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Post by marksamuels on Mar 1, 2009 5:41:48 GMT
I'll get my coat. Mark S.
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Post by marksamuels on Feb 24, 2009 3:03:21 GMT
Sorry, I meant to add that Wheatley (for me) only really hit top form with The Devil Rides Out, which is great from start to finish. To The Devil A Daughter is worth having for the scene where Rev. Copely (??) appears two-thirds in. He was based on Monty Summers wasn't he?
I didn't get on at all with The Irish Witch, Unholy Crusade, etc. They rather put me off reading much further. I passed up the chance to buy The Satanist for a modest price around six months ago. I flicked through the tome in Ripping Yarns bookshop in Highgate and it looked like another "90% action thriller-but-passed-off-as-90% black magic horror" effort.
How is They Used Dark Forces? Is that any good?
Mark S.
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Post by marksamuels on Feb 24, 2009 2:57:50 GMT
I've got the other version of that John Russo book; which is an original zombie novel with the same title, different cover, and which was never filmed. It's pretty good, if you're a zombie nut like me. I first bought it at a WH Smiths in the Elephant & Castle shopping Centre... I'll have to scan the cover, if no-one else has it, when I'm back home (not too long now, provided the Santa Muerte-worshipping NarcoSatanists of Mexico City don't hack my head off first). And Dem! Don't go down that grim 70's North London cemetery hijinks road... you know what I mean. Mark S.
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Post by marksamuels on Feb 21, 2009 1:38:25 GMT
Btw, isn't that tale called "Johnson Looked Back" rather than "Johnson Looked Nice"? Mark S.
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Post by marksamuels on Feb 21, 2009 1:34:57 GMT
I love this anthology. I picked up a complete set of the 1940s US Farrar & Reinhart hardback first editions (SLEEP NO MORE, WHO KNOCKS and THE NIGHT SIDE) back in the early 1990s for £4.95 each. The covers are great, and the illustrations by Lee Brown Coye are hellishly shuddersome. He's probably my favourite weird artist.
When I get back to Blighty in ten days I'll have to dig the books out.
Mark S.
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Post by marksamuels on Feb 10, 2009 0:00:27 GMT
Regarding the eyes of Sir Gore, artistic licence is the answer! That cover of #14 transports me back to a little newsagents shop in Penge where, as a schoolboy, I used to pick up copies of the series with my pocket money. I wish newsagents still sold such books. Mark S.
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Post by marksamuels on Feb 7, 2009 3:28:23 GMT
Here I'm going for O'Sullivan and O'Brien.
Mark O'Samuels
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Post by marksamuels on Feb 7, 2009 3:26:54 GMT
Ooops. Wrong thread. I should be over at the other one.
Mark S.
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Post by marksamuels on Feb 7, 2009 3:25:02 GMT
Wakefield and Burrage.
And while they're at it, Wordsworth should bring out my classic short novel "The Face of Twilight". It was shortlisted for a British Fantasy Award, you know. And I'm very cheap.
Mark S.
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Post by marksamuels on Feb 3, 2009 20:10:33 GMT
It's funny, but since Dem turned me on to Charles Birkin I've come to realise that a dose of grue written with style and panache is just as pleasurable a read for me as, say, the work of Robert Aickman. Now if only I could get hold of more Charles Birkin! Corrupted I've been, I tell you. We're having a fine time in Mexico. I hear it's snowing in England and the country's shut down Mark S.
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Post by marksamuels on Feb 3, 2009 4:47:11 GMT
JLP--- "wanky literary bollocks"? I'm shocked I'm giving up the game To my mind Ellen's the best editor in the business, although Steve Jones is the best anthologist. Note the slight difference. I wish I could have been at the Poe launch, but I'm still in Mexico (not back until early March). Talking of Poe, I did suggest, last year, to Steve Jones he bring out a MAMMOTH BOOK OF POE (along the lines of THE MAN WHO CALLED HIMSELF POE) but he said Robinson plan over a year ahead and the 2009 bicentennial was now beyond reach of their schedule. Hell, I wish I'd thought of collating such a thing myself! Best wishes for Ellen's recovery. Mark S.
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Post by marksamuels on Oct 16, 2008 18:04:36 GMT
Hope you and Spurs make a swift recovery, Matt. My beloved Palace will doubtless do what they usually do in a season; a prolonged run of fine results ending in Mark S.
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Post by marksamuels on Oct 16, 2008 17:53:55 GMT
I'm still on for this; I'm at the fag-end of a nasty cold that turned into a mucus lung ridden nightmare, but I'm confident that by Sunday, after a week of misery, it should be pretty much cleared up. Doubtless some medicinal ale will help.
Actually, I'm dying to get out of the house !
Mark S.
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Post by marksamuels on Sept 23, 2008 11:20:02 GMT
I'll definitely be there again for this one.
Are we going along to that pub again afterwards?
Mark S.
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Post by marksamuels on Sept 23, 2008 11:11:02 GMT
Many congratulations, Johnny, and to your bride !
All best Mark S.
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