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Post by Craig Herbertson on Nov 5, 2011 21:03:12 GMT
There are couple of things in your life that deserve the slipcase deluxe treatment I suppose. I might buy a special edition, complete with endless anorak notes, of a favorite band or maybe a favourite author out of a sense of completion or just to browse over it on a winter evening. Mostly like David, I wouldn't.
I also have a thing about these 'rebound in leather with gold emboss first editions with dust cover inlaid frontispiece' ' That to me is ruining a perfectly decent book. Better with the slightly worn dust jacket and rubbed edges on the original any day.
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Post by Dr Strange on Nov 6, 2011 10:01:03 GMT
i'm sure Mr. Walters books, indeed all the deluxe editions and what have you, are things of beauty, though sometimes i look at the titles afforded this lavish treatment and can't help but laugh up my sleeve - and i'm not talking Gary Brander or GNS either. Good luck to the publishers and their customers, nothing against them at all, it's just the world of the super deluxe limited slip-cased leather-bound financial investment is the last thing this board was set up to celebrate. personally, straight choice between a Wordsworth edition and a limited edition of the same title, and hand on heart, i'll go Wordsworth every time, not because i can't appreciate a beautiful book (i've got some) but because the print run is 3000 per volume as opposed to 100-and-you-didn't-get-one, tough!, there's more likelihood that ALL of our readers can actually afford a copy, and therefore, more likelihood they'll buy one, read it, bit of luck they'll start or join in a thread about it. each to their own, etc., but i love horror as a form of POPULAR fiction. If it's just something to be enjoyed by the affluent and the elitist then small wonder the supposedly inferior and puny paranormal Romance is so effortlessly muscling it from every High Street shelf. Totally agree - I have no problem with these being available for collectors, I do have a problem with the stories not also being made available to the ordinary reader. There are couple of things in your life that deserve the slipcase deluxe treatment I suppose. I can think of one, but it isn't a book...
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Post by ramseycampbell on Nov 6, 2011 10:27:33 GMT
i'm sure Mr. Walters books, indeed all the deluxe editions and what have you, are things of beauty, though sometimes i look at the titles afforded this lavish treatment and can't help but laugh up my sleeve - and i'm not talking Gary Brander or GNS either. Good luck to the publishers and their customers, nothing against them at all, it's just the world of the super deluxe limited slip-cased leather-bound financial investment is the last thing this board was set up to celebrate. personally, straight choice between a Wordsworth edition and a limited edition of the same title, and hand on heart, i'll go Wordsworth every time, not because i can't appreciate a beautiful book (i've got some) but because the print run is 3000 per volume as opposed to 100-and-you-didn't-get-one, tough!, there's more likelihood that ALL of our readers can actually afford a copy, and therefore, more likelihood they'll buy one, read it, bit of luck they'll start or join in a thread about it. each to their own, etc., but i love horror as a form of POPULAR fiction. If it's just something to be enjoyed by the affluent and the elitist then small wonder the supposedly inferior and puny paranormal Romance is so effortlessly muscling it from every High Street shelf. I should mention that Jerad is happy to see the books he publishes go into paperback - he's told me so. He regards the two readerships as separate, which they surely are. I do also think that the existence of an edition, even a limited one, makes other editions more likely. This has happened to me several times with PS books of mine, for instance.
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Post by noose on Nov 6, 2011 11:02:53 GMT
It's people like the following who infuriate me the most www.saswardiary.co.uk/Fair enough that 'the lion's share' of the profits will go to good causes - but the fact that this book will not reach a wider audience - I've been told by someone who has had involvement with the book that it will never be reprinted after these limited, 'sell your house to buy us' editions have sold out - but even if there was just a vanilla version selling from £50 - £100 - it's far more accessible than the prices they are asking and in a way it's denying future generations the right to know the sacrifices made by the few.
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Post by pulphack on Nov 8, 2011 8:37:56 GMT
like a lot of lads from his part of the country, mr campbell should learn to calm down. i wasn't having a go at his mate, but making a general point. if his mate comes into that, then so be it. doesn't look like he does actually, if he's fine about doing paperback or cheaper editions.
the real issue (if you can call it that, seeing as it's pretty small on the scale of things) is the one highlighted by a few other posters on here. back in the day, the idea of making something high cost and instantly collectable if it meant that you'd recoup your costs and so be able to do more stuff (be it vinyl or books) was understandable and the only business model for those seeking to do it on limited resources. still a bit dubious but justifiable in the long run.
now, with POD being cheaper all the time and e-books being even cheaper still, putting stuff out ONLY as expensive collectors editions is just ripping a market you've identified. if you do it as deluxe editions for those who want/can afford it, and then more readily available (numbers and cost wise) editions for those who can't afford it or don't want to spend idiot money on something, then that's not a problem, is it? because you're not excluding anyone. and with media the way it is now, there's no excuse for that other than pure snobbishness and greed.
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Post by ramseycampbell on Nov 8, 2011 11:09:40 GMT
like a lot of lads from his part of the country, mr campbell should learn to calm down. I can only apologise for giving the impression I wasn't calm! Anybody else think I wasn't? I still am.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Nov 8, 2011 11:14:07 GMT
I can only apologise for giving the impression I wasn't calm! Anybody else think I wasn't? I still am. I am not sure. I would like to see some blood pressure readings.
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Post by ramseycampbell on Nov 8, 2011 11:21:16 GMT
I can only apologise for giving the impression I wasn't calm! Anybody else think I wasn't? I still am. I am not sure. I would like to see some blood pressure readings. I think you must base your opinion on my postings, as Mr Pulphack did.
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Post by mattofthespurs on Nov 8, 2011 19:08:53 GMT
You seemed pretty serene to me. Perhaps the drugs do work?
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Post by andydecker on May 10, 2021 8:04:07 GMT
This time the story was even more impressive. I can't say if it is the translation or if it was Level's style, but the writing struck me as very modern. Of course one could argue that he just added a few sentences around the existing stage play, still it worked.
Also interesting is how forgotten these Grand Guignol tales became. I remember the waves a movie like the Japanese Audition made. Back then I also had no clue about Level and his work or the Grand Guignol, but a lot of so-called innovative stories are anything but if you dig deep enough.
This story and the Birkin and Alex White I read finally made me obtain a copy of Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. I only read a few stories so far, but I was deeply impressed. It is hard to understand why this isn't more famous in horror fiction.
Thank you for the opening post, Dem. It is marvelous and a well of information.
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Post by dem bones on May 10, 2021 8:19:15 GMT
Thank you for the opening post, Dem. It is marvelous and a well of information. The first half (also known as the marvellous bit) was written by the truly gifted Steve Goodwin. I was only responsible for the garbage below the red asterisks.
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Post by helrunar on Oct 1, 2021 22:37:29 GMT
Intrigued to learn more about Level, not a writer I'd ever heard of. Just posting a brief comment to remind me to come back here & read more.
H.
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Post by Middoth on Oct 2, 2021 15:35:12 GMT
Birkin wrote a remake of his short story "The Kennel".
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Oct 2, 2021 19:30:13 GMT
Birkin wrote a remake of his short story "The Kennel". The Charles Birkin collection Devil's Spawn pops up when I search my ebook site for Grand Guignol, the blurb says: A master of the conte cruel, often with a Grand Guignol finish, Birkin found true horror not in ghosts or the supernatural but in the hearts of men and women. Never before reprinted and extremely scarce, Devils’ Spawn (1936) collects sixteen of Birkin’s stories, many of them first published in the Creeps volumes, including the horror gems “The Terror on Tobit” and “The Harlem Horror”. Birkin’s collection The Smell of Evil (1965) is also available from Valancourt Books. Would people recommend him?
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Post by Swampirella on Oct 2, 2021 19:38:24 GMT
Birkin wrote a remake of his short story "The Kennel". The Charles Birkin collection Devil's Spawn pops up when I search my ebook site for Grand Guignol, the blurb says: A master of the conte cruel, often with a Grand Guignol finish, Birkin found true horror not in ghosts or the supernatural but in the hearts of men and women. Never before reprinted and extremely scarce, Devils’ Spawn (1936) collects sixteen of Birkin’s stories, many of them first published in the Creeps volumes, including the horror gems “The Terror on Tobit” and “The Harlem Horror”. Birkin’s collection The Smell of Evil (1965) is also available from Valancourt Books. Would people recommend him? Yes, definitely! There's an ebook of "Devil's Spawn" on Am*z*n & "The Haunted Dancers (Tandem Book of Ghost Stories) is on Arch*ve.
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