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Post by jamesdoig on Dec 30, 2020 21:24:01 GMT
This was reduced to $10 on Ana*z*n - it's a terrific book. Some find the database layout off-putting but it works okay for me. hosting imagesThis at the junk shop for $2: hosting images
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Post by jamesdoig on Jan 4, 2021 20:14:00 GMT
2 bucks from the Vinnies shop, with nice Les Edwards cover:
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Post by jamesdoig on Jan 6, 2021 20:06:15 GMT
2 bucks from the Vinnies store (David & Charles, 1978): The cover shows Barbara Windsor in full glory:
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Post by jamesdoig on Jan 12, 2021 20:14:12 GMT
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Post by jamesdoig on Jan 14, 2021 20:23:47 GMT
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Post by andydecker on Jan 15, 2021 9:28:51 GMT
A nice collection! A lot of them are on my shelves.
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Post by jamesdoig on Jan 16, 2021 20:51:05 GMT
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Post by Dr Strange on Jan 17, 2021 5:22:30 GMT
I knew that Michael Bentine had written a couple of books about his own experiences with "the paranormal", but I didn't know he'd written a novel. That it isn't better known might be an indication that it's not up to much, but you never know. It's definitely one that I would have picked up if I'd come across it somewhere.
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Post by andydecker on Jan 17, 2021 13:02:06 GMT
What a great cover. Never seen this before. "The Rats" really seemed to have stimulated the creativity of the artists and the publishers. And thanks for posting the Leiber edition. I tried to recognize it on the other foto of the basket, as I wondered which series this would be. Never even thought it could be "Swords". This era of cover art has truly gone. I just read a review for the new Spenser novel, written posthumously. And the cover is a monument of all that has gone wrong with the so-called cover art of today. Remember Spenser? Last hard-boiled but newly sensitive P.I. of the world? A fu*i*g cute umbrella? They really go out of their way to be as inoffensive and bland as possible.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jan 17, 2021 19:01:41 GMT
What a great cover. Never seen this before. It is really THE UNHOLY SLIME, of course. A major typographical error.
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Post by jamesdoig on Feb 17, 2021 21:47:48 GMT
A friend was recently culling some books from her collection and passed on some to me, including these: upload imagesChapbook study of KEW edited by West Australian, Ben Szumskyj, published by Gothic Press in 2007 The Terrible Gift: A Foreward, John F. Meyer In the Shadow of a Dark Muse: An Introduction, Ben Szumskyj "Being Utterly Lost": The Essential Modern Horror of Karl Edward Wagner, John Howard Harvesting Horror, Karl Edward Wagner Gunslinger from Prussia: The Adrian Becker Stories of Karl Edward Wagner, James Reasoner Karl Edward Wagner and the Haunted Hills (and Kudzu), Darrell Schweitzer Three by Thirteen: The Karl Edward Wagner Lists, N.G. Christakos Postmodern Pulp: Karl Edward Wagner's "Sign of the Salamander" Hadn't heard of this one before - a sympathetic treatment of Derleth: upload imagesIt even includes a scathing review by Joshi up front: upload imagesAnd the first in a Supernatural Library series selected by Colin Wilson - I'm assuming this was the only one as I can't find others in the series: upload images
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Post by helrunar on Feb 17, 2021 23:43:09 GMT
He "descends to the nadir of imbecility"... if somebody said that about me, I'd treat it as a badge of honor. Aren't academics fascinating?
I don't think I've ever read anything by Karl Wagner and I need to remedy that. Is the drawing on the cover a portrait of this distinguished literary gentleman?
cheers, H.
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Post by helrunar on Feb 17, 2021 23:47:43 GMT
So, I just was reading some reviews of an electronic edition of a short story collection by Wagner. A reader helpfully reports that the entire closing line of one of the stories was either removed or rewritten (I'm not sure which) by an editor. I'm always upset when I hear about censorship.
It seems as if he wrote a lot in the Robert E. Howard style of sword and sorcery. I will continue to investigate.
H.
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Post by andydecker on Feb 18, 2021 7:16:02 GMT
So, I just was reading some reviews of an electronic edition of a short story collection by Wagner. A reader helpfully reports that the entire closing line of one of the stories was either removed or rewritten (I'm not sure which) by an editor. I'm always upset when I hear about censorship. It seems as if he wrote a lot in the Robert E. Howard style of sword and sorcery. I will continue to investigate. H. Could also be the ineptness of Ebook makers.
With KEW there are three different tracks, Steve. The heroic fantasy, the Howard novelizations and the horror stories. The Kane material is collected in Ebooks and currently dirt cheap. A good starting points with his fantasy are collections like The Book of Kane or Night Winds, which have the short stories and novellas. The novels have in parts a continuity.
The pastiches are just a Conan pastiche and a Bran Mak Morn pastiche.
The horror stories are still OOP and rather expensive. Some have become classics, mostly the novellas. A lot have a strong pulp vein. Look here or here :-)
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Post by jamesdoig on Feb 18, 2021 8:35:42 GMT
Is the drawing on the cover a portrait of this distinguished literary gentleman? Yes, it's by John Mayer - they were childhood friends. There's a nice reminiscence by Mayer somewhere online, but I can't find it at the moment. I did come across this doco, which looks interesting.
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