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Post by ropardoe on Mar 24, 2017 10:14:53 GMT
Thank you for the update and I am certain that I will enjoy it. The postal service here in Kentucky can be a little erratic at times but it appears that it made its way through the system rather quickly. Mr. Happy The newsletter arrived today and I am looking forward to reading it. In trying to make a listing of all of Mr. Ward's short fiction this is what I have so far: Vengeful Ghosts (Sarob Press 1998) Includes: Old Martin Gunpowder Plot Caveat Emptor Branks's Folly The Spinney Doctor's Orders Mirror Image The Lake Seven Ghosts and One Other (Sarob Press 2010) Includes: The Doorway of St. Stephen's The Game of Bear The Short Cut Not Found Among You The Particular The Guardian Mariner's Rest Behind the Curtain Malevolent Visitants (Sarob Press 2016) Includes: At Dusk The Mound Merfield Hall The Return Squire Thorneycroft One Over the Twelve The House of Wonders The Gift Uncollected short fiction: End of the Line (All Hallows #19) 11334 (The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows Vol. 2) Twenty Years Afterwards (The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows Vol. 3) Assizes (The Ghosts & Scholars M.R. James Newsletter Issue 31) Have I missed anything? If so, please let me know. Mr. Happy I think you've got them all there.
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Post by dem bones on Mar 24, 2017 15:57:16 GMT
.... still not done with # 31 ....
On completing Mark Valentine's The Rare, the Choice and the Curious I was all, "Mark has it sewn up. Nobody's going to top that for best article of 31" but Martin Voracek's extraordinarily thorough examination of The Maze is every bit it's equal! Has anyone referred Maurice Sandoz's novel to Valancourt Books for consideration? After reading Martin's synopsis, I'll wager it's not just MRJ fans would like to make the acquaintance of Sir Roger Philip McTeam, the half man half "frog-like amphibian."
At a later date we might take a shot at a checklist of novels and short stories inspired by the Monster of Glamis.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 10, 2017 11:54:10 GMT
Where were we? No mischievous critique of a must-have unwritten book this month, though two of the legit titles reviewed went out of print so soon after publication that they are likely to remain figments to the wider public. Dan McGachey's celebration of Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows: Vol. III treats each individual story to a capsule review without once resorting to spoilers. Roger Johnson's enthusiastic appraisal of Peter Bell's Phantasms will have you yearning for the second coming of the mass market paperback. Mr. Johnson makes an interesting point. Having hugely enjoyed Susan Hill's The Woman In Black, it never crossed my mind that the book's phenomenal sales could have a detrimental effect on the traditional ghost story (in much the same way Anne Rice's mega-selling and disastrously influential Interview With The Vampire killed fangy fiction for many of us. "An excellent tale for sure, but its success had the unfortunate effect of persuading the author and the big publishers that the versatile and critically acclaimed Susan Hill was the only person capable of writing worthwhile ghostly fiction. Those who were steeped in the tradition had no chance." Unless they welcome the embrace of the limited-run small presses, that is, which is why we are where we are. Far as I'm aware, Wayne Adrian Drew's reprint-heavy anthology Shadows On The Fens is still available via indiebooks. By a happy accident of fate, this selection makes for an ideal companion volume for Paul Finch's Terror Tales of East Anglia, particularly those recent converts to the gloomy delights of the ghost story.
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Post by ropardoe on Apr 10, 2017 15:03:45 GMT
Where were we? Mr. Johnson makes an interesting point. Having hugely enjoyed Susan Hill's The Woman In Black, it never crossed my mind that the book's phenomenal sales could have a detrimental effect on the traditional ghost story (in much the same way Anne Rice's mega-selling and disastrously influential Interview With The Vampire killed fangy fiction for many of us. "An excellent tale for sure, but its success had the unfortunate effect of persuading the author and the big publishers that the versatile and critically acclaimed Susan Hill was the only person capable of writing worthwhile ghostly fiction. Those who were steeped in the tradition had no chance." Unless they welcome the embrace of the limited-run small presses, that is, which is why we are where we are. I said something similar about this in the Everlasting Club several months ago: "The mainstream press/media seem to have no idea of what's going on in the small presses and the quality of what's available (there are exceptions - Tartarus Press, for instance, sometimes gets good coverage in places like the Guardian). It ties in with the praise heaped on such establishment authors as Susan Hill, whose work rarely comes close to the new fiction being created in the small press (or being self-published), but whose tales are treated as though they're the only thing keeping the ghost story genre alive."
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Post by Michael Connolly on Apr 12, 2017 12:39:46 GMT
Where were we? Mr. Johnson makes an interesting point. Having hugely enjoyed Susan Hill's The Woman In Black, it never crossed my mind that the book's phenomenal sales could have a detrimental effect on the traditional ghost story (in much the same way Anne Rice's mega-selling and disastrously influential Interview With The Vampire killed fangy fiction for many of us. "An excellent tale for sure, but its success had the unfortunate effect of persuading the author and the big publishers that the versatile and critically acclaimed Susan Hill was the only person capable of writing worthwhile ghostly fiction. Those who were steeped in the tradition had no chance." Unless they welcome the embrace of the limited-run small presses, that is, which is why we are where we are. I said something similar about this in the Everlasting Club several months ago: "The mainstream press/media seem to have no idea of what's going on in the small presses and the quality of what's available (there are exceptions - Tartarus Press, for instance, sometimes gets good coverage in places like the Guardian). It ties in with the praise heaped on such establishment authors as Susan Hill, whose work rarely comes close to the new fiction being created in the small press (or being self-published), but whose tales are treated as though they're the only thing keeping the ghost story genre alive." About The Woman in Black, I thought the original novel was just okay. I thought the television version adapted by Nigel Kneale was just okay. I thought the play, with Edward Petherbridge and Joseph Fiennes, was by far the best version. The audience screamed throughout. I didn't think much of the film version or its sequel (which bored me last week on television).
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Apr 12, 2017 13:27:11 GMT
About The Woman in Black, I thought the original novel was just okay. I thought the television version adapted by Nigel Kneale was just okay. I thought the play, with Edward Petherbridge and Joseph Fiennes, was by far the best version. The audience screamed throughout. I didn't think much of the film version or its sequel (which bored me last week on television). Stephen Mallatratt's stage adaptation is also by far my favourite version, and I've seen it on tour several times over the years. Turning the adaptation process into part of the action and the way it pushes the audience to exercise their imaginations adds so much to the experience. I really like Nigel Kneale's television adaptation, too, and it made me jump and spill a drink down myself in fright at one point when I first watched it, but the play is just a delight all the way through.
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Post by mrhappy on Aug 11, 2019 15:35:57 GMT
Thank you for the update and I am certain that I will enjoy it. The postal service here in Kentucky can be a little erratic at times but it appears that it made its way through the system rather quickly. Mr. Happy The newsletter arrived today and I am looking forward to reading it. In trying to make a listing of all of Mr. Ward's short fiction this is what I have so far: Vengeful Ghosts (Sarob Press 1998) Includes: Old Martin Gunpowder Plot Caveat Emptor Branks's Folly The Spinney Doctor's Orders Mirror Image The Lake Seven Ghosts and One Other (Sarob Press 2010) Includes: The Doorway of St. Stephen's The Game of Bear The Short Cut Not Found Among You The Particular The Guardian Mariner's Rest Behind the Curtain Malevolent Visitants (Sarob Press 2016) Includes: At Dusk The Mound Merfield Hall The Return Squire Thorneycroft One Over the Twelve The House of Wonders The Gift Uncollected short fiction: End of the Line (All Hallows #19) 11334 (The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows Vol. 2) A Wrong Turn (The Silent Companion #10) Twenty Years Afterwards (The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows Vol. 3) Assizes (The Ghosts & Scholars M.R. James Newsletter Issue 31) Have I missed anything? If so, please let me know. Mr. Happy Edited to add A Wrong Turn (The Silent Companion #10 2014) to the list. With Ro dropping the exciting news of a new story in the upcoming G&S and Sarob releasing a 4th book hopefully at the end of this year, this list of C.E. Ward fiction will be edited again very soon. Mr. Happy
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Post by ropardoe on Aug 12, 2019 8:36:19 GMT
The newsletter arrived today and I am looking forward to reading it. In trying to make a listing of all of Mr. Ward's short fiction this is what I have so far: Vengeful Ghosts (Sarob Press 1998) Includes: Old Martin Gunpowder Plot Caveat Emptor Branks's Folly The Spinney Doctor's Orders Mirror Image The Lake Seven Ghosts and One Other (Sarob Press 2010) Includes: The Doorway of St. Stephen's The Game of Bear The Short Cut Not Found Among You The Particular The Guardian Mariner's Rest Behind the Curtain Malevolent Visitants (Sarob Press 2016) Includes: At Dusk The Mound Merfield Hall The Return Squire Thorneycroft One Over the Twelve The House of Wonders The Gift Uncollected short fiction: End of the Line (All Hallows #19) 11334 (The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows Vol. 2) A Wrong Turn (The Silent Companion #10) Twenty Years Afterwards (The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows Vol. 3) Assizes (The Ghosts & Scholars M.R. James Newsletter Issue 31) Have I missed anything? If so, please let me know. Mr. Happy Edited to add A Wrong Turn (The Silent Companion #10 2014) to the list. With Ro dropping the exciting news of a new story in the upcoming G&S and Sarob releasing a 4th book hopefully at the end of this year, this list of C.E. Ward fiction will be edited again very soon. Mr. Happy Also, I have a brand new maze story from Clive lined up for the Ghosts & Scholars (or Lady Wardrop's) Book of Mazes from Sarob next year.
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Post by humgoo on Aug 20, 2019 18:23:44 GMT
[...]but - to be honest - I can't say people are lining up with offers to reprint the three G&S Books of Shadows in cheaper editions. Would Shadow Publishing be interested in doing that? I don't think I'm the only one who's eternally grateful for the L. A. Lewis collection and The Black Pilgrimage published by them! Both are pure gold. The latter is even more impressive in terms of typesetting and printing quality.
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Post by mrhappy on Nov 2, 2019 16:53:03 GMT
Robert Morgan updated the Sarob Press Blog today with the news that his most recent title, The Pale Illuminations (which is tremendous), has already sold out and that his next release (by C. E. Ward) will be titled Legionnaire. This is intriguing as it does not sound like the title of a collection. Are we possibly getting a longer peice by Mr. Ward this time? According to the blog we will find out in around a week or so.
Mr Happy
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Post by mrhappy on Aug 1, 2022 4:12:38 GMT
***Updated August 1st, 2022***
C. E. Ward short fiction list:
Vengeful Ghosts (Sarob Press 1998) Includes:
Old Martin Gunpowder Plot Caveat Emptor Branks's Folly The Spinney Doctor's Orders Mirror Image The Lake
Seven Ghosts and One Other (Sarob Press 2010) Includes:
The Doorway of St. Stephen's The Game of Bear The Short Cut Not Found Among You The Particular The Guardian Mariner's Rest Behind the Curtain
Malevolent Visitants (Sarob Press 2016) Includes:
At Dusk The Mound Merfield Hall The Return Squire Thorneycroft One Over the Twelve The House of Wonders The Gift
Legionnaire (stand alone novella from Sarob Press 2019)
An Unheavenly Host (Sarob Press 2022) Includes:
Autumn Harvest The Chapter House Window A Wrong Turn Sins of the Fathers Assizes Captured in Oils 11334 Substantiated Evidence
Uncollected short fiction:
End of the Line (All Hallows #19) Twenty Years Afterwards (The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows Vol. 3) Real Estate (The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Mazes)
Have I missed anything? If so, please let me know.
Mr. Happy
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