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Post by andydecker on Sept 9, 2016 8:47:52 GMT
After browsing half a dozen links I still don't know what this is.  I would bet it is a novel, but I could be wrong. Weird. |
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Post by linbro on Sept 9, 2016 11:24:11 GMT
A couple more from Ramsey - 'The Dummies of Horror', from After the Queen, and 'Boiled Alive', from Boiled Alive.
Lincoln.
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Post by dem on Sept 9, 2016 14:49:15 GMT
A couple more from Ramsey - 'The Dummies of Horror', from After the Queen, and 'Boiled Alive', from Boiled Alive. Lincoln. references a shedload of Tubby Thackeray films including Tubby's Troublesome Trousers. I really must schedule a rematch. After browsing half a dozen links I still don't know what this is. I would bet it is a novel, but I could be wrong. Weird. Likewise. Irving S. Cobb - Mr. Lobel's Apoplexy: ( Sundry Accounts, 1922). Vida Monte, the famous silent screen vamp, dies shortly after completion of The She Demon's Doom. Should Lobel Masterfilms shelve the movie out of respect to their late superstar? ( Fishhead: The Darker Tales of Irving S. Cobb) Two threads, same subject, but never mind. Film Crew In Peril novels |
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Post by dem on Sept 9, 2016 20:35:09 GMT
 Max Plaisted
And then I noticed something else. Around her throat was a silvery, metallic necklace exactly like the one I’d seen on the Asiatic girl who had died on the beach!" It would be plain rude to run a film crews in peril thread with no mention of Vault legend Robert Leslie Bellem. Several of his 'Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective' adventures qualify, this pair being particularly attractive to horror fans. All you really need to know about Dan is that he's a wise-cracking, two-fisted Hollywood dick with a weakness for stacked blondes/ brunettes/ redheads and Vat 69. And he's always buried up to his neck in trouble. Monster's Malice: ( Dan Turner-Hollywood Detective, May, 1943). "As a result of his ability to terrify little children and morons he'd made a fortune of playing bogeyman roles for Paratone Pix before cutting loose to form his own company."Igor Stravinoff, horror star, stands to make a fortune from this new venture. His business partner, Maxie Mockermann, the famous cinema mogul, is a perfectionist who never yet backed a flop, and this werewolf movie is going to be huge. But lately, Igor's behaviour off set has been way south of unpredictable and wife Lanette is terrified that he's destined for the mad house, or worse - Sing Sing. Tonight's bestial assault on a poodle is further evidence of the hideous truth. Igor has been demoniacally possessed by his character .... Death's Bright Halo ( Spicy Detective, Oct. 1935). "She was wearing an evening gown of such daring décolletage that her perfect breasts were revealed almost completely. The sight of those creamy-white, smoothly-rounded hillocks of loveliness sent my heart bouncing around like a lot of loose rubber balls."Dan investigates the disappearance of five aspiring starlets and stumbles upon a white slavery operation. The captives are kept in check by means of the metallic collars padlocked around their necks. Just one blast from the hooded, garlic-breathed sadist's death ray machine will see their sweet heads scorched clean off their necks! Dan is initially reluctant to take the case but an eyeful of glamorous Lorna McFee reminds him of his duty. |
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Post by dem on Sept 10, 2016 9:39:30 GMT
 "Minore" (?) : ( Fantastic Monsters of the Films # 2, 1962). "The cool of the basement was a relief from the heat of the street, but with the cool came a chill at the memory of the first Karu Creighton movie Dell had seen as a boy, a revival of an early talkie, The Halfing. In it Creighton had portrayed a man who only had bones on one side of his body, the other side hanging limp and hideous, the flesh almost liquid."Don Dell, Struggling young actor, realises he needs that special something to get him noticed, so when he spots Karu Creighton's make-up kit in the window of an LA pawnshop, he simply has to have it! Trouble is, the proprietor takes his cheapskate offer as an insult and bars him from the premises. Dell impulsively brains him with a trumpet. The make-up kit is a dud. All the pots are empty. But wait .... there's a secret compartment containing a note to the effect that this bottle contains the miracle ingredient, gifted Creighton by an Indian Rubber man, which enabled him to mould his face into ever more horrifying contours like he was made of plasticine. Don gets busy applying the liquid that will make his fortune. Or dissolve him into a pool of slime. He should have read the small print. |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Sept 10, 2016 11:39:04 GMT
Fantastic Monsters of filmland # 2, 1962 I am a bit confused now. To begin with, I assume you mean FAMOUS Monsters of Filmland? But did they publish short stories? Even more confusingly, the only issue I ever bought of Famous Monsters had a comic in it that is very similar to your synopsis. (It was a reprint from Creepy or Eerie from the same publisher.) |
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Post by dem on Sept 10, 2016 11:57:00 GMT
Fantastic Monsters of filmland # 2, 1962 I am a bit confused now. To begin with, I assume you mean FAMOUS Monsters of Filmland? But did they publish short stories? Even more confusingly, the only issue I ever bought of Famous Monsters had a comic in it that is very similar to your synopsis. (It was a reprint from Creepy or Eerie from the same publisher.) Sorry, Jo Jo. It's Famous Monsters ... Goddamn it, I double-checked and I was right the first time. The magazine is titled Fantastic Monsters Of The Films, a blatant a rip off of Ackerman's Famous Monsters .... And yes, it is a short story. Robert Bloch had a reprint, Black Lotus, in the first issue. I think they stopped featuring fiction very early, though. |
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Post by ripper on Sept 11, 2016 9:24:49 GMT
I read Monsters Malice last night. I'm not sure if I have read a Dan Turner tale previously, but I thought this one was very enjoyable. Looking at it from 2016 it crossed my mind briefly that it was a parody of the then current 1930s/1940s detective fiction, but I don't think so. Perhaps it is just that dialogue like Dan spouts is so frowned upon nowadays that a modern reader would assume it could not have been written with any seriousness. Anyway, I liked it a lot and PulpGen has quite a few of Bellem's Dan Turner adventures, so I shall be sampling more, including the other one highlighted by Dem.
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Post by dem on Sept 11, 2016 12:53:15 GMT
I read Monsters Malice last night. I'm not sure if I have read a Dan Turner tale previously, but I thought this one was very enjoyable. Looking at it from 2016 it crossed my mind briefly that it was a parody of the then current 1930s/1940s detective fiction, but I don't think so. Perhaps it is just that dialogue like Dan spouts is so frowned upon nowadays that a modern reader would assume it could not have been written with any seriousness. Anyway, I liked it a lot and PulpGen has quite a few of Bellem's Dan Turner adventures, so I shall be sampling more, including the other one highlighted by Dem. If you've not done so already, you might like to try his outrageous I Am A Monster (Spicy Mystery Stories[/i], Jan. 1937) as featured on the Vault Advent Calendar for 2013. Of those I've read, it's my next favourite Bellem horror after the unrelentingly demented Labyrinth of Monsters ( Spicy Mystery Stories, Jan 1936), as reprinted in Tony Goodstone's The Pulps. As a rule - at least, from those sampled - the Dan Turner stories are saner than the above, which is not to suggest they are dull. A case in point: Beyond Justice: ( Spicy Detective Stories, Nov. 1935). As a favour to pal Ben Berkin, production manager at Cosmos studios, Turner reluctantly agrees to act as one of three judges of a beauty contest on the lot. The contestants are film extras, and the winner will be rewarded with a silver trophy and a movie contract. Disaster! Berkin dies in a motor accident en route to the studio but the show must go on. The girls parade in micro bikinis. Dan favours a Spanish beauty, Estrellita Souzan, but is outvoted and the prize goes instead to Wanda Wynne, a buxom blonde who had been carrying on with the late producer. Estrellita fumes that Berkin bribed the judges. As she and Wynne wobble offstage exchanging pleasantries, the blonde lets out a shriek and falls to the floor with a knife in her breast. While Turner struggles and fails to save Wanda's life, her rival hot foots it with the cup. Rarely can a case have appeared so open and shut - but there is far more to this one than meets the eye. Death on Location ( Dan Turner-Hollywood Detective, April, 1942). Another relatively standard, globes-fixated murder mystery. Peg Burleigh, leading lady, is stabbed in her bath while working on Desert Lust. |
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Post by andydecker on Sept 11, 2016 14:02:45 GMT
I guess I sound like a broken record, but I love the Turner illustrations. Thanks for sharing.
When yesterday I finally started reading Best New Horror 26, I stumbled about this story:
Richard Gavin - The Patter of Tiny Feet: Sam is a location scout for a tiny direct-to-video horrormovie company. He finds this old abondoned farmhouse which is just perfect for the movie Gnawers. But he shouldn't have visited the first floor.
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Post by ripper on Sept 12, 2016 8:41:26 GMT
I must have read 'I am a Monster' on the Vault calendar but can't remember it too well. I enjoyed 'Death's Bright Halo' as much as ''Monster Malice'. These Dan Turner stories are obviously intended to cater for male fantasies; every woman has the face and body of a model and Turner himself is hard-drinking, smokes like a chimney and is never without his gun. In 'Death's Bright Halo' Turner even carries a bottle of VAT 69 in his car. It's wonderfully un-PC, refreshingly so in our modern times.
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Post by dem on Sept 12, 2016 11:28:44 GMT
I guess I sound like a broken record, but I love the Turner illustrations. Thanks for sharing.
When yesterday I finally started reading Best New Horror 26, I stumbled about this story:
Richard Gavin - The Patter of Tiny Feet: Sam is a location scout for a tiny direct-to-video horrormovie company. He finds this old abondoned farmhouse which is just perfect for the movie Gnawers. But he shouldn't have visited the first floor.
Thanks, Andy. Glad to see #26 is out in paperback. Still very disappointed that one of the first things Little Brown did after buying out Constable-Robinson was cancel the series. Max Plaisted was a Spicy/ Hollywood Detective regular. From what I've seen of his work, big-eyed girls and really bloody weird monsters were his speciality. The equally prolific Jay McArdle also provided beautiful, distinctive interiors for the Spicy line. You'll find further examples of their work and detailed biographies at David Saunders' superb Field Guide To Wild American Pulp Artists |
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Post by andydecker on Sept 12, 2016 19:12:17 GMT
I bought the Ebook. As a paperback didn't materialize, I gave up on waiting. Seems it still didn't happen in the meantime. A pity.
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Post by dem on Sept 12, 2016 21:16:49 GMT
I bought the Ebook. As a paperback didn't materialize, I gave up on waiting. Seems it still didn't happen in the meantime. A pity. There was always the worry that would happen when P.S. got their hands on the series. Maybe they'll release it to coincide with the hardcover of Vol. 27 - assuming there is one? I must have read 'I am a Monster' on the Vault calendar but can't remember it too well. I enjoyed 'Death's Bright Halo' as much as ''Monster Malice'. These Dan Turner stories are obviously intended to cater for male fantasies; every woman has the face and body of a model and Turner himself is hard-drinking, smokes like a chimney and is never without his gun. In 'Death's Bright Halo' Turner even carries a bottle of VAT 69 in his car. It's wonderfully un-PC, refreshingly so in our modern times. There was also a regular comic strip, written by Bellem and drawn by Spicy lynch-pin Adolphe Barreaux, in Dan Turner - Hollywood Detective magazine. At least five of the complete adventures are reproduced on the Davy Crockett's Almanack blog. |
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Post by pulphack on Sept 13, 2016 4:24:39 GMT
A brief aside on Bellem - I think he was no ordinary purple prose merchant: he did this deliberately as part of a finely honed style that was intended to stand out. The great SJ Perelman was a fan and his piece 'Somewhere A Roscoe...' is described online as quoting Bellem and 'satirising' him, but if you actually read it then you see that Perelman is poking fun but is a confirmed fan as he recognises and admires a deliberate use of language. Not surprising, seeing as he was such a deft wordsmith himself. Bellem is an acquired taste these days, perhaps, but compared to a cheese merchant like E Phillips Oppenheim - who was huge back in the day but forgotten now - it's easy to see craft and skill in Bellem as opposed to carelessness and hypperbole in Oppenheim.
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I would bet it is a novel, but I could be wrong. Weird.
