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Post by dem bones on Jan 20, 2012 23:37:28 GMT
Any ideas as to the cover artist, James? Am guessing they used the same person for all three (?) issues and I particularly like their painting for #2.
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Post by jamesdoig on Jan 21, 2012 0:05:17 GMT
any ideas as to the cover artist, James? i'm guessing they used the same person for all three (?) issues and i particularly like their painting for #2. No idea who it is, Dem - crude and colourful though, and I agree about #2 - that's the one with the vampire.
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Post by justincase on Jan 21, 2012 15:20:41 GMT
any ideas as to the cover artist, James? i'm guessing they used the same person for all three (?) issues and i particularly like their painting for #2. I hope it will be Doug Walters... the amazing artist for the other volumes and many other things related to G&S and GSS. The only other artist I like as much as him for all things Ash Tree, etc.. is Paul Lowe (Sarob is using him for the covers of all the books published since Sarob's resurgence). The last work I've seen of Doug Walters is the cover of the latest Ghosts and Scholars (issues #20). I really love his art and wish there were more...
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Post by justincase on Jan 21, 2012 15:23:25 GMT
If it's any consolation, I can tell you that a final volume of A. M. Burrage stories will certainly be published as a hardback volume. No date yet, but certain problems seem to have been overcome, so plans are beginning to look more certain. More news on this as it becomes available.Christopher" [/i][/quote] I think quite a few of these stories are in some of the rarest British magazines of the time, like The Premier. Just for something different Burrage wrote three series of humourous fantasies for the Red Magazine, called something like "Sir Archibald and the Nights of the Round Table."[/quote] Quick question.. maybe this forum can help me suss this out. Burrage wrote a ghost story called "The Hour of Mercy," for the Weekly Tale Teller in 1914 (Xmas number). I don't believe it has ever been reprinted... does anyone know if this is true?
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Post by justincase on Jan 21, 2012 15:31:59 GMT
Reading this just jogged my memory - a couple of months back mrs PH found Crusoe Annual for 1928 in a charity shop and naturally thought of me. A bit of research revealed that it ran as a monthly for 18 months before folding. A Newnes magazine - they being the main competitors to Fleetway/Amalgamated at that time - it had a lot of names who worked for both companies and in the middle of it are a series of stories about 'Poor Esme' by AM Burrage, which would have run in the monthly issues. Adventures with a touch of humour they concern a pauperous lad trying to make his way in then world. Nothing special, but they are quite charming. The daft thing is that I thought 'That's a familiar name!' when I saw it, but have only jut put 2+2 together! Newnes and Pearsons were big Victorian/ early C20 periodical publishers (the latter being replaced by Fleetway/Amalgamated), and Newnes also ran Hodder close for some time in terms of popular fiction in cheap hardback - in fact, they published Dornford Yates' comic novels and refused his thrillers on the grounds that 'writers should stick to their own', so he pissed off to Hodder and didn't write another word for Newnes for many years until hey came begging as his back catalogue was still shifting,and the Hodder thrillers were also big business. (Edgar Wallace also wrote for both, unsurprisingly - he switched to Hodder when they offered him the 'book per month' deal that made him so huge) The reason I mention that is because I gleaned that from Jack Adrian's notes to a Yates anthology he put together as part of the Dent classic thrillers series in the late eighties, and it just reinforces the opinions expressed earlier about his talent as a researcher and anthologist. I love Jack Adrian and his introductions and they are never less than entertaining and more often down right educational. I can't wait for this 5th volume. I also wish the Rodens would get back to their seemingly defunct Annual Macabre (maybe bi-annual, tri annual?) which left off in 2005 I believe. I recently went through my Warning Whispers and read A Reoccuring Tragedy for the first time... LOVED IT. Some here recommended that and a few others from that collection and I'm making a point of focusing on them of late. Next will probably be the title story. I've read some of these before but even if I did I forget so much its fun to reread ;D
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Post by justincase on Jan 21, 2012 15:39:49 GMT
I love Jack Adrian's meandering book introductions, particularly in the ATP annual macabres that I manged to pick up (you sometimes can find these volumes relatively cheap on ebay etc and they are well worth picking up). I'd love to see a volume of essays/introductions by Jack Adrian and once half-floated the idea on All Hallows newsgroup - chris I agree, Jack Adrian's intro's can be meandering but are most always (for me at least) well written and fascinating. I mentioned in another post how much I miss Annual Macabre and wish it could be brought back in some form or fashion (maybe the annual part was too much for Adrian and/ or the Rodens..). I've been recently picking through the Equation Chiller p/b of Warning Whispers and love it. I wonder if the Adrian intro is the same in the p/b as in the ATP edition? I'm lazy and really need to look it up but it anyone knows off hand.. I'll probably get to both again eventually. BTW, the Annual Macabre's are pretty cheap these days (except for 1997 and 98 which may be a little more) - totally worth the money in my opinion.
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Post by noose on Jan 21, 2012 15:46:31 GMT
I think quite a few of these stories are in some of the rarest British magazines of the time, like The Premier. Just for something different Burrage wrote three series of humourous fantasies for the Red Magazine, called something like "Sir Archibald and the Nights of the Round Table." Quick question.. maybe this forum can help me suss this out. Burrage wrote a ghost story called "The Hour of Mercy," for the Weekly Tale Teller in 1914 (Xmas number). I don't believe it has ever been reprinted... does anyone know if this is true? www.lwcurrey.com/pages/books/136889/1914-weekly-tale-teller-december-19-number-294-isabel-thorne
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Post by justincase on Jan 21, 2012 15:57:47 GMT
Thank you Johnny. I wonder if this is true.. I do trust Lloyd (and Robert) but I was curious to know how they came to this conclusion... does anyone have any more info on this?
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Post by jamesdoig on Jan 23, 2012 4:10:07 GMT
Quick question.. maybe this forum can help me suss this out. Burrage wrote a ghost story called "The Hour of Mercy," for the Weekly Tale Teller in 1914 (Xmas number). I don't believe it has ever been reprinted... does anyone know if this is true? Buggered if I know, but it's the sort of thing Jack Adrian would be sweeping up for his new collection. He did write at least one other ghostly for the weekly Tale Teller Xmas issue, but in the early '20s I think.
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Post by jamesdoig on Jan 23, 2012 4:12:10 GMT
I love Jack Adrian's meandering book introductions, particularly in the ATP annual macabres that I manged to pick up (you sometimes can find these volumes relatively cheap on ebay etc and they are well worth picking up). I'm missing the last 2 or 3 and should pick them up some time. The first couple are very thin - 70 or so pages.
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Post by justincase on Jan 23, 2012 17:05:20 GMT
Quick question.. maybe this forum can help me suss this out. Burrage wrote a ghost story called "The Hour of Mercy," for the Weekly Tale Teller in 1914 (Xmas number). I don't believe it has ever been reprinted... does anyone know if this is true? Buggered if I know, but it's the sort of thing Jack Adrian would be sweeping up for his new collection. He did write at least one other ghostly for the weekly Tale Teller Xmas issue, but in the early '20s I think. I'm pretty sure it will show up in the next volume that Mr. Adrian does if it hasn't been reprinted yet - he seems very thorough if nothing else. From what I gather Burrage wrote several ghost stories for the Weekly Tale Teller, and I don't think they were all reprinted yet either. I can't wait to read them..
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Post by monker on Jan 24, 2012 5:06:56 GMT
Ash-Tree have just released two of their Burrage collections as ebooks... Do you know if they are directly downloadable to your PC, Chris? I am anxious and do not have an e-reader yet.
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Post by pulphack on Jan 24, 2012 7:26:30 GMT
Been away, so apologies for backtracking on this tread. First off, thanks for that link to the magazine indices, James. A minority interest for sure, but one that needs cataloguing fo the few interested buyers left!
Secondly, regarding the Swan anthology with Burrage from 1960. For the contents and also the cover art, don't assume that any of it was 'new' and comissioned at the time of publication. Swan was a printer who took advantage of wartime conditions to buy up lots of fiction and art work from writers and artists who desperately needed the work, paying low rates and buying outright (though he would argue that he was providing work and paying out when not actually publishing and getting it back).
Come the post war boom, and he had a stockpile of material that he kept pumping out for twenty years until it was exhausted. He made a rather tidy pile out of (especially) school stories by pre-war magazine and story paper writers who had been desperate for work when the war and salvage closed their papers. Many of them were long dead by the time some of their work hit print.
When his material ran out, he retired! (see Steve Holland's Mushroom Jungle or Bear Alley blog for more detail)
So it's possible that the entire contents of the mentioned publication were new to print yet had been written two decades before!
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Post by jonathan122 on Jan 24, 2012 20:28:29 GMT
Do you know if they are directly downloadable to your PC, Chris? I am anxious and do not have an e-reader yet. They can be downloaded to a PC if you buy them through Amazon, not sure about if you buy them direct from Ash-Tree.
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Post by cw67q on Jan 24, 2012 23:00:16 GMT
Do you know if they are directly downloadable to your PC, Chris? I am anxious and do not have an e-reader yet. They can be downloaded to a PC if you buy them through Amazon, not sure about if you buy them direct from Ash-Tree. Thanks for answering this Jonathan, I'm afraid I don't have an ereader either Monker. I'll ask on AllHallows newsgroup if this holds for direct downloads. It might have been asked there before but I tend to skim over the techinical questions as I don't have an ereader. There are a large number of ATP back titles available now in electronic format , including some that are still in print, ANL Munby's "the Alabaster Hand" just went up today. I'll try to update the revelent thread with comments on the ones I've read sometime. In the meantime I recommend both of the Steve Duffy volumes. "Tragic Life Stories" is a recent collection showcasing some very powerful and dark longer stories by Steve, "Night Comes On" is an earlier collection of very Jamesian tales. Whilst I think Steve's writing has only gotten stronger over the years, for sheer entertianment I actually prefer the earlier book which is my favourite Jamesian collection and a highly recommended read. Even better still is "the Five Quarters" which Mr Duffy co-wrote with ian Rodwell, this is a collection of 5 tales related by the members of an informal drinking club and reads as an episodic novel. This last one hasn't hit the e-shelves yet, but keep your eyes peeled. Meanwhile there is "Night Comes On" and "Tragic Life Stories" to keep you busy (in between the Burrages :-)). - Chris - Chris
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