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Post by cauldronbrewer on Aug 15, 2021 12:08:09 GMT
The Wordsworth The Beetle: A MysteryIt is the rare upside-down version! You are rich now. I always feel sad for beetles when they’re stuck on their backs.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 5, 2021 11:17:58 GMT
A productive trawl of Sclater street market this morning turned up these at 50p a pop. Mike Ashley [ed.] Queens of the Abyss: Lost Stories from the Women of the Weird (British Library, Oct. 2020) Cover: Mauricio VillamayorMike Ashley - Introduction
Mary E. Braddon - A Revelation Marie Corelli - The Sculptor's Angel Edith Nesbit - From the Dead Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Christmas in the Fog Marie Belloc Lowndes - The Haunted Flat Alicia Ramsey - A Modern Circe May Sinclair - The Nature of the Evidence Marjorie Bowen - The Bishop of Hell Greye La Spina - The Antimacassar Sophie Wenzel Ellis - White Lady G. G. Pendarves - The Laughing Thing Lady Eleanor Smith - Candlelight Jessie Douglas Kerruish - The Wonderful Tune Margaret St Clair - Island of the Hands Mary Elizabeth Counselman - The Unwanted Leonora Carrington - The Seventh Horse
Story SourcesBlurb: It is too often accepted that during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries it was the male writers who developed and pushed the boundaries of the weird tale, with women writers following in their wake – but this is far from the truth.
This new anthology presents the thrilling work of just a handful of writers crucial to the evolution of the genre, and revives lost authors of the early pulp magazines with material from the abyssal depths of the British Library vaults returning to the light for the first time since its original publication.
Delve in to see the darker side of The Secret Garden author Frances Hodgson Burnett and the sensitively-drawn nightmares of Marie Corelli and May Sinclair. Hear the captivating voices of Weird Tales magazine contributors Sophie Wenzel Ellis and Greye La Spina, and bow down to the sensational and surreal imaginings of Alicia Ramsey and Leonora Carrington.Charles Dickens - The Haunted House (Alma, 2019) Cover: Will DadyCharles Dickens -The Mortals in the House Hesba Stretton - The Ghost in the Clock Room George Augustus Sala -The Ghost in the Double Room Adelaide Anne Procter - The Ghost in the Picture Room Wilkie Collins - The Ghost in the Cupboard Room Charles Dickens - The Ghost in Master B's Room Elizabeth Gaskell - The Ghost in the Garden Room Charles Dickens - The Ghost in the Corner Room
Note on the Text Notes Extra Material Charles Dickens’s Life Charles Dickens’s Works Select BibliographyBlurb: Having moved into an abandoned haunted house, the narrator, undaunted by the warnings of the locals, invites a party of friends over; on Twelfth Night he and his guests gather together and relate the supernatural experiences they have had. The resulting ghost stories thrill, shock and amuse by turns.
For this work, commissioned for his periodical All the Year Round, Dickens enlisted some of the era's most famous writers, including Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins, to collaborate with him on this Victorian supernatural classic. John Douglas - The Late Show (Headline, 1994) Cover: Steve CrispBlurb: It's an all-night movie horrorshow — but this time it's for real... It seemed like a good idea at the time: get the run-down old cinema packed for once by putting on an all-night screening of splatter movies. Bring the teenage punters in by the carload.
But what the organizers hadn't reckoned on was the embittered owner of the Plaza entering into a nightmare pact with the evil entity that haunted the site - and that, after decades of enforced abstinence, it would be ravenous for real gore.
Which was how the carnage on the screen became nothing compared to the real-life bloodletting in the stalls, circle and corridors of the Plaza. The audience screamed and screamed again - but there was no exit ...
The Late Show marks the spectacular arrival on the horror scene of a brilliant new terror-talent.Richie Tankersley Cusick - The Life Guard (Hippo/Scholastic, 1991) Blurb: Kelsey's summer should have been paradise - a holiday on Beverly Island, complete with sun-drenched beaches and gorgeous lifeguards.. But Kelsey's dream holiday quickly turns into a nightmare. It starts with the note from a girl who's missing. Then there's the crazy man in the lighthouse with his mysterious warnings. And there have been a number of suspicious drownings. At least she has the lifeguards around to protect her... Poor Kelsey. Someone forgot to tell her that lifeguards don't always like to save lives.Ken Blake - The Professionals: #5 Blind Run (Sphere, 1979) Blurb: CI5 ... Society's tough answer to the spreading cancer of violence. A hand-picked, superbly-armed squad whose job is to get results in the relentless fight against crime and subversion. Together. Doyle and Bodie are the spearhead of C15, the men they call The Professionals. And they're heading for trouble. Because trouble is their business...
BLIND RUN is another fast-moving novel of action and suspense based on the latest adventures of London Weekend Television's THE PROFESSIONALS.Stephen Smith - Underground London: Travels Beneath the City Streets (Abacus, 2005) Blurb: Magnificent and renowned, London's attractions have also been minutely documented. But scratch the surface of the city and a more mysterious, murky world is revealed. A world to which we are introduced by intrepid traveller Stephen Smith as he plumbs the hidden depths of the metropolis, wandering (and sometimes wading) through buried treasures from Roman times to the present day.
Exploding corpses in catacombs, the bowels of the Palace of Westminster, the culverts of Hampton Court and the miniature Mail Rail that once distributed 12 million letters a day - Smith's eclectic journey covers the bizarre, the arcane and, always, the intoxicating (including the wines in the hallowed cellars of Berry Brothers). From the 25 miles of Cold War bunkers to the astonishing twelfth-century water main, he reveals labyrinthine delights that span the centuries.
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Post by kooshmeister on Sept 8, 2021 2:26:59 GMT
Recently Got: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension! by Earl Marc Rauch Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (as both a paperback an an audiobook) Mars Attacks: Martian Deathtrap by Nathan Archer (evidently Lawrence Watt-Evans writing under a pseudonym) A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945 by Ernst Jünger I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (as both a paperback and an audiobook) Lightning by Dean Koontz (as an audiobook) Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein Mars Attacks! by Christopher Gems War of the Worlds: The Resurrection by J.M. Dillard
On Order: Reliquary by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child The Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein
And although I haven't nabbed it yet, I have my sights set on Night of the Triffids.
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Post by Middoth on Sept 9, 2021 10:36:14 GMT
The Fox Woman and The Blue Pagoda (New York: New Collectors Group., 1946)
Although the love for Merritt remained in childhood, I find this book irresistible.
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Post by helrunar on Sept 9, 2021 13:28:42 GMT
Gorgeous art. I recall Lin Carter writing about this book, most likely in Imaginary Worlds, one of the few old paperbacks from my salad years I managed to hold onto. God that was a long time ago...
cheers, Hel.
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Post by David A. Riley on Sept 9, 2021 18:18:42 GMT
Love those Hannes Bok illustrations.
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Sept 17, 2021 13:56:04 GMT
R Ghost of Thomas Kempe illo: Anthony Kerins Penelope Lively - The Ghost of Thomas Kempe (Puffin, 1973) Blurb: Strange messages, fearful noises and all kinds of jiggery-pokery . . . It began to dawn on James that there was probably a ghost in the house!
But what kind of ghost was it that had come to plague the Harrison family in their lovely old cottage? Young James sets out to find the answer in Penelope Lively's delightfully funny story.I found this on my ebook site. It sounds like a gentle read. I might read it next. Let me know if you have read it! James is fed up. His family has moved to a new cottage – with grounds that are great for excavations, and trees that are perfect for climbing – and stuff is happening. Stuff that is normally the kind of thing he does. But it's not him who's writing strange things on shopping lists and fences. It's not him who smashes bottles and pours tea in the Vicar's lap. It's a ghost – honestly. Thomas Kempe the 17th century apothecary has returned and he wants James to be his apprentice. No one else believes in ghosts. It's up to James to get rid of him. Or he'll have no pocket money or pudding ever again. An iconic ghost story for children, The Ghost of Thomas Kempe is adored by generations of readers.
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robin
New Face In Hell
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Post by robin on Sept 19, 2021 20:01:46 GMT
I found this on my ebook site. It sounds like a gentle read. I might read it next. Let me know if you have read it! James is fed up. His family has moved to a new cottage – with grounds that are great for excavations, and trees that are perfect for climbing – and stuff is happening. Stuff that is normally the kind of thing he does. But it's not him who's writing strange things on shopping lists and fences. It's not him who smashes bottles and pours tea in the Vicar's lap. It's a ghost – honestly. Thomas Kempe the 17th century apothecary has returned and he wants James to be his apprentice. No one else believes in ghosts. It's up to James to get rid of him. Or he'll have no pocket money or pudding ever again. An iconic ghost story for children, The Ghost of Thomas Kempe is adored by generations of readers. I first heard the story on Jackanory in the 70s and it's stuck in my memory ever since. I didn't actually read it until I was in my 30/40s, but I've gone on to read a lot of her other stories and I like her a lot. Obviously, it's a kids' book from the 70s that featured on Jackanory, so gruesome horrors can't be expected, but it's a good story. I recently discovered that the artist who illustrated this story (and other others) for Jackanory was auctioning a lot of art. Sadly, the bids, while not huge, were a more than I could justify to myself. You can see them here if you're interested: www.ewbankauctions.co.uk/component/com_bidding/id,691/layout,catalogue/view,timed/ Regards, Robin
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Sept 26, 2021 18:35:05 GMT
It is in my reading queue. I am on a Wheatley spree. I just read THEY FOUND ATLANTIS and am now reading THE KA OF GIFFORD HILLARY. Both quite odd in their own individual ways. It turns out THE MAN WHO MISSED THE WAR is even odder. Completely unpredictable and, frankly, mad. Required reading. There are some interesting similarities between THE MAN WHO MISSED THE WAR and Edgar Rice Burroughs's THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT (which I just reread for the first time since the 70s). Discuss.
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Post by kooshmeister on Oct 2, 2021 14:26:13 GMT
Ordered a copy of Mantis by E.B. Stambaugh. I got it off of eBay from a seller who didn't have a picture of the book, not even a stock photo of the cover, so this is a bit of a blind buy. But, then, how many books called Mantis by an author named Stambaugh can there be? Oh well. Here's hoping.
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drauch
Crab On The Rampage
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Post by drauch on Oct 18, 2021 14:17:29 GMT
Discovered and just ebayed the only copy I could find on the net last week. Didn't see anything about it via a search here, and really online in general, but possible I missed something. Or is this a secret masterpiece just waiting to be discovered!? Initially I was afraid it was just non-fiction 'expertise' on occultism and such, but it appears to be a fictional story of satan and debauchery! I'm hoping, but reserved for an inevitable disappointment once someone wakes me up from excitement with a comment that it's a torpid mess.
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Post by jamesdoig on Oct 22, 2021 23:55:26 GMT
The Canberra lockdown was finally lifted a week ago, and retail shops, including the junk shop, finally opened yesterday. Picked this up, from 1984, for 3 bucks: As for reading, I've been on a Flannery O'Connor kick - as far as brutal (and brutally funny) Southern gothic goes there's probably nobody better:
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Post by jamesdoig on Oct 28, 2021 8:04:23 GMT
From the Salvos at Dickson for 2 bucks each: I didn't know Ouspensky wrote novels: Another huge Poe biography:
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Post by jamesdoig on Nov 18, 2021 19:52:31 GMT
From the junkshop for a buck each: This guy appears to have been another prolific expert in the occult. This was published by Manor in 1975 and includes chapters on ghosts and witchcraft. On the latter: 'One of the controversial aspects of witchcraft is the fact that many covens worship in the nude. In middle America there are some puritanically minded covens who keep there robes on, but in general The Old Religion requires nudity.' And goes on to explain why. Another copy of this: And a couple of Perry Rhodans with Chris Foss wrap around art:
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Post by andydecker on Nov 18, 2021 20:44:00 GMT
From the junkshop for a buck each: In middle America there are some puritanically minded covens who keep there robes on' Why did they even bother? They worship Satan but don't want to go naked? Sad. And a couple of Perry Rhodans with Chris Foss wrap around art: I always thought that the title of the first Rhodan should have better be "Operation 'Stardust'". As good as Foss is, the original made the series which had just celebrated its 60th anniversary rather iconic. Here are those first two novels included in Stardust from 1961, cover-art by Johnny Bruck who did the next 1797 issues.
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