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Post by allthingshorror on Mar 20, 2008 20:51:39 GMT
I am doing some private research into the Pan Horror books and have been in touch with a few authors who appeared in some of them.
If you are an author who has been featured and I haven't been in touch with you or know someone who's short story has been featured can you please get in touch me with me at
allthingshorror@hotmail.co.uk
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Post by Dr Terror on Mar 21, 2008 19:55:25 GMT
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Post by allthingshorror on Mar 21, 2008 21:11:27 GMT
Cheers for them - phoned Jamie earlier today, he is truly a lovely gentleman.
As for Christina Kiplinger the email doesnt work. Bugger. Will try another way.
Does anyone here know who Septimus Dale really was? Cos I found out today. From the person who is him. If you know - well - I'm just a braindead slob, cos it took me by surprise.
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Post by dem on Mar 21, 2008 22:28:59 GMT
Nope. I always thought that Septimus Dale was ... well, Septimus Dale. Have you had any joy locating total Vault legend Alex White?
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Post by allthingshorror on Mar 21, 2008 22:41:14 GMT
Nope no joy on Mr White. Am I missing anything?  And Septimus is definately another person but I'm just waiting for proof from him before I go blow my load everywhere for want of a better phrase. |
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Post by dem on Mar 21, 2008 22:53:37 GMT
Alex White is a 'she' judging by Van Thal's credits and contributed some extraordinarily nasty stories even by Pan Horror standards. The Clinic in Pan # 14 is a particular favourite. Other mystery authors we've obsessed over include Vernon Routh (The Black Creator in #2) and the fabulously named Gaylord Sabatini (Vortex Of Horror in #14). I hope you have more success than we've had!
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Post by allthingshorror on Mar 22, 2008 9:23:08 GMT
If any of you have a first edition copy of Pan 4 - look at the contents and you will find Little Girl Eater by Septimus Dale on page 85. Turn to page 85 and Little Girl Eeater has all of a suddn been written by M. S. Waddell.
I phoned Martin last night and had a chat with him - he owned up to the fact he was Septimus Dale and he thinks he might also have been John Mason (but not published in Pan Horror) The reason for him stopping writing horror is that he had a very disturbing run in with a fan of his stuff.
There you go - hope that helps.
Johnny
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Post by dem on Mar 22, 2008 9:30:42 GMT
Strangeness! Introducing David Case's The Hunter in Dark Voices: The Best From The Pan Book Of Horror Stories, Ramsey Campbell writes of "the outrageous humour and horrors of M. S. Waddell, an inimitable talent destroyed by an IRA bomb", so I had it figured that he was dead! I wonder who RC was thinking of?
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Post by Dr Terror on Mar 22, 2008 10:35:05 GMT
He was in an IRA explosion but survived. He now writes childrens books.
There was a film made of Little Girl Eater.
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Post by Calenture on Mar 22, 2008 12:18:25 GMT
He was in an IRA explosion but survived. He now writes childrens books. There was a film made of Little Girl Eater. A film of Little Girl Eater? I'm bitterly regretting getting rid of my second Otley novel. I think I still have the first, and that was a tremendous film. Martin Waddell Tom Courtenay and Leonard Rossiter in Otley Martin Waddell interviewSo in my case I had left my girlfriend back home and I wrote about being back home in Ireland. The stories I was writing were of reasonable quality but weren't of publishable quality and I had an agent who said to me that you're writing these gloomy Irish books about being 15 in Ireland and in fact you're 22 and living in England and you're telling me hilarious stories every day about what you did at the market, why don't you write me a book against that background?
At the time spy stories were quite popular and he suggested that we write a spy story combined with my experiences at the antique market. I wrote a book called 'Otley' and it was like a dream debut. The first book I write a film company came in and bought it and I made enough money to go home to Ireland and start writing. I wrote a few books with the same character without really getting anywhere. Then I wrote a book which was completely different called 'In A Blue Velvet Dress' in 1972 which is almost a pastiche of a Victorian Ghost story and that was my first book for children.
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Post by Dr Terror on Mar 22, 2008 14:41:07 GMT
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Post by Dr Terror on Mar 22, 2008 23:22:21 GMT
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Post by allthingshorror on Mar 23, 2008 7:50:19 GMT
Got an email from her yesterday!
Martin says that while there was never a film made of Littl Girl Eater, two German filmakers paid him to use a device from the story.
Have a great Easter people, I'm about to throw some Easter Eggs full of dog poo at excitable children.
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Post by Dr Terror on Mar 23, 2008 15:08:58 GMT
Have you noticed that in #27, The House That Remembered is credited to Jonathan Cruise, but on the back cover to M.G. Barber?
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Post by allthingshorror on Mar 23, 2008 17:15:15 GMT
Now that is a very good call.  |
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