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Post by Swampirella on Jul 4, 2020 14:12:13 GMT
Agreed, it's silly but fun. I find it interesting how the term "ghost-breaker" seems to have been more common than "ghost-buster" until a certain 1984 film came along. This is the first time I've ever heard the term "ghost-breaker" & it sounds really odd to me. I feel sorry for the more gentle ghosts, being "broken" or "busted"...
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Post by andydecker on Jul 4, 2020 15:36:40 GMT
Agreed, it's silly but fun. I find it interesting how the term "ghost-breaker" seems to have been more common than "ghost-buster" until a certain 1984 film came along. This is the first time I've ever heard the term "ghost-breaker" & it sounds really odd to me. I feel sorry for the more gentle ghosts, being "broken" or "busted"... Never read the DC comic character Dr. Thirteen, the Ghost-Breaker? It is not that you missed something, he was terribly lame and the concept never worked. Mostly a guest-star who always wanted to prove that the supernatural is a hoax. Which is not easy if you meet characters like The Demon, Zatanna or another of the countless supernatural characters.
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Post by Dr Strange on Jul 4, 2020 15:41:04 GMT
This is the first time I've ever heard the term "ghost-breaker" & it sounds really odd to me. I feel sorry for the more gentle ghosts, being "broken" or "busted"... Never read the DC comic character Dr. Thirteen, the Ghost-Breaker? Or the 1940 comedy film with Bob Hope?
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Post by Dr Strange on Jul 4, 2020 15:49:29 GMT
I feel sorry for the more gentle ghosts, being "broken" or "busted"... I'm not sure that getting them "laid" is much better...
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Post by Swampirella on Jul 4, 2020 16:20:23 GMT
Never read the DC comic character Dr. Thirteen, the Ghost-Breaker? Or the 1940 comedy film with Bob Hope? Obviously, I've never read (or heard of) either (character/movie), sorry!
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Post by Shrink Proof on Jul 4, 2020 16:23:15 GMT
Or the 1940 comedy film with Bob Hope? Obviously, I've never read (or even heard of) either, sorry! I've never heard of Bob Hope doing comedy either.
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Post by Swampirella on Jul 4, 2020 16:37:40 GMT
I feel sorry for the more gentle ghosts, being "broken" or "busted"... I'm not sure that getting them "laid" is much better... That term did cross my mind but I decided to keep quiet about it
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Post by Michael Connolly on Jul 5, 2020 7:28:44 GMT
By another "coincidence," I've been attempting to organize (and weed) my personal media collection. Tonight I found an adaptation of a Manly Wade Wellman story, "Rouse him not," which aired as an episode of an odd, very short-lived 1988 series, Monsters. The author of the screenplay is listed as "Michael Parry"--according to the IMDB, identical to Mike or Michel Parry. I had no idea he'd written screenplays, but there are a few lines in his entry there. Died aged only 67... when one is less than a month away from one's 62nd birthday, well... that seems awfully young! H. Richard Dalby and Hugh Lamb were around the same age when they died. All three of them had anthologies published when they were in their twenties.
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Post by jamesdoig on Jul 24, 2020 22:09:40 GMT
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Post by helrunar on Jul 25, 2020 4:38:33 GMT
Looks like Edward Gorey art on the final two. (I'm probably wrong)
The first one seems to be a vampire volume... has Dem been informed??
cheers, Steve
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Post by andydecker on Jul 25, 2020 9:37:12 GMT
Nice finds. I think I have this edition of Quatermass. Or the the next one.
But what is the NEL? Never seen it.
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Post by cromagnonman on Jul 25, 2020 12:08:59 GMT
Looks like Edward Gorey art on the final two. (I'm probably wrong) The first one seems to be a vampire volume... has Dem been informed?? cheers, Steve You are not wrong Steve. That is actually King's SALEM'S LOT believe it or not. The NEL paperback printing of February 1977. It's very effective. But it isn't actually the first UK paperback printing. That is the open Market edition of August 1976. Has a different cover, which was done by Tim White I seem to remember.
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Post by andydecker on Jul 25, 2020 12:55:16 GMT
King? No wonder they put more effort into this. It appears as a embossed cover, which NEL - if memory serves- seldom did. I was wrong with the Kneale, though. I have Quatermass II and Quatermass and the Pit. Same edition. Both have some tv stills. For some reason I don't recall I have a double of Pit. These are not novelizations, but a reproduction of the script.
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Post by Swampirella on Jul 25, 2020 13:16:06 GMT
Nice finds. I think I have this edition of Quatermass. Or the the next one. But what is the NEL? Never seen it. It's "New English Library"
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Post by helrunar on Jul 25, 2020 13:35:07 GMT
Thanks, Richard, for the bibliographic notes! I am not a Stephen King fan... did you think Salem's Lot was a good story? That's being asked in an objective, interested tone of voice... not a snarky snide hint of "did anyone think it was a good story??" I'm well aware of how massively his books sold and the cult around them. Some have been filmed four times. I think that one has been filmed in 3 versions, to date.
The American telefilm of Salem featured this iconic vampire played the late, great Reggie Nalder, and I've thought about watching it sometime just to see his performance. But I read somewhere he was only in the movie for about two minutes. And the y.t. clips I have played of the remainder seemed dire.
Sorry for the unnecessarily rambling post.
Steve
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