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Post by andydecker on Mar 18, 2011 9:53:15 GMT
As there are some work-related problems I don´t have time to read the rest of the Muller´s at the moment. But as I already did the scans, here ist the rest. Mark of the Beast, Vampir Horror 1974 The Unpossesed (german title: The murdering corpses), 1974 Bastei Gespenster-Krimi 1976 Bastei Gespenster-Krimi 1976
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Post by noose on Mar 18, 2011 11:16:07 GMT
Mark of the Beast, Vampir Horror 1974 And this is the reason why I love the Vault so much.....
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Post by dem bones on Mar 18, 2011 18:37:26 GMT
Agreed, these are absolutely gorgeous. Debbie Cross's Fanthorpe bibliography is surely the most thorough to date (?), but even she misses out the German editions so thank you so much for sharing them with us Andy! Hope those work-related problems resolve themselves in your favour. more Fanthorpe fun. The bride's family heirloom, Joan the Wad "the lucky Cornish pixie" as advertised incessantly in Supernatural Stories, Science Fiction Library et al.
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Post by dem bones on Mar 31, 2011 22:24:49 GMT
Rev. Fanthorpe came up with many outrageous plots during his years at Badger but Curse Of The Khan is just plain preposterous: he really expects us to believe that he has ever suffered from writers block? Fortunately, the story rapidly shifts into blood-freezing terror mode when a passing twelfth century Mongol Warlord turns up on his doorstep to deliver the following summons.
"You are invited to take part in a test of skill, courage and intelligence by challenging Genghis Khan and his associates at Black Island Manor, off Veryan."
Fanthorpe, remembering his years as a wrestler, accepts, and takes a boat from Truro where it transpires that six of his fellow Badger Book regulars have received the same invitation: Bron Fane, Peter O' Flinn, Neil Balfort, Oben Lerteth, Rene Rolant ("the Edgar Allan Poe of Marseilles") and finally, "the Manhattan Magus", Elton T. Neef. In the tag-match of the century, Khan pits this Magnificent Seven versus his own hand-picked legion, captained by Orakos the troll, which includes a ghoul, a decomposing zombie, a Dracula wannabe, werewolf, and the headless spectre of Anne Boleyne. Who will triumph in this dour death struggle? Can it be that the Reverend and his pseudonyms must perish because Supernatural Stories is coming to the end of its thirteen year existence?
This is a terrible, terrible, TERRIBLE novella, but i am so glad he wrote it!
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Post by pulphack on Apr 1, 2011 11:17:22 GMT
perhaps the rev will use hi joan the wad lucky piskie to get himself out of trouble... i bet the book is baffling, like most of the rev's work, but the idea of not only including yourself in the book, but all your pseudonyms like they were real people being put into fiction (!!! ) is some kind of genius...
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Post by dem bones on Apr 1, 2011 21:49:48 GMT
perhaps the rev will use hi joan the wad lucky piskie to get himself out of trouble... i bet the book is baffling, like most of the rev's work, but the idea of not only including yourself in the book, but all your pseudonyms like they were real people being put into fiction (!!! ) is some kind of genius... i like that he gives each of his pseudonyms the most rudimentary characteristics, and sets them to arguing among themselves. Neef the LOUD American, Rene Rolant, the amorous Frenchman, shillelagh swinging Peter O'Flinn, Lerteth the moribund Welshman, etc. it is one of those stories where i was tutting and groaning all the way through "those dreadful stereotypes! those terrible jokes!" but no way was i gonna stop reading! We already noted that his bashfulness would often big himself up on the back covers, but Debbie Cross notes several instances of this reverential self-namedropping crossing over into the stories themselves! This from Power Sphere ( SF #95, 1963) "Men like Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, John E. Muller, Karl Zeigfried, Fanthorpe and their contemporaries put forward as fiction a number of brilliantly imaginative schemes, which have since come to pass as fact."
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Post by peltorro on Nov 10, 2012 12:06:01 GMT
If you are looking for all things on the Badger Fanthorpe books, visit my site; A Prose by any Other Pseudonym www.peltorro.com
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Post by dem bones on Nov 10, 2012 21:58:36 GMT
That really is the most instructive site you've put together Mr. Torro, and a rare treat to see all the covers in one gallery. Did you catch Rev. Fanthorpe's all conquering invasion of Paperback Fanatic #18?
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Post by dem bones on Jan 8, 2013 13:15:00 GMT
John S. Manning (ed.) - Supernatural Stories # 9 (Badger Books, Spring 1957) Edward Richards - The Devil's DictionaryThe old book showed how to summon the powers of darkness. Ridiculous of course. But was it?John Mason - The Ancient AlchemistEternal life was his—but at a price which others were not to prepared to pay.Robert D. Ennis - The Artist's ModelThe House was haunted, but that didn't matter. Not until the dead began to threaten the living.L. C. Powers - The Witch of PeroniaShe was lovely, but it was false beauty and the little dolls she made were evil incarnate.Raymond L. Burton - The DolmenIt stood on the Downs, a great stone older than history, so old that no-one remembered why it was there.Andrew Sutton - Snake VengeanceCurses are meaningless things, capable only of frightening fools. But what if such a curse should work? Picked up this beauty for £1 on black pilgrimage to Spitalfields Market this morning, an early, pre-Rev. Lionel Fanthorpe involvement issue of John Spencer's legendary publication. Even lucky Cornish piskie 'Joan the Wad' was yet to enlist. Don't pay too much attention to the author credits as we have it on the best authority, namely Mike Ashley's superlative Fantasy Readers Guide that these are all the creations of E. C. Tubb. Note how in the short time it takes us to reach the contents list, cover star 'James S, Stanton' has suddenly become 'Edward Richards'.
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Post by jamesdoig on Jan 10, 2013 3:49:10 GMT
John S. Manning (ed.) - Supernatural Stories # 9 (Badger Books, Spring 1957) That's a cracking find!
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Post by dem bones on Jan 10, 2013 9:29:52 GMT
Should be a fun read, too, if this trad horror sample story is typical of the rest.
Robert D. Ennis (E. C. Tubb) - The Artist's Model: Mark Thorne, aspiring painter, takes a six month lease on Fairlawns, a quaint Victorian house on Maple Avenue and Sherbourne Street, which he believes will be provide the ideal work environment. The estate agent warns him of Fairlawns' reputation, but Mark laughs off any notion of ghosts, even when they're blowing on his neck and hauling heavy objects around during the night. His friend Henry, a reporter, researches an article on the place, and traces the origin of the haunting to 1896, when, six months after his favourite model, Amelia, inexplicably vanished,Mr. Prentice, an ill-tempered invalid and alcoholic, went insane, murdered his wife, daughter and son-in-law, before hanging himself in the kitchen. In 1904, a servant girl cut her own throat after a fling with the son of the house, and since that date, the property has seen scores of tenants move out almost as soon as they've arrived.
Meanwhile, Mark has subconsciously taken to depicting a mystery girl in his every abstract, and Henry is appalled at Mark's transformation from clean-cut, fastidious guy to bearded, unkempt, whiskey-reeking degenerate. Concerned that the dead artist has taken possession of the living, Henry calls upon the services of Mr. Edwards, a medium of the non-phoney variety, to exorcise the house.
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Post by doctor3 on Mar 2, 2013 19:09:31 GMT
I'm old mates with Lionel Fanthorpe. He's a really nice guy. You have t remember that he was banging these out at a rate of about one a day to pay the bills. He to;d me he would dictate them to his wife Pat whilst reading his notes by torchlight from under the bedclothes.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Mar 2, 2013 19:41:36 GMT
He to;d me he would dictate them to his wife Pat whilst reading his notes by torchlight from under the bedclothes. Most curious.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2013 19:53:15 GMT
She took a typewriter into bed with her?
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Post by doctor3 on Mar 2, 2013 23:10:07 GMT
She took a typewriter into bed with her? Sounds like it!
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