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Post by Steve on Feb 15, 2008 18:02:46 GMT
How very strange!
Quite flattering of course in a way, but still a bit odd... and a bit off too.
I presume they must have got the story either from a copy of Filthy Creations or from the Workshop here.
Have you contacted the site yet? If I were you, I'd be asking them politely but very firmly what they thought they were playing at? If you don't want the story there, ask them to remove it and throw in a few threats of legal action. That'll probably do the trick, I'd have thought.
We talked a bit about the dangers of this sort of thing, and it was one of the reasons for the Workshop being made members only.
We could all write to them if you like - start a bit of a campaign - perhaps Rog and me should anyway, in our capacity as editors of Filthy Creations. It's not a good precedent if people are just going to start lifting stories without asking anyone, especially the author!
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Post by Steve on Feb 2, 2008 10:51:16 GMT
Well, I'm just getting used to being a Devil's Coach Horse, but if we can pick our own...
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Post by Steve on Mar 7, 2008 14:55:38 GMT
cock of cecil? that must be the bloke who exposed himself to me on a packed tube coming home from Liverpool St last night. The carriage was packed - why me?? I did what anyone would do... Well, personally I'd have stapled it to his leg but perhaps that's just me... and I appreciate that not everyone carries a stapler... you could probably get good results with Super Glue, if you didn't happen to have a stapler handy.
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Post by Steve on Feb 20, 2008 22:03:11 GMT
We're agreed then, it was all Wilkie Collins' fault - or 'Willie Cockins' as I now like to think of him in the light of this thread... My vote goes for "Vault of Cock", but I suspect we'd attract altogether the wrong kind of reader Good point, Troo. I'd hate to think of any undesirables coming along and lowering the tone... that's our job surely?
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Post by Steve on Feb 20, 2008 0:55:49 GMT
...there were even broadsheets known as 'cocks' which related lurid and improbable horrors of local flavour. There you go, you see... and I bet that if, in reply to Troo's question "what name did the Victorians give to the horror genre?", I'd given the answer, "Cocks"... nobody (apart from Dem) would've believed me... you'd all have just thought, "Hello, Steve's off again..." Do you think we should perhaps consider changing the name of the board to 'Vault of Cecil'?
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Post by Steve on Feb 19, 2008 18:53:31 GMT
I'd like to think that Sean has got it right. The only thing that raises any doubt in my mind is that when I think of horror fiction in the mid to late 19th century, one of my first thoughts is the Penny Bloods or Penny Dreadfuls... and I can't ever remember hearing about any 'Penny Cecils'... (although next time I'm looking for a pseudonym, I reckon 'Cecil Dreadful' is going to take some beating)
Des's 'Grotesque' suggestion seems likely. Poe's Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque comes to mind.
The term 'Supernatural' was certainly in use at the time. As early as the 1820s, Walter Scott had written an essay called, "On the Supernatural in Fictitious Composition", and Ann Radcliffe penned "On the Supernatural in Poetry".
Ann Radcliffe, of course, was a well known Gothic novelist. Although Gothic literature was an 18th century phenomenon, the term was still very much in use in the Victorian era. Weren't the works of Stoker, Sheridan Le Fanu and others still considered Gothic Romances?
The only other term I've heard is 'Sensation Novels' or 'Sensation Fiction', which I think was first used to describe writers of mysteries such as Wilkie Collins, but I suppose may also have been extended to horror.
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Post by Steve on Jan 15, 2008 6:46:46 GMT
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