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Post by cauldronbrewer on Feb 18, 2014 20:23:02 GMT
Very fruitful visit to the local Poundland shop today, as there was a stack of Wordsworth Mystery & Supernatural books. A few I already had, but I picked up Wagner the Werewolf, Dr Nikola Master Criminal, The Black Veil, Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair, The Crimson Blind, and Uncanny Stories by May Sinclair. A nice little selection to add to the to-be-read pile. I bought a stack of Wordsworth books a while back at a local used/remainder bookstore and finally worked my way through the last of them (J. H. Riddell's Night Shivers, which I found surprisingly enjoyable--maybe more for the strong characterization and social realism, if that's the right term, than for the plots and supernatural content) a few days ago. One of them was H. D. Everett's The Crimson Blind & Other Stories, which I liked quite a bit. Another was Uncanny Stories. This one I didn't like so much; I put Sinclair in the "too stream-of-consciousness for my taste" category along with Henry James and Edith Wharton. Somebody likes her a lot, however.
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shanea
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All things GNS
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Post by shanea on Apr 23, 2014 19:39:34 GMT
I joined this forum less than 48 hours ago. In that time I discovered the Wordsworth Editions. ordered 4 for a little over a tenner and had them delivered today ! All of which sounds great except that this means being a member of this group costs me £5 a day :-)
Here's what I ordered for my reading list
Aleister Crowley "The Drug and Other Stories (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural)"
H.P. Lovecraft "The Whisperer in Darkness: Collected Stories (Wordsworth Mystery & the Supernatural): 1 (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural)"
H.P. Lovecraft "The Horror in the Museum: Collected Short Stories Vol. 2 (Mystery & Supernatural) (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural)"
Arthur Conan Doyle "Tales of Unease (Wordsworth Mystery & the Supernatural) (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural)"
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Post by Mirek on Mar 24, 2021 21:03:48 GMT
I have to say that I'm disappointed in the newer, somewhat sparse covers for this series. Occasionally, there is a photo composition that looks too modern and photoshopped. They had such a good thing going with their "Mystery and Supernatural" line. I can only comprehend that the line was not selling well, and they attempted to do something new.
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Post by dem bones on Mar 24, 2021 21:41:51 GMT
I have to say that I'm disappointed in the newer, somewhat sparse covers for this series. Occasionally, there is a photo composition that looks too modern and photoshopped. They had such a good thing going with their "Mystery and Supernatural" line. I can only comprehend that the line was not selling well, and they attempted to do something new. If I remember, that was indeed the reasoning behind it - not sure if the sales improved, but, sadly, it seemed to coincide with a fall off in this board's interest in the series. Have fond memories of their staff - all three of them - engaging with this forum when we had hardly any 'members.' A nice time. Things picked up when they came along.
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Post by mattofthespurs on Mar 31, 2021 13:37:44 GMT
Indeed, I remember those times. They ran a competition on this site which I won. I believe the prize was something like £100 Amazon voucher. Due to their generosity I spent it all on Wordsworth Mystery & Supernatural Editions. It was the least I could do.
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Post by mattofthespurs on Mar 31, 2021 15:43:43 GMT
Whilst I am here on one of my (sadly) infrequent visits; Is there a thread for the relatively new series by the British Library of ' The Tales of the Weird' series? (that our friend Johnny Mains helped with) I'm picking them up one by one. It seems there are 23 in the series thus far plus volumes on HP Lovecraft and MR James. I don't want to start a new thread if there is one already going. Good to be back
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Mar 31, 2021 17:21:38 GMT
Whilst I am here on one of my (sadly) infrequent visits; Is there a thread for the relatively new series by the British Library of ' The Tales of the Weird' series? (that our friend Johnny Mains helped with) I'm picking them up one by one. It seems there are 23 in the series thus far plus volumes on HP Lovecraft and MR James. I don't want to start a new thread if there is one already going. Good to be back I'm enjoying the series, too. So far, I've read nine of the books. Discussion of them is dispersed across multiple threads: * This thread includes discussion of the series as a whole, plus some in-depth commentary on Glimpses of the Unknown, From the Depths, Doorway to Dilemma, and Queens of the Abyss. * Here's the discussion of The Platform Edge. * And the thread for Evil Roots. * Weird Woods wound up over here. * I contributed to the scattering by adding a thread for Dangerous Dimensions. I also posted the contents of Heavy Weather to that thread but haven't added any story notes there.
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Post by mattofthespurs on Apr 1, 2021 8:15:39 GMT
Thanks! Much appreciated
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on May 10, 2021 12:28:16 GMT
I have to say that I'm disappointed in the newer, somewhat sparse covers for this series. Occasionally, there is a photo composition that looks too modern and photoshopped. They had such a good thing going with their "Mystery and Supernatural" line. I can only comprehend that the line was not selling well, and they attempted to do something new. If I remember, that was indeed the reasoning behind it - not sure if the sales improved, but, sadly, it seemed to coincide with a fall off in this board's interest in the series. Have fond memories of their staff - all three of them - engaging with this forum when we had hardly any 'members.' A nice time. Things picked up when they came along. The Wordsworth Classics series are generally terrible too. Some of the worst covers I've ever seen. Look up the Three Men in a Boat one.
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Post by valdemar on Dec 27, 2021 2:49:37 GMT
I love 'The Black Veil' anthology, but the inclusion of the frankly unreadable doggerel that is 'The Necromancer' puzzles me greatly. It's not even so bad it's good. It's just utter pipdribble. The beginning and end in my copy are dogeared so that I can skip right past it without getting angry about how dreadful it is.
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