Guest Starring .....

[dem bones]

Let's make Saturday's fun! Another nice generic 'You can all join in!' thread for everyone to avoid! Horror & Supernatural personalities who have made guest appearance in other people's novels & short stories.

• Michel Parry and Richard Davis in Ramsey Campbell's The Second Staircase
  
• Ted Ball & Dave Gibson of The Fantasy Centre (RIP) in Ramsey Campbell's Ancient Images
  
• Rosemary Pardoe in Phil Rickman's The Fabric Of Sin (thanks for the tip off, Chris!)
  
• Lionel Fanthorpe in Brian Stableford's The Haunted Bookshop
  
• Clive Barker (what's left of him) in Kim Newman's The Man Who Collected Barker
  
• Dennis Wheatley in F.G. Cottam's The House of Lost Souls (thanks Dr. Strange!)
  
• Giles (Dennis?) Wheatley in Charles Birkin's Zara And Zita
  
• Sydney J. Bounds (as Sydney J. Beecham) in R. Chetwynd-Hayes' Shipwreck
  
• Martin Greenberg, Ursula LeGuin, Frank Belknap Long, Philip Jose Farmer & Lester Del Rey (and more) in Robert Bloch's ETFF (see the Don't Go To The Horror Convention thread for more along similar lines, albeit that the victims are heavily disguised).
  
• Forrest J. Ackerman in David McDaniel's The Man From U.N.C.L.E. #6: The Vampire Affair
  
• Bram Stoker in Tim Stout's The Dracula Files (and countless others, not least among them Arabella Randolph's superlative The Vampire Tapes!)
  
• Edgar Allan Poe in Manly Wade Wellman's When It Was Moonlight
  
• Edgar Allan Poe in Robert Bloch's The Man Who Collected Poe
  
• Edgar Allan Poe in Marc Olden's Poe Must Die
  
• H. P. Lovecraft in Robert Barbour Johnson's Far Below
  
• H. P. Lovecraft in Robert Bloch's The Shambler From The Stars
  
• Robert Bloch (as Robert Blake) in H. P. Lovecraft's The Haunter Of The Dark
  
• H. P. Lovecraft in Robert Bloch's The Shadow From the Steeple
  

care to join me?

[julieh]

Lovecraft did a lot of shout outs to his friends, though under slightly disguised names: Whisperer In Darkness mentions "the Atlantean high-priest Klarkash-Ton" [Clark Ashton Smith] and The Haunter fo the dark mentions "he infamous Cultes des Goules of Comte d'Erlette" [August Derleth]

Does that count?

[andydecker]

well, how about ...

• Edgar Allan Poe in Kim Newman´s The Bloody Red Baron
  
• Aleister Crowley in Gerald Suster´s Black Pearl
  
• Arthur Machen in Gerald Suster´s Black Pearl
  
• H.P.Lovecraft in Paul Malmont´s Chinatown Death Cloud Peril
  
• Stephen King in Stephen King´s The Dark Tower
  

[dem bones]

Ah, well if we're going to include Stephen King in Stephen King's The Dark Tower then we can have John Llewellyn Probert (and his secretary) in John Llewellyn Probert's Some Might Suffer!

Kim Newman kind of makes a mockery of the whole thing as he's forever listing famous names real and fictional in his stories.

Crowley has made loads of guest appearances under various pseudonyms; 'Oscar Clinton' in H. R. Wakefield's 'He Cometh And He Passeth By', 'Julian Karswell' in M. R. James' Casting The Runes, 'Grafton Loftus' in Seabury Quinn's The Man In Crescent Terrace .... and Dr. Strange tells us he also shows up in the aforementioned House of Lost Souls.

[Johnlprobert]

Well I put Gary McMahon and Gary Fry in 'At Midnight I'll Steal Your Soul' in Wicked Delights.

And there's a Gary McMahon story out there somewhere with a body buried under some floorboards wearing a stripy blazer that's meant to be me I think!

[Jojo Lapin X]

Jan 29, 2011 12:25:41 GMT dem bones said:

Crowley has made loads of guest appearances under various pseudonyms; 'Oscar Clinton' in H. R. Wakefield's 'He Cometh And He Passeth By', 'Julian Karswell' in M. R. James' Casting The Runes, 'Grafton Loftus' in Seabury Quinn's The Man In Crescent Terrace .... and Dr. Strange tells us he also shows up in the aforementioned House of Lost Souls.

He is also the subject of Somerset Maugham's THE MAGICIAN.

[Craig Herbertson]

I make sure young John Mains is badly injured but survives in a forthcoming tale. the rest of you prepare for the worst...

[noose]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR YESTERDAY CRAIG!!!!!!!

[ramseycampbell]

Jan 29, 2011 9:15:31 GMT julieh said:

Lovecraft did a lot of shout outs to his friends, though under slightly disguised names: Whisperer In Darkness mentions "the Atlantean high-priest Klarkash-Ton" [Clark Ashton Smith] and The Haunter fo the dark mentions "he infamous Cultes des Goules of Comte d'Erlette" [August Derleth]

Does that count?

I'd say so, and has anyone spotted the reference to his correspondent Cameron Thaddeus Nash in The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath?

[David A. Riley]

Jan 30, 2011 7:05:28 GMT @noose said:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR YESTERDAY CRAIG!!!!!!!

A belated Happy Birthday Craig, from me too!

[Craig Herbertson]

[Johnlprobert]

Hey Craig - Happy Birthday from Probert Towers!!!!

[dem bones]

and happy birthday from the domain of demonik, too.

mustn't forget Montague Summers (as Canon Canon Copely-Syle) in Dennis Wheatley's To The Devil A Daughter.

a mini-pop culture special:

• John Lennon (undead version) in Christopher Burns' John's Return To Liverpool
  
• Alice Cooper in 'Michael Slade's Ghoul
  
• The Adverts live at the Roxy, Covent Garden in Thomas Tessier's The Nightwalker
  
• Sam Peckinpah and Warren Oates on the Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia shoot in Gary A. Braunbeck's Bloody Sam
  
• The Fall's Eat Y'Self Fitter on the radio in Richard Haigh's The City.
  
• Elvis Presley in Bill Crider's King of the Night and Tracy A. Knight's Blessed By His Dying Tongue
  
• Marilyn Monroe in Thomas F. Monteleone's The Pleasure Of Her Company
  Bettie Page in Karl E. Wagner's The Kind Men Like and Nancy Kilpatrick's Teaserama
  

Plenty more of this type of thing in Jeff Gelb's Shock Rock and Martin H. Greenberg's Celebrity Vampires.

[severance]

Crowley is in Eric Ericson's "Master of the Temple" as well, though accrding to the notes, most of the characters in the book were real people.