Count Ignatius De Ludes - Tourist's Guide To Transylvania

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Count Ignatius De Ludes - The Tourist's Guide To Transylvania (Octopus, 1981)

Travel & Accommodation
Where To Go
Inhabitants
Phenomena
Hints & Tips
Acknowledgements

From the inside cover blurb:
Count Ignatius De Ludes is a sorcerer of considerable standing with many years experience in providing occult protection for visitors to Transylvania. In The Tourist's Guide To Transylvania he provides an illuminating introduction to this extraordinary land and the fascinating diversity of its supernatural denizens ...etc.

Mercifully, my days of fraternising with bogus black sorcerers, rubbish-spell-casting "psychic" graveyard ghoulies, not-very-nude witches, and fellow "my tedious life in mumbo jumbo" types are behind me, so am not especially interested in Count Iggy's fanciful travelogue, riveting though it doubtless is. The main appeal of this slim volume is the artwork from the esteemed likes of Jim Burns, Les Edwards, Alan Lee, Terry Oakes, Peter Goodfellow, and Alan 'Eyeballs-in-peril' Hood, much of it familiar from the covers of Star, Tandem, Sphere, Hamlyn and Fontana horror/ supernatural paperbacks. Those who've experienced the joys of Mike Jarvis & John Spencer's Echoes Of Terror and are looking for a companion volume could do worse.

Artists: Peter Goodfellow, Alan Hood

Artists: Alan Hood, Mervyn