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Post by dem bones on Mar 11, 2015 20:40:06 GMT
Rosemary Pardoe (ed.) - Ghosts & Scholars 17 (Haunted Library, 1994)  Douglas Waters ( A View From A Hill) Fiction: Terry Lamsley - Blade and Bone
John Alfred Taylor - The Ha-Ha
D. F. Lewis - Shaped Like a Snake
William I. I. Read - John Humphreys ContinuedNon-fiction Mary Butts - The Art of Montague James (London Mercury, Feb. 1934)
Richard Dalby - Eleanor Scott
Rosemary Pardoe - Comment
Rosemary Pardoe, David Rowlands, & John Alfred Taylor - "A View From A Hill"
Jamesian News Snippets
Letters Peter B. Freshwater, Robert Price, Martin Byrom, Barbara Roden, Hugh Lamb, Dale NelsonReviews Maureen Speller - M. R. James, Two Ghost Stories: A Centenary, (Ghost Story Press, 1993)
Rosemary Pardoe - Frederick Cowles, Fear Walks The Night, (Ghost Story Press, 1993)
Rosemary Pardoe - George H. Bushnell, A Handful Of Ghosts, (St. Andrews Preservation Trust, 1993)
Barbara Roden - Peter Ackroyd, The House Of Doctor Dee, (Hamish Hamilton, 1993)
Rosemary Pardoe - Clive Bloom (ed.) , Creepers: British Horror & Fantasy In The Twentieth Century, (Pluto, 1993)Artwork Douglas Waters, Dallas Goffin, Jim Pitts, Alan HunterThere's quite a detailed synopsis of Terry Lamsley's instant classic Blade And Bone on thread devoted to the joys of Best New Horror 6 while the D. F. Lewis short returned in the very first Black Book Of Horror. Truth be told, it could have been reprinted in all ten and I'd still not have made sense of it, so am very glad Calenture did. John Alfred Taylor - The Ha-Ha: Autumn, 1919. War hero Jeremy Nicolson thought he'd suffered his fill of horrors at the Battle of the Somme, but even he is taken aback by the snorting invisible presence that haunts the ha-ha in the grounds of Stanwell Hall. From the day he arrives to take over as estate manager, Nicholson is sheepishly advised by the men to keep clear of the the crumbling boundary wall. Eventually Hobbins the head gardener reveals that the blighted spot has seen several fatalities, including that of William Withers, the promising landscape gardener, thrown from the saddle when his horse inexplicably bolted ("We was afraid you'd laugh at us, being from London and all."). Jeremy is not a man to heed silly superstition and he'll jolly well ride his d--mned horse when and where he likes! Revealed over a series of letters from Jeremy to his sister Bo in trendy Notting Hill. As mentioned, the entity is unseen but it is implied that whatever haunts the Ha-Ha bears an uncanny resemblance to the horse in Henry Fuseli's The Nightmare. D. F. Lewis - Shaped Like a Snake: An ancient Pagan deity lurks beneath the golf course. Myrtle the cleaner, who seems to know an awful lot about it, innocently informs hotel guest Dr. Myrtle there's tell the nature God puts in an appearance "on special nights," and hands him what may or may not be a rune. That night the Doctor of Philosophy is helpless but to leave his bed and investigate. Comment: With the popular press demanding the usual "stringent new measures" to clamp down on "sick horror films" in the wake of the James Bulger murder, the Haunted Librarians wonder at the implications for MRJ's work. Richard Dalby - Eleanor Scott: Writers in the James Tradition 14. Thanks to Mr. Dalby's literary detective work, building on Hugh Lamb's initial investigation, some welcome biographical info on the Randall's Round authoress 'Eleanor Scott,' better known to her loved ones as Helen Magdelen Leys (1892-1965)
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Post by jamesdoig on Mar 13, 2015 21:03:23 GMT
Fiction: Terry Lamsley - Blade and Bone
John Alfred Taylor - The Ha-Ha
D. F. Lewis - Shaped Like a Snake
William I. I. Read - John Humphreys ContinuedNon-fiction Mary Butts - The Art of Montague James (London Mercury, Feb. 1934)
Richard Dalby - Eleanor Scott
Rosemary Pardoe - Comment
Rosemary Pardoe, David Rowlands, & John Alfred Taylor - "A View From A Hill"
Jamesian News Snippets
Letters Peter B. Freshwater, Robert Price, Martin Byrom, Barbara Roden, Hugh Lamb, Dale NelsonReviews Maureen Speller - M. R. James, Two Ghost Stories: A Centenary, (Ghost Story Press, 1993)
Rosemary Pardoe - Frederick Cowles, Fear Walks The Night, (Ghost Story Press, 1993)
Rosemary Pardoe - George H. Bushnell, A Handful Of Ghosts, (St. Andrews Preservation Trust, 1993)
Barbara Roden - Peter Ackroyd, The House Of Doctor Dee, (Hamish Hamilton, 1993)
Rosemary Pardoe - Clive Bloom (ed.) , Creepers: British Horror & Fantasy In The Twentieth Century, (Pluto, 1993)Gee, that's G&S in its heyday - Ghost Story Press going strong, Ash Tree Press starting off, Terry Lamsley publishing those great stories, great art. I didn't know any of this existed until the late nineties! |
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Post by dem bones on Mar 13, 2015 23:21:23 GMT
Gee, that's G&S in its heyday - Ghost Story Press going strong, Ash Tree Press starting off, Terry Lamsley publishing those great stories, great art. I didn't know any of this existed until the late nineties! I got into it early 1989 but it was a fluke. Attracted by the cover illustration, I picked up a copy of the then current Ghosts & Scholars #10 in the legendary Fantasy Centre, leafed through the contents and thought "that'll do me." My very first small press purchase! Thing is, it wasn't all that difficult to get hold of the earlier ones at the time - certainly not if you lived in London, anyhow - as the FC and, a bit later, Andy Richards New Worlds (downstairs at Murder One) never seemed to be short of either Haunted Library or BFS publications and they'd usually charge the cover price, too (incidentally, New Worlds is also where I snagged a copy of Graeme Flanagan's Robert Bloch: A Biblio-Biography). Nowadays ... . Was gutted how the Fear Walked The Night saga turned out. It was due to be published as the next book in the marvellous Equation Chillers series, meaning it would have been mass-market. Equation went under, Ash Tree stepped in and the limited edition predictably sold out pre-publication. In three years time it will be seventy years since Frederick Cowles death so maybe a Faber or (what's happened to?) Wordsworth will step in, finally make it widely available to the mainstream audience. The Mary Butts article, nine pages of it, is ..... quite something. MRJ's response on reading it. "A fulsome article on my art - save the mark. I knew not I had any." He certainly got that 'fulsome' right as the lady is certainly not lacking in enthusiasm for her subject, but a fascinating read nonetheless - she's particularly partial to An Uncommon Prayer Book- and yet another remarkable find by the James Gang. |
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Post by jamesdoig on Mar 14, 2015 21:30:30 GMT
Was gutted how the Fear Walked The Night saga turned out. It was due to be published as the next book in the marvellous Equation Chillers series, meaning it would have been mass-market. Equation went under, Ash Tree stepped in and the limited edition predictably sold out pre-publication. In three years time it will be seventy years since Frederick Cowles death so maybe a Faber or (what's happened to?) Wordsworth will step in, finally make it widely available to the mainstream audience. I picked up The Night Wind Howls, but there is an awful lot I didn't because I couldn't afford it - I mainly purchased contemporary authors, but even then not completely, so I picked up Under the Crust but not Conference With the Dead, which took about two seconds to sell out. |
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Post by humgoo on Aug 24, 2019 16:54:20 GMT
In three years time it will be seventy years since Frederick Cowles death so maybe a Faber or (what's happened to?) Wordsworth will step in, finally make it widely available to the mainstream audience. And three years have since passed. Have you heard anything through the grapevine? I haven't read much Cowles (his name rhymes with "coals", right?), but I like his non-antiquarian stories like Punch and Judy and The Thing from the Sea (his antiquarian stories seem a bit too kitchen-sinky to me). |
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Post by Michael Connolly on Aug 27, 2019 12:38:25 GMT
In three years time it will be seventy years since Frederick Cowles death so maybe a Faber or (what's happened to?) Wordsworth will step in, finally make it widely available to the mainstream audience. And three years have since passed. Have you heard anything through the grapevine? I haven't read much Cowles (his name rhymes with "coals", right?), but I like his non-antiquarian stories like Punch and Judy and The Thing from the Sea (his antiquarian stories seem a bit too kitchen-sinky to me). I've always assumed that Cowles rhymes with "owls". |
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Post by ropardoe on Aug 27, 2019 17:43:19 GMT
And three years have since passed. Have you heard anything through the grapevine? I haven't read much Cowles (his name rhymes with "coals", right?), but I like his non-antiquarian stories like Punch and Judy and The Thing from the Sea (his antiquarian stories seem a bit too kitchen-sinky to me). I've always assumed that Cowles rhymes with "owls". Yes, I think it rhymes with owls too. On the question of a Cowles reprint, wasn't Sundial Press planning something? |
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Post by Michael Connolly on Aug 28, 2019 11:51:13 GMT
I've always assumed that Cowles rhymes with "owls". Yes, I think it rhymes with owls too. On the question of a Cowles reprint, wasn't Sundial Press planning something? I'd forgotten about that. It looks like The Night Wind Howls is still due: www.sundialpress.co.uk/Sundial%20Supernatural.html |
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