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Post by killercrab on Oct 19, 2007 21:21:53 GMT
*Latest Finds* is open for business , located as always in Nasty Nel's.
KC
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Post by dem on Oct 22, 2007 21:18:34 GMT
The Zardoz haul:
Guy N. Smith - Bats Out Of Hell, Locusts, Sabat 1: The Graveyard Vultures and Bamboo Guerillas.
Richard Lewis - Parasite
Nigel Kneale - Quatermass
John Norman - Captive Of Gor (oh, how the bride laughed when she saw the cover. Many a jest at husbands expense, etc).
Chris Stratton - Then Came Bronson #3: Rock! (outlaw biker epic; looks utterly insane )
The Gordons - Experiment In Terror (film tie in)
Alfred Hitchcock (ed.) - This Day's Evil (foursquare antho)
AND - I can hardly believe this: the legendary Peter Hawkins - The Man With Mad Eyes (Nel, 1973): He used his evil power for sensual satisfaction. Blimey!
Thanks to Mark and Adriana, I also have Daniel Farson's Transplant and Gerald Suster's The Elect.
I really don't know where I'm gonna start.
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Post by Calenture on Oct 22, 2007 21:43:25 GMT
The Zardoz haul: AND - I can hardly believe this: the legendary Peter Hawkins - The Man With Mad Eyes (Nel, 1973): He used his evil power for sensual satisfaction. Blimey! Can there be any question?  Seriously, I can see the problem. Who are The Gordons? (sounds like a '50s radio series). Is that novelization of the first Quatermass? |
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Post by dem on Oct 23, 2007 8:32:09 GMT
"The Major TV serial" is what it says on the Quatermass cover, Rog. It's an Arrow 1979 job; "also available The Quatermas Experiment, Quatermass II and Quatermass & The Pit. I've had Quatermass in my collection before, but I've never seen any of the others.
As to the Gordons, Mildred Gordon and the fantastically named Gordon Gordon seem to be responsible. It's a Corgi from 1962, originally published by MacDonald as Operation Terror the previous year.
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Post by killercrab on Oct 23, 2007 10:22:16 GMT
"The Major TV serial" is what it says on the Quatermass cover, >>
It will be the book adaption of the final Quatermass story penned by Kneale ( unless you count the later MEMOIRS radio series). It was broadcast by Thames television in 1979. I have this book too.
ade
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Post by dem on Oct 23, 2007 10:38:12 GMT
Ah, thanks for clearing that up, ade. I think it will be some time before I get to it. The Man With Mad Eyes is currently trying to mesmirise me into reading about his exploits. Delightful, isn't he? Looks like he's just spent several hours studying the Captive Of Gor cover .... |
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Post by franklinmarsh on Oct 23, 2007 11:21:05 GMT
Quatermass - or The Quatermass Conclusion to give it its TV name. The one with Sir John Mills. Tried to read this once and couldn't hack it. Couldn't watch the repeated series on ITV4 neither.
The other Quatermass books were churned out by Penguin circa 1960 and rehashed by Arrow in the 70s. Rather than novelisations, there were Kneale's scripts for the Beeb TV Series (not the Hammer films) in book form. Including, if I remember rightly, a nifty photo gallery of b&w stills from the BBC productions.
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Post by bradstevens on Oct 27, 2007 15:07:52 GMT
While out doing the weekly shopping, I noticed a sign reading 'Scout Sale', accompanied by an arrow pointing to a nearby building (which I'd always assumed to be deserted). I wasn't really in the market for a Scout, but decided to have a look anyway. Turned out there was a jumble sale in progress, with stacks of grotty paperbacks priced at 10p each. There was even a special deal permitting me to pay £1 and take as many books as I could fit in a plastic bag. Came away with close to 25 books (making this probably the cheapest book purchase I've ever made). Some notable titles:
CADBURY & THE SEVEN WITCHES (NEL, 1978) by George Macbeth. (Macbeth? Witches?) The second of a trilogy of books about a female spy named Cadbury (the other two being CADBURY AND THE SAMURAI and THE BORN LOSERS) which, surprisingly, wasn't mentioned in BHAH's round-up of sexy spy novels. According to the back cover: "Cadbury, Secret Agent 69, licensed to take things lying down - in the service of her country of course. Or just take things down, bend over backwards and come back for more. Versatile Cadbury rides again in this second bizarre adventure of a girl who'll handle any assignment. Even a well-oiled Arab, a Roman-style orgy and a very, very unusual experimental laboratory". The front cover shows a woman in bondage gear brandishing a whip, while the 'about the author' blurb claims that George Macbeth "is one of Britain's most popular poets...Twelve volumes of his own poetry have been published, he is the editor of six anthologies, and he frequently broadcasts poetry for the BBC".
DEAD LETTER DROP (Star, 1981) by Peter James. This is James' first novel. According to his website, he refuses to allow it to be republished. Amazon are asking £35 for second-hand copies!
NETWORK (Sphere, 1977), a novelization by Sam Hedrin. Reading the first couple of pages, I noticed that the film's four-letter words had been suppressed. "Properly pissed" becomes "appropriately drunk", while "We'll wipe that f**k**g Disney right off the air" becomes "We'll wipe Disney right off the air".
HOFFMAN (Pan, 1969) by Ernest Gebler. Film tie-in edition. According to the cover, this was "originally entitled SHALL I EAT YOU NOW?".
Philip Jose Farmer, DARK IS THE SUN.
Robert A. Heinlein. STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND.
ROCKY IV, novelization by Sylvester Stallone (apparently genuinely written by Stallone, rather than being ghostwritten).
MADAME L'AMBASSADRICE (Granada, 1983), by Xaviera Hollander. The front cover boasts that this is "Her first amazing novel". I know nothing about Hollander, but had assumed that THE HAPPY HOOKER was a novel: guess it must have been some kind of 'non-fiction' confessional (or possibly an unamazing novel).
A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (Star, 1982) by Frank Chandler and THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY (Star, 1985) by Joe Millard.
Len Deighton, FUNERAL IN BERLIN.
RED EAGLE (Arrow, 1976) by Dennis Wheatley. The story of the Russian Revolution. I already had Arrow's 1964 edition of this: when I compared the two books, I noticed that the 1964 version contained 21 chapters, while the 1976 version contained only 17. As far as I can tell, the first 17 chapters are identical in both copies, while the last 4 chapters (90 pages in total) have been compressed into a two-page 'Epilogue' in the 1976 edition. Anyone know if any other Wheatley books were truncated in this way?
BLOOD COUNTRY by Ivan Ruff.
BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE by Dee Brown.
THE RAVEN by Marquis James. A biography of Sam Houston.
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Post by Calenture on Oct 27, 2007 16:16:17 GMT
Pretty good haul, Brad. That's a very strange George Macbeth find. You'll find his Crab Apple Crisis - a sort of anti-war prose poem - in Christopher Evans' Mind at Bay. It also appeared in James Sallis' The War Book, and probably first appeared in New Worlds (I think I have more of his stuff in old copies of that magazine).
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Post by dem on Oct 27, 2007 18:06:49 GMT
RED EAGLE (Arrow, 1976) by Dennis Wheatley. The story of the Russian Revolution. I already had Arrow's 1964 edition of this: when I compared the two books, I noticed that the 1964 version contained 21 chapters, while the 1976 version contained only 17. As far as I can tell, the first 17 chapters are identical in both copies, while the last 4 chapters (90 pages in total) have been compressed into a two-page 'Epilogue' in the 1976 edition. Anyone know if any other Wheatley books were truncated in this way? I don't know myself but I think someone on The Library (Wheatley forum) most likely will. I can ask on your behalf if you don't want to join? The way the charity shops have been yuppified these jumble sales and car boot sales are becoming the last great hunting ground. Went to the one in the local church last Christmas and couldn't spot anything I wanted so I picked up three old issues of Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction thinking I could always pass them on. Then I had a look through them. One included Robert Aickman's Pages From A Young Girls Journal and Lisa Tuttles Dollburger, the second had a decent Bill Pronzini vampire yarn Thirst (which a friend had xeroxed for me, knowing I'd enjoy it). The third was full of girlie SF crap, but you can't grumble. And I won a bottle of Cider in the tombola. You don't get that in The Red Cross  |
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Post by bradstevens on Oct 27, 2007 20:30:10 GMT
I don't know myself but I think someone on The Library (Wheatley forum) most likely will. I can ask on your behalf if you don't want to join? Thanks - that would be great. |
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Post by dem on Oct 28, 2007 13:25:21 GMT
RED EAGLE (Arrow, 1976) by Dennis Wheatley. The story of the Russian Revolution. I already had Arrow's 1964 edition of this: when I compared the two books, I noticed that the 1964 version contained 21 chapters, while the 1976 version contained only 17. As far as I can tell, the first 17 chapters are identical in both copies, while the last 4 chapters (90 pages in total) have been compressed into a two-page 'Epilogue' in the 1976 edition. Anyone know if any other Wheatley books were truncated in this way? Here you go, Brad. Jim over at the Wheatley board is playing a blinder! I just grabbed my copy for a quick look. Since RED EAGLE is primarily about Klem Voroshilov and his part in the Russian revolution, the story more or less ends at the close of chapter XVII. Skimming the next section, I see a lot of speculation on Wheatley's part: "Reports about the state of affairs in Russia are so conflicting that it is no easy matter to assess the true condition of the country." This doesn't prevent him (when did it ever?) from going on for another 70 pages in the hardcover.
At some point in its publishing history, with all the changes in the world after the second War, RED EAGLE's editors must have decided the book would stand better simply as an historical account. (I'm surprised it went untouched as long as 1964.) There's no way to know if DW was consulted about the changes, but by his own showing in STRANGER THAN FICTION, he couldn't be bothered revising old work when there was a new book to be written. When all the outdated stuff and pure opinion was removed from the final four chapters, two pages remained.
I mentioned in another thread (though I don't know it for a fact) that every edition after the first of TO THE DEVIL--A DAUGHTER has allegedly been expurgated in some way, but that's a whole 'nother story...
JimHere's a direct link to the thread in case any more is added: library.denniswheatley.info/viewtopic.php?p=910#910 |
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Post by Dr Terror on Nov 14, 2007 23:52:47 GMT
3 anthologies
Sinister, Strange and Supernatural - Helen Hoke
9th Ghost Book - Rosemary Timperley
I Can't Sleep at Night - Kurt Singer
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Post by dem on Dec 9, 2007 8:27:38 GMT
Had the great pleasure of pulphack's company on Thursday morning and between us we made the tiniest dent in the Notting Hill Comic & Book Exchange stock. A few interesting-looking NEL's, some movie/TV tie-ins, a 'badly posed cover photo' contender, a nailed-on straight to 'Phwoar!" ...
Nel's
Jeffrey Konvitz - Apocalypse (1979)
Peter Leslie - The Fakers (Feb. 1971): "Back-stabbing intrigue behind the scenes of the world's most far-out theatre ... Rarely has the reader been treated to such a mixture of chills and high camp." I've not got far with it yet but there's certainly a potential for horror of The Dead Travel Fast variety.
Conrad Voss Bark - The Big Wave: The Day London Collapsed (1979)
London destroyed by flood: Queen missing: Daily Express reporter among few survivors. Sounds pretty horrible to me ...
Horror mixed bag
The Frankenstein Diaries "translated by Rev Hubert Venables" (Hutchinson, 1980). Victor Frankenstein's secret diary. A DIY monster manual. Great illustrations.
Theodore Roszak - Bugs (Panther, 1984)
Book of Film/ Filmed Book's TV, etc
James Dickey - Deliverance (Abacus 1989 reprint)
Richard Carpenter - Catweazel (Puffin, 1980: originally 1970)
Richard Price - The Wanderers (Pan 1979 reprint)
Criena Rohan - The Delinquents (movie tie-in, Penguin 1986: originally Gollancz, 1962)
'non-fiction'
Guy Lyon Playfair - This House Is Haunted (Sphere, 1981)
The 'Enfield poltergeist' investigation.
Otto Neubert - Tutankhamun (Mayflower, 1972)
Testimony of the only survivor of the boy King's curse!
It Shouldn't Be Allowed, etc
Timothy Lea - Confessions From The Shop Floor (Futura, 1974)
Lynn Keefe - The Pleasure Seekers (Sphere, 1971)
Violent cop capers
Bill Bavin - The Extortionists (Tandem, 1973). That 'badly posed cover photo' possibility I mentioned. First line: "Macey was as pissed as a newt".
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Post by nightreader on Feb 2, 2008 20:58:17 GMT
Haven't done a 'Latest Finds' in a while and today wasn't bad, so here goes... 'Not At Night' - Christine Campbell Thompson (thanks ebay  ) 'Hellborn' - Gary Brandner '666' - Jay Anson 'The Power' - Ian Watson 'Savage' - Richard Laymon 'Apocolypse' - Jeffrey Konvitz and 'The Giant Book of Best New Horror' - Eds. Jones & Campbell (thanks to Dem for that one ;D) |
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