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Post by noose on Feb 3, 2011 15:26:39 GMT
(Screaming Dreams 2011)Les Edwards Very pleased to announce that my biography of Herbert van Thal, last seen lurking at the back of BACK FROM THE DEAD will be available as a stand alone book - published at this years Fantasy Con by Screaming Dreams. Will have new content, and unseen photographs, letters and documents - this is it as it should have been - due to constraints with the BFTD budget I wasn't able to go as all out as I would have wished. But what a cover, hey?
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Post by David A. Riley on Feb 3, 2011 15:29:17 GMT
Congratulations, Johnny. That's one hell of a cover!
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Feb 3, 2011 16:44:47 GMT
Yes, it really is. Well done!
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Post by weirdmonger on Feb 3, 2011 17:09:43 GMT
Well done, Johnny.
that's an excellent picture - but it always reminds me of one of my schoolteachers from the late 1950s. des
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Post by stavner on Feb 4, 2011 0:06:31 GMT
RE: the cover:
'Scuse me.
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Post by Johnlprobert on Feb 4, 2011 9:22:50 GMT
Very nice Johnny - we'll definitely be getting a copy!
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Post by stephenbacon on Feb 4, 2011 18:44:15 GMT
That is a superb cover - Les Edwards, if my eyesight is up to it.
Good luck with it, Johnny. I enjoyed the short version I read in BFTD.
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Post by noose on Feb 4, 2011 18:46:38 GMT
It's still a short version - the text that is, just beefed it up with a few more stats (van Thal was probably the only real champion of Le Fanu - up until such times he became fashionable again) and of course thrown in some letters etc.
Jx
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Post by dem bones on Feb 4, 2011 19:20:27 GMT
van Thal was probably the only real champion of Le Fanu - up until such times he became fashionable again Jx You sure about that? What about M. R. James, E. F. Bleiler, Robert Aickman, Peter Penzoldt, every member of the James Gang, every anthologist who ever put together a Great Horror Stories or Great Ghost Stories anthology .....
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Post by noose on Feb 4, 2011 19:23:30 GMT
he maintained that in the 40's and 50s Le Fanu was all but forgotten, in the 60s he still thought of him as a author who had been much neglected - there's a really good intro by van Thal in Le Fanu's novel The Cock and the Anchor about his thoughts. But yes I get your point about the others Dem...i should have reworded that sentence!
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Post by dem bones on Feb 4, 2011 22:28:50 GMT
that came out a little grouchier than intended. what i was trying to get at is, if Van Thal was claiming to be the one person championing Le Fanu then he was mistaken. As far as his supernatural work goes, i doubt le Fanu's needed anyone to fight his corner since MRJ compiled Madam Crowl's Ghost back in 1923. I think Van Thal performed a more valuable service for Rhoda Broughton by rescuing her Twilight Stories/ Tales for Christmas Eve from potential oblivion. Maybe Wordsworth will get around to reissuing it with added stories one of these days!
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Post by cw67q on Feb 4, 2011 23:02:01 GMT
he maintained that in the 40's and 50s Le Fanu was all but forgotten, in the 60s he still thought of him as a author who had been much neglected - there's a really good intro by van Thal in Le Fanu's novel The Cock and the Anchor about his thoughts. But yes I get your point about the others Dem...i should have reworded that sentence! PS can I jump on the Great Cover! Bandwagon, or is it too full? I'd have to hunt quite seriously to turn up my old pb of the Cock & Anchor, but whoever wrote the introduction to that edition (not sure of it was van Thal) got some of the ghost stories quite confused, IIRC the ending to Green tea is fairly garbled in the essay. Never got around to reading the novel. - Chris
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Post by noose on Feb 9, 2011 9:40:48 GMT
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Post by cw67q on Feb 9, 2011 16:53:38 GMT
Yes Noose that is the one. I got it for 50p at a book fair while on holiday in the Lakes District a few years back. The book is in my loft somewhere so it'd be a pain to look it out, but I'm sure that in the intro the ending to one of the most well known of the ghostly tales (I'm reasonably certain it is Green tea) is wrongly described. I remember being taken aback when I read it and wondering if I'd misremembered the story. My first reaction is always self-doubt (as long as that's ok with everyone else) - Chris
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Post by noose on Sept 6, 2011 7:50:56 GMT
The FINAL cover Les Edwards CONTENTSINTRODUCTION LEST YOU SHOULD SUFFER NIGHTMARES LETTERS: 1971 - 1980 HERBERT VAN THAL CHECKLIST AUTHOR INTERVIEWS WITH ALEX HAMILTON, CONRAD HILL, DAVID A. RILEY, FRANCIS KING, GEE WILLIAMS, JAMES JAUNCEY, DAVID CASE and JOHN BURKE SFX ARTICLE – FEBRUARY 2010 ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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