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Post by allthingshorror on Jan 18, 2009 11:13:23 GMT
Armada 1975 The Sad Vampire - Angus Campbell
The Last of the Dragons - E Nesbit
Dimblebee's Dinosaur - Howard Peters
A Ride to Hell - Ruth Manning-Saunders
Inside the Monster - Lucian of Samothrace
The Chimaera - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Guardian at Hell's Mouth - Sydney J Bounds
SOmething in the Cellar - Rosemary J Timperley
Thesus and the Minotaur - Charles Kingsley
The Sea Serpent - Gerard James
The Thing in the Pond - Paul Ernst
Big Feet - R. Chetwynd Hayes
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Post by Johnlprobert on Jan 19, 2009 14:38:39 GMT
Well seeing as 'Angus Campbell' WAS R Chetwynd-Hayes we shouldn't be too surprised  |
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Post by David A. Riley on Jan 19, 2009 14:49:22 GMT
Hmm, choosing your own stories for the opening and closing of the book, and one under a pen name... You have to admire his cheek.
David
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Post by allthingshorror on Jan 19, 2009 15:20:05 GMT
 and that endeth my lesson for today. There's always a smart arse....
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Post by Johnlprobert on Jan 19, 2009 15:37:29 GMT
Just improving your education Mr Mains my friend - just improving your education  |
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Post by dem on Jan 20, 2009 22:09:48 GMT
Hmm, choosing your own stories for the opening and closing of the book, and one under a pen name... You have to admire his cheek. David Possibly a trick he picked up from Lionel Fanthorpe when he (RCH) wrote a novel for Badger Books. The odd thing is, the one under the 'Angus Campbell' pseudonym ain't great, but it's nowhere near as risible as Big Feet - and he puts his own name to that one! |
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Jan 26, 2009 14:41:08 GMT
Ooh, I used to have that one when I was a kid. Got it when I was on holiday in Lytham St Annes. I really wanted the copy of Cinefantastique I'd spotted with a feature on "Dracula has Risen from the Grave" but some swine beat me to it. This was the not-quite-next best thing in the shop (Lavells, I think it was called, big old newsagent/bookshop, where I think I spent half my holiday browsing) because it had a vampire story.
Nearly 30 years later, that vampire story is the only thing I remember from the book. Well, that and the big yellow dragon on the cover. As I remember it, the vampire was scared of blood and some child he befriends hits on the idea of black puddings for it to eat. Even as a nipper I was disappointed.
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Post by killercrab on Jan 26, 2009 18:17:00 GMT
(Lavells, I think it was called, big old newsagent/bookshop, where I think I spent half my holiday browsing) >> I haven't heard the name Lavells in years ! Menzies bought them out and it's now a W.H. Smith. I remember buying the Starsky and Hutch poster mag at Lavells ( the sunday after the show debuted). Thanks for jogging my sentimentailty. KC |
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Post by dem on Dec 20, 2017 19:07:19 GMT
R. Chetwynd-Hayes (ed.) - The Second Armada Monster Book (1976) R. Chetwynd-Hayes - Introduction
Adrien Stoutenbury - The Giant Who Sucked His Thumb
Winifred Finlay - The Lambton Worm
John Hampden - The Prince and the Trolls
Bernard Henderson & Stephen Jones - The Wyvern
E. Nesbit - The Dragon Tamers
Roger Malisson - The Aliens
Dinah Starkey - The Giant of Grabbist
Sydney J. Bounds - The Well at Wurrum's End
Barbara Ker Wilson - Morag and the Water Horse
Rosemary Timperley - The Green Thing
R. Chetwynd-Hayes - Homemade Monster
Interior Illustrations by Gary Rees Blurb: A monstrous mixture!
Eleven of the most mysterious - murderous- marvellous monsters ever to horrify the human race ....
Meet the loathsome LAMBTON WORM .... The immense, man-eating WYVERN .... The smiling GREEN THING with the human head .... The dreaded, death-dealing WATER HORSE ....
And many more fantastic fiends ...I loved this series as a young 'un. A number of the story titles ring faint bell. "Morag and the Water Horse" made more of an impression, it is one of those tales that has lurked in the recesses of my memory since I was 8 or 9 years old. I wonder if the actual story bears any resemblance to the mutated and misremembered version that has lived with me for the last 30-odd years? - chris : Donald McGregor laughs off the legend of the evil monster from the depths of the Loch, until it comes for his daughter. RCH liked this one so much that he developed his own, very different, version as Lileas And The Water Horse. Sydney J. Bounds - The Well at Wurrum's End: keen pot-holing brothers Des and Pete ignore the shepherd's warning and descend into the caves beneath Wurrum's End. A slimy, slug-like entity, "as long as two bus nose to tail," comes tearing after them.
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Post by dem on Jan 10, 2018 8:43:36 GMT
R. Chetwynd-Hayes - Homemade Monster: Hopelessly lost while cycling to Benfield, Rodney seeks shelter for the night at a decrepit old mansion. Meanwhile Dr. Frankwell, MAD SCIENTIST, gives the command for his idiot assistant to pull the big switch and reanimate his beloved humanoid. Bearing in mind how excruciatingly awful several of Ronald's children's stories - and a number of adult ones - can be, we get off very lightly with this one. Roger Malisson - The Aliens: A United Galactic Federation of Planets delegation prepare to meet representatives of the latest species to conquer space travel. The word on the the starways is that these creatures are hideous beyond description ..... Bernard Henderson & Stephen Jones - The Wyvern: Meredydd the brave young shepherd versus the monstrous winged snake with the basilisk stare. As with all these David-Goliath confrontations there can only be one winner though this one doesn't live to enjoy his triumph which is some small consolation. This one landed shortly before Christmas .... R. Chetwynd-Hayes (ed.) - 6th Armada Monster Book (1981) R. Chetwynd-Hayes - Introduction
Angus Campbell (R. Chetwynd-Hayes) - The Mudadora
Henry Glynn (R. Chetwynd-Hayes) - The Slippity-Slop
Keith Timson - Legend of the Spiders
Andrew Lang - The Prince and the Dragon
Terry Tapp - The Bean Rock Monster
Patricia Moynehan - Monster in Distress
Daphne Froome - Captain Castleton's Biscuit Beetle
R. Chetwynd-Hayes - The Gale-Wuggle Blurb: A murderous menagerie of monsters!
The decaying MUDORA, terror of the night .... slimy SLIPPITY-SLOP, the loathesome giant worm .... the MAN-EATING SPIDER that drips gore ... the gigantic BISCUIT BEETLE - freak of science .... the GALE-WUGGLE, frightful fiend of the skies ...
And more chilling tales of the world's most blood-curdling beasts ...
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Post by dem on Apr 1, 2018 11:38:21 GMT
Hmm, choosing your own stories for the opening and closing of the book, and one under a pen name... You have to admire his cheek. David In Vol 6 he helps himself to the first, second and final stories, showering praise on the pseudonymous pair in his introduction. Angus Campbell - The Mudadora: Raymond spends the summer at his Grandfather, Squire Carstairs' ' country residence so he can revise for his exams in peace. But 'Rosewood Cottage' stands on the edge of a forest haunted by an animated heap of earth, human bones, broken roots and rotting vegetation. Easily one of RCH's better children's stories which, admittedly, isn't setting the bar too high. The Sad Vampire - also by 'Angus Campbell' - in Armada Monster #1 is hardly the high watermark of v*mp*re literature, but it reads like Carmilla in the company of Big Feet ..... (See Frights And Fancies) |
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Post by dem on Apr 2, 2018 16:57:45 GMT
A customised giant worm, the taming of the space arachnids, and something I can barely bring myself to mention. Mary Danby's Nightmares trilogy this ain't.
Henry Glynn - The Slippity-Slop: Less excruciating than the title suggests, but even so.
Reginald Straddlegrass, nine, is a compulsive digger which is how he comes to unearth a burial mound in the back garden. The stone bears a dreadful poem advising that which lies beneath must not be disturbed. Alerted by his son, Mr. Straddlegrass, duly grabs a shovel and eventually exhumes a large egg with roots. mother insists they keep the foul-smelling thing in the attic until a buyer can be found. It hatches ...
Keith Timson - Legend Of The Spiders: Trapped in the bowl of a huge bone-strewn pit, Chan can only watch on as best friend Lanta is devoured by a giant man-eating spider, knowing all the while it will be his turn next. Unfortunately, this Chan is a visionary who refuses to acknowledge he's beaten. At least somebody dies horribly in this one.
Andrew Lang - The Prince and the Dragon: Am giving this one a miss as it features a talking dr*g*n and if there's one thing I f**king hate worse than a fluffy f**king unic*rn it's a talking f**king dr*g*n. Instead, it's back to the initial volume for:
Sydney J Bounds - The Guardian at Hell's Mouth: (1st Armada Monster Book, 1975). Pentowar Harbour. Scuba-diving teens Mike and Bernie ignore the old fisherman's warning and explore a sunken Galleon off the Cornish coast. A pair of ruthless American hoods with designs on looting the wreck, try scaring them away the an inflatable Kraken, but Mike is armed with a spear-gun ... Furious, the toughs drag the boys aboard their boat and lock them in the hold until nightfall when Chuck plans to dispose of them - for keeps!
Meanwhile, something huge and terrible stirs on the sea bed ....
Spare a thought for Chuck and Ryan. They'd have got away with the gold were it not for those meddling kids.
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