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Post by helrunar on Apr 4, 2017 15:23:13 GMT
Well, that was quick! A learned lady who seems to be one of the leading figures in the club provided the answer. The story was called "The Painter" and seems to have been published in a UK magazine called Science Fantasy. It's interesting to learn that he published there, because as I have been reading his novels, even though his prose shows an undeniable stamp of specifically American literary traditions, the flavor of what he wrote just feels more British to me. But then again, I'm a dyed-in-the-wall Anglomaniac from way back. pennyspoetry.wikia.com/wiki/Thomas_Burnett_SwannAlso referenced here: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/HieronymusBoschI'd definitely like to read "Winged Victory" as well. I'm not sure either tale was ever published after the original magazine appearance. Best, H.
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Post by mcannon on Apr 4, 2017 22:16:17 GMT
Well, that was quick! A learned lady who seems to be one of the leading figures in the club provided the answer. The story was called "The Painter" and seems to have been published in a UK magazine called Science Fantasy. It's interesting to learn that he published there, because as I have been reading his novels, even though his prose shows an undeniable stamp of specifically American literary traditions, the flavor of what he wrote just feels more British to me. But then again, I'm a dyed-in-the-wall Anglomaniac from way back. pennyspoetry.wikia.com/wiki/Thomas_Burnett_SwannAlso referenced here: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/HieronymusBoschI'd definitely like to read "Winged Victory" as well. I'm not sure either tale was ever published after the original magazine appearance. Best, H. Ah, a fellow TSB fan! There aren't a lot of us about. While his work is sometimes a bit overly sweet and sentimental, I've enjoyed his fiction since I first read "The Manor of Roses" over 40 years ago, in an even-then old issue of "Fantasy & Science Fiction". It's certainly bloody annoying that while it's relatively easy, and cheap, to find copies of most of his novels, some of his handful of short stories are very difficult to track down as they've rarely been reprinted. Funnily enough though I finally got to read "The Painter" only a couple of weeks ago, when I picked up a copy of what I think is its only reprinting - a 1982 pb anthology titled "Flying Saucers" (edited by Isaac Asimov, Charles Waugh and the mega-prolific Martin Harry Greenberg). Certainly not the sort of collection in which you'd expect to find an author of historical fantasies like Swann, but the story is strangely appropriate. The anthology was reprinted a couple of times, so copies should be fairly easy to find via sources like abebooks. I don't think "Winged Victory" has ever been reprinted - at least not according to the extremely useful Internet Speculative Fiction Database (http://www.isfdb.org/). However, its original magazine appearance (Fantastic Universe, July 1958) can be found at the equally wonderful Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Universe_v10n01_1958-07) - as can some of the issues of Science Fantasy in which Swann's work appeared. Hope that helps! Mark
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Post by helrunar on Apr 4, 2017 22:54:17 GMT
Awesome, mcannon! Thanks so much for that link! Archive dot org truly is an amazing repository of all sorts of treasures. I've enjoyed listening to such old radio shows on that site as "Dr. Morelle investigates" or whatever the title was from the 1950s... this pushy, dithering old dear solving cases with his ever patient amaneunsis, Miss Frail I think her name was... The kind of thing only people as offbeat as myself can enjoy, it would seem...
cheeers, H.
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Post by helrunar on Apr 5, 2017 1:45:44 GMT
Hi Mcannon (and perhaps of interest to Rosemary as well), I found the link for Swann's tale "The Dryad-Tree," from a 1960 issue Science Fantasy:archive.org/details/Science_Fantasy_42v14_1960-08The story starts on p. 103. If I dig up more of these, I will have to start that Swann thread as I've gone way off topic here. cheers, H.
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Post by ropardoe on Apr 5, 2017 9:20:51 GMT
Well, that was quick! A learned lady who seems to be one of the leading figures in the club provided the answer. The story was called "The Painter" and seems to have been published in a UK magazine called Science Fantasy. It's interesting to learn that he published there, because as I have been reading his novels, even though his prose shows an undeniable stamp of specifically American literary traditions, the flavor of what he wrote just feels more British to me. But then again, I'm a dyed-in-the-wall Anglomaniac from way back. pennyspoetry.wikia.com/wiki/Thomas_Burnett_SwannAlso referenced here: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/HieronymusBoschI'd definitely like to read "Winged Victory" as well. I'm not sure either tale was ever published after the original magazine appearance. Best, H. I'm so pleased that there's more interest in TBS than I thought. I'm not on Facebook though I can sneak in via Darroll's account, but I'm reluctant to join until I've reread some of TBS's writings as there'll be little or nothing that I can contribute at this point. Wonderful that the story I was trying to remember has been identified so quickly. I did vaguely remember that it was in Science Fantasy - a magazine I married in to as Darroll had a full set (since sold). Science Fantasy was a sort of companion to New Worlds, but much more to my taste.
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Post by ropardoe on Apr 5, 2017 9:31:13 GMT
Science Fantasy (later renamed Impulse) was also where both Terry Pratchett and Christopher Priest had their first fantasy stories published. In the long run might this end up being a more important magazine than the much more well known New Worlds?
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Post by thecountess on Aug 16, 2021 13:20:10 GMT
I love ‘The Remains of Reindeer’ but I cannot find any information on the author, Monica Lee. Was this story a one-off or did she have anything else published?
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Post by dem bones on Aug 16, 2021 13:46:26 GMT
I love ‘The Remains of Reindeer’ but I cannot find any information on the author, Monica Lee. Was this story a one-off or did she have anything else published? Hi Countess. She had another decent story, Stevie, in Pan Horror 18, but that seems to have been it.
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Aug 16, 2021 16:21:25 GMT
I love ‘The Remains of Reindeer’ but I cannot find any information on the author, Monica Lee. Was this story a one-off or did she have anything else published?
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Post by thecountess on Aug 16, 2021 17:03:51 GMT
I love ‘The Remains of Reindeer’ but I cannot find any information on the author, Monica Lee. Was this story a one-off or did she have anything else published? Hi DB- thanks for the super-quick response! I’ll definitely check that one out.
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Aug 16, 2021 17:35:21 GMT
Hi DB- thanks for the super-quick response! I’ll definitely check that one out. That's not dem bones. he looks like this:
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Post by andydecker on Feb 18, 2022 20:23:13 GMT
Onward to Pan 17 in bits and pieces. Monica Lee – The remains of reindeerA strong start to the anthology. It is rambling, and the twist at the end is jarring and unnecessary, it just makes this longer but not better. Still I like the story. It has this casual meanspiritedness a good Pan story has to have. Crazy nobles, dark comedy, nastyness, what more can you want. Harry Turner – The hypnotistIt is a rare occurence that you think you know how a story will end and the writer still can surprise you. I loved the outrageous clinc, and while the end was in hindsight so clear – how could a story about hypnotism not end the the protagonist being hypnotized? - I fully expected to end him directly on the operating table. Grotesque, gothic and original. A typical slice of 70s ideas. Elleston Trevor – They're making a mistakeThis left me cold. A typical first person narrator who is homicidal story, but rather lame at the end. Frankly I expected more of the writer. Barbara J. Eyre – Poor RosieSometimes I wonder how much effort and thought Bertie put in the line-up. After a first person narrative about a nutcase another first person narrative about a nutcase. While I had to grin now and then, dead baby fun indeed, it was very by the number plotting to be honest. In 1976 it seems that the time for innventive story telling in Pan was over. Alex White – To FatimaI love Alex White, but as we know the drill by now, this also seems to be just more of the same. While it is okay and a chuckle or two worth, it lacks spark.
To be continued ...
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Post by andydecker on Feb 22, 2022 20:32:32 GMT
Jack Shackleford - Thy Intention Turn … I like Shackleford and finding this was a nice surprise. But the short story was not really his thing. This could have been as easily an excerpt form a novel. I expected so much more of the end. It was a bit of a letdown. On the other hand we have read this so often, it is hard to be surprised. Truly not Shackleford's fault. Still it was nice to read a supernatural tale for once. I didn't realize that they were so few in the Pan.
Maureen O’Hara - Nobody’s Child Unpleasant indeeed. Maureen is getting better all the time.
Myc Harrison - Needle and Thread Could really have been a Kaufmann story. It would have been better with a bit of motivation, though.
Until now this is an entertaining Pan, maybe a bit too much of the same.
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Post by andydecker on Apr 20, 2022 8:39:40 GMT
And now the conclusion ... Dawn Muscillo – Sister Coxall's Revenge Another only (?) story. Nothing new here, just the next psycho. But the twist is amusing. I can relate to Sister Coxall. A lot of change is not good. Jonathan Cruise – The Claygo WormWell-written story. A bit of British horror movie atmosphere and as so timeless. But I was a bit underwhelmed from the conclusion. After all the built up it seemed a lame. Myc Harrison - The AbscessUgh. I guess I am far off the mark as usual, but there seem to be not that many dentist stories in horror. All this research on dentistry made this uncomfortably real. This will stay with me for a long time, I fear. Never ever read this before you go to the dentist. Norman P. Kaufman - An Opportunity in Local GovernmentEven if Norman basically always tells the same story, I have come to love him. He is dependable, there is always something amusing in his mayhem. It is an oversight that he never was collected. I would put the blurb "The Man Who Inspired SAW" on the cover. Roger F Dunkley - The Man Called JamesAnother psycho, Bertie? No other scripts in the mail? At least it was better done than some other stories of the same topic. All in all 1976 was a good year for Pan. There were enough stories which varied from the formula, some good old-fashioned story-telling instead of Inner Space Madness, a few favourites like White and Kaufmann. An entertaining book. Considering this was the time of James Herbert and Guy N. Smith it could still keep up.
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