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Post by lobolover on Oct 19, 2009 12:04:53 GMT
I thought so to, but on firs glance this looks legit .
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Post by lobolover on Oct 12, 2009 18:52:31 GMT
Good choice . Well, the latest thing I got was Rex Stout's "How like a god", but will have to read it after I finish "The Mask of Cthulhu"
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Post by lobolover on Oct 12, 2009 17:56:23 GMT
Ah, AH books usualy come for a prety penny, do they not ?
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Post by lobolover on Oct 12, 2009 17:33:49 GMT
Then there is that Gothic fiction which pretends to have a ghost and then explains it away . "The Necromancer" by "Kahlert" (both autho and translator have a pseudonym and I don't feel like looking up the supossed real autho now, so meh) is one such book . For a two volume set to spend one and a half volume calling necromancy "fake fakes cheaters cheats etc." seems rather anti-climatic .
And yeah, explaining away a reportedly fully ghostly aparation by simply saying "he dressed himself like a ghost" is reeeealy low .
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Post by lobolover on Oct 12, 2009 17:29:14 GMT
Thanks Mark . I already know of the majority of wortwhile fiction by Machen thanks to the help of Mr. Worthington .
It was rather that......it felt like Machen didn't know how to resolve this later and yet explain everything properly .
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Post by lobolover on Oct 12, 2009 17:14:49 GMT
@ allthingshorror : I am curious, how much did you pay for "The Survivor and Others " ?
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Post by lobolover on Oct 12, 2009 17:08:04 GMT
Yes, it's the first four chapters - Jonathon Harker's diary. . You would think that the amount of reprints in all shapes and sizes of Dracula does not necessite taking bits of the novel and stuffing it into short story colections under diferent titles . There are many Stoke stories out there, and this kind of thing just makes his other work more eclipsed .
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Post by lobolover on Oct 12, 2009 16:23:54 GMT
THE DUNWICH HORROR by H.P.Lovecraft published by Bartholomew House in 1945, the second mass market paperback of Lovecraft's fiction . Contains "The Dunwich Horror," "The Shadow Out of Time" and "The Thing on the Doorstep." All the horrible strangeness going on in the novel, and what do we focus on ? An unhealthily yellow guy and his dog sticking their heads through a door. OF COURSE !
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Post by lobolover on Oct 12, 2009 14:33:55 GMT
Here is something so cutely amateurish I could not help post it . The first doesn't seem to be a paperback, but good lord, just look at it HORRORS OF SMILING MANOR by Maurice B. Gardner, 1962 The Grasshoppers Come and A Rabbit in the Air: David Garnett The first story is described by Ashley as "...bizarre...tells of the ordeal of an airman stranded alone and injured in a strange desert." " Oh how I detest this kind of stuff, which tries to pesent a bunch of curving lines based around a title as "artů
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Post by lobolover on Oct 11, 2009 20:31:43 GMT
When exactly ?
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Post by lobolover on Oct 11, 2009 17:11:42 GMT
Great . The one time I win and do not notice .
GREEEEEEEAT .
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Post by lobolover on Oct 11, 2009 16:56:48 GMT
How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery is not a bad story, but more for the gruesomness of the back story . A guy throws two infants into a fireplace that's......extreme .
I did like those of his celebrated stories I read, but I just found that the Dust Cloud, while having good imagery, had to much rhapsodising about the wonders of cars and to few ghostly things in comparison .
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Post by lobolover on Oct 11, 2009 16:51:59 GMT
Most of his work of genre interest is scatered about his colections, which may come for a prety penny . The Connoisseur , bought from anybookworld in the UK howeve came surprisingly cheap, for such an old hardback . You wouldn't believe what wonders an "ex libris" stamp can do . I did have to cut up ten pairs of sheets myself, but that just confirms the sad truth no one ever read this when it was in Weetwood Hall .
Anyway, the book features the celebrated "Mr. Kempe" but also a minor fantasy "The Wharf", the title story which seems based on a saint gathering souls, and "The Lost track" which is an unknown story about a man worshiping a diamond .
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Post by lobolover on Oct 11, 2009 16:46:32 GMT
Anyone else seeing an Eiffel tower made out of bat wings ? It's not the bat concept that is that bad, albeit unmemorable, it's the crazy filtering which makes this look like the 60's on even more acid
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Post by lobolover on Oct 11, 2009 16:43:57 GMT
The only name which I recognise here is James Hogg . So, what, are the stories themselves that bad or what ? I can sort of see with all the anonymouse things in there ,but stil......
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