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Post by dem on May 17, 2024 10:27:09 GMT
Unfortunately I don't have a complete issue of a Tilling Society Newsletter, just four intriguing ghost-related pages from issue #16, dated February 1991. The lengthy Lamb House: Ghosts & Poltergeists examines, and find's wanting, Jack Adrian's disdainful claim that EFB didn't really believe in ghosts and only talked and wrote about them as though he did for dramatic effect. R.H. Benson and an experiment in White Magic recalls how Rev. Hugh Benson, under the dubious guidance of F. W. 'Baron Corvo' Rolfe, successfully raised the ghost of a white knight on horseback in his own room. Benson's Witch-Ball "An anonymous correspondent to the Cambridge Evening News (8/3/1940) wrote with his personal memories of EFB, and he includes the following: "A dark blue 'witch ball' I remember [in EFB's Brompton Square upstairs sitting-room], which he gaily asserted was 'really genuine' and looked at with affection as it hung by the hearth catching the lustre of the firelight ... " So Benson actually owned the witch-ball (exactly like an outsize glass Christmas tree bauble) which inspired his ghost-story of the same name, published in THE FLINT KNIFE, but now out-of-print." Also a report on the The 1990 Tilling Society Gathering which began with a visit to Benson's grave and tree planting in Rye churchyard to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his death before lunch at the George Hotel, a reading of the then recently rediscovered Miss Mapp story, Desirable Residences, and a performance by Hastings dance band, the Ted Crouch Trio. The spirit of the original Tilling Society (1982-2006) lives on as Friends of Tilling |
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Post by andydecker on May 17, 2024 14:22:06 GMT
Has anyone ever read one of the Mapp & Lucia novels? I was tempted to browse, on the other hand I drew the line at McDowell's Jack & Susan, and I really can't say if I have the stamina to dive into such a forgotten classic. |
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Post by dem on May 17, 2024 18:16:43 GMT
Has anyone ever read one of the Mapp & Lucia novels? I was tempted to browse, on the other hand I drew the line at McDowell's Jack & Susan, and I really can't say if I have the stamina to dive into such a forgotten classic. I haven't, and for the same reason. Daren't even sample the aforementioned Desirable Residences in case it snares me. From the same folder, a Dark Dreams & Co. flyer from the late Jeff Dempsey.  Alan Hunter |
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Post by jamesdoig on May 17, 2024 22:04:30 GMT
Latest issue of Biblio-Curiosa courtesy of Chris Mikul, The Other Alice issue:  Contents Oedipus in Disneyland by Hercules Molloy A New Alice in the Old Wonderland by Anna M. Richards In Search of Alice by Guy Bousfield More 'Alice' by Yates Wilson Alice VersaryThe Campaign Alice by Jim Quinn Alice in Tarland by Debbie Harman The Agony of Lewis CarrollJack the Ripper: Light-hearted Fiend by Richard Wallace Night of the Jabberwock by Fredric Brown Blue Alice by Jackson Short Through a Looking Glass Darkly by Jake Fior |
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Post by helrunar on May 17, 2024 22:12:39 GMT
That really looks quite intriguing. Thanks James.
cheers, Hel.
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Post by jamesdoig on May 22, 2024 2:29:09 GMT
Myrddin No. 3 (March 1976), dedicated to the 1st World Fantasy convention. Guess the faces on the cover:   Included a plastic record in an envelope at the back with the speeches of Robert Bloch and Frank Belknap Long  |
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Post by andydecker on May 22, 2024 8:34:22 GMT
Myrddin No. 3 (March 1976), dedicated to the 1st World Fantasy convention. Guess the faces on the cover: This is difficult. I guess 1 is Bloch. 2 is de Camp, 3 is Lin Carter. 4+5 no clue. 6 could be Leiber and 7 again no idea. |
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Post by helrunar on May 22, 2024 13:24:07 GMT
5 looks like Lester del Rey.
Worth observing that if there are any women on that cover, I can't see them.
Best, Steve
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Post by andydecker on May 22, 2024 16:03:46 GMT
Yeah, I also at first thought 5 is del Rey. But this can only be a much older photo than the 70s.
Not much woman there at the time. Betsy Wollheim and Judy-Lynn del Rey held positions high above the writers and their the fans, Tiptree's pseudonym still was a secret, Leigh Brackett was in Hollywood, Le Guin was surely above the fan crowd, and DAW's woman writer's offensive in the fantasy field, Lee, Cherryh, Zimmer-Bradley, was just getting started. I seriously think that women were smarter than toiling in the then struggling sf market, working in many other, often more accomplished fields. |
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Post by dem on May 22, 2024 17:59:35 GMT
I think 5 is Frank Belknap Long. Other than Bloch, no idea. Doubt there were many women represented at the days Brit equivalent, either.
Does the flexidisc still play, James (assuming you've something to play it on)?
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on May 22, 2024 18:16:19 GMT
I think 5 is Frank Belknap Long. The man of a thousand faces! |
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Post by jamesdoig on May 22, 2024 20:59:50 GMT
I'm pretty sure 7 is Manly Wade Wellman.
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Post by ramseycampbell on May 23, 2024 12:09:40 GMT
Le Guin was surely above the fan crowd... Where do you get that idea? I recall Jenny's father being on a convention panel with her, for instance. Both smoked pipes. |
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Post by ramseycampbell on May 23, 2024 12:15:50 GMT
1, Bob Bloch. 2, De Camp. 3, Lin Carter. 4, H. Warner Munn. 5, Frank Long. 6, Fritz Leiber. 7, Manly Wellman. I met them all there and became friends with most.
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Post by andydecker on May 23, 2024 17:45:11 GMT
Le Guin was surely above the fan crowd... Where do you get that idea? I recall Jenny's father being on a convention panel with her, for instance. Both smoked pipes. I phrased this poorly, I guess. I seem to remember reading somewhere that Le Guin – back then in the mid-seventies, the time of the first Fantasy Convention – identified herself more with science fiction, being a Hugo winner, and not especially with the fantasy field, as her Earthsea stories were aimed at first at the YA market. |
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