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Post by doug on Apr 6, 2010 10:32:48 GMT
jamesdoig..... I'm from Ohio and I have to agree that the UK Horror covers are about 100x better than most US Horror editions. I know that it is always a matter of taste, but here are a few examples of ok US Horror covers... KEW Years Best Horror and Lumley covers by Bob Eggleton. Brits seem to instinctively know how a book of Horror Stories should look. But when it comes to SF I see it (IMHO) the other way around. US SF cover artists (garish/ "comic booky") from the past 40 years Michael Whelan Vincent diFate Paul Lehr San Julian (REH covers for ACE in the 1980s) Frank Frazetta (60s & 70s SF and Fantasy) Garnder Fox Kelly Freas Jack Gaughn (spelling?) ect. UK... CHRIS FOSS!!!!!!!  ? What's the obsession with Chris Foss covers? LOL The one thing I do love ,about Chris Foss covers, is that at the flea market they are recognizable from a mile away! take care. Doug
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Post by jamesdoig on Apr 6, 2010 21:13:13 GMT
I agree completely about American sf covers - the early paperbacks from the '50s as well as the great artists from the 70s and 80s. In fact, come to think of it, the early US horror paperbacks are great too, eg The Lurking Fear and other Avon collections. But the British covers are something apart - Digit, Panther, Sphere, NEL, Coronet etc etc were brilliant. Even the el cheapo covers, where some shmo has taken a photo of a skull with a bucket of maggots tossed over it, are endearing:  |
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Post by doug on Apr 7, 2010 10:29:38 GMT
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Post by fritzmaitland on Apr 11, 2010 17:19:56 GMT
Not a huge fan of Mr Campbell (R) but I saw this ... flipped it open and saw this... That wouldn't be one of the Vault Matts would it? |
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Apr 30, 2010 11:14:51 GMT
Found a couple of film novelisations, at 99p each: Robert Marasco - Burnt Offerings Peter Curtis (Norah Lofts) - The Witches aka The Devil's Own (ok, not really a novelisation, it was written beforehand & Hammer filmed it). Not a book, but I found a vhs of The Rats (aka Deadly Eyes) for 25p in oxfam. It's very loosely based on Herbert's book & great fun to watch (dressed up Daschunds used as muted rats  ), I'll have to post the video cover at some point, it looks like what Hamlyn might have come up with, had they published The Rats. |
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Post by Calenture on May 4, 2010 13:46:32 GMT
Isn't it great when you walk into a charity shop and find that someone with a really good collection has just got altruistic, and we find something special. It happened today when I found these. They seem to be first editions...  Hutchinson, 1973  Hutchinson, 1970  Hutchinson, 1965  Hutchinson, 1964 Ironically, the only slight 'deterioration' to a couple of these is the 'rolling' of the top of the dustwrappers under the plastic sleeves they've been slipped into for protection. Probably someone here can clue us in about the artist/s. |
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Post by andydecker on May 4, 2010 17:17:20 GMT
Beautiful coverart. Just beautiful.
Thanks for sharing.
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Post by dem on May 4, 2010 18:30:51 GMT
Probably someone here can clue us in about the artist/s. hi Rog. according to our much missed friend Bob Rothwell, Edward Mortelmans provided the artwork for Gateway To Hell, Dangerous Inheritance and They Used Dark Forces. Val Biro was responsible for The Irish Witch. |
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Post by Calenture on May 4, 2010 22:15:37 GMT
Probably someone here can clue us in about the artist/s. hi Rog. according to our much missed friend Bob Rothwell, Edward Mortelmans provided the artwork for Gateway To Hell, Dangerous Inheritance and They Used Dark Forces. Val Biro was responsible for The Irish Witch. Thanks, Dem and Andy. Making this post did bring Bob Rothwell's name to mind, though sadly I never did get to chat with him. Both Mortelmans' and Biro's names are familiar, though I wouldn't have identified either artist from these covers. Mortelmans is a name I know from 1960's Four Square E R Burroughs covers. I've got Biro down for the cover for Lady Cynthia Asquith's Second Ghost Book (1961) and probably others as well as some Rosemary Timperley novels. Both artists seem to be on their best form for these Wheatley covers. |
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Post by marksamuels on May 5, 2010 0:19:04 GMT
Crikey! The Irish Witch is so dreadful even I had to give up on it. I did, however, get through The Satanist this past week, and thought it had its high spots. Who, pray tell, exactly is the titular "Satanist"?
Ratnadatta (the Indian chap of the foul lobster breath, protruding teeth and wild libedo) was the one I expected to take the limelight, but I suppose Sir Dennis had in mind the (very dull in comparison) Lothar.
Hey ho.
I've also recently finished Phil Baker's Wheatley biog The Devil is A Gentleman, which I thought was a cracking read. By coincidence, Mr Baker turned up in a Kentish Town 2nd hand Oxfam bookshop in which I was browsing last week. Though I have met him once before, I was too diffident to express my admiration, and sauntered off instead to a pub where I was meeting an old Cornish drinking chum.
Mark S.
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Post by Johnlprobert on May 5, 2010 6:57:43 GMT
That cover for 'They Used Dark Forces' is splendid.
I'm hoping to have a Wheatley-esque cover photo taken for a forthcoming volume
Mark - I see your avatar has mutated from Telly Savalas from Horror Express to the Train Monster from Horror Express!
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Post by dem on May 5, 2010 10:08:30 GMT
Crikey! The Irish Witch is so dreadful even I had to give up on it. I did, however, get through The Satanist this past week, and thought it had its high spots. Who, pray tell, exactly is the titular "Satanist"? Ratnadatta (the Indian chap of the foul lobster breath, protruding teeth and wild libedo) was the one I expected to take the limelight, but I suppose Sir Dennis had in mind the (very dull in comparison) Lothar. Mark S. i've a soft spot for Gateway To Hell which is unquestionably one of the most rubbish occult novels it has ever been my privilege to read. My recollection of The Satanist is patchy. i know it signalled the return of the odious 'Conky Bill' Verney from To The Devil - A Daughter as the "hero" and i think the Labour Party/ TUC bashing was even more splenetic than ever (Socialists = "fledgling traitors"). i certainly remember old lobster breath and his Austen Powers teeth. There's also an ugly black woman afflicted with extreme lard arseism who uses black sorcery mumbo jumbo to get dolly-birds into bed with her. Lothar isn't ringing too many bells. Is he the power-hungry Devil Worshipper who has a nice (i.e., anti-Commie) brother with psychic ability or something? i guess i should re-read it but, truth be told, i'm still in counselling after a near fatal encounter with his justly notorious flying saucer outing, Star Of Ill-Omen. |
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on May 6, 2010 0:42:14 GMT
Charity shop rounds have yielded: Jack Yeovil (Kim Newman) - The Vampire Genivieve (all the books in one volume) £1.20 Shaun Hutson - White Ghost 50p Rupert Gilchrist - Dragonard 50p. This one looks quite interesting, first of a trilogy & looks like a slaver novel ( published by corgi,though at 240 pages, it's exceeding nel's pulp formula). Just hoping it's going to turn out as un-pc as I'm hoping ;D. Here's the cover: |
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Post by jamesdoig on May 6, 2010 10:20:38 GMT
Another few from the Salvos:    Never heard of the last one, which is a collection of linked supernatural tales based on legends - a shitty ex-library book with the dust jacket trimmed for some reason. |
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Post by andydecker on May 6, 2010 10:29:54 GMT
Great cover. Just when you think they can´t get any sleazier  I really have to read those Rockman NELs who collect dust. The Newman is a good one. Quite different from today´s WH novels. The Hutson is also quite good. One of those counter terrorist novels. |
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), I'll have to post the video cover at some point, it looks like what Hamlyn might have come up with, had they published The Rats.
I really have to read those Rockman NELs who collect dust.