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Post by ripper on May 30, 2013 9:41:20 GMT
Hi KC, I've heard of The Amorous Milkman, though not seen it. The Confessions books I have so far read--5 of them--have been okay, making me smile or chuckle, rather than laughing out loud. There are plenty of cultural references and they are of their time, but they pass a few hours quite pleasantly, and despite their titilating covers and suggestive blurbs, they, for me, seem to have a kind of innocence, harking back to a simpler time.
Hi Dem, many thanks to the pointers to the Sweeney tie-ins. I had no idea that Peter Haining had included a Sweeney extract in one of his anthos. Actually, I was eyeing up Regan and the Bent Stripper as a possible next purchase if I like Lebanese Shipment.
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Post by ripper on Jun 14, 2013 13:30:44 GMT
I picked up a copy of Bloody Mama by Robert Thorn (NEL 1970) at a charity shop for 50p. It's a novelisation of the 1970 film about the depression-era criminal Ma Barker gang and starred Shelley Winters at her eye-rolling best.
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Post by DemonSpawn on Jun 20, 2013 16:02:58 GMT
Other than the two Scorpion books he's only written one other book that could broadly fit under horror tag called A Touch Of Hell. It's pretty good about a village quarantined with a contagion. Other than that he has written under other names , westerns and pulp action books. He's a proper pulp action writer - search him out! Steve ( Walking Dead) who used to post here interviewed Mike. KC Just managed to find !A Touch Of Hell". It's large print, which is disappointing, but whatever. |
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Jul 1, 2013 15:24:59 GMT
Some recent finds I kept forgetting to post:Saturday's haul from Medieval Fayre (annual local event) bookstall - 30p each or 4 for £1:Yesterday - 40p at bootsale & £1.49 at YMCA shop
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Post by pulphack on Jul 2, 2013 16:37:56 GMT
Great haul, Dave - someone junking their Laymon collection at the right time for you!
The Intersect File looks interesting - not heard of that series before. Maybe Justin or Andy will have come across it?
The two NEL photo cover are lovely and - er - basic in design, but great poses. I'm sure I read 'Some Put Their Trust In Chariots' years ago as it's dead familiar. If it's what I'm thinking of, then it's a typical NEL-buys-hardback-thriller-tries-to-pulp-it-up move, which was awfully misleading for a young lad, but did get me reading a better class of thriller (for which I should be rightly ashamed at times).
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Jul 3, 2013 18:22:58 GMT
Some recent finds I kept forgetting to post: I vividly remember looking at this one at the bookstore when I was 7 or 8. I've never read it and have no idea if it's any good, but the cover and blurb scared the bejesus out of me at the time. |
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Post by dem on Jul 3, 2013 19:17:51 GMT
I vividly remember looking at this one at the bookstore when I was 7 or 8. I've never read it and have no idea if it's any good, but the cover and blurb scared the bejesus out of me at the time. surprisingly informed comment on film, customary abject review of book from the massed ranks of vault mk I. The Legacy |
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Post by jamesdoig on Jul 4, 2013 10:45:28 GMT
Lean pickings at the mini-bookfair the other week, but got these for a couple of bucks each:  Jane Gordon, Season of Evil (Horwitz, 1966)  Alex Carter, The Vagabong Lovers (Beacon, no date) - this is the Australian Beacon, published in the early/mid 60s.  Charles Osborne, The Bram Stoker Bedside Companion (Quartet, 1974) |
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Post by dem on Jul 4, 2013 12:16:18 GMT
Hi James. Quartet published another edition of Osbourne's book that same year with tasteful Bob Martin handful-of-eyeballs cover. Mr. Saucecraft, would be interested on your opinion of Walter Harris's The Day I Died once you've read it. Walter kindly confirmed on Vault Wordpress last year that he was the version of 'Carl Dreadstone' who wrote Howard & Wyndham /Star's The Werewolf Of London and Creature From The Black Lagoon novelisations (the Star paperback edition of the latter credits the author as 'E. K. Leyton'. |
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Jul 5, 2013 18:11:56 GMT
surprisingly informed comment on film, customary abject review of book from the massed ranks of vault mk I. The LegacyThanks--that thread includes the blurb that freaked me out at the time. |
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Post by jamesdoig on Aug 5, 2013 8:56:13 GMT
From the Sunday market for 10 cents, held together by sticky tape:  For a buck at the junk shop:  A pox on schmos who deface book covers with felt pen. At least I've almost reassembled the CAS Panther collection I flogged on ebay a few years ago. |
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Post by jamesdoig on Aug 10, 2013 6:44:45 GMT
For a buck at the junk shop:  |
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Post by jamesdoig on Aug 17, 2013 23:01:35 GMT
$2 at the Sunday market:  |
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Post by jamesdoig on Aug 19, 2013 6:54:52 GMT
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Post by ripper on Aug 20, 2013 11:04:40 GMT
Just ordered 65 Great Tales of Horror and 65 Great Spine Chillers, both edited by Mary Danby. Also picked up The Shadow on the Blind by Baldwin and Galbraith from a charity shop.
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