billyc
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Post by billyc on Jan 22, 2017 11:01:33 GMT
Thanks for the reply but I already have Thee 8th Fontana Ghost Stories:-) As I am new to this proboard-thing I was trying to reply to the post of Ropardoe about the new A. Erskine Ellis collection: The Haunted Haven & Other Ghost Stories. It's the Phantasm Press that seems not willing to reply to any inquiries from outside the UK.....
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billyc
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Post by billyc on Jan 21, 2017 15:43:07 GMT
Hi,
I tried to order the book from Amazon but ordering from the Netherlands is a no go.... So I tried contacting them through Amazon with the question to change their settingson Amazon. No reply. Tried their contact form on their webpage. No reply. So I tried the E-mail adress on their site...... No reply. Apparently the don't want to sell the book? It's not that I need it as I just recently collected the books that included the stories from several Amazon dealers. Some of them are not in the best of state but The 10th Fontana Book of Ghost Stories held a very nice surprise. It was signed: With kind regards A. E. Ellis I presume it is genuine and it cost me GBP 4.49 Well it still would be nice to own a copy of the collection.....
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billyc
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Post by billyc on Jan 21, 2017 15:19:57 GMT
"It Follows" has a Jamesian feel to it, though MRJ would never have approved of the subject matter, but it has a 'Casting the Runes' feel, only with unwise sexual encounters replacing the runes. And "Drag Me To Hell" and "Ringu" are both modern reworkings of 'Casting the Runes', too. "The Awakening" 9the recent one written by Stephen Volk, not the old 'Jewel of the Seven Stars' adaptation) has some nicely Jamesian moments, too. I can't believe I forgot the great Ringu in this context. I do see your point about It Follows too - as you say, the "unwise sexual encounters" replacing runes wouldn't exactly have appealed to MRJ (though I'm of the opinion that when MRJ says that introducing sex into a story spoils it, he actually meant romance). It Follows is pretty scary anyway. Overall I wouldn't say The Awakening is Jamesian, but you're right that there are Jamesian moments and the dolls' house scenes in particular are eerily clever.
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billyc
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Post by billyc on Sept 2, 2015 19:57:30 GMT
Hi, Probably Mike Resnick: WalpurgisIII
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