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Post by dem bones on Feb 9, 2013 19:25:00 GMT
Vault, your home of the big exclusives, some of which - like this one - are even true.  Les EdwardsDue late February/ early March, Paperback Fanatic #25 - a Weird Tales special, featuring reminiscences from, among others, Ramsey Campbell and Robert E. Weinberg - will be the first in the new look, 120 page,'perfect bound spine' format, similar to 2010's The Visual Guide To New English Library: Volume 1. Take out a two issue subscription and/ or hunt down back issues at the Fanatic MegastoreWill be sure to add further details as and when we receive them. Congratulations on achieving that 25 issue milestone, Mr. M! |
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Post by mcannon on Feb 10, 2013 0:23:46 GMT
Vault, your home of the big exclusives, some of which - like this one - are even true. Les Edwards Due late February/ early March, Paperback Fanatic #25 - a Weird Tales special, featuring reminiscences from, among others, Ramsey Campbell and Robert E. Weinberg - will be the first in the new look, 120 page,'perfect bound spine' format, similar to 2010's The Visual Guide To New English Library: Volume 1. Take out a two issue subscription and/ or hunt down back issues at the Fanatic MegastoreWill be sure to add further details as and when we receive them. Congratulations on achieving that 25 issue milestone, Mr. M! >> Ah, it's lovely that the cover will feature those Haining volumes - those particular editions are what first got me interested in "Weird Tales" as a subject in its own right, rather than as just a citation in the credits of a lot of collections and anthologies. A few years ago I was lucky enough to also find a cheap copy of one of the hardback editions (in, of all places, an upmarket department store!) of the Haining anthology. It had the added advantage of featuring the original illustrations for the contents, along with such vital features of the magazine as advertisements for home-learning courses and trusses. : ) I'd never part with those Sphere paperbacks, though. Very much looking forward to Fanatic #25 ! MarkC |
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Post by doug on Feb 10, 2013 12:25:41 GMT
Wow! I'm excited about this one! I'll pre-order (on pay day  )!!! take care. Doug |
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Post by severance on Mar 11, 2013 14:13:12 GMT
Curious - two copies just turned up in the post. Hope this doesn't mean that someone's missing out.
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Post by doug on Mar 11, 2013 15:35:47 GMT
Wow! I'm excited about this one! I'll pre-order (on pay day )!!! take care. Doug Hi! I went an ordered!! take cae. Doug |
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Post by dem bones on Mar 11, 2013 19:00:41 GMT
Here's what you get - now in paperback format!
Regular departments:
Fanatical thoughts:
Fanatical mails: Chris Mikul, Charles C. Allbrittan III, David Hyman, Michel Parry, Johnny Mains, Graham Andrews, Scott Carlson, Andy Boot, Nigel Taylor, Andy Brennert, Paul Williams, Graeme Flanagan, David Southall, Jim Walker.
Top Tens: Scott Carson, Nigel Taylor & Jim Walker choose theirs.
'Weird Tales special.
Ramsey Campbell - Weird Tales Revisited
Justin Marriott - Sirens, Temptresses & Godesses. Avon Fantasy Reader.
Justin Marriott - A Macabre Reader. The Fanatic's DIY 'Weird Tales' anthology.
Justin Marriott - Weird Britain: 'Weird Tales': the UK editions.
Jim Walker - The Pulp Fanatic: personal reminiscences on 'Weird Tales'
Justin Marriott - The Book Of Brundage: Interview with Alistair Durie
Justin Marriott - Shadow over Belknap. The fantastic FBL
'Weird Tales' in '60's & '70's paperbacks. Checklist
Graham Andrews - Leo Margulies, anthologist extraordinaire.
Justin Marriott - No Boundaries: Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore
'Weird Tales' in Panther paperback. Checklist
Robert Weinberg - A few words on the Seabury Quinn/ 'Jules de Grandin' Popular Library series.
Gruesome Cargoes: The Arrow 'Not At Night' reprints.
review to follow ....
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Post by dem bones on Mar 13, 2013 8:39:18 GMT
'review' was overstating the case, but some initial random thoughts on the Weird Tales special ....  Margaret Brundage cover illustration for Hugh Davidson's The Vampire Master, Weird Tales, Oct. 1933 The reminiscences of Ramsey Campbell and Jim Walker are just ... lovely. Mr. Campbell recalls his first encounter with the magazine as a seven year old, Anthony Di Giannurio's skeleton men and vulture artwork enticing him to LOOK INSIDE if he dare. After all, "If the cover looked like that, what extraordinary things would the magazine contain ...?" I found this article particularly fascinating as so many of the stories Ramsey recalls are relatively obscure titles, or at least, more the stuff of a Kurt Singer anthology than a Peter Haining. Jim Walker's first WT purchase was the Nov. 1949 British edition (US, July 1949) with the famous Matt Fox cover, and he stayed faithful through the though the 'eighties revival issues (though no mention of the later incarnations). His reaction to discovering the Fantasy Centre - "I thought I could just get a camp-bed and move in here" - will surely strike a chord with many who made the Black Pilgrimage to Holloway Road when you'd like as not snag something great off the street stalls even before you hit the shop. (there was a guy ran some kind of mobile sleaze emporium opposite The Lord Nelson. God, but the terrifying sights you'd sometimes behold should you pull aside the canvas flap ...) 'Weird Tales in Paperback' is essentially a much fleshed out version of the skeleton appears elsewhere on this board, with the proviso that the anthologies must have been published in the 'sixties and seventies, and include at least three titles from "the unique magazine." The exhaustively researched article on Leo Margulies and the Sam Moskowitz-ghosted Pyramid anthologies is Graham Andrews doing what he does best. Mr. Andrews is a bibliographer's dream: if there's a date, catalogue number or table of contents to be had, he'll work it into his informative, and sometimes unexpectedly spiky commentary. Alaister Durie gives the insider dirt on how his "flawed but important" Weird Tales hard-cover (Jupiter Books, 1979) came into being. Perhaps not quite up there with pulphack's Fragment's Of Fear adventure at Creation, but it still sounds so wonderfully haphazard. Am very pleased to know there is at least one John Newton Howitt fan out there in Fanatic land. My one disappointment - the dismissive non-article on Seabury Quinn's great-patchy-terrible (delete as applicable) Jules De Grandin - contains a revelation from Robert Weinberg in regard to the Popular Library reprints and just how many books were originally intended. Mr. Weinberg is right about the cover artwork, too (I had it down as Steve Fabian's, but he was only responsible for the map of Harrisonville & other interior illo's). Vincent Di Fate is an outstanding talent, but he and de Grandin are a wrong fit, or at least, in this instance, his paintings lacked the essential lurid touch of a Margaret Brundage - even C. C. Senf's flappers in peril paintings might be more appropriate in the circumstances. (more to follow: not finished it yet ....) |
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Post by jamesdoig on Mar 19, 2013 3:23:33 GMT
'review' was overstating the case, but some initial random thoughts on the Weird Tales special .... Got my copy today, and it's a cracker - probably my favourite issue to date. Every page is top notch, and the new format is great.  |
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Post by doug on Mar 19, 2013 20:45:45 GMT
Hey all!
My copy arrived today and it's simply a beautiful magazine! Tons of books that I never even new existed! This is informative, lovely and entertaining! I feel like a 6 year old with a new christmas mail order catalogue! That's how nice it is!
BRAVO!!! And THANKS for producing this amazing labor of love!
take care.
Doug
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Post by jamesdoig on Mar 27, 2013 8:17:39 GMT
In the Panther article Justin mentions a crap cover for Abominations of Yondo. I think I've only seen the one cover, which was a good one - is the crap one on the Vault somewhere?
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Post by mcannon on Mar 28, 2013 11:29:00 GMT
  In the Panther article Justin mentions a crap cover for Abominations of Yondo. I think I've only seen the one cover, which was a good one - is the crap one on the Vault somewhere? I've attached both (I hope...). I've owned two Panther copies of "Yondo", and both of mine have had the crap cover (#1 - at least I assume that it's the crappy one; it certainly seems the weaker of the two ). I've seen a couple of other copies over the years and all had that cover - I only recently learned that #2 existed. I'm certainly tempted to try and find a copy. As far as I know, that the only one of the Panther CAS editions that had more than one cover. Unless somebody knows of others.....? BTW, I've been savoring the "Weird Tales" issue of "Paperback Fanatic" over the last week or so, and have loved it! It arrived just before I headed off to visit my parents for a few days, so I took it with me - I half expected mum to say "Are you still reading that rubbish"?  MarkC |
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Post by mcannon on Mar 28, 2013 11:32:00 GMT
Just to clarify my earlier comments - the cover that I have is the one with the person in the cage. I think the one with the demon is far superior.
MarkC
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Mar 28, 2013 19:27:54 GMT
I just received my copy, and it's a magnificent thing. I can't wait to read it.
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Post by jamesdoig on Mar 28, 2013 21:37:42 GMT
Ah, so the guy in the cage is the crap cover. That's the one I've got - it's not that bad, though pales somewhat compared to the other one. |
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Apr 2, 2013 23:51:00 GMT
Some stray thoughts about the excellent Paperback Fanatic 25: I enjoyed Mr. Campbell's reminiscences of WT. I'm particularly happy to see some praise for "Mop-Head," recently resurrected in the Horror Gems series. Mr. Marriot's selection of his favorite WT stories is top-notch. The covers for Belmont's Frank Belknap Long books are indeed an interesting contrast--the Gorey cover is so beautiful that I'm tempted to buy a copy, whereas the other cover is one of the all-time worst. I agree with Dem that more about the de Grandin books would have been good. Too bad Popular Library didn't pick up the option on the proposed six follow-up books. The issue would be worth the price if all it included were the numerous color reproductions of WT covers. Somehow I had never realized that Kelly Freas did some covers for the magazine. I now feel a strange compulsion to track down copies of the Arrow Not at Night series. Finally, I'm looking forward to the promised DAW paperback issue, especially given that I'm thinking about trying to expand my collection in that direction. In addition to the Year's Best Horror and Year's Best Fantasy books they featured some great authors--Tanith Lee, Jack Vance, R. A. Lafferty, Roger Zelazny, Fritz Leiber, Theodore Sturgeon, James H. Schmitz, and Poul Anderson, to name a few. Though they're science fiction rather than horror, these two covers by the aforementioned Kelly Freas may be my favorite DAW ones: |
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