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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 5, 2019 18:38:17 GMT
For the record, Carl Dreadstone worked from the original script of The Wolfman when writing the novel. Oh, so now you know Carl Dreadstone? Will the bragging never stop? Carl was just over to use the phone and we just laughed and laughed.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Sept 30, 2019 15:21:25 GMT
I am reminded of Great Expectations, a wonderful bookstore, now long gone, in Evanston, Illinois, close to the campus of Northwestern University. Despite the name, I am not sure they stocked any fiction, but they were a fantastic resource for academic literature. For instance, they seemed to have all the Dover reprints of obscure Russian mathematics treatises, etc. Everything was stored in towering piles on the floor, in no apparent order. But the hippie-like types who worked there always knew exactly where almost anything you asked for was and would pick it out for you from one of the piles. The owner of the store, an older guy, sat enthroned on a sort of podium in the middle of the store. One time I was looking for a copy of Franz Oppenheimer's anarchist classic THE STATE, and for once the assistant was not sure if they had it or not. So he goes to the guy on the podium to ask, causing an explosive reaction. "That awful, awful book!" the old guy screams. "Of course we don't have it! Who wants to know?" At that point I decided to leave.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Sept 23, 2019 12:13:51 GMT
I've needed this without knowing I needed it! Thank you, Dem! Indeed. But why is there a "Jack" among the "Hughs"?
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Sept 18, 2019 16:17:18 GMT
This is Vera Lynn:
This song always brings tears to my eyes, even though I have never experienced war. Such is the power of Vera Lynn.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Aug 29, 2019 13:00:06 GMT
I can also recommend The Golden Age of Murder. I was not too thrilled with THE GOLDEN AGE OF MURDER, but it has been several years since I read it and I do not remember why, so my opinion is meaningless. I thought you might nevertheless be interested.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Aug 21, 2019 16:23:50 GMT
I should say - indeed, did say in two columns in Video Watchdog - that both HPLHS films are considerably more than that, and I recommend them to anyone who hasn't seen them. I've only seen "The Call of Cthulhu", but I agree with you on that, Ramsey. I thought it was excellent, and definitely not just a fannish in-joke (not that there's necessarily anything wrong with that!). Yes, that is right, just gang up on me! I can take it.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Aug 16, 2019 20:06:24 GMT
"Bela knew his house was haunted ... there's the bat .... the howling dogs ... the weird woman ... the coffin-like boxes ..." The Bat is an extract from the uncredited (Forrest J. Ackerman ?) Lugosi's Haunted House, Famous Monsters of Filmland #59, Nov. 1969. So that means Haining the radio story up? Sigh. From his Bat intro: With his vocal gift, he was also something of a storyteller too, and in 1955, the year before he died, read the following story on NBC radio claiming that it was actually based on fact. True or not, just imagine as you read it Lugosi's voice speaking and I am sure the effect will be as chilling as anything else you find in these pages...
cheers Dem - be good to read Forries' whole piece now! But what balls to have as Haining's book came out in 1995 - Forrest didn't die till 2008 - the chances are that someone with such a keen interest in the genre would want to read..oh, I'll shut up now. Audacious!
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Aug 15, 2019 15:24:43 GMT
This director also did a film (which presumably is in your set) about two women being stalked by an evil "extraterrestial" who I recall looking as if he was a bloke in some kind of puppy bondage mask with cheap fangs glued on. I laughed through the trailer on you tube but felt that was enough bang for the virtual buck. This may indeed be a description of PREY, which is a wonderful and unusual film. It concerns a love triangle involving a lesbian couple living in the countryside and a flesh-eating alien.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Aug 15, 2019 14:00:59 GMT
That is to say, you like . . . kitchens!
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Aug 14, 2019 9:35:44 GMT
It is worth remembering that to date there have been no good Lovecraft adaptations. Re-Animator (1985)? OK, it's not a "faithful" adaptation, but that doesn't stop it being good in it's own way. You are right! I forgot about that one.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Aug 13, 2019 19:09:29 GMT
It is worth remembering that to date there have been no good Lovecraft adaptations. My favorite, Roger Corman's EDGAR ALLAN POE'S THE HAUNTED PALACE is ok, but nothing more. There have been faithful adaptations, in the sense of faithful to the plots of the sources, by the H P Lovecraft Historical Society, but they are ultimately just fannish in-jokes.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jul 30, 2019 19:53:45 GMT
Dropping her first name makes practical sense with Pierce Nace suddenly sounding full of testosterone. Speaking of which, why do we still only have testosterone? When is the finished osterone coming?
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jul 10, 2019 15:56:51 GMT
His memoir BOOK OF THE DEAD is worth getting. Have to confess that I have a problem with a lot of these guys. Hoffman Price, Belknap Long, Wade Wellman, Cave and others, what I read so far from them I found pedestrian. Especially Belknap Long is downright boring. I can enjoy the early Bloch for all his flowery prose, but these I mostly think overrated. The myth of Weird Tales made theit work more interesting as it is. At least Hugh B Cave's "weird menace" stuff is pretty out there, even by the standards of the genre.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jul 5, 2019 19:33:44 GMT
I like Werner Herzog's NOSFERATU best. Both of them. They, along with Murnau's film, are also perhaps closest to Stoker's book, in that Dracula is a monster, not a handsome gentleman.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jun 23, 2019 14:01:19 GMT
There is a lot of money in this stuff, obviously.
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