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Post by bluetomb on Sept 12, 2022 21:16:36 GMT
Got Adam Steele #2: Bounty Hunter at Northampton market. Must sit myself down and finish Catch 22 so I can get on with some serious reading.
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Post by helrunar on Sept 13, 2022 4:27:33 GMT
What wonderful drawings! Thanks, James.
cheers, Hel.
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Post by dem on Sept 13, 2022 5:13:28 GMT
I'm curious to see the drawings Dem mentions, James. Scans? Here you go, Hel - Dem must have been quite the thing back in the day: Dem still "quite the thing," thank you very much. #skidrowgothic #geriatricpunk Tanith Lee: Mistress of Delerium Table of contents Pre-loved Horror paperbacks slim on ground around here just recently, so been making do with True ghost and Occult stuff. The posh reprint edition of Victorian Chaise-Longue was from the Dalston PDSA a few months back. The others from Spitalfields Crypt Charity Shop at Watney Market. Philip W. Sergeant - Witches and Warlocks (Senate, 1996: originally Hutchinson, 1936) Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Witches' Sabbath. Arthur Machen - Introduction
Author's Preface
Part I. Concerning Witchcraft
Fancy and Fact
The Short Way with Witches
Part II. The Witch-Hunters
Lancashire
Essex
Salem
Modern Instances
Part III. Warlocks Wed
Magician in Spite of Himself
The Conjurers and the Crystal
"The Kissing Witch"
Part IV. Oddments
Lady Witches
Hoodoo
Not Witches
Epilogue Blurb: Witchcraft and the supernatural have captured the imagination for thousands of years. In times gone by, the simple and credulous had limited ability to deal with phenomena of which they were ignorant. Often, events and happenings beyond the normal were taken as evidence of malefic forces at work. In certain eras, witchcraft has been seen as the cause of many of mankind's ills - from curdled milk to bad luck.
Philip Sergeant's Witches and Warlocks is a lucid account of the lore and practices of witchcraft and sorcery. It separates the reality of occult practices from the fears of its detractors, laying the verities of this fascinating phenomenon before the reader and providing a superb guide to the spells, salves and Sabbaths of both male and female practitioners of the Black Arts.
Vividly illustrated with many fascinating line drawings and wood-cuts, it builds a compelling picture of one of mankind's ongoing fascinations.Richard Maclean Smith - Unexplained: Supernatural Stories for Uncertain Times (Spectre, 2019) Introduction
Resurrected Dreams
The Box
Out of the Trees and on into Dark
Look Me in the I
To Morn Names
All That We See
If These Walls Could Scream
Into the Badlands
The Nous Fear
Every Story is a Ghost Story
Notes
Acknowledgements
Quote Acknowledgements
Picture AcknowledgementsBlurb: Based on the 'world's spookiest podcast' of the same name comes Unexplained: a book of ten real-life mysteries that continue to evade explanation ...
What can a case of demonic possession in 1970's Germany teach us about free will?
What might we learn about how we construct reality from the case of a poltergeist in the Fens?
And what can a supposed instance of reincarnation in Middlesbrough tell us about how we develop a concept of the self?
Taking incidents once thought of as supernatural or paranormal and questioning whether radical ideas in science might provide a new but equally extraordinary explanation, Unexplained asks what real-life unexplained events can reveal of our unique human experience. Marghanita Laski - The Victorian Chaise-Longue (Persephone, 2011: originally Guild, 1953) Blurb: "And in the instant before she had perceived what she was touching, she was flooded with that same memory that had stirred in her when she first saw the chaise-longue in the shop off Marylebone High Street, only now it was deeper, truer, and intolerably painful, a memory of passionate love, of a body that crushed and broke into hers, pressed down on the Victorian chaise-longue.
So that’s it, she said, not understanding the memory, only recognising that this thing, this couch on which she lay, was the only object that joined that life and this. There was a pattern: it was not all haphazard. If I could get off it then, she thought, and she dug her elbows into the horsehair-filled seat and lifted the swimming dizzy head." |
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Sept 13, 2022 15:36:45 GMT
I'm curious to see the drawings Dem mentions, James. Scans? Here you go, Hel - Dem must have been quite the thing back in the day:   These are wonderful. Fine artwork on that dark-haired presence! |
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Post by andydecker on Sept 13, 2022 19:58:51 GMT
Here you go, Hel - Dem must have been quite the thing back in the day: These are wonderful. Fine artwork on that dark-haired presence! Beautiful artwork from the Bride. Thanks for sharing. |
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Post by dem on Oct 12, 2022 10:38:16 GMT
From Sunday market. Peter Haining [ed.] - The Hashish Club: An Anthology of Drug Literature: Vol 1 (Peter Owen, 1975) Acknowledgements
Brian W. Aldiss - Preface
Peter Haining - Introduction
I
Samuel Coleridge - The Wanderings of Cain
Thomas de Quincey - Dream Fugue
Edgar Allan Poe - A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
James Mangan - An Extraordinary Adventure in the Shades
William Wilkie Collins - The Candlestick Ghost
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Theophile Gautier - The Hashish-Eaters' Club
Charles Baudelaire - The Double Room
Gerard de Nerval - Hashish
Arthur Rimbaud - The Time of Assassins
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B. L. Putnam Weale - Drugs and the Man
Claude Farrere - The House in Boulevard Thiers
Lafcadio Hearn - Torn Letters
Francis Thompson - Finis Coronat Opus
James Thomson - A Walk Abroad
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Havelock Ellis - A New Artificial Paradise
W. B. Yeats - The Adoration of the Magi
Ernest Dowson - The Dying of Francis Donne
Algernon Blackwood - A Psychical Invasion
Aleister Crowley - The Stratagem Blurb: At the end of the eighteenth century, a tradition almost as old as mankind itself — that of using drugs as a stimulus to creative activity — was revived and revitalized in the work of the English opium eaters. The pioneers of the modern phase of the tradition-a phase that has by no means ended-were Samuel Coleridge and Thomas De Quincey.
The Hashish Club, an anthology in two volumes, represents the best work of the men engaged in the literary branch of the movement. Volume One includes all those writers who played leading roles in the establishment of the modern tradition: Coleridge, De Quincey, Poe, Wilkie Collins, Gautier, Nerval, Baudelaire, Yeats and Crowley. It also features some of the neglected and little-known authors who wrote in this genre, among them James Mangan, Lafcadio Hearn, James Thomson and Ernest Dowson.
Each author is represented by a short story or essay written directly under the influence of drugs or as the result of a drug experience. Most of the works have either been long out of print or are generally unavailable, including such classics as Havelock Ellis's account of bis first experiments with mescaline in 1898 and Algernon Blackwood's extraordinary hashish tale, 'A Psychical Invasion'.
Peter Haining prefaces each selection with an introductory biographical note and at the same time traces the evolution of the tradition of drug-inspired literature through its various phases.
For details of The Hashish Club Volume II (published simultaneously) please see the back flap. Richard Jones & Chris Coe - Haunted London (New Holland, 2004) Blurb: London has a reputation for being the world's most haunted capital, with ghosts from every era and in all parts of the city. From Highgate to Wimbledon and from Chiswick to Wanstead, spectres can be found in every kind of location, from pubs, hotels and theatres to bridges, monuments and parks.
In this book, Richard Jones recounts the tales of almost 200 hauntings. He guides you around the city, taking you to the most haunted house in London at 50 Berkeley Square to meet apparitions so ghastly that people have been literally scared to death. He also introduces more playful revenants, like the regretful ghost of a rich merchant who, leaving marriage too late in life, flirtily pinches women's bottoms as a ghost.
Whether you tour the city from your armchair or on foot, you will be transported back through history to the time when Jack the Ripper roamed the streets; when Oliver Cromwell's body was exhumed, tried and hanged; and when Nelson died, victorious at Trafalgar.
Richard Jones is an informed and entertaining guide who retells the tales of famous, infamous and ordinary wraiths who inhabit London's underworld. Whether they were plague victims, murderers, actors, lovers or kindly old ladies, their hauntings will captivate your imagination.
Illustrated throughout with atmospheric photography and supported with maps that give the exact location of every haunting, this book will entertain, enlighten and mystify by turns. Richard Carpenter - Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac (Puffin, 1976; originally 1971) Blurb: In this new series of adventures Catweazle turns up in a stately home, which he turns upside down in his search for the signs of the Zodiac with which to complete his magic flying spell
The cover photograph shows Geoffrey Bayldon as Catweazle in the London Weekend International production for television |
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Post by humgoo on Oct 12, 2022 11:05:46 GMT
Peter Haining [ed.] - The Hashish Club: An Anthology of Drug Literature: Vol 1 (Peter Owen, 1975)
Gee, this is LITERATURE! You came back a literary man, and with a new haunted bench avatar! |
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Post by helrunar on Oct 12, 2022 12:53:46 GMT
Wonderful finds!
H.
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Post by andydecker on Oct 12, 2022 13:19:09 GMT
You changed your avatar!  Nice finds, btw.
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Post by dem on Oct 13, 2022 6:10:53 GMT
Peter Haining [ed.] - The Hashish Club: An Anthology of Drug Literature: Vol 1 (Peter Owen, 1975)
Gee, this is LITERATURE! You came back a literary man, and with a new haunted bench avatar! and companion volume are two of few Haining's I'd no interest in hunting down, but when a copy turns up for 50p, and you discover it includes a few stories of vague 'supernatural' interest ... The Wilkie Collins is better known as Blow Up With The Brig! and the Crowley a likeable shaggy dog story. Best thing (for me) is Haining's enthused running commentary. Vol II is more an acid-psychedelic companion. Won't be too disappointed if we never get to meet. London Ghosts, as entry level as these things come, is also quite the most attractively presented of the photo heavy ghost books I've met with. |
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Post by jamesdoig on Oct 25, 2022 19:58:30 GMT
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Post by helrunar on Oct 26, 2022 13:08:31 GMT
Nice selection. I particularly enjoy the cover of Death (can't make out the publisher)--deliciously macabre.
H.
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Post by David A. Riley on Oct 26, 2022 17:01:53 GMT
I can tell you that Death was published by Playboy Paperbacks in 1982. I had the great privilege of having a story in it.
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Post by helrunar on Oct 26, 2022 17:39:39 GMT
Thanks, David! You were in some good company there.
H.
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Post by dem on Nov 12, 2022 13:51:32 GMT
From Spitalfields Crypt Charity Shop, Watney Market, yesterday. Could've sworn we posted about this somewhere (I read it as a library loan) but seems reluctant to make its whereabouts known. Stephen Jones [ed.] - James Herbert: By Horror Haunted (BCA, 1992: originally Hodder & Stoughton, 1992) 
Stephen King - James Herbert: Introduction
Stephen Jones - A Category to Himself
Victor Olliver - A Day in the Life of James Herbert
James Herbert - Bowled over by the Beast: Me and my Car
Dave Hughes - At Home with James Herbert
Douglas E. Winter - Doing it with Style
James Herbert - Comic Relief
Mike Ashley - Cast Away
James Herbert - My Ten Favourite Books
Neil Gaiman - The Craft
James Herbert - Breakfast
Adrian Cole - Season of the Rat
John Gilbert - Horror of the Rats
James Herbert - The Fog
Jo Fletcher - The Curious Case of The Spear
James Herbert - Maurice and Mog
Michael A. Morrison - James Herbert and Science Fiction
John Fraser - The Dark Domain
Stephen Laws - Breaking the Mould
Michael A. Morrison - The Eidetic Image
David J. Howe - A British Phenomenon
Stephen Gallagher - Herbert, Haunted, and the Integrity of Bestsellerdom
John Gilbert - Haunted by Success
Nick Sayers, Ian Hughes, David Singer, Tony Hammond - Selling a Bestseller
Edwin Pouncey - In the Hall of the Monster King: Music and the Maestro of Horror
James Herbert - Hallowe'en's Child
James Herbert - Swamp Thing
John Gilbert - The Devil You Know
David J. Howe - Creed: The Advertisement
Stefan Jaworczyn - Big Climaxes and Movie Bullshit
Daves Hughes - From Rats to Riches
Graham Masterton - Jim meets Gray
Stanley Wiater - Dark Dreamer
James Herbert - They Don't Like Us
Ramsey Campbell - Notes Toward a Reappraisal
Clive Barker - James Herbert : Afterword
James Herbert: A Working Biography
Acknowledgements
Illustration Acknowledgements Blurb: With sixteen bestselling novels and worldwide sales of well over 26 million copies, James Herbert is undeniably one of the world's most popular writers of horror fiction.
JAMES HERBERT: BY HORROR HAUNTED presents a fascinating overview of the author's life and work, from his childhood in the East End and his successful career in one of London's leading advertising agencies, to his astonishing ascent as the creator of a chilling series of bestsellers from his first novel, The Rats, right through to his latest, Portent.
Featuring articles, interviews, reviews, quotes, illustrations, memorabilia and a comprehensive bibliography, this indepth study includes contributions from some of the most respected exponents of the dark fantasy genre, including Stephen King, Clive Barker, Ramsey Campbell, Stephen Gallagher, Neil Gaiman, Stephen Laws and Douglas E. Winter. It also brings together for the first time a selection of James Herbert's short stories, nonfiction and artwork.
Produced in close collaboration with James Herbert himself, and compiled by the World Fantasy Award-winning editor of Fantasy Tales, Dark Voices: The Pan Book of Horror and the Best New Horror series, JAMES HERBERT: BY HORROR HAUNTED is an informative and entertaining reference work that will prove indispensable to every horror aficionado and James Herbert fan. |
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