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Post by marksamuels on Nov 3, 2009 0:10:40 GMT
I love train-horror (Stefan Grabinski anyone?) There's another cosmic train story featuring a character based on Karl Edward Wagner ("Eddie Charles Knox") and it's supposed to be in my next collection. Much like a train, however, the book seems interminably delayed, having been due since June this year Talking of Wagner (on the other thread), is there a publication history for "One Paris Night", Dem? I thought I had pretty much all of Wagner's horror fiction: but I find I don't have this one! It sounds great. Mark S.
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Post by marksamuels on Nov 3, 2009 0:35:40 GMT
And so the dimwit called Samuels remembers, after rummaging amongst his shelves that the Wagner collection Exorcisms and Ecstasies has an extensive bibliography at the back. He consults said bibliography. He THEN discovers Exorcisms and Ecstasies itself contains the story "One Paris Night". He slaps his forehead with the volume, tries to work out why he hasn't read it, and then bids you all goodnight as he settles down to do so.
This is what happens when you dip in and out instead of reading cover to cover, in the proper order.
Mark S.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 3, 2009 12:21:04 GMT
I was very glad of the opportunity of reading Edmund Bertrand's offering - God, he's a cheerless bastard! - but wouldn't it have been HORRIBLY apt if Mr. Jones had seen fit to include The Cannibal Kings of Horror ..... Hope you enjoy the KEW story as much as i did, Mark. Andy has a thread for Exorcisms and Ecstasies which is another book I seem to be collecting in instalments and becomes an even more attractive proposition with every story I can find.
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Post by marksamuels on Nov 3, 2009 16:23:15 GMT
I was very glad of the opportunity of reading Edmund Bertrand's offering - God, he's a cheerless bastard! - but wouldn't it have been HORRIBLY apt if Mr. Jones had seen fit to include The Cannibal Kings of Horror SJ knew that if he had, then my certain death at the hands of the vengeful black magic cannibal ghouls would have followed fast behind. I don't want my brains served up at a banquet like old Ed . . . Mark S.
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Post by marksamuels on Nov 3, 2009 16:28:18 GMT
I enjoyed the KEW tale, btw. Great historical atmosphere and a nice twist at the end. "One Paris Night". Lucky he didn't call it "One Night in Paris" huh? Fnarr. Fnarr. *tumbleweed rolls by* I'll get my coat. Mark S.
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Post by strantzas on Nov 3, 2009 17:45:55 GMT
Mr. Jones bigs up Simon Strantzas' collection Beneath The Surface as "the most important debut since Mark Samuels' White Hands" so his contribution should be worth a go. Jimminy Crickets! Do I have to live up to that now? I wish Mr Jones had selected a different story if that's the case. I like "It Runs Beneath the Surface" fine but I think some of my other stories published last year might have come a bit closer to the ideal.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 4, 2009 14:08:44 GMT
SJ knew that if he had, then my certain death at the hands of the vengeful black magic cannibal ghouls would have followed fast behind. Mark S. oh i'm sure plans for that are already well underway, he said, all reassuring. Glad you liked One Paris Night. From the reviews and articles i've seen, the general concensus seems to be that his writing went all bleak and depressing after Why Not You And I? (they don't mean it in a good way). Can't say i've noticed overmuch or maybe i've just read the wrong stories.
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Post by lemming13 on Dec 28, 2010 21:35:39 GMT
At risk of being hunted down and staked by real book purists, I just acquired a Kindle copy of this for £1 in Amazon's twelve days of Christmas sale - minus the cover art, sadly, but all stories intact. I advise any members with a Kindle to belt over and grab a copy while the going is good.
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Post by dem bones on Jun 10, 2013 10:47:57 GMT
Christopher Fowler - Arkangel: I'm only 40 pages intp Hell Train but looks like it's going to be a fun ride, so thought it an appropriate moment to try it's precursor, and man is it GRIM. Josh and pal Nick first met the beautiful Danuta in a Soho bar, and that night she got drunk and slept with both. Now she's returned home to Poland, Josh decides on a whim that they're going to visit Danuta's home town and bring her back with them. Nick isn't really up for this - he knows his mate will soon tire of her no matter how gorgeous she is, but allows himself to be dragged along regardless. Danuta takes little persuasion to leave with them, but her friend, Idzi, youthful owner of The Artyk Bar, turns nasty, spews out a string of xenophobic bile, until Josh loses his temper, whereupon a group of local toughs set upon them. In the ensuing violence, Josh batters Idzi to death, and the trio make a run for it with a vengeful mob in pursuit. They reach the station, but with no train due for six hours, it's only a matter of time before the thugs swarm onto the platform and do them serious damage. But The Arkangel recognises no timetable other than its own. It's only when they're safely aboard that Danuta thinks to inform them that The Arkangel is possibly not their passage to deliverance. During the German occupation, the people of Chelmsk had the 'honour' of building the train to the Nazi's specifications, never suspecting it would be used to transport them to the Death Camps and Crematoriums. Her grandfather, a local dignitary, was privileged to be nominated conductor. When he revealed the appalling truth, he was treated in the same fashion as the poor girl depicted on the inn sign at The Tortured Virgin. The Arkangel was scrapped after the war, but it doesn't seem to realise ... This is really, really good and not what I was expecting at all!
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Post by dem bones on Jun 10, 2013 17:39:29 GMT
Paul Finch - The Old Traditions Are Best: "Obby Oss has a combined role these days. As well as being a fertility symbol, he's used by Padstow folk to repel thieves and raiders. Story is he was granted diabolical powers for this very purpose. So what do you think of that, young feller ?"
Not much, judging by his reaction - Scott flobs all down the roly-poly Morris Man's costume - but he's more impressed than he'd care to admit. The sixteen-year-old is visiting Cornwall with his middle-aged parole officers, Russ & Mary Kidwell, as part of the Safari programme, a new initiative by which non-violent young offenders are given a short holiday as encouragement to reform their pilfering ways. Scott, a Manc, has no intention of turning from crime. While the entire local population enjoy the May Day festivities, he'll be turning over a couple of holiday homes. Or so he plans ...
Neil Gaiman - Feminine Endings; Told in the form of a love letter. A young woman (or possibly, a transvestite) is unaware she's being stalked by a secret admirer, but then how could she when said admirer is a thirteenth century marble statue? Only now is he/ she/ it finally ready to break cover. Have a Gaiman collection, Smoke & Mirrors, which I find very hit (i.e the story that would eventually make BNH as The Wedding Present) and miss (Shuggoth's Old Peculiar), and Feminine Ending falls into the latter category.
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