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Post by lemming13 on Jul 17, 2010 20:06:08 GMT
I shudder to admit it but I read a rather nasty 'erotic' novel some years ago which featured a Fu Manchu style villain working in cahoots with Nazi occultists to raise some kind of demon god. Very heavy on the sado-masochistic sex and scantily clad women, it also featured a hero of the Bulldog Drummond/ Nayland Smith breed. The title was Yellow Peril, and the author was Richard Jaccoma.
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Post by lemming13 on Jul 17, 2010 19:57:47 GMT
I have to admit this is a personal favourite of mine, not so much because of the writing but because of a wonderful cassette recording I had of Richard O'Brien reading these tales with true pulp radio host style. The tales are allegedly all genuine hauntings, and include the Pluckley Ghosts, the William Terriss haunting of Covent Garden, and the Grey Man of Ben MacDhui. Great stuff for younger readers, and older ones too. I managed to get a set of MP3 recordings of the stories which I have been occasionally posting on Youtube (if I can be forgiven for betraying the written medium so far) on my channel www.youtube.com/user/Lemming013. If anyone has any information about a print edition I'd be grateful. I was contacted by Mr Brennan himself via Youtube, and he had actually forgotten writing them...
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Post by lemming13 on Jul 17, 2010 19:47:36 GMT
Appreciate the suggestions, folks, I will certainly check out the works of Grabinski immediately. I see I forgot to mention Mikhail Bulgakov in my Russian recommendations; there are substantial fantasy elements in his works, but 'The Master and Margarita' and 'Heart of a Dog' are as much horror as fantasy, and absolutely wonderful reading.
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Post by lemming13 on Jul 16, 2010 15:31:14 GMT
I found recordings in MP3 format of the entire Price of Fear series at the Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/details/radioprograms), but some are poor quality recordings. I understand the BBC are releasing the series on CD shortly. For those who enjoy radio horror, the archive has a huge selection of series, including Inner Sanctum, Dark Fantasy, Weird Circle and so on. There aren't many British, but there are some nice vintage items like Secrets of the Black Museum with Orson Welles, and a South African series called Nightfall from the 1960s. A lot of the stories are adaptations of classic pulp horror.
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Post by lemming13 on Jul 16, 2010 15:24:01 GMT
I'm wondering where our eastern friends went to in this thread. I'm not terribly familiar with Eastern European literature as a whole, but there are some wonderful Russian authors who ventured into the field of horror; Nikolai Gogol's 'Collected Tales' contains some masterpieces of the disturbing, and Anton Chekhov's 'Ward 6 and Other Stories' is a favourite of mine. Perhaps they get overlooked because they're treated with such reverence for their 'classical' literature, but the Russians relish their fantastical horrors. Does anyone know of any Polish or Hungarian genre authors who have been translated into English?
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Post by lemming13 on Jul 16, 2010 15:06:46 GMT
You know, I read that anthology a very long time ago, borrowed it from my local library. Sadly, it was one of many hundreds of wonderful books they chose to sell off, and someone got to it before I did. I wish I could find it again, I really enjoyed it.
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Post by lemming13 on Jul 16, 2010 14:56:58 GMT
As one who came to horror partly through Peter's anthologies, I would like to add my sincere regrets at his passing to the rest. I recently shared the Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories with my daughter (introducing a new generation to the genre proper as she showed a cheering disdain for Twilight), and she was also saddened to hear that the man responsible for it had passed away. RIP Peter.
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Post by lemming13 on Jul 16, 2010 14:34:58 GMT
Thanks, gentlemen, I'm already feeling at home.
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Post by lemming13 on Jul 15, 2010 15:14:21 GMT
Newbie just arrived on the board after a fruitless search for fellow enthusiasts of the macabre in my local area. If they're out there I can't find them... Anyway, I'm a genuine 60s product with a wide taste in horror (as well as a lot of other things). My favourite author is M R James, but I am gradually amassing a huge collection of others, with much gratitude to Wordsworth Books. I don't necessarily hate new horror, but I do loathe torture porn and the Saw school of so-called entertainment. I do enjoy films and other media, but there really is no substitute for a good book. I also write and occasionally inflict odd things on the world via Youtube (where I also appear as Lemming013). I think I'm going to be spending a lot of time on here just catching up with all the fascinating threads already posted, so expect to suffer more of me anon.
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