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Post by carolinec on Dec 21, 2008 13:41:17 GMT
Now, I think I'm still OK mentioning this here? If not, just delete it, Dem. I suspect Vaulters might be interested in this though - we have a particularly sexy line-up for issue 2! Line up for the forthcoming Issue 2.Submissions for issue two are now closed, although you may submit at any time for consideration in further issues. The line up is as follows: The fiction and verse -BAD INTENTIONS by Anna Stephens. HALLUCINATION by Roswell Ivory. 2AM by Sharon Washington. DELICIOUS by Sam Crosby Non fiction -Interview with CHARLES BLACK by Caroline Callaghan. Men's section -SKELETON IN THE CLOSET by A. J. Kirby WE ARE THREE by Tim Jeffreys While there is the possibility of last minute additions, the above are the definite inclusions to date. Issue 2 is due out in January 2009, and details of how to obtain a copy will be posted here in the near future. Cheers, Coral and Caroline www.freewebs.com/thettmcmagazine ;D |
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Post by carolinec on Feb 7, 2009 20:38:12 GMT
Here's a sneak preview of the cover of TTMC#2, which will be published very shortly: Drawn by Rog Pile and Coral King, from an original idea by Coral King.
Oh, and we have an additional story from featured author and BFS stalwart, Marie O'Regan.  |
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Post by carolinec on Feb 11, 2009 15:02:43 GMT
It's here! The Thinking Man's Crumpet issue 2 is now available!  Contents as follows: Fiction and verse - BAD INTENTIONS by Anna Stephens. HALLUCINATION by Roswell Ivory. 2AM by Sharon Washington. DELICIOUS by Sam Crosby WORLD WITHOUT END by Marie O'Regan Non fiction - Interview with CHARLES BLACK by Caroline Callaghan. Men's section - SKELETON IN THE CLOSET by A. J. Kirby WE ARE THREE by Tim Jeffreys Note my interview with Charles is in here too, for those of you who were asking about this.To order a copy for £2.50 incl P & P (in the UK - overseas, postage by arrangement) go to: www.freewebs.com/thettmcmagazine/Use the order button at the top to pay by PayPal or contact Coral to arrange an alternative method of payment Enjoy! ;D LATER EDIT: I forgot to say - this issue should really carry an "adults only" warning! I can tell you when Coral was sending me submissions to read through, some of these quite shocked me. Me? Shocked? Yes, I was - so you can tell how naughty some of these stories must be! I do wonder if women write much naughtier stories than men some times ...  BTW this is in no way intended to put you off buying a copy - nor indeed to get you to purchase! Well, maybe a bit of the latter 'cos I know what you fellas are like!  |
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Post by dem on Mar 2, 2009 10:54:42 GMT
Huh! You won't reel me in with promises of naughty stories, that's for sure. Not quite finished yet, but if I don't get around to it while it's fresh in my head ...... Much as I was very taken with the first issue, for this reader, number 2 is certainly an improvement in terms of a magazine feel. This time, the stories are offset with an interview (Caroline gets more out of our dear friend Dr. Terror than we have in three years and counting), book reviews and bite size news items, plus plenty of info on the contributors. As to the fiction, most TTMC creations to date blend elements of horror, sci-fi, erotica and fantasy and, while this is true of the four stories i've read so far, on this occasion, the subject which appears to be foremost in the minds of the authors is ..... sex. Sam Crosby gets things off to a steamy start with the semen soaked tale of Louise and Rob, an endless round of lust, gluttony and masturbation that comes grinding to a halt the night Rob is kept in at the hospital and his by now bed-ridden partner has nothing left to eat or screw. Well, I say "nothing" .... More erotic fun and games in Anna Stephens' Bad Intentions as our unnamed narrator's search and destroy mission versus evil genius and intergalactic businessman 'Q' leads him to the Orgy Palace on Graviton-4. When all around him - men, women, androids - are f**king with such abandon, it's hard to concentrate on the job at hand, necessitating his taking the occasional time out to give the already uh, otherwise engaged Henna a crafty one from behind and "relieve the uncomfortable bulge in my trousers". Much more of this, and some of us might have to do consider making urgent arrangements of our own. "Hah! I remember a Cardinal once! He was such fun to visit, over and over again. I can still see the scourge marks he inflicted on himself after each visit. Poor, deluded creature!". Sharon Washington's 2AM, my favourite so far, is told from the point of view of a succubus as she impatiently counts down the minutes until her victim, blissfully unaware of what awaits him, falls asleep. This one gave me an 'oh no, i've only got two paragraph's to go!' moment, a sure sign that a horror story is doing its stuff. If you think back to the short-shorts Michel Parry would often fall back upon to balance his Mayflower Black Magic books, 2AM would have snuggled in nicely. Another unseen voyeur, the ghost of an anorexic, is A. J. Kirby's Skeleton In The Closet, taunted to her death by appalling author husband for daring to laugh at the erotic slant he's given his autobiography. "Funnily enough, if something is labelled as being a 'horror comedy' I tend to steer well clear. And I'm always wary of the stories of R. Chetwynd-Hayes. But yes, I think there's a place for humour in horror. There's often quite a bit in my own stories, you might be able to detect the influence of Robert Bloch."The interview with Charles (and the reviews of Black Books 1 & 2) are an obvious hook for those of us who've thrilled to the series, and somehow, as mentioned, Caz has managed to get him to actually say something about himself. I read this on-line when it appeared in Pantechnicon, but you can't beat a printed copy and besides, The Horror Anthology Rises Again seems to have taken on a fungoid life of it's own because - is it me, or is there more of it? |
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Post by carolinec on Mar 2, 2009 11:57:14 GMT
Blimey, Dem, you ARE enjoying this one, aren't you?! Careful or you'll go cross-eyed!  I'm somewhat alarmed, though, at the thought of my interview with Charles getting longer all on its own. I did have to change/add a little bit - the bit about the BFS award nominations, as that was no longer appropriate in the form it was originally - but I think it's only a small insert from me explaining the situation. I definitely haven't interviewed Charles any further.  Anyway, glad you're enjoying it. I don't know why we got so many sexy submissions this time. It wasn't my fault, honest. I was quite shocked when Coral sent them on to me. Sam Crosby's "Delicious" must surely outclass anything that Alan Temperley (Timperley?) has done (you know, the "Love on the Farm" Pan writer) for sheer "grossness"? Keep it up, Dem ... I mean, the reading and review ... (probably not one to read on the bus/train or in any other public place, I guess? ) |
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Post by franklinmarsh on Mar 2, 2009 15:11:28 GMT
Excellent review Dem. Did you know La Crosby and Ms Washington were personal friends of mine? (Oh what a giveaway! Nepotism!)
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Post by dem on Mar 2, 2009 17:15:59 GMT
You old super smoothie! You mean to tell me somebody on here actually knows some girls? And don't think i didn't spot the reference to the 'guest male fiction author' in issue 3! Keep it up, Dem ... I mean, the reading and review ... (probably not one to read on the bus/train or in any other public place, I guess? ) Ha! After brandishing my copy of Mammoth Book Of Erotica 7 (research purposes) at all comers on the Circle Line, your TTMC holds no terrors for me, madam! Not sure if i'd quite go along with "grosser than Alan Temperley", but Delicious is certainly not boring. |
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Post by lobolover on Mar 2, 2009 17:48:57 GMT
Huh! You won't reel me in with promises of naughty stories, that's for sure. Not quite finished yet, but if I don't get around to it while it's fresh in my head ...... Much as I was very taken with the first issue, for this reader, number 2 is certainly an improvement in terms of a magazine feel. This time, the stories are offset with an interview (Caroline gets more out of our dear friend Dr. Terror than we have in three years and counting), book reviews and bite size news items, plus plenty of info on the contributors. As to the fiction, most TTMC creations to date blend elements of horror, sci-fi, erotica and fantasy and, while this is true of the four stories i've read so far, on this occasion, the subject which appears to be foremost in the minds of the authors is ..... sex. Sam Crosby gets things off to a steamy start with the semen soaked tale of Louise and Rob, an endless round of lust, gluttony and masturbation that comes grinding to a halt the night Rob is kept in at the hospital and his by now bed-ridden partner has nothing left to eat or screw. Well, I say "nothing" .... More erotic fun and games in Anna Stephens' Bad Intentions as our unnamed narrator's search and destroy mission versus evil genius and intergalactic businessman 'Q' leads him to the Orgy Palace on Graviton-4. When all around him - men, women, androids - are f**king with such abandon, it's hard to concentrate on the job at hand, necessitating his taking the occasional time out to give the already uh, otherwise engaged Henna a crafty one from behind and "relieve the uncomfortable bulge in my trousers". Much more of this, and some of us might have to do consider making urgent arrangements of our own. "Hah! I remember a Cardinal once! He was such fun to visit, over and over again. I can still see the scourge marks he inflicted on himself after each visit. Poor, deluded creature!". Sharon Washington's 2AM, my favourite so far, is told from the point of view of a succubus as she impatiently counts down the minutes until her victim, blissfully unaware of what awaits him, falls asleep. This one gave me an 'oh no, i've only got two paragraph's to go!' moment, a sure sign that a horror story is doing its stuff. If you think back to the short-shorts Michel Parry would often fall back upon to balance his Mayflower Black Magic books, 2AM would have snuggled in nicely. Another unseen voyeur, the ghost of an anorexic, is A. J. Kirby's Skeleton In The Closet, taunted to her death by appalling author husband for daring to laugh at the erotic slant he's given his autobiography. "Funnily enough, if something is labelled as being a 'horror comedy' I tend to steer well clear. And I'm always wary of the stories of R. Chetwynd-Hayes. But yes, I think there's a place for humour in horror. There's often quite a bit in my own stories, you might be able to detect the influence of Robert Bloch."The interview with Charles (and the reviews of Black Books 1 & 2) are an obvious hook for those of us who've thrilled to the series, and somehow, as mentioned, Caz has managed to get him to actually say something about himself. I read this on-line when it appeared in Pantechnicon, but you can't beat a printed copy and besides, The Horror Anthology Rises Again seems to have taken on a fungoid life of it's own because - is it me, or is there more of it? And this is why I dont generaly trust modern horror/whathaveyou at first glance. I prefer the stuff out of the 20's and back, to be honest, though im sure this is just a limit set of by Public Domain laws. |
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Post by carolinec on Mar 2, 2009 19:59:43 GMT
And this is why I dont generaly trust modern horror/whathaveyou at first glance. I prefer the stuff out of the 20's and back, to be honest, though im sure this is just a limit set of by Public Domain laws. Not sure I quite follow you there, Lobo. Are you saying you don't like all the sex in "modern horror"? Don't forget with TTMC it is billed as containing erotica. I think a lot of our contributors honed in on this aspect. TBH erotica isn't really my thing either. My preference is for scary horror - not too much violence, not too much sex - scaring by suggestion rather than gratuitous gore. What I call the more "cerebral horror". But then I've been taken to task here on this very Vault for those kinds of preferences ...  BTW later stories in TTMC2 are more "cerebral" - I think we got quite a nice range of stories altogether - but Dem's review has made me realise we put all the sex first!  PS to Franklin: Does it worry you that your lady friends have very strange sexual fantasies? |
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Post by lobolover on Mar 3, 2009 0:19:40 GMT
Not sure I quite follow you there, Lobo. Are you saying you don't like all the sex in "modern horror"? Don't forget with TTMC it is billed as containing erotica. I think a lot of our contributors honed in on this aspect. I say, missing a leter there Hmm. I think I have something to think over.....that doesnt seem right. |
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Post by dem on Mar 3, 2009 16:45:47 GMT
BTW later stories in TTMC2 are more "cerebral" - I think we got quite a nice range of stories altogether - but Dem's review has made me realise we put all the sex first! I reckon the issue works better with the erotic stories ran alongside each other. Anyhow, all finished. Struggled with a few items, but an interesting and entertaining read throughout. In Marie O'Regan's World Without End, the recurring nightmares of teeth-loss which plague a troubled teenage girl portend cosmic disaster. Should re-read this, not at all sure i understood it to be perfectly honest. Likewise, feel a bit rotten being unable to offer any sensible comment on Roswell Ivory's Hallucination. Verse is simply a form that only gets to penetrate my skull when accompanied by a barking mad vocal and three brutally ugly chords (yes, i really am that thick or hadn't you noticed?). I got along just fine with Tim Jeffrey's We Are Three, though. Three Men In A Boat minus the straw hats and blazers with Charon - or possibly, a wanking, idiot relative of The Professor's Teddy Bear - at the helm? The tiny craft, populated by the narrator, the superintendent and insatiable It monster, is adrift forever as no port will have them while they have that thing on board. The super decides there's only one option. They'll have to kill It. And that, for what it's worth, is what i made of TTMC 2. |
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Post by franklinmarsh on Mar 3, 2009 16:54:04 GMT
[quote author=carolinec board=horrorpressnow thread=2427 post=15150 time=1236023983
PS to Franklin: Does it worry you that your lady friends have very strange sexual fantasies?
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Caroline - for all I know, they're not fantasies!
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Post by carolinec on Mar 3, 2009 19:20:17 GMT
Thanks, Dem - super review. ;D I must admit, the Tim Jeffreys story was my own particular indulgence. I discovered Tim selling self-published books and CDs of his own writing on eBay - and TBH I think he's absolutely brilliant! He reminds me considerably of our friend Des Lewis in his writing. I was actually wondering if anyone other than a student of psychology (which I was many years ago) would actually understand who the Narrator, the Superintendent and It actually represent? I'll leave anyone who wishes to ponder on that one - a little cerebral teaser for you ... [quote author=carolinec board=horrorpressnow thread=2427 post=15150 time=1236023983 PS to Franklin: Does it worry you that your lady friends have very strange sexual fantasies? Caroline - for all I know, they're not fantasies![/quote]  |
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Post by franklinmarsh on Mar 8, 2009 17:01:59 GMT
See? They're appallingly normal! Ms Crosby to the left, Ms Washington on the right |
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Post by carolinec on Mar 8, 2009 19:14:10 GMT
Ah, but what's going on behind those innocent-looking smiles, eh Franklin? |
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