Man Bites Man: The Scrapbook Of An English Eccentric.

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Paul Sieveking [ed.] - Man Bites Man. The Scrapbook Of An English Eccentric. George Ives (Penguin, 1981)

Cover design, Andrew Wadsworth

Paul Sieveking - Preface
Jeremy Brooks - Introduction

Call Of The Wild
Depravity & Murder
Eccentrics
Fanatics
Freaks
High Archives
Law 'n Order
Miscellanea
Phenomena
Punishment
Religious Mania
Riches Or Fame
Spectres
Strange Deaths
Superstition
Taboo
Transvestism
Twists Of Fate
War And Peace
Wedlock
Women

Index

In which Paul Sieveking, the then associate editor of Fortean Times, cherry-picks his personal favourites from 45 volumes of bizarre newspaper clippings compiled over fifty years by George Ives (1867-1950), author, rational anarchist, early homosexual rights campaigner, and "Edwardian eccentric." Ives began his collection while an undergraduate at Cambridge in 1898 and maintained it up until Christmas 1949.

Jeremy Brooks writes; "Ives hated cruelty, injustice and uninformed prejudice; at least half of his cuttings are on such subjects," and this is particularly evident in Depravity & Murder and Punishment compilations replete with such sobering reports as Negro Shot To Give Weekend Party "A Little Excitement," Giggling Girls At Execution - Seven Negroes Hanged In The U.S., Convict Camp Horror, Jersey Justice, Terrible Lynching Atrocity in America' & Co. Thankfully, he also had a fondness for matters bizarre, mysterious, macabre and just plain barking, as reflected in such items as Girl Tarzan Captured, The Trouser Thief, Jack The Cushion Ripper (vandalism on the London omnibus), Disguise Escapade Of Pastor - Roamed at night in feminine attire "'to test morals", Wicket-Keeper Killed By Stump (admittedly, this can't have been very funny for the victim), and, as endured by Upton Sinclair, Prison For Sunday Tennis Playing. The selection also includes fascinating contemporary reports on various Loch Ness Monster sightings, the trial of Albert Fish, the cannibal murders of Karl Denke, the execution of "44-year-old pervert" Fritz Haarmann, Crowley's expulsion from Paris, reefer madness, an apoplectic review of Joyce's Ulysses, 'The Ghost of Oscar Wilde,' and, hey, those trees just ain't right.

File under fabulous.

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OH HELL! Look, I'm trying to scale down as there's a house move on the horizon and you come up with what looks like a Must Buy.

First on the list in the new place I think...

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Jul 24, 2016 20:47:50 GMT Shrink Proof said:

OH HELL! Look, I'm trying to scale down as there's a house move on the horizon and you come up with what looks like a Must Buy.

First on the list in the new place I think...

I'm sure you'll find it fascinating as I have, Dr. Proof. I love the layout, too. Very fanzine. If Mr. Ives were still with us, we'd have to press gang him into joining this forum. Might eventually be a spin-off thread from this if I ever get my act together ....

Good luck with the move!

[ben]

Got this the other day! Weird little book shop in dudley.(West mids) called Saturday books. It's pretty cool.

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Vault clippings library: Supernatural scrapbook

George Ives' wonderful Man Bites Man: The Scrapbook Of An English Eccentric drove me to dig out a folder of items clipped from various newspapers during fanzine days. Thought some of you might appreciate.

Journey To The Centre Of The Earth/
The Monkey's Paw

World Champion Graverobber

Film Crews In Peril

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More from world famous Vault Clippings Library;

They Stole Bloody Mackenzie's Skull/ Case of the Crucified Nun (Pt. 1)

Case of the Crucified Nun (Pt. 2)/ Rodents versus Youth Club/ "Haunted House" Chisellers, etc.

[helrunar]

Marvelous. Thanks, Kev.

cheers, Steve

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Cops Neck a Dracula, Daily Mirror, 8 Jan. 1987.
Three Held in Vampire Cult Swoop, News of the World, 24 Nov, 1996.
Scandal Artist 'Set for Fortune', Evening Standard, 11 April 1997.
Vampire Ate My Hamster, Daily Mirror, 18 April 1994.

Dracula in Grave Robbing Revenge, Sunday People, 11 May 1997.

Giant Mutant Slugs from El, The Mirror, 14 Sept. 2012.

Nostradamus signs for Metro, 2014.

"Haining habitually clipped and tore items out of newspapers and magazines and filed them away, a magpie habit that yielded ideas for many of his books ...."

- Peter Haining Obituary, Telegraph, 28 Dec 2007.

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Pop Stars in Peril: then and now! An exhaustive VAULT investigation

Romeo out of the Showaddywaddy (a pop group of yesteryear) meets the Phantom of the Opera. Spellbound # 17, 15 Jan. 1977.

A Close Encounter for Ms. Mylie Cyrus (a pop star of today)! Metro, 21st October 2020.

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One mystery after the other. Do the cool kids today really say "Stoner" any longer? Does Miley nearing 30 really speaks like Hannah Montana, so, like, forever? 

Top class f***d up journalism. 

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Thanks to Phaedra Kelly (RIP), investigator of The Bonchurch Incident, for forwarding above clipping during height of the 90's world wampyre wars

Buffy Makes children Want To Be Witches, Metro, 4. Aug 2000.

Hazel Groves, My Blood Lust by Vampire Carlotta, Feb 1994. Not sure of source, but Mirror ran a very similar report at same time. Carlotta has since turned into a bat or sometimes a cloud of mist.

[helrunar]

It's so perfect that "Hazel Groves" was the authoress of the Vampire Carlotta story. In at least some story that I read somewhere, it was specified that a stake crafted from hazel wood was needed to put down one of the Undead.

Great clippings!

H.

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Sunday People, 6 March 1994

Daily Mirror, 11 July 1979, via Peter Haining, Mammoth Book of True Hauntings, 2008.

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The Filth and the Fury:

The Tower Hamlets Vampire cover-up of the early 21st century.




Fangs for nothing. Ms. Claire Rudd appeases her #illuminati paymasters, East End Advertiser, Feb. 2005.

Mirror, Oct. 28 1995, and 31 Oct. 2020!




Marion Bondage

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Vamp Soc special



News of the World, circa Jan 1993.



Melody Maker, 9th Jan. 1993



Lady Drac. Soc, Julia Kruk, in Best magazine, Aug 27 1992.