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Post by bushwick on Jan 3, 2010 14:12:14 GMT
Have you got 'Tricycle', HP? and if so, have you read it? that looks pretty crackers.
edit: lazy spaz me, shoulda checked! you posted a cover scan. have you got round to reading it yet?
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Post by bushwick on Dec 2, 2009 16:33:55 GMT
Not horror...I started reading it a year or so ago and shamefully gave up. Not to say it's no good though. Pretty intelligent, interestingly written post-apocalyptic SF (but not the meathead Doomsday Warrior kind, otherwise I would have finished it!), with a definite 60s countercultural flavour. Lots of futuristic terminology that annoyed me a bit. Great cover though.
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Post by bushwick on Dec 2, 2009 16:28:30 GMT
Another great issue. Tony Masero seems like a down-to-earth, stand-up guy...and still available for commissions of book covers...good stuff.
The Death Merchant article was pretty fascinating. More of this insane, balls-out right wing pulp lunacy, similar vibes to Casca and a lot of the men's adventure stuff. The purest exploitation catering to the shadiest, most caveman instincts of the Working Man...I find myself compelled by this kind of material and the guys that wrote it.
The Breed/Herne/Crow piece was good but a bit brief for my liking - I'm obsessed with the Piccadilly Cowboys so could have easily read a whole mag devoted to these characters. Would definitely like to see some more coverage of this area Justin - Jubal Cade, Gunslinger, Peacemaker, Gringos, the Lawmen...I hope the article is well-received so you can write more. Dem, get stuck in, I guarantee you will love these books...I find they always deliver the goods, ie relentless violence, caustic wit/crap jokes, bad sex etc etc, whereas many of the horror books from the same era often promise more than they deliver. I was never interested in the Western genre at all before reading the PC stuff, it was horror all the way for me...
good shit in general, and very sad to hear of Ken Bulmer's final days...and a reminder that I really should stop smoking...
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Post by bushwick on Nov 13, 2009 12:36:26 GMT
A recent horror some of you might want to try is Gutterballs, a Canadian flick from the guy that did the nasty rape-revenge short Torched. Didn't get a theatrical release and there is no way on God's earth the BBFC would allow it through uncut. I saw the fully uncut one which actually features a bit of HC action during the sex scenes...
It's not a 'good' film, it's an 80s-throwback slasher featuring incredibly unlikeable characters (who you are just wishing to die as soon as they step onto the screen), horrible dialogue, and loads of horrendously over the top brutality. An early scene is redolent of I Spit On Your Grave, if you know what I mean, not easy to watch and most definitely exploitative (and involves a bowling pin). In true pulp style, of course the woman's fine afterwards and is back with her friends the next day. Her trauma is expressed by wearing sunglasses...Incredibly severe gore scenes, including a guy getting his entire face ground off by a bowling ball polishing machine (oh yeah, I forgot to mention it's all set in a bowling alley and the killer wears a bowling ball bag as a mask...).
It's an enjoyably uncomfortable mix of 'lighthearted' cheesy tone/horrible scenes, disconcerting bits of real sex, tributes the 80s without trying too hard, plus there is a sequence where a transsexual character gets a non-consensual sex change...yeeesh...
Many of you will hate it, there's very little to defend it really. I can't get on with most modern stuff but , if you 'like' this sort of thing, this is worth a look. To shoehorn in a pulp reference, this could well have been a Laurence James book. Without any of the crafty clever bits.
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Post by bushwick on Nov 6, 2009 20:54:11 GMT
BREED, HERNE AND CROW!! My literary heroes and role models right there! Didn't buy the last PF due to financial restrictions, but I'll be getting this even if I have to mug a granny...
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Post by bushwick on Oct 30, 2009 17:32:18 GMT
The one where the couple who've been abusing their kid go to see the Social Services? mid-period?
The one where the plastic surgeon gets turned into Humpty Dumpty?
The chimneysweep and his child assistant getting crushed in a chimney?
will think of more
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Post by bushwick on Oct 12, 2009 13:41:27 GMT
small T-Pau related anecdote:
My first job upon leaving school was as a trainee shoe repairer in Bognor Regis. My boss was a very nice man from Portsmouth who had recently split up from his wife. He had a bowl haircut and a big moustache. At close of play each day, I had to go to the shop and get him four Hoffmeister whilst he cashed up, whilst listening to 'Bridge Of Spies' by T'Pau in full on his little stereo.
...As you were...
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Post by bushwick on Oct 12, 2009 13:27:09 GMT
An exciting haul for me the other day courtesy of my man on Leeds Market:
Montana Melodrama - GG Gilman (Edge 40, NEL edition) - Nice condition, first edition, 60p
and two horrible, wrong plantation slavery shockers from the 30p bargain bin:
Rampage - Robert Tralins (the follow-up to 'Black Stud') (NEL)
and
Rogue Black - Raymond Giles (Grafton)
Both have very tasteful covers which I shall scan when I have time...
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Post by bushwick on Oct 12, 2009 13:20:05 GMT
Very nice cover. Clifton-Dey?
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Post by bushwick on Sept 30, 2009 13:17:46 GMT
Got major computer problems and a lack of time so can't do scans/proper reviews, but wanted to put in my tuppen'orth and help get things back on track after all this BFS bullshit beef.
I recently read Earth Lies Sleeping, the first Simon Rack novel by Laurence James, and loved it. Fast moving, consistently exciting, audacious plotting...plenty of signature LJ stuff like creative and grim torture scenes, cheeky references, and cross-genre action - it's SF but it reads like one of the WolfsHead books. Recommended for pulp action lovers.
Am currently on with Night Demon by Dillibe Onyeama. What a bloody strange book. Is there a thread for that already? Sure I remember seeing one. Anyway, everything about it screams early-70s NEL (the brief length, the cover art, the way it's written) but it's a 1982 Sphere. Quite wordy and long-winded thus far but worth sticking with I reckon. Very bizarre concept regarding a young Biafran man relocated to the UK who is planning a military coup in Nigeria. His dead grandfather, a power-crazed tribal leader, is getting in touch with him from beyond the grave to help him in his quest by hooking him up with some voodoo dudes. There is Soviet involvement and spying/espionage too. Don't think this will turn out very gory but the bizarreness and the ten-years-too-late writing style make up for it with quirks.
Oh shit, forgot, I also read an old Manor Book, an Executioner-type thing called 'Check Force: 100 Megaton Kill' by Ralph Hayes. Good fun, about an ex-KGB and ex-CIA man bonding together through mutual respect, to save humanity in the face of a shadowy secret organisation who are trying to stir shit up in the Cold War by starting WW3 then stepping in to the resulting post-apoc power vacuum. This had some silly violence (like a poor lass being fed into a paper shredder), but the overriding impression is the strong bond between the two lead characters. They really care about each other, it's heart warming to read. Easily the gayest Men's Adventure title I've read.
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Post by bushwick on Sept 30, 2009 12:56:41 GMT
only just spotted this! cheers Dem.
this story 'premiered' here on this very site...it was written whilst feeling very disorientated whilst on medication...you can probably tell..
glad you're liking the NM demo. aye, my voice is a tad quiet at times. will have a new 'proper' recording soon, should be doing a split single with infernal Middlesborough sludge merchants Drunk In Hell (check em out if you like Swans, Eyehategod, Kilslug etc).
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Post by bushwick on Sept 18, 2009 8:23:31 GMT
Reiterating what others have already said, but you do write well Vaughan. Enjoy reading your observations.
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Post by bushwick on Sept 17, 2009 13:36:55 GMT
You'll tear through that Doomsday Warrior FM. I've read a few of them now and they never fail to disappoint. Have you come across the Glowers yet? They're a wise and peaceful post-apocalyptic people, but with great power, whose internal organs are on the outside of their bodies. They communicate by telepathy, and their thoughts ARE ALL IN CAPITALS. THERE IS A SEGMENT IN ONE OF THE BOOKS WHERE ONE OF THEM ENTERS INTO A LONG MONOLOGUE, RESULTING IN A GOOD FEW PAGES OF ALL CAPITALS.
And there's the underground-dwelling rebel jazz fans, who have deadly musical instruments and all speak like beatniks.
In one of the DW books (and probably in others that I haven't read) there is a part blatantly shoehorned in, where Ted is discovered by a sexy Amazonian group of warrior women. He obviously shags them, as they want his powerful Ultimate American seed to help propagate the new race. This part didn't really have any bearing on the rest of the book. I admired it as a blatant way to cram in some gratuitous sex.
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Post by bushwick on Sept 16, 2009 18:19:39 GMT
Ey up Just found out one of my short stories, 'On The Wall', has been published in Leeds-based arts mag Art Fist. There's 500 paper copies floating around Leeds but you can download the pdf thingy gratis here: www.artfist.co.uk/-Noah
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Post by bushwick on Sept 6, 2009 11:19:39 GMT
'kinnell Johnny! how do you do it???
that's a teaser right there, eh? I HAVE to know! bring on The Book Of Horror Stories!
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