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Post by dem bones on Feb 8, 2017 23:34:32 GMT
Paperback & Pulp Fair, Bloomsbury, Sun. April 30th 2017 The Paperback & Pulp Book Fair returns to The Royal National Hotel, 38-51 Bedford Way, Russell Square, London WC1H 0DG on Sunday 30th April 2017 (9-30 - 3pm). Admission £1.50. Dealers tables £55. For more information, please email organiser Neil Pettigrew harry.np ATvirgin.net Please spread the word. |
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Post by severance on Feb 11, 2017 19:49:08 GMT
The date of this one happens to fall on my weekend off, so I should be more than half awake this time. Better get my wants lists in order...
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Post by andydecker on Feb 11, 2017 21:23:28 GMT
A pity I can't attend. I wish everybody happy hunting and a good time!
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Post by dem bones on Apr 9, 2017 12:41:24 GMT
Creeping up fast. Just three weeks today.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 24, 2017 8:36:04 GMT
Six days to go, so by way of another plug, some beautiful visuals commemorating Pulp Fairs (and a wonderful launch party) past. From memory, the Fairs weren't especially well advertised pre 2010 but if anyone has any related postcards, ads, promo stuff they'd like to share please scan them up! |
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Post by cromagnonman on Apr 30, 2017 22:52:32 GMT
Believe it or not there are advantages to effecting the look of whip wielding archaeologist chic, as I generally tend to do. It enabled our legendary Vault Keeper, together with friends Dave, Anna and Severance, to pick me out at today's fair without too much trouble. And a good thing too. As I honestly don't believe anything short of turning up a GENT FROM BEAR CREEK Jenkins original for 50p could have pleased me more. What a genuine joy to shoot the breeze with such welcoming and generous people.
The fair itself was pretty good too, and I heard encouraging rumours of a sequel being scheduled for October and even the possibility of guests, something which would be a welcome throwback to the high water mark of fairs long past.
I only bought a couple of paperbacks (and they weren't even for me) but sometimes the measure of these events isn't what you pick up so much as what you come away with. And the experience of good conversation in such convivial company made this a special and rewarding fair by my estimation.
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Post by pulphack on May 3, 2017 12:28:35 GMT
I'd like to say I have a good reason for missing this, but I don't - I just got my dates confused and was at the other place in sunny Walton (actually, it rained). Spent a lot of the last month there, and have been looking in but unable to post as I can't get the phone app to work and I have to rely on the phone when I'm there as I never take the laptop. I'm sorry to have missed you Dem, and it would have been good to see Sev and Dave (HP, I assume!) again. Also to meet the colossus of cataloguing that is CM!
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Post by dem bones on May 5, 2017 11:23:44 GMT
I'm sure you'd have loved it, Mr. Hack. Will give you a prod when the next one's coming up (somewhere around Halloween, I think?). The only drag is, come rain nor shine, somehow I always manage to pick up flu at these events, but it's always worth it. Operation Find Cromagnonman was brilliant. We were clocking the room for likely suspects (mine were hopeless) when Sev reports back from a scouting mission of the Ephemera Fair with "I think I've spotted him" - and he had. It was a real pleasure to meet you, R., my friend. Can only agree that while it's a bonus to be let loose on hundreds of books & mags for a few hours, it's the people bring the magic. Likewise it was lovely to hook up again with Sev, Anna Taborska, Mr. Saucecraft and (briefly) Martin 'Rumble' Heaphy. Other highlights were finally getting to meet Worlds Of Strangeness mastermind Nigel Taylor and organiser Neil Pettigrew to whom we owe a huge debt of gratitude for reviving the fair. Tying it in with the regular Ephemera & Books event is a master-stroke. Often at Victoria it would be all over come mid-day with only the most tenacious dealers and attendees sticking it out to 3pm, but that's not been the case at Russell Square. Mindful of lunatic impulse purchases past, this time it was all about the DISCIPLINED approach. QUALITY over quantity. Nothing heat of the moment. Go away and think about it. Don't be swayed by a pretty cover, etc. Well, the thought was there .... |
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Post by franklinmarsh on May 5, 2017 11:28:06 GMT
Comedy of Terrors and Inseminoid!? Result! Must somehow try to put a bit aside for Hallowe'en. Congrats to the intrepid souls who made it.
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Post by dem bones on May 5, 2017 12:01:05 GMT
Comedy of Terrors and Inseminoid!? Result! Must somehow try to put a bit aside for Hallowe'en. Congrats to the intrepid souls who made it. Be terrific if you can make it, FM. This being the first Spring Fair seemed to throw a few regulars but still a very healthy attendance. |
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Post by helrunar on May 5, 2017 12:34:37 GMT
Glorioski, there was a mag called Weird and Occult?? That was gonna be the title of my autobiography.
Lovely lovely scans. The Comedy of Terrors photos are a particular delight on this gloomy Boston Friday.
Inseminoid--I finally learned about Norman J. Warren's career a year or so ago and saw one of the films, with Michael Gough the one bright spot in an otherwise rather limp Satanist romp. The porno lesbian Black Mass ritual scene no doubt made it memorable for viewers with interests other than mine--I used the fast-forward tab. I saw a trailer on Youtube for one that seemed very funny. It was supposed to be about a space alien werewolf (?) running amok in the English countryside. I didn't track it down for fear that the trailer had garnered every remotely amusing moment from the thing. I've read that in recent years, NJW has been feted as the latest "cult" discovery so perhaps there's more in the oeuvre that I am unaware of--seems likely.
H.
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Post by dem bones on May 5, 2017 15:00:23 GMT
Glorioski, there was a mag called Weird and Occult?? That was gonna be the title of my autobiography. Need to complete/ write hopelessly about at least four books-on-the-go before I can think of tackling new stuff, but Weird and Occult 1/- Library was a short-lived venture from London publisher Gerald G. Swan. Short fiction interspersed with "factual" content. 64 pages, tiny print. No interior illustration. It was launched in 1960 and died with the third issue. John Russell Fearn seems to have been a regular contributor while A. M. Burrage had a story in the début. |
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Post by helrunar on May 5, 2017 15:38:55 GMT
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Post by jamesdoig on May 5, 2017 22:32:42 GMT
Weird and Occult 1/- Library was a short-lived venture from London publisher Gerald G. Swan. Short fiction interspersed with "factual" content. 64 pages, tiny print. No interior illustration. It was launched in 1960 and died with the third issue. John Russell Fearn seems to have been a regular contributor while A. M. Burrage had a story in the début. Morgan Wallace has a really good gallery of those types of digests/pulps here: www.darkfantasy.org/spectre/ImageGuide.html You need to scroll down near the bottom of the page to find Weird and Occult Library. |
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Post by helrunar on May 5, 2017 23:16:42 GMT
Thanks for that, James!
cheers, H.
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