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Post by fullbreakfast on Aug 17, 2009 20:41:22 GMT
sorry to jump in on this, chaps, but what about that bloke who does vintage paperback in the covered market bit opposite the old brewery down brick lane. don't know if he does every sunday but i was down there about a month back and picked up a nice copy of Doctors Wear Scarlet and a Bernard Kops exploitation about gay gangsters and pop stars in Mayflower for two quid each. he had a two quid box, and some of his other stuff was a little pricy by our standards, but actually resonable by dealer prices. he did give me a card, but i lost it! most of the stalls in there are a bit poncy, but he's worth a look. This has got to be worth a go, cheers. Doctors Wear Scarlet is a good find, I would have had that like a shot, do like a bit of Simon Raven, the bounder's bounder! |
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Post by fullbreakfast on Aug 17, 2009 21:06:01 GMT
Mr. Breakfast, nowadays i barely use the pubs but The Castle was something of a regular a few years back, though i was more of a Brown Bear (Leman St.)/ Artful Dodger (Royal Mint) man, not forgetting The Hungerford (Watney Market: the career alcoholic's boozer of choice) which i adore as it's a crazy house and most of the clientelle look like Primal Scream's grand-dads. I know the boozer in Watney Market you mean but I've not been in, it certainly looks a haven for the volume-oriented drinker... If the Lahore Kebab house is the one next to the 24 hour Off Licence, chances are our paths may well have crossed already. It's on Umberston Street, one of the little streets running off the south side of Commercial Road. So not quite next door to the 24 Hr Off Licence (I think the one you mean's on the north side of Commercial Road not far from Umberston St though?). Worth dropping into the Lahore if you like Pakistani cuisine (especially on a Friday night when they do the lamb chop curry). You're not, by any chance, a tall Goth? Nah, more of an average height unshaven bespectacled git in a leather jacket, usually. |
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Post by dem on Aug 17, 2009 21:38:59 GMT
Nah, more of an average height unshaven bespectacled git in a leather jacket, usually.  . Ok, i'll look out for ya! Yeah, i know the Lahore you mean, though i've never been in there (need the money to finance trips to The Hungerford). Small world, innit? |
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Aug 18, 2009 11:25:49 GMT
George Gilman - Edge: Apache Death (is this the first one?, not read any) £1.50
Clint Rockman - Black Ivory 50p
& not pulp, but looks a good read anyway: Charles Bronson (the criminal not the actor) - Insanity - my mad life 50p
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Post by andydecker on Aug 18, 2009 11:45:26 GMT
No, this is No. 3. But it is a good place to start with the series. Most of the elements are here in place.
First one is The Loner.
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Post by bushwick on Aug 18, 2009 12:26:18 GMT
George Gilman - Edge: Apache Death (is this the first one?, not read any) 50p You'll love it HP, it'll blow your socks off. Probably my favourite Edge, arguably the most violent and OTT of the whole series. |
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Post by killercrab on Aug 18, 2009 14:02:10 GMT
I'll add my recommendation too.I've a ton of Piccadily Westerns , mostly unread at this point! Apache Death is as bloody as hell and was my baptism into the Edge range. Very few non western books can match the violence in this one.
KC
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Aug 18, 2009 14:34:49 GMT
Good to hear. looks like this will be next up, once I've finished Ramsey Campbell - Thieving Fear (can recommend it so far).
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Post by killercrab on Aug 18, 2009 18:02:50 GMT
Once You're PLASMID - It's Too Late!
Jo Gannon - Star books 1980.
This the novelisation by Robert Knight of the screenplay by Jo Gannon. Can't remember the film myself but this has promise.
Clive Barker's BOOKS OF BLOOD:3
Sphere 1991 reissue.
Now I know some think Barker is overated - but I don't . I read THE HELLBORN HEART earlier this year and it impressed . At 128 pages it's Nel horror in length. I'd go as far as including it in my ten desert island paperbacks list. Barker is a rare talent.
KC
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Post by Steve on Aug 19, 2009 15:10:37 GMT
Once You're PLASMID - It's Too Late!Jo Gannon - Star books 1980. This the novelisation by Robert Knight of the screenplay by Jo Gannon. Can't remember the film myself but this has promise. Think this is another case where the tie-in came out but the accompanying film never actually saw the light of day. Pseudonym buffs may be interested to know that Robert Knight was apparently Christopher Evans, whose Mind At Bay and Mind In Chains anthologies of psychological horror have been mentioned previously on Vault - not least for their striking John Holmes artwork. |
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Post by carolinec on Aug 19, 2009 18:39:17 GMT
On a trip to Hebden Bridge today, picked up a couple of nice bargains: Ramsey Campbell's "Midnight Sun", a 1st ed hardback - found in a charity shop (perfect condition, looks unread). I'm more of a short stories person than a novel person, so this is one of his I haven't read. If I manage to get to FantasyCon next month as planned, I hope to be able to get it signed. The second find was in an antiques centre (which, strangely enough, used to house a nice second-hand bookshop until it closed down a few years ago). The book itself probably isn't of much interest to folks here, but the author certainly is! Peter Haining's "The Fortune Hunter's Guide", 1st ed from 1975 - complete with signed bookplate. The book's a bit manky, and my hubby looked disgusted that I'd consider buying such a smelly old book (  ), but I was pleased with it. |
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Post by dem on Aug 19, 2009 20:44:06 GMT
The book itself probably isn't of much interest to folks here, but the author certainly is! Peter Haining's "The Fortune Hunter's Guide", 1st ed from 1975 - complete with signed bookplate. The book's a bit manky, and my hubby looked disgusted that I'd consider buying such a smelly old book ( ), but I was pleased with it. I'm interested, 'specially as it's one of his i'd not heard of 'til now. A couple of snippets online suggest it's a treasure hunting manual with maps and everything? Found a Midnight Sun hardback in the local charity shop recently but haven't been much enthused to bump it up the 'to read' pile. The next RC i get around to will most likely be The One Safe Place. |
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Post by killercrab on Aug 21, 2009 2:11:49 GMT
Think this is another case where the tie-in came out but the accompanying film never actually saw the light of day.Pseudonym buffs may be interested to know that Robert Knight was apparently Christopher Evans, whose Mind At Bay and Mind In Chains anthologies of psychological horror have been mentioned previously on Vault - not least for their striking John Holmes artwork.
>>  Thanks for the info Steve. Both Plasmid and Slimer are Star books possibly the work of the same designer. Similar colours and use of tag lines as both design and to emphasize the titles.Be interesting to see if any more Star horrors fit the MO. KC
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Post by vaughan on Aug 22, 2009 15:10:07 GMT
John Hyde - Amen
John Hyde - The Prediction
The Frozen Planet (Short Stories)
Jay Anson - 666
James Herbert - The Fog (original cover)
James Herbert - The Dark
James Herbert - Moon
James Herbert - The Lair (original cover)
James Herbert - The Rats (original cover)
James Herbert - Fluke (original cover)
James Herbert - The Fog, The Spear, Sepulchre (hardback - Omnibus)
Whitley Strieber - The Hunger
The Voice of the dolls - Dorothy Eden
Simon Maginn - A Sickness of the Soul
David Seltzer - The Omen
Alan Scott - Project Dracula
Robert R. McGammon - The Night Boat
Red Mustard Stewart - Star Child
Joy Fielding - The Transformation
John Buchan - The 39 Steps (hardback)
Joe Donnelly - Havock Junction (hardback)
Joe Donnelly - Shrike (hardback)
HG Wells - The First Men in the Moon
Dennis Wheatley - The Satanist
Dennis Wheatley - The Haunting of Toby Jugg
Graham Masterton- Famine
Gordon McGill - The Final Conflict (Omen 3)
G. Simpson/N. Burger - Ghostboat
Richard Laymon - Savage
Richard Layman - Body Rises
Stephen king - The Shinning
Dean Koontz - Intensity (hardback)
Dean koontz - False Memory (hardback)
Jay R. Bonansinga - The Black Mariah
Non - Horror
Billie Holiday - Lady Sings the Blues (Bio)
Norman Giller - Carry on Up the Kyber
Norman Giller - Carry on Doctor
Norman Giller - Carry on Abroad
Norman Giller - Carry on England
The Carry On books are extraordinary. I see there were at least six of them done - but I found only four. The covers read: The wickedly funny story that starts where the movie ends. Each one starts with a brief synopsis of the movie, and then takes off on its own. These aren't old, they came out in 96, but I couldn't leave them behind.
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Post by Johnlprobert on Aug 22, 2009 15:38:21 GMT
As far as I can remember the Plasmid screenplay was a collaboration between David McGillivray (House of Whipcord et al) and Stanley Long (Adventures of a Taxi Driver). It never made it to the screen, so all we have left is this pseudonymous novelisation.
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. Ok, i'll look out for ya!
), but I was pleased with it.