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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jan 12, 2012 12:12:32 GMT
I like the name a lot. Don't get bogged down by rewritting says the man who endlessly rewrites...  |
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Jan 12, 2012 12:31:59 GMT
I enjoyed the blog as well--it's an entertaining mix of personal narrative, commentary on the books, and pictures. I'll keep an eye on it.
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Post by jamesdoig on Jan 12, 2012 19:19:14 GMT
And now for a little bit of self promotion! since it's winter and I have too much time on my hands in the evening I've started a little blog about horror paperbacks. and yes, The Vault is my main inspiration! Looks good to me. I've still got a few of those Gold Key comics I had as a kid, but in digest form - Mystery Comics Digest. You got them in show bags at the Perth Royal Show. There was one in particular that scared the crap out of me when I was 7 or 8 - the cover had a guy getting thrown out of a car window after an accident with a truck with a giant skull in the background. I'll pick it up one day, but of course I'll wonder what all the fuss was about. |
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Post by doug on Jan 13, 2012 5:28:12 GMT
And now for a little bit of self promotion! since it's winter and I have too much time on my hands in the evening I've started a little blog about horror paperbacks. and yes, The Vault is my main inspiration! Looks good to me. I've still got a few of those Gold Key comics I had as a kid, but in digest form - Mystery Comics Digest. You got them in show bags at the Perth Royal Show. There was one in particular that scared the crap out of me when I was 7 or 8 - the cover had a guy getting thrown out of a car window after an accident with a truck with a giant skull in the background. I'll pick it up one day, but of course I'll wonder what all the fuss was about. Here's the first one I had. I loved it to pieces!  I caught hell from my Dad over this one. I was waiting so long in the checkout line at the super market that my parents couldn't find me. My das was realy pissed of. it was worth it though! :-) Enjoy the weekend every one! |
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Jan 21, 2012 17:51:38 GMT
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Post by doug on Jan 23, 2012 15:36:49 GMT
I'm going to have to wait and see on that one.  |
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Feb 2, 2012 12:33:17 GMT
I did some digging on Wellman's publication list and found two interesting-looking stories that weren't included in the Night Shade Selected Stories set and, as far as I can tell, have never been reprinted since their original publication. The first is "Home to Mother," which appeared in the March 1950 issue of Weird Tales. It's listed in the table of contents as the lead novelette with the following description: Whatever was to live through man-made catastrophe on earth would be bound to be delivered into the sort of monster that alone could survive--horror piled on horror. That sounds more like post-apocalyptic sci-fi horror than supernatural horror--maybe that's why it was omitted from the Night Shade set? The second is "Whom He May Devour," which appeared in Whispers #11-12 (a Wellman tribute issue) and has a cool-sounding title. Then there's the strange case of "The Cursed Damozel," which was apparently listed in the initial table of contents for Volume IV of the Night Shade set: www.manlywadewellman.com/Wellnewsarchive_1.htmIt didn't appear in the final version, however. The only place I've seen it listed is in Martin Greenberg and Lawrence Schimel's 1997 collection, Southern Blood: Vampire Stories from the American South. I saw an online review suggesting that the story is about "a femme fatale who stalks the Civil War battlefields." Both Locus and the ISFDB date the story to 1942, but neither lists its original publication source (if there was one). Doug or any other Wellman experts out there: Have you ever read any these stories? And can you shed any light on their history and/or why they wouldn't be included in the Night Shade set? |
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Post by cauldronbrewer on May 3, 2012 11:09:22 GMT
Then there's the strange case of "The Cursed Damozel," which was apparently listed in the initial table of contents for Volume IV of the Night Shade set: www.manlywadewellman.com/Wellnewsarchive_1.htmIt didn't appear in the final version, however. The only place I've seen it listed is in Martin Greenberg and Lawrence Schimel's 1997 collection, Southern Blood: Vampire Stories from the American South. I saw an online review suggesting that the story is about "a femme fatale who stalks the Civil War battlefields." Both Locus and the ISFDB date the story to 1942, but neither lists its original publication source (if there was one). Doug or any other Wellman experts out there: Have you ever read any these stories? And can you shed any light on their history and/or why they wouldn't be included in the Night Shade set? After I went to the trouble of buying Southern Blood, I figured out where "The Cursed Damozel" came from and why it wasn't included in the Night Shade set: it's the opening chapter of a Sergeant Jaeger story, "Coven," that's included in Volume III of the set. So, I'd already read it. |
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Post by doug on May 3, 2012 17:36:18 GMT
Then there's the strange case of "The Cursed Damozel," which was apparently listed in the initial table of contents for Volume IV of the Night Shade set: www.manlywadewellman.com/Wellnewsarchive_1.htmIt didn't appear in the final version, however. The only place I've seen it listed is in Martin Greenberg and Lawrence Schimel's 1997 collection, Southern Blood: Vampire Stories from the American South. I saw an online review suggesting that the story is about "a femme fatale who stalks the Civil War battlefields." Both Locus and the ISFDB date the story to 1942, but neither lists its original publication source (if there was one). Doug or any other Wellman experts out there: Have you ever read any these stories? And can you shed any light on their history and/or why they wouldn't be included in the Night Shade set? After I went to the trouble of buying Southern Blood, I figured out where "The Cursed Damozel" came from and why it wasn't included in the Night Shade set: it's the opening chapter of a Sergeant Jaeger story, "Coven," that's included in Volume III of the set. So, I'd already read it. And "Coven" orignaly appeared in the July 1942 issue of Weird Tales. It's also included in "Worse Things Waiting". |
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Post by timothymayer on Oct 19, 2012 3:38:53 GMT
Great blog, Uncle Doug! I just put a link to it from my site!
"Z7"
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Post by doug on Oct 19, 2012 6:17:30 GMT
Great blog, Uncle Doug! I just put a link to it from my site! "Z7" THANKS!!!!  You've been linke by me since earlier this year. Just wish I'd never chosen that stupid "Uncle Doug" moniker. At the time I thought it was pretty funny.  |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Oct 19, 2012 10:12:18 GMT
Great blog, Uncle Doug! I just put a link to it from my site! "Z7" THANKS!!!! You've been linke by me since earlier this year. Just wish I'd never chosen that stupid "Uncle Doug" moniker. At the time I thought it was pretty funny. Don't worry Doug - it's the contents that count and anyway Uncle Doug sounds fine |
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Post by sickdrjoe on Jan 9, 2013 2:02:10 GMT
I hate to be that guy, but, ummm......it's "your spelling is crap".
By the way, mark me down as voting "yes" on Wellman. And Uncle Doug!
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Post by doug on Jan 9, 2013 6:34:10 GMT
I hate to be that guy, but, ummm......it's " your spelling is crap". By the way, mark me down as voting "yes" on Wellman. And Uncle Doug! I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and figure that he did that on purpose to be ironic! And to be honest I wrote the first few posts without the benefit of any spell checking. Which wasn't wasn't very wise since my spelling is embarrassingly poor. Take care. Doug |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jan 9, 2013 7:28:18 GMT
I hate to be that guy, but, ummm......it's " your spelling is crap". By the way, mark me down as voting "yes" on Wellman. And Uncle Doug! I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and figure that he did that on purpose to be ironic! And to be honest I wrote the first few posts without the benefit of any spell checking. Which wasn't wasn't very wise since my spelling is embarrassingly poor. Take care. Doug  I used to be good at spelling but since the invasion of spellcheckers and also my long years as a foreign exile I've lost the plot. Two real problems now are 'its' or 'it's' and 'your' or 'you're'. I know the rules but the part of my brain that used to sort it out is off duty. I've also noticed many more typos and gross mistakes in books that are almost all to do with spellcheckers and last minute word doc adjustments which didn't occur in type written manuscripts. A good thing could come out of this - I love your blog Doug because its honest, fun and informative - full of passion. The spelling doesn't matter a toss really because we understand it - Shakespearean spelling is back and is the only defense (defence?) against spellcheckers. Word incidentally has reintroduced the comma and things like 'that which' instead of 'of' at the end of sentences. Grammatical 'errors' and loose grammar that were dismissed as acceptable common usage in the 1940's. |
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I used to be good at spelling but since the invasion of spellcheckers and also my long years as a foreign exile I've lost the plot. Two real problems now are 'its' or 'it's' and 'your' or 'you're'. I know the rules but the part of my brain that used to sort it out is off duty.