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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 29, 2021 2:31:02 GMT
Just nabbed a copy of Gila! off of Amazon.
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Post by Michael Connolly on May 6, 2021 11:20:25 GMT
Assuming it is the same book with a different title, this is the paperback I have of Briggs, which is excellent. In the section on Ghosts, Katherine Briggs cites M.R. James in relation to the Vampire of Croglin Grange, a connection that I can sort of see. You can read about him (the Vampire, not MRJ) on pp.49-50 of The Encyclopedia Of Vampire Mythology and many other sources: archive.org/details/EncyclopediaOfVampireMythologypdf/page/n57/mode/2up
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 6, 2021 17:25:57 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 imagesExtremely generous of your friend to pass on the SPHINX James. Anything by Lindsay - excepting A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS - is extremely hard to source these days in any edition and never cheaply. Cracking acquisition. The Haunted Woman is easy to pick up too. I have the Canongate Classics edition. Never seen the others around at a sensible price. The Violet Apple involves a pip from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil that grew in the Garden of Eden. Given that A Voyage to Arcturus is regarded as a classic I don't understand why his other books aren't more easily available.
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Post by Michael Connolly on May 8, 2021 11:11:58 GMT
Assuming it is the same book with a different title, this is the paperback I have of Briggs, which is excellent. In the section on Ghosts, Katherine Briggs cites M.R. James in relation to the Vampire of Croglin Grange, a connection that I can sort of see. You can read about him (the Vampire, not MRJ) on pp.49-50 of The Encyclopedia Of Vampire Mythology and many other sources: archive.org/details/EncyclopediaOfVampireMythologypdf/page/n57/mode/2upIf anyone is interested in the above the best collection of Irish Folk Tales is still Fairy & Folk Tales of Ireland edited by W.B. Yeats. It has had many editions including the one I have, from Picador with a cover by Bryan Froud. I started reading it last night and the best story so far (and included in other anthologies cited in the Vault) is "Teig O'Kane and the Corpse" by Douglas Hyde. Living up to its title, it is macabre and funny.
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Post by Michael Connolly on May 14, 2021 10:55:41 GMT
Assuming it is the same book with a different title, this is the paperback I have of Briggs, which is excellent. In the section on Ghosts, Katherine Briggs cites M.R. James in relation to the Vampire of Croglin Grange, a connection that I can sort of see. You can read about him (the Vampire, not MRJ) on pp.49-50 of The Encyclopedia Of Vampire Mythology and many other sources: archive.org/details/EncyclopediaOfVampireMythologypdf/page/n57/mode/2upIf anyone is interested in the above the best collection of Irish Folk Tales is still Fairy & Folk Tales of Ireland edited by W.B. Yeats. It has had many editions including the one I have, from Picador with a cover by Bryan Froud. I started reading it last night and the best story so far (and included in other anthologies cited in the Vault) is "Teig O'Kane and the Corpse" by Douglas Hyde. Living up to its title, it is macabre and funny. This is the end of "The Fairy Greyhound" from the above. "Paddy was delighted; and after sitting down, a fine lady handed him a glass of something to drink; but he had hardly swallowed a spoonful when all around set up a horrid yell, and those who before appeared beautiful now looked like what they wereāenraged 'good people' (fairies). Before Paddy could bless himself, they seized him, legs and arms, carried him out to a great high hill that stood like a wall over a river, and flung him down. 'Murder!' cried Paddy; but it was no use, no use; he fell upon a rock, and lay there as dead until next morning, where some people found him in the trench that surrounds the mote of Coulhall, the 'good people' having carried him there; and from that hour to the day of his death he was the greatest object in the world. He walked double, and had his mouth (God bless us) where his ear should be." If this isn't horror, what is? God bless us indeed!
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Post by dem bones on May 16, 2021 9:54:00 GMT
The Sclater Street Sunday market was a huge miss during lock down. Threat of rain put paid to a few stalls this morning, but even so, had a fun time of it. Nigel Cawthorne - The Sex Secrets of Old England (Piatkus, 2009. Originally as The Amorous Antics of Old England, Portrait, 2006). Introduction
Courting Matrimony Seduction Criminal Conversation Other Arrangements Prostitution Brothels and Stews Medical Matters French Kissing The Torrid Tudors The Saucy Stewarts The Gorgeous Georgians Victoriana Pederasty Sapphism Defloration Mania The English Vice Provocative Attire Erotic Entertainments The Amorous Arts Lascivious Literature Blurb: āNo sex please, weāre Britishā
On the contrary, until the twentieth century the English were considered to be the most beautiful and sexy people in the world - and always at it.
The Sex Secrets of Old England vividly portrays an outrageous cast of bawds, panders, libertines, sleeper-mongers, courtesans and rakes; in old England every imaginable (and unimaginable} vice flourished in a āshameless and bestial fashionā.
Did you know that:
Young couples used to do their courting in bed; the girl was sewn into a ābundlingā sack so that (in theory) they could only have āoutercourse.'
The eighteenth century was famous for its āspanking clubsā for both men and women.
If a widow remarried in the nude, her husband would not have to inherit her debts.
In this Fascinating (and sometimes shocking) book, the author takes the reader on an incredible journey through the hidden sexual history of England. You will be highly entertained - and appalled! Richard Sanders - Beastly Fury: The Strange Birth of British Football (Bantam, 2009) Acknowledgements Preface
Ye Gods, What a Riot! Muddied Oafs The Great Revival How Glasgow Invented the Beautiful Game The Hole in the Wall Gang Billy Siddell and the Revolution of 1885 The Invincibles The Corinthians 'The Cleverer Game': Football, Rugby and the Battle for Supremacy An Unfeminine Exhibition Billy Meredith: Professional Billy Meredith: Radical Football at War
Appendix I. The Original Football Association Laws, 1863 Appendix II. FA Cup Finals, 1872-1915 Appendix III. League Champions, 1889-1915 Bibliography Picture Acknowledgements IndexBlurb: Beastly Fury tells the story of how the modern, professional, spectator sport of football was born in Britain in the second half of the nineteenth century. It is a tale of bolshy miners, eccentric millāowners and testosterone-filled public schoolboys and of why we play football the way we do. Who invented heading? Why do we have an offside law? And why are foreigners so much better than us at the game we invented?
Based on exhaustive research, Beastly Fury picks apart the complex processes which forged the modern game, turning accepted wisdom on its head. Itās a story which is strangely familiar ā of grasping players, corrupt clubs and autocratic officials. Itās a tale of brutality, but at times too, of surprising artistry. Above all itās a story of how football, uniquely among the sports of that era, became what it is today ā the peopleās game.J. W. Lambert [ed.] - Saki: Selected from Beasts and Super-beasts & Other Stories (Panther, 1965) J. W. Lambert - Introduction
From The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)
The Easter Egg The Music on the Hill The Peace of Mowsie Barton The Hounds of Fate The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope The Remoulding of Groby Lington
From Beasts and Super-beasts (1912)
The She-Wolf Laura The Boar-Pig The Brogue The Open Window The Treasure-Ship The Cobweb The Lull The Unkindest Blow The Romancers The Schartz-Metterklume Method The Seventh Pullet Cousin Teresa The Byzantine Omelette The Forbidden Buzzards The Stake The Stalled Ox The Story-Teller A Defensive Diamond The Lumber Room Fur The Philanthropist and the Happy Cat Blurb: SAKI selected from BEASTS AND SUPER-BEASTS and other stories
Fifty years after his death in action on the Western Front Hector Hugh Monro, better known as Saki, stands unmistakably among the small band of English masters of the short story Behind the dancing wit and the dazzling phrase, behind the relentless impaling of social frauds on sharply barbed observations lies a scale of values which the modern world has abandoned but still admires: a romantic and chivalrous code, aware of more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in the philosophy of the worldly, deeply aware of both primal and sophisticated cruelty, and quite ready itself to be cruel in exposing them.John Saul - Suffer The Children (Coronet, 1978: this edition, 18th impression, 1990) Blurb: A NOVEL OF UNNATURAL PASSION AND SUPERNATURAL TERROR.
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO IN PORT ARBELLO a pretty little girl began to scream. And struggle. And die. No on heard. No one saw. Just one man whose guilty heart burst in pain as he dashed himself to death in the sea ...
Now something peculiar is happening in Port Arbello. The children are disappearing, one by one. An evil history is repeating itself. And one strange, terrified child has ended her silence with a scream that began a hundred years ago.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on May 16, 2021 11:00:33 GMT
until the twentieth century the English were considered to be the most beautiful and sexy people in the world By whom? I mean no disrespect.
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Post by dem bones on May 16, 2021 11:03:35 GMT
until the twentieth century the English were considered to be the most beautiful and sexy people in the world By whom? I mean no disrespect. English people, I should imagine.
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Post by andydecker on May 16, 2021 12:19:48 GMT
Nice finds.
Friday my copy of Pearsall's Worm in the Bud arrived. (Hm, I should do a scan). I didn't imagine it with so many pages. Cawthorne just ended on the list. Endlessly fascinating thread. On Saul's novel we had a nice thread. 18th impression? Now that is a feat. I don't know what the usual print-run was at the time. 1000 copies? 10000? Not bad for a novel which is not really a masterwork of horror belonging in the hall of fame. Even if I liked it.
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Post by helrunar on May 16, 2021 14:08:14 GMT
Nice finds, Dem. "Sapphism" and "defloration"--how quaint for a book published in 2006.
Beastly Fury--bestial!!! Those rough footballers. So BUTCH!!! (fanning myself)
I read several stories from Beasts and Super-Beasts a couple of weeks ago (beasts definitely seem to be a theme today). Wonderful stuff.
H.
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Post by peedeel on May 16, 2021 15:32:37 GMT
Dracula relocated from Transylvania to England, in part because of his love of the English. He was a true Connoisseur of 'pure blood', apparently.
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Post by dem bones on May 16, 2021 18:21:04 GMT
Friday my copy of Pearsall's Worm in the Bud arrived. (Hm, I should do a scan) You should! You should! Cawthorne just ended on the list. Will probably give that one its own thread in time.
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Post by jamesdoig on May 21, 2021 7:58:28 GMT
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Post by humgoo on May 21, 2021 8:14:10 GMT
Picked this up for the outrageous sum of 6 bucks from the Belconnen Vinnies: Misty!!! That's a stretch even for a typical James Doig haul! You outdid yourself (and enraged the whole world) again!
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 21, 2021 11:42:42 GMT
Picked this up for the outrageous sum of 6 bucks from the Belconnen Vinnies: Misty!!! That's a stretch even for a typical James Doig haul! You outdid yourself (and enraged the whole world) again! I have a whole stack of old annuals passed on to me. Mostly Mandy, and some Bunty I think. I don't remember seeing that one. I do remember Mandy had some supernatural style stories. I should look. There was a girl called Valda who could climb mountains, and swim in dangerous waters, and jump mighty distances, and do other daring things that girls rarely did back then. I like a lot of the artwork, it's a very appealing style. I'm assuming these annuals were mostly written by men.
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