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Post by dem on Sept 7, 2010 21:34:22 GMT
Ok, so it's not a Haunted Library publication, but it probably belongs here. Mary Ann Allen - The Angry Dead (Crimson Altar Press, 1986)  Colin P. Langeveld, Joan
Annie And The Anchorite
Ne Resurgat (A Graven Image and Other Essex Ghost Stories, 1985)
The Blue Boar of Totenhoe (Fantasy and Terror #3, 1984)
Hold Fast (Dark Dreams #2, 1985)
The Wandlebury Eyecatcher (Fantasy Macabre #6, 1985)
Joan (Jessica Amanda Salmonson [ed.], Tales by Moonlight, 1983)
The Chauffeur
The Gravedigger and Death (Ghosts & Scholars #5, 1983)
Margaret and Catharine (A Graven Image and Other Essex Ghost Stories, 1985)
The Hatchment (Fantasy and Terror #1, 1984)
AcknowledgementsA limited (350 copies) hardcover edition of The Angry Dead from Richard Fawcett Publishing (2000) included the extra stories, The Cambridge Beast (Dark Dreams #7, 1988)
The Sheelagh-na-gig (Barbara & Christopher Roden [eds.], Midnight Never Comes, Ash Tree, 1997)Jane Bradshawe is one of the exceptions to my new "if it's an occult detective type, only read one story in a single sitting" golden guideline, or at least, she would be were it not for the fact that to negotiate the tiny type of the Crimson Altar edition is to endure extreme eyeball torture. This is not to single out Jeff Dempsey's super booklet for criticism, you understand. It's typical of virtually every DTP small press publication of the day which is why you'll often find all those guys in drab coats, their eyeballs rotating like Catherine wheels as they mutter darkly of "too many early Ghosts & Scholars" while sharing a can of super-strength in the bus shelter. It's no big secret that church furnishings restorer Jane Bradshawe was 'Mary Ann Allen' was Rosemary Pardoe (though the former were often quite irked that the founder and custodian of Haunted Library received the credit for their commendable efforts). As well as starring in all but one of the stories listed above, Jane also made a special guest appearance in David G. Rowlands's Conkers and is the first person to whom her friend and fellow antiquarian (Jessica Amanda Salmonson's) Penelope Pettiweather confides the minutiae of the curious case of Jeremiah. The Gravedigger and Death: St Peter's Church, South Tilford on the Essex Marshes. Against the advice of his senior parishioners, Father Cranage approaches Miss Bradshawe to restore two seventeenth century wall-paintings depicting a gravedigger and a skeleton. Jane cleans up the sad, frightened-looking image of the former with no great difficulty, but the exceptionally gruesome, leering grim reaper is another matter entirely. The images depict an incident from the seventeenth century when the then rector ordered sexton, Meshach Leach to remove an old stone from the churchyard. This Leach was reluctant to do as there was some powerful superstition attached to it, but the rector was insistent. Leach died within three weeks of carrying out his instructions, persecuted to his doom by a ghastly stick-like entity, locally notorious as 'The Guardian'. As Jane works late into the night, a shadowy form looms up from behind the boiler ... Ne Resurgat: Possibly my favourite of the Jane Bradshawe stories, most likely on account of the eerie dream sequence, but it was also the first of the stories i read. St. Marys, Northbridge, East Essex: The Rev. Jim Shaw relates to Miss Bradshawe the history of Hannah Waite, 1809-51, whose drunkard of a husband killed her with a skewer while probing her body for the witch's mark. Afterwards, he sawed off her head to prevent her from rising from the grave but .... it doesn't seem to have worked. That night Jane dreams of a headless body pursuing a terrified Ernest Waite to his doom on the marshes. The Sheelagh-na-gig: i've only yesterday written this up on The Black Veil thread, so it's enough to say that this is possibly the pick of the twelve with a particularly creepy pay-off line as Jane encounters a species of supernatural phenomena that unnerves even her. The story references M. R. James's A View From A Hill and Walter De La Mare's All Hallows if that's any help to you. This next is, to the best of my knowledge, the only Rosemary Pardoe story which doesn't feature Miss Bradshawe. The Cambridge Beast: Sarah, Jackie, Heather and narrator Penny Cole enjoy night-climbing on the site of Cambridge University - until they take on King's College Chapel and one of the gargoylesque King's Beasts chases Sarah from the parapet. "It was maggoty white and very like an enormous dog ... the smell was revolting, like something from a graveyard ... and just as if it was made of stone, it was sort of eaten away and decayed ..." When, some years later, a student is killed scaling the chapel, it seems the malevolent hound has grown stronger ... |
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Post by cw67q on Sept 7, 2010 22:04:30 GMT
I'd really like a copy of this one, Dem. I've only read "Sheelagh-na-gig", which I really liked.
As well as being the editress of the MR James newsletter (the latest edition of which popped through my lettrebox earlier this week), the wonderful Ms Pardoe has also featured (as herself) in one of the later "Merrily" novels by Phil Rickman.
- chris
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Post by marksamuels on Sept 7, 2010 22:37:08 GMT
Gotta love Rosemary Pardoe.  When I knocked out the super-obscure (& one issue only) photocopied edition of The Stygian Dreamhouse fanzine she helped me out no end. An absolute legend. The Mary Ann Allen collection published by Richard Fawcett sits proudly on my shelf. Mark S. |
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Post by marksamuels on Sept 7, 2010 22:46:02 GMT
The 2000 h.back Richard H. Fawcett Volume adds, btw, "The Cambridge Beast" and "The Sheelagh-na-gig" to those tales in the Crimson Altar edition.
It's a delicious book.
Mark S.
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Post by marksamuels on Sept 7, 2010 22:58:15 GMT
Point of order! Dem, how come my number of posts counter keeps sticking  I must have knocked up over a thousand by now and yet it shows me as only 300 odd... Grrrrrrrr...  Mark S. |
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Post by marksamuels on Sept 7, 2010 23:07:04 GMT
Point of order! Dem, how come my number of posts counter keeps sticking I must have knocked up over a thousand by now and yet it shows me as only 300 odd... Grrrrrrrr... Mark S. He says, being Mr. Grumpy, & belatedly noticing that everyone's posts stick and that Dem's probably on 10,000 posts....  Apologies... Mark S. |
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Post by dem on Sept 8, 2010 2:43:48 GMT
i'm not sure i followed any of that! Gotta love Rosemary Pardoe. When I knocked out the super-obscure (& one issue only) photocopied edition of The Stygian Dreamhouse fanzine she helped me out no end. An absolute legend. The Mary Ann Allen collection published by Richard Fawcett sits proudly on my shelf. Mark S. Some of the more, shall we say, flamboyant characters we celebrate on Vault, i often wonder if respectable authors would prefer that we didn't drag their name into it, thank-you-very-much, but yes, she is lovely, is Rosemary. Mrs. Pardoe was encouragement itself when the bride and me decided to put together a universally popular vampire zine before we gave up on that stupid idea and did V.A.T. instead (if you think Vault is ropey .... *shudder*). Anyway .... Russ Nicholson illustration for Ne Resurgat in A Graven Image and Other Essex Ghost Stories, Haunted Library, 1985. The Chauffeur: An altogether gentler affair. Jane spends a week at her friends the Farrows cottage next door to Courtham House, considered the finest Tudor Manor in Cornwall. The resident ghost is that of Joseph Watkins (1885-1960), a chauffeur who enjoyed his job so much, his spectral car has been heard pulling into the garage until only recently. Why has he suddenly stopped following this routine? A spot of weed removal at his grave by meddling Miss Bradshawe and he's up and about again. So sedate it makes (exaggerates wildly) E. G. Swain read like Laurence James, but that's not to say it lacks warmth and undeniable charm. Or maybe i'm just a big softie at heart. The Chauffeur was reprinted in Richard Dalby's Virago Book Of Ghost Stories Vol II, and you can read The Gravedigger & Death on-line at the Ghosts & Scholars Archivechris, if you can remember the name of the Phil Rickman novel Rosemary appears in, please do let me know! |
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Post by cw67q on Sept 8, 2010 6:59:09 GMT
chris, if you can remember the name of the Phil Rickman novel Rosemary appears in, please do let me know! It was "the Fabric of Sin", Dem, the latest but one of the Merrily novels. Rosemary appears as web-mistress of G&S & MR James expert (there is a strong MRJ theme to the novel). - chris |
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Post by dem on Sept 8, 2010 18:12:16 GMT
chris, if you can remember the name of the Phil Rickman novel Rosemary appears in, please do let me know! It was "the Fabric of Sin", Dem, the latest but one of the Merrily novels. Rosemary appears as web-mistress of G&S & MR James expert (there is a strong MRJ theme to the novel). - chris  Cover design by Two Associates Cover photograph .© John MasonBlurb `Merrily is a most original sleuth and an interesting, sparky woman of emotional and spiritual depth. Rickman is an excellent writer, terrific on atmosphere ... The best so far.' - The Times
Garway's church was built by the Knights Templar and after seven centuries the Welsh-border village is still overshadowed by their mysteries.
Merrily Watkins is investigating a disturbance at a nearby farmhouse when violent death changes everything, leaving her isolated in a place embedded in secrecy, where grudges span centuries and murder, rape and retribution are private matters.certainly sounds very interesting if the above is anything to go by! that will be another one on the hit-list then .... meanwhile, back with Miss Jane Bradshawe, and after yesterdays outbreak of joy and niceness with that frightfully decent chauffeur chap, this is more like it! Margaret and Catharine: Miss Bradshawe is back on her favoured stomping ground, haunted Essex, Crossly to be precise, where she's investigating the Bisham monument. This commemorates the turn of seventeenth-eighteenth century Sir Henry Bisham, wife Mary but only three of their five daughters. It transpires that Sir Henry detested the youngest Margaret, on account of Mary dying during her childhood, depriving him of his beloved wife and any chance of a son and heir in one stroke. Margaret grows up a feisty character and after a particularly furious row with her father she disappears, presumed abducted by gypsies, or at least, that's how Sir Henry tells it. Whereupon all manner of misfortune befalls the Bishams. The three elder girls are all hideously disfigured by smallpox, leaving Catharine, the apple of daddy's eye, the only one Sir Henry has any hope of marrying off. But on the eve of her wedding Catharine is troubled; her missing sister keeps calling to her from the garden. Miss Bradshawe learns the truth when she witnesses a ghoulish re-enactment of Catharine's last moments as, smiling happily, she walks hand-in-hand with her murdered sister toward the river ... |
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Post by humgoo on Jun 24, 2019 17:03:05 GMT
Is there any plan to republish The Angry Dead, I wonder, ideally in the same format as the Black Pilgrimage (which was certainly one of the highlights in 2018)?
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Post by ropardoe on Jun 25, 2019 7:26:32 GMT
Is there any plan to republish The Angry Dead, I wonder, ideally in the same format as the Black Pilgrimage (which was certainly one of the highlights in 2018)? As far as I know (and I don't have up to date info) the book is still available from Richard Fawcett. While that's still the case, I wouldn't consider a reprint. But if someone approached me (frankly I think that's unlikely!) with plans to do a reprint, I'd get back to Richard and see what the situation is. Thanks very much for the kind comments on The Black Pilgrimage. |
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Post by Michael Connolly on Feb 29, 2020 13:47:50 GMT
Ok, so it's not a Haunted Library publication, but it probably belongs here. Mary Ann Allen - The Angry Dead (Crimson Altar Press, 1986) Colin P. Langeveld Introduction
Annie And The Anchorite
Ne Resurgat (A Graven Image and Other Essex Ghost Stories, 1985)
The Blue Boar of Totenhoe (Fantasy and Terror #3, 1984)
Hold Fast (Dark Dreams #2, 1985)
The Wandlebury Eyecatcher (Fantasy Macabre #6, 1985)
Joan (Jessica Amanda Salmonson [ed.], Tales by Moonlight, 1983)
The Chauffeur
The Gravedigger and Death (Ghosts & Scholars #5, 1983)
Margaret and Catharine (A Graven Image and Other Essex Ghost Stories, 1985)
The Hatchment (Fantasy and Terror #1, 1984)
AcknowledgementsA limited (350 copies) hardcover edition of The Angry Dead from Richard Fawcett Publishing (2000) included the extra stories, The Cambridge Beast (Dark Dreams #7, 1988)
The Sheelagh-na-gig (Barbara & Christopher Roden [eds.], Midnight Never Comes, Ash Tree, 1997)Jane Bradshawe is one of the exceptions to my new "if it's an occult detective type, only read one story in a single sitting" golden guideline, or at least, she would be were it not for the fact that to negotiate the tiny type of the Crimson Altar edition is to endure extreme eyeball torture. This is not to single out Jeff Dempsey's super booklet for criticism, you understand. It's typical of virtually every DTP small press publication of the day which is why you'll often find all those guys in drab coats, their eyeballs rotating like Catherine wheels as they mutter darkly of "too many early Ghosts & Scholars" while sharing a can of super-strength in the bus shelter. It's no big secret that church furnishings restorer Jane Bradshawe was 'Mary Ann Allen' was Rosemary Pardoe (though the former were often quite irked that the founder and custodian of Haunted Library received the credit for their commendable efforts). As well as starring in all but one of the stories listed above, Jane also made a special guest appearance in David G. Rowlands's Conkers and is the first person to whom her friend and fellow antiquarian (Jessica Amanda Salmonson's) Penelope Pettiweather confides the minutiae of the curious case of Jeremiah. The Gravedigger and Death: St Peter's Church, South Tilford on the Essex Marshes. Against the advice of his senior parishioners, Father Cranage approaches Miss Bradshawe to restore two seventeenth century wall-paintings depicting a gravedigger and a skeleton. Jane cleans up the sad, frightened-looking image of the former with no great difficulty, but the exceptionally gruesome, leering grim reaper is another matter entirely. The images depict an incident from the seventeenth century when the then rector ordered sexton, Meshach Leach to remove an old stone from the churchyard. This Leach was reluctant to do as there was some powerful superstition attached to it, but the rector was insistent. Leach died within three weeks of carrying out his instructions, persecuted to his doom by a ghastly stick-like entity, locally notorious as 'The Guardian'. As Jane works late into the night, a shadowy form looms up from behind the boiler ... Ne Resurgat: Possibly my favourite of the Jane Bradshawe stories, most likely on account of the eerie dream sequence, but it was also the first of the stories i read. St. Marys, Northbridge, East Essex: The Rev. Jim Shaw relates to Miss Bradshawe the history of Hannah Waite, 1809-51, whose drunkard of a husband killed her with a skewer while probing her body for the witch's mark. Afterwards, he sawed off her head to prevent her from rising from the grave but .... it doesn't seem to have worked. That night Jane dreams of a headless body pursuing a terrified Ernest Waite to his doom on the marshes. The Sheelagh-na-gig: i've only yesterday written this up on The Black Veil thread, so it's enough to say that this is possibly the pick of the twelve with a particularly creepy pay-off line as Jane encounters a species of supernatural phenomena that unnerves even her. The story references M. R. James's A View From A Hill and Walter De La Mare's All Hallows if that's any help to you. This next is, to the best of my knowledge, the only Rosemary Pardoe story which doesn't feature Miss Bradshawe. The Cambridge Beast: Sarah, Jackie, Heather and narrator Penny Cole enjoy night-climbing on the site of Cambridge University - until they take on King's College Chapel and one of the gargoylesque King's Beasts chases Sarah from the parapet. "It was maggoty white and very like an enormous dog ... the smell was revolting, like something from a graveyard ... and just as if it was made of stone, it was sort of eaten away and decayed ..." When, some years later, a student is killed scaling the chapel, it seems the malevolent hound has grown stronger ... has three copies of The Angry Dead for sale, one of them signed and inscribed by Mary Ann Allen, whom I have reason to believe may be no longer with us. richarddalbyslibrary.com/search?type=product&q=angry+dead |
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Post by mrhappy on Feb 29, 2020 15:33:27 GMT
"...whom I have reason to believe may be no longer with us."
I certainly hope that's not the case.
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Post by ropardoe on Feb 29, 2020 16:07:00 GMT
"...whom I have reason to believe may be no longer with us." I certainly hope that's not the case. I think she is - she's just very reclusive. |
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Post by ropardoe on Jun 30, 2020 17:47:40 GMT
It's way too early to say much, but what I will say is that thanks to a recent development, just don't give hope on an Angry Dead reprint.
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I must have knocked up over a thousand by now and yet it shows me as only 300 odd... 
