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Post by pulphack on Oct 27, 2008 19:24:09 GMT
excellent interview, even if the old sod does skirt round a few issues. again, as with justin's work, getting these guys to record anything of their experiences before they all fall off the peg is invaluable given that it's only very recently that popular fiction has been treated with any seriousness. it may not be 'lietrature' but its social influence - as somethign that was read by so many at the peak of the paperback - cannot be underestimated.
by the way, for the record i've never read Worms, and was merely adding to the 'who is adrian/lowder/etc' debate. having said that, i wouldn't be surprised if he's either forgot, or has chosen to forget because of something other tha the book itself.
but if it isn't him, then who is it? there were actually only a small number of writers working in paperbacks in the UK at that time, after all...
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Post by allthingshorror on Oct 27, 2008 20:31:37 GMT
Glad you liked it Pulp - I'll write to him again. What is the thinking that Montague and Lowder are one and the same?
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Post by dem on Oct 28, 2008 6:16:16 GMT
I think you'll need Justin to answer that, Johnny.
He sounds pretty definite on it.
I'm with pulps on this (his earlier post). One aspect of 'Jack Adrian's work that maybe doesn't receive the attention it deserves is his capability as both a bibliophile and commentator on the ghost and horror story. He edited two of the Equation Chiller collections - A. M. Burrage's Warning Whispers and E. F. Benson's The Flint Knife - reviving long-forgotten tales from the periodicals of the day rather than settling for the authors' greatest hits (which, admittedly Equation probably wouldn't have been so interested in). His Peter Haining obituary in The Independent (can you believe it's almost his anniversary!) was excellent.
When you're next in contact, perhaps you might like to ask him about his long-time interest in supernatural fiction, and if he's plans any more anthologies of vintage spook and mystery stories?
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Post by erebus on Feb 22, 2009 20:49:50 GMT
Ive got worms......No not like that. I mean I managed to pick it up this week. It always seemed to evade me but thankfully I'm raring to. Only a skinny thing so it should'nt take that long.
And the cover is rather dull considering the subject matter but hey ! there ya go.
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Post by erebus on Mar 21, 2009 10:51:10 GMT
*SPOILERS* Well Ive read the book strange little thing it is too. It isnt like all the other nature strike back books as the above members have already stated. In fact its rather a nice quaint novel in a funny sort of way. What I mean by that is that its told so...politetly and kind of posh.
There is no real violence to speak of . No gore, nudity hell not even a swear word, neither a bloody hell or a bugger to be found.
As for the worms well the book has 15 chapters and the things only do their thing around chapter 13 so we have a long wait before the fellas get going. And even then they don't really eat you. There just roll on you and try and invade your nose.
Basically Worms is like a murder story with the wrigglers thrown in to spice things up.
Am I condeming the book ? Hell no I thought it was a great fun read and one I would advise others to do so.
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Post by markewest on Jul 15, 2014 23:06:11 GMT
Hi
Coming to this very late (5 years late, by the looks of it), as I'm just about to start reading it. I presume other people know this now, but James Montague was the pen-name for Christopher Wood, who not only wrote as Timothy Lea and Rosie Dixon, but also wrote the screenplays for "The Spy Who Loved Me" and "Moonraker" (judging by the dates, this must have been written between).
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Post by franklinmarsh on Jul 16, 2014 7:55:16 GMT
Good call, Mark. Now that will...er...open up a can of worms (groan). I'm sure Justin of PF interviewed Woody a while back. Did he ever publish it? Futura was Woody's latter home, and we know he could be versatile on the pulp front (or at least he penned a Richard Allen rip-off called Soccer Thug under the pseudonym of Frank Clegg) so it would be great to add him to the list of When Animals Attack authors.
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Post by markewest on Jul 22, 2014 11:52:47 GMT
Finished this yesterday and I'd agree with Demonik's assessment - it's well written, it's good fun and it's a quite delicious black comedy. I enjoyed it.
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Post by dem on Sept 15, 2017 8:56:19 GMT
To prevent my making the same old mistake over and over. Christopher Wood + 'James Montague' = same author. Chris Lowder + 'Jack Adrian' + 'J. R. Montague' = same author. |
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Post by Swampirella on Sept 15, 2017 11:48:46 GMT
I was wise/foolish enough to buy a copy from a second-hand bookstore last year; I enjoyed it enough to give it a place in my basement horror collection....
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Aug 31, 2018 14:51:04 GMT
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