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[H_P_Saucecraft]

All 50p at bootsale:

The Playboy Book Of Horror & The Supernatural (hardback) - Editors Of Playboy (no names given)
Chains: A Novel Of The Damned - Russ Martin
Let's Go Play At The Adams' - Mendal Johnson (after dem's banging on/recommendations about this one, I couldn't let it go )

[noose]

Car boot buys today...

Alfred Hitchcock - Spellbinders in Suspense (Lion 1974)
Alan Ryan - Night Visions IN THE BLOOD (Berkley 1988)
Boris Karloff - Tales of Terror (Tower Books 1943)
John Halkin - Slime (Hamlyn 1984)
Mark Sonders - Blight (Ace 1981) (When Moths attack... )
Edward Levy - Came a Spider (Futura 1979)
Doris Piserchia - The Spinner (Futura 1980)
Michael Mark and Brent Monahn - Death Bite (Granada 1981)

[mattofthespurs]

May 30, 2010 10:59:02 GMT H_P_Saucecraft said:

All 50p at bootsale:

The Playboy Book Of Horror & The Supernatural (hardback) - Editors Of Playboy (no names given)
Chains: A Novel Of The Damned - Russ Martin
Let's Go Play At The Adams' - Mendal Johnson (after dem's banging on/recommendations about this one, I couldn't let it go )

I maybe wrong but I think that Ray Russsel was the editor of The Playboy book of Horror & The Supernatural.

[H_P_Saucecraft]

Just picked up Fleshbait (the old nel book, can't remember the authors' names) for 20p from a second hand bookshop .

[H_P_Saucecraft]

Second hand bookshop:

George G. Gilman - Edge no.4 :Killer's Breed
" " - Edge no.54: Backshot (think that was the title)
Gunther Lutz - Panzer Platoon: Attack Anzio

[killercrab]

Hutson Haul

Secondhand bookshop - Erebus £1.99
Chasser Assassin 99p
Library sale Shadows 25p

[H_P_Saucecraft]

Been away in dorset, I've already listed some finds while I was away, but here's the full list:

Clive Harold - The Uninvited (10p & in near enough new condition, with woolworths special buy sticker still on there )
Gordon Davis - The Sargeant No.2: Hell Harbour
Frank De Felita - The Entity
Richard Salem - New Blood
Thomas Page - The Hephaestus Plague
S. E. Hinton - Rumble Fish
David Holman & Larry Pryce - Fleshbait
Gunther Lutz - Panzer Platoon: Attack Anzio
Harold Courlander - The African (early 70s Nel, possibly slaver, not sure until I read it)
Simon Raven - Fielding Gray
George G. Gilman - Edge No. 4: Killer's Breed
George G. Gilman - Edge No. 54: Backshot
Shaun Hutson - Deadhead
Martin Woodhouse - Mama Doll
T. Chris Martindale - Night Blood
Bernard L. Ross - Amok King Of Legend
Hunter Davies - Body Charge

Books I rescued when my Dad was getting rid of some:

Sean O'Callaghan - The White Slave Trade
Nick Carter - The 13th Spy
Nick Carter - Temple Of Fear
James Mayo - Hammerhead
James Mayo - Shamelady
James Mayo - Let Sleeping Girls Lie
John Colleton - Two Nymphs Named Melissa
Loius-Charles Rover - African Mistress
Paul Kenyon - The Baroness No.4: Hardcore Murder
Jay Vincent - Lost Innocence
Tom Harland - S As In Sex
Peter Hawkins - The Man With Mad Eyes
Lou Schripp - Passionate Vixens
Jack J. Jones - So Wild, So Wanton
Robert O'Brien - A Report From Group 17
Morris West - The Salamander
Sid Chaplin - The Watchers & The Watched
Penelope Mortimer - The Pumpkin Eater
Stanley Morgan - Inside Albert Shifty
Fiona Richmond - Tell Tale Tits (Her Autobiography)
Michael Kurland - The Infernal Device
Terry Southern - Blue Movie
Max Ehrlich - Naked Beach
Kit Thackeray - Counterflood
Susan Parrish - The Secret Lives Of The Young Actresses

[jamesdoig]

.50c and a buck at the junk shop:



NEL, 1975.

'With a scream that shattered the silence and sent echoes ringing through the old castle, she sank unconscious to the floor and the crucifix and torch clinked and clattered across the stone flag, for the face that looked out from beneath the black habit was the face of death. Wild staring lidless eyes in a mask of decay.'

What was the seceret that the ancient walls of Pwll castle in Wales had kept hidden throughout the ecnturies? Whose was the hand that had murdered the members of the quiet community of nuns who lived there and rana boarding school for girls?

Detective Inspector Bob March was investigating the affair, and eventually even he had to face the possibility that the answers might lie in the realms of the supernatural...



Robert Bloch, The King of Terrors, Robert Hale, 1978

Introduction
Water's edge
The Deadliest Art
Fat Chance
A Good Imagination
A Home Away From
The Living Dead
The Man Who Knew Women
Method For Murder
The Real Bad Friend
String of Pearls
Under the Horns
The Unpardonable Crime
Untouchable
Terror in the Night

[killercrab]

I have Who Sups with the Devil by P . McCartney ( but not that McCartney !) . I think I've read it too and think I liked it ! Great see some Nel horror on the board.

KC

[bushwick]

A few things on the North East coast this weekend:

William K Wells 'Effigies' (Granada 1981) (Satanic curse on something or other, looks OK but nearly 400 pages is taking the piss)

Felice Picano 'The Mesmerist' (NEL 1980) (reprint of a US book about a man possessed with the power of hypnotic evil, Harlan Ellison likes it apparently. Same cover image as that 'Man With The Staring Eyes' [think that's the title] that I believe has been discussed on here)

'Klaus Netzen' (L James) 'The Killers: To Win and To Lose' (Mayflower 1974) (80p, a win for me, got three of these now)

...and these all pale into insignificance when put up against...

...'Nick Blake' 'Chainsaw Terror' !!!!!!! (Star 1984)...

...£2 for a nice crisp copy with just a wee coffee-mug ring on the cover. Absolutely made up. Was considering biting bullet and paying a fiver-ish from amazon for this one too. I've started reading it, and like everyone has said, it's great, really pervy and gruesome, no boring preambles and straight into the action. Prefer this to the early 'proper' Hutsons I've read (and I like those too, don't get me wrong). Also there are no references to heavy metal yet, which I found very restrained of Shaun! that's the only thing restrained about this book, though...

[noose]

Only bought a couple of books recently:

Shock Stories by James Workman (Horwitz 1962) - first Ebay buy in about a year...

Tall Dark and Gruesome by Christopher Lee (W H Allen 1977) from a chairty shop £1

The Cradle Demon and other stories of Fantasy and Horror by RCH (William Kimber 1978)

[noose]

The Spirit by Thomas Page (Hamlyn 1980 reprint)
Gate of Fear by Lewis Mallory (Hamlyn 1981)
The Echoing Silence by Jenifer Beckett (Hamlyn 1982)
The Force by Alan Radnor (Hamlyn 1979)
The Ogre by Mark Ronson (Hamlyn 1980)
Switch Bitch by Roald Dahl (Ballantine 1974)
The Outsider by Colin Leinster (NEL 1980)
This Day's Evil by Hitchcock (Haining) - (Jan 1967)
Judgement Day by Nick Sharman (NEL 1983)
Shadows ed by Charles L Grant (Doubleday 1978)

[killercrab]

The Ogre by Mark Ronson (Hamlyn 1980) ..

Not hugely popular I recall - I thought it was an ace read ! Ronson's Plague Pit was another good read.

KC

[noose]

Have started reading GATE OF FEAR - not a bad start really. Here's the blurb from the back.

THE NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES - a Nazi orgy of bloodshed which established Hitler as undisputed leader of Nazi Germany.

Then, many years later, the killings start again. After a shocking confrontation with death, Martin Sorrel finds himself being shadowed by a sinister figure whose features are chillingly familiar...they are exactly like his own.

Relentlessly pursued by this silent double, Martin comes to realise that his own fate is hopelessly entangled with the horrific events of 50 years ago.

In the face of unspeakable evil, can he win the battle for his soul?

[jamesdoig]

Got this Headline edition of Shadows (1987) but for some reason it's the equivalent of the US Shadows 4.