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Post by Calenture on Mar 26, 2008 14:11:11 GMT
Following WD's suggestion, I went back to the shop. Jack Ramsay - The Rage (Sphere, 1977) Dylan Thomas - Under Milk Wood (Dent/Aldine, 1971) Leslie McManus - Churchill's Vixens 3: The Leaning Maiden (Mews, 1976) Leslie Daniels - The Black Castle (Hamlyn, 1983) W A Ballinger - The Big Steal (Five Star, 1974) I bought this for the Sixties-style cover - forgot my glasses again - but looking at the copyright info I've just found the name W Howard Baker  What did I say earlier about there being W Howard Baker's everywhere, lately? And there's another identical copy there... Guy N Smith - The Black Fedora (Sphere, 1991) And now it gets weird. I thought I'd picked up Girls of the Night, after WD's tip on who "Petra Christian" was - and how rare the books are. In fact, I see now I've got a book titled In the Club... (NEL, 1975), also by Petra Christian. So there's another one there. Also seen but not bought: Robert R McCammon - The Night Boat (have it) Adam Diment - 4 copies of The Dolly Dolly Spy, original and reprint covers (bought it when it came out) S F Roland - The Witch Mark (looks like Ade's cup of tea) A couple of Mack Bolan books, one possibly by Pendleton Franklin would head for the couple of Nick Carters (one was Operation Che Guevara). The W Howard Baker war book that I keep putting back was The Girl, The Soldier, The City - note that I was determined not to buy a Baker today but was foiled by the Ballinger pseudonym. I think that'll have to do. And it looks like I'll have to go back...  You'll have to let me know if anyone's desperate for Diment, Nick Carter, Night Boat, Ballinger... |
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Post by Calenture on Mar 26, 2008 14:23:20 GMT
I'm delighted to say that this Aladdin's Cave, as WD rightly described it, has a website. The photo above is linked to it.  |
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Post by franklinmarsh on Mar 26, 2008 16:03:50 GMT
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Post by Calenture on Mar 26, 2008 16:20:07 GMT
You should know by now that I'm totally ignorant about this stuff. But this is certainly an education. I'm beginning to thing I should leave my glasses behind more often; feeling my way around the shelves is producing results. For some reason I had to log in to the old board to reach that page, but I see that it's Peter Cave and Christopher Priest again! Incidentally, I've been enjoying Vampires of Finistere. Rex Dolphin obviously enjoyed being Peter Saxon. Sorting out the Baker books seems even more difficult if he's putting a real name to another writer's work (sometimes).  P.S. Are you going to move that Girls of the Night Review? |
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Post by franklinmarsh on Mar 26, 2008 17:13:27 GMT
P.S. Are you going to move that Girls of the Night Review?
Job done Rog!
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Post by carolinec on Apr 17, 2008 13:08:54 GMT
I knew I'd seen a Latest Finds thread somewhere on this board - and I've finally found it again!
Yesterday, I had a nice charity shop find - not a book but a DVD. It's one of my top five old films: Herk Harvey's Carnival of Souls (1962) - not the later Wes Craven film of the same name. Previously, I only had this on a crappy old video I'd recorded from the TV ages ago, so it'll be nice to see a good version of it at long last!
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Post by bradstevens on Apr 17, 2008 17:09:53 GMT
I knew I'd seen a Latest Finds thread somewhere on this board - and I've finally found it again! Yesterday, I had a nice charity shop find - not a book but a DVD. It's one of my top five old films: Herk Harvey's Carnival of Souls (1962) - not the later Wes Craven film of the same name. Previously, I only had this on a crappy old video I'd recorded from the TV ages ago, so it'll be nice to see a good version of it at long last! ;D Except that the version shown by the BBC was complete, whereas the UK DVD editions (it's available from several different labels) tend to be of the cut version. See here for some more information: www.imdb.com/title/tt0055830/alternateversionsThere was a very detailed article about the cuts in the first issue of VIDEO WATCHDOG. |
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Post by carolinec on Apr 17, 2008 19:46:24 GMT
Thanks, Brad - I didn't know about that. It looks like I've got the 78 min theatrical version. Still, never mind - I'm still looking forward to seeing it again when I get the chance to watch it. I didn't realise it had ever been released on DVD in fact.
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Post by Johnlprobert on Apr 17, 2008 20:40:54 GMT
Carnival of Souls is a great film. the last time I was in the HMV on London's Oxford Street I picked up the soundtrack album, which also has an interview with Herk Harvey
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Post by franklinmarsh on Apr 18, 2008 7:34:13 GMT
I've only seen Herk's CoS once when it was revived at the ICA. I did have a DVD copy given away with some magazine but that's disappeared. I picked up a charity shop copy which has Don't Go In The Basement on the other side, but I haven't got around to watching either.
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Post by Johnlprobert on Apr 18, 2008 10:34:30 GMT
If Don't Go in the Basement is the SF Brownrigg film it's worth a look as a slice of claustrophobioc weirdness from the Lone Star state. There was a good article on Brownrigg & his peculiar movies in an old issue of Shock Express
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Post by franklinmarsh on Apr 18, 2008 10:45:14 GMT
The nurse going to work at an asylum? The film that was added to the DPP's Video Nasty list, and now warrants a 15 certificate.
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Post by Johnlprobert on Apr 18, 2008 12:29:10 GMT
Yes that's it. The Horror Channel had it for a while - one of the very few titles they've ever shown that I've heard of.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Apr 18, 2008 12:49:28 GMT
Carnival of Souls- absolute beauty
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Post by Calenture on Apr 23, 2008 19:59:23 GMT
Been around a few shops recently and found some prizes ... the gods of the charity shops have been smiling again.
The Straw Men by Michael Marshall (no prizes for guessing whose abreviated name this is).
Pendulum by John Christopher (perfect condition 1969 copy - one I gave away once).
Sun City by Tove Jansson (first UK edition hardback in dustwrapper, VG, 1977, 50p - obviously I've been forgiven by the charity shop gods for bypassing a paperback of this one once).
Committal Chamber by Russell Braddon (Pan, 1968) This is one of those books I regretted giving away and recently I started wishing I hadn't - it's about nasty doings in a crematorium. By wild coicidence or syncronicity, this is the first copy I've seen in years and years.
What I didn't realise was, it was written by the author of Year of the Angry Rabbit! Wow!
Also picked up a copy of Agatha Christie's The Hollow, as it's a sure contender for the Stuffed Animals thread.
Oh, and Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie (Penguin, 1974)
P.S. Nearly forgot - a pound shop DVD of Empire of the Ants starring Joan Collins.
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