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Post by Michael Connolly on Mar 8, 2019 14:15:44 GMT
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Post by ropardoe on Mar 9, 2019 9:30:30 GMT
And yet, and yet - part of me wishes he'd shelled out the money (as suggested by Edward Arnold - see Cox p.139) to have H.J. Ford do the illustrations.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Mar 12, 2019 13:22:52 GMT
And yet, and yet - part of me wishes he'd shelled out the money (as suggested by Edward Arnold - see Cox p.139) to have H.J. Ford do the illustrations. While I thought the same when I saw this reprinted in an issue of Ghosts & Scholars, I think that James McBryde's less formal illustrations have more life in them.
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Post by fritzmaitland on Oct 16, 2019 12:02:54 GMT
After the modern harshness of The Tunnel, I wanted something a bit warmer and opted for Count Magnus - only to discover that our lonely, male academic is on a tour of Sweden. Darn! A strange tale. What exactly is Count Magnus? All the trappings of a vampire surround him, but he has a Lovecraftian familiar and an alchemical, occult past. Standing at a crossroads, eh? A good unsettling comedown after the previous Pan EC shenanigans.
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Post by helrunar on Oct 16, 2019 20:45:44 GMT
"Count Magnus" is one of my all-time favorite stories. I never fail to get a thrill out of it.
One of the central incidents was used in the classic 1960 Hammer studios film Brides of Dracula. Good stuff.
cheers, H.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Jan 16, 2020 15:36:41 GMT
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Post by Michael Connolly on Sept 16, 2020 17:53:54 GMT
And yet, and yet - part of me wishes he'd shelled out the money (as suggested by Edward Arnold - see Cox p.139) to have H.J. Ford do the illustrations. While I thought the same when I saw this reprinted in an issue of Ghosts & Scholars, I think that James McBryde's less formal illustrations have more life in them. I thought that one of those pictures from Peter Haining's The Irish Leprechaun's Kingdom looked familiar. Henry J. Ford (to give him his full name) also drew the chap above.
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Post by ropardoe on Sept 17, 2020 8:03:41 GMT
While I thought the same when I saw this reprinted in an issue of Ghosts & Scholars, I think that James McBryde's less formal illustrations have more life in them. I thought that one of those pictures from Peter Haining's The Irish Leprechaun's Kingdom looked familiar. Henry J. Ford (to give him his full name) also drew the chap above. H.J. Ford deserves to be much more recognised than he is. He’s up there with Rackham, Dulac and Nielsen in my opinion. He illustrated many of Andrew Lang’s coloured Fairy Books. And also, by the by, was one of the major inspirations for Daisy Makeig-Jones’s Wedgwood Fairyland Lustreware.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Sept 18, 2020 11:58:41 GMT
I thought that one of those pictures from Peter Haining's The Irish Leprechaun's Kingdom looked familiar. Henry J. Ford (to give him his full name) also drew the chap above. H.J. Ford deserves to be much more recognised than he is. He’s up there with Rackham, Dulac and Nielsen in my opinion. He illustrated many of Andrew Lang’s coloured Fairy Books. And also, by the by, was one of the major inspirations for Daisy Makeig-Jones’s Wedgwood Fairyland Lustreware. Also in The Irish Leprechaun's Kingdom is an illustration by John D. Batten, for which the following seems to be very familiar. I don't know the date of it.
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Post by fritzmaitland on Nov 1, 2020 10:16:38 GMT
Oct 30th - Casting The Runes. I'm not the biggest fan of MRJ, but I've come to adore this story. The first one of his I read. I cannot fathom the almost unconditional love for N*ght *f Th* D*m*n, and I think the original story is much better. It moves at a good lick, has some decent scares (no less a commentator than Jonathan Rigby compared the thing under the pillow to our old mucker the Gremlin Reject of Pan3 fame, and Karswell's magic lantern show for the kids is the stuff of nightmares. I always think Niall MacGinnis never really made him that frightening and I'm grateful to the England's Screaming book for restoring some of the man's mystique.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Dec 4, 2020 14:04:15 GMT
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Post by ropardoe on Dec 4, 2020 19:00:57 GMT
It’s an intriguing choice for what I assume is a full-length film (not the first dramatic adaptation though - it was the theme of part of a theatrical MRJ drama many years ago). I wouldn’t have thought there would be enough material there. On the other hand I absolutely disagree that the story is feeble. It’s one of those, like “An Evening’s Entertainment”, which retains its fascination and mystery long after the charms of the more famous stories pall.
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Post by Dr Strange on Dec 4, 2020 20:13:35 GMT
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Post by Michael Connolly on Dec 5, 2020 12:59:14 GMT
Which makes it this year's unexpected Ghost Story for Christmas.
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Post by helrunar on Dec 5, 2020 18:02:47 GMT
Almost everything else we love is gone so I guess I'm not surprised that there is no Vault Advent Calendar this year.
Gruss vom Krampus! Happy Krampusnacht to those who celebrate.
H.
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