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Post by dem bones on Oct 20, 2007 13:47:20 GMT
Mere words can not express. So, you loved Pulpmania and you loved Paperback Dungeon too. Now, imagine you put them both through a blender and lovingly arrange the results over 32 packed A4 pages .... My problem here is to keep this post just the right side of a teaser as even I'm not rotten enough to ruin it for those of you who'll be getting it soon (my copy is a proof, not that you'd notice). One immediate advantage to using the larger format is in the reproduction of the covers - f**k**g stacks of 'em! - those of you who lap up Sphere, Kung-Fu and slightly steamy Paul Tabori titles are in for a treat. Even dear old Dennis Wheatley gets a look in this time! The Sphere stuff: I was dead right. I am going to rip it off - all over Encyclopedia Phantasmagoria! * um ... if that's OK with you, Justin? * Paperback Fanatic, ladies and gentlemen. It's like the magazine Vault regulars willed into existence. ***** The Paperback Fanatic Guide To Kung-Fu in Pulp Fiction by a variety of often pseudonymous authors. Bruce Lee cash-ins, King Kung Fu, Mace, Jason Striker, Sloane, TV & Movie tie-in’s, Mondo, the Black Samurai, Six Gun, Samurai, Kung-Fu Master …. The Many Faces Of Dr. Tabori . Paul Tabori, the veteran genre and publisher hopping purveyor of everything from serious sex studies (if NEL were involved, they packaged them as smut regardless), Crime & The Occult, a biography of Harry ‘Borley Rectory’ Price and a personal memoir of WW2 to fictional ghost stories, thrillers and Sci-Fi novels. Sphere Horror: A Scrapbook Of The Seventies . This article and checklist provided the basis for Vault’s Sordid Spheres blog/ mini-site/ call it what you will, which continues the story through the following decade. With Justin’s encouragement, i might add. The Devil And All His Works . Companion piece to the above, a brief look at the Dennis Wheatley Library Of The Occult and indebted to Stan Nicholl’s article What Ever Happened To Dennis Wheatley (Million magazine, Jan. 1991) as acknowledged in the text. The Special Squad . ‘Donald Franklin’s short-lived series for NEL pit C.I.D.’s Barney Garrett and Jack Marsh versus the worst the steamy crime underworld can offer. Back cover gallery . Six of Richard Clifton-Day’s seven cover illustrations for ‘Klaus Netzen’ (Laurence James)’s Killers series for Mayflower. |
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