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Post by Dr Terror on Mar 14, 2008 23:20:52 GMT
One GNS Crabs book
a Davis Grubb collection
Thriller tv series tie-in
One of The Killers books, the one set in the Far East
Black Scarab (MEWS) starts off with a dwarf being tortured!
Hellfire Today - Richard Harrington (NEL)
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Post by Calenture on Mar 15, 2008 17:04:03 GMT
I've tracked down 4 Grubb stories and a novel so far. Would be interesting to see which stories are in your collection, Charles. |
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Post by Dr Terror on Mar 16, 2008 19:34:54 GMT
It's called One Foot in the Grave, Rog. I've copied Dem's post about it from the old board into Fav. Authors.
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Post by dem on Mar 18, 2008 10:33:30 GMT
Sorry, Rog! I just deleted your post instead of quoting it !!!!  |
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Post by Calenture on Mar 18, 2008 10:36:59 GMT
Sorry, Rog! I just deleted your post instead of quoting it !!!! Don't worry about it, Dem'. I'll be posting on quite a few of those books ( Tenth Victim done already), and I doubt if anyone really wants to read my mutterings about torture at the hands of a pretty dentist and a Worzels tribute band!  |
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Post by dem on Mar 18, 2008 10:45:51 GMT
Don't worry about it, Dem'. I'll be posting on quite a few of those books ...... Nooooooooooooo-oooooooooooooooooooohhhh!  On the other hand, a bit more on this exciting Worzels tribute band would be much appreciated. Nurses? I could tell you a bit about nurses. Take that time when i was in hospital recently with my poor arm .... |
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Post by Dr Terror on Mar 18, 2008 14:00:34 GMT
I doubt if anyone really wants to read my mutterings about torture at the hands of a pretty dentist and a Worzels tribute band! I do! Wurzels. |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Mar 19, 2008 2:41:05 GMT
My old banjo playing partner once wrote a Wurzle's song. I'm only revealing this so that the general public know that people did write Wurzel's song.
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Post by nightreader on Mar 22, 2008 11:13:48 GMT
New arrivals ...  "Dr. Terror's House of Horrors" - John Burke (Pan 1965) "Weird Shadows from Beyond" - Ed. by John Carnell (Corgi 1965) "What Dreams May Come" - Cynthia Asquith (NEL Four Square 1965) "The Edge" - Charles Beaumont (Panther 1966) 65/66 looked like a good year... |
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Post by sean on Mar 22, 2008 13:16:05 GMT
"The Edge" - Charles Beaumont (Panther 1966) You lucky so-and-so! |
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Post by dem on Mar 22, 2008 14:32:21 GMT
This delightful cover, nights? Just about my all-time sick fave. I've copied over the opening, spoiler-strewn post on Beaumont into favourite authors so avoid it 'til you've read the book! Brilliant haul that, Andy and I see Dr. T has landed some to die for titles too. |
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Post by nightreader on Mar 22, 2008 19:29:28 GMT
Yeah thats the one Dem - creepy old dude isnt he? Pretty lucky Sean - the blessing of ebay was on me this time This book buying business is way too addictive... wonder if I'll ever get to actually read them.... |
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Post by Calenture on Mar 25, 2008 14:38:58 GMT
I need help! I can't stop buying crappy books.  Now let's see Dem delete this one to get me back for that Far Point post last night. Finding these wasn't easy. I didn't have my glasses so had to feel my way around the shelves, and from the other end of the shop I could hear Teletubbies on the TV - lots of high pitched giggles which was really quite creepy.  Anyway: Grant Stockridge - Spider 3: The City Destroyer (Mews, 1975) W Howard Baker - The Guardians (Richard Quintain) (Zenith, undated as before) W Howard Baker - Strike North (ditto) (Lodestone, 1965) Ray Russell - The Case Against Satan (Sphere, 1979) Ray Russell - Unholy Trinity (Sphere, 1980) Sax Rohmer - Daughter of Fu-Manch (with the most boring cover ever seen on one of these books) (Corgi, 1967) Ngaio Marsh - Colour Scheme (Severance will love this one. ) ------------------- Others seen but not picked up (this time): Guy N Smith - The Black Fedora (near mint, £2) Peter Haining - Magicians W Howard Baker - the war novel I've passed on twice now The Cross and the Switchblade (I was the son of a Teen Challenge mother.  ) And a sensational NEL Seventies book about a girl who has a dangerous journalistic assignment which leads her into witchcraft and a fate worse than death. Damn, I knew I should have gone back for that one.  |
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Post by jkdunham on Mar 25, 2008 16:19:36 GMT
And a sensational NEL Seventies book about a girl who has a dangerous journalistic assignment which leads her into witchcraft and a fate worse than death. Damn, I knew I should have gone back for that one. That sounds very much like the Petra Christian, Girls of the Night - "Sally's assignment was 'witchcraft', but how far should she become involved...?". Petra Christian, as everyone except Christopher Priest knows, being the pulp tag-team consisting of Peter Cave and Christopher Priest. I could be wrong but I think Girls of the Night was one of their collaborative efforts where they alternated a chapter each. If it was Girls of the Night that you didn't pick up (weak pun intended) then I'd get back down there at your earliest available. That'd be a major find as far as I'm concerned. There hasn't been a Petra Christian sighted round these parts within living memory (although I did find an Oliver Grape, Crumpet Voluntary, in the cancer shop not so long ago, but that's hardly the same thing at all). And none of those books you mention are in any way 'crappy' (unless it's in a really good way). In fact this shop you keep going to sounds like a regular Aladdin's lamp... Did you ever have to watch The Cross and The Switchblade? I got sent to a C of E primary school and sometimes they'd show a film in the hall as a special treat, which would have been nice, you know, except it was always either The Cross and The Switchblade or Ring of Bright Water (is that the one I'm thinking of... where he kills it with a spade... or is that Tarka?) Anyway, it's no wonder I never go to the pictures anymore... |
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Post by Calenture on Mar 25, 2008 16:58:43 GMT
And a sensational NEL Seventies book about a girl who has a dangerous journalistic assignment which leads her into witchcraft and a fate worse than death. Damn, I knew I should have gone back for that one. That sounds very much like the Petra Christian, Girls of the Night ... Petra Christian, as everyone except Christopher Priest knows, being the pulp tag-team consisting of Peter Cave and Christopher Priest. I could be wrong but I think Girls of the Night was one of their collaborative efforts where they alternated a chapter each. If it was Girls of the Night that you didn't pick up (weak pun intended) then I'd get back down there at your earliest available... Thanks for the advice. I'm sure it was the Petra Christian. Yeah, I did have a funny feeling that I'd made a mistake as I walked away. By moving away from the real horror section, I started finding this stuff. Most is reasonably priced. The Ngaio Marsh came out of the 10p bin, where I previously found one of Lorey's Horrorscopes. And by the way I know you're not Dem. And none of those books you mention are in any way 'crappy' (unless it's in a really good way). In fact this shop you keep going to sounds like a regular Aladdin's lamp... Crappy in a good way, natch. Did you ever have to watch The Cross and The Switchblade?... I'm sure I sat through it once, and the book was a fixture. That other one, From Witchcraft to Christ stood beside it on the bookshelf. I had a small bonfire when I moved in. |
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