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Post by dem on Nov 25, 2016 18:23:39 GMT
The Waterloo Bridge book market is a seven day a week fixture insofar as I am aware, Dem. Open daily till 7pm or thereabouts. A good place to browse. But be sure to take your flamethrower. Its cold enough under that bridge to keep extraterrestrial pods preserved in the permafrost. Thank you, and will bear your advice in mind. Maybe next Friday .... |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2016 20:54:45 GMT
No scans, but I'm currently working my way through the paperback of Evan Hunter's (Ed McBain) LAST SUMMER. Caught the movie starring Barbara Hershey and John-Boy Walton on late night TV several years ago and found the whole thing quite devastating. Haven't seen it since, mainly because it never received a DVD release. Anyway, I didn't realise until recently that the original novel was written by Hunter and that there was a sequel, COME WINTER. Now I have both. The first book, so far, is quite as coldly cruel as the film. Curious to see where he goes with the sequel...
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Post by cromagnonman on Dec 1, 2016 19:51:01 GMT
The Waterloo Bridge book market is a seven day a week fixture insofar as I am aware, Dem. Open daily till 7pm or thereabouts. A good place to browse. But be sure to take your flamethrower. Its cold enough under that bridge to keep extraterrestrial pods preserved in the permafrost. Thank you, and will bear your advice in mind. Maybe next Friday .... The book market under the bridge was closed today when I visited Dem. As with everything else it seems normal service goes to pot around the festive period. |
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Post by dem on Dec 1, 2016 20:54:15 GMT
The book market under the bridge was closed today when I visited Dem. As with everything else it seems normal service goes to pot around the festive period. Ah, thank you for the warning. Do they have a poster or something, because I'm now targeting a visit on Christmas Eve? |
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Post by cromagnonman on Dec 1, 2016 23:27:09 GMT
The book market under the bridge was closed today when I visited Dem. As with everything else it seems normal service goes to pot around the festive period. Ah, thank you for the warning. Do they have a poster or something, because I'm now targeting a visit on Christmas Eve? I didn't see one. But I'll probably be able to squeeze in one more visit before then so I'll let you know. |
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Post by Swampirella on Jan 14, 2017 17:04:41 GMT
'Classic Pan and Fontana Horror' on Kindle for 99p. Published in 2015, it collects the tales of Tony Richards that appeared in the Pan Book of Horror Stories and Fontana Great Ghost/Horror Stories series. It is dedicated to Herbert Van Thal, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Mary Danby and Vault regular Johnny Mains. Bought from Amazon for £2.81, Realm of Darkness, edited by Mary Danby, Octopus, 1985. Lots more tales from the Fontanas and elsewhere. His Kindle collection "Stories with a Sting in the Tail" is available free today (or at least it was free a few hours ago). Get it while it's hot.... |
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Post by ohthehorror on Jan 14, 2017 21:56:44 GMT
'Classic Pan and Fontana Horror' on Kindle for 99p. Published in 2015, it collects the tales of Tony Richards that appeared in the Pan Book of Horror Stories and Fontana Great Ghost/Horror Stories series. It is dedicated to Herbert Van Thal, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Mary Danby and Vault regular Johnny Mains. Bought from Amazon for £2.81, Realm of Darkness, edited by Mary Danby, Octopus, 1985. Lots more tales from the Fontanas and elsewhere. His Kindle collection "Stories with a Sting in the Tail" is available free today (or at least it was free a few hours ago). Get it while it's hot.... Thanks for this. I'll never balk at paying of course, but free is good too  |
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Post by Swampirella on Jan 14, 2017 23:07:29 GMT
His Kindle collection "Stories with a Sting in the Tail" is available free today (or at least it was free a few hours ago). Get it while it's hot.... Thanks for this. I'll never balk at paying of course, but free is good too You're welcome! I found I'd already read most of the stories, as they're in "Three Dozen Terrifying Tales" which I'd actually paid for. There were 2 stories which were new to me ("Aegea" and "Alsiso"), and fairly good. |
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Post by jamesdoig on Feb 10, 2017 23:59:36 GMT
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Post by dem on Feb 11, 2017 7:51:42 GMT
Best Mystery & Suspense Plays Of The Modern Theatre looks particularly inviting. The Nightmare Factory remains among personal great unreads. Will dip in occasionally and then kind of .... give up. The Best Of Best New Horror. It's likely we'd ALL have selected alternate stories for inclusion - that's the fun of it - but it's a strong selection for sure. I particularly like Stephen Jones linked commentary throughout.
Hope you enjoyed yourself!
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Post by jamesdoig on Feb 11, 2017 9:05:04 GMT
Hope you enjoyed yourself! It's always good fun, though this one didn't have much in the way of vintage paperbacks. Here's part of one of the rooms:  |
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Post by jamesdoig on Mar 11, 2017 21:29:36 GMT
From the junk shop for a buck:  |
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Post by helrunar on Apr 4, 2017 21:51:38 GMT
Thanks so much, Miss S, for adding to this post! I missed the John Saxon book. Whenever I see the words "a novel of modern witchcraft" on an old paperback, it's like I HAVE TO HAVE IT, NOW.
Best, H.
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Post by jamesdoig on Apr 14, 2017 22:56:56 GMT
I'm about 100 pages into this and it's turning into a really good antiquarian supernatural novel - anybody else read it?  |
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Post by ropardoe on Apr 15, 2017 8:51:31 GMT
I'm about 100 pages into this and it's turning into a really good antiquarian supernatural novel - anybody else read it? Yes, I remember quite enjoying it. There was an article on it in the Ghosts & Scholars Newsletter 22: " Celestial Chess by Thomas Bontly: A late review" by Thos. Kent Miller. I can send it to you as an e-mail attachment (and to anyone else who is interested), if you like. |
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