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Post by marksamuels on Sept 23, 2008 11:06:09 GMT
I'm pretty sure it was launched on Friday evening, about the time I went off for a curry with JLP and a host of other folk. I didn't see it in the dealers' room (then again I didn't spend a great deal of time in there).
I did pick up the two BLACK BOOK OF HORROR volumes I didn't have; and Charles kindly signed them for me. Allyson had about two seconds to sign her book before we piled into the one lift left working!
Mark S.
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Post by marksamuels on Sept 22, 2008 13:59:35 GMT
I had a jolly good Fcon too.
All the copies of my new PS collection Glyphotech and Other Macabre Processes sold within fifteen minutes of them coming out of the box at the launch, which was cool.
Very nice to meet Charles for the first time, and get my copies of The Black Book signed.
I thought all the readings I attended (Gary Mc's, JLP's, Joel's and Reggie's) on the 10th Floor were marvellous.
But I especially enjoyed the readings on the 13th Floor. The ones by Charles Birkin, Robert Aickman, L.A. Lewis etc etc. Very good indeed. Quite cold up there though. And there was a mouldy, tomb-like smell to the shadowy room in which they took place...
Roll on Fcon 2009, and roll on the World Horror Convention in Brighton in 2010 !
Mark S.
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Post by marksamuels on Sept 16, 2008 20:47:27 GMT
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Post by marksamuels on Aug 27, 2008 23:15:53 GMT
Something else to think about whilst at Fcon...
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Post by marksamuels on Aug 26, 2008 23:08:25 GMT
I'll also be there, and on the very same WHH panel as Lord Probert. Friday night 10pm, 19th Sept. Not to be missed ! Mark S.
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Post by marksamuels on Jun 28, 2008 22:07:53 GMT
These are the stories of Edgar Allan Poe not exactly the boy next door Mark S.
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Post by marksamuels on May 29, 2008 12:04:20 GMT
I'll be there too. With my digital camera . . . Mark S.
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Post by marksamuels on May 25, 2008 23:18:35 GMT
Being a Palace fan, I'm afraid you'll get no sympathy from me either Charles. Mark S.
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Post by marksamuels on May 18, 2008 18:43:19 GMT
Well, my ugly old mug doesn't feature in my latest You-Tube extravaganza, but HP Lovecraft does...and scenes from Mexico City bookshops and cafes...and unclothed young ladies. (well, maybe not unclothed young ladies.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2J4L8UyuWwWatch and listen, if you dare ;D Mark S.
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Post by marksamuels on May 17, 2008 22:59:04 GMT
Mark S.
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Post by marksamuels on May 16, 2008 11:57:08 GMT
The lady on the Corgi edition of The Fast Buck and Top of the Pops '76 is Jilly Johnson, I believe.
Mark S.
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Post by marksamuels on May 15, 2008 23:08:17 GMT
KEW's "Did They Get You to Trade?" is his tribute to Syd Barrett (hence the title from Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here"). Great Story.
I thought "Bright Lights, Big Zombie" was an absolute treat, too.
Mark S.
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Post by marksamuels on May 15, 2008 22:56:32 GMT
I picked up the first three issues of "One Eye Grey" in a bumper package for six quid from the Waterstones at Piccadilly. Good stuff.
I particularly enjoyed #3 with its series of interlinked tales and the spectacularly Birkinesque "Getting a Taste for it".
I'll have to pick up #4 and #5 the next time I'm down Piccadilly way.
Mark S.
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Post by marksamuels on May 15, 2008 22:43:34 GMT
Urgh. What a horrible mug. It's like one of Pan Horror photographic covers of a homicidal maniac. Someone take it down Funnily enough, I was working on the You-Tube video for "A Gentleman from Mexico" tonight. It's almost completed (but I haven't done the voice-over reading yet). Anyway, it should be posted fairly soon. Probably this weekend. Mark S.
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Post by marksamuels on May 15, 2008 22:36:39 GMT
Mark E. Smith was in the old Machen Society (he's not joined the new one). I never met him at one of the bashes, though I came close. Apparently at one of the shindigs in Whitby he sang a song called "My Dog Shep" in the pub where the Machenites gathered.
Barry Humphries (of "Dame Edna") fame is in the new Society, and he was the president of the old one. But he's not come along to any of the events I've been to.
The latest addition to the Machen celebrity fans is Stewart Lee, the stand-up comic. He came along to the last but one Machen AGM. Really nice chap. I pinched ciggies from him.
Mark S.
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