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Post by dem on Sept 11, 2013 6:34:54 GMT
Found a very battered copy of Still Not at Night edited by Christine Campbell-Thomson (Arrow 1962) in a jumble sale and snapped it up for 20p. I've only read stories from CCT's classic series in the Pans, so I was well pleased. A very short introduction by CCT; perhaps she wrote longer ones for the first two volumes she edited for Arrow? Unfortunately not, Rip. The first runs to half a page, More Not At Night just a paragraph or two. For CCT's longest introduction you want the Not At Night Omnibus, which, while hardly an epic - two pages - is certainly of huge interest to fans of the series. |
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Post by ripper on Sept 11, 2013 8:58:51 GMT
Thanks, Dem. That does surprise me somewhat, as I was expecting that CCT would say something about the stories, or something more general about the original series. Sadly, the originals from the 1920s and 1930s command pretty steep prices. I enquired with the British Library as to whether any were available for inter-library loan, but was told that the publisher had stipulated that they were not available for loan, so only could be read in the library's reading room, even the Arrows from the 1960s were the same.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Sept 12, 2013 19:23:07 GMT
 I have a kind of love hate thing with Sheckely. His early shorts are definitely top notch and not lacking in horror. Just started this collection 'Untouched by human Hands' and its a great four square cover. (Not as tiny as it seems but my image skills are at a low par.) |
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Post by Johnlprobert on Sept 13, 2013 12:58:55 GMT
I have a kind of love hate thing with Sheckely. His early shorts are definitely top notch and not lacking in horror. Just started this collection 'Untouched by human Hands' and its a great four square cover. (Not as tiny as it seems but my image skills are at a low par.) I love Sheckley! I'm busy tracking down all his short stories at the moment, and once I've exhausted those I intend to start on the novels. A very amusing author - definitely an influence on Douglas Adams but a fine comedy SF writer in his own right. |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Sept 15, 2013 11:45:09 GMT
I have a kind of love hate thing with Sheckely. His early shorts are definitely top notch and not lacking in horror. Just started this collection 'Untouched by human Hands' and its a great four square cover. (Not as tiny as it seems but my image skills are at a low par.) I love Sheckley! I'm busy tracking down all his short stories at the moment, and once I've exhausted those I intend to start on the novels. A very amusing author - definitely an influence on Douglas Adams but a fine comedy SF writer in his own right. At his best he's really funny and brilliantly inventive and also at times really horrific. I love the early work. Sometimes with the novels in the later period they get a bit overly cerebral and self indulgent - I liked Mindswap and Tenth Victim but Tenth Victim is a far better short than a novel. |
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Post by jamesdoig on Sept 22, 2013 9:27:13 GMT
David Sale, Chiller (Sphere, 1983), for a buck at the Sunday market:  |
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Post by pulphack on Sept 23, 2013 6:53:35 GMT
That's a lovely cover. Modelled on a real killer, I think - a Doctor... I keep thinking Buck Ruxton, who chopped his wife up and disposed of the body parts across Lancashire, but I'm sure he was anglo-Indian with a full head of hair. I need to dive down a box for my Sidney Smith and Berbard Spilsbury biogs, as I'm sure one of them dealt with it. I may return later...
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Post by jamesdoig on Sept 27, 2013 20:53:13 GMT
The Lifeline bookfair is on again in Canberra, started yesterday, and there were some pretty good pickings. Couldn't resist the following of Vaultish interest: For $2:  Couple of Jeeves and Wooster vintage pbs, $3 each:   This James M. Cain for $2, a Robert Hale paperback from 1955, seems to be fairly scarce:  And some non-pc Horwitz titles for a buck each:     Also picked up a 1st edition in dj of Sarban's The Sound of His Horn for the princely sum of $30, a 1st of The Sword of Shannara for $5 (Christ knows why), that big illustrated life of Ray Bradbury for $4, and a few other things, so not bad so far. |
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Post by dem on Sept 28, 2013 7:26:42 GMT
The Lifeline bookfair is on again in Canberra, started yesterday, and there were some pretty good pickings. Couldn't resist the following of Vaultish interest: For $2: A glorious haul for sure, James, but in terms of sheer Vaultishness, Terrifying Tales stands head and shoulders above the rest for obvious reasons .... |
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Post by jamesdoig on Sept 29, 2013 2:30:20 GMT
in terms of sheer Vaultishness, Terrifying Tales stands head and shoulders above the rest for obvious reasons .... Yes, it's a beauty - another Frank Benier cover. A couple more picked up on the last day for a buck each:    |
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Post by killercrab on Oct 5, 2013 23:58:47 GMT
It's a long time since I started this thread and nearly as long since I posted on it. My latest secondhand finds are RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD by John Russo ( who I believe is featured in the latest Paperback Fanatic) and WOLF TRACKS by David Case. I'm also reading SAXON'S BANE by Geoffrey Gudgion which was published this year which is a British rural supernatural occult thriller set around an archeological dig and it's very good - if you like stuff like THE WICKERMAN this will be up your street.Hoping this propels me into a horror fiction reading spate!
KC
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Post by dem on Oct 6, 2013 6:30:35 GMT
It's a long time since I started this thread and nearly as long since I posted on it. My latest secondhand finds are RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD by John Russo ( who I believe is featured in the latest Paperback Fanatic) and WOLF TRACKS by David Case. I'm also reading SAXON'S BANE by Geoffrey Gudgion which was published this year which is a British rural supernatural occult thriller set around an archeological dig and it's very good - if you like stuff like THE WICKERMAN this will be up your street.Hoping this propels me into a horror fiction reading spate! KC Which Return Of The Living Dead did you get, KC? Just in case you didn't know, the Arrow edition follows same plot as Russo's 'punkers' versus zombies flick of the same title, the Hamlyn is his sequel to the original Night Of The Living Dead. We've a thread about them here, but it's best avoided until you've read the book(s). |
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Post by killercrab on Oct 6, 2013 16:23:18 GMT
The Arrow. Thanks for the information.
KC
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Post by jamesdoig on Oct 11, 2013 7:59:30 GMT
Got a good haul of mostly Australian 50s pulp at an antiques/collectables place yesterday: Calvert's American Detective Novels digest for $4:  Scion, which I've never heard of, Kensington High Street, London, $2:  Shakespeare Head, Sydney, $3:  King Books, an imprint of Horwitz, $2:  Original Novels Foundation, Sydney, $4:  And again for $4 - gotta love the blurb:  Horwitz, $5:  And some Australian Beacon paperbacks: $3:  $4:  $4:  $4:  |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Oct 11, 2013 8:58:33 GMT
Cover to die for James. My nomination for worst title this year though has to be 'Sweetheart you're A'luring.'
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