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Post by marksamuels on Jun 21, 2011 23:09:39 GMT
I'm afraid that there's only one explanation for what I'm feeling right now. I must have died and gone to Bollywood heaven.
Mark S.
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Post by David A. Riley on Jun 22, 2011 7:09:50 GMT
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Post by ramseycampbell on Jun 22, 2011 14:42:41 GMT
I'm not sure if Ramsey Campbell has this right, but in Dark Voices he writes: " ... and new tales by some real discoveries (for instance, the outrageous humours and horrors of M. S. Waddell, an inimitable talent destroyed by an IRA bomb)." So Bob Shaw told me years ago, but I think it may not have been quite accurate.
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Post by noose on Jun 22, 2011 14:50:01 GMT
it's true. Martin told me so. But he decided to stop writing horror stories because of a disturbing experience with a fan.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jun 22, 2011 18:11:37 GMT
I'm not sure if Ramsey Campbell has this right, but in Dark Voices he writes: " ... and new tales by some real discoveries (for instance, the outrageous humours and horrors of M. S. Waddell, an inimitable talent destroyed by an IRA bomb)." So Bob Shaw told me years ago, but I think it may not have been quite accurate. Bob Shaw. Unsung hero of SF. I recall an interview where I think he said he had never had a story rejected. Wasn't arrogance; just explaining how it was. I was in a secondhand bookshop in the North West and the dealer had befriended Shaw. Shaw was attempting to get all the editions of his works as he didn't have complete set. I think he was ill at the time and died not long after.
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Post by Dr Terror on Jun 22, 2011 18:49:35 GMT
“Seekers after horror haunt strange far places.”
Something else that might be of interest...
Carl Mitchell known as 'Weird Beard' was a DJ on Radio Caroline and apparently he used to read stories from the Pan books on air at a quarter past midnight in a slot either called 'The Weird Beard's Tales of Ghosts, Ghouls and Terror' or'The Weird Beard's Tales of Ghosts, Ghouls and Horror'. I don't know whether any recordings exist though.
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Post by noose on Jul 23, 2012 22:22:34 GMT
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Post by Nightmare on Nov 18, 2012 14:15:16 GMT
I finished reading PAN #6 a couple days ago, but I'll have to go back and read some of the stories again since I can't remember them that well.
Man Skin was a bit creepy and Party Games turned out to be very good.
The Unforgiven happened to be very confusing and a bit repetitive at times.
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Post by patblack on Aug 18, 2013 22:07:40 GMT
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Post by erebus on Dec 10, 2013 12:22:42 GMT
Currently reading this one again after many a year. After the superb first four volumes, Number five was a poor effort IMO. This volume, however, is looking to be back on track. The Lennon story is a little odd I concur. But thankfully it is a mere two pages if that and does have murder. Perhaps the Vaultonians here have been a little harsh on the tale as I can think of many many more stories in the collections that are simply dreadful and should never have seen light of day . And are also much longer than two pages. For example. PATENT NUMBER. 14th. DEATH FROM AUTOPHILIA. 28th MICRO PROCESS. 26th and who can forgot the double dose in the 25th of UPON REFLECTION and ONAWA. Now theres some clunkers. I recall M.S Wadell's MANSKIN from a young age and it always stuck with me, always a sign of a good horror short. But his other effort in this volume LOVE ME LOVE ME LOVE ME drifted from memory, reading again I was suprised by how downright creepy it is. And its now become a personal favorite.
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Post by charliegrenville on Jun 19, 2014 14:24:37 GMT
Ah, so good I bought it twice...
Actually, I bought it the second time because the cover to the first (an original print) was, and is, so unbelievably tattered beyond belief that I couldn't even pick it up without bits falling out. The replacement issue was a reprint with the red writing. Still, it remains one of the superior Pans- and one of the most depraved.
I mean, what more can be said about Waddell contributions like MAN SKIN and LOVE ME LOVE ME LOVE ME? Other than 'yuck'!! They are, however, some of his finest. But it doesn't stop there: PUTZ DIES, THE SHED, A HEART FOR A HEART (slightly overripe 'from the murderer's viewpoint'-style prose, but other than that, delightfully morbid), PARTY GAMES, A REAL NEED, RETURN TO DEVIL'S TONGUES and many others are all guaranteed to pull your innards out with boathooks. Yet the all-time sicko award has to go to (and I can remember having conversations with about three women about this one, it seems to be a favourite of theirs, perhaps for sadly obvious reasons) Abraham Ridley for MY LITTLE MAN. Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezus!!!
Abraham Ridley, of course, who was actually Martin Waddell, Hugh Reid and Septimus Dale. Reading that on this thread after 30 years is a revelation of 'fuck me!!!' size proportions, but when I think about it logically, it says it all, really, doesn't it. Was he AGJ Rough or CA Cooper as well, maybe? Either way, now I want to meet him even more than before, even if all he does these days is write cheesy kids' books.
As for the Lennon story- well, what more needs to be said. It was the Sixties, they were ALL on drugs...and thank God for that.
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Post by charliegrenville on Jul 6, 2014 8:36:52 GMT
Also just read CRACK O'WHIPS: again, an unusual, if somewhat twist-free, approach to how to write a horror story. And, again, a fascinating sepia photograph of a London long gone and never to be seen again. Bizarre to think that in 1965, as the Stones, Yardbirds, Birds, Creation and Downliners were revolutionising live entertainment in pubs across our capital and beyond, up the road people actually WERE still paying to see performing poodles.
Actually, my dad's best mate STILL books dodgy cabaret performers round Essex now, so he should know. Or as Eric from the Starlight Rooms gets offered in Only Fools And Horses, "three conjurers, a speciality dog act and Lionel Blair..."
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Post by zyx on Jan 14, 2015 13:04:17 GMT
"Camera Obscura" by Basil Copper. When a moneylender attempts to collect a debt from an eccentric with a strange photographic device, his life takes a bizarre twist. Effective step into the "Twilight Zone" and a highlight of the volume. (5/5) Heh, funny you should mention the "Twilight Zone" - it was featured in an episode of Rod Serling's "Night Gallery".
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