droogie
Devils Coach Horse
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Post by droogie on Mar 10, 2013 21:26:13 GMT
A book so ridiculous, there is not even a copyright date...but you gotta love that cover art.
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Post by dem bones on Mar 10, 2013 22:23:32 GMT
1961, droogie. It's #55 in Badger's Science Fiction series, written by Rev. Lionel Fanthorpe under one of his approximately 350, 000 pseudonyms.
"They looked through the window and saw the thing that lumbered towards them. Taller than the house. Broader than a haystack. Huge ! Horrible! Terrifying! With eyes filled with blazing hatred. A gigantic beaver, a thing like something out of the very worst nightmare. They saw it was still fifty or a hundred yards away, in the gloom, and they reached for the phone.
"Police!" screamed the neighbour in terror. "Police! Help! We're being attacked! We're being attacked by a gigantic beaver!"
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droogie
Devils Coach Horse
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Post by droogie on Mar 10, 2013 22:58:39 GMT
It brings a tear to my eye when I read such masterful writing such as that example. Edgar Allen who?
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Post by dem bones on Mar 11, 2013 10:37:23 GMT
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Mar 11, 2013 18:55:19 GMT
1961, droogie. It's #55 in Badger's Science Fiction series, written by Rev. Lionel Fanthorpe under one of his approximately 350, 000 pseudonyms. "They looked through the window and saw the thing that lumbered towards them. Taller than the house. Broader than a haystack. Huge ! Horrible! Terrifying! With eyes filled with blazing hatred. A gigantic beaver, a thing like something out of the very worst nightmare. They saw it was still fifty or a hundred yards away, in the gloom, and they reached for the phone.
"Police!" screamed the neighbour in terror. "Police! Help! We're being attacked! We're being attacked by a gigantic beaver!"Personally I think it would be impossible to better this.
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Post by dem bones on Mar 11, 2013 20:02:24 GMT
Personally I think it would be impossible to better this. But he does. Effortlessly, and on several occasions. Even the cover blurbs are frequently laugh out loud funny. Mike Ashley remarked in his Fantasy Readers Guide that it was a shame Rev. Fanthorpe didn't take his work for Badger seriously, but Supernatural Stories would be a far poorer publication without his prolific input
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Mar 11, 2013 22:40:01 GMT
Personally I think it would be impossible to better this. But he does. Effortlessly, and on several occasions. Even the cover blurbs are frequently laugh out loud funny. Mike Ashley remarked in his Fantasy Readers Guide that it was a shame Rev. Fanthorpe didn't take his work for Badger seriously, but Supernatural Stories would be a far poorer publication without his prolific input It was the giant beavers. Somehow that just got me. I used to vaguely collect the Badger books and read a couple of Fanthorpe's (he probably wrote the other ones come tot think of it). I remember one had some quite sound cultural anthropology in it mixed in with something superfluous like giant beavers.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Mar 12, 2013 8:11:16 GMT
But he does. Effortlessly, and on several occasions. Even the cover blurbs are frequently laugh out loud funny. Mike Ashley remarked in his Fantasy Readers Guide that it was a shame Rev. Fanthorpe didn't take his work for Badger seriously, but Supernatural Stories would be a far poorer publication without his prolific input It was the giant beavers. Somehow that just got me. I used to vaguely collect the Badger books and read a couple of Fanthorpe's (he probably wrote the other ones come tot think of it). I remember one had some quite sound cultural anthropology in it mixed in with something superfluous like giant beavers. Sorry Dem. I should be shot for not paying attention. I didn't even realise that Fanthorpe was alive, or indeed a real person and even had a website where he seems to be living about sixteen lives at once. My apologies - must be stress.
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Post by erebus on Mar 13, 2013 22:00:58 GMT
Spilt a cup of tea on myself reading this thread , through laughing.
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Post by kooshmeister on Jul 6, 2013 18:05:17 GMT
I suddenly want this book.
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droogie
Devils Coach Horse
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Post by droogie on Jul 6, 2013 22:14:47 GMT
Koosh,
Just make sure when you look for it, you type in the books' title, and not "Big Beavers". You've been warned!
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Post by kooshmeister on Nov 15, 2013 22:23:37 GMT
Bah, I cannot find this thing anywhere. At least not on eBay. Can anyone hook me up?
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Post by kooshmeister on Jun 14, 2014 2:27:17 GMT
Nobody? Sheesh. This book sounds so gloriously stupid I just have to read it!
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Post by doomovertheworld on Aug 25, 2014 18:30:13 GMT
I'm not sure whether you are still looking for this book, but if you are you can get it here for the princely sum of £18 + P&P
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Post by kooshmeister on Sept 7, 2014 15:38:55 GMT
Ah, thank you.
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