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Post by mrhappy on Jul 16, 2022 5:22:49 GMT
He only wrote five horror tales? As well as the novel The Ceremonies (1984), which is an extended version of "The Events at Poroth Farm", isfdb.org lists the following short stories - "The Events at Poroth Farm" (1972) - in The Year's Best Horror Stories No.3 ed. Richard Davis (1973) "Renaissance Man" (1974) - in Space 2 ed. Richard Davis (this seems to be SF rather than horror) "S.F." (1975) - in The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series III ed. Richard Davis (1975) "Magic Carpet" (1976) - in Spectre 4 ed. Richard Davis (1977) "Petey" (1979) - in the Dark Gods collection (1985) "Black Man With A Horn" (1980) - in the Dark Gods collection (1985) "Children of the Kingdom" (1980) - in the Dark Gods collection (1985) "Nadelman's God" (1985) - in the Dark Gods collection (1985) "Well-Connected" (1987) - in Weird Tales, Spring 1988 "Camera Shy" (1988) - in 100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg & Robert Weinberg (1995) "They Don't Write 'em Like This Anymore" (1989) - in Pulp Magazine #1 (March 1989) "Ladder" (1990) - in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 4 ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (1991) "One Size Eats All" (1993) - in Best New Horror 5 ed.Stephen Jones & Ramsey Campbell (1994) "Curtains For Nat Crumley" (1996) - in The Ultimate Haunted House ed. Nancy A Collins & Gahan Wilson "Growing Things" (1999) - in The Mammoth Book of New Horror 11 ed. Stephen Jones (2000) "Imagining Things" (2007) - in 666: The Number of the BeastFor those looking to scratch their Klein itch beyond The Ceremonies and Dark Gods I recommend picking up the re-issue of Reassuring Tales that was released last year. It includes almost everything not included in Dark Gods. Mr Happy
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Post by mrhappy on Jun 16, 2022 3:25:34 GMT
And I see it is available on A*a*on. Ordered!
Mr Happy
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Post by mrhappy on Jun 15, 2022 14:22:13 GMT
Just got an email from John Betancourt that the Wildside Press reprint of Australian Nightmares is at the printers. He sent through the cover, which looks great I thought: Fantastic news James! I will be purchasing as soon as it is available! Mr Happy
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Post by mrhappy on May 25, 2022 4:16:53 GMT
So book will deffo come out in September, slipped a month behind schedule - and with newly commissioned artowrk This is draft cover, the final one has a little surprise in store. But yeah, full steam ahead on this book now! DNS
Is this still in the works?
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Post by mrhappy on May 10, 2022 17:12:44 GMT
Nice to see Tony Richards getting a little bit of love on the vault. Always enjoyed his short stories. Just one of authors that seems to have a knack for telling a good story.
Mr Happy
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Post by mrhappy on Apr 10, 2022 17:39:56 GMT
Don Tumasonis - The Prospect Cards: A set of 74 picture postcards, Balkan or, possibly, Middle Eastern in origin and dating from circa 1920-30. Offered by Barnet & Cort, Antiquarian travel books & ephemera - catalogue price, £1 ,650. The diary-in-cards — "Make sure that Mildred doesn't read this!!!"— relates the fragmented tale of English treasure hunters/ temple looters fallen foul of a Snake Goddess cult given to gruesome torture (plenty of it), punishment rape, male genital mutilation and monster births. As told by the last white man standing, whose ultimate fate is perhaps the ghastliest of all. When I came across the news that Don Tumasonis had recently passed away I went back and reread this tale. Oh my goodness is this ever a great little story. The delivery (using postcards with incomplete snippets of dreadful events) allows for pitch perfect mixes of grotesque horror and subtle bleak humor. One postcard which on one side features a man being saddle ridden as a probable punishment (but states that, while discreet, there is definitely a board protruding from the gentleman's posterior) flips over to describe a man being bent forward and preparing to be impaled with a sharp spike by a large mallet. A further card details the impaled man calmly smoking a cigarette (complete with whisps of smoke that are starting to escape where the stake is starting to pierce through his shoulder) inquiring why women and children are eagerly gathering around his dying form. It is only when his companions relate that they are getting ready to posthumously immasculate him that he starts to panic. The postcard's photo shows a pierced sausage on a large pronged fork. This is a beautifully written brutal piece. Mr Happy
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Post by mrhappy on Feb 12, 2022 18:20:55 GMT
And a buck I never knew there were two novelizations for The Terminator. I was aware of the Randall Frakes version released in the U.S. but had no idea Shaun Hutson penned the U.K. edition.
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Post by mrhappy on Dec 7, 2021 23:36:47 GMT
Thanks, Mr Happy! Link: www.sundialpress.co.uk/FLORA%20MAYOR.htmlPriced at 30 pounds UK, and set for publication next month. They are taking pre-orders and at a total run of 150 copies, even with such an obscure author I doubt those who fail to pre-order will have much chance of getting the book. H. Agreed. In fact, I have a feeling this one may be gone within a few days. Now if we can just convince someone to reprint Joseph Cecil Maby's By Stygian Waters. Mr Happy (plugging holes in my James Gang list)
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Post by mrhappy on Dec 7, 2021 17:21:32 GMT
I agree, I've been waiting patiently for the Flora Mayor for years, it's become a bit of a joke in our house. A metaphor for something that may never happen! It looks like it is finally going to happen. Only 150 copies though. Mr Happy
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Post by mrhappy on Nov 1, 2021 13:17:33 GMT
Just a wonderful collection. And, IMHO, he saved the best for last as "Spirit of the Season" is a gem!
Speaking of paperback reissues, I would LOVE to see a new edition of Walkers in the Dark. If the rest of it is even half as good as Season of Mist (released as a a stand-alone novella and perfect reading for this time of year) then I know I'll love it.
Mr Happy
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Post by mrhappy on Sept 27, 2021 3:06:14 GMT
Jane Jakeman - Lock Me Out! (Ghosts & Scholars 22, 1996)
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Post by mrhappy on Aug 8, 2021 16:31:51 GMT
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Post by mrhappy on Jul 26, 2021 13:38:03 GMT
The Archer in the Arras, and other tales of mystery by Lewis Spence (Grant & Murray , 1932) The Archer in the Arras The Green Mirror The Roman Silver The Hudart Cock Lorel's Boat Hun-Baatz Enchantment on the “Unicorn” The Guardian The Temple of Jaguars The Sorceress in Stained Glass The Carpet With A Hundred Eyes The Staff of Doctor Domingo The Ghost in “Hamlet” The Red Flasket The Seat of Sergulath The Horn of Vapula Contraband Bones The Hame-Comer The Stone Finger Maister Mudie The Pirn "Himsel"
Collection of supernatural fiction, in which ghosts, witchcraft, ancestral curses, lycanthropy, and a stone gargoyle come to life.
Still one of my favorites. Richard Dalby, Hugh Lamb, Michel Parry and Peter Haining all reprinted stories from this volume in their various anthologies. Mr Happy
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Post by mrhappy on Jun 28, 2021 2:52:19 GMT
Title given as Lupton's Guest in Australian Ghost Stories, which is the more accurate in terms of the story. And in the first edition of Australian Gothic - clearly missed here in the proofreading process. And in other news I just signed a contract for Wildside to bring out the 2nd Aus anthology, Australian Nightmares, which to complicate things will be the third issued by Wildside. This is great news!
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Post by mrhappy on May 30, 2021 17:01:46 GMT
H.T.W. Bousfield - "The Unknown Island" (1935)
A little chiller by an author whose supernatural/fantastic tales I would like to see gathered in a slim but enjoyable volume.
Mr Happy
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