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Post by David A. Riley on Sept 16, 2010 10:29:24 GMT
I haven't read the Dracula v Holmes book, but I did read the Dr. Jekyll several years ago and found it a gripping and satisfying read, something I can't admit about the original Jekyll and Hyde story.  |
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Post by jamesdoig on Sept 16, 2010 10:40:29 GMT
That's encouraging - I've started SH v Drac and it's pretty good so far. I quite like Holmes pastiches - David Stuart Davies is always good fun and captures the right tone and atmosphere.
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Post by jamesdoig on Sept 25, 2010 12:27:07 GMT
Lifeline charity bookfair is on at the moment - picked up the following amongst others: Stories of Fear - $3  6th Ghost Book - buck each. Wonder why they split this in two?  John Buchan, The Dancing Floor - $1  Couple of Wordsworth M&S - $4 each.   Couple of Library of the occult - $2 each  European Tales of Terror - $2  Lurking Fear - $2  Best buy was probably a bound copy of Cassell's The New Magazine from 1911/12 that contains the Carnacki story, "The Thing Invisible" - $15. |
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Post by PeterC on Sept 25, 2010 12:38:30 GMT
Hi James,
Stories of Fear looks interesting. Any chance you could list the contents?
Thanks,
Peter
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Post by noose on Sept 25, 2010 21:07:44 GMT
Holiday spoils:
Blackmaddie - Rowena Summers (pbk Hamlyn 1980)
Oedipus - Henry Treece (pbk Fontana 1968)
Town Without Pity - Manfred Gregor (pbk Panther 1964)
The Beautiful Losers - Leonard Cohen (pbk Panther 1972)
The Prodigy - M. Jay Livingstone (pbk Sphere 1981)
The Amulet - Michael McDowell (pbk Fontana 1982)
The Cold Room - Jeffrey Caine (pbk Star 1983)
Pin - Andrew Neiderman (pbk Arrow 1982)
Elizabeth - Jessica Hamilton (pbk Sphere 1978)
Summer Solstice - M T. Hinkemeyer (pbk Futura 1980)
Jack the Ripper - Daniel Farson (pbk Sphere 1973)
Tales of Good and Evil - Gogol (hbk Lehmann 1942)
Thin Air - ed by Alan C Jenkins (hbk Blackie and Son 1967)
Kurt Singer's The Ghost Book (hbk WH Allen 1963)
Wilkie Collins Tales of Suspense - ed by Ashely and Van Thal (Folio 1954)
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Post by jamesdoig on Sept 25, 2010 22:57:48 GMT
It's one of those Kimber hard covers from 1980 with quite a distinguished line up:
Contents
Antonia Fraser, On the battlements
Roald Dahl, Neck
A.L. Rowse, The Curse upon the Clavertons
Angela Huth, Thinnest Ice
Winston Graham, The Wig-Wam
James Hanley, The Brothers
Edna O'Brien, The House of My Dreams
Susan Hill, Friends of Miss Reece
Daphne du Maurier, Blue Lenses
William Sansom, A Man of Parts
William Trevor, Miss Smith
A.L. Barker, Fixing Pixie Loveless
Fred Urquhart, The Loony
Vladimir Nabokov, The Aurelian
L.P. Hartley, The Stain on the Chair
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Post by noose on Oct 10, 2010 20:14:30 GMT
Carboot spoils (have to thank the wife for these, her training has paid off!)
Michael Robson - Holocaust 200 (Sphere 1978)
Hugh B Cave - Shades of Evil (Ace 1982)
Edgar Mittelholzer - My Bones and my Flute (Corgi 1958)
M R James - Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (Pan 1953)
Ray Bradbury - The October Country (Ace 1961)
Robert Bloch - Terror (Belmont 1962)
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Oct 11, 2010 5:15:56 GMT
Carboot spoils (have to thank the wife for these, her training has paid off!) Michael Robson - Holocaust 200 (Sphere 1978) Hugh B Cave - Shades of Evil (Ace 1982) Edgar Mittelholzer - My Bones and my Flute (Corgi 1958) M R James - Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (Pan 1953) Ray Bradbury - The October Country (Ace 1961) Robert Bloch - Terror (Belmont 1962) Can see it now. Right what was it again - must have zombies, living dead, vampires, crabs, garish cover... |
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Oct 11, 2010 9:04:11 GMT
Deborah Shine (ed.) - Haunting Ghost Stories - 20p
Glad to have this one again, after stupidly getting rid of it, some years back.
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Post by Johnlprobert on Oct 11, 2010 11:30:25 GMT
Carboot spoils (have to thank the wife for these, her training has paid off!) Michael Robson - Holocaust 200 (Sphere 1978) Hugh B Cave - Shades of Evil (Ace 1982) Edgar Mittelholzer - My Bones and my Flute (Corgi 1958) M R James - Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (Pan 1953) Ray Bradbury - The October Country (Ace 1961) Robert Bloch - Terror (Belmont 1962) Can see it now. Right what was it again - must have zombies, living dead, vampires, crabs, garish cover...  |
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Post by noose on Oct 11, 2010 13:13:47 GMT
It's been more of a case of getting her to recognise the different publishing houses brands and symbols, Sphere, NEL, Star, Mayflower etc... she's getting a really keen eye for it!
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Oct 11, 2010 16:24:48 GMT
It's been more of a case of getting her to recognise the different publishing houses brands and symbols, Sphere, NEL, Star, Mayflower etc... she's getting a really keen eye for it! My training as an anthropologist indicated that between the hunter and the gather you'd starve if the women went on strike. I can imagine that sifting through books is a nap for the handy spouse |
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Post by jamesdoig on Oct 17, 2010 1:12:41 GMT
Just got back from melbourne, which must be one of the best cities for bookshops. Pickings include:  1962 Corgi edition of The Scarlet Boy - never read this.  The Vampyre, the Werewolf and other Gothic Tales of Horror, Dover 2009, edited by Rochelle Kronzek. A slender 118 pages - $10 new. Contents Inroduction John Polidori, The Vampyre Clemence Housman, The Werewolf Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Monos and Daimonos Isaac Crookenden, The Vindictive Monk; or, The Fatal Ring Anon, The Curse Anon, The Victim Anon, The Astrologer's Prediction; or, The Maniac's Fate Couldn't resist this one, though I've got the Midnight House reprint. Someone butchered the dustjacket and pasted it inside, but it still looks good:   Good to finally get a copy of this. |
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Post by dem on Oct 17, 2010 6:31:42 GMT
Just got back from melbourne, which must be one of the best cities for bookshops. Pickings include: i particularly like the look of him! that's something i've been meaning to ask you, James. what's the general situation with second hand bookshops in Australia? are they relatively plentiful or, as seems to be the case in Britain, disappearing at an alarming rate? * relax, i'm not planning on emigrating * |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 17, 2010 8:04:06 GMT
I own the mysterious Kronzek volume. One wonders how it came to be. I am sure taxes had something to do with it.
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