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Post by mcannon on Oct 7, 2016 2:11:48 GMT
By my reckoning the three volume Complete Stories ... resurrect ninety-seven of his shorts between them so, nice books to have but Citadel's claims of completism are way premature. Underwood-Miller, the original publishers of the series, told it like it is with their title, The Selected Stories of Robert Bloch. It would likely take at least another four/ five volumes to do the trick. Bloch complains about the retitling to "Complete" in his introduction to The Early Fears, and points out that none of the stories in The Early Fears are in those three volumes. There's only one story from the 1930's, then it skips ahead to 1943. Most of the stories are from the mid-1940's through the late 1970's. Since Bloch's death, six volumes of uncollected stories have been published (three volumes of The Lost Bloch, two volumes of The Reader's Bloch, and the Arkham House collection Flowers from the Moon and Other Lunacies), but there are still uncollected/unreprinted stories. Most of the "Lefty Feep" stories have never been reprinted, nor have most of his stories from the 1990's. (His final story, "Maternal Instinct", has only been published in an expensive small press anthology, Mondo Zombie.) One problem with trying to determine how many of his stories have been reprinted in collections is the duplication in his collections from the 1960's and 1970's. I have "Lucy Comes To Stay" in three of his collections (as well as three different anthologies). "The Cloak" seems to have been reprinted a lot as well. "Maternal Instinct" has been reprinted, though only once that I know of - In Otto Penzler's massive "Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!"anthology of about 5 years ago. You're quite right though that some of Bloch's stories appear to have been collected much more frequently than others; for example, "Hell on Earth" was a quite lengthy story in a 1942 "Weird Tales", yet the only reprints of which I'm aware were in an early Peter Haining anthology and one of the posthumous Subterranean Press Bloch collections. I'd never even heard of the story until I saw a DC Comics graphic novel adaptation of it in the mid-1980s. |
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Post by bobby on Oct 8, 2016 15:44:37 GMT
Bloch complains about the retitling to "Complete" in his introduction to The Early Fears, and points out that none of the stories in The Early Fears are in those three volumes. There's only one story from the 1930's, then it skips ahead to 1943. Most of the stories are from the mid-1940's through the late 1970's. Since Bloch's death, six volumes of uncollected stories have been published (three volumes of The Lost Bloch, two volumes of The Reader's Bloch, and the Arkham House collection Flowers from the Moon and Other Lunacies), but there are still uncollected/unreprinted stories. Most of the "Lefty Feep" stories have never been reprinted, nor have most of his stories from the 1990's. (His final story, "Maternal Instinct", has only been published in an expensive small press anthology, Mondo Zombie.) One problem with trying to determine how many of his stories have been reprinted in collections is the duplication in his collections from the 1960's and 1970's. I have "Lucy Comes To Stay" in three of his collections (as well as three different anthologies). "The Cloak" seems to have been reprinted a lot as well. "Maternal Instinct" has been reprinted, though only once that I know of - In Otto Penzler's massive "Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!"anthology of about 5 years ago. Thank you. I did not want to spend $75 for Mondo Zombie (and that's just for the unsigned "trade" edition!) just to get the Bloch story since I'm not really a zombie fan. (Though I did like the two episodes of iZombie that I've watched so far.) |
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Post by cromagnonman on Oct 8, 2016 17:58:45 GMT
for example, "Hell on Earth" was a quite lengthy story in a 1942 "Weird Tales", yet the only reprints of which I'm aware were in an early Peter Haining anthology and one of the posthumous Subterranean Press Bloch collections. I'd never even heard of the story until I saw a DC Comics graphic novel adaptation of it in the mid-1980s. "Hell on Earth" was also reprinted in The Man From Uncle Magazine (Nov 1966) as one of its Department of Lost Stories. By a curious coincidence I've just taken receipt of a copy and hope to post a review soon. Odd that it should receive two reprints in the same year and then vanish into the Blochian ether for decades. |
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Post by dem on Oct 8, 2016 18:31:42 GMT
for example, "Hell on Earth" was a quite lengthy story in a 1942 "Weird Tales", yet the only reprints of which I'm aware were in an early Peter Haining anthology and one of the posthumous Subterranean Press Bloch collections. I'd never even heard of the story until I saw a DC Comics graphic novel adaptation of it in the mid-1980s. "Hell on Earth" was also reprinted in The Man From Uncle Magazine (Nov 1966) as one of its Department of Lost Stories. By a curious coincidence I've just taken receipt of a copy and hope to post a review soon. Odd that it should receive two reprints in the same year and then vanish into the Blochian ether for decades. Peter Haining reprinted Hell On Earth in the Digit paperback edition of Summoned From The Tomb (1966), then just as quickly dropped it for the Sidgwick & Jackson hardcover of the same name (1973). With the Man From Uncle Mag reprint coming the same year, am guessing that the copywrite was renewed soon afterwards. |
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Post by andydecker on Oct 9, 2016 13:44:07 GMT
Recently I re-watched The House that dripped Blood. I had it as looking rather cheap in memory, but now I thought most of it as a failure. Waxworks looks terrible, and Pitt should have been cast in Method for Murder as the murderous wife and not in this silly spoof of The Cloak. The only segment I liked was Sweets to the sweet, the one with Lee.
Also bought a new edition of The Skull. I had never seen this before. It was a pleasant surprise. Very well done, Cushing always gave 100%.
Amicus is a strange one. I don't mind that they didn't do gore or nudity like Hammer, even if it would have made some of their productions better. But sometimes they seem so sqeamish, which is not particulary good if you do a horror movie. Even back then. |
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Post by franklinmarsh on Oct 9, 2016 22:31:25 GMT
Really enjoyed Mannikins Of Horror. In hindsight, Colin should have crafted a mannikin to look like Dr Starr. This appears in a book called Fever Dream, containing stories by Bloch and Ray Bradbury. Currently reading The Shadow From The Steeple. A lot going on here. Will have to dig out Lovecraft's The Haunter Of The Dark after.  |
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Post by dem on Oct 10, 2016 7:23:04 GMT
Really enjoyed Mannikins Of Horror. In hindsight, Colin should have crafted a mannikin to look like Dr Starr. This appears in a book called Fever Dream, containing stories by Bloch and Ray Bradbury. Currently reading The Shadow From The Steeple. A lot going on here. Will have to dig out Lovecraft's The Haunter Of The Dark after. (Sphere, 1970) Robert Bloch - The Shadow From The Steeple Weird Tales, September 1950 Ray Bradbury - The Watchers Weird Tales, May 1945 Robert Bloch - The Grinning Ghoul Weird Tales, June, 1936. Robert Bloch - Mannikins Of Horror Weird Tales, Dec, 1939 Ray Bradbury - Fever Dream Weird Tales, September 1948 Robert Bloch -The Druidic Doom Weird Tales, April 1936 Ray Bradbury - The Dead Man Weird Tales, July 1945 Robert Bloch -A Question Of Etiquette Weird Tales, September 1942 Ray Bradbury - The Handler Weird Tales, January 1947 Robert Bloch -The Man Who Cried Wolf! Weird Tales, May 1945 It's a very odd selection, seems to have been thrown together without rhyme or reason, but am strangely fond of it. If you only try one of the Ray Bradbury's, I hope it's The Handler which out-creepy's the E.C. comics. |
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Post by franklinmarsh on Oct 10, 2016 11:19:26 GMT
That's the chap! I already love it for that front and back cover. Rat in skull brain pan. Genius!
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Post by dem on Oct 10, 2016 17:12:16 GMT
That's the chap! I already love it for that front and back cover. Rat in skull brain pan. Genius! Courtesy of 'Acorn Litho, Feltham, Middlesex' who provided photo covers for several early 'seventies Spheres, including Ray Russell's The Case Against Satan and Unholy Trinity, Theodore Sturgeon's Some Of Your Blood, and Robert Bloch's Tales In A Jugular Vein (featuring the same stuffed rodent ?). |
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Post by bobby on Oct 10, 2016 22:59:57 GMT
That's the chap! I already love it for that front and back cover. Rat in skull brain pan. Genius! The US edition was much less creative, including the title:  |
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Post by dem on Oct 11, 2016 7:28:29 GMT
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Post by jamesdoig on Jan 18, 2017 9:00:44 GMT
Just discovered this one-off Australian magazine published in 1970 by Scripts, a Horwitz imprint. Mostly articles on the occult, but has "Underground" by Robert Bloch.  Supernatural [v1, #1, 1970] (50c, 48pp, published by Scripts, cover photo by Grant Mudford, Managing Editor: Ron Smith) Women of Satan, Geli Duncan The Girl Who Lived Before, Kurt Singer The Age of Aquarius, Steven Tyler Even Plants Are Aware, Charles Clayton A New Way To Keep Warm, John White From the Face of the Earth, Brad Steiger South American UFO Sightings, Ramon Santiago The Black Mass and the Witches’ Sabat, Harry E. Wadeck The Necrophile Who Did a Good Deed An Astrological Experiment, Paul J. Andrews Sex and the Occult, Steven Tyler Sensory Telepathy and Hypnosis, Wade T. Hampton Bernhardt J. Hurwood, Tales of Russian Vampires [Russian folk tales] Underground, Robert Bloch The Prayer and the Vision, Nellie M. Nielson |
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Post by franklinmarsh on Jan 18, 2017 13:37:11 GMT
All that for 50 cents! 1970 was a good year.
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Post by fritzmaitland on Oct 13, 2021 7:53:02 GMT
Kurt Singer (ed.) - Ray Bradbury & Robert Bloch: Fever Dream & Other Fantasies [/b] (Sphere, 1970) Robert Bloch - The Shadow From The Steeple Weird Tales, September 1950 Ray Bradbury - The Watchers Weird Tales, May 1945 Robert Bloch - The Grinning Ghoul Weird Tales, June, 1936. Robert Bloch - Mannikins Of Horror Weird Tales, Dec, 1939 Ray Bradbury - Fever Dream Weird Tales, September 1948 Robert Bloch -The Druidic Doom Weird Tales, April 1936 Ray Bradbury - The Dead Man Weird Tales, July 1945 Robert Bloch -A Question Of Etiquette Weird Tales, September 1942 Ray Bradbury - The Handler Weird Tales, January 1947 Robert Bloch -The Man Who Cried Wolf! Weird Tales, May 1945 It's a very odd selection, seems to have been thrown together without rhyme or reason, but am strangely fond of it. If you only try one of the Ray Bradbury's, I hope it's The Handler which out-creepy's the E.C. comics. [/quote] Wish I'd read that comment before October 11th. I went for Ray Bradbury's Fever Dream, which I'm at a loss to say anything about. Open to interpretation might cover it. |
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