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Post by jonathan122 on Jan 27, 2012 23:12:50 GMT
I'm delighted that Burrage is being made available again, but waht I'd really love to see is a pb "best of". But then I couldn't possible imagine any such collection containing less tahn thrity odd tales. Now you've got everyone wondering what your top 30 would be. I've only read a handful of Burrage tales myself, but I'm looking forward to having the chance to read a lot more now (even if it is just on my PC).
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Post by jonathan122 on Jan 24, 2012 20:28:29 GMT
Do you know if they are directly downloadable to your PC, Chris? I am anxious and do not have an e-reader yet. They can be downloaded to a PC if you buy them through Amazon, not sure about if you buy them direct from Ash-Tree.
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Post by jonathan122 on Nov 25, 2011 1:00:30 GMT
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Post by jonathan122 on Oct 21, 2011 19:25:12 GMT
If we're excluding "Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad", perhaps we could make room for the same author's "Two Doctors", possibly James's most underrated story.
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Post by jonathan122 on Jul 9, 2011 20:07:19 GMT
There was one in the early 90s with Paul McGann as well, apparently.
Interestingly (to me, anyway!) the 70s version started off life as a Luis Bunuel project.
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Post by jonathan122 on May 18, 2011 14:02:41 GMT
"Number Fourteen" (one of the Tartarus unearthees) is one of the most sinister tales I've ever read. I read this story last night, and the ending is indeed incredibly creepy.
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Post by jonathan122 on Jan 8, 2011 22:10:25 GMT
For me this is their most welcome of the Oleander Press reprints to date and i'll probably even find a way to get hold of a copy! I like the Stoneground Ghost Stories well enough, but E. G. Swain is so gentle he makes Claude & Cynthia Askew look like Michael Slade in comparison and read one after the other, they get a bit samey. Have you read David G. Rowlands' continuation of Mr. Batchel's adventures? I've sampled maybe half of the Ingulphus collection, but only The True History of Anthony Ffryar made any lasting impression, though its fair to say i've not revisited him in ages. Dare I say it, but there is such a thing as being too Jamesian? I remember struggling (and failing) to write up The Hole of the Pit after Ramsey Campbell exhumed it for his seriously eclectic Uncanny Banquet anthology. Neither Swain nor Gray have ever done much for me either, and I agree about some authors being too Jamesian; I like Rolt and Wakefield (and, indeed, Eleanor Scott), but, although it's obvious that they've read James, and occasionally stolen a plot from him, they're not actually going out of their way to sound like him. I've never read any of Rowland's Stoneground tales, but I think I've read some of his other stories. I loved The Hole of the Pit, and pretty much all of Uncanny Banquet, possibly one of my favourite anthologies.
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Post by jonathan122 on Jan 8, 2011 15:01:06 GMT
Randalls Round - Eleanor Scott (Ernest Benn, 1929; Ash-Tree Press, 1996; Oleander Press, 2010) Foreword
Randalls Round The Twelve Apostles Celui-la The Room The Cure The Tree At Simmel Acres Farm "Will Ye No' Come Back Again?" The Old Lady
Afterword, by Richard DalbyThe first edition of this book appears to be impossible to get hold of, and I've never seen a copy of the Ash-Tree Press edition on sale for less than £100, so it's rather a nice surprise to see a new paperback edition at the more reasonable (if not quite Wordsworth-level) price of £8.95. This edition also comes with a handsome Randalls Round bookmark (be the envy of all your friends!). As has been mentioned on another thread, Oleander Press have also published editions of Stoneground Ghost Tales by E. G. Swain and Tedious Brief Tales of Granta and Gramarye by Ingulphus (Arthur Gray), and it looks like they're planning a new edition of Adrian Ross's excellent The Hole of the Pit. Very welcome.
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Post by jonathan122 on Jan 5, 2011 16:48:02 GMT
The plural of Mantis is a tough word, correctly used by Johnathan here. Finally, that expensive education is beginning to pay off!
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Post by jonathan122 on Jan 5, 2011 11:35:09 GMT
Ok, so it's not a proper praying mantis blood and guts extravaganza (i'm still fragile) but it still sounds good enough to add to the interminable wants list. Thanks for giving us the dirt on this one, Julie! Dem, have you read "In Due Course", in the Wordsworth Andrew Caldecott collection? I can guarantee that that one has actual giant praying mantises in. Well worth checking out.
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Post by jonathan122 on Dec 11, 2010 19:56:44 GMT
Yes, an Edward Gorey cover is worth the price of admission alone. "The Cyprian Cat" is a fine story. I hadn't read "the Leopard Lady" before, and it's not bad - could be read as a straight mystery, I guess, but the elusive Smith & Smith probably tip it over into the supernatural. She was a brilliant anthologist, though - and the intro to the first Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror is a classic of its kind. Oops! It was "The Cyprian Cat" that I was thinking of! I shouldn't be trusted near a computer on a Friday night...
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Post by jonathan122 on Dec 10, 2010 22:59:00 GMT
I think Edward Gorey covers automatically improve any book, though these look interesting anyway. The Dorothy Sayers piece is, to the best of my knowledge, the closest she came to writing supernatural horror. (It's also very good.)
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Post by jonathan122 on Dec 10, 2010 22:53:48 GMT
I've now finally received clearance for this to be the most memorable Horror Anthology ever. Is there an ombudsman for this kind of thing?
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Post by jonathan122 on Dec 10, 2010 22:51:14 GMT
It's probably quite sad that I find this immensely exciting...
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Post by jonathan122 on Dec 10, 2010 22:35:09 GMT
Should we start a rumour that Jojo is actually Alex White?
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