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Post by pulphack on Nov 28, 2008 20:57:45 GMT
blimey! so that's what don houghton did after helping speed the demise of Hammer?!
(actually, i liked the ones he scripted, but no-one else did at the time, more's the pity.)
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Post by bushwick on Nov 29, 2008 19:12:23 GMT
just these today:
Suedehead - Richard Allen
The Killers: The Fatal Friends by Klaus Netzen
The Medusa Horror - Drew Lamark (1983 Futura horror that seems to be about jellyfish - 'Ensnarled in their slime is a horrible assortment of malevolent creatures intent on destruction'. I've skimmed through it and I reckon it's a PG or a 15 at best...)
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Post by andydecker on Dec 11, 2008 16:43:21 GMT
After reading about it in the forum, I ordered and got: Robert Neill WitchBane (worth for it´s cover alone, and recently watch Witchfinder General again, so I am interested) Derek Tyson The Worm Stone (sounded like fun) Jon Ruddy The Bargain (this sounded so ultra-trashy I had to have it.  ) Hell, you guys cost me money  |
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Post by dem on Dec 12, 2008 10:25:27 GMT
Jon Ruddy The Bargain (this sounded so ultra-trashy I had to have it. ) I hope you have more joy with it than i did, Andy. I've read it twice, possibly even three times and all i can remember is the cover. So, yeah, it's a classic on that basis alone. |
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Dec 18, 2008 22:34:59 GMT
Did the charity shop rounds today & aside from my ears being assaulted by bloody christmas songs (any more paul twating mccartney & I may kill someone ;D ), I managed to pick up:
Spawn - Shaun Hutson 50p
The Midnight Ghost Book (Hardback) - James Hale (Ed.) £1
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Jan 6, 2009 16:34:10 GMT
Last week: Splinters - ed Alex Hamilton Today: The Long Lost (hardback) - Ramsey Campbell Exit Wounds - Shaun Hutson The Murders of The Black Museum 1870 - 1970 - Gordon Honeycombe & an omnibus of Sundance: The Savage + Gold Strike - Peter McCurtin. The tagline says: Half Indian, Half White, all trouble - Sundance was the most dangerous man ever to ride the west. Does anyone know anything about this one? Bushwick, this sounds like your department  . |
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Post by bushwick on Jan 7, 2009 16:29:12 GMT
Hi HP! I'm still a relative new-jack to the Western fiction game, only know the UK stuff really. Justin, pulphack, FM or Steve/X would possibly know more. I've not heard of that particular series, but I picked up an Executioner clone from 1973 yesterday, 'The Marksman 4: Mafia Wipe-Out' by Flamingo Books, and there are ads for their other works in the back. There are two 'ultra-violent' books by Peter McCurtin listed, 'Mafioso' and 'The Syndicate', both crime shizzle obviously. He has apparently won awards from the American Mystery Writers Association or somesuch. I'm guessing it's the same feller. Have you had a read of the book yet? Does it feature 'shards of bone and pulpy brain matter' and the like?
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Jan 7, 2009 17:44:28 GMT
Not started reading it yet, still on Ghoul by Brian Keene at the moment, the reading suffered over christmas . Might be a while before I get to it, as I still have quite a few library books to get through, but I shall let you know when I get there. Like the sound of those crime books, thanks for the info  . Dave |
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Post by sean on Jan 14, 2009 12:42:49 GMT
Shock Waves - Thomas Tessier. Printed as part of some series by Fontana called 'Night Shades - The Darker Side of Love'. Cover is to puke for. Looking forward to it though.
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Post by allthingshorror on Jan 15, 2009 9:48:59 GMT
Currently in Edinburgh - not really all that much in the way of interestng books - and the ones there are seem hideously overpriced. Here goes:
Private I - Jimmy Sangster (sphere 1969)
Hell Hath No Fury - ed by George Hay (Neville Spearman 1963)
Moon Zero Two - John Burke (Pan 1969)
Slugs - Shaun Hutson (WH Allen hbk 1988)
Countess Dracula - Michel Parry (Redemption 1995)
Christopher Lee's Omnibus of Evil - ed. Michel Parry (Mayflower 1978)
Victorian Ghost Stories - ed by Montague Summers (Simpkin Marshall 1936)
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural - ed by Wise and Fraser (Hammond Hammond 1969 hdbk reprint)
Tales of Effect: A selection of the best stories of E A Poe - chosen by John C Hayden (Arts and Education Publishers 1948)
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jan 15, 2009 10:09:06 GMT
Try here Johnnie:
There's a website for the place and a map
Till's Book Shop
1 Hope Park Crescent
EDINBURGH Midlothian EH8 9NA
tel: 0131 667 0895
paraphrasing the antiquarian guide
It has a very interesting section of film and television books, it always has original 1950s and 1960s film posters for sale, plus a varying selection of movie magazines and, at times, Front Of House stills. Around since the mid-1980s, the shop has survived the opening of two charity bookshops within 5 minutes walk. If you have only time to visit one secondhand bookshop in Edinburgh, make it Tills. - Jeremy Briggs.
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Post by allthingshorror on Jan 15, 2009 10:54:50 GMT
Craig - it was the first place I visited on my arrival - and I've never been more dissapointed by a bookshop in my lifethan this one. The horror/sci-fi/fantasy is on three shelves and the only things I found there was thejohn Burke and the michel parry redemption book. Expected
more -ohwell nevermind
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jan 15, 2009 11:35:54 GMT
What a shame. Used to be a great bookshop. The SF section was my normal first look and it always had collectibles. Horror I recall it wasn't brilliant but SF fantasy good. There are loads of charity shops on the South Bridge though which used to be good. There is a run of charity shops also on the road out to the Zoo and just after I recall; these haven't been hit too much by runners.
Most of the Charity shops now in Edinburgh have been destroyed by runners and the good old days are gone.
There used to be a market in the university area every Sunday.TO be honest the whole toun has changed probably and I am doubtless a lost soul grappling with memories of better days
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Post by allthingshorror on Jan 15, 2009 13:50:40 GMT
It's a real shame how charity shops have tried to become purveyors of the literary kind and using overpriced sites like abe books to do so. I've even offered my services to the local Oxfams - working as an assistant to the 'king of hay on wye' for quite a while should mean I know what I'm talking about-even if its just a little bit- but almost instantly I was banging heads with a man who thought that thirtieth printing harry potter books should be priced at thirtypounds
Each. Pulp books were instantly bin bagged and sent to the recycling centre and the shelves were stocked to the gunnels with bridges jones and other delights.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jan 15, 2009 15:58:00 GMT
There's a vitriolic thread about it on here somewhere.
My old mate Mike Don of Dreamberrywine (great catalogue) was one of the victims of this. A lot of good bookshops went under because they couldn't compete with the charitable status of some of the 'charities'. School jumble sales are probably the last defense against abe books. I hate to think how many collectible beauties have fallen to the trash can in recent years
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