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Post by dem bones on Nov 22, 2010 9:00:06 GMT
Yes, it's hardcover, andy. Pauline contributed the cover art for The Evil People too, but i prefer this. It seems she mostly illustrates children's books. Here's a portfolio. Fascinating cover . I'll try and make it along to TYPE one of these years , so keep up the Type Tales of your visits snakehips. ;D KC will do, KC. My favourite haunt since the dark day the Fantasy Centre shut its doors for the last time. The latest addition to the decor is a bicycle parked next to the coffee counter. A bicycle with a beat up typewriter welded to its back.
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Post by killercrab on Nov 22, 2010 9:59:39 GMT
A bicycle with a beat up typewriter welded to its back. ..
That's fantastic! Can't wait to visit.
KC
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Post by dem bones on Dec 24, 2010 0:21:40 GMT
couldn't let Christmas pass without paying a visit to Bethnal Green and its just a shame i wasn't packing a camera because the old dump sure was at its most picturesque today. case in point, the huge iron railway bridge at Brick Lane. someone has been busy as it now has the legend TYPE emblazoned across it in huge pink lettering. Also Playful Promises, (i.e., the groovy lingerie shop next door: see Fig A) has been given a makeover and a window display that screams 'Vault pose here.' Next time. Definitely next time. Fig A; Some Playful Promises merchandise in action. First stop was Eastside Books at 166 Brick Lane to pick up a sensible local history book for the bride (relax, i was heavily disguised). There's a very pleasant vibe to the shop and it's dead handy for recently published and trendy stuff, but in the past i've used it as a last resort, having found it a bit pricey. Looks like that's going to change as, oh joy and niceness!, it now has a Wordsworth Mystery & The Supernatural section! admittedly, they've not yet caught up with more recent releases, but when i mentioned Crowley's The Drug, the assistant responded with "Oh yes! we want that!" and put in an order! On to TYPE for swift trawl through the paperback addict's equivalent of Aladdin's cave, satisfy that seriously masochistic urge. Milan mentioned an ambitious but eminently sane and - in his hands - do-able BIG PLAN for around spring/ summer next year. will try and give you plenty of notice if and when. And i came away with this death by blob of slime masterpiece! Victor Norwood - Night Of The Black Horror (Badger #44, Jan. 19620 Blurb: INTRODUCTION Disturbed from ooze on the sea-bed by violent storms, a frightful mutation is unleashed to ravage the unsuspecting Earth. a shapeless, flopping black horror — living slime, fearless, seemingly indestructible, constantly growing, driven by insatiable hanger, an evil monster controlled by a pulsating 'brain', leaving in its ponderous, slithering wake a putrid stench of awful death . . .
From the gloom of sinister swamp it devastates the peaceful farming area around Booger's Marsh, enormous, threatening to engulf the whole of doomed mankind. Science is baffled. Atomic holocaust fails to destroy the alien spawn or check its loathsome spread ...
One man — and a courageous girl, in the midst of shrieking terror, stand between the black horror and total annihilation, finding in a quest for knowledge thereby to destroy the hideous slime monster a supreme test for love and endurance.
Lost for a while in a catacomb of abandoned mines, entombed, the foetid mass, now huge, and frantic with hunger, bursts free to wreak terrible vengeance, appalling in its savage fury .. .
And from the ashes and ruin grope this same indomitable man and girl, struggling desperately to preserve sanity amid utter chaos, sustained by an idea, a mere spark, fostering it, developing reason until finally, ingenuity prevails, and love, with courage, conquers fear and solves the demoralizing problem . .
What it was, its origin, no one will ever know. For the answer could only be found in hell. . . . !There is can't wait, and there is can't wait ...
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Post by jamesdoig on Dec 24, 2010 3:17:19 GMT
Victor Norwood - Night Of The Black Horror (Badger #44, Jan. 19620 Ahhh, nice - up there with This Creeping Evil.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 25, 2010 8:28:17 GMT
My sentiments entirely, James. And that Badger book cover ain't bad either. The oddest thing about that afternoon, i'd been blabbing on to Milan about Zombie Apocalypse for ages, so when i saw a copy going for £2 in Spitalfields charity shop - spine unbroken, mint condition or good as - that was him sorted for a Christmas present (i'm so cheap!). So, we flick through it because, as you know, the contents list/ credits for who wrote what is at the back which can be a little confusing - and what's this? Signatures: Stephen Jones, Chris Fowler, Mark Samuels, MMS .. bloody loads of 'em. Obviously, whoever donated it must have attended either FantasyCon or the official launch in London. Why would they go to all that effort only to dispose of the book so soon after the event?
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Post by andydecker on Dec 25, 2010 11:28:54 GMT
Why would they go to all that effort only to dispose of the book so soon after the event? His mother/father/girlfriend saw it, said 'I am so tired of you reading this shit, get a life' and threw it out of the house.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 25, 2010 17:17:11 GMT
Ah, now there's one distinct possibility i'd not considered. Here's another Type find from some weeks back. bought for the cover artwork/ disturbing blurb, obviously, but have since read good things about it and its time will come once I've polished off the approximately 2 billion books on the go. Josephine Bell - Easy Prey (Hodder & Stoughton 1959, 1962) Blurb: "Our Miss Trubb isn't the type to murder anyone, least of all a little child."
Miss Trubb was sensible: Miss Trubb loved children: and Miss Trubb was very helpful about baby-sitting.
But Miss Trubb was a convicted child-murderer.
HOW COULD THIS BE TRUE ?
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Post by dem bones on Jan 17, 2011 11:39:20 GMT
Not strictly a TYPE adventure as this one began on Friday at Charing Cross Road but as it also features a visit to Milan's ever-changing museum of dead typewriters and undead paperbacks i figured it belongs here. The Charing X episode is soon dealt with. Approaching Lovejoys from the Old Compton Road and there's James Doig's Australian Ghosts as part of the window display! another "damn! wish i had a camera on me!" moment! anyway, one brief browse later and i'm off with R. Murray Gilchrist's A Night On The Moors (finally!), Amyas Northcote's In Ghostly Company and the Rex Collins edited Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories.
One serious hike later and i make it to TYPE (via a pit stop at Ye Olde Cock Tavenrn in Fleet Street. nostalgic moment). Local news. Hells Angels have moved in next door to the fab lingerie shop and opened a tattoo parlour. i told you Bethnal Green was rediscovering its strangeness! "We don't get any trouble round here now" quips Milan. Anyway, my big proper purchase was the Arrow edition of John Russo's Return Of The Living Dead, the film novelisation as opposed to Russo's Hamlyn Return Of The Living Dead which is a different beast altogether.
Yesterday, and its Sclater Street off Brick Lane where this guy is in the process of off-loading 30, 000 books from his van and most of 'em at 25p a time. i've a second copy of Roald Dahl's Book Of Ghost Stories if anybody's after it - just pm me - but the pick of yesterday's haul was Stephen Jones & David Sutton's Giant Book Of Fantasy & The Supernatural (Parragon, 1994) which i'll be picking the bones from in due course. Some other strange pulp from the same stall: Thomas M. Disch's The Genocides: John Crowley's The Deep: something by Kevin Randle & Robert Cornett called Remember The Little Bighorn! - "Vietnam vets take on the strangest time travel adventure in history; to kill General Custer!" - and a Happy Days spin off featuring the Fonz versus a biker gang. Making my way home and two young gents of questionable sobriety came up to me insisting "we can tell you've had a hard life, mate" (other words like "homeless" swiftly followed) and gave me a sheepskin coat! It looks nice on me too, but then i look great in anything. But why is everybody hitting me with coats and jackets all of a sudden? These guys even threw in a trendy scooter for fucks sake, although i passed on that. More coat news: Mr. Mains! Milan has kept hold of your fleece so should you be passing that way, drop in and pick it up!
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Post by noose on Jan 17, 2011 11:55:55 GMT
Mr. Mains! Milan has kept hold of your fleece so should you be passing that way, drop in and pick it up! Can you pass on the news that I'll be in London on the 15/16 of Feb!
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Post by dem bones on Jan 17, 2011 12:07:12 GMT
will do Johnny. i'll try and get him to stock up on the horrors because between us we've made a massive dent in them! if you've not already done so, you might like to drop Milan a line about stocking The Pan Book Of Horror Stories as its likely he'd be interested.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Jan 17, 2011 12:12:16 GMT
Mr. Mains! Milan has kept hold of your fleece so should you be passing that way, drop in and pick it up! Can you pass on the news that I'll be in London on the 15/16 of Feb! Zikes - any more on that Jonny? The chance to bump into Dem and your good self might be too good to miss.
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Post by noose on Jan 17, 2011 12:18:26 GMT
ANOTHER min-vault meet-up? Always game for one of those... All I know is that me and the missus (she's at some conference, leaving me to scrabble around London) - my evenings are sadly out, but maybe a mid-afternoon meet up on the 15th or a morning to lunch meet up on the 16th would be in order?
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Post by dem bones on Jan 17, 2011 12:21:11 GMT
ah, it would be brilliant if you could make it Franklin. it's been way too long since we two got up to mischief! you could even get a Martian Dance tattoo done while you're down.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 17, 2011 12:29:04 GMT
ANOTHER min-vault meet-up? Always game for one of those... All I know is that me and the missus (she's at some conference, leaving me to scrabble around London) - my evenings are sadly out, but maybe a mid-afternoon meet up on the 15th or a morning to lunch meet up on the 16th would be in order? Hold up Johnny. is that the Tuesday and Wednesday? its just that Milan works there from Thursday through to Sunday. i guess if we warn him in advance he might be up for it - i know he'd like to see you.
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Post by noose on Jan 17, 2011 12:39:11 GMT
Yeah - oh dammit.oh well even if the shops not open, would still like to see him!
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