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Post by goathunter on May 24, 2022 3:44:02 GMT
From the Salvos for $3. This one says it was published by Sphere in 1980, but I've seen another Sphere edition of 1980 with a completely different cover - does anyone know what the story is there? So many editions of this. The first Sphere was that Terry Oakes cover. It is strange that they did different editions already in the first year. In the small print of the later books they didn't acknowledge any reprints in 1980. Only 1984 twice. I have the 1990 one, the new edition when they promoted McCammon with the series look, the one with the background cross. I've never come across a reason for the two covers, either. I had wondered if they did the Terry Oakes horse cover, then acquired the rights to The Night Boat and decided to do a themed cover series, reissuing Bethany's Sin with a cover that stylistically resembled the cover of Baal (and then The Night Boat and They Thirst)? To make matters more confusing, the two printings of Bethany's Sin have the same ISBN number. Hunter
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Post by goathunter on Jan 18, 2022 2:48:34 GMT
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Post by goathunter on Jan 9, 2022 23:34:11 GMT
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Post by goathunter on Jan 16, 2018 17:36:00 GMT
Cully Barnaby is as gorgeous in this novel as she is in the adaptations, I keep meaning to try one of the books. We've seen all the episodes of the TV series, some more than once. Cully is, IMO, the most annoying character on the TV shows. I hate virtually every scene she's in. She's condescending, disrespectful, and, if I may repeat myself, annoying. Hunter
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Post by goathunter on Sept 24, 2017 17:19:13 GMT
Hi Hunter, good to hear from you. Thanks! Good to hear from you, too. I'll try to remember to stop in here more often. I always enjoy it, I just tend to forget about it, with everything else pulling at my attention. Yep! I need to rescan a bunch of what's on the McCammon site for the same reasons. Mine, too! Hunter
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Post by goathunter on Sept 23, 2017 17:17:44 GMT
In 2011, Subterranean Press published Robert McCammon's The Hunter from the Woods, a collection of short stories and novellas featuring Michael Gallatin, the werewolf spy from 1989's The Wolf's Hour. Hunter
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Post by goathunter on Sept 23, 2017 16:43:27 GMT
Sadly, all of the people (editors, PR people, etc) at Pocket responsible for this wonderful period all left Pocket by around 1995. Robert McCammon was, probably, their biggest horror author from 1987 through 1992. By 2002, when I relaunched the McCammon site and Speaks the Nightbird was published, I reached out to the Pocket PR department for something, and both of the people I talked to had never even heard of Robert McCammon, even though they still sold gobs of copies of Swan Song and Boy's Life even at that time.
Hunter
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Post by goathunter on Sept 23, 2017 16:39:16 GMT
Resurrecting a thread before it reaches its 10th birthday! Other Blue World covers can be found on RobertMcCammon.com. Pocket paperback (1990): Subterranean Press hardcover (2015): Hunter
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Post by goathunter on Jun 20, 2016 17:17:55 GMT
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Post by goathunter on Jun 19, 2016 21:55:25 GMT
Can anyone any series of novels about a werewolf? You know how you have vampire detective series? Any werewolf equivalent? THE WOLF'S HOUR, by Robert McCammon, certainly should have been. Don't know if you remember that one, but it concerns a werewolf who works as a secret agent for the British during World War Two. He isn't some politically correct, pitiful manbeast who despises his condition, but a fearsome predator of the night who gives full rein to his lusts when the mood, and the fur, is on him - though you won't be surprised to learn that the Nazis are infinitely more evil and frightening. It provided an utterly riveting read when it first came out around 1990. A sequel, or two, would have been most welcome, as would a movie adaptation, though it wouldn't be possible to realise such a tale cheaply and there, sadly, lies the problem. My reply is seven years late, but a sequel of sorts was published in 2011. The Hunter from the Woods is a collection of stories and novellas featuring Michael Gallatin, the main character from The Wolf's Hour. Also, Universal bought a screenplay based on The Wolf's Hour (written by Bradley and Kevin Marcus) in January 2014. But there's been nary a peep out of Universal about it since then. Hunter
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Post by goathunter on Jun 19, 2016 21:40:09 GMT
I have never seen the "van" copy of the book, though I own all of the other editions (I run Robert McCammon's website and collect all of the editions I can find). I'd love to get a copy, obviously, but in all the years I've been collecting, I've never seen one. I do know that the bit about the stories being rewritten is true (as Ramsey has said). Somewhere, I have a document of the changes that were made to the McCammon story, done by someone who compared the Sphere paperback to the U.S. edition. I'm pretty sure he was working from the "skull" cover, but that was a long time ago. I'll have to compare them sometime.... Funny. I see now that left pretty much that same comment on Marty Halpern's blog back in 2011. I had forgotten all about having done that. Hunter
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Post by goathunter on Feb 14, 2011 10:28:18 GMT
The Robert McCammon story can be read for free here: "Haunted World" on RobertMcCammon.comHere is the Severn House hardcover edition, published in 1991. And while I'm at it, the U.S. hardcover: And the US paperback (Dell, 1992): Hunter
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Post by goathunter on Jun 4, 2009 14:05:56 GMT
I know what you mean. Herbert became hit or miss for me after the boring Magig Cottage. I truly lost interest after the awful Portent. I tried again with Others and never got more than 50 pages or so. I had the exact same experience. I counted Herbert among my top favorites (along with King, McCammon, and Bloch) until around that time. I haven't bothered with any since then. Still, I have great memories of those early Herberts, especially The Fog, The Rats, and my personal favorite, Shrine. Hunter
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Post by goathunter on Nov 4, 2008 2:32:28 GMT
For completeness, here's the cover of the Ziesing hardcover: And a German edition: Hunter
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Post by goathunter on Nov 4, 2008 2:29:18 GMT
I wasn't even aware that there was a Best Of Masques until I found this last week and felt a bit swizzed when I got it home. It's very early in the series for a Best Of ... and "... these twenty-two nightmarish tales have never before been published in paperback" is dubious to say the least. Still, it's a good introduction to the series though I'm surprised he favoured Ray Russell's Czadek over American Gothic. When this was first published, I'm pretty sure none of them had appeared in paperback before. This was the first of several repackagings of the Masques stories to try to wring more money out of the series (at least, that's my understanding of why there have been so many). It's also my understanding that this 2001 Pinnacle release was completely unauthorized and was supposed to have been pulped. Hunter
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