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Post by andydecker on May 21, 2009 8:44:51 GMT
Oh, I meant "Lust for a Vampire"  I really have trouble to keep those two titles apart. Still. "Lovers" has a great cover. Didn´t they edited down this scene in the movie or something, that you don´t see this picture? I have to re-watch this sometime. Here is the german edition of Countess Dracula from 1976. They didn´t mention that this was a novelisation of a Hammer film, it was just your monthly novel. But if you squinted hard you could read the different copyrights in the fine print. which of course the average reader didn´t  Bought it in a lot and never read it, though. |
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Post by dem on May 21, 2009 9:35:58 GMT
I like the painting, very attractive. We've got the covers of US Beagle (same as UK Sphere) and later unspeakable Redemption reissues here too: Countess Dracula. I thoroughly enjoyed the novel myself - there's certainly more to it than William Hughes rather literal take on Lust For The Vampire although that's a fun (and very brisk) read too. The odd thing was, i once had a paperback, The Vampire Lovers, can't recall the publisher, which, as far as i remember, consisted entirely of yet another Carmilla reprint. Being stupid, i ditched it once i'd found a copy of the Fontana. Never seen a copy since. The cover artwork was terrible, very bad imitation Paperback Library, and could have been used for just about any book. I miss it terribly now.  |
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Post by andydecker on May 21, 2009 20:07:59 GMT
Wow, the Redemption cover is something else.  A warning for aging goth queens about the dangers of drinking? A leftover cover from Homemade Jewelry Monthly? |
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Post by allthingshorror on May 21, 2009 20:49:53 GMT
Here is the Captain Clegg bookcover  |
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Post by franklinmarsh on May 22, 2009 7:50:53 GMT
The Children of the Light, h H Lawrence, Consul, 1962 I'd love to turn up a copy of this. Filmed by Hammer as The Damned (US title : These Are The Damned) circa '62, not released till '64 and then in truncated form - possible conflict with Village Of/Children Of The Damned? Directed by Joseph Losey, presumably sheltering in the UK from HUAC persecution in the States. I've the short version on vid and missed the long version shown not that long ago on Beeb 4 (sob). Despite the Horror/bloody Sci-Fi/cold war elements, there's also Ollie Reed's post-Ted, pre-Mod moped lad hoolies terrorising (if that's the word) Weymouth. At first glance they might appear as dangerous as other Vault fave motorcycle gangs such as The Living Dead or The Yellow Helmets, but all of a sudden they dish out a really savage beating which completely changes the previously almost light-hearted tone of the film before we plunge into real atomic age scariness. |
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Post by chastel on Jul 2, 2009 22:13:53 GMT
I would like to read Revenge of Frankenstein, Brides and Scars of Dracula, Countess Dracula and Hands of the Ripper! Anybody knowing where to find them? :(I would novelize Vampire lovers, Mummy, Vampire Circus, Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde, and, Twins of evil! ;D |
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Post by vaughan on Jul 3, 2009 14:09:21 GMT
Hm - I have Hands of the Ripper and the Second Hammer Film Omnibus.
However, they're in a box - in storage - in another country.
And shamefully, I've never read them....
They'd all be irresistible buys though.
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Post by allthingshorror on Jul 13, 2009 11:52:19 GMT
FACT BOOKS (1978)   Didn't know where else to shove this - bit it's a beautiful oddity - gives you the run down of the making of To The Devil...A Daughter - from the adaptation to the the one and a half people who had seen the film since the Spring of 1977. Lovely, lovely book.
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Post by vaughan on Jul 13, 2009 12:02:24 GMT
Whoa! That is very very cool. I'd love to have a copy of that! I also actually like the film. If you discount the climatic scenes, which were horribly botched due to the original ending being far too similar to a previous Dracula movie (Scars of Dracula). Having come up with something different it's just laughably bad. And then there were all the problems with poor drunk Richard Widmark - it's amazing they ever finished. But the whole tone of the film is one big build up.. to an admittedly poor climax. The journey is decent though, imo. Or maybe I just like Hammer too much to be truly critical. |
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Post by franklinmarsh on Jul 13, 2009 12:26:29 GMT
- from the adaptation to the one and a half people who had seen the film since the Spring of 1977. I was that half! |
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Post by allthingshorror on Jul 13, 2009 12:42:57 GMT
oops = should have been 'one and a half million'...  |
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Post by carolinec on Jul 13, 2009 14:45:46 GMT
Didn't know where else to shove this - bit it's a beautiful oddity - gives you the run down of the making of To The Devil...A Daughter - from the adaptation to the the one and a half people who had seen the film since the Spring of 1977. Lovely, lovely book. That's funny. I'd just spotted this one on eBay - never seen it before. I was wondering if it might be worth a look. Thanks Johnny! ;D |
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Post by franklinmarsh on Aug 18, 2009 19:55:16 GMT
The Camp On Blood Island based on the screenplay by J M White and Val Guest. Panther 1971. Originally published 1958. Reprinted 1958 (eight times), 1959 (twice), Panther new edition 1959.Reprinted 1960, 1961, 1962 (twice), 1963, 1965, 1966,1967,1968,1970,1971. In a forgotten corner of the war, brutality ruled supreme... Behind the barbed wire, thousands of miles from civilisationIt is 1945. Blood Island is a green fragment of hell on earth for hundreds of men, women and children of all nations, trapped during the Japanese invasion, and held there under murderous conditions of cruelty, privation and degradation. The prisoners are in terrible despair, almost praying for death to release them from their misery. Only Colonel Lambert, the senior officer of the camp, and Van Elst, a former rubber planter, know that the war is over. Lambert is caught in an appalling dilemma for he knows too that every prisoner will be slaughtered immediately Colonel Yamamitsu, the gross, brutal commandant of the camp, learns of the Japanese defeat... Now don't go expecting Bamboo Guerillas, this was 1958. As mentioned elsewhere, I saw the bonkers Hammer exploitation epic last night and what I've read of this follows the fillum fairly closely. Apparently boffo box office in its time, this little gem has been lost, presumably because of the dread Political Correctness, but the film is strangely unoffensive, perhaps because most of the Japanese sadists are portrayed by familiar Brit character actors - some with Hammer time. Michael Ripper doesn't look very Japanese, but Lee Montagu does. Marne Maitland chews the scenery, from the opening scene of a Tommy digging his own grave, then being machine-gunned into it to all manner of Allied soldier humiliations. Stiff upper lipped Andre Morell plays Lambert hoping to save the lives of his fellow inmates, and the occupants of the nearby women and children's camp. Hope the book lives up to the film. |
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Post by sabenaravna on Mar 8, 2014 18:10:00 GMT
I really enjoyed Revenge of Frankenstein and The Brides of Dracula; latter was badly written but superb fun. For some reason Van Helsing is called Lee Van Helsing which sounds more of a cowboy than the Mittelland vampire hunter. This is the new cover from the recent edition. ![]()  Oh, and new novelizations: 1958 Dracula, Kiss of the vampire, GOOD and faithful novelization of Vampire circus, Vampire lovers... and maybe Taste the blood of Dracula.
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Post by dayve on Dec 9, 2014 10:09:40 GMT
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I really have trouble to keep those two titles apart. Still. "Lovers" has a great cover. Didn´t they edited down this scene in the movie or something, that you don´t see this picture? I have to re-watch this sometime.
A warning for aging goth queens about the dangers of drinking? A leftover cover from Homemade Jewelry Monthly?
