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Post by andydecker on Jan 17, 2010 13:08:28 GMT
For those who are interested: The Phantom of Pulp has an interesting entry about a horror magazine called The Scream Factory on its blog. I never heard about this, it was published in the late 80s. Here is the link: phantomofpulp.blogspot.com/2010/01/scream-factory.htmlThis is an interesting blog, btw, but one of those NSFW things. Well-written reviews of old and new horror novels and movies stand side by side but well-written entrys about classic porn or modern horror movies. It is mostly worth a look.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 11, 2014 9:28:55 GMT
Bob Morrish, Peter Enfantino & John Scoleri (eds.) - Scream Factory # 16 (Deadline Press, Winter 1995/96) Stacy Drum Bob Morrish - Editorial Letters to The Factory Marshall Probe - TSF Rumors n’ Ruminations
William D. Gagliani - Yeti Yarns, Sasquatch Stories. Bigfoot in fantasy fiction. Lawrence McCallum - Abominable Creatures: Yeti & Sasquatch films Bill Congreve, Sean McMullen & Steve Paulsen - The Hunt for Australian Horror Robert Hood - Killer Koalas. Aus horror cinema. Darrell Schweitzer - TSF BiblioFile: Michael Shea Michael Shea - Upscale (short story) Shawn Danowski - Things That Go Bump on the Air: Part 4 of 6. Old Time Radio Horror. Mike Ashley - Shepherds of Shadow: Donald A. Wollheim's anthologies. Stefan Dziemianowicz · The Horror Pulpit: Donald A. Wollheim in the pulps. Don D’Ammassa - Overlook Library. Vampires & Co. Gary Lovisi - Collecting Horror Paperbacks Sam Moskowitz - Return to Sauk City: Part 2 of 2 (Remembering August W. Derleth) Tom Deja - Deja’s Domicile of Dread Lawrence McCallum - The Late Show Randall D. Larson - The Sounds of Horror: Part 3 of 4 Peter Enfantino - Fabulous Magazines of Monsterland William Schoell - Hidden Horrors: "The horrific Hardy Boys") Sean Farrell - Once Is Not Enough. The Mammoth anthology series. Bob Morrish - What the hell ever happened to... Gerald Page? Michael R. Meyers - Horror Elements in the Fiction of H. Rider Haggard Paul A. Roales - Ayesha and Cthluhu Bob Morrish - Small Press Box The Refearence ShelfIn truth, Scream Factory would be equally at home in our bibliographical aids section. Issue 16 kicks off with seven pages on William D. Gagliani on Sasquatch/ Bigfoot/ Yeti horror & supernatural fiction - checklist soon to be plundered by a Vault near you - before bedding down into a mini-antipodean special. The lion's share of the multi-authored Hunt for Australian Horror Fiction is devoted to post-1983 talents - Terry Dowling, Veronica, Rick Kennett, and powerhouse combo John Brosman and LeRoy Kettle are well served). Although the piece references Guy Boothby, Barbara Baynton, and the 1978 collection Australian Stories of Horror & Suspense from the Early Days, it gives the impression that there really wasn't much for Aussies to get excited about on the home front until Horowitz "scientific thrillers" of the 'fiftiies. Thanks to the efforts of James Doig & Graeme Flannagan, we know better! Typically, Robert Hood's splendid Killer Koala's, "an overview of Australian and New Zealand horror films" is far more exhaustive. Elsewhere, Mike Ashley turns his all-seeing bibliographers eye to the SF & supernatural horror anthologies of Donald A Wollheim. Sean Farrell tackles eight (then) recently published Robinson Mammoth anthologies, his verdict: Mike Ashley's Best Short Horror Novel selection is ruined by typos, Richard Dalby's two-volume Ghost Stories is strictly for fans of same, but Stephen Jones' Frankenstein, Terror, Vampires, Zombies and Werewolves all hit the mark. To cap it all, Bob Morrish exhumes Gerald W. Page for a career overview taking in his editorships of Witchcraft & Sorcery and Years Best Horror. Issue #14 a mummy special, is likewise excellent. With grateful thanks to Justin Fanatic
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Post by dem bones on Nov 8, 2014 8:02:03 GMT
Bob Morrish, Peter Enfantino & John Scoleri (eds.) - Scream Factory # 13 (Deadline Press, Spring 1994) Stacy Drum Bob Morrish - Editorial Letters to The Factory Marshall Probe - TSF Rumors n’ Ruminations
Brian Stableford - Horror in Science Fiction Novels Through 1960 Ed Gorman - They’s Comin’! They’s Comin’! The Aliens Is Comin’! Rob Latham - Inside-Outside: Horror in SF Novels, 1960 to the Present Stefan Dziemianowicz - Weird Science: A Survey of Weird Scientific Stories in the Horror Pulps Everett F. Bleiler - Fantasy, Horror...and Sex: The Early Stories of C.L. Moore Mike Ashley - Dark Side of Light: A Survey of SF/Horror Hybrids in Anthologies from Poe to King Ken Hougton - Vaster than Genres and More Prolix: The Death of Horror and Subsummation of Science Fiction, an Unapologetically Biased Perspective of SF/Horror Short Fiction, 1960-Present Jim Emerson - Exploring the Infinite with Sam Moskowitz Bob Morrish - What the hell ever happened to... Don Glut? Thomas Deja - TSF BiblioFile featuring Tom Monteleone Thomas F. Monteleone - The Mechanical Boy (short story, reprinted from Roy Torgeson (ed.) Chrysalis 10, Doubleday, 1983) Kevin Lindenmuth - TV Terrors: Television Spawn Peter Enfantino & John Scoleri - In Space No One Can Hear You Scream “Homage”: The Forefathers of Alien Bob Morrish - [Jerome] Bixby! The Man from Behind the Film: It! The Terror from Beyond Space Bob Morrish - A Selective Science Fiction/Horror Filmography J. T. Moore - Once Is Not Enough: A Survey of Horror Series, Featuring: Alien, in Film and Fiction Lawrence McCallum - The Late Show Don D’Ammassa - Overlook Library Tom Deja - Deja’s Domicile of Dread Thomas Deja - Lasers Ripped My Flesh: Dark Science Fiction in the Comics Bob Morrish - Small Press Box What an astonishing contributors list! As should be obvious, this is a Sci-horror special - the 'special' is warranted, not least for Brian Stableford and Rob Lathan's surveys of the macabre in SF novels (relax, am sure to regurgitate them wholesale in a future dem "ground-breaking article"), many of which has since been raved about on here, and Mike Ashley's "survey of SF/horror hybrids in anthologies from Poe to King." Again, Mr. Ashley cites several titles familiar to Vault including Vic Ghidalia's Nightmare Garden, Michel Parry's Roots Of Evil, Donald A. Wollheim's Terror In A Modern Vein, R. Chetwynd-Hayes' Tales Of Terror From Outer Space, Peter Haining's The Freak Show, Phil Strong's The Other Worlds, and Groff Conklin's The Supernatural Reader[/i]. A new one on me if not you is the David Gerrold edited Alternities (Dell, 1974). "This was intended as a forum for bringing fan back into SF, but it did rather the opposite. Most of the stories are bitter and twisted, the most extreme being Arthur Bryon Cover's playlet A Gross Love Story about necrophilia." Anyone read it? Bob Morrish's regular "What the Hell ever happened to ..." column is another highlight. This time Mr. Morrish exhumes Don Glut to find him undead and on the very best form as he guides us through his myriad careers - he's been a novelist, editor (his first job was with something called Modern Monsters), dinosaur hunter, v*mp*re researcher, bass player and occasional organist in psychedelic warriors Penny Arkade (produced by Mike Nesbitt of The Monkees), and more; in the early 'seventies he even had a stint inventing interviews with Michael Jackson and David Cassidy for such top teeny-bopper mags as Tiger Beat and .... Right On!. Quite apart from his reminiscences on the lovely New Adventures of Frankenstein series, Mr. Glut provides a few snippets on his first book sales, Freakout on Sunset Strip (as by 'Mick Rogers,' Greenleaf, 1967. "Fags, Freaks And The Famous Turn The Street Into A Hippie Hell"), and the 'Peter Saxon'-attributed Brother Blood ("I wrote this novel in the late 'sixties or so, that was published in .... Belgium or Denmark .... I used my various pen names as the bylines for the diary and journal entries. And I literally killed off a bunch of my pen names in that novel, names like "Rod Richmond" and 'Bradley D. Thorne'.").
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Post by dem bones on Aug 30, 2017 20:39:31 GMT
Bob Morrish, Peter Enfantino & John Scoleri [eds.] - Scream Factory #15: Werewolf special ( Autumn, 1994) Paul Sonju Features
"She Bequeathed Them Her Claws...”— Laurence Bush looks at the werewolf in literature up to 1940. Lycanthropic Literature — an overview of the best modem were-wolf novels by John Brower The Rest Of The Pack — A mini-guide to lesser known werewolf novels by Don D'Ammassa Going Through Changes — Scott Urban looks at contemporary short werewolf fiction TSP Bibliofile: Steve Rasnlc Tem & Melanie Tem— an interview and checklist "More Than Should Be Asked”— fiction by Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie Tem Werewolves In Legend & Lore — twin articles on werewolves in folklore, by Basil Copper and Robert Dunbar Men into Wolves — a chronological look at werewolf films by Lawrence McCallum Four-Colored & Furry — Peter Enfantino takes a snort of werewolf-oriented comics Derleth's Lament To Love - Sam Moskowitz on the life of Derleth Things That Go Bump On The Air - part 3 of Shawn Danowski’s 6-part series on old-time radio horror
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Letters To The Factory TSF Rumors ‘n’ Ruminations by Marshall Probe The Horror Pulpit — Stefan Dziemianowicz on pulp werewolves TV Terrors by Kevin Lindenmuth What The Hell Ever Happened To...? by Bob Morrish The Late Show by Lawrence McCallum Once ls Not Enough — Scott Urban on Cheri Scotch’s werewolf series OverLook Library — Don D’Amassa on Stallman’s [Beast trilogy Deja’s Domicile Of Dread—Tom Deja on shapechangers Shepherds Of Shadow — Mike Ashley on anthologist Peter Haining Hidden Horrors by William Schoell Bookshelves Of Blood by John Scoleri Small Press Box by Bob Morrish Reviews Brian J. Frost makes such a thorough job of cataloguing lycanthrope fiction in his The Essential Guide To Werewolf Literature as to leave very little for others to unearth. Not that it should stop any of us trying and Don D'Ammassa's The Rest Of The Pack comes up with several new interesting/ terrible-sounding contemporary titles. Stefan Dziemianowicz is always a top read, and his article on werewolves in the weird pulps is a stand-out in another exceptional issue. Some of you will be familiar with (much of) Mike Ashley's overview of Peter Haining career as serial anthologist from Paperback Fanatic 6 where it appeared in abridged form as Peter Haining's Web of Terror. This, the original article, continues way past Justin's 1979 ceiling to continue the story through to Peter's then most recently published selection, The Television Late Night Omnibus. Mike acknowledges that Peter maybe played fast and loose with his " facts" sometimes (he made the occasional honest mistake too), but so massive a contribution to macabre fiction more than compensates, and besides, said "faults" give his critics something to moan about. "In his hundred or more collections he will have presented to readers a greater proportion of obscure stories than any other anthologist, and certainly in the '60's and early '70's did the greatest single-handed job of reviving interest in the horror short story, and re-establishing a credibility for the horror anthology." Many of you will also be on terms with Haining's three-volume "People" series - The Midnight People/ The Evil People/ The Unspeakable People - for Leslie Frewin (as revived in paperback by the legendary Everest books the following decade. Mike writes: "There was a fourth volume scheduled, The Infamous People, but the publisher went bust before it could be published." It's just a notion, have no evidence to support it, but I wonder if he recycled the material secured for the doomed project as Tales From The Rogue's Gallery which bears a marked similarity to the earlier books?
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Post by Michael Connolly on Feb 3, 2020 13:15:37 GMT
Can anyone sell me a copy of The Scream Factory # 17? The only copies I can locate are from America and the postage costs alone are exorbitant.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Feb 4, 2020 15:33:53 GMT
Can anyone sell me a copy of The Scream Factory # 17? The only copies I can locate are from America and the postage costs alone are exorbitant. I've just bitten the bullet to order Scream Factory # 17 from Abebooks. This is the contents page. The first five articles and a column from well-known writers and editors constitute a history of British horror fiction. I don't give a damn for the column on Brian Lumley. He's a hack.
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Post by andydecker on Feb 4, 2020 15:48:18 GMT
When I read yesterday the new post on Barebones I saw an ad for "The Best of Scream Factory". I never knew this publication, but according to your scan it was very professional.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Feb 4, 2020 15:49:23 GMT
Can anyone sell me a copy of The Scream Factory # 17? The only copies I can locate are from America and the postage costs alone are exorbitant. I've just bitten the bullet to order Scream Factory # 17 from Abebooks. This is the contents page. The first five articles and a column from well-known writers and editors constitute a history of British horror fiction. I don't give a damn for the column on Brian Lumley. He's a hack! Have I offended anyone?
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Post by andydecker on Feb 4, 2020 17:23:48 GMT
No harm done. I used to be a big Lumley fan. Nowadays ... not really.
I collected the Necroscope series, but stopped reading it when the books became more fantasy - sometimes I still look at The Last Aerie and wonder why I thought I could read 800 pages of this vampire soap -and ever longer. Not to mention the developing stylistic ticks of the writer which made some books unreadable, as far as I am concerned.
But his Lovecraft stuff is too pulpy and silly for me today - if this makes any sense. Derleth with DC Comics Universe sensibility. Nuclear bombs against some Cthulhu monsters? Good grief. This isn't horror, this is Star Trek vs The Avengers or some such nonsense. I detest those mash-ups. He is a hack at times, no argument there. Still he has my respect. As any writer who starts so late in the game and manages to sell so many books.
But I still have a soft spot for the early Titus Crow. Until it went off the rails.
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Post by helrunar on Feb 4, 2020 18:35:07 GMT
I have a really vague memory of reading something by Brian Lumley called The Burrowers Beneath (if I am recalling the title correctly... I can't be bothered to check google). It was a DAW paperback and I read it circa 1974 or 75, I would think. I enjoyed it, but didn't make any effort to read anything else by him.
Horror-fantasy has just gotten so ridiculous and overplayed these days. There are some good writers who do it well but they don't play up on all these tiresome themes that are milked by all these big-box, big marquee films with their videogames and merch tie-ins. Those all seem to cycle through the same 3 narratives and same 5 characters endlessly.
I hope we can all agree that this should be a place where we can discuss our honest opinions. One of the "tropes" I dislike the most about the internet now is this idea that I'm somehow attacking you if I don't like the same stuff you do.
cheers, Steve
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Feb 4, 2020 19:08:59 GMT
I hope we can all agree that this should be a place where we can discuss our honest opinions. One of the "tropes" I dislike the most about the internet now is this idea that I'm somehow attacking you if I don't like the same stuff you do. Ok, cool! Gloves off, then.
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Post by jamesdoig on Feb 4, 2020 19:30:48 GMT
There's a Best of Scream Factory available from Am*z*n: www.amazon.com/Best-Scream-Factory-Peter-Enfantino/dp/1670372596/ Jeff Popple brought a copy along to lunch yesterday, and it's a large format, 600+ page soft cover - very nice indeed! In addition to the history of British horror, there's an issue on Aus horror fiction/cinema etc.
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Post by andydecker on Feb 4, 2020 19:39:56 GMT
I have a really vague memory of reading something by Brian Lumley called The Burrowers Beneath (if I am recalling the title correctly... I can't be bothered to check google). It was a DAW paperback and I read it circa 1974 or 75, I would think. I enjoyed it, but didn't make any effort to read anything else by him. Horror-fantasy has just gotten so ridiculous and overplayed these days. There are some good writers who do it well but they don't play up on all these tiresome themes that are milked by all these big-box, big marquee films with their videogames and merch tie-ins. Those all seem to cycle through the same 3 narratives and same 5 characters endlessly. Sounds about right. The Burrowers Beneath is the first Crow from 1974. It is the curse of everything post-modern. I guess innovation is not dead, but seriously ill. If as a writer you think more about tropes and construction than about characterisation or ideas your work will never reach new heights. If you can describe your work with the tag "xxx meets xxx" as in "SAW meets Star Wars" you are not trying something different. :-) But I fear we would not be much different if we would have grown up with this deluge of empty CGI extravaganzas and videogames.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Feb 4, 2020 19:46:21 GMT
If you can describe your work with the tag "xxx meets xxx" as in "SAW meets Star Wars" you are not trying something different. :-) I beg to differ! I want to see that. On a point of rhetoric, I also feel your "emoticon" somewhat undermines your argument.
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Post by andydecker on Feb 4, 2020 19:53:19 GMT
If you can describe your work with the tag "xxx meets xxx" as in "SAW meets Star Wars" you are not trying something different. :-) I beg to differ! I want to see that. On a point of rhetoric, I also feel your "emoticon" somewhat undermines your argument. You could be right.
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