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Post by franklinmarsh on Mar 7, 2017 21:21:59 GMT
Tom Kristensen – The Vanished Faces
Written by a Dane, but set in Japan. Very short and very spooky. To do with identity loss - in a literal sense - everyone you approach is featureless, face smooth as an egg. Freaky.
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Post by dem on Mar 7, 2017 21:40:41 GMT
Tom Kristensen – The Vanished Faces Written by a Dane, but set in Japan. Very short and very spooky. To do with identity loss - in a literal sense - everyone you approach is featureless, face smooth as an egg. Freaky. Don't remember this one, but from your comment it sounds similar to Lafcadio Hearn's Mujina, which may or may not have "inspired" E. F. Benson's The Step. |
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Post by Michael Connolly on Apr 1, 2017 9:51:16 GMT
The Solar Pons Gazette for December 2013 includes a two page article, Solar Pons & Sarob(bery) Press, an atypically angry rant in print from regular contributor Bob Byrne. Mr. Byrne is unhappy with Sarob for publishing pricey, limited editions of two Basil Copper originals, Solar Pons & The Devil’s Claw (2004. 250 copies. $45 regular edition, $95 deluxe), and the six story Solar Pons: The Final Cases (2005: 275 copies. $49.50 regular edition, $115 deluxe). As is almost invariably the case with collectables, both sold out pre-publication, ensuring that only the most affluent Pons fans have had opportunity to read them. But .... fear not, help is at hand! ... at a "competitive" price. Despite all of the above PS publishing has just made twelve copies of Letters to Arkham (The Letters of Ramsey Campbell and August Derleth, 1961-1971) each available for £8.99 in total: pspublishing2.com/letters-to-arkham---the-letters-of-ramsey-campbell-and-august-derleth-1961-1971-jhc-edited-by-s-t-joshi-866-p.asp?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ps_publishing_weekly_newsletter&utm_term=2017-03-31 SYNOPSIS August Derleth was the proprietor of the leading small press in weird fiction, Arkham House, based on Sauk City, Wisconsin. In early 1961 he received a letter from one J. Ramsey Campbell, asking some questions about the author that was then the focus of both their lives, H. P. Lovecraft. Soon thereafter, Campbell sent Derleth some of his early Lovecraftian tales, and Derleth quickly saw that a dynamic new writer of Lovecraft’s “Cthulhu Mythos” had emerged. Only months later did Campbell tell Derleth that he was only fifteen years old. In the decade that followed, Derleth issued Campbell’s first book, The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants (1964), published several of Campbell’s stories in his anthologies, and accepted Campbell’s second book, Demons by Daylight, published two years after Derleth’s unexpected death in 1971. In the course of their intense correspondence, the two writers debated a wide variety of topics—Lovecraft, Arkham House, weird fiction, and in particular the many films that both of them enjoyed. Derleth helped Campbell to obtain works by Henry Miller and others that were banned in England, and the two also discussed delicate issues of romance, marriage, and sexuality. In this lively exchange of letters, we see Derleth becoming a valued mentor to the young Campbell, who would go on to become a towering figure in weird fiction. |
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Post by monker on Sept 23, 2017 5:42:48 GMT
Pace the Penzoldt quote, have I mentioned that prudes are one of my least favorite types of human depravity? We have far too many of them on the loose in these glorious United States of Idiocy. cheers, H. You won't like me, then. I'm an unabashed fan of old-fashioned sensibilities, which is why I don't read much modern fiction or watch modern movies. It's not as if the word gratuity doesn't have a meaning. That's not to say Penzoldt is necessarily right about those particular examples. The problem with all this reverse puritanism is that they/you make it all about censorship when it should be about alternatives. The average person doesn't see the irony in the 180 degree shift. |
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