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Post by algernon on May 8, 2013 0:00:05 GMT
Hi.
Does anyone have a copy of Ramsey Campbell's Far Away & Never (1996) that they want to sell for a reasonable price? The cheapest I can find in online shops is selling for around £45.00. It is the only book of Ramsey's that I don't have (that I'm aware of anyway...:-) ) and I might end up having to spend this whopping amount for an un-signed regular copy. However, I figured I'd have a look on the old Vault of Evil first just in case someone had a copy that they were desperate to sell.... Here's hoping :-)
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Post by algernon on May 7, 2013 23:52:46 GMT
Does anyone remember seeing the 1975 Bristish short (approx 29 mins running time) called Mrs Amworth? It was an adaptation of the classic short story by E. F. Benson. It starred Glynis Johns and was directed by Alvin Rakoff. I remember during the early to mid 80's, my older brother would regale me with tales of the horror films he'd seen the night before (as I was too young to be allowed to stay up late and see the actual films). They were mostly Hammer Horror, Amicus and Tygon films, with the occasional more modern film (such as The Omen, The Manitou etc). Of these films, there was one that stood out for me more than the others. It was a short film about an elderly lady who was a vampire in a quiet English village. The film was called Mrs Amworth. The scene of Mrs Amworth's face in the dark (I can't remember if it was before, during or after the car accident scene in the film) gave my brother the willies and I loved to hear him describe it....as I could actually hear in his voice how much it had frightened him at the time. Then some years later I got lucky, as it was repeated once late at night on HTV (the Welsh regional variation of ITV) and it frightened the bejeesus out of me too. I have looked online but I have not been able to discover if it's avaiable on DVD anywhere (perhaps as part of any "DVD Extras" or anything on any other DVD). Does anyone on the Vault of Evil forum have any good news for me regarding any DVD release of this forgotten jem?
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Post by algernon on Apr 10, 2013 14:06:09 GMT
Hi Ramsey.
Thanks for the reply and the information. I will have to get the PS edition of Secret story. I've already got (and read) the Tor edition (I bought it at Watersone's in Liverpool the day after I met you and you kindly signed 7 books for me (the Night Adam Nevill et al were there talking about serial killers in fiction). If I'd have used my noodle I would have bought it the night before so I could have gotten it signed too....doh!!)).
I read somewhere that the British version was called Secret Stories and the US version Secret Story? Is this not the case?
Thanks again, Hope to meet you again sometime (when I shall pester you to sign some more books for me....lol).
Take care.
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Post by algernon on Apr 4, 2013 4:35:47 GMT
Hi everyone.
I already have Ramsey Cambpell's novel Secret Story in the Tor books edition. I have since discovered that this is in fact an abridged edition of "Secret Stories". However, the only version available on Amazon is the Secret Story (there are a number of different editions, but all are tittled Secret Story - which I assume will all be the abridged US version???). Does anyone know if the UK version (and unbridged) is available in the UK and where I could get a copy?
Also, I have a copy of Ramsey Campbell's "The Claw". I was wondering if there are any major differences between this and the american version "Night of the Claw" which he published under the Pseudonym Jay Ramsey Campbell.
Thanks, any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Algernon
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Post by algernon on Feb 13, 2013 5:54:40 GMT
Thanks Craig Herbertson........as soon as I read the Words "Supertime by Robert Eastland" I realised that that was indeed the tittle of the story. And the link you gave was for the very CD audiobook that I used to own. I don't think any of the stories were particularly amazing, especially as I could only partly remember one of the stories. However, I do remember listening to it nightly at one point, as it was very good at helping me doze off to sleep:-) Thanks again for your help with identifying the tittle and author.
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Post by algernon on Feb 12, 2013 1:35:32 GMT
I was wondering if anyone could help me identify the name and author of a short story about a werewolf? I used to have a 2 disc audiobook anthology of horror stories, each story was read by different actors (including Jenny Seagrove and I think Gareth Hunt (he of New Avengers and Gold Blend coffee adverts fame) or it might have been Joana Lumley (New Avengers again - hence the confusion). I can't remember the name of the anthology either and I have since misplaced it. The story that I am particularly interested in was read on this collection by Colin Baker (ex Doctor Who). The story concerned an ex soldier/officer who had survived the Russian winter after Napoleon's Moscow campaign (I can't remember if he soldier was French or Russian or any other nationality that was involved in the campaign). From what I remember he talks of the bitter cold snow, the starvation etc that they endured and I think he talks of the wolves always close by in the woods and forests etc. And the story ends with the narrator letting slip or stating that he has become a wolf/werewolf.....I think the last line of the story is something like ".......become (a) slavering wolf/wolves". It was at this point in the audiobook that the eerie music kicked in and after a few seconds of silence the next story was introduced.
Does anyone know the name of the Audiobook anthology, or more to the point, the name and author of the short story? I have a particular fondness for the short werewolf story (one of my favourites being Bernard Capes' "The Thing in the Forest") and I'd love to read this again (or to be more accurate, I'd love to read this for myself for the first time).
Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Also, I'd love to hear about your favourite werewolf short stories (especially if they are old fashioned and by some of the classic authors (I also love the many short stories written by Algernon Blackwood about wolves, werewolves and shape-shifters etc).
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Post by algernon on Feb 12, 2013 0:06:46 GMT
Hi. I really enjoyed the Hammer Glamour 2012 Calendar (also the Hammer Glamour book by Marcus Hearn, as well as all his other books on all things Hammer). However, I have been unable to find out when the Hammer Glamour 2013 Calendar by Titan Books is meant to be released (or even if it is going to be released). The cover alone is enough to whet my appetite....Does anyone know anything about the probable release date of this? 2013 is rapidly wizzing by and I have no calendar of fair maidens on my wall...
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Post by algernon on Feb 8, 2013 12:37:59 GMT
Does anyone have fond memories of the tv show Garth Marenghi's Darkplace?
It was a British comedy show made for Channel 4 (broadcast in 2004) which was created by (and stared) Matthew Holness and Richard Ayoade (the show also stared Matt Berry and Alice Lowe). The series was set around the fictional horror author Garh Marenghi and his publisher Dean Learner. The show was presented as a lost classic: a television series produced in the 1980s, though never broadcast at the time. The presentation featured commentary from many of the "original" cast, where characters such as "Marenghi" and "Learner" reflected on making the original "Darkplace" show. Each instalment featured an introduction by the present-day Marenghi – played by Holness as some sort of mixture of James Herbert, Shaun Hutson and Guy N Smith – in which he ponderd the brilliance of his creations, followed by an ‘original’ episode of Darkplace, a shoddily written and woodenly acted spectacle of bad special effects and horror clichés set in Darkplace Hospital. Each instalment had the hospital staff dealing with some supernatural events that always seemed to plague the hospital and its grounds, as it had been built "over the very gates of Hell," in Romford, Essex. Darkplace hospital is a place where doctors are armed with revolvers and pump-action shotguns, they drive along the basement corridors in golf carts and play saxaphones on the roof at the end of a hard shift and the temps are killed in mysterious flying cuttlery accidents.
Garth liked to refer to himself as a "dreamweaver" and "humble fabulist" and came across as a judgemental egomaniac who liked to talk down to his audience. Here is an example of his to-camera introduction to episode 2 (tittled Hell Hath Fury) :
"Greetings friend, I hope you're sitting uncomfortably. Be it on your sofa, armchair or beanbag if that's how you choose to live your life. I'm Garth Marenghi, horror writer. You know everyone has a special talent. Mine is being able to write, produce, direct, act, paint. Other people are good plumbers, that's their gift".
The Garth Marenghi character also made an appearance on Dean Learner man to man (another series where Richard Ayoade played Dean Learner who interviewed various guests each week. All the various guests were played by Mathew Holness).
I apologise in advance if this show has already been mentioned or discussed on another thread on The Vault of Evil website (I have quickly searched the site and as of yet found no reference to this modern classic).
I would love to hear Members thoughts, reflections and memories of this show:-)
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Post by algernon on Feb 8, 2013 11:41:50 GMT
P.S. Sorry about the typo on "want". D'oh!!!
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Post by algernon on Feb 8, 2013 11:36:46 GMT
Hi. I was lucky enough to be able to purchase the last copy of Bedabbled ~3 from Hemlock books.....and I think its brilliant!!! I had only just recently heard about this brilliant magazine. Now I'm just kicking myself that I didn't discover it sooner and collect issues 1 and 2. I know this is a long shot (a very very long shot...) ..... but does anyone know where I'd be able to get copies of the first two issues? Or does anyone have a few extra copies they wan't to sell? I bet I already know the answer.....:-(
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Post by algernon on Feb 3, 2013 17:34:57 GMT
Hi Shrink Proof. Thanks very much for the information on the "Sing sorrow sorrow" book. I have had a quick look online and I instantly recognised the cover of the book. I think it's one of those books I must have discovered on Amazon at some point and put off purchasing in favour of some other book I felt that I despeately needed more at the time....and then I must have forgotten all about it (I regularly clear out my desk and throw away scraps of paper containing lists of planned future purchases......only later to regret my attempts at spring cleaning). D'oh!!!! as Homer Simpson would say.
I have PM'd you for more details on your copy of the book.
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Post by algernon on Feb 3, 2013 9:51:51 GMT
Hi. Thanks for the suggestions Demonik and Jamesdoig. I've had a quick search online and they definately look like my kind of books The cover for the "Great Welsh Fantasy Stories" is certainly entertaining. I think you might be right Demoniak, it probably is the "The magic valley travellers" anthology under a different tittle (Gwasg Garreg Gwallch usually publish Welsh language books and often re-print some older English language books with a local/Welsh interest). I am definately going to be purchasing these volumes soon. I hadent heard of the Cold Cuts anthologies before Jamesdoig, I will certainly seek them out too. My thanks again.
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Post by algernon on Feb 2, 2013 11:53:36 GMT
Hi there. Thank you for the quick response (and for replying ) I shall definately try and be there (If I'm not working.... Doh!!!). I just received Thana Niveau's Book (From Hell to Eternity) through the post today. I bought it mostly because the review mentioned that you had written the Introduction. I'm looking forward very much to reading the book. I hope your busy working on your next book Thanks again for the reply to my post.
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Post by algernon on Feb 2, 2013 10:55:26 GMT
Hello everyone. I've just joined this site a few days ago. I have alays been interested in horror, in literature and in films/tv. I guess I don't really have much to say at the moment, I'm just enjoying reading over the old posts on this site and discovering a lot of new authors that I haven't read yet:-)
I was wondering though, if anyone knows of any anthologies collecting together Welsh horror stories or stories set in Wales (as I live in North Wales and I am therefore greatly interested in this area)? There seems to be a number of collections dedicated to tales of horror/terror set in Ireland and Scotland (even the excellent Wordsworth Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural series has an Ireland and Scotland book). I already have the Welsh Tales of Terror by R. Chetwynd-Hayes. But does anyone know of any other books dealing with Welsh tales? (And I do not own a Kindle or any other e-reader device, which is a shame as there is an e-book by R. S. Pyne which sounds wonderful :-)) Thanks, any information or advice would be very much appreciated.
Also, I have been a great admirer of Ramsey Campbell since my teens (and I have most of his books on my shelf - and a few signed which I was able to purchase on ebay). I would very much like to meet the great man himself and perhaps ask him to autograph a book or two. However, I always seem to learn of his public appearances or book signings after the fact or they are being held in Australia or some other distant land. I was wondering if anyone could tell me of a good source for finding out if he has any public appearances locally (i.e. in Liverpool or Chester, or Wales even lol)? I haven't had much luck from his website or the Waterstones website either.
Thanks again. I hope to get stuck in with the forums etc on this site once I work out what I want to say :-) ha ha ha
Bye for now.
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