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Post by dem on Mar 2, 2013 9:17:24 GMT
I'd recommend this - I think it's only about his second or third book, and owes a lot to Edgar Wallace in terms of plotting and pacing. I loved it as I love old Hollywood stories, and to be honest it's the only DW I've not had periods of grim struggle with - even The Devil Rides Out was tough going in places. If you expect it to be laced with his more arcane interests you'll be disappointed, but if you treat it as a Boys Own romp, it'll be fun. I've been meaning to try at least one of his non-occult titles. Gonna get stuck into it once i've polished off at least another couple of too-many novels on the go. It can't be more of an endurance test than the above mentioned The Psychic Detective. That one sorts the men from the boys, I can tell you. Andreas. That cover has to be the most boring ever to disgrace a Wheatley novel. He was incredibly well served by his artists and photographers, but that is boring covers: your favourites material if ever there was. Thanks so much for posting it. |
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Post by andydecker on May 28, 2015 17:45:56 GMT
Wouldn't Robert Lory's Horrorscope 2 The Revenge of Taurus qualify? A deranged film producer who did such horror classics like The Hideous Dr Q and is fading into obscurity invites his old crew of has beens to his mansion on Crete and chases them through a labyrinth of traps to kill them as sadistically as he can because all betrayed him somehow.
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Post by dem on May 29, 2015 8:21:56 GMT
Wouldn't Robert Lory's Horrorscope 2 The Revenge of Taurus qualify? A deranged film producer who did such horror classics like The Hideous Dr Q and is fading into obscurity invites his old crew of has beens to his mansion on Crete and chases them through a labyrinth of traps to kill them as sadistically as he can because all betrayed him somehow. Thanks Andy. That will be another direct-to-wants-list then .... |
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Post by dem on Oct 12, 2017 18:32:26 GMT
... and another one. Mark Andrews - Satan's Manor (Leisure, 1977). Miriam Parker and best pal Roxette are lured to remotest Georgia on the promise of starring roles in Worldwide International picture's new horror flick, Satan's Manor, to be shot on location in an authentic haunted house. It soon becomes apparent that our girls have landed their respective parts through something other than acting ability - the director and his cronies are major players in a worldwide Satanic conspiracy! An almighty jumble - what was that werewolf break all about - and the padding is so outrageous even Lionel Fanthorpe would have thought twice, but for some unfathomable reason I'm quite fond of it. Mr. Andrews' novel is no The Torturer, but neither is it quite as abject as its reputation suggests. |
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Post by dem on Jan 2, 2019 14:00:42 GMT
Judi Miller - Phantom Of The Soap Opera (Dell, 1988) Blurb Death plays a murderous part . . .
Wickedly seductive, Kristi Marlowe was the perfect Heather — America's favorite star on the top-rated daytime soap. She never suspected she was about to die . . .
Looking down at her pretty corpse, NYPD Detective Theresa Morrison felt that Kristi had known her killer, embraced him before she died. But Detective Morrison never suspected that Kristi was only the first marked for murder . . .
One by one, he stalked them. One by one, they screamed, struggled, realized—too late! But no one alive guessed his secret. Not even the smart lady cop as she sat in the dark dressing room, alone, waiting, as a psychopath, a killer, knocked at the door ... Another one. Not made a start on it yet, but then there might not be any need as, give or take a soiled tutu or ten, the blurb suggests it is pretty much the same as Jodi's previous slasher novel, the bad taste classic Save The Last Dance For Me.
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Post by andydecker on Jan 2, 2019 16:56:02 GMT
Please say this is one of those double covers …  |
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Post by dem on Jan 3, 2019 11:24:53 GMT
Please say this is one of those double covers … I wish there were an easy way of breaking this Andy, but, criminally, the cover painting is all we get, a disappointment so devastating I'm not sure I can bring myself to read the damn thing. Having said that, the remaining 100 pages of Save The Last Dance For Me might yet win we over. Why this novel was never filmed is beyond me. Perhaps John Waters was unavailable .... |
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Post by andydecker on Jan 3, 2019 20:29:37 GMT
Please say this is one of those double covers … I wish there were an easy way of breaking this Andy, but, criminally, the cover painting is all we get, a disappointment so devastating I'm not sure I can bring myself to read the damn thing. Having said that, the remaining 100 pages of Save The Last Dance For Me might yet win we over. Why this novel was never filmed is beyond me. Perhaps John Waters was unavailable .... Ah, well, another missed opportunity.
Still,I actually got Last Dance in a fairly good copy.
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Post by humgoo on Jul 3, 2020 16:25:14 GMT
By coincidence (?), a friend wrote to me earlier this week about Campbell's novel Ancient Images, which reportedly is about the quest for a lost film on which Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi collaborated. He mentioned it because we had been discussing Flicker. I'm torn, Steve. On the one hand I don't read anything that's even remotely deep and Mr. Campbell's books have the reputation of being deep, on the other hand Jim O'Brien's review of Ancient Images in Pulp Horror All Reviews Special Edition makes it totally irresistible: |
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Post by helrunar on Jul 3, 2020 17:12:54 GMT
That does sound really awesome, Cheong. Thanks!
All the best,
Steve
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Post by humgoo on Jul 3, 2020 18:09:29 GMT
In movies, don't forget the "Loughville" episode of The Monster Club. The film director is actually quite sympathetic, but he certainly gets more than he planned for on his ill-advisedly solo location recce... Halls of Horror, Issue 26 
Art by John Bolton and David Lloyd
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Post by andydecker on Jul 4, 2020 8:49:04 GMT
That page alone is better than most of this movie |
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Post by Kieron on Dec 8, 2020 0:17:47 GMT
I'd recommend the novella Tribesmen by Adam Cesare. It's his loving tribute to Eurohorror splatter epics like Cannibal Holocaust. If Guy N. Smith were starting out today, this is what he would be writing, only better and with more crabs.
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Post by dem on Sept 25, 2024 7:20:17 GMT
Burton E. Stevenson - A King in Babylon, Dodd, 1923 Delos W. Lovelace - King Kong, Gollancz, 2005: originally Grosset & Dunlop, 1932 Peter Saxon - The Torturer, Mayflower-Dell, 1966 Dan Ross - Fogbound, MacFadden-Bartell, 1969 Angus Hall Devilday (aka Madhouse), Ace, 1969: Sphere, 1969, 1970: Severn House, 1986 Richard Tate - The Dead Travel Fast, Sphere 1972 Ian Dear - Village of Blood, Nel 1975 Mark Andrews - Satan's Manor, Leisure Books, 1977 Clay Grant - The Demon Samurai, Belmont, 1978. Robert Bloch - Psycho 2, Corgi 1982 William Schoell - Bride of Satan, Leisure Books, 1986 Judi Miller - Phantom Of The Soap Opera, Dell, 1988. Greg Khin - Horror Show, 1997 Edo Van Belkom - Scream Queen, Pinnacle 2003 Adam Cesare - Tribesmen, Deadite 2014
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Post by helrunar on Sept 25, 2024 13:21:00 GMT
Wonderful scans. A couple of days ago I just finished one of Dan Ross's Dark Shadows books (it really deserves to be called an 'excrescence'), Barnabas, Quentin, and the Scorpio Curse, from 1970 I believe. Absolutely one of the most abysmal things ever to be committed to print. It was a short story Ross padded out to novel length with dreary, repetitive running around, all recounted in the dullest, deadliest prose. I found myself wondering whether any editor ever bothered with these. I think in your review you indicated that Ross went to more trouble over Fogbound. According to one interview I read, Ross would sometimes wind up typing the final chapters of one of his books in the back seat of his station wagon at the post office while his wife Marilyn sat at the wheel because the deadline was imminent.
Hel.
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