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Post by lobolover on Jun 19, 2009 21:05:50 GMT
Ah , "Blue Indians", a rather inverted look at the "ancestral memory" trope .
And as for "The dead Jew" I have to stand by common sense and say the title is not politicaly incorrect . Now "Dead Jewish Mongrel", that's an non-PC title .
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Post by lobolover on Jun 19, 2009 21:04:40 GMT
Have read a bit more of him, and I can't say he realy got "The Great Return" right . Would have been so much better to keep the mystery throughout then to actualy blab it all out halfway through .
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Post by lobolover on Jun 19, 2009 20:55:34 GMT
To be honest, bearing a few exceptions, this looks more like a "The essential most famous short gothic fiction", rather then focusing on the "lesser known" . Not judging the book or it's contents, mind you, just saying .
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Post by lobolover on Jun 19, 2009 20:47:03 GMT
Dem, could you please stop riding over me any chance you get ?
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Post by lobolover on Apr 30, 2009 15:14:55 GMT
If you liked The Tophar Bride so much, John, then you absolutely must get your hands (or other asosiated tentancles) on "The box of counters", a litle conte-cruel going further then even Morrow ever did .
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Post by lobolover on Apr 30, 2009 9:20:11 GMT
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Post by lobolover on Apr 30, 2009 9:15:02 GMT
A litle over the top, dont you think ?
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Post by lobolover on Apr 7, 2009 18:24:27 GMT
By the look of Slob, I guess it's a novel about Slimer from the Ghostbusters!
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Post by lobolover on Apr 7, 2009 7:38:01 GMT
Definitely Metcalfe . Though I would like to see a reprint of Hume Nisbet (out of copyright) done to, particulary "The haunted station" colection .
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Post by lobolover on Apr 4, 2009 18:21:33 GMT
And if they do, will both ever be present at the same time. Could be another case of Jekyll and Hyde, though who is Jekyll and who is Hyde is anyone's guess. David People, could we please maybe stop with the spamming ? I can take a joke as much as a next person, but when an AF joke happens more then a week before AF and the subject matter gets discused instead of the original one , I would rather that a moderator would remove the excesive posts. Your'e making it hard actualy becoming a member of the vault with how precious litle discusion I can force people into to begin with .
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Joke
Apr 1, 2009 19:00:24 GMT
Post by lobolover on Apr 1, 2009 19:00:24 GMT
And don't forget .... Charles W. Goddard - The Perils Of Pauline (Hard Press, 2006: originally ?) Rocco sullenly helped the others in the grim task. The trunk, large as it was, was not deep enough to permit Pauline a sitting posture, nor long enough to prevent the painful cramping of her limbs. But she was deadened to physical pain. With the words of her doom still ringing in her ears--the calm discussion of her death--her terror was her torture. The choking gag, the cutting bonds, the stifling trunk--in which the knife of Wrentz had cut but a few air holes--these were as nothing to the agony of her spirit--the agony of a lingering journey toward a certain but mysterious end.
Pauline had been a prisoner before, had been through many and desperate dangers, but her heart had never failed her utterly until she felt the pressure of the trunk lid on her bent shoulders and heard the clamping of the locks that bound her in. I was delighted to find this as a free download at Project Gutenberg, especially as I didn't even know of its existence. The Perils Of Pauline (1914) was a was a top damsel in distress feature that ran for twenty short episodes starring Pearl White as the much put-upon but resourceful heroine who narrowly survived death by buzz-saw, oncoming train, balloon-crash , drowning, etc., etc., before eventually claiming her inheritance. I've never seen it but from what I've read it is the epitome of "with one bound she was free!" melodrama and hopefully this novelisation (?) will be equally improbable. If you find it as off-putting reading off screen as I do, and you've money to burn, Hard Press have seized on its public domain status and brought out a hardcover version. The screen-grabs on this page are from the much later The Perils Of Pauline (1947), a Pearl White biopic (of sorts) starring Betty Hutton. But I'm sure you'll agree, they're better than nothing. You can download the short video clip they've been surgically removed from at Dr. Macro. * I know, I know. Talk about "any old excuse to recycle my dubious wares ...." * Ah, I thought such a concept was to original to come from Hanna Barbera ! So , Penelopy Pitstop was inspired by this aye? Does the original feature miniature mugs as well ?
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Post by lobolover on Apr 1, 2009 18:48:37 GMT
I do think this be an early april fools joke. Come on, you do this to my thread, why didnt you start your own, Im trying to uncover some real trash in here
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Post by lobolover on Mar 31, 2009 7:36:51 GMT
So, Mark , are you pulling our leg or not ?
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Post by lobolover on Mar 30, 2009 14:05:58 GMT
Brilliant Luke! I love those Crustie covers - the Fontana ones from the 60s & 70s. There's a great website called something like DeliciousDeath where a Japanese geezer is trying to put up every Christie cover ever (I managed to donate a book club version of A Murder Is Announced). Being an arachnophobe there was one called something like Passenger To Frankfurt with a huge Black Widow spider on it, and another the title of which escapes me with a spider on someones head. Rog has put up a Ngaio Marsh somewhere on the board. A later Christie series of the 1980s had Surrealist covers. I think one for Towards Zero had someones head replaced by a tennis racket, although with an eye instead of a ball. Sorry for the bump, but could this be the same Jap whom David mentioned in my overpriced book thread ? Seems similar .
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Post by lobolover on Mar 30, 2009 13:32:32 GMT
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