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Post by helrunar on May 30, 2016 18:03:44 GMT
Thanks again, JoJo Lapin! I'll try what strange fruit the board search engine may yield.
Best, Helrunar
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Post by helrunar on May 30, 2016 19:12:41 GMT
It turns out that this story was included in a paperback edition of CREEPS BY NIGHT (orig. pub. 1932) edited by Dashiell Hammett. Apparently the original 1932 book was divided into two paperbacks, this one and another one entitled THE RED BRAIN. I am sure it is all copiously documented on the page for this series here... I have not yet had time to have a look at the latter.
I haven't figured out which paperback I did own that had the story. Google mostly retrieves documentation on the original story collection by Belknapius and the reprints.
Thanks again,
Helrunar
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Post by andydecker on Jun 25, 2020 11:06:50 GMT
While browsing old comics I stumbled upon the adaption of Derleth's Bat's Belfry in an issue of Vampire Tales. It was nicely done, and for once I looked the original up. Luckily it was included in Haining's Midnight People. I thought the story quite odd in places and cobbled together, but basically not bad. Unfortunatly the ridiculous ending rather killed it for me. While the narrator is sucked dry by the vampires, he scribbles furiosly on like a sport's commentator to leave the notes. That I would have liiked to see.
The comic adaption was smart enough to not illustrate this absurd picture.
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Post by dem bones on Jun 25, 2020 11:39:40 GMT
While browsing old comics I stumbled upon the adaption of Derleth's Bat's Belfry in an issue of Vampire Tales. It was nicely done, and for once I looked the original up. Luckily it was included in Haining's Midnight People. I thought the story quite odd in places and cobbled together, but basically not bad. Unfortunatly the ridiculous ending rather killed it for me. While the narrator is sucked dry by the vampires, he scribbles furiosly on like a sport's commentator to leave the notes. That I would have liiked to see.
The comic adaption was smart enough to not illustrate this absurd picture.
The Midnight People also includes Basil Copper's Dr. Porthos, wherein the narrator carries on writing while his nemesis hammers a stake through him.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jun 25, 2020 12:30:11 GMT
The Midnight People also includes Basil Copper's Dr. Porthos, wherein the narrator carries on writing while his nemesis hammers a stake through him. As a writer myself, I can only note that the compulsion to write is strong.
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Post by helrunar on Jun 25, 2020 12:40:20 GMT
Dr Porthos is such a neurotic-crazy tale but I still enjoy re-reading it on occasion.
In Lovecraft's stories such as Dagon, the compulsive narrator (prone to frequent fainting spells) is scribbling away at the end while being dragged off by some tentacled or otherwise furbelowed monstrosity... parodied by numerous zine authors over the years. Ah, the memories.
H.
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Post by andydecker on Jun 25, 2020 19:41:46 GMT
Dr Porthos is such a neurotic-crazy tale but I still enjoy re-reading it on occasion. In Lovecraft's stories such as Dagon, the compulsive narrator (prone to frequent fainting spells) is scribbling away at the end while being dragged off by some tentacled or otherwise furbelowed monstrosity... parodied by numerous zine authors over the years. Ah, the memories. H. And it still is a puzzle why writers took this nonsense and thought it worthy of repeating it. It is kind of sad that this is one of Lovecraft's legacies. In his last tale he also used it. There it worked a bit better, but it is so easy to mock. Because it basically makes no sense at all.
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Post by ramseycampbell on Jun 27, 2020 13:54:41 GMT
Mind you, Charlotte Perkins Gilman came first.
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Post by ramseycampbell on Jun 27, 2020 13:56:30 GMT
The Midnight People also includes Basil Copper's Dr. Porthos, wherein the narrator carries on writing while his nemesis hammers a stake through him. As a writer myself, I can only note that the compulsion to write is strong. Ah! Where may we read your tales?
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jun 27, 2020 14:09:19 GMT
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Post by dem bones on Jun 27, 2020 16:00:05 GMT
I'd not seen the review. Reader Richard clearly a man of rare taste and discernment. #Vault Tomorrows stars today #Arts & Culture, etc.
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Post by helrunar on Oct 31, 2021 21:51:48 GMT
I'm curious about Derleth's collaborations with Mark Schorer. Last night I re-watched the Boris Karloff's THRILLER adaptation of "The Incredible Dr Markesan" which seems to have changed quite a few of the details of the original yarn. So now I feel compelled to dig up (haha) a copy of the tale to see how they originally had the story.
The most intriguing aspect of the TV version is the oddity of protagonist Bancroft's marriage (I don't think the marriage or his wife seems to have figured at all in the original tale). In the TV adaptation, Bancroft and wife arrive at the long shuttered, decaying Markesan estate with just 12 bucks left in their communal till. After ten minutes in the mansion, particularly after their encounter with the very reclusive Doctor (Karloff underplays this scene brilliantly) you wonder just who in their right mind would stick around. Credulity is further strained by the manner in which the story unfolds. It has a really terrific ending however--I will forgive it a great deal for that final image.
So I was wondering if Derleth's co-writing with Schorer only lasted for a short time in the 1930s, or if went on longer than that.
I loved the detail mentioned in this thread that although Derleth set numerous stories in the UK, he never actually traveled there. Seems stranger than anything mentioned in the stories by him I have read.
H.
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Post by Middoth on Nov 1, 2021 16:03:51 GMT
I read somewhere that Lady Cynthia Asquith agreed to negotiate publication in Arkham House only after Derleth mentioned his origin from some French count
As for Schorer, I'm afraid only Joshi or George Wattenborough can answer with the proper level of authority here by the way, they easily communicate
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Post by helrunar on Nov 1, 2021 17:23:33 GMT
I always thought the "Comte d'Erlette" was just a fantasy playfully dreamed up by HPL or little Augie himself. This is mildly amusing. Extraordinary the lengths to which some of the Lovecraft-Derleth acolytes will go. www.goodreads.com/book/show/23601729-le-culte-des-goulesI found a presumably comprehensive list of Derleth's collaborations with Schorer on the IFSDB. The last one seems to have been written circa 1939-40. H.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Nov 1, 2021 19:25:14 GMT
Not so little! In particular, he had a majestic behind.
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