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Post by allthingshorror on Jun 10, 2008 15:29:25 GMT
Imagine my surprise when the postie delivered this, this morning. I had ordered it because it was a Van Thal book that I had ever heard of before. Click on pictures to enlarge them!   CONTENTS:
Jack Finney: Contents of the Dead Man's Pockets
Peter Fleming: The Kill
Angus Wilson: Rasberry Jam
Philip McDonald: Our Feathered Friends
Geoffrey Household: Taboo
Carl Stephenson: Leiningen Versus The Ants
Charles Lloyd: Special Diet
Lord Dunsay: The Two Bottles of Relish
Sidney Carroll: A Note For The Milkman
H G Wells: The ConeThis is just a mindblowing find...... |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jun 10, 2008 18:42:33 GMT
It is rather. Looks highly collectible and contains th utterly brilliant two bottles of relish
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Post by dem on Jun 10, 2008 21:53:29 GMT
Hugh Lamb mentions Striking Terror in The Penguin Book Of Horror & The Supernatural but I've not seen a copy before. I think his very earliest book relating to horror was a reissue of Rhoda Broughton's Twilight Stories, originally published in 1879, under his Home & Van Thal imprint in 1947. Broughton seems to have been a favourite of his as he edited an edition of her Not Wisely, but Too Well for Cassells in 1967 and I'm almost certain he included her The Man With The Nose in the collection of Victorian Ghost Stories he edited (for Arthur Baker ?).
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Post by allthingshorror on Jun 10, 2008 22:01:00 GMT
Dem - you have a copy of the Hugh Lam book there? Can you scan said page in?
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Post by dem on Jun 10, 2008 22:26:52 GMT
The entry on HVT isn't much to write home about, I'm afraid, and the book's too big to fit under my tiny scanner so this is about the best copy I can manage! It's from Jack Sullivan (ed) - Penguin Book Of Horror & The Supernatural (Viking, 1986), Hugh being one of several contributors. |
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Post by jkdunham on Jun 12, 2008 1:46:27 GMT
I'm almost certain he included her The Man With The Nose in the collection of Victorian Ghost Stories he edited (for Arthur Baker ?). Rhoda Broughton's "The Man With The Nose" is in the 1954, R.C. Bull edited, Arthur Barker collection; Perturbed Spirits. Is that the one you're thinking of? Incidentally, if you're still after the cover of R.C. Bull's Upon the Midnight (Macdonald, 1957) for the Vault site; |
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Post by dem on Jun 12, 2008 6:01:35 GMT
Rhoda Broughton's "The Man With The Nose" is in the 1954, R.C. Bull edited, Arthur Barker collection; Perturbed Spirits. Is that the one you're thinking of? It might be, s, but I'm sure I'd have remembered that gorgeous cover (thank you!). I saw the book I have in mind just the once, in the local library, when I'd nipped in there after work .... minus library ticket. The more I think of it, it seems likely it was a copy of his reissue of Rhoda Broughton's Twilight Stories! |
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Post by dag on Jun 12, 2008 15:46:54 GMT
Mike Ashley has suggested that van Thal's first anthology of weird fiction may in fact have been Tales of the Supernatural (Pan 1945), which was edited anonymously. At this time van Thal was running his own publishing house, Home & van Thal, so to avoid accusations of moonlighting it makes sense for him to have edited this anthology anonymously.
Tales of the Supernatural contains work by de Maupassant, Pushkin, and Stevenson, and Mervyn Peake contributed an illo for the dust jacket. The Victorian slant certainly suggests van Thal as the likely editor... Can anyone confirm or deny this?
The Mike Ashley source I am referring to is an article entitled "It's Alive - The Rebirth of Horror Fiction in Britain 1960-1979", published eleven years ago in The Scream Factory #17. This article offers a masterly overview of horror fiction between these years, and has much to say on the Pan Horror series and its predecessors and successors.
David
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Post by dem on Jun 12, 2008 19:31:34 GMT
The Mike Ashley source I am referring to is an article entitled "It's Alive - The Rebirth of Horror Fiction in Britain 1960-1979", published eleven years ago in The Scream Factory #17. This article offers a masterly overview of horror fiction between these years, and has much to say on the Pan Horror series and its predecessors and successors. Hi David, thank you for joining and welcome to Vault. I'm afraid I can't confirm or deny Van Thal as Tales Of The Supernatural editor but the Rhoda Broughton reprint was certainly published under the Home & Van Thal imprint in 1947 (not 1948 as suggested in the Hugh Lamb piece), so that would appear to bear him out. I'm wondering if Justin might like to approach Mike Ashley about rerunning the above article in a future issue of Paperback Fanatic? |
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Post by justin on Jun 13, 2008 17:28:11 GMT
I don't think Mike would grant me permission to reprint any more of his work. I edited his Haining piece which also came from The Scream Factory to cut it down to a more manageable size (cut out a lot of the stories he listed as contents and stuff I thought was just too detailed even for The Fanatic readership) and made the schoolboy error of not running it by Mike to make sure he was comfortable with it. (Peter Haining was cool with the edit, but it was ABOUT Peter, not written BY him) When I sent Mike copies of PF6 his only comment was that I had edited it down and I've not heard from him since. Totally my fault.
The piece referred to in the British Horror issue of The Scream Factory is typically Mike Ashley- exhaustive, definitive and meticulously researched. Personally I feel it was a little bit too dismissive of the 60s/70s pulp school of authors, so when I do get around to writing some features on anthologies, I'll be coming at it from a different angle to Mike.
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