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Post by dem bones on Oct 9, 2009 17:06:29 GMT
Thanks James. The contents may be predictably over familiar but then if ever books were worth buying for their covers alone. Frank Bernier is one great horror pulp artist. Am guessing these two you posted earlier from the James Darke series are also his? I make no excuse for repeating them here! Horror Tales looks lovelier every time I see it.
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Post by jamesdoig on Oct 10, 2009 11:23:33 GMT
Yep, I'm pretty sure they're both his.
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Post by lobolover on Oct 12, 2009 17:08:04 GMT
Yes, it's the first four chapters - Jonathon Harker's diary. . You would think that the amount of reprints in all shapes and sizes of Dracula does not necessite taking bits of the novel and stuffing it into short story colections under diferent titles . There are many Stoke stories out there, and this kind of thing just makes his other work more eclipsed .
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Post by dem bones on Dec 5, 2009 15:38:22 GMT
James Holledge - Sex And The Sun King (Horowitz, 1964) Blurb "Her beauty is marvellous. Her costume is as wonderful as her beauty, and her gaiety as her costume." In this manner a contemporary described the notorious Athenais de Montespan, mistress of Louis XVI who had vowed "to show France how a King's mistress should really uphold her station." It was also said that "thunderous and triumphant she entered upon her empire as one to the manner born, a tyrant over Louis and thus over the land and people he thought to rule by right divine," To hold her position against rivals de Montespan used not only feminine wiles, but the cruel, disgusting magic of the Black Mass.Not an anthology, but some Horowitz Black Magic this time, and another striking cover, though i'm not quite sure what that Hell's Angel is doing in the foreground.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 23, 2013 8:42:09 GMT
Charles Higham (ed.) - Nightmare Stories (Horwitz, 1962) James Workman - The Mummy's Curse 'F. Sheridan le Fanu' - The Ghost of a Hand 'F. Sheridan le Fanu' - Sir Dominick's Bargain Charles Dickens - To Be Taken With a Grain of Salt Ambrose Bierce - A Horseman in the Sky Anonymous (James Hogg) - The Sutor of Selkirk Amelia B. Edwards - How the Third Floor Knew the Potteries D. W. Preston - Whistler's Mother Edgar Allan Poe - The Cask of AmontilladoBlurb: Ghosts, Angry Demons, Gruesome Surprises, Inexplicable Phenomena, Terrors of the Supernatural provide the essential macabre ingredients for this startling collection of Nightmare Stories.Had a lovely surprise yesterday afternoon when the postman came staggering to the door clutching a box of paperbacks from a certain Mr. Doig in Melbourne. Hey James, thank you so much for such a kind gesture! One marathon cover scan orgy later, and i turned my attentions to Nightmare Stories. This is only the second of the Higson Horwitz anthologies to come my way, and I prefer it to Spine-Tingling Tales on account that it includes two originals (both of which read suspiciously as if they are the work of the same hack: Whistler's Mother is particularly remarkable for its exceptionally poor taste). Incidentally, it was the first anniversary of Charles Higham's death on Sunday just gone (21st April) so a belated R. I. P. to the great man, without whom we'd possibly never have seen the several gorgeous Frank Bernier covers gracing this thread. James Workman - The Mummy's Curse: Three and a half centuries after her murder, the tomb of the impossibly beautiful Princess Hetophras is reopened by members of the MacKellar-Murchison expedition. Scattered about the chamber are eight skeletons, and an inscription warns that the Princess will only leave for the Land of Osiris once she has accomplished the deaths of ten men. One of the party survives only a few hours before he succumbs to a fast-acting radiation sickness, and things are looking grim for his doctor until a corrupt Egyptian official unwisely intervenes and suffers the Princess's deadly embrace. D. W. Preston - Whistler's Mother: Mary Laughton, model, is abducted on the streets of Sydney by a whistling cabbie in a gas mask. The 'Plastic Surgeon Murderer' has disfigured and killed five Aus women to date, but they account for only a very small proportion of his victims. He is a Jew who, at a sadistic Nazi's insistence, operated on his own mother rather than endure the horrors of the Concentration Camp. His father, who has trailed him from country to country finally catches up with him and, with the aid of Jo-Jo, his pet monkey, deals him his gory just desserts. For the remainder of the collection, Mr. Higson sticks with tried and trusted Victorian classics, all of which have been commented upon elsewhere with the possible exception of: Anonymous - The Sutor of Selkirk: ( Blackwood's, May. 1827). When a customer pays him in gold coin from a rotting purse crawling with beetles and maggots, Rabbie Heckspeckle, the nosey cobbler, decides the man must have stumbled upon buried treasure and resolves to follow him. The strange client leads him to the graveyard. Rabbie doesn't like the idea of a pair of shoes going to waste on a dead man and retrieves them from the coffin before nailing it shut. The corpse doesn't take kindly to such treatment. Thanks James
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Post by jamesdoig on Apr 23, 2013 21:37:27 GMT
Had a lovely surprise yesterday afternoon when the postman came staggering to the door clutching a box of paperbacks from a certain Mr. Doig in Melbourne. Glad the box arrived okay - 3 months in a shipping container followed by customs can be an ordeal and leaves one not looking your best. Much as I like Melbourne, I'm in Canberra - built on an ancient swamp, I'm led to believe.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 24, 2013 9:48:50 GMT
Sorry James. Trust me to get it wrong - too much bloody Nick & Kylie! I see from your Australian Antholgies thread that James Workman is credited with a Horwitz novel, The Witch Hunters. Was Workman a house name or a flesh and blood entity in his own right? Also, do you know anything about this D. W. Preston character? Maybe its just me, but purely on the strength of The Mummy's Curse and Whistler's Mother, D. W.'s style seems remarkably similar to that of Mr. Workman.
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Post by jamesdoig on Apr 24, 2013 10:38:25 GMT
Was Workman a house name or a flesh and blood entity in his own right? Also, do you know anything about this D. W. Preston character? Maybe its just me, but purely on the strength of The Mummy's Curse and Whistler's Mother, D. W.'s style seems remarkably similar to that of Mr. Workman. You could be right about Preston. James Workman was a Scot who went to London, became a Bobby, then went to South Africa where he worked in broadcasting before ending up in Australia. He wrote some stuff as James Dark, notably the collections Horror Tales and Terrifying Tales for Horwitz. He wrote Shock Stories under his own name. They've all got those great Frank Benier covers.
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Post by jamesdoig on Feb 24, 2017 8:52:19 GMT
Finally picked up a copy of this, with a nice Frank Benier cover. My scanner is out of action for the moment, so I need to photograph stuff. I notice Andrew Nette has a blog about the series here His book on pulp paperbacks, Beat Girls, Love Tribes & Real Cool Cats, fell through at the last moment, but has been picked up by another publisher.
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Post by helrunar on Feb 25, 2017 14:58:35 GMT
That's a beautiful cover, James, and Pulp Curry is a very interesting site. Thanks!
cheers, H.
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Post by dem bones on Feb 26, 2017 13:33:02 GMT
Thanks, James. Another Frank Bernier beauty, though the Horror Tales painting at top of this page is still my absolute favourite.
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