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Post by dem bones on Feb 11, 2010 13:07:28 GMT
Oliver Frey .... in all his glory. we got a decent-ish thread out of Frighteners. Then there's Richard Davis's A Nice Cut Off The Joint from Fred Pickersgill's No Such Thing As A Vampire (Corgi, 1964). Construction engineer Tom Simpson and Helen, his wife of ten years, have just returned home to England from the Brazilian jungle, and Helen's finding it hard to get used to the food, all that insipid frozen stuff everybody buys from the supermarket nowadays. Helen had been the most promising medical student of her year, and, her flair for surgery came in handy on the Amazon when she saved the life of a tribal leader. As a reward, she was initiated into voodoo, and developed a taste for raw meat .... In Frank Belknap Long's The Red Fetish ( Weird Tales, Jan. 1930: Switch On The Light, April 1931), two castaways, starving and dying of thirst, must swim seven miles to the nearest island, knowing that it is the home of cannibal headhunters. The cowardly Van Wyck almost makes it but is torn to pieces at the last in the shark-infested waters. Bill is a little luckier: he makes dry land and gets to drink gallons from the freshwater lake before he’s surrounded by his hosts. Imagine his surprise when he's thanked by the chief for the gift he sent them - the red-headed skull of Van Wyck which reached the shore before him - and the natives treat him like a God. By the time he is rescued by a trading sloop three months later Bill is a raving lunatic. Thinking about it, it's not just zombies who blur the issue. seems to me several werewolf stories have as much if not more to do with cannibalism than genuine man-into-wolf transformation. how, for instance, would you categorise Geoffrey Household's Taboo?
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Post by dem bones on Feb 28, 2011 11:25:37 GMT
Willard Price - Cannibal Adventure (Knight, 1974: originally Jonathan Cape, 1972) Blurb: A Willard Price Adventure story, about Hai and Roger and their amazing adventures in search of wild animals for the world's zoos.
Hal and Roger find themselves In a village of cannibals In New Guinea, but the native tribes and the animals the brothers want to catch are less dangerous than an old enemy who arrives secretly and is bent on revenge.Must admit, i'm a little concerned about this one as it's looking more and more to be a rare example of a book you can't judge by its cover. See past that glorious painting and the back cover blurb is NOT reassuring. Could it be that we are dealing with those twin banes of the cheap thrill-seeking horror head, the nice cannibal and his friends, the benign headhunters who wouldn't hurt a fly? if my grave suspicions prove correct then i have seldom felt so swizzed!
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Post by lemming13 on Mar 16, 2011 10:46:23 GMT
You're right, dem; Guy Endore's Werewolf of Paris is another that blurs the borderline between cannibalism and lycanthropy. And of course there's Romasanta.
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Post by dreadlocksmile on Apr 9, 2011 16:48:50 GMT
Must admit, i'm a little concerned about this one as it's looking more and more to be a rare example of a book you can't judge by its cover. See past that glorious painting and the back cover blurb is NOT reassuring. Could it be that we are dealing with those twin banes of the cheap thrill-seeking horror head, the nice cannibal and his friends, the benign headhunters who wouldn't hurt a fly? if my grave suspicions prove correct then i have seldom felt so swizzed! I too purchased myself a copy (from ebay), read the back and thought "Oh bugger! Not what I was expecting!!!". I don't suppose you've read it yet have you? It's been relegated to waaaaay down at the bottom of my 'to read' pile.
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Post by corpsecandle on Apr 22, 2011 16:55:49 GMT
Oliver Frey .... in all his glory. we got a decent-ish thread out of Frighteners. Then there's Richard Davis's A Nice Cut Off The Joint from Fred Pickersgill's No Such Thing As A Vampire (Corgi, 1964). Construction engineer Tom Simpson and Helen, his wife of ten years, have just returned home to England from the Brazilian jungle, and Helen's finding it hard to get used to the food, all that insipid frozen stuff everybody buys from the supermarket nowadays. Helen had been the most promising medical student of her year, and, her flair for surgery came in handy on the Amazon when she saved the life of a tribal leader. As a reward, she was initiated into voodoo, and developed a taste for raw meat .... In Frank Belknap Long's The Red Fetish ( Weird Tales, Jan. 1930: Switch On The Light, April 1931), two castaways, starving and dying of thirst, must swim seven miles to the nearest island, knowing that it is the home of cannibal headhunters. The cowardly Van Wyck almost makes it but is torn to pieces at the last in the shark-infested waters. Bill is a little luckier: he makes dry land and gets to drink gallons from the freshwater lake before he’s surrounded by his hosts. Imagine his surprise when he's thanked by the chief for the gift he sent them - the red-headed skull of Van Wyck which reached the shore before him - and the natives treat him like a God. By the time he is rescued by a trading sloop three months later Bill is a raving lunatic. Thinking about it, it's not just zombies who blur the issue. seems to me several werewolf stories have as much if not more to do with cannibalism than genuine man-into-wolf transformation. how, for instance, would you categorise Geoffrey Household's Taboo? I may of said this before but I was looking for this on e-bay about four or five years back when I heard about how infamous the story was and that the magazine was only in newagents for around two weeks. The result of which is that this magazine is terribly rare and the copy I saw was going for around £90 and there was still time to bid on it. Obviously I didn't buy it and was really pleased to read the story for free of Mastertons website. The story REALLY disturbed me but it was really well written.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 20, 2011 20:34:50 GMT
Must admit, i'm a little concerned about this one as it's looking more and more to be a rare example of a book you can't judge by its cover. See past that glorious painting and the back cover blurb is NOT reassuring. Could it be that we are dealing with those twin banes of the cheap thrill-seeking horror head, the nice cannibal and his friends, the benign headhunters who wouldn't hurt a fly? if my grave suspicions prove correct then i have seldom felt so swizzed! I too purchased myself a copy (from ebay), read the back and thought "Oh bugger! Not what I was expecting!!!". I don't suppose you've read it yet have you? It's been relegated to waaaaay down at the bottom of my 'to read' pile. sorry, mr. dread, only just spotted this. To answer your question, no, it still sits close to bottom of my to read pile too, but the rotter stung me again today! saw the cover (below), thought 'maybe it's some neglected 'rivals of Jaws' masterpiece, and it was only once i'd walked away from the stall that i remembered where i'd heard the name 'Willard Price' before. Anyway, i'll not knock what i haven't read and this, incredibly, is a 17th impression of Knight's Underwater Adventures, the third of at least fourteen Price 'High Adventure Novels' they reprinted over and over from the 'sixties through to the 'eighties so you can't argue the guy was popular. Willard Price - Underwater Adventures (Knight, 1985: originally Jonathan Cape, 1955) Blurb The shark saw him and came for him, its open mouth as big as a barrel. At the last moment, Roger twisted to one side and gripped the right pectoral fin. Hanging on to it, he was dragged along by the big fish. He sank his knife into the white underbelly. Red blood gushed forth. Hal and Roger, recovering treasure from a sunken galleon, find the creatures of the deep terrifying enough. But they hadn't expected that the treasure would disappear with no explanation, nor that one of the crew would drown — or was it murder?
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Post by pulphack on Nov 22, 2011 9:01:35 GMT
unless i've missed irony here (always possible, sadly) i can't believe you'd both never heard of willard price, whose books were everywhere when i was a kid (and that means the same time as dem, for sure). so successful that his estate was brought by Fleming a few years back, then re-purchased by Owatonna and then sold on to 1554 (all having Fleming connections) as a going concern. there are reissues and film rights being sold at the moment. i have to confess i couldn't stand them when in was little and won't go near them now, but blimey! he was massive! how COULD yo be taken in??? truly, stunned...
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Post by dem bones on Nov 22, 2011 12:54:45 GMT
no irony on my part, pulps, they may well have been around, but i wasn't the least interested in books until after me and school had parted company so i'd not have noticed. will get around to Mr. Price in time, as the subject matter looks interesting, even if the illustrations are a bit weedy (shallow bastard that i am, that's what's been putting me off).
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Post by als on Nov 22, 2011 15:38:17 GMT
My kid sister loved Willard price when we were kids, I'm with Pulphack, I thought they were bloody awful! Really just quick reads for kids. If anyone's thinking of testing the water with him, buy super cheap reading copies first.
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Post by Swampirella on May 7, 2020 20:35:37 GMT
Secret Recipe - Charles Mergendahl (Alfred Hitchcock Presents - 16 Skeletons From My Closet 1976)
Simon (surname unknown) has invited his boss and his wife home for dinner, hoping for a promotion. "Mr Brevoort likes to visit a man's home before making any real decision about him." Si's a bit worried about his wife Sheila, who's prepared "a very exotic dinner". Their daughter Polly has gone to an early movie with her friend Susie Steele. His secretary and mistress Ida, commiserates with him about the stressful evening to come, especially after Sheila was away at a sanatorium for 6 months and came back with "odd" ways. Once he has that promotion, Simon plans to push her over the edge so she'll be committed permanently and he, Ida and Polly can be together forever. The evening starts off fairly well, until Simon tries the main course. Sheila's not hungry, but Mrs. Brevoort simply must have (secret) recipe, "Onions and mushrooms and peppers and curry....And I presume the meat was sauteed, but what is it?"
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Post by humgoo on Jun 2, 2020 19:11:44 GMT
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Post by Shrink Proof on Jun 3, 2020 11:14:30 GMT
Bryn Fortey - Shrewhampton North East. As featured on other Vault threads passim. I really rate this one, especially as it's written from the perspective of a young boy, who's making a rail journey in the company of his mother. The lad's narration makes it significantly more creepy than if it was told by an adult.
A treat for all those folk who've ever had to cope with railway catering....
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Post by Middoth on Jun 3, 2020 13:21:03 GMT
L. A. Morse - The Flesh Eaters ( Warner Books, 1979)
Сover art by Frank Frazetta.
Edinburgh's ditches bred them, Scotland's secret caverns hid them. They roamed the land, hunters of man, masters of the craft of killing, slaves to the rule of the jungle and their own ungovernable passions.
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Post by andydecker on Jun 3, 2020 20:35:05 GMT
Morse's P.I. novels Sleaze and The Big Enchilada are tremendous fun. OTP in sex and violence, a bit of a parody.
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Post by bluetomb on Jun 5, 2020 12:13:27 GMT
Am I just getting all confused or was there an (probably pseudonymous) Angus Wells horror novel relating to cannibalism in the 80's, possibly published by Sphere?
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