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Post by dem bones on Oct 25, 2007 8:01:58 GMT
Zacherley(ed.) - Midnight Snacks (Ballatine, March 1960)
Richard Matheson - Sorry, Right Number
Jerome Bixby and Joe E. Dean - Share Alike
Theodore Sturgeon - Talent
Wallace West - Listen, Children, Listen
William F. Temple - The Whispering Gallery
Robert Moore Williams - The Piping Death
A. E. Van Vogt - The Piping Death
Phillip James - Carrion Of Skulls
Henry Kuttner - Pile Of Trouble
Zacherley was the host of Shock Theatre, a late 'fifties New York TV smash which specialised in broadcasting Z-grade horrors. To liven things up, Zach dubbed himself into the movies or arranged for men in white coats to invade the studio, bundle him into a straitjacket and haul him off. He also managed a hit single, Dinner With Drac. The collections bearing his name are linked with macabre commentaries (from the man himself ?), and, for the most part, they're really rather good.
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Post by nightreader on Oct 26, 2007 17:35:11 GMT
Glad you posted this Dem - I bought 'Zacherley's Midnight Snacks' from The Fantasy Centre when I was down there. Also the Ray Russell collection 'Sardonicus' (Ballantine 1961) - same cover artist? Had no idea who Zacherley was so thanks for that  |
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Post by dem bones on Oct 26, 2007 18:25:21 GMT
Same Cover artist - the excellent Richard Powers. I'm thinking of lumping all the Ballatine 'Chamber of Horror' series together in a sub-board when we've enough of them. Ditto Kurt Singer and August Derleth, most likely.
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