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Post by dem bones on Feb 12, 2017 19:05:28 GMT
News just in from Justin at House of Fanatic. THREE NEW PUBS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDEROn 7th March I’ll go to print with three new editions. All are available for pre-order at the Paperback Fanatic website . The Paperback Fanatic 36100 pages, all in colour and with a book spine.
Arizona, a book shopping Odyssey More comic book artists in paperback Outlaw bikers in men's adventure mags Lin Carter's Best Fantasy series Collecting Lovecraft The Dark Angel series The Saint in Pan paperbacks Gold Medal classic crime trial seriesPulp Horror 5100 pages, all in colour and with a book spine.
A Visual Guide to Frankenstein Occult author Stewart Farrar A History of the British Small Press Neglected American writer Leslie WhittenMen of Violence 640 pages, A5, black and white
Men's adventure in paperback, including - The San Antonio series Legal woes with The Executioner Dennison's Army Don Miles Renegade ___________________ Justin adds: "I also have limited stocks of US zine PAPERBACK PARADE issues 90-96 £10 each inc postage and packing Drop me a mail if you are interested" thepaperbackfanatic ATsky.com
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Post by ramseycampbell on Feb 16, 2017 15:00:01 GMT
Am I being more incompetent than usual? I can't see where on the site one buys these.
Oh yes I can, but since I don't seem able to delete this post, my confession of uselessness will haunt me.
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Post by dem bones on Mar 20, 2017 19:16:44 GMT
Will likely give each their own thread for review/ commentary purposes, but this extraordinary fun-pack just arrived from the House of Fanatic! Justin Marriott (ed.) - Paperback Fanatic #36 (March, 2017) Full colour 100 glossy page paperback! Fanatical Thoughts. Editorial Fanatical Mails. Graham Andrews, Andy Boot, Clive Davies, Scott Carlson, Stuart Williams, Tom Tesarek, Nigel Taylor. Tom Tesarek - Us or Them? Tom Tesarek experiences a paperback bad trip when he drops three volumes of Us Rob Matthews - Gold Medal Classic Murder Trials Rob checklists a rarely discussed slice of true-crime courtesy of the iconic Gold Medal. Tom Tesarek - Arizona: A Book Odyssey Tom Tesarek 's epic voyage of self-discovery and paperbacks is a Homer's Odyssey for the Paperback fanatic. Jim O'Brien - The Tale Of Two Dark Angels Jim O'Brien looks at the Dark Angel series including its origins in a newspaper strip and the evolution of the African-American heroine in 70's popular culture. Artists Assemble #5: Screaming Metal French artists of the Metal Hurlant/ Heavy Metal school forever changed the world of fantasy art in the mid-70's. Graham Andrews - The Pantastic Saint Graham Andrews goes undercover to investigate the earliest paperback editions of the famous spy character and his creator. Justin Marriott - Thud And Blunder The Fanatic does battle with Lin Carter's Year's Best Fantasy series. Paul Bishop - Get Your Motor Running The actor and author makes his Fanatic debut with a look at the depiction of outlaw bikers in men's adventure magazines. Jack Chalker - The Discovery At Red Hook A reprint of "Irwin Binkin meets H. P. Lovecraft" with an obscure but relevant HPL reference in the title.Justin Marriott (ed) - Pulp Horror 5 (March, 2017) Full colour 96 glossy page paperback! A Visual Guide To Frankenstein. 35 pages of the famous monster in comics, magazines and books. The Tie-Ins of Frankenstein. A look at the link between the film and book versions of the monster. The Lost World Of Frankenstein. Pulp-meister Andreas Decker looks at the German editions of Don Glut's New Adventures Of Frankenstein series. Mister Frankenstein An Interview with Frankenstein's most famous fan and collector. In The Shadows David A. Sutton traces the development of the British small press across two important decades. Straight From The Satyr's Mouth Pulp Horror interviews David Sutton about horror in the seventies and his own publishing imprint. Leslie Whitten: Night Stalker. Tom Tesarek looks at an early example of the contemporary vampire novel. The Michelangelo's of Mutilation & Misogyny: Two volumes of Sex and Horror collect the outrageous cover art that appeared on Italian comic books. The Wicca Man. The occult fiction of Stewart Farrer, a leading light in the Wicca movement. David Morrell's The Totem: A ReviewJustin Marriott [ed] - Men Of Violence #6 (March, 2017) 40 pages, B/W. That old school fast, furious, cheap 'n nasty vibe. Danger Diabolical. Review of Bob & Dusty Sang's Deadly Companions Letters of Violence. Just the one supportive communique from Clive Davies. Dennison's Army. Adam Lassiter's '80's Men's Adventure series. Bloody Brits. The Nel, Futura, & Sphere approach to the genre. Submission. Richard J. Harper's The Dragonhead Deal Lost In Translation. Checklist of US & UK paperback editions of the San Antonio series. The Great Game. Ramsey Thorne's Renegade 'Adult westerns.' The Executioner versus Michigan General Corps. A whole lot of court appearances for Don Pembleton and The ExecutionerOrder direct from Paperback Fanatic - but you'd better be quick!
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Post by dem bones on Mar 21, 2017 17:09:32 GMT
Before we get down to business, you'll find a rare - possibly the first? - interview with Justin Marriott at Paul Bishop Books, perhaps the best introduction to the wild and terrifying Paperback Fanatic experience we've seen to date. Still working through the bundle, hope to have something to post about it all tomorrow ....
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Post by dem bones on Apr 8, 2017 18:14:32 GMT
so it's tomorrow ... By my estimation, the House of Fanatic have now published a phenomenal 51 zines and two specials in a decade, but for all the spin-offs - MOV, Sleazy Reader & Pulp Horror (with more threatened!), Paperback Fanatic is still the flagship publication and the one which generates the most feedback. Pulp Horror having absorbed the lions share of the macabre & supernatural content has freed up space in which to explore previously under-represented genres, and a publication always diverse in scope has grown increasingly iconoclastic a result. It's still recognisably Fanatic, but celebrations of psychedelic freak out malarkey and outrageously gifted Metal Hurlant artists Phillippe Druillet and Moebius show we have come a long way from the Richard Allen and Guy N. Smith retrospectives of old. The ever-reliable Hells Angels are still up to no good, mind. Much as the fetishisation of Junkie & Co. in PF #35 made for a compelling read, drug-themed lit is a personal blind spot so am not especially upset that no copies of short lived hippy underground 'zine-in-paperback Us (Bantam, 1969-70) soil my shelf of shame, though no question the cover of the 'back to school' issue is a peach. Big thank you to Mr. Tesarek for reminding us of the Lizard King's flair for .... poetry. This issues rave from the grave is, for me, also it's overall highlight. Jack Chalker's Irwin Birkin Meets H. P. Lovecraft ( Viewpoint, 1973), relates how a veteran Red Hook book-dealer and world champion stray pet collector took a chance on a job lot at an auction - and came away with the world's largest collection of Lovecraftiana as accumulated by the late Jack Grill. To his eternal credit, Chalker refused to cash in his weird fiction equivalent of a winning lottery ticket and instead set to locating those few impossibly rare items to escape Grill's clutches, resulting in A Catalogue Of Lovecraftiana: The Grill-Binkin Collection (Mirage, 1975). Another pick, this one perhaps for very wrong reasons, the editor's exploration of the Lin Carter edited volumes of The Years Best Fantasy Stories. It's one series I've consciously avoided for fear that even minimal exposure may lead to my developing a fondness for wizards, elves, hobbits, gnomes, talking dragons, friendly f**k*ng un*c*rns and all those other cheery bastards I abhor to my bones. Elsewhere in the issue Graham Andrews lets on that "I dislike writing plot summaries even more than I dislike reading them" but I'm bloody grateful for Justin's synopses of seven "recommendations" from these volumes, not least because at least two of them sound absolutely dreadful. Sev's guide to the Gold Medal 'Classic Murder Trials' comes fully to life when transferred to the printed page. With Get Your Motor Running new face in the Fanatic Paul Bishop guides us through the evolution of the outlaw biker as depicted in Men's magazines from the 'forties through to the 'seventies. Format is similar to that adopted for the Don Glut and David A. Sutton content in Pulp Horror #5 , a lead article followed by interview with the Wyatt Doyle & Bob Deis of Men's Adventure Library. My first thought was this would have been equally at home in Men Of Violence but the approach is less crash 'n burn and there's no denying the graphics benefit from full colour reproduction. [more to follow]
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Post by dem bones on Apr 9, 2017 12:37:56 GMT
To read Tom Tesarek's account of a marathon state-hopping bookshop trawl is to marvel at the man's (a) dedication, (b) stamina, and (c) discernment. I suspect many of us would have blown our budget at the first port of call then spent a miserable month staring in disbelief at pile of mouldering trash that looked so enticing in the shop yet so "why did I buy this fucking crap?" once you've lugged it home. Graham Andrews' autobiographical account of snaring copies of various Saint paperbacks might almost be a small scale companion piece to Tom's epic. I never heard these allegations that Theodore Sturgeon ghosted The Saint Sees It Through. Anyone care to elaborate? Graham might not think much of plot summaries, but it's Jim O'Brien's detailed synopsis of The Golden Snatch Caper and The Godmother Caper in particular had me adding both titles to the wants list that knows no sanity. Jim's introduction to the world of Harlem PI Angela 'The Dark Angel' Harpe also gets my vote for #36's finest original article.
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Post by helrunar on Apr 9, 2017 14:53:06 GMT
That all sounds really cool. Wasn't the Mirage Press based in Baltimore Maryland? I grew up about an hour north of there and I still have at least one Mirage Press imprint on my shelf, a collection of Clark Ashton Smith essays published in 1973, Planets and Dimensions. This and a couple of Gerry de la Ree CAS chapbooks are among the few books from the old days I have been able to hang onto.
Another one is my original Ballantine Books paperback edition of Lin Carter's Imaginary Worlds. It's always fascinating, to me at least, to read stuff about Carter's activities because he was so central to fandom as it coalesced in the 1960s and 1970s. It's still quite bizarre to me just how "mainstream" stuff that only weirdos were into way back when has become.
Sounds like an excellent issue!
cheers, H.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 10, 2017 8:16:46 GMT
That all sounds really cool. Wasn't the Mirage Press based in Baltimore Maryland? I grew up about an hour north of there and I still have at least one Mirage Press imprint on my shelf, a collection of Clark Ashton Smith essays published in 1973, Planets and Dimensions. This and a couple of Gerry de la Ree CAS chapbooks are among the few books from the old days I have been able to hang onto. Sounds like an excellent issue! cheers, H. Yes, the same Mirage. They also published a selection of Seabury Quinn's non Jules de Grandin stories as Is The Devil A Gentleman? (1970). Address given is 5111 Liberty Heights Ave, Baltimore if that's any use to you. Photo: Don McAllester Paperback Fanatic is like some manic take on part-works of old, Book of Life, The Unexplained, Man, Myth & Magic, Book of Football, etc ., where you build your encyclopedia in instalments over a period of years. This one, of course, is minus the tricky-to-assemble binders and I'm not sure any of the above had a lively mailbag, majority of the letters doubling as stand-alone articles. The sister 'zines each have their own identity, but belong to the same anarchic body of work.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Apr 10, 2017 11:55:38 GMT
To read Tom Tesarek's account of a marathon state-hopping bookshop trawl is to marvel at the man's (a) dedication, (b) stamina, and (c) discernment. I suspect many of us would have blown our budget at the first port of call then spent a miserable month staring in disbelief at pile of mouldering trash that looked so enticing in the shop yet so "why did I buy this fucking crap?" once you've lugged it home. Graham Andrews' autobiographical account of snaring copies of various Saint paperbacks might almost be a small scale companion piece to Tom's epic. I never heard these allegations that Theodore Sturgeon ghosted The Saint Sees It Through. Anyone care to elaborate? Graham might not think much of plot summaries, but it's Jim O'Brien's detailed synopsis of The Golden Snatch Caper and The Godmother Caper in particular had me adding both titles to the wants list that knows no sanity. Jim's introduction to the world of Harlem PI Angela 'The Dark Angel' Harpe also gets my vote for #36's finest original article. Based on an outline by Frederic Dannay (one half of the Ellery Queen pseudonym), Theodore Sturgeon certainly ghosted The Player on the Other Side (1963) as by Ellery Queen. Obviously influenced by Psycho, it is a mystery involving psychological abnormality. I assume that Sturgeon was asked to write it because of his own novel about very extreme psychotic behaviour, Some of Your Blood (1961).
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Apr 10, 2017 14:13:43 GMT
Based on an outline by Frederic Dannay (one half of the Ellery Queen pseudonym), Theodore Sturgeon certainly ghosted The Player on the Other Side (1963) as by Ellery Queen. Obviously influenced by Psycho, it is a mystery involving psychological abnormality. I assume that Sturgeon was asked to write it because of his own novel about very extreme psychotic behaviour, Some of Your Blood (1961). Never heard of it before! It is available for Kindle, though---I just bought it!
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Post by helrunar on Apr 10, 2017 14:26:51 GMT
Sorry I missed out on the March pulp horror book. I've read and enjoyed two of Stewart Farrar's Wiccan themed novels from the 1970s and it would have been interesting to read a survey of those. For anyone who doesn't have it handy, here is the link to purchase. I was delighted to see that shipping to North America is only two pounds fifty!! www.thepaperbackfanatic.com/cheers, H.
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Post by mcannon on Apr 19, 2017 5:45:37 GMT
Hurrah! I received my copies of all three of the latest publications today. They seemed to take a bit longer to arrive here this time around, but such are the vagaries of international mail...... Never mind, the slight delay has just increased my anticipation; I'm looking forward to digging in to them!
Mark
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Post by jamesdoig on Apr 19, 2017 7:05:41 GMT
Hurrah! I received my copies of all three of the latest publications today. They seemed to take a bit longer to arrive here this time around, but such are the vagaries of international mail...... Never mind, the slight delay has just increased my anticipation; I'm looking forward to digging in to them! Mark You're a lucky man, Mark. I'm still waiting for mine - hopefully tomorrow.
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Post by jamesdoig on Apr 22, 2017 22:15:18 GMT
Hurrah! I received my copies of all three of the latest publications today. They seemed to take a bit longer to arrive here this time around, but such are the vagaries of international mail...... Never mind, the slight delay has just increased my anticipation; I'm looking forward to digging in to them! Mark You're a lucky man, Mark. I'm still waiting for mine - hopefully tomorrow. And they did arrive on Friday, though I didn't realise it at the time because the package was addressed to my daughter (I'd say a paypal glitch), and had a Swedish stamp! Lots of great articles as usual - I hope there are more of the Arizona Odyssey type - book hunting articles are always entertaining. Pulp Horror #5 is the best one yet I reckon - David Sutton's article on British fanzines is a must - and Justin popped in a gratis copy of Men of Violence, which was great - he's a fine bloke!
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Post by mcannon on Apr 23, 2017 1:26:18 GMT
You're a lucky man, Mark. I'm still waiting for mine - hopefully tomorrow. And they did arrive on Friday, though I didn't realise it at the time because the package was addressed to my daughter (I'd say a paypal glitch), and had a Swedish stamp! Lots of great articles as usual - I hope there are more of the Arizona Odyssey type - book hunting articles are always entertaining. Pulp Horror #5 is the best one yet I reckon - David Sutton's article on British fanzines is a must - and Justin popped in a gratis copy of Men of Violence, which was great - he's a fine bloke! I've also received my last few issues OF PF via Sweden - it must be some sort of postage deal or sub-contract. Or should we blame Brexit (JOKE!)? Mark
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