity shops or otherwise). Number of Vault finds: zero. Another proof, if any is needed, that all great finds end up down under (you may as well buy direct from Mr Doig).
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Post by Swampirella on Dec 31, 2023 13:30:13 GMT
Stuff that's stuck with me: Sam Dawson - Folly ( The Ghost & Scholars Book of Follies and Grottoes, Sarob, 2022). Sometimes I'm worried about Mr Dawson. It takes its toll to keep writing this kind of stuff, and this one is even madder than " Between" or " Visiting Hours". Keep 'em coming! (And hopefully it will be included in an enlarged edition of Pariah & Other Stories to reach a wider audience.) Steve Duffy - Screen Burn ( Supernatural Tales#53, Autumn 2023). Mr Duffy has been so prolific in recent years it's difficult to keep track of his works (note to self: investigate the Nightmare Abbey issues), and there's always something new up his sleeve I no longer know what to expect. John Dickson Carr - Persons or Things Unknown ( The Sketch, Christmas Number, 1938). "The House in Goblin Wood" may be the best thing Carr ever wrote according to pundits, but I like this one even better. Jamesian vibes galore. F. M. Mayor - The Kind Action of Mr. Robinson ( The Room Opposite, 1935). Selling your soul inadvertently to old Nick is really bad business. Very glad to have finally read it. Thanks a lot Solar Press! Michelle Paver - Dark Matter (2010) [novel]. The only thing better than an Arctic story is an Arctic ghost story. Ruth Rendell - A Judgement in Stone (1977) [novel]. Don't mess with the maid. An interesting take on the servant problem. Lockwood & Co. [TV series]. Really liked the ghostly epidemic and children-put-to-work-in-dangerous-jobs premises. Am also reading the book (note to self: get the sequel to The Spirit Hollows by Mr Brewer, which is about an alternate Appalachia plagued by elementals). Yuyu Hakusho [TV series]. When I grew up in colonial Hong Kong, the comics we read were Japanese manga (in Chinese translations), and instead of buying them we usually rented them at comic rental shops (known in Cantonese as "manga houses", RIP). Yuyu Hakusho was then one of the most popular series. This live-action adaptation has raised many purist eyebrows but there's a lot to like (the English dubbing is also very thoughtfully done). Personal highlight: Went on a trip to the UK, mostly to Cornwall and Wales, in September. Number of ghosts and monsters sighted: zero. Which gives the lie to those Terror Tales of … books (naturally I used them as travel guides). Made a point of taking a look at every second-hand bookshop I passed by (charity shops or otherwise). Number of Vault finds: zero. Another proof, if any is needed, that all great finds end up down under (you may as well buy direct from Mr Doig).
Church in Sancreed, Cornwall, 2023 "A Judgement In Stone" is my absolute favorite of the many excellent Ruth Rendell novels. Anybody who hasn't tried her crime fiction should do themselves a favour. |
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Post by samdawson on Dec 31, 2023 14:29:09 GMT
Stuff that's stuck with me: Sam Dawson - Folly ( The Ghost & Scholars Book of Follies and Grottoes, Sarob, 2022). Sometimes I'm worried about Mr Dawson. It takes its toll to keep writing this kind of stuff, and this one is even madder than " Between" or " Visiting Hours". Keep 'em coming! (And hopefully it will be included in an enlarged edition of Pariah & Other Stories to reach a wider audience.) Steve Duffy - Screen Burn ( Supernatural Tales#53, Autumn 2023). Mr Duffy has been so prolific in recent years it's difficult to keep track of his works (note to self: investigate the Nightmare Abbey issues), and there's always something new up his sleeve I no longer know what to expect. Thank you Humgoo, your mention of those stories is very much appreciated. I can promise that there will be more coming (I've set myself a minimum target of 10 stories a year, in part to try and get better known, in the hope of a reprint collection, since my back catalogue would now fill two volumes. There is a sequel to Between and to some other published stories, which will have to wait for that eventuality). I second your remarks on Steve Duffy, who must now be one of the living British greats in the genre, but somehow is not as recognised as he should be. |
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Post by ripper on Dec 31, 2023 14:29:10 GMT
Sadly, we can add journalist John Pilger to those lost this year. Dr Henry Kissinger passed away a month ago, and I think it is fair to say was not exactly admired by Pilger.
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