"Halloa! Below there!"

[dennistoun]

Hello nice boad peeps. I've just stumbled in while searching for info on the Pan Reign of Evil books, and this seems like somewhere worth joining.

I've been collecting ghost and horror stories for about fifteen years, originally with the Fontanas etc, was lucky enough to get most of the Equation Chillers when they came out... but eventually have had to start getting the wonderful but pricey Ash Tree Press and Tartarus books. One of these days I'll even read them all

So then. Bonus points to the first who identifies my user name, and more for the thread title. Just so I know I'm in the right place...

Cheers, Simon

[cw67q]

hello simon,

i'm newish here myself.

either your user name indicates that you are from th east end of glasgow, or you have taken it from the mr james chacter that appears in two of the tales from his first collection of ghost stories (canon alberic's scrapbook and the mezzotint).

as a glaswegian myself, i'm hoping it is the former.

sorry no caps but i'm eating chips with one hand as i type ( told you i was a glaswegian

- chris

Mar 3, 2010 19:21:30 GMT dennistoun said:

Hello nice boad peeps. I've just stumbled in while searching for info on the Pan Reign of Evil books, and this seems like somewhere worth joining.

I've been collecting ghost and horror stories for about fifteen years, originally with the Fontanas etc, was lucky enough to get most of the Equation Chillers when they came out... but eventually have had to start getting the wonderful but pricey Ash Tree Press and Tartarus books. One of these days I'll even read them all

So then. Bonus points to the first who identifies my user name, and more for the thread title. Just so I know I'm in the right place...

Cheers, Simon

[blackabyss]

Welcome Simon

Do I detect a love of Charles Dickens The Signal Man in that thread title

[dennistoun]

Points all round Thanks for the welcome. Yep, Monty J is one cornerstone (almost literally in the case of the ATP A Pleasing Terror ) of my library, and the Dickens is a 24 carat one too of course. But other cornerstones* include Aickman, Lamsley, King and Ligotti (and Adams, Pratchett, Pullman and Wodehouse ). And of course Ramsey Campbell. With that list, you can probably fill in the missing cohorts yourselves.

* having just read Westall's Stones of Muncaster Cathedral, they might in fact be gargoyles...

But cw69q (did you type the human-verification thing in the wrong box there? )... sorry, I'm the other end of the country, between Southampton and Winchester. (Right continent though, which is close enough in these global messageboard days.)

We use only knives and forks -- with knapkins tucked under our chins of course -- when we eat chips. We are very couth, as it were

Simon