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Post by dem on Jul 19, 2023 18:29:01 GMT
Grady made the Bethnal Green branch of the Spitalfields Crypt charity shop.  Grady Hendrix - We Sold Our Souls (Quirk, 2018)  Cover design by Doogle Horner: Cover photo by Viorel Sims/Shutterstock Blurb: AGAINST THE FORCES OF EVIL, HER ONLY WEAPON IS HER GUITAR.
EVERY MORNING, Kris Pulaski wakes up in hell. In the 1990s she was lead guitarist of Dürt Würk, a heavy-metal band on the brink of breakout success until lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo career and rocketed to stardom, leaving his bandmates to rot in obscurity.
Now Kris works as night manager of a Best Western; she's tired, broke, and unhappy. Then one day everything changes — a shocking act of violence turns her life upside down, and she begins to suspect that Terry sabotaged more than just the band.
Kris hits the road, hoping to reunite Dürt Würk and confront the man who ruined her life. Her journey will take her from the Pennsylvania rust belt to a celebrity rehab center to a satanic music festival. A furious power ballad about never giving up, We Sold Our Souls is an epic journey into the heart of a conspiracy-crazed, pill-popping, paranoid country that seems to have lost its very soul.
GRADY HENDRIX is a novelist and screenwriter based in New York City. His novels include Horrorstor, named one of the best books of 2014 by National Public Radio, and My Best Friend's Exorcism, for which the Wall Street Journal dubbed him "a national treasure." The Bram Stoker Award winning Paperbacks from Hell, a survey of outrageous horror novels of the 1970s and '80s, was called "pure, demented delight" by the New York Times Book Review. |
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Post by bluetomb on Jul 19, 2023 20:19:03 GMT
Grady made the Bethnal Green branch of the Spitalfields Crypt charity shop. Grady Hendrix - We Sold Our Souls (Quirk, 2018) Cover design by Doogle Horner: Cover photo by Viorel Sims/Shutterstock Blurb: AGAINST THE FORCES OF EVIL, HER ONLY WEAPON IS HER GUITAR.
EVERY MORNING, Kris Pulaski wakes up in hell. In the 1990s she was lead guitarist of Dürt Würk, a heavy-metal band on the brink of breakout success until lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo career and rocketed to stardom, leaving his bandmates to rot in obscurity.
Now Kris works as night manager of a Best Western; she's tired, broke, and unhappy. Then one day everything changes — a shocking act of violence turns her life upside down, and she begins to suspect that Terry sabotaged more than just the band.
Kris hits the road, hoping to reunite Dürt Würk and confront the man who ruined her life. Her journey will take her from the Pennsylvania rust belt to a celebrity rehab center to a satanic music festival. A furious power ballad about never giving up, We Sold Our Souls is an epic journey into the heart of a conspiracy-crazed, pill-popping, paranoid country that seems to have lost its very soul.
GRADY HENDRIX is a novelist and screenwriter based in New York City. His novels include Horrorstor, named one of the best books of 2014 by National Public Radio, and My Best Friend's Exorcism, for which the Wall Street Journal dubbed him "a national treasure." The Bram Stoker Award winning Paperbacks from Hell, a survey of outrageous horror novels of the 1970s and '80s, was called "pure, demented delight" by the New York Times Book Review. I'll be interested to learn how this one is. For some reason a cross-country journey is always a compelling literary hook for me whatever the genre. |
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Jul 21, 2023 11:00:56 GMT
Grady made the Bethnal Green branch of the Spitalfields Crypt charity shop. Grady Hendrix - We Sold Our Souls (Quirk, 2018) Cover design by Doogle Horner: Cover photo by Viorel Sims/Shutterstock This is my favorite Grady Hendrix novel (I've read all of them except the most recent one), and this is also my favorite cover for it. The main character is great, the road trip visits cool locations, and the heavy metal element works well. |
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Post by jamesdoig on Aug 14, 2023 21:29:38 GMT
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Post by bluetomb on Aug 14, 2023 21:47:55 GMT
Curiously, the second reprint copy I have of A Vintage From Atlantis goes to The God of the Asteroid.
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Post by andydecker on Aug 15, 2023 7:54:42 GMT
Had to go to Sydney yesterday and on the way back dropped in on Berkelouw's Book Barn in Berrima (not kidding). It has a certain ring. Or is it called a meme today? Say it three times fast before a mirror :-) And I've no idea why, but this dreadful 744 page edition of Lovecraft for $35 published by Golgotha Press in 2011 - it has a potted biography of HPL, a thematic and plot round up for each story, but the layout is bizarre and is clearly a POD effort: As far as I am concerned this makes a text unreadable. Two or three empty lines between paragraphs? Ugh!
The Ashton Smith edition is great, btw.
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Post by jamesdoig on Sept 7, 2023 17:25:27 GMT
2 zloty from the secondhand bookshop in Kolobrzeg (still no Grabinski)  |
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Post by helrunar on Sept 8, 2023 17:53:39 GMT
That cover painting makes me think of an activity between two men I really don't associate with Mr Smith's oeuvre or style.
A long fishing trip along a secluded riverbank, of course. That is what I meant. Why, whatever else could you possibly have thought?
Weekend cheers,
Hel.
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Post by jamesdoig on Sept 9, 2023 9:39:45 GMT
That cover painting makes me think of an activity between two men I really don't associate with Mr Smith's oeuvre or style. Yes, it's an uninspired cover - more crab less naked bloke I say. Looks like the publisher did a few GNS, including one or two of the Sabat books. And the Spring Lifeline bookfair is on again this weekend - first time I've missed it since 1995. I got my son to send me a few pics of the vintage paperbacks section, but little of interest - the good things would have been snapped up. Still quite a few Pans though:  |
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Post by helrunar on Sept 9, 2023 13:46:00 GMT
I'm envious--we can't get cheap Pans (or cheap Panthers, Nels, etc.) here in the US.
Nice to read that bibliophilia or is it -mania runs in the family!
cheers, Steve
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Post by jamesdoig on Sept 16, 2023 8:45:15 GMT
Found this is the run-down shed in a box of old German books and enjoyed reading it - no idea how it got there. The stories hold up pretty well, in particular 'The Undignified Melodrama of the Bone of Contention' has nice atmosphere and folkloric touches:  |
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Post by Michael Connolly on Sept 17, 2023 15:59:39 GMT
Found this is the run-down shed in a box of old German books and enjoyed reading it - no idea how it got there. The stories hold up pretty well, in particular 'The Undignified Melodrama of the Bone of Contention' has nice atmosphere and folkloric touches: "The Bone of Contention" is the best detective short story that I have ever read. It depends on the supernatural being real, i.e., the business about the cold spot in this instance. Almost as good is "The Image in the Mirror" collected in Hangman's Holiday. On the whole, Dorothy L. Sayers's short stories are better than her novels, which is a minority opinion. |
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Post by jamesdoig on Sept 23, 2023 11:01:47 GMT
Here's Jules Burt's latest video on crazy ebay sales for vintage paperbacks: Lots of sf and horror titles. I wish we got those sorts of prices in Australia. The craziest must be Roger Franklin's Scripts (imprint of Horwitz) paperback Shark! for $333 - which actually was from an Australian seller. I flogged the same book in a decent Horwitz lot for a measly 35 bucks (about 20 quid):  |
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Post by andydecker on Sept 23, 2023 12:35:15 GMT
Correct me if I am wrong, but those Horwitz cover are pretty graphic for their time. (Especially love the one for Nightmare Stories, but Tales of Horror and Spine-Tingling Tales are great too.) Were those editions for abroad or sold at home?
You still in Poland?
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Post by Knygathin on Sept 23, 2023 12:48:45 GMT
And I've no idea why, but this dreadful 744 page edition of Lovecraft for $35 published by Golgotha Press in 2011 - it has a potted biography of HPL, a thematic and plot round up for each story, but the layout is bizarre and is clearly a POD effort:   Yes, looks truly awful. I don't know why digital texts put a space between each paragraph (they give some lame excuse about it being "easier to read", which it is NOT), but I think it ought to be criminalized. It is ugly, fractionated, and most importantly, they vandalize the authors's texts. And genuinely intended spaces become lost, and therefore meaningless. About the cover: If the photo had been placed a centimeter lower down, the pointless corner glimpse of a road would have been out of the picture, and the mountain tops freed from the "H.P. Lovecraft" name strip (or if this had been raised higher up). Sloppy careless design. Sign of the times. |
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