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Post by Michael Connolly on Oct 1, 2016 13:26:00 GMT
I've just checked my local library system for books by Peter Haining. I discovered this:  The horror! The horror! |
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Post by dem on Oct 2, 2016 11:28:02 GMT
I've just checked my local library system for books by Peter Haining. I discovered this: The horror! The horror! At last somebody's come up with a Peter Haining book that even I'd swerve. (He says. Bet there's a copy at next week's Sunday market with my name on it). Strikes me that Lassie is an excellent example of what Peter Haining was about. The books were compiled in double-quick time to meet a deadline of yesterday (see our resident speed merchant pulphack on the making of Fragment's Of Fear: An Illustrated History Of British Horror Films for some kind of idea the conditions these guys operate under). Of course corners will be cut and errors creep in. That the books are coherent is a miracle in itself. Which is not to excuse Peter's worst excesses, the plagiarism and deliberate terminological exactitudes. But as someone who has been known to get their "corrections" wrong (!), I can cut him some slack over screwing up over dates. |
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Post by Michael Connolly on Oct 3, 2016 12:35:33 GMT
I've just checked my local library system for books by Peter Haining. I discovered this:  The horror! The horror! At last somebody's come up with a Peter Haining book that even I'd swerve. (He says. Bet there's a copy at next week's Sunday market with my name on it). Strikes me that Lassie is an excellent example of what Peter Haining was about. The books were compiled in double-quick time to meet a deadline of yesterday (see our resident speed merchant pulphack on the making of Fragment's Of Fear: An Illustrated History Of British Horror Films for some kind of idea the conditions these guys operate under). Of course corners will be cut and errors creep in. That the books are coherent is a miracle in itself. Which is not to excuse Peter's worst excesses, the plagiarism and deliberate terminological exactitudes. But as someone who has been known to get their "corrections" wrong (!), I can cut him some slack over screwing up over dates. You forgot that lovely cover. |
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Post by dem on Oct 3, 2016 19:56:34 GMT
You forgot that lovely cover. If only that were humanly possible. |
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