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Post by jamesdoig on Aug 7, 2020 22:48:21 GMT
From the free book stall out the front of the Gungahlin bookshop: After reading Banquet for the Damned and The Ritual, I'm looking forward to this one: Couldn't resist this for a buck given the current interest: And for $3 at the junkshop to go with the excellent Movie Nightmares:
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Post by dem bones on Aug 9, 2020 11:12:07 GMT
Got lucky at this morning's market with a death-by-doom double-whammy for 50p each. Bargain bucket misery! Roberto Vacca - The Coming Dark Age (Panther, 1974) Blurb: Translated from the Italian by Dr. J. S. Whale
Blurb: More shocking than FUTURE SHOCK ... More terrifying than THE DOOMSDAY BOOK - THE COMING DARK AGE reveals how our world is heading inevitably for shattering collapse
In the most disturbing book on mankind‘s future ever written, Roberto Vacca shows how all the major systems on which our civilization depends are hopelessly overloaded . . . and will crack up completely between 1985 and 1995. The result will be massive social collapse, widespread violence. disease and starvation. death on a scale never before known - and a hundred years of darkness unparalleled in human history. . .
* Japan and America will go first, followed by Germany, Holland, Belgium, France. Austria. Italy and Britain - in that order . . . * There will be no more short-term housing problem once the survivors have cleared the corpses out of the buildings ... * Fortified redoubts with gun emplacements will be the new Ideal Homes * Vigilantes and the new feudal lords will be the only lawmakers
This is your future, and it's starting now ... James V Smith jr. - Beaststalker (Grafton, 1990) Blurb: IT LIVED THAT OTHERS MIGHT DIE! The thing is loose. It feasts on the living ... the heart of a child, the liver of a man. It hides in the dark woods outside the army base. Its putrid smell gives away its presence, but no one can stop its razor-sharp nails from ripping flesh for food ... and pleasure.
Vietnam veteran Major Grayson Kirk has seen it. He is running for his life. Not from the loathsome, deadly creature. But from the powerful organization that will murder to keep the thing's existence secret.
Now the world is doomed - unless Kirk can help. For the beast craves blood. It needs human flesh. And lives for one thing only - to kill!
Also by James v. Smith jnr. in paperback from Grafton Books, Beastmaker
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Post by dem bones on Aug 16, 2020 16:48:09 GMT
Sclater Street market was much livelier this morning. Richard Matheson - Hell House (Bantam, 1973: originally Viking, June 1971) Blurb: The Belasco House. Some people called it "The Mount Everest of haunted houses." It was said that demons stalked the ancient rooms; that rites of black magic and the most perverse sexual crimes had been enacted there; that ghosts played havoc with the minds and souls of visitors who passed a night in the old Maine mansion. Twice, teams of psychic investigators had examined the place. None escaped unscathed, Suicide, insanity, grotesquely horrifying deaths followed each exploration. Now a new team was going in to exorcise the dark spirits of HELL HOUSESax Rohmer - The Island of Fu Manchu (World Distributors, 1965: originally Doubleday, Doran, 1941) Blurb: A tall, lean, cat-like figure; a close=shaven head, a mathematical brow; emerald-green eyes which sometimes became filmed strangely; a voice in its guttural intensity so masterful that Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon might have animated it. Dr. Fu Manchu, embodiment of the finest intellect in the modern world."
Another sizzling novel in the saga of Fu Manchu which takes you from the grey fog of London to an island in the dazzling Caribbean, where the security of the United States Government is threatened. Herbert Van Thal [ed.] - Ninth Pan Book of Horror Stories (Pan 1968) Details, etc HereAlex Boese - Hippo Eats Dwarf (Pan Macmillan, 2010). Blurb: The following news story is said to have first appeared in the Las Vegas Sun:
‘A circus dwarf, nicknamed Od, died recently when he bounced sideways from a trampoline and was swallowed by a yawning hippopotamus waiting to appear in ther next act. More than 1.000 spectators continued to applaud wildly until they realized the tragic mistake.'
Poor 'Od' almost certainly never existed. but every few years a version of this story ls reported in a different part of the world.
Alex Boese. who runs the world‘s biggest repository of hoaxes, www.museumofhoaxes.com, has collected together the most entertaining urban myths of recent years — from bonsai kittens reared in jars, to male lactation - and brilliantly de-bunks or confirms them once and for all. Because while most of the stories in this book are in the ‘hippo-eats-dwarf category, some of them are actually true . . .
Did Burger King really release a left-handed Whopper, with all of the condiments rotated through 180 degrees?
Can you supply your pooch with a 'doggy condom' to prevent canine overpopulation?
Is implanted eyeball jewellery the ultimate in extreme bling?'Sapper': The Best Short Stories (J. M. Dent, 1986) Jack Adrian - Introduction
The Hidden Witness Mrs. Peter Skeffington's Revenge The House By The Headland Mark Danvers' Sin Out Of The Blue A Hopeless Case The Man With His Hand In His Pocket The Other Side Of The Wall The Old Dining-Room
THE EXPLOITS OF BULLDOG DRUMMOND
Lonely Inn The Mystery Tour The Oriental Mind Wheels Within Wheels Thirteen Lead Soldiers
Select Bibliography/ Acknowledgements[/font] Blurb: Fifteen racy stories of crime and mystery including five 'lost' Bulldog Drummond stories.
Set in London clubland, English country houses and colonial Africa of the 1920s and 1930s, this cracking selection of stories includes courtroom drama, murder mysteries, tales of love and revenge and eerie hauntings.
Full of suspense and narrative invention and with the added attraction of the inimitable Bulldog Drummond, this collection will appeal to any lover of the fast-paced and lively short story. Roy Huss & J. T. Ross [eds.] - Focus on the Horror Film (Prentice-Hall, 1972) Acknowledgements T. J. Ross - Introduction Chronology
The Horror Domain Curtis Harrington - Ghoulies and Ghosties Frank McConnell - Rough Beasts Slouching R. H. W. Dillard - The Pageantry of Death
Gothic Horror Two Archetypes: The Frankenstein Monster and the Vampire Bram Stoker - Brides of Dracula Roy Huss - Vampire's Progress: Dracula from Novel to Film via Broadway Ernest Jones - On the Nightmare of Bloodsucking Jack Kerouac - Nosferatu Frankenstein Meets the Edison Company Mary Shelley - The Monster's Lost Paradise Roy Huss - Almost Eve: The Creation Scene in The Bride of Frankenstein Modern Gothic Michel Perez - Jekyll and Hyde and the Cruel Cinema Raymond Durgnat - Eyes without a Face Stephen Farber - The New American Gothic
Monster Terror William Troy - Beauty and the Beast X. J. Kennedy - Who Killed King Kong ? Claude Ollier - A King in New York Lawrence Alloway - Monster Films John D. Denne - Society and the Monster Michel Perez - The Puritan Despair John Thomas - "Gobble Gobble ... One of Us"
Psychological Thriller Manny Farber - Val Lewton and the School of Shudders Carl Belz - Terror of the Surreal Ray Bradbury - A New Ending to Rosemary's Baby T. J. Ross - Polanski, Repulsion and the New Mythology Brian Henerson - Targets: An Unshielding Darkness
Filmography Bibliography Index
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Post by helrunar on Aug 16, 2020 20:22:55 GMT
Those are cool. Great haul, Kev! I think Island of Fu Manchu was the last really good novel in that series. I used to own Focus on the Horror Film--I think my copy of the book got sold in a yard sale my parents had when I was away from home for several years in the 1980s, and they sold the house.
Hell House, from what I recall of it, was rather a different sort of story from the film version. Lots of sex and extreme language and more extreme imagery.
Maybe one of these days I will try to collect some of those Pan Horror books.
cheers, Steve
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2020 16:53:17 GMT
Hello! I’m new round these parts. An avid book collector, mainly horror, but I do also dabble in other genres from time to time. Anyway, here is a selection of my purchases from last week... First up are 3 leisure titles... Maniac - Stuart Friedman (1987) The Power - Sal Conte (1989) The Sisterhood - Florence Stevenson (1989)
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Post by Swampirella on Aug 17, 2020 16:59:48 GMT
Welcome to the Vault; congrats on your great finds!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2020 17:00:03 GMT
Next up is some New English Library (NEL) paperbacks... Obsession - Miles Tripp (1973) The Axeman Cometh - John Farris (1989) The Ice King - Michael Scot (1987)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2020 17:01:21 GMT
Welcome to the Vault; congrats on your great finds! Thank you Swampirella!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2020 17:09:31 GMT
Next up is 2 Thomas Tessier titles, both from Pan. The Nightwalker - Thomas Tessier (1979) Phantom - Thomas Tessier (1982) I am particularly pleased with this edition of Phantom as it as some impressive die-cut/step back cover art!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2020 17:15:07 GMT
Just the one from Star, (W.H. Allen & Co.) but in really nice shape for an almost 40 year old edition!... Echo - Kenneth Jupp (1980)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2020 17:42:50 GMT
Just the one Corgi release from last weeks purchases... The Keepsake - Paul Huson (1981)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2020 17:47:43 GMT
Here is a Pageant Books release... Cradle And All - Fay Nedra Zachary (1989) A well read copy, but I love that cover art!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2020 17:52:21 GMT
And last but not least, in regards to the horror related purchases from last week we have a Hamlyn release... Satan’s Snowdrop - Guy N. Smith (1980) Beyond delighted to finally have a nice paperback copy of this, complete with protective cover!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2020 18:02:59 GMT
And finally, from last weeks purchases, non horror paperbacks... The New Drifters - Petra Christian (1972) The Day of The Jackal - Frederick Forsyth (1967) John Lennon : Death of A Dream - George Carpozi Jr. (1980) Testament - David Morrell (1975) The Totem - David Morrell (1979)
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Post by jamesdoig on Aug 17, 2020 20:54:07 GMT
Picked this up yesterday from the Vinnies store for $2. I had no idea it existed - Julian Symons and Tom Adams provide commentary on Adams' Agatha Christie covers for Fontana. It's pretty cheap from the usual 2nd hand sources.
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