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Post by dem on May 20, 2009 9:40:49 GMT
Hammer Horror Novelisations & Tie-in editions .... with a few fantasy/ SF ones thrown in. Another popular 'everyone can join in with this one!' thread to be wisely avoided like the plague by all comers. It's kind of dawning on me that it'sno good just looking at them all the time. I really must try reading a horror novel at least once in my life to see if i like them. Revenge Of Frankenstein - Jimmy Sangster (Panther, 1958) The Brides Of Dracula - Dean Owen (Monarch, May 1960) The Stranglers Of Bombay - Stuart James (Monarch, 1960) Never Take Candy From A Stranger - Roger Garis (Dell, 1961) The Terror Of The Tongs - Jimmy Sangster (Digit, 1962) Rasputin, The Mad Monk - Stuart Friedman (Monarch, 1962) The Phantom Of The Opera - Gaston Le Roux (Popular Library, 1962) She - H. Rider-Haggard (Lancer, 1965) The Nanny - Evelyn Piper (Fontana 1965) The Witches - Peter Curtis (Pan 1966) To The Devil - A Daughter The Devil Rides Out - Dennis Wheatley (Arrow, 1966) John Burke - The Hammer Horror Film Omnibus (Pan, 1966) - The Gorgon - The Curse Of Frankenstein - The Revenge Of Frankenstein - The Curse Of The Mummy’s Tomb John Burke - The 2nd Hammer Horror Film Omnibus (1967) - The Reptile - Dracula: Prince Of Darkness - Rasputin: The Mad Monk - The Plague Of The Zombies The Lost Continent - Dennis Wheatley (Arrow, 1968) Moon Zero Two - John Burke (Pan, 1969) The Vampire Lovers - J. S. Le Fanu (Fontana, 1970) Countess Dracula - Michel Parry (Sphere, 1971) Hands Of The Ripper - E. Spencer Shew (Sphere, 1971) Lust For A Vampire - William Hughes (Sphere, 1971) The Scars Of Dracula - Angus Hall (Sphere, 1971) Kronos - Hugh Enfield (Fontana, 1972) Dennis Wheatley - To The Devil: A Daughter (Arrow, 1975) So, any favourites/ least favourites? And which Hammers would you have liked to receive the novelisation treatment? (i can think of three!)
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Post by David A. Riley on May 20, 2009 10:26:22 GMT
For me there's no contest as to which of the novelisations I like the best, and that has to be Jimmy Sangster's The Revenge of Frankenstein. Not only was this the first Hammer horror I ever saw at the cinema (sneeking into a rerun at the Ossy Palladium at the tender age of 12 to this then x-rated film), but the writing seems superior to most others to me too.
I don't include books like The Witches or She, etc., as these aren't novelisations. They existed before the films.
I enjoyed the John Burke novelisations, though they always seemed just a little bit flat to me, apart from The Reptile.
David
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Post by franklinmarsh on May 20, 2009 11:04:50 GMT
Good grief! Shameful to realise that at one time or another I owned The Stranglers Of Bombay, The Witches, The Vampire Lovers, Lust For A Vampire and Kronos - now all gone and I never even read 'em. I did read Countess Dracula but it doesn't seem that memorable. Which leaves me with Scars Of Dracula (in some ways better than the film - good old Angus!) and the Burke omnibus's (omnibi?) I like The Reptile and Dracula Prince Of Darkness.
I suppose David's non-novelisation argument could apply to The Vampire Lovers (which I think was Carmilla and other stories) and the Wheatleys (wot no Devil Rides Out?). Certainly the film of To The Devil - A Daughter bears very little relation to the original novel, and Uncharted Seas (The Lost Continent) couldn't be filmed as written unless financed by the BNP.
That Rasputin sound interesting, Dem.
I wouldn't be surprised if Dem's suggestions for novelisations included Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde and/or The Horror Of Frankenstein - as regards the latter, they should have waited a couple of years and got 'Timothy Lea' to pen Vic Frankenstein's Confessions Of A Bodybuilder - it would have been a smash.
A Vampire Circus novelisation wouldn't go amiss either.
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Post by Johnlprobert on May 20, 2009 13:12:33 GMT
I spent most of my childhood unsuccessfully trying to get copies of many of these. I would love to read The Brides of Dracula on the basis of a review that called its author 'The breast-obsessed Mr Owen'. Likewise I could never find The Revenge of Frankenstein.
I DID eventually get the Sphere 1970s ones, and I agree with Mr Marsh that 'Scars of Dracula' is a better read than a watch, as is 'Lust for a Vampire' which I thoroughly enjoyed (which is more than can be said for any viewing of the film, which has its..er...good points but little else).
Ones I'd have fun reading would include:
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
Dracula AD 1972
Vampire Circus
Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde
Paranoiac
Frankenstein & the Monster from Hell
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Post by dem on May 20, 2009 13:34:27 GMT
I wouldn't be surprised if Dem's suggestions for novelisations included Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde and/or The Horror Of Frankenstein damn! Two of 'em outed in one post! Well spotted on the "no The Devil Rides Out", too. That was supposed to be the one under 1966 instead of the To The Devil A Daughter (which is only the usual flame babe effort with measly added sticker!) from Arrow in 1975. I liked Countess Dracula best of those i've read (which doesn't include The Revenge Of Frankenstein to date. John Burke of choice - The Plague Of Zombies! I don't remember The Brides Of Dracula being especially breast-obsessed, Lord P., but then, after reading the posts on here every day, hardly a big surprise if Mr. Owen's work doesn't seem excessive in the slightest  Can't believe that no-one's suggested Taste The Blood Of Dracula yet! |
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Post by severance on May 20, 2009 13:36:17 GMT
Surprised no-one's mentioned Peter Tremayne's effort:  |
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Post by franklinmarsh on May 20, 2009 14:01:14 GMT
Surprised no-one's mentioned Peter Tremayne's effort: I bought a copy of this thinking Pete had novelised the Hammer clunker, but I'm fairly sure it was nothing to do with Ayesha's return. Tell me I'm wrong, Sev! I might read it then. Not the Hammer versions but you could get paperback versions of Nigel Kneale's scripts for the first three Quatermass stories. I wouldn't mind reading novelisations of the Hammer takes. |
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Post by killercrab on May 20, 2009 15:06:00 GMT
I really enjoyed The Reptile book adaption - not so much The Gorgon which was a bit dry and to be frank I prefer to read the House of Hammer strips than reading book adaptions. The strips were sometimes based on early shooting scripts - so for instance in Vampire Circus - Count Mitterhouse is beheaded with an axe not crossbow wire. I do own Hands of the Ripper and might give that a whirl.
KC
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Post by franklinmarsh on May 20, 2009 15:13:35 GMT
That's a weird one, KC. I think Rip covered it in detail on the old site. Very different to the fillum.
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Post by killercrab on May 20, 2009 15:35:25 GMT
Yeah I remember Ripp talking about it. One of the problems with tie-ins , is you know where they're going - but that said I believe that the *familiarity* of Hammer films and is part of their draw.How many times have I watched The Reptile ? - I can't count that high.  KC |
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Post by allthingshorror on May 20, 2009 18:27:19 GMT
Mines would be
Rasputin
Prehistoric Women
Wans't Captin Clegg adapted from a Russell Thorndike novel?
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Post by justin on May 20, 2009 18:57:03 GMT
A few additions cribbed from PBO 11, the newsletter of the british paperback association, which reprinted a Hammer bibliography from Dark Terrors 10.
Presumably all non-horror judging by their dates?
Spaceways, Charles Maine, Pan, 1954
The Camp on Blood Island, Gordon Thomas and Arthur Kent, Panther, 1958
I Only Arsked, Sid Colin & jack Davies, Panther, 1958
the Man WHo Could Cheat Death, John Sansom (Jack Davies) Ace, 1959
Yesterday's Enemy, Maurice Moiseiwitsch, Corgi, 1959
Hell is a City, Maurice Proctor, Arrow, 1960
The Children of the Light, h H Lawrence, Consul, 1962
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Post by carolinec on May 20, 2009 19:50:17 GMT
the Man WHo Could Cheat Death, John Sansom (Jack Davies) Ace, 1959 I think this one's horror. Isn't it the film starring Anton Diffring, I think? He'd found some way to be immortal and it went horribly wrong. Can't remember the details though. |
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Post by andydecker on May 20, 2009 20:42:59 GMT
Never knew there were so much of them. A novelisation of The Vampire Lovers? Unbelievable. Oh well, another trip to bookfinder *gg |
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Post by dem on May 20, 2009 21:46:50 GMT
A few additions cribbed from PBO 11, the newsletter of the british paperback association, which reprinted a Hammer bibliography from Dark Terrors 10. Presumably all non-horror judging by their dates? Spaceways, Charles Maine, Pan, 1954 The Camp on Blood Island, Gordon Thomas and Arthur Kent, Panther, 1958 I Only Arsked, Sid Colin & jack Davies, Panther, 1958 the Man WHo Could Cheat Death, John Sansom (Jack Davies) Ace, 1959 Yesterday's Enemy, Maurice Moiseiwitsch, Corgi, 1959 Hell is a City, Maurice Proctor, Arrow, 1960 The Children of the Light, h H Lawrence, Consul, 1962 Ah, well if they want to play it like that the gloves are off! Sheila Steen's Watch It, Sailor!Andreas: it isn't really a novelisation of The Vampire Lovers, just a neat collection of Le Fanu stories with stillss from the film on the front and back cover: The Vampire Lovers And Other Stories: by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (Fontana, 1970) “A thrillingly macabre film from AIP-Hammer starring Ingrid Pitt and Peter Cushing”Vampire Lovers (Carmilla)
Shalken The Painter
Sir Dominick’s Bargain
Narrative Of the Ghost Of a Hand
Green Tea
An Account Of Some Strange Disturbances In Aungier Street
The Fortunes Of Sir Robert Ardagh You're right about The Man Who Could Cheat Death, Caz, that should definitely be on there. The Camp On Blood Island is more horrible and horror as it's source material is accounts of Japanese atrocities versus POWs. |
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