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Post by noose on Jul 22, 2010 16:44:11 GMT
Harry denies being Alex, as has Conrad and Temperley (who against all odds agreed to sign the Pan book with Love on the Farm in it!!). Possible candidate could be Norman P Kaufmann - who incidentally was very good friends with a certain Adobe James. I have phoned Norman a few times - but never asked him that question. I'll do it over the weekend...
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Post by Johnlprobert on Jul 22, 2010 22:14:50 GMT
Something else that occurred to me while reading The Clinic was that it might even have been the work of two hands. The wonderfully caustic descriptions of some of the characters feel like classic Harry Turner or Charles Birkin but then it feels as if it was handed to someone else to shovel the nasty rape and mutilation stuff in at the end. Hope that helps to confuse the issue even further
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Post by dem bones on Jul 22, 2010 22:43:02 GMT
Something else that occurred to me while reading The Clinic was that it might even have been the work of two hands. The wonderfully caustic descriptions of some of the characters feel like classic Harry Turner or Charles Birkin but then it feels as if it was handed to someone else to shovel the nasty rape and mutilation stuff in at the end. Hope that helps to confuse the issue even further So now we're talking a Charles Birkin/ Laurence James collaboration ?!! Nah, even The Clinic isn't THAT sick.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jul 23, 2010 7:53:23 GMT
Something else that occurred to me while reading The Clinic was that it might even have been the work of two hands. The wonderfully caustic descriptions of some of the characters feel like classic Harry Turner or Charles Birkin but then it feels as if it was handed to someone else to shovel the nasty rape and mutilation stuff in at the end. Hope that helps to confuse the issue even further Sends interesting and distrubing images. 'Right I've done the flowery bits can you do the rape and torture?' 'No probs...'
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Post by bushwick on Jul 23, 2010 15:05:12 GMT
Re: 'The Clinic' (the story by which I found Vault Of Evil and began my pulp addiction, lest you forget!)...Johnny, I'm sure you at one point said the author may be Clarence Paget? Is this info no longer credible?
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Post by noose on Jul 23, 2010 15:43:02 GMT
I was taking the mickey Bush. Though I have it on very good authority that it was van Thal who came up with the ideas and themes for most of the Alex White stories, so who knows The Clinic could have been one of his...
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Post by dem bones on Jul 23, 2010 19:31:36 GMT
Re: 'The Clinic' (the story by which I found Vault Of Evil and began my pulp addiction, lest you forget!)... It's pretty extraordinary the fascination that one story held for so many very different folk who eventually drifted together. In many ways i'm glad the identity of the 'Alex White' who wrote The Clinic remains elusive, just the same as part of me hopes we never positively identify 'Pierce Nace'. Hey Bush,bearing in mind some of the stuff you've read - and written - these past four/ five years i'm thinking that maybe The Clinic seems a little tame to you nowadays?
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Post by Johnlprobert on Jul 24, 2010 7:44:53 GMT
In many ways i'm glad the identity of the 'Alex White' who wrote The Clinic remains elusive, just the same as part of me hopes we never positively identify 'Pierce Nace'. I think you're right. I prefer to think of Pierce Nace as not existing at all and that Eat Them Alive is the only pulp horror book in history that wrote itself - that at least would explain its total lack of morals, taste and writing ability. But My God I can remember almost every word - something most writers would love to happen with their work.
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Post by Swampirella on Oct 10, 2016 20:39:18 GMT
This Birkin collection I really enjoyed; especially "My Name is Death" "Parlez-moi d'amour" and "Hosanna!". The first and last may have been somewhat predicatable, but in the hands of a master, who cares?
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Post by dem bones on Oct 11, 2016 7:22:56 GMT
This Birkin collection I really enjoyed; especially "My Name is Death" "Parlez-moi d'amour" and "Hosanna!". The first and last may have been somewhat predicatable, but in the hands of a master, who cares? Lovely to hear fom you, Miss Scarlett! Agree that this is among his very best collections, possibly his most 'commercial' since Devil's Spawn. It's the "predictability" of Sir Charles' stories does it for me. One foot on the downward spiral and that's it. No hope of rescue, no twist ending, no hope whatsoever. Am sure I said this before, but your avatar is gorgeous. Who painted it?
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Post by ripper on Oct 14, 2016 9:32:21 GMT
'Kitty Fisher' is the one in this collection that makes me really uncomfortable whenever I read it. As soon as Kitty's brother leaves her in charge of the baby, you know that something nasty is going to happen, and it's just a matter of what the baby's fate will be at the hands of his sister. If you want a grim time, Sir Charles is your man.
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Post by Swampirella on Oct 14, 2016 16:19:13 GMT
Thanks for the compliment on my avatar After some searching, I ended up googling "Rusalka" and easily found it. Doing so now, I see it's by somebody named Miguel Coimbra, who's obviously very talented.
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Post by Swampirella on Oct 14, 2016 16:21:41 GMT
I guess the "nasty babysitter" is a theme that's been explored before by Sir Charles and others so much that I've become blase about it....
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Post by ripper on Oct 15, 2016 13:48:48 GMT
I generally feel a little uncomfortable about depictions of violence or abuse to children (and animals), particularly when it is inflicted by other children, probably because that kind of thing isn't supposed to happen, though obviously it does. Some writers shy away from it or try to blunt its impact, but Sir Charles rarely, if ever, shies away from it. In Kitty Fisher, I don't think the girl is naturally bad or vindictive; her actions are through annoyance with the baby, showing that the most dreadful acts can be carried out by rational and well-adjusted individuals, and I think that is more shocking and disturbing than if she had been portrayed as a sadistic monster.
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Post by Dr Terror on Sept 4, 2017 21:01:46 GMT
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