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Post by Chuck_G on Sept 27, 2020 1:09:04 GMT
Yes, that's the one! Thanks.
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Post by Chuck_G on Sept 25, 2020 21:02:12 GMT
Don't know if anyone can help. I used to have a book on Gothic literature. I think the title was Gothic tales of the supernatural or something like that. I remember the cover vividly. In the background was a burning Victorian mansion, and in the foreground was an emaciated Death like creature with black wings holding a scythe. It had excerpts from novels and some complete short stories including The Dead Planet by Edmond Hamilton. I think I lost my copy in my last move, or I stupidly got rid of it when I thinned out my bookshelves. Does this ring a bell with anyone?
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Post by Chuck_G on Nov 4, 2015 19:07:30 GMT
If you like old school sci fi adventure there is also 'Submicroscopic' and 'Awlo of Ulm' both short stories by SP Meek. The only place I know they have been reprinted is in Asimov's Before The Golden Age.
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Post by Chuck_G on Sept 24, 2014 15:30:50 GMT
I remember so many of these movies! I thought my friend Tim and I were the only people in the world who every saw Killdozer. Don't be Afraid of the Dark scared the crap out of me as a kid. A couple of years ago my daughter and her friends watched the remake during a sleepover and thought it was scary. Another made for TV werewolf movie is Death Moon (1878). I don't remember much about it except it took place in Hawaii and featured Debra Lee Scott from Welcome Back Kotter.
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Post by Chuck_G on Sept 24, 2014 15:06:01 GMT
Is it sad for me to admit that I have a whole bookshelf devoted to Lin Carter? Pirates is probably my favorite Thongor book along with Thongor and the Dragon City. I love a lot of those covers on the Berkley editions.
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Post by Chuck_G on Jul 3, 2013 1:54:59 GMT
I was really pleasantly surprised to find that our local 2nd and Charles had gotten in a bunch of these. They had a table with Wordsworth classics, and a table filled with the Mystery and Supernatural. I bought six of them right off, and have been back several times. In the month since they came in, the M&S titles have sold down less than a quarter of the table. The clerk told me they would put in an order for more, the same titles, three copies of each, in the next couple of months. The titles that were on the table that I missed before they sold, both the Crowley volumes, Doyle's Tales of Unease, and Bulldog Drummond by Sapper. There were many other titles, but these were the ones I was interested in.
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Post by Chuck_G on Jun 14, 2013 13:36:37 GMT
In 'Night Visions: The Hellbound Heart', Lisa Tuttle has a story 'The Dragon's Bride'. It was probably my least favorite of the three stories she contributed.
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Post by Chuck_G on May 8, 2013 17:53:01 GMT
I would also like to add:
The Wall-Painting by Roger Johnson and The Picture in the House by Lovecraft
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Post by Chuck_G on Jan 4, 2013 17:26:29 GMT
Just got confirmation that my copy should arrive Jan 9th, and I can't wait.
Interesting thing happened. I was reading 'The Room in the Tower' to my 11 year old daughter a couple of nights ago. The weather was rainy, but it wasn't storming or anything, and about halfway through the story our power blinked out for about 30 seconds. It scared my daughter and I have to admit that it creeped me out as well. When the power came back on my daughter's eyes were huge. We looked at each other and just started laughing. Of course she just had to hear the rest, and we didn't have any more problems with the power.
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Post by Chuck_G on Dec 4, 2012 17:04:55 GMT
Just finished reading The Slave Market! in the Casebook of Sexton Blake. This was my first read of a Blake story. I was sort of expecting a more Sherlock Holmes type of narrative, but I was pleasantly surprised at the pulp adventure style of the story. The scenes in El Blanco's fortress and slave market reminded me a lot of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the escape up the river with the slavers in hot pursuit was very fun. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the stories.
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Post by Chuck_G on Nov 5, 2012 14:56:28 GMT
I just ordered this one through B&N. I've never read any Sexton Blake before, but it looks like it has all the elements I like. I'm a big fan of pulp adventure so 'The Slave Market' and 'Brotherhood of the Yellow Beetle' are really interesting to me. And dem's review of 'Football Mystery' is great!
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Post by Chuck_G on Oct 26, 2012 0:03:00 GMT
My copy arrived today. Looking forward to dipping into it.
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Post by Chuck_G on Oct 24, 2012 19:05:04 GMT
Bradbury's The Emissary would certainly keep all the little one's in shock for the whole long evening I was thinking of The Emissary, one of my favorites. Retelling them in your own words sounds like it would be a lot of fun. Here are some suggestions Poe- The Tell-Tale Heart Poe- The Black Cat HPL- From Beyond Lafcadio Hearn- Hoichi the Earless Wagner- Where the Summer Ends Wellman- The Finger of Halugra
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Post by Chuck_G on Oct 23, 2012 18:05:45 GMT
"Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots." HPL
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Post by Chuck_G on Oct 21, 2011 17:06:51 GMT
How about 'The Upper Berth' by F. Marion Crawford?
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