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Post by lobolover on Jan 18, 2009 8:16:36 GMT
A question-any W.C.Morrow-esque publications planed in the future?
Also-you may like to look into the work of a certain Ernest Hello-a french catholic writer whose short story colection "Weird Stories", which as far as I know was never translated to english,has several well made supernatural pieces.
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Post by wordswortheditions on Jan 21, 2009 13:33:35 GMT
A question-any W.C.Morrow-esque publications planed in the future? No current plans to publish W C Morrow. However we are currently creating a database containing all of the author suggestions we've received, and are hoping to add a poll on to The Vault in the next few weeks to see which authors you'd most like to see re-published, with a view to adding a few more titles onto our 2010 publishing schedule. If you have any other author suggestions, please email them to derek@wordsworth-editions.com in the next few days and I'll get them added to the database. Thanks Emma@Wordsworth
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Post by dem bones on Jan 25, 2009 12:01:42 GMT
Apologies for repetition, but this came up on the Dark Voices: The Best Of The Pan Book Of Horror Stories thread, and, as i'm sure it's a problem Wordsworth encounter on a frequent basis, it seems this is the best place to ask if our understanding of the 'every effort has been made ....' disclaimer is correct? From www.copyrightservice.co.ukFor literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the last remaining author of the work dies.
If the author is unknown, copyright will last for 70 years from end of the calendar year in which the work was created, although if it is made available to the public during that time, (by publication, authorised performance, broadcast, exhibition, etc.), then the duration will be 70 years from the end of the year that the work was first made available.But I think - if you go to the CLA (Copy Licencing Authority) and they cannot find any copyright to a particular story - you can then put 'every effort has been made to find the copyright holder...and amendments if needed will be printed in future publications...' into said book. And if someone does query - you pay them a token reprint payment - or take story out. I think... While i'm here, another suggestion for the Worsworth Editions treatment and, as an added bonus, I don't believe his supernatural & horror fiction has previously been collected. Can it really be that no-one has mentioned Oscar Cook yet? !!!
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Post by severance on Jan 26, 2009 16:08:16 GMT
Can it really be that no-one has mentioned Oscar Cook yet? !!! No one would love to see an Oscar Cook collection more than me, and for sure he definitely would've been among my suggestions if eligible, unfortunately I know that he died in 1952 and is therefore out of the running. Damn shame.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 26, 2009 18:04:30 GMT
I know, Sev, but .... I'll add those author suggestions to my ever-growing database, if there's enough demand then we'll certainly look into the ones that aren't out of copyright. Might actually do another poll for authors still in copyright, then we can see who's in demand and investigate further... Keep the suggestions coming! Emma@Wordsworth .... no harm in trying, eh? And it shows that at least two of us are enthusiastic about an Oscar Cook collection. And i'm confident that will be boosted to three when a certain impeccably dressed gentleman sees this!
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Post by Johnlprobert on Jan 26, 2009 20:54:41 GMT
Oh yes! I'd buy an Oscar Cook collection, & get a couple for people who need to be shown proper horror fiction!!!!!!
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Post by allthingshorror on Jan 26, 2009 21:12:24 GMT
I've got a space in my bookshelf all ready for it!
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Post by wordswortheditions on Jan 27, 2009 10:32:22 GMT
Apologies for repetition, but this came up on the Dark Voices: The Best Of The Pan Book Of Horror Stories thread, and, as i'm sure it's a problem Wordsworth encounter on a frequent basis, it seems this is the best place to ask if our understanding of the 'every effort has been made ....' disclaimer is correct? We don't have too much of a problem tracing copyright holders, one of the most useful sites is tyler.hrc.utexas.edu//. Sorry we can't be of more help!
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Post by dem bones on Jan 27, 2009 16:42:35 GMT
On the contrary, that's just the ticket. Thanks very much!
Very much looking forward to your list of contenders for the poll(s)!
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Post by lobolover on Jan 28, 2009 8:29:20 GMT
Also,I know its sitl in copyright, but are there ANY plans for a cheap reprint of H.R.Wakefield's "They return at evening" (1928) or any colection of Wakefield at that? The only newer ones to get published are the 50 dollar a piece books from Ash Tree Press, which sell for even more when used (I found ONE Wakefield that was used and was actualy cheapter then 50. Otherwise, theese things can sell up to 100 dollars plus). He realy needs to be made accesible to a wider public, not just a select few scholars or people who chance to come across a story of his in an olf anthology.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 30, 2009 8:55:39 GMT
There's a case to be made for a complete supernatural short stories of Sax Rohmer, basically his collections The Haunting Of Low Fennel (Pearson, 1920) and The Dream Detective (Jarrold, 1920) bolstered by the inclusion of Tcheriapin, In the Valley of the Sorceress and any other stray pieces you can turn up.
For the second list, perhaps a modern edition of L. T. C. Rolt's excellent ghost story collection Sleep No More. Ash Tree Press have already published an edition with additional stories and his essay from The Saturday Book, but, as Lobo points out, beautiful as their books are, they're also expensive and aimed at the serious collector.
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Post by wordswortheditions on Jan 30, 2009 10:08:54 GMT
Also,I know its sitl in copyright, but are there ANY plans for a cheap reprint of H.R.Wakefield's "They return at evening" (1928) or any colection of Wakefield at that? No plans as yet, but his name has come up quite a few times so its something we're likely to look in to as he's obviously in demand!
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Post by Johnlprobert on Jan 30, 2009 21:54:25 GMT
I'd buy Wakefield and LTC Rolt
(But then I have the entire Wordsworth Supernatural run on my shelf right now)
But having spent the week watching the mighty Christopher Lee as Fu Manchu in all five good to increasingly terrible movies I'm veering towards seeking out Sax Rohmer, & a collection of his supernatural stuff would be most welcome in the JLP vaults.
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Post by pulphack on Feb 1, 2009 13:00:43 GMT
Lord John (wasn't that a clothing line, or shop chain or something?), I would recommend Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu books, although it must be pointed out that, like Conan Doyle, he was perhaps a better short story writer than novelist - so the supernatural stories and the likes of Morris Klaw have lasted better.
Allison & Busby did a three or four volume omnibus edition of Fu Manchu (three novels per volume) about a decade ago, which might be easy to track down second hand, and were introduced by Chris Fowler. I've read four of the really old ones (one of them twice by mistake, when I picked up a different edition and didn't realise til halfway through!), and they're great gaslight melodramas, but a little longwinded (unlike the shorts). I also read a post war Fawcett Fu called 'Re-Enter Fu Manchu' (fnar fnar) which was credited to Rohmer but reads like it may have been ghosted as it was a very different style. Never found any info on this either way.
The Chris Lee Fu's are great, but in descending order - I like Jess Franco, but his two are completely incomprehensible! Incidentally, that's why we don't see so much of the chinaman these days... apparently the old rogue Harry Alan Towers did a deal with mrs Rohmer (Ward?) that meant he bought the copyright off her inperpituity and not just for the movies (similar to the Rediffusion deal that screwed Sexton Blake rights forever, but don't get me started). Apparently, when Alan Moore wanted Fu to appear for a few pages in the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, he was asked for five grand upfront and a ridiculous rights and royalty deal. Which is why the Chinese supervillain in that remains unnamed...
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Post by Johnlprobert on Feb 4, 2009 22:59:40 GMT
That's one of the reasons I love the Vault - there aren't many places I can learn things like this.
The only perpetuity story I know is when good old Patrick McGoohan made sure they had the rights to The Beatles 'All You Need Is Love' for the final episode of The Prisoner. If it wasn't for that many of us would never have seen Fall Out with the right music because it's impossibly expensive to renew the rights to use Beatles songs
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