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Post by jamesdoig on Sept 18, 2010 8:29:05 GMT
Might be an opportunity to mention some great recent Aussie horror. Terry Dowling is brilliant - his novel Clowns at Midnight is just out from PS. Basic Black is pretty much a best of.  Terry Dowling, Basic Black, Ticonderoga 2009 Contents Introduction by Jonathon Strahan The Daemon Street Ghost-Trap Downloading The Bullet that Grows in the Gun The Gully The Bone Ship Beckoning Nightframe Stitch La Profonde The Saltimbanques They Found the Angry Moon Clownette The Ichneumon and the Dormeuse The Quiet Redemption of Andy the House The Maze Man One Thing About the Night Jenny Came to Play Cheat Light Scaring the Train Lucy Sussex is a fine writer, researcher, editor etc etc  Lucy Sussex, A Tour guide in Utopia, MirrorDanse editions, 2005 Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies The Queen of Erewhon The Gloaming La Sentinelle A Tour Guide in Utopia Kay and Phil The Lottery The Ghost of Mrs Rochester Merlusine Frozen Charlottes Runaways Absolute Uncertainties Afterword This was shortlisted for lots of awards and I think one of the stories won a World fantasy Award.  Margo Lanagan, Black Juice, Angus and Robertson, 2004 Singing My Sister Down My Lord's Man Red Nose Day Sweet Pippit House of the Many Wooden Bride Earthly uses Perpetual Light Yowlinin Rite of Spring Lovely twisted novel by Kaaron Warren - it won an Australian Shadows Award for best horror novel, and just the other week a Ditmar Award for best novel. Great cover - not one for the kiddies.  Angry Robot 2009 |
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Post by jamesdoig on Nov 22, 2010 20:33:34 GMT
Just got this in the post from my mate Marty Young - a great doorstop of a book that's sure to be a landmark volume in Australian horror:  ContentsMarty Young, Introduction Classics (1836-1979)John Lang, Fisher's Ghost Waif Wander, The White Maniac Marcus Clarke, Hunted Down HB Marriott Watson, The Devil of the Marsh E. Downs, The Red Cap Spectre of the Robertson Hume Nisbet, The Old Portrait Henry Lawson, The Ghostly Door Barbara Baynton, The Chosen Vessel Ernest Favenc, The Land of the Unseen Guy Boothby, A Strange Goldfields David Unaipon, Yara Ma Tha Who George Whitley, And Not in Peace Wolfe Herscholt, The Evil Sickness Vol Molesworth, Blinded They Fly Modern Masters (1980-2000)Terry Dowling, The Bullet that Grows in the Gun Robert Hood, Rough Trade Leanne Frahm, Entropy Sean Williams, Passing the Bone Stephen Dedman, Never Seen by Waking Eyes Kaaron Warren, A Poistive Rick Kennet, Due West The New Era (2000-)Andrew J. McKiernan, All the Clowns in Clowntown Paul Haines, Her Collection of Intimacy Will Elliott, Dhayban Nathan Burrage, Obituary Park Matthew Chrulew, Schubert by Candlelight Bon Franklin, Take the free Tour Shane Jiraiya Cummings, Dark Heart Alley (An Urban Fable) Kirstyn McDermott, Monsters Among Us Stephen M. Irwin, Hive Tim Kroenert, Beheld Susan Wardle, Here Be Monsters Gary Kemble, Feast or Famine Russell B. Farr, Can't Stop Killing You Kyla Ward, Erina Hearn and the Gods of Death David Witteveen & David Conyers, Sweet as Decay Martin Livings, Crawlin' Richard Harland, The fear Appendix: Australian Horror Fiction Timeline Acknowledgements Don't know what distribution it'll get overseas, but it's published by Brimstone Press. |
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Post by jamesdoig on Nov 22, 2010 20:53:22 GMT
An old friend and colleague, the pleasantly warped and urbane Anthony Ferguson, has produced a couple of books of Vault interest. This one for the back of the Vault, published by McFarland, a history of the sex doll:  And a companion fiction anthology due out next year from Equilibrium Books:  Contents Marcus Clarke, Human Repetends Wynne Whiteford, Automaton Van Ikin, And Eve was Drawn from the Rib of Adam Michael Wilding, This is for You Stephen Dedman, A Single Shadow Jason Franks, The Third Sigil Jay Caselberg, Porcelain Sean Williams, The Girl Thing Chuck McKenzie, Confessions of a Pod Person Lee Battersby, The Divergence Tree Rick Kennett, In Quinn's Paddock Lucy Sussex, La Sentinelle Jason Nahrung, Spare Parts Robert Hood, Regolith Kaaron Warren, Doll Money Andrew J. McKernan, Calliope: A Steam Romance Tracoe McBride, Last Chance to See Martin Livings, Blessed are the Dead that the Rain Falls Upon B. Michael Radburn, The Guardian Daniel I. Russell, Tricks, Mischief andMayhem Christopher Elston, Hugo: Man of a Thousand Faces |
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Post by dem on Nov 24, 2010 22:10:04 GMT
thanks for posting these, James: the Angela Challis & Marty Young collection in particular has the look of something potentially exceptional. know a number of the classics from your Australian Ghosts but am quite surprised to recognise a few of the names in the 'modern masters' and 'new era' categories. Stephen Dedman contributed the brilliant The Wind Sall Blow For Ever Mair to Gathering The Bones, a meaty anthology co-edited by Ramsey Campbell, Jack Dann & Dennis Etchison which i stupidly failed to snap up when i had the chance (i kept renewing the local library's copy until they ran out of patience). Rick Kennett i remember from the later Fontana Ghost Stories and G &S: David Conyers contributed a beauty to the first Black Book Of Horror and i've enjoyed stories by Robert Hood (notably Wasted Matilda in Zombie Apocalypse) and Terry Dowling in the not too distant. |
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Post by jamesdoig on Nov 24, 2010 22:37:35 GMT
That's right, Dem - there's a few fairly well-known authors you wouldn't automatically think are Australians. Kaaron Warren is also getting a lot of attention these days - Angry Robot is publishing her novels and Ellen Datlow uses her stories a lot. Stephen Irwin just published a nice horror novel with Hatchette which came out in the UK and the US. Will Elliott is also an up and coming name - his first novel Pilo Family Circus is great and attracted all sorts of accolades - he suffers from schizophrenia and this gives his stories a quirky edge.
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Post by marksamuels on Nov 25, 2010 0:43:55 GMT
Well, I must confess that having hauled the old carcass back from the pub last orders tonight, in order to camp in front of TMS on R4 overnight, I was hoping that "Aussie Horror" would refer to the Ashes, but at 27-1 early doors I'm not sure...
Long, looooooong way to go of course.
Mark S.
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Post by jamesdoig on Nov 25, 2010 8:54:37 GMT
Wait til you get up this morning  |
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Post by dem on Nov 25, 2010 12:21:54 GMT
Wait til you get up this morning ... seems strangely appropriate in the circumstances. must admit, i like the look of the Anthony Ferguson pair. monker supplied us a thread for Malevolent Dolls, Puppets, Toys & Co. back on Vault MK 1, but i've struggled to think of any specific Rubber Doll horrors. The only two I could come up with, both gems, are Ramsey Campbell's Liliths - Inland Revenue inspector gets more than he bargained for when he checks out a sex shop - and Alan Temperley's notorious Kowlongo Plaything (in that Stephen Gresham's badly miscalculated joke on the General is what brings about his appalling fate). |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Nov 25, 2010 15:06:34 GMT
Alan Temperley's notorious Kowlongo PlaythingWhere is this notorious "Kowlongo Plaything" to be found, please? It is mentioned in many places on this board, but I have not found a reference to the relevant collection. |
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Post by noose on Nov 25, 2010 15:30:07 GMT
Pan Horror 23.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Nov 25, 2010 15:44:01 GMT
Thanks!
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Post by marksamuels on Nov 25, 2010 17:46:15 GMT
James
ARRRGHGHGH!
I didn't see that coming: hurricane Siddle.
More shocking than KP's moustache...
Mark S.
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Post by jamesdoig on Nov 25, 2010 20:01:47 GMT
The selectors got it right for a change.
I wish the radio commentary was better, though. Send over Blowers. I still remember the first time I heard him commentating a test match - "And there's Ian Bothom at first slip, hands firmly clasping his buttocks." All in that fine Oxbridge drawl.
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Post by jamesdoig on Nov 25, 2010 20:12:08 GMT
Anthony did well with that anthology - a really good line up. And I like the tasteful cover of the sex doll history - very elegant title font.  Surely there are other doll anthologies, but I can't think of any off hand. |
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Post by marksamuels on Nov 25, 2010 23:05:08 GMT
The selectors got it right for a change. I wish the radio commentary was better, though. Send over Blowers. I still remember the first time I heard him commentating a test match - "And there's Ian Bothom at first slip, hands firmly clasping his buttocks." All in that fine Oxbridge drawl. "Oh my dear old thing, how frightfully kind of you to say so. And, oh I say, a rather lovely pigeon's fluttered down onto the boundary at long leg..." etc I'm not Blowers's health is up for a long-haul flight down under. Hasn't he got a dicky ticker? Mark S. |
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