Zines for every occasion .... & Ephemera

[Jojo Lapin X]

Jun 27, 2023 6:06:38 GMT peedeel said:

The term A B in the fetish scene refers to Adult Baby or so I'm reliably informed.  

Of course! Thanks.

[andydecker]

Black Tape for a Blue Girl is a memorable title for a catalogue. Well done.

I like the instructions on the invitation for Submission in September (also a good title) for the dress code. Absolutley no cameras! Simpler times.

[Swampirella]

Jun 27, 2023 6:06:38 GMT peedeel said:

The term A B in the fetish scene refers to Adult Baby or so I'm reliably informed.  

This site is so educational, in so many ways!

[dem]

Contemporary ephemera for a change, very old school, pinned to noticeboard in Sainsbury's, Whitechapel. Too bad I didn't see it this time last week. I hope it was a success and that there will be another one.

[dem]

Paul Duncan [ed] - British Association of Paperback Collectors Newsletter #11 (Oct. 1994)

BADC Business
Future BAPC Events
Catalogues Recently Received
Paul Duncan's Ten of the Best
Steve Holland - Vic Norwood: Wandering Star
Ferencz Puskas - But I Know What I Like
Press Reviews of Steve Holland's The Mushroom Jungle
Steve Chibnall - Cherchez Le Livre
Roland Gigg - An Alien in New York
Simon Marsh-Devine - ABC of British Cover Art: Part 2. Gordon C. Davis - John Strickland Goodall
Ray Steptoe - Sam 'Peff' Peffer: Arrow 1961-4
Guy N. Smith [on book collecting and selling]
Guy N. Smith Horror/ Thriller Bibliography
Erwin Berlin - The Damaged Detective
Auction
Members

Includes Steve Holland on Scunthorpe-born genre-hopping pulp hack Vic 'Night of the Comet' Norwood, who produced in excess of 330 novels — western, crime, gangster, jungle, sleaze, SF — under at least 26 pen-names from 1946 to his death in 1983, even fitting in the occasional non-fiction title; Guy N. Smith on his life-long interest in boys story papers, paperbacks and comics, his Black Hill collectors catalogues, wife Jean's JMS vintage paperbacks, and Graveyard Rendezvous fanzine. Personal favourite article is Simon Marsh-Devine's A-Z of British Cover Art including entries on sometime John Spencer/ Badger books artists H. L. Fox, 'Dimmock,' Gerald Facey, and Roy Embleton. Also, book hunting in Paris and New York, Erwin Berlin on the hard-boiled detective's unique ability to shake off the occasional castration to carry on skirt-chasing much as before, and a snapshot of the editor's current all-time favourite reads.

[dem]

Dave Reeder [ed] - BFS Bulletin: Vol 7/2, May-June 1979

Emmanuel

Books Received

Films

Book News

Karen Young - Fanzine Feature: Spang Blah #18, Fantasy Newsletter #14, Dorothy L. Sayers Society Bulletin #22, Noumenon #29/30, Fantasiae #72, Fantasy Media #2, and BFS Bulletin Vol 7/1.

Dave Reeder, Claire Anderson, Sue Reeder, John Scott, & Elaine Turner, Peter Coleman - Book Reviews.

Jessica Yates - Celtic Fantasy; A review of Recent Titles

Ken Kessler - Tenner

16 pages. Highlight of the book news from a Vault perspective, "Nel Will be bringing out James Herbert's sequel to THE RATS called LAIR in July, 95p." Film round-up, "20th C. Fox's ALIEN looks like beating all records set by STAR WARS. Should open here in Autumn .... Harlech TV are making 24 ½ hour shows of Algernon Blackwood's John Silence .... A novelisation of John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN to be published by Bantam, in October of course." Books reviewed, most enthusiastically so, are Stephen King's The Stand ("Miss-at-your-peril-book-of-the-decade"), Robert Bloch's Strange Eons ("Highly recommended"), Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber ("Recommended wholeheartedly"), The Watership Down Picture Book, Joan Wyatt's A Middle Earth Album ("Cautiously recommended"), Pamela Sargent [ed.]'s More Women of Wonder("Recommended"), Moyra Caldecott's The Tall Stones (" .... interesting reading, but is, sadly, ill-served by the inept and unskilled cover"), Diana Wynne Jones The Spellcoats, Gil Kane & Ron Goulart's Star Hawks, Gerald W. Page & Hank Reinhardt [eds.], Heroic Fantasy, and James Branch Cabell's Jurgen and A High Place.

Ken Kessler chooses his anthology, cover art, repackage, UK edition, Further volume(s), rewrite, reprint, tie-in, REH, and posthumous novel of the month, the latter John Wyndham's Web. "In his inimitable style, the Triffids man has turned what could have been a Guy N.Smith plot into an intelligent, often exciting disaster novel that will probably be lumbered with an appalling jacket when it reaches paperback. Buy now, before it's turned into a JAWS clone." Kessler's REH Book of the month is the Glenn Lord edited The Howard Collector; "Now this is more like it: 267 pages of REH rarities, gems from the pages of the now-defunct HOWARD COLLECTOR, the kind of stuff we REH freaks have been lusting after for years. Made up of fragments of REH's work, letters, articles, poems, etc, this book is a poor man's LAST CELT. Pray that Ace lets Lord carry on."

Bought for 50p from Stephen Jones at Sundays Paperback & Pulp Fair. Packet also includes bittersweet ephemera.

[dem]

John Connelly & Brian J. Showers [introduction] - Dublin Ghost Story Festival, Grand Lodge of Ireland, 19-21 Aug. 2016

Back cover Brian Coldrick: Front Alisdair Wood

John Connelly & Brian J. Showers - Fáilte: Welcome

Paul Kane, Brian Coldrick, Robert Lloyd Parry, Marie O'Regan, Sarah Pinborough, Adam Nevill, Mara McHugh, Angela Slatter, David Mitchell, John Connelly, Lynda E. Rucker, John Reppion, A. K. Benedict - Our Favourite Ghost Stories

Schedule of Events

A Brief Chronology of Irish Fantasy literature

Special Thanks

10 card pages. Guest of honour, Adam Nevill, MC, John Connelly. The favourite ghost stories of the guest speakers, organisers and programme contributors are Charles Dickens 'The Signal-man' and 'A Christmas Carol'; MR James' 'Canon Alberic's Scrapbook', 'Rats' and 'Wailing Well'; Oliver Onions' 'The Beckoning Fair One'; Q's 'A Pair of Hands'; Lafcadio Hearn's version of 'The Boy Who Drew Cats'; Elizabeth Hand's 'Wylding Hall'; John Connelly's 'A Dream of Winter'; David Mitchell's 'Slade House,' and Emily Carroll's graphic novel, 'His Face All Red. ' The chronology begins with the birth of Jonathan Swift on 30 November 1667 and ends with the death of Mervyn Wall on 19 May 1997.

[dem]

Vanessa Heron [ed.] - Intentions: Published by The Oscar Wilde Society #124 (Feb. 2023)

"Hell is paved with good Intentions
but Heaven is roofed with the best." - Max Beerbohm

Dates for your Diary: A Wilde West End Walk
Donald Mead - Joan Winchell: Our new Oscar Wilde Society patron
Paul Corfield Godfrey - Observations on The Nightingale and the Rose
Michael Campbell - Finding Oscar in the Scrubs
Darcy Sullivan - Oscar Wilde at the Neo-Victorian Decadence Conference
Robert Whelan - Astonish Me!
Wilde Wit Competition
Digital Membership
Books

Classy (how could it be anything but?) 28-page illustrated newsletter published quarterly by the Oscar Wilde Society. Giles Brandreth is Hon. President, and Stephen Fry among the patrons. The May 2022 issue devotes several pages to the Aesthetic Teapot (aka the Patience teapot) created by Henry Crewe and James Hadley for the Royal Worcester Porcelain Company as "part of a campaign of mockery of aestheticism that reached its peak with the Gilbert and Sullivan opera Patience in 1881." I know this because some kind soul donated four issues to the Wapping Little Free Library overnight.

[helrunar]

What a fabulous find. Last Saturday I donated some books to three different Little Free Libraries just a few blocks from my abode. The donations included some Michael Moorcock and Asimov paperbacks.

Hel.

[andydecker]

Great find. That this is still done in print in this day and age is remarkable.

I wonder what Oscar Wilde (or the Arts and Crafts movement) would have said to our contemporary book industry and their cover artwork.

[dem]

Sept 5, 2023 3:01:58 GMT helrunar said:

What a fabulous find. Last Saturday I donated some books to three different Little Free Libraries just a few blocks from my abode. The donations included some Michael Moorcock and Asimov paperbacks.

Hel.

Sept 5, 2023 8:18:54 GMT andydecker said:

Great find. That this is still done in print in this day and age is remarkable.

I wonder what Oscar Wilde (or the Arts and Crafts movement) would have said to our contemporary book industry and their cover artwork.

It genuinely makes me happy to know that contributors to this board support their local Little Free Libraries. The one I use, a wooden box just about held together by duct tape, dirt and will power, is coming up for its eighth anniversary next month.

Here's another from the Oscar Wilde Society. I guess the equivalent publication in the supernatural fiction genre would be Ghosts & Scholars.


Vanessa Heron [ed.] - Intentions: Published by The Oscar Wilde Society #121 (May 2022)

"Hell is paved with good Intentions
but Heaven is roofed with the best." - Max Beerbohm

Dates for your Diary: Summer Lunch/ In Search of a Teapot: An Outing to the Higgins Gallery in Bedford, Sat. 18 June 2022
Anne Anderson - Who Designed the Aesthetic/ Patience teapot
Emma Goldman - Vengeance: The Demise of Oscar Wilde
Paul Doust & Vanessa Heron - Being Lady Bracknell
Rob Marland - Travels with Oscar in Switzerland
Vanessa Heron - Reflections of Oscar Wilde by Andrew Logan
John Merrigan - Riley Relives the Life of Oscar at Wilde's House in Tite Street
Darcy Sullivan - Wilde Wit Competition
Oscar Wilde: The Complete Interviews

[dem]

Dave Close [ed] - Chronicles #13 (London Vampyre Group, n.d., 2000)

78 pages, includes Michael Goss on London's alleged subterranean community (sewer pigs, giant rats, tramp-eating troglodytes, Death Line refugees, etc); Klif Fuller on The Donner Party, Sawney Beane, and The True Story of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street Part II, the latter acknowledging Peter Haining's Sweeney Todd "from which this article has borrowed heavily."; Whiskey Bell's An Exploration of the Cultural meaning of Vampire Film Culture from Nosferatu to the Present (8 pages including substantial bibliography); the excellent Mick Smith on a four day Live Role Play Convention at Spondon, Derbyshire, featuring Knights, Elves, Goblins, Gothic-ish Tarantula's, Xena wannabees and a bloke dress as a barrel; Melanie A. Metcalfe on Vampire Bats - "the truth is stranger than fiction"; Jenni Crisp on the meaning of Easter in Christian and Pagan traditions (I guess the win an easter egg competition has closed by now); Dean Aaron Geoghegan on Blood Transfusions; the opening instalment of "Northern" Dave's guide to Celtic stuff; plus book, film, music — The Cure's Bloodflowers — and vamp/ goth fanzine reviews.

And for the ephemera collection:

[dem]

The ad for Margaret L. Carter's classy vampire fiction mag is from 1992. The others are circa 1995-6. Darkhouse productions produced the slick if, unfortunately for our purposes, overly H***gate V*mp*re fixated Glamgoria magazine and related videos. Recently found the National Viewers & Listeners card tucked inside my copy of Who Does Mary Whitehouse Think She Is?

[andydecker]

Great stuff. The era of Elaine Bergstrom, Tanya Huff and Suzy McKee Charnas. This takes one back. Never read the last one, but I quite liked Huff and Bergstrom. Even translated one of Bergstrom's early Ravenloft novels which was astoundingly good. (Well, in 1995 at least. Don't know what I would think today.) Hm, maybe something to post.

Mary Whitehouse. :-) What could she have achieved with the internet? Now that's a scary thought.

[helrunar]

Great scans. I'd have enjoyed seeing Dee Monique's "Kamp Vamp" act if she performed in nightclubs of a certain genre.

Mary Whitehouse, bane of Dr Who fans back in the Tom Baker era. But she was no match for the Sisterhood of Karn! Interesting to see.

cheers, Hel.