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Post by jamesdoig on Feb 20, 2016 5:23:19 GMT
A few more Fantasy Tales: Vol 1 #1 - Summer 1977 ContentsCover - Jim Pitts Kenneth Bulmer - Naked as a Sword Gordon Larkin - Fog Upon Ynth (verse) Ramsey Campbell - A Madness From the Vaults John Grandfield - Morvenna (verse) Eddy C. Bertin - The Price to Pay Brian Lumley - Mylakhrion the Immortal Michael Moorcock - The Stone Thing Brian Mooney - The Dream Shop Steve Sneyd - Milk of Kindness Vol 3 #6 - Summer 1980 ContentsCover - Jim FitzPatrick Manly Wade Wellman - Ever the Faith Endures Brian Lumley - The Wind-Walker (verse) J.R. Schifino - Lair of the White Wolf Don Herron - The Blades of Hell (verse) H. Warner Munn - Dreams May Come Frances Garfield - The Elementals Dave Reeder - The Last Trick Darrell Schweitzer - The Story of the Brown Man Steve Eng - Bone-Yowl (verse) Vol 4 #8 - Summer 1981 ContentsCover - Dave Carson Dennis Etchison - The Dark Country Hugh B. Cave - A Place of No Return Brian Mooney - The Elevation of Theosophus Goatgrime James Glenn - The Legacy Mike Chinn - Sic Transit Mary Clarke - Shadows From the Past Brian Lumley - Swamp Call (verse) Michael D. Toman - Weirwood Vol 7 #14 - Summer1985 ContentsCover - Jim Pitts Ramsey Campbell - The Sneering Ardath Mayhar - The Pushover David Cowperthwaite - Yuggoth (verse) Chris Naylor - The Castle at the World's End Jeffrey Goddin - House of Ill Repute Clive Barker - The Forbidden C. Bruce Hunter - The Other Side
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Post by dem bones on Feb 20, 2016 10:49:17 GMT
Thanks for these, James. Particularly like the Dave Carson and Jim Pitts covers. Here's a couple from the short lived (five volume?) Robinson paperback edition. Stephen Jones & David A. Sutton (ed's.) - Fantasy Tales #2 (Robinson, Spring 1989) Les Edwards Ken Bulmer - Ice And Fire Torr and Tora Vorkun battle a legion of undead warriors! William F. Nolan - The Cure He would do anything to stop killing Joel Lane - The Dispossessed Could the runes reveal to him the secret of power? Brian Lumley - The Man Who Felt Pain His body withered beneath the world's torment Neil Gaiman - Vampire Sestina (verse) Will Johnson - Stepping Out A demon confronts the powers of black sorcery
The Cauldron: Your letters and comments, news and views from the fantasy field, plus a profile of cover artist Les Edwards.Stephen Jones & David A. Sutton (ed's.) - Fantasy Tales #4 (Robinson, Spring 1990) J. K. Potter Stephen Gallagher - The Drain A formless terror pursued them through the darkness. Charles L. Grant - Alice Smiling Can a mother's love save her daughter? Darrell Schweitzer - Into The Dark Land He braved Death to restore a kingdom's soul. Kim Newman - The Man Who Collected Barker The ultimate collector reveals his horrific prize Steve Eng - Sea-Reverie (verse) Don Webb - Initiation If he failed the test his soul would be forfeit Steve Rasnic Tem - In The Trees He embraced his fears and lost everything. C. Bruce Hunter - The Death And Afterlife Of Sam McKay Deadlines can be Hell!
The Cauldron: Your letters of comments, profiles and articles plus news and views from the fantasy field.
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Post by dem bones on Feb 25, 2016 9:07:10 GMT
Where was I before I forgot Best Horror From Fantasy Tales existed (wrestling with a G.N.S. novel while trying to get your head around Christoph Grunenberg's Gothic: Transmutations of Horror in Late-twentieth-century Art can do that to a man)?
"It would be great if you could get some new stories from writers of the "old" Weird Tales, like E. Hoffman Price, M. Wade Wellman, C. Jacobi, a. o." - Koen Olie, letter to The Cauldron, printed in Fantasy Tales #3, Summer, 1978).
Editors Jones & Sutton agreed this was a great idea and came up with a winning compromise. Some reprints and some brand new material from those revered pulpsters - Hugh B. Cave, Manly Wade Wellman, Frances Garfield, Robert Bloch, etc. - willing to participate. Among them:
H. Warner Munn - Dreams May Come: As a little girl, Margie Carmicheal was plagued by night terrors - or were her bad dreams premonitions of pivotal episodes in impending adulthood? It seems they are, but forewarned or otherwise, her life still turns out as shit as everyone else's. What if she'd gone with big sugar daddy Arnold and became a star instead of settling for a life of loveless drudgery with loyal but dull Paul? Would she still have blood on her hands? What if she could revisit those significant moments and take a different course? What if ...?
Not the first ghost/ horror story to suggest that, given the alternative, Death is absolutely brilliant and something to look forward to.
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Post by dem bones on Feb 26, 2016 13:12:05 GMT
Allen Ashley - Dead to the World: Closing entries in the diary of Russell Parker, 27, an administrator at the Skulman Drug Company and keen sportsman. "I can no longer hide from the basic fact ... that my every orifice is closing up." Wife suspects he's having an affair with that tart at the office, so no help from her.
Karl E. Wagner - The Last Wolf: The last writer receives bad news from his agent. Nobody wants to publish his latest novel. This comes as no surprise. The previous six have met with the same fate. Nobody reads books any more and the few commercial magazines are dross. The last writer is visited by the ghosts of all the fictional characters whose stories went untold. He gets back to work. What else is there to do?
Only four stories to go, every sign that this is one 'Best of ...' that actually merits the name. I'm only disappointed there was no volume two, because - culled from my very limited familiarity with the magazines - here are a few titles didn't make the cut.
Ramsey Campbell - The Sneering David A. Riley - After Nightfall Peter Coleborn - The Exhumation Eddy C. Bertin - The Price to Pay Sydney J. Bounds - Borden's Wood (not got it, never read a copy, but it's Syd. Enough said) Kim Newman - The Man Who Collected Barker Peter Tremayne - The Singing Stone Charles L. Grant - Now and Again in Summer Guy N. Smith - Vampire Village (see Syd Bounds) R. Chetwynd-Hayes - The Monster
As with the book itself, above selection is noticeably short on female authors, but have only read Frances Garfield's Don't Open The Door (included in the book) and Samantha Lee's sci-horror short, Bon Appetit.
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Post by dem bones on Feb 27, 2016 7:12:14 GMT
Another attractive FT feature. The back cover painting. Stephen E. Fabian ( Fantasy Tales #13, Winter 1984). Sylvia Starshine ( Fantasy Tales #3, Summer 1978). George A. McIntyre - Our Christmas Spirit: ( Fantasy Tales #16, Winter 1986). Family Xmas get-together. "Way out" Aunt Emily always has a new fad for the occasion and this year it's reading aura's. In keeping with tradition, Aunt Alice gets shirty with her. During ensuing squabble, narrator inadvertently summons the spirit of the Pharaoh Senmut, who, on mishearing Grand-dad's name as 'Horus,' can but do his bidding. As involuntary exclamation's go, Gramps' "stone the crows!" could have been plenty worse. I guess after confronting him or her with Richard Christian Matheson's Red, Messrs Jones & Sutton reckoned the reader would appreciate some light relief and this was it. "Why do 95% of fantasy/ horror stories finish with the hero/ heroine being overwhelmed by some foul irresistible fate?" asks the author. It'd be nice to read of somebody fighting back successfully sometimes. If the whole interest of the tale lies in the nature of the victim's horrible fate rather than in the struggle, where's the surprise or the point?"
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Post by jamesdoig on Feb 27, 2016 11:23:33 GMT
I'm only disappointed there was no volume two
There was this one, which was a 'best of' - or maybe a compilation - of the paperback incarnation: Clive Barker, Introduction: Speaking From the Dark Charles L. Grant, Now and Again in Summer Lin Carter, The Thievery of Yish Guy N. Smith, Vampire Village C. Bruce Hunter, The Farmer and the Travelling Salesman's Daughter David Riley, Writer's Cramp Robert E. Howard, Memories Ken Bulmer, Ice and Fire William F. Nolan, The Cure Joel Lane, The Dispossessed Brian Lumley, The Man Who Felt Pain Neil Gaiman, Vampire Sestina Ramsey Campbell, The Sustenance of Hoak Stephen Gresham, The One Left Behind Stephen Gallagher, The Drain Charles M. Grant, Alice Smiling Darrell Schweitzer, Into the Dark Land Kim Newman, The Man Who Collected Barker Steve Eng, Sea-Reverie Steve Rasnic Tem, In the Trees Roberta Lannes, The Invisible Boy Ramsey Campbell, The Changer of Names David J. Schow, Night Bloomer Jean-Daniel Breque, On the Wing Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Black the Water J.N. Williamson, The Bridge People Gary Kilworth, Networks Neil Gaiman, Foreign Parts R. Chetwynd-Hayes, The Monster Janet Fox, How Jaquerel Made War in Belazhurra Kim Newman, Mother Hen Thomas Ligotti, The Spectacles in the Drawer Darrell Schweitzer, The Sorcerer to His Long-Lost Love Ramsey Campbell, The Pit of Wings Thomas F. Monteleone, Rehearsals Thomas Ligotti, Medusa Adrian Cole, Only Human ary Kilworth, Island With the Stink of Ghosts Peter James, Afterward: The Supernatural - Fiction & Fact
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Post by dem bones on Feb 27, 2016 14:02:33 GMT
Thanks James. According to the IFSDB, the collection was only published in Australia. It looks like all (or most of) the contents from the seven Robinson paperbacks crammed into one volume, plus RCH's The Monster. To complicate matters, J. K. Potter cover illustration almost certainly depicts a scene from Graham Masterton's The Hungry Moon, published in the first volume of Dark Voices.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2016 15:38:19 GMT
To complicate matters, J. K. Potter cover illustration almost certainly depicts a scene from Graham Masterton's The Hungry Moon, published in the first volume of Dark Voices. I can think of one Vaulter who should really have a word with Masterton about that title...
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Post by ramseycampbell on Mar 7, 2016 9:10:46 GMT
Well, you can't copyright a title! I rather think J. K.'s cover was originally based on my tale, though. In their introduction to the book the editors say it's a distillation of the paperback issues of the magazine.
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Post by dem bones on Mar 7, 2016 9:33:45 GMT
Well, you can't copyright a title! I rather think J. K.'s cover was originally based on my tale, though. In their introduction to the book the editors say it's a distillation of the paperback issues of the magazine. On reflection, I'd say you are spot on. Strange thing is, the artwork would also be appropriate for GM's evil breakfast cereal shocker.
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Post by ramseycampbell on Mar 7, 2016 11:04:33 GMT
I've now found the original use - it was J. K.'s cover for the 1987 Phantasia edition of my book (Hungriger Mond).
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Post by dem bones on Mar 8, 2016 9:12:44 GMT
I've now found the original use - it was J. K.'s cover for the 1987 Phantasia edition of my book ( Hungriger Mond). Thanks for the confirmation, Ramsey. If it's not too much trouble, can you help us with this? Hey, thanks for altering us to this! The world may be grateful, though, that my Amicus film was never made. Hi Ramsey, was this going to be another of their portmanteau movies, and if so, which were the stories under consideration? A Ramsey Campbell portmanteau film? What a delicious thought. The world may be grateful (though I doubt it), but I'm wishing it had been made. Coincidentally, I'm tinkering with writing something about an unmade portmanteau film - well, unmade in this universe, at any rate - so this detail might just have become woven into that film's reality...
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Post by ramseycampbell on Mar 9, 2016 8:29:24 GMT
Sorry - missed the question! No, it would have been a new tale of Solomon Kane.
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