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Post by Calenture on Jun 7, 2013 3:30:15 GMT
Filthy Creations 7 has, after a bit of a fight, been kept to under a 100 pages. Meaning it's still magazine- rather than digest-sized, which I'd begun to think was the only way forward. I'll be takng it to the printers next week. Now I know anyone interested will have sidestepped the business of the sealed workshop in the FC forum and viewed the Filthy Creations promo videos elsewhere, but the final FC 7 promo video awaits the delivery of the actual magazines. Here, for the nonce, is just a taster. The first page of FC7: Demonik did comment once that you didn't need to get FC magazines when you could download all the bits online and assemble your own. Which is fair comment. Well here's one page and one illustration. The table of contents will appear at same time as the magazine's promotional video. Authors who have seen illustration/s for their story in previous videos will know their story will be in either FC 7 or FC 8. All the stories have been illustrated (and god hasn't it taken me a time). Both these magazines have been produced together and will appear within about a month of each other.
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Post by dem bones on Jun 7, 2013 10:48:00 GMT
Very pleased to see The Wicket Man in there, a genuine 'Sport is horror' classic from the master of the macabre. Well done Rog, Craig and contributors all.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jun 7, 2013 14:32:40 GMT
Cheers Dem.
it's Rog really, He's been slaving over a hot pencil for months now.... I've only been nagging him.
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Post by dem bones on Jun 28, 2013 19:49:08 GMT
Cheers Dem. it's Rog really, He's been slaving over a hot pencil for months now.... I've only been nagging him. well it seems to have done the trick. Filthy Creations #7 (June, 2013) Rog Pile Rog Pile (ed.) Craig Herbertson (Consultative ed.) Franklin Marsh - The Wicket Man Penni McLaren Walker - The Architect's Tale D. F. Lewis - The Only Climax Charles H. Galloway - Shapeshifter Robert Mammone - Myceleum Craig Herbertson - The Death Tableaux: Part 2 David A. Riley - Sendings: Part 2 D. F. Lewis - All Endings Are Happy
The Filthy Creators The Story So Far
All artwork by Rog PileOrder direct from rogpile AThotmail.co.uk Visit/ get involved at: Filthy CreationsA welcome surprise to find a copy lurking behind front door when I got in earlier. Ninety-two pages in all. Have now read the first three stories - poor old Hugh in The Architect's Table has a hard time of it - plus commentary at back, and will attempt some kind of review very shortly. Many thanks to Rog for the kind gesture!
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jun 29, 2013 0:43:11 GMT
I like this Consultative editor Role. My job was confined to - 'Brilliant drawing! Do more of those!'
Rog shies away from the spotlight but in this case I think the artwork needs a big shiny lamp on it.
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Post by Calenture on Jun 29, 2013 14:01:36 GMT
This seems to be posting before I write anything... not used to this upgraded board yet.
Anyway, probably the less I waffle the better. In case anyone's been living underground and not heard, FC 7 is now available.
To learn more about it, you can just click the video button above. The first couple of screens go past a bit faster than I'd like, but I figure it's as good as I'm gonna get it.
If you'd like to buy a copy, well, bless you. Just PM me with your request and email and you can do that through PayPal, even if you don't have a PayPal account.
If you'd like a free copy to review, that's fine too (frankly I'd like it even more). Just PM me or email me at this address:
oldbooksandmagsATyahoo.com
Best to all,
Rog
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Post by Calenture on Jun 29, 2013 14:40:06 GMT
It might work a bit better now. Guess who had YouTube set to 'Private'. Good grief, everything's gone pear-shaped this week. Oh well. The link below should take you to a better version with no hiccups at the start (the one below is hosted at PhotoBucket)
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Post by Calenture on Jun 29, 2013 17:38:02 GMT
Finally?
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Post by Calenture on Jun 30, 2013 4:53:18 GMT
Apologies if this seems like spamming, but I just thought of another way to circumnavigate the horrors of this 'upgraded' board. Click the image above to view the video.
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Post by dem bones on Jul 1, 2013 7:58:04 GMT
Franklin Marsh - The Wicket Man: An opposing batsman's alarming faux pas sparks pitch invasion by partisan home supporters. First read this back in February ( Sport is horror) and third time around, it still sparkly and new. Grimly feendish. Equally ghastly though lighter on chuckles is: Penni McLaren Walker - The Architect's Tale: Commercial artist Hugh buys a beat-up old drawing board and a folder of vellum sheets at a car boot sale. The board is missing a leg, but duct tape and a broom handle soon set that right. It's the best tenner Hugh ever spent! His work improves out of all recognition, earns him a commission from Mr. Feirth, a local mill owner keen to renovate his property. As luck would have it, Feirth is something of a specialist in ancient Egyptian artifacts, and recognises Hugh's "drawing board" as the very architect's table used by the murdered Hiram Abith, the genius builder of the Temple of Solomon. Feirth is a little hazy as to the finer details of the inevitable 'curse' , but then, nobody need pay any mind to such preposterous superstitious drivel .... D. F. Lewis - The Only Climax: In his afterword, Rog Pile refers to this single-pager as "a literary riddle of sorts." Which is a better way of putting it than anything I'm likely to come up with. D. F. Lewis - All Endings Are Happy: Maybe one day I will tackle The Nightmare Factory and then - it will all become clear? Robert Mamone - Myceleum: Frank invested unwisely on the stock market, necessitating a move from the city to a place in the country. This has done nothing for his relationship with second wife, and tonight's flare up is more than their sons can bear. So Derek - counting down the days until he starts college - takes, Tommy, his eight-year-old step-brother, out in the fog to explore the copse at back of their garden. The woodland is dense with ugly, bloated mushrooms and Tommy, hit full in the face by a cloud of spore, drops like a stone. Once discharged from Hospital, Tommy's behavior takes a turn for the .... strange. Frank and Jill, reconciled, agree it's best he sleep with them tonight. The kid couldn't be more delighted .... Charles H. Galloway - Shapeshifter: When a hurricane lays waste to the coastline, the immediate population either turn to violence or give up the ghost altogether. Marten Lee is among the latter contingent. Numbed by alcohol, he packs a weapon and books into a decrepit hotel near the beach. As he places gun to head, a group of earthbound elementals prepare to pounce. The suicide's worst fear - death is not the end, and the sequel is worse than the rubbish life you just terminated. If Architect's Table and Myceleum have an early Pan Book of Horror feel to them and The Wicket Man is Reg Parlett's Creepy Comix gone bloodthirsty, then Shapeshifter is the Fantasy Tale of the piece. Liked it a lot, especially the triumphant former people passing around cigs as they set off to the seaside. Which leaves the two serials - will get to 'em over the coming days. Have found it very entertaining so far, with much properly horrible horror content and a neat variation in styles.
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Post by pulphack on Jul 2, 2013 16:41:59 GMT
One of the things I've always liked about Des' work is that sometimes he takes the art of the obtuse and obscure to the very ends of... It can be infuriating (which I suspect is partly the aim) but also very entertaining.
This looks a good issue - about time I got one again so I will be in touch shortly!
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Post by Calenture on Jul 2, 2013 21:30:37 GMT
One of the things I've always liked about Des' work is that sometimes he takes the art of the obtuse and obscure to the very ends of... It can be infuriating (which I suspect is partly the aim) but also very entertaining. This looks a good issue - about time I got one again so I will be in touch shortly! Look forward to hearing from you, PH. And by the way, I do think I missed a trick with that one DFL story. I should have put the answer to that riddle on another page of the magazine! There's always something I forget. More generally... Been staying away for a while (don't want to spam) but many thanks for all the comments on this thread, folks. I had to rethink my old scattergun approach of just sending FCs out and hoping for the best. I wanted FC to get a showing at the place where it started and to just send a couple of mags out for old times sake. Anything else that came out of it would be a plus. So far I'm dead happy with the way things are going. When I thought about it, there's something a bit formal and inhibiting about 'copies free for review'. 'Free for occasional informal comments' might serve better? Anyway, after a lot of turning the air blue, I finally remembered how to put up a PayPal page for anyone who just wants to just buy a copy (hell, we're not proud): PayPal - three quid including p&pThanks again, and here's that recently changed email again, too. oldbooksandmags@yahoo.com
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Post by pulphack on Jul 3, 2013 5:35:09 GMT
Hi Rog
paypal'd now... I hate paypal, but because I'm an idiot. I always have to reset my password and then find that it's the one I already had BUT with a non-letter/numeral character on the end, which is the but I never remember until it's too late...
Anyway, looking forward to receiving FC!
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Post by pulphack on Jul 8, 2013 6:58:25 GMT
And receive it I did, just a day after! Now that's service. And well worth i, too. The odd thing is that I'm in the middle of packing, and it dropped through the door just as I'd found a copy of FC 1 that I didn't realise I had anymore, lodged into a large format p/b called, appropriately enough, Forgotten Horrors.
But there's nothing that can be forgotten aout FC 7 - it was a highly entertaining weekend's read away from packing cases.
The stand alone stories of length reminded me of an Amicus portmanteau, albeit a very bloody and nasty one. Mr Marsh gives us a very gory take on what village sport is really about with a streak of jet black humour; Penni Walker and Charles Galloway, who are new names to me, prvided very nasty but compelling tales, and Robert Mammone's story really is beautiful written - he has a great style, and I'd like to read more of his work. His evocation of atmosphere and mood are really superb.
Des is cryptic and Des-like. I like his writing, but it's been a while since I read any, and he seems to be getting more gnomic. Frustrating and fascinating... and why not? I think that's actually what I like about him.
Coming into novels part-way through is frustrating, but all the more so when they are of the quality of Sendings and The Death Tableaux. I noted that Rog mentioned the former reminded him of Norah Loft's The Devil's Own (aka The Witches) and I can see what he's getting at - the restrained tone and the sheer reasonableness of the narrator and his wife just inspire dread for what is to come without resorting to hyperbole. Very finely judged writing, and with a nicely placed and suitably subdued cliffhanger of a final eight paragraphs. As for Mr Herbertson... loads of arcane references, odd characters, and within an everyday milieu that makes them all the more eccentric. A good pulpy basis to the plot, with some proper writing on top of that. It's got everything that ticks my boxes and makes me wonder who the hell this kid Kennedy is and how she fits in...
It should be obvious that I found it highly entertaining, which is more than can be said of a lot of recent horror writing I've chanced across in the last few years (One Eye Grey excepted). Maybe that's because it seems to have a foot in the past - not in a negative way, but in taking those elements of the old that are still effective and bringing them into the twentyfirst century. Or something. Or maybe I just liked it, full stop.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jul 8, 2013 15:22:59 GMT
I think it's a top whack production really. The shorts are really good - very tight with no one in just to fill space. I also like the idea that it harks back to the pre-internet days when about the only way of getting a horror mag was in this kind of format.
Thanks for kind comments about The Death Tableaux. It was probably my best idea but unfortunately I think I was too clumsy a story teller all those years ago and what with rewrites it becomes really difficult to retain any objectivity. (ps Kennedy remains an enigma for quite some time)
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