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Post by andydecker on Sept 5, 2010 9:42:55 GMT
I never knew that the Berkley Conan was also published in Hardcover. Wow.How many pages do they have?
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Post by jamesdoig on Sept 5, 2010 11:04:20 GMT
Andy, 212, 215 and 244 respectively. I'd never seen them before and couldn't resist buying them, though I'm not a huge fan of REH. Come to think of it the only swords and sorcery stuff I like is Fritz Leiber's.
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Post by andydecker on Sept 5, 2010 11:43:42 GMT
Andy, 212, 215 and 244 respectively. I'd never seen them before and couldn't resist buying them, though I'm not a huge fan of REH. Come to think of it the only swords and sorcery stuff I like is Fritz Leiber's. I would have bought them too, even if I have the originals - not to mention the content half a dozen times  Really an interesting find. Congratulation. The paperbacks are about 300 pages, and it still is one of the most interesting Howard edition done, even more so if you consider that it was a massmarket edition. The back- and frontcovers were also included as a fold out, a very good for- and afterword by Wagner, quintessential cover art, not the bland crap they put on the Millenium Trades for instance. It is a shame that they didn´t complete this edition. |
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Post by andydecker on Sept 5, 2010 12:00:41 GMT
For once I can honestly say that I also got an unexpected find (Normally I am ordering guy) Heyne Publishing 2006 I found this in the book bin in a mall. Never saw it before. It is the original novel by Hardy & Shaffer, for the first time translated, issued as a movie tie-in for the movie abomination which shouldn´t be named. I really don´t want to know how many they sold. Guess this would be more tragic than the fate of Sergeant Neil Howie  This on the other hand I ordered after reading about it on the Vault. I am weak, I just couldn´t resist. NEL 1980, cover by Tony Masero Just how many of those did they pump out? I bought Bulmer´s Rockman´s and two of Moffats some time ago. Still haven´t read them. But every year there seem to be new ones discovered. |
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Post by lemming13 on Sept 5, 2010 15:43:00 GMT
I had the Wicker Man novelisation with the original cover, which showed an image of the Celtic sun god - lost it to an ex with no respect for hard copy, who dropped it in the bath. One reason he's very much the ex. On sword and sorcery, I like Fritz Leiber, but David Gemmell is my favourite; especially Knights of Dark Renown.
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Post by dem on Sept 5, 2010 16:36:39 GMT
I had the Wicker Man novelisation with the original cover, which showed an image of the Celtic sun god - this one? Robin Hardy & Anthony Shaffer - The Wicker Man (Hamlyn, 1979) Blurb: Somewhere in the sub-tropical beauty of Summerisle, pretty little Rowan Morrison has disappeared. Police Sergeant Neil Howie has come to investigate. Nothing in his experience can prepare him for what he will find.
There is unimaginable horror lurking here - a horror that hides behind every smiling face, that peers out of every lust-crazed eye ... a horror that is reflected in every fiercely erotic act of pagan worship.
And as the Lord of Summerisle prepares the island for its ultimate ritual, Neil Howie moves ever closer to the black and bloody truth, the final meeting with ... THE WICKER MAN
`This stunningly suspenseful novel blends frank eroticism and the dark devices of the old gods in a genuinely soul-shaking tale of evil.' -Cosmopolitan
`Fascinating ... a fine entertainment' - Publishers Weekly
`A spell -binding adventure ... The climax is drum-tight suspense.' - John Barkham Reviews
The film of The Wicker Man has been called the best horror film to come out of England in thirty yearsit took me bloody ages before i could remove the Hamlyn from my wants list. Eventually found it just last month, going for a very reasonable £3 in Type. It is not the least soggy and no evidence of bath scum, in fact, for one of my paperbacks it is remarkably well preserved, so please do not try to claim it as your long-lost copy.  we've a thread of sorts for the novel here: Hardy & Shaffer - The Wicker Mangod help me, but i think i would buy the Heyne edition if i came across a copy.  |
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Post by andydecker on Sept 5, 2010 17:22:31 GMT
I had the Wicker Man novelisation with the original cover, which showed an image of the Celtic sun god - lost it to an ex with no respect for hard copy, who dropped it in the bath. One reason he's very much the ex. . Lol you should have drowned him on the spot  |
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Post by lemming13 on Sept 6, 2010 14:12:55 GMT
Cheers, Dem, that was the very one. Now I'll have to go trawling every second hand bookshop and charity shop till I find it again. Andy, I would have, but I didn't know he'd done it till I found the remains in the bin a couple of days later. Serves me right, though, never should have taken up with a man who rated Robin Hood - Men in Tights as his favourite film. Thank God the kids take after me... ;D
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Sept 9, 2010 22:04:50 GMT
Dane Hartman (think that was the name) - Dirty Harry 3: The Long Death
Geoff Tibballs (ed.) - The Mammoth Book of Sick, X-rated & Politically Incorrect Jokes.
Charles Alverson - Goodey's Last Stand
Chester Himes - Cotton Comes To Harlem
Tudor Gates - Mister Scipio
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Post by Johnlprobert on Sept 10, 2010 7:41:12 GMT
Hey Tudor Gates - Mr 'Hammer Lesbian Vampire' himself! Apparently that was his real name as well. Presumably 'Mr Scipio' is a novel about a chap who knows "all about women"?
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Post by pulphack on Sept 10, 2010 15:40:34 GMT
There were two Scipio novels, both based on the TV series Vendetta which was also written by Mr Gates (who was responsible for lesbian vampires - what a wonderful phrase! - as part of Fantale producing for Hammer). The books are pulpy but also grim - it's the standard wronged man vs mafia theme, but very downbeat, like a weird mix of David Goodis and Don Pendleton. Worth putting near the top of the pile.
Great theme tune by John Barry, though... and according to the works of Simon Sheridan, Mr Gates was known to his mum as Teddy White!
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Post by Johnlprobert on Sept 10, 2010 16:51:14 GMT
There were two Scipio novels, both based on the TV series Vendetta which was also written by Mr Gates (who was responsible for lesbian vampires - what a wonderful phrase! - as part of Fantale producing for Hammer). The books are pulpy but also grim - it's the standard wronged man vs mafia theme, but very downbeat, like a weird mix of David Goodis and Don Pendleton. Worth putting near the top of the pile. Great theme tune by John Barry, though... and according to the works of Simon Sheridan, Mr Gates was known to his mum as Teddy White! Thanks pulphack - that's all splendidly obscure BritTV news to me! Fantale Films of course also produced Peter Collinson's Fright with Susan George & Ian Bannen, & I'm pretty sure Gates wrote that as well. I always wondered what happened to the script of his fourth, unfilmed, Karnstein movie 'Virgins & Vampires' / 'Village of Vampires' (one or the other - I can't remember!). I'm sure it would have made a splendid pulp novel! |
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Sept 10, 2010 20:11:47 GMT
Good to hear Mister Scipio is the sort of thing the cover promises, even if it isn't, at 25p it was certainly worth picking up.
Today's find:
Andrew Smith - Doctor Who: Full Circle
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Sept 12, 2010 16:50:39 GMT
William Hope Hodgson - The House On The Borderland (90s NEL edition) 10p
Michael R. Lineaker - Scorpion: Second Generation 30p (now to find the first one)
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Post by jamesdoig on Sept 16, 2010 10:15:43 GMT
$3.50 each at the local 2nd hand bookshop.   |
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