Latest Finds II

[jamesdoig]

Sept 23, 2023 12:35:15 GMT andydecker said:

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?

Just sold in Australia. Apart from home-grown authors/books, Horwitz also had arrangements with Penguin, Four Square and some other British publishers, so you do see Horwitz editions of Agatha Christie, Erle Stanley Gardner, PG Wodehouse, Graham Greene etc, but they were only sold in Aus. Those covers were painted by Frank Benier - pity he didn't do more horror as he had a gift for it.

Yep, here for another month. Will be flying home at the end of October.

[jamesdoig]

Sept 23, 2023 12:48:45 GMT Knygathin said:

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. 

It's definitely one for the completist, and even they might give it a miss. I was just fascinated by how crap it was.

[jamesdoig]

This was a book I had as a young kid in the early 70s and twisted me towards horror and monsters, published by Young World Productions in 1968. Finally picked up a copy after looking for it for a few years.

[Swampirella]

Oct 25, 2023 20:08:27 GMT jamesdoig said:

This was a book I had as a young kid in the early 70s and twisted me towards horror and monsters, published by Young World Productions in 1968. Finally picked up a copy after looking for it for a few years.

Wonderful illustrations!

[jamesdoig]

From the Salvos shop for $3:



Pleased to see it has a GNS staory in it:

[jamesdoig]

2 bucks at the junk shop; not the NEL edition unfortunately, but the 1989 Grafton edition - not a bad cover though:



$3 at the Salvos shop at Woden:



$20 at Book Lore in Lynham:

[kooshmeister]

Wow, I've been super busy lately...

The Rats by James Herbert
Lair by James Herbert
The Fog by James Herbert
Fangs by William Dobson
The Uninvited by William W. Johnstone
Scorpion: Second Generation by Michael R. Linaker
Night of the Demon by Brad Carter
Gila! by Les Simons
X the Unknown by Shaun Hutson
Spawn by Shaun Hutson
Invasion U.S.A. by Jason Frost
The Pack by John G. Fuller
Killer by Peter Tonkin
The Spirit by Thomas Page
Hell Hound by Ken Greenhall
Roadwork by Stephen King
Nightmares and Dreamscapes by Stephen King
Fright Night by John Skipp and Craig Spector
WarGames by David Bischoff
Creature by John Saul
Devolution by Max Brooks

On order:

The Wolfman by Jonathan Maberry
The Terminator by Shaun Hutson

[dem]

From friend Richard's stall this morning — first result in a while.

J. A. Brooks - Britain's Haunted Heritage (Jarrold,1990)

Front: The Great Hall, Knebworth House, Hertfordshire.
Photograph by Charles Nicholas. Back: Guy's Cliff, Warwickshire.

Introduction

The South West
The South East
Central
The East
Wales
The North
The North West
The North East
Scotland

Index
Acknowledgements

Blurb:
There can be few old buildings in Britain which do not have some sort of strange story attached to them, which are much a part of our heritage as the buildings themselves.
BRITAIN'S HAUNTED HERITAGE is a collection of over 250 such stories in and around some of Britain's most beautiful and historic buildings, from pubs and theatres to castles and stately homes.
The chapter introductions feature personal accounts by the owners of some well-known houses — including Lord Montagu at Beaulieu, the Marquess of Bath at Longleat, and the Countess of Strathmore at Glamis Castle.
The stories range from the sinister to the bizarre, and include such characters as 'Geranium Jane,' an unfortunate barmaid who haunts the pub where she was killed by a falling plant-pot; and 'Herman the German', a Second World War soldier so attached to his tank that he still inhabits it at Bovington Tank Museum.

The stories are beautifully illustrated with specially commissioned colour photographs and line illustrations.

Jane at War (Daily Mirror/ Pedigree Books, 1995)

Mike Hubbard

Blurb:
THE FORCES' SWEETHEART
No girl was better loved by British servicemen during World War Two than Jane of the Daily Mirror.

Jane. Of the blonde hair and blue eyes. Of the dissolving dress, detaching bra and gravity-prone panties!

The adventurous cartoon heroine had been around for a while — six days a week since December 1932— but during the war, she came into her own.

There was never a girl so open to accidents which left nothing to cover her but her confusion. Her clothes were blown off, hooked off, washed off, ripped off and shot off.

It always came as a surprise to Jane and a delight to the lads who were fed up and far from home. This collection of stories has been specially commissioned to celebrate Jane's unique contribution towards raising the morale of the troops during the conflict.


Joan Forman - Haunted East Anglia (Jarrold, 1985, originally Robert Hale, 1974)

Introduction

Norfolk: A Tolling Bell, a Chair and the Portrait of a Lady
Lincolnshire: Walking boots and Pigs and a Spanish Noblewoman
Suffolk: Smugglers, Two Children and the Handsome Earl of Sandwich
Huntingdonshire: Love Letters, a Bridge and the life of Cromwell's Cavalry
Cambridgeshire: A Watchman, a Poltergeist and the Rattling Thing in the Coalhouse
Hertfordshire: A Grocer, a Searcher and a Homesick American Airman
Essex: Fires and Laughter and the Unlucky Witches
Northamptonshire: A Pail, a Queen and a Voice from the Middle Ages
Conclusion

Index


Blurb:

About the author
Joan Forman was born in Louth, Lincolnshire and spent her early career in educational administration and literary journalism. Her work has included drama, poetry and educational textbooks, and has been published widely in England and Canada.
A long-standing interest in the paranormal gave rise to two books concerning hauntings, The Haunted South and the present book, and to a study of the strange nature of time, The Mask of Time. This book formed the basis of two BBC television series on Timeslips. She has written a children's book, The Princess in the Tower, and has recently completed a social history of Edwardian England, a novel and an in-depth study of the evidence for death survival. Joan Forman now lives in Norfolk.

[Swampirella]

The Forman book is one of my favorites, so IMO a great find. Love the Haunted Heritage cover!

[dem]

Nov 26, 2023 15:10:52 GMT Swampirella said:

The Forman book is one of my favorites, so IMO a great find. Love the Haunted Heritage cover!

Only just realise I already have Haunted East Anglia in Fontana paperback. Britain's Haunted Heritage is beautifully illustrated throughout. Brooks' Ghosts of London is a favourite of mine, so greatly looking forward to this later volume.

[jamesdoig]

Latest issue of Chris Mikul's excellent Bizarrism:



Contents
Welcome to Larrimah (about the disappearance and presumed murder of Paddy Moriarty in a tiny outback town)
Kings Cross Wax Works
The Unfathomable Mystery of Kaspar Hauser
Somerton Man Identified (DNA evidence reveals his identity)
A Scandal in Academia (1950s scandal at the Uni of Tasmania)
Thomas Griffiths Wainewright
The Odyssey of Maria Rasputin
Book Reviews

[helrunar]

Very cool, James.

cheers, Hel

[sadako]

Just learned that Mews Books were an offshoot of New English Library, which I’m collecting. The imprint only lasted a year or two, so there aren’t many titles. After the first two Don Glut Frankensteins, they continued to be published with the NEL logo. Anyway, some interesting new stories with cool covers added to the collection.

[andydecker]

Frankenstein lives again still is my favorite Frankenstein cover. And the novel is pulpy fun.

[sadako]

Cover art by Tony Masero. The cover for number three was reused for Peter Haining’s Frankenstein File.