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Post by the paperback fanatic on Apr 21, 2016 20:32:05 GMT
The excellent movie zine, available through Amazon, has a 20-page article on when animals attack pulp novels in the latest issue. Written by horror illustrator Stephen Bissette, it focuses on Eat Them Alive, quoting a chunk from the Vault (with credits) and lauding a line from, I think, Dem. "Bring on the lampreys!"
So Dem is now being quoted by the legendary artist behind Swamp Thing, Tyrant and Taboo.
It won't be long before rabid fans are passing print outs of the Vault under toilet doors to a bethroned Dem for signing at the London Book Fair in October (legend has it, this did happen to Alan Moore)
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Post by the paperback fanatic on Mar 4, 2016 13:48:21 GMT
I think there was a tipping point from "war is hell" into "war porn" in the Hassel series. My favourite was Reign of Hell, but that may have been down to the age that I read it - about 11 and very open to my brain being warped. And I do think it was after the tipping point!
Hassel is controversial due to his flights of fancy, and in my experience, those who are particular about their military accuracy preferred the Leo Kessler books and gave Hassel the unfortunate nickname of Seven A**holes".
For me, what is so interesting, is why these books toook such a grip on the British psyche in the 1970/80s.
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Post by the paperback fanatic on Feb 19, 2016 13:05:17 GMT
Seeing as I live in the seaside town next to Mr P, and have also been working my way through a few volumes of the Black Book of Horror which includes some of Mr P in full-Birkin mode, I will certainly be doing my very best to drop in.
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Post by the paperback fanatic on Feb 17, 2016 11:48:52 GMT
Not sure if it was picked up on the Vault last year, but noticed on the BAFTAs t'other night that Christopher 'Confessions' Wood was pictured in the 2015 obituary section.
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Post by the paperback fanatic on Feb 4, 2016 15:16:52 GMT
I think I recognise that shop and that it may have been around for nearer 40 years if it's the one I remember from my youth. We used to go on a yearly holiday in a caravan park at a place called Rockley Sands which was between Poole and Bournemouth. It was a comics shop at the time, probably one of the few outside a major city, and I remember it had lots of underground comix as well as the Marvel stuff. We stumbled across it whilst out on a walk, presumably on a nearby beach? I was about 10 and knew about underground comix and specifically Robert Crumb due to getting an art book called Masters of Comic Book Art that Xmas. Despite it costing 65 pence, versus 2000AD costing about 8p at the time, my dad bought me a copy of Robert Crumb's Best Buy Comix. I think it's considered lesser Crumb, but the strips of anthromorphic bears and dogs going through mid-life crisis (reflecting Crumb's mentality due to a load of tax hassles he was going through if I remember) made a huge impression on me and I spent hours copying them out. Thanks for the nostalgia Dem!
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Post by the paperback fanatic on Jan 25, 2016 16:15:10 GMT
"The Paperback and Pulp Fair, formerly held annually at the Park Plaza Hotel in Victoria, is going to be revived later this year. It will be held on Sunday the 30th October at the Royal National Hotel, Bedford Way, Russell Square, London WC1H 0DG. It will be held in conjunction with a book fair run by Etc Fairs which is also held at the hotel on that day, and at which dealers will be selling books, ephemera and postcards. More details will follow soon. For more information, email Neil Pettigrew on harry.np@virgin.net. Prospective dealers should contact either Neil, or Kim Jeffrey of Etc Fairs (info@etcfairs.com)."
Good news!
Please start spreading the word so we can all support this and make it a success.
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Post by the paperback fanatic on Jan 22, 2016 8:52:02 GMT
Dem, work used to take me to Bournemouth a few years back and there was a really good shop in Wimborne. But I'm sure I saw an article recently about its closure. It did cite 8 charity shops in the area as being one of the reasons, so you might strike lucky. But I doubt it!
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Post by the paperback fanatic on Jan 5, 2016 11:20:19 GMT
Not guilty!
Based on a quick glance at Amazon these are pastiches, but I will compare the Super Cop Joe Blaze openings (there are four-ish to check out rather than the 40-odd Marksman/Sharpshooters). I'm just about to e-mail Joe Kenney of Glorious Trash blog to ask him about the three. I have no idea if it is the work of Joe but.....
I know Joe is a huge fan of authors Len Levinson and Rob Lory, who contributed to/wrote the Marksman/Sharpshooter and John Eagle Expeditor series. Joe wrote about the Marksman/Sharpshooter for The Fanatic. He is fascinated by the whole confusing Nelson De Mille bibliography around Ryker/Keller/Super Cop Joe Blaze. He is also a fan of the Gannon series, and Brains for Brunch is a play on the Gannon book title Blood for Breakfast.
If it's not Joe, they have definitely been written by someone who knows their stuff.
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Post by the paperback fanatic on Dec 9, 2015 10:30:48 GMT
Mop Up by Arthur Porges.
Short short of possibly the unluckiest man in the world - survives the nuclear holocaust only to run in to a trio of witch, ghoul and vampire. Then it chucks in some 'when animals attack' justice.
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Post by the paperback fanatic on Dec 5, 2015 14:39:59 GMT
I can confirm Vampires From Outer Space by Silverberg is kind of horror. He was writing for SF and Detective mags at the time, and the SF mag started publishing 'Monster Specials' to capitalise on the success of Famous Monsters. Silverberg would typically have a couple of stories in each issue, under various pseuds. Vamps from OS is more of a detective story than anything, with maybe a touch of the shudder pulps. In others work, total crud.
The Leech by Robert Sheckley is another candidate.
Please keep em coming!
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Post by the paperback fanatic on Dec 1, 2015 11:20:59 GMT
Conscious that this might get lost among the Advent Depravity, but here goes anyway....
Second issue of Pulp Horror will be a Horror in SF 'special', including a piece on Space Vampires. So looking for some Vault expertise in building a list of suitable candidates.
How would I define a space vampire? Not sure really. A future setting. A being from another world. Doesn't have to be a blood-sucker - the list below contains psychic vampires and a robot vamp that sucks oil. Cut off-point mid 80s.
Novels Dreadful Sanctuary, Eric Frank Russell
The Mind Worm, Kornbluth
Space Vampires, Colin Wilson
Thorns, Silverberg
I Am Legend, Matheson
This Immortal, Zelazny
Night World, David Bischoff
Sabella, Tanith Lee
Vampires of Venus, Karl Mannenheim
Image of the Beast, PJF
Shorts
The Stainless Steel Leech (Robot) Zelazny
Asylum, Van Vogt
Vampires from Outer Space, Silverberg
Girl From Mars, Bloch
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Post by the paperback fanatic on Nov 18, 2015 20:22:04 GMT
Recently received a mail from Nigel Taylor who is a regular and valued contributor to The Fanatic.
"I’m thinking of launching an A5 fiction magazine and am looking for contributions. The stories will be horror/SF/fantasy and ideally should be ‘old-fashioned’, with the emphasis on plot rather than mood, prose style or characterisation. Could you make a small announcement in the Fanatic, maybe in your editorial or Fanatical Mails? Anyone interested in contributing stories and/or illustrations should contact me at nigeltaylor131*outlook.com." (replace the * with @)
I can vouch for Nigel as an all round good egg and he has previously published at least one collection of short stories, so he has got some previous. Based on my interactions with him, his fave authors are Fred Brown and Robert Bloch if that's a help in any way for interested parties. I will put something in The Fanatic, but based on the Filthy Creations crew that lurked hereabouts, thought he might elicit a better response from this particular den of inequity.
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Post by the paperback fanatic on Oct 1, 2015 19:34:45 GMT
Just received a mail to say that Warren 'The Destroyer' Murphy recently passed away. Only wrote one horror book that I am aware of (sent Dem a scan to use in the 'hands' thread) but as he was a one-man fiction factory, still thought it would be noteworthy for Vaulters. I believe the pod fanzine Exploitation Retrospect is publishing a Murphy special in the next few months.
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Post by the paperback fanatic on Sept 20, 2015 9:23:32 GMT
I think it's about time someone grappled with such a serious subject Dem, and as ever your services to academia in horror are much appreciated.
Incubus by Ray Russell is in especially bad taste as the girth sported by the demon causes serious damage. Very slimy. Reads like Ray Russell's personal sex fantasy. Eve of Midsummer features a well endowed homonuculus kept in a cage in a cellar - everyone home should have one. Homonuculus by Kenneth Rayner Johnson - not read it, but get the impression it's along those themes The Hot Blood series - I'm sure there is at least one monster penis story in the ten-odd volumes!
There was a notorious underground comix by Greg Irons in an issue of Skull. I think it might have been A Tall Tail? A dwarf who is shunned by the local townspeople discovers an instant growth serum. Whilst in coitus with one of the townies he injects himself with the growth serum with instant results....
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Post by the paperback fanatic on Sept 7, 2015 15:00:30 GMT
Guessing it's Tim White.
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