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Post by jamesdoig on Jan 11, 2011 0:11:11 GMT
I would love to do so myself. The tragedy is that I know I own the book, but I do not know where it is. It's only a page and a half - I'm tempted to scan and post it here but I'd probably be infringing a bazillion copyrights...or actually just one. |
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Post by dem on Jan 11, 2011 0:32:47 GMT
it's been reprinted a number of times and shouldn't be too hard to find. Stephen Jones's Fantasy Tales #16 (1986), Stephen Jones & David Sutton's The Best Horror from Fantasy Tales (Robinson, 1988), Seb Wolfe's The Little Book Of Horrors (Xanadu, 1992), Matheson's debut collection, Scars & Other Distinguishing Marks, (Tor, 1988) ... i've a lot of time for RCM's short-shorts but Red and Vampire were the first i read and i don't think he's bettered them.
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Post by jamesdoig on Jan 11, 2011 20:58:12 GMT
Matheson's debut collection, Scars & Other Distinguishing Marks, (Tor, 1988) I've got that somewhere and must reread it. He's a very clever writer I reckon. There's one I remember about a mother and her kid being brutally attacked and trying to escape - at the end you realise it's actually a whale and its calf. |
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Post by jamesdoig on Jan 19, 2011 20:35:17 GMT
$2 at Vinnies. Anyone read this? I't must be the first mass market book I've seen with blurbs from the small presses like The Third Alternative and All Hallows.  $2 at the Sunday market, 1962 Corgi edition.  |
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Post by robertmammone on Jan 20, 2011 1:09:21 GMT
I picked Banquet up cheap at one of those Dirt Cheap warehouses - not sure what that says about how many it sold, but unlike his follow up, Apartment 16, which isn't very good, Banquet is a real...feast! That other book about a Psycho - never heard of it.  |
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Post by jamesdoig on Jan 20, 2011 8:18:00 GMT
I picked Banquet up cheap at one of those Dirt Cheap warehouses - not sure what that says about how many it sold, but unlike his follow up, Apartment 16, which isn't very good, Banquet is a real...feast! Well, you've convinced me to give it a go. |
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Post by Dr Strange on Jan 20, 2011 9:32:46 GMT
I picked Banquet up cheap at one of those Dirt Cheap warehouses - not sure what that says about how many it sold, but unlike his follow up, Apartment 16, which isn't very good, Banquet is a real...feast! I've read both and also prefer Banquet, though I thought Apartment 16 was OK-ish. Banquet is more in the tradition of MRJ (with a hint of Lovecraft thrown in), whereas Apartment 16 is a bit more "modern". He's also got a short story in The End of the Line - but I haven't read that. |
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Post by killercrab on Jan 21, 2011 16:00:17 GMT
I just bought a Buffy book - I know what can I say? I've got hooked on season 4 showing on SyFy . In my defense the last book I read was a Nel - The Saxonbury Printout. ;D
KC
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Post by dem on Jan 21, 2011 16:23:26 GMT
I just bought a Buffy book - I know what can I say? I've got hooked on season 4 showing on SyFy . In my defense the last book I read was a Nel - The Saxonbury Printout. ;D KC Which one did you get? we've a Buffy The Vampire Slayer thread but it barely touches on what must have been a hundred spin-offs and tie-ins - collect them all and you'd have no room for any other junk. why do people sneer at Buffy anyway? i thought it was a terrific series myself (tight script, top theme music/ opening credits too), and there was a season - it began with Buffy waking up in her coffin, i think - which was really depressing. here's one i snapped up at the weekend, hope to get stuck in before too long. Thomas M. Disch - The Genocides (Panther, 1968, 1970, 1979) Blurb: When aliens made all earth a farm .... First came the giant green Plants, smothering the entire planet, stifling all rival forms of life. Then came the Incinerators, burning out the remaining vestiges of humanity. For mankind was to be exterminated like vermin in a cornfield.
But one community survived - hunted, dwindling, fearful.
These last men and women took ultimate refuge in the heart of the Plant itself, burrowing into its deep labyrinth of roots. Here they were to play out the final drama of humanity on Earth .. .
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Post by David A. Riley on Jan 21, 2011 16:30:41 GMT
I got The Genocides when it was first published in paperback. A genuinely effective piece of storytelling - bleak, nihilistic, depressing. You'll love it. And Disch's not afraid to follow the logic of its plot straight through to the bitter end. I'll have to read it again some day. |
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Post by dem on Jan 21, 2011 17:38:36 GMT
bleak, nihilistic, depressing. You'll love it. Thanks for the glowing recommendation, David. The Genocides has so shop up my 'to read' pile i don't think i'll be able to finish Happy Days: The Invaders! |
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Post by andydecker on Jan 21, 2011 21:20:47 GMT
I just bought a Buffy book - I know what can I say? You ... fiend!  Dem already asked the important question, *g Hope you got one of the better ones. I like season 4. It had some unforgettable eps. The Thanksgiving story, Harmony and her gang neutered Spike, the Yoko Factor, the Jonathan ep. I tried so much to like the Buffy comic with season 8, but the mediocre to bad art put me off. |
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Post by killercrab on Jan 22, 2011 19:17:01 GMT
Which one did you get? we've a Buffy The Vampire Slayer thread but it barely touches on what must have been a hundred spin-offs and tie-ins
VISITORS . 163 pages so it's sort of a short one ( oh no he cries!). Buffy is out despatching vampires when she feels she's being watched. As she leaves sharp teeth glisten in the gloam but there is no fear in her watcher's heart...
Might be crap but I don't care - it's entertainment which is what matters to me.
KC
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Post by killercrab on Jan 22, 2011 19:19:50 GMT
Yesterday at 11:00am, killercrab wrote:
I just bought a Buffy book - I know what can I say?
You ... fiend!
I know but I couldn't remember if this was some unpardonable sin around here! If this was the 1970's I can guarantee that Buffy books would of been out there by the bucketload. I didn't used to care for the series myself but that's changed.
KC
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Post by andydecker on Jan 23, 2011 12:17:51 GMT
I know but I couldn't remember if this was some unpardonable sin around here! If this was the 1970's I can guarantee that Buffy books would of been out there by the bucketload. I didn't used to care for the series myself but that's changed. Lol, it´s more of a secret handshake than a sin, I gather  I used to buy both lines, i.e. Buffy and Angel, but after a while they landed on the to-read-pile and gathered dust. And a lot of those I read I disliked a lot and never finished. But in this case it is my problem. A case of wrong and too old customer in this. I am one of those who think that the last two seasons of Buffy missed the tight writing it used to have, after Whedon concentrated on other projects, and a lot of the ideas just didn´t work for me. But the later tie-in novel were a good example that some concepts are difficult to do in 300+ pages and you need a special kind of writer to adept them. VISITORS is one I still have and I have zero recollection about it even if I must have read it at the time. This was done before they tried to branch out into the more adult reign. |
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