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Post by helrunar on Dec 10, 2023 15:19:47 GMT
I always love seeing all these scans. The Ghost writer by Diana Carter sounds potentially intriguing. I'm not familiar with this author.
Another one of whose work I know nothing (though I may have one of his stories in an anthology; I just can't recall which) is Mark Samuels. Very sad news about his passing.
Hel.
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Post by Shrink Proof on Dec 10, 2023 18:18:04 GMT
Another one of whose work I know nothing (though I may have one of his stories in an anthology; I just can't recall which) is Mark Samuels. Very sad news about his passing. Hel. Investigate soonest. Recommended. |
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Post by dem on Dec 17, 2023 14:35:42 GMT
Mixed bag from this morning's market, including yet another pseudonymous Haining effort. Simon Inglis [ed.] - The Best of Charlie Buchan's Football Monthly (English Heritage, 2006) Introduction
Selections from 1951-1953
Notes
Honours
Selections from 1953-1956
Notes
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Selections from 1956-1959
Notes
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Selections from 1959-1962
Notes
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Selections from 1962-1965
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Selections from 1965 -1968
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Selections from 1968 -1971
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Postscript
IndexBlurb: Charles Buchan's Football Monthly — British football's first 'glossy — hit the bookstands in 1951, bringing colour and glamour to a bomb-scarred nation. Every schoolboy wanted to buy it. Every player wanted to be part of it. For two decades it captured the heart and soul of the game. Here are the best bits, a grand reminder of how it was in the days of rattles and Bovril, short back and sides, black and white TV and not a logo in sight. Good old Charlie!Richard Peyton [ed.] - Deadly Odds: Crime & Mystery Stories of the Turf (Souvenir, 1986) Richard Peyton - Introduction
Dick Francis - The Day of the Losers
Angus Beach - The Field against the Favourite
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Silver Blaze
Guy Boothby - The Great Derby Swindle
Nat Gould - A Mysterious Stable
Barclay Northcote -The Iron Prune
Banjo Paterson - The Downfall of Mulligan's
Rudyard Kipling - The Broken Link Handicap
Edgar Wallace - A Horse of the Same Colour
Damon Runyan - The Snatching of Bookie Bob
Frank Johnston - The Race-Gang Racket
H. C. Bailey - The Ascot Tragedy
Ralph Strauss - Horse of Death
Anthony Gilbert - Horseshoes for Luck
Ellery Queen - Long Shot
Lord Dunsany - Jorkens Consults a Prophet
Leslie Charteris - The Owners' Handicap
Robert Bloch - The Racing Robot
Julian Symons - The Grand National Case
Michael Innes - A Derby Horse
Geoff O'Hara - A Day with the Toffs
John Welcome - Outside Chance
Jon L. Breen - BreakneckBlurb:
Stories about horse racing have enjoyed a worldwide popularity for more than a hundred years, in particular those dealing with crime and mystery. Tales of jockeys, trainers, owners, punters, bookmakers, touts and fans — the good, the bad and the crooked — catch the imagination of the reading public as few other themes do, and stories of remarkable horses have a special appeal. In this world of high drama and higher stakes, the elements of intrigue, corruption and even murder lurk constantly beneath the surface.
In recent years, the former jockey turned novelist, Dick Francis, has made racing thrillers his own preserve, but as he would be the first to admit, he is only following in a hugely popular tradition. At the close of the last century, writers like Nat Gould, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling were all writing tales of mystery about the race courses of the world, while the twentieth century has seen splendid examples of the genre from such authors as Edgar Wallace, Damon Runyan, Michael Innes, John Welcome and many more. All were lovers of the Turf, and their intimate knowledge gives the atmosphere of authenticity to their stories.
This collection, the first of its kind, brings together the best of these stories in a bumper volume spanning nearly 150 years and ranging over the world's major racing centres. Many of them have not previously appeared in an anthology and the opening story, by Dick Francis, is published in book form for the first time. Together they will provide hours of entertainment for the millions of readers captivated by this most charismatic of sports.Geoffrey Webb & Edward J Mason - Dick Barton Special Agent (BBC / Contact Publications, 1950) The Man in Box Four
All the Fun of the Fair
Dick Barton Wanted for Murder
One Foggy Day
The Vulture Strikes Again
Unofficial Victory
The Garage Racketeers
Jordan's Folly
Ordeal by FireBetty Putrick [ed.] - Supernatural England (Countryside Books, 2005) Betty Puttick - Foreword
Acknowledgements
Betty Puttick - Black Magic at Clophill
Betty Puttick - The Little Blue Man at Studham
Betty Puttick - The Ghost with a Guilty Conscience
Jeannie Shorey - The Phantom of Brockley Combe
Betty Puttick - Grey Ladies and Butterflies in Bath
Betty Puttick - The Poisoner's Tale
Polly Howat - College Ghosts
Betty Puttick - Hauntings, Human and Animal - and Feathered
Betty Puttick - Haunted Hostelries
Sheila Bird - Parson Dodge to the Rescue!
Betty Puttick - St Nectan's Glen
Bill Amos - Seeing Things
Bill Amos - The Croglin Vampire
David Bell - Dickey's Skull
Judy Chard - Something Out of Hell
Judy Chard - The Ghostly Highway
Sean Street - The Durweston Poltergeist
Betty Puttick - The Rider of Bottlebrush Down
Betty Puttick - The Skull That Screamed
Betty Puttick - The Ghosts of Raby Castle
Betty Puttick - The Grey Lady of Crossgate Peth
Betty Puttick - The Farm in the Marshes
Betty Smith - Gloucestershire Ghosts
Betty Puttick - Littledean's Haunted Heritage
Ian Fox - Down in the Forest
Betty Puttick - Lucy Lightfoot and the Crusader
Betty Puttick - The Haunted River Wye
Betty Puttick - The Exorcism of Black Vaughan
Betty Puttick - Something Strange at the Cathedral
Betty Puttick - St Albans' Haunted Abbey
Betty Puttick - A King's Mistress Still Lingers. . .
W H Johnson - The Bromley Poltergeist
W H Johnson - Time-Slips
Betty Puttick - The Ghost of Birchen Bower
Betty Puttick - The Most Haunted House in Lancashire
David Bell - The Legends of Papillon Hall
Betty Puttick - The Spanish Shoes
Betty Puttick - The Portrait of David Papillon
David Bell - The Haunted Council House
Polly Howat - Scrimshaw's Poltergeist
Betty Puttick - The Haunting of Epworth Rectory
Betty Puttick - The Ghost of the London Tube
Betty Puttick - A Screaming Queen and Other Hampton Court Ghosts
Betty Puttick - The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall
Betty Puttick - Bircham Newton
Betty Puttick - The Phantom Army
Betty Puttick - The Restless Ghost
Betty Puttick - The Haunting of Willington Mill
David Haslam - Nottingham Castle
David Haslam - The Trip to Jerusalem
Betty Puttick - For Sale - Secondhand Car...
Betty Puttick - The Ghost with Red Hair
Betty Puttick - The Ghosts of Stocken Hall
Betty Puttick - Mysteries at Stoke Dry
Kathleen Lawrence-Smith - The Haunting of Dorothy Blount
Roger Evans - The Grey Lady of Sydenham Manor
Roger Evans - Things That Go Bump in the Night
David Bell - The Ghost in the Ladies Loo
David Bell - Driven From His Home
Betty Puttick - The Strange Story of Corder's Skull
Betty Puttick - The Haunt of the Black Dog
John Janaway - The Death of Percy Lambert
John Janaway - Take Me Home
Judy Middleton - The Girl with the Golden Ringlets
Judy Middleton - Mysterious Music
Betty Puttick - The Cauld Lad of Hylton Castle
Betty Smith - The Battle in the Skies
Betty Puttick - The Legend of Littlecote House
Betty Puttick - Priors Court, Callow End
Betty Puttick - A Grey Lady at Ye Olde Seven Stars Pub
Andy Owens - Close Encounters of a Deadly Kind
Andy Owens - The Haunting of Heath Farm
Andy Owens - Secondhand SpookBlurb: Very few can say with true conviction that there are no such things as ghosts. A glance at this book must give even the hardened sceptic pause for thought. Taking the English counties alphabetically, Betty Puttick and her team of co-authors have produced a wealth of supernatural events. Many of the stories are written from recent first-hand accounts; others are tales so strange or terrifying that they have remained unforgettable over time.
Who could guess, for instance, that Brockley Combe near Bristol, a favourite beauty spot by day, could harbour the phantom of a black hearse drawn by four snorting horses by night! Why does the owner of Raby Castle in County Durham, who was tragically forced to surrender it to Henry VIII in 1569, still haunt his former home today? How did Country Life photographers capture the famous Brown Lady of Raynham Hall on camera? Why is the unmistakable sound of a crash still heard at the spot on Brooklands Motor Circuit where record-breaking Percy Lambert met his death? And are those terrifying hairy hands still waiting for another victim on Dartmoor's haunted highway?
These stories and many more make chilling reading and perhaps give credence to the claim that England is the most haunted place on earth.
Betty Puttick lives in Hertfordshire and has had a life-long interest in the supernatural. She has written many articles and books on the subject and has interviewed people in haunted houses, pubs, shops, theatres and even the inspector of a haunted London tube station. |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 17, 2023 15:05:29 GMT
The guy has no shadow. Creepy! Edit: Is it intentional? |
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Post by dem on Dec 18, 2023 6:10:54 GMT
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Post by jamesdoig on Dec 24, 2023 6:28:19 GMT
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Post by dem on Dec 31, 2023 13:23:17 GMT
One to see out the year from this morning's market. Anon [ed.] - Mysterious Erotic Tales (Michael O'Mara, 1997) Ruth Rendell - An Outside Interest
Andy Harrison - Collette’s Column
Robert Bloch - The Undead
J. K. Haderack - Elvara Should Be Easy
Philip Robinson - Angel
Patricia Highsmith - The Birds Poised to Fly
Alick Newman - Old Times
Frank Finch - Plucked
Bram Stoker - The Secret of the Growing Gold
Sidney Gray - Catherine Would
Elizabeth Kay - What Might Have Been
Edgar Allan Poe - Berenice
Lynn Wood - The Plain Brown EnvelopeBlurb: Classic erotic writing is all about suspense. The journey not the arrival matters. Here is a gripping collection of erotic stories by great writers such as Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker, as well as modern masters such as Ruth Rendell, Patricia Highsmith and Robert Bloch. Several of the stories have been specially commissioned for Mysterious Erotic Tales.
Poe's chilling story 'Berenice' is the tale of cousins whose passionate love is destroyed by a terrible disease. Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula, tells in the story 'The Secret of the Growing Gold' of thwarted love and deadly revenge from beyond the grave.
Robert Bloch is one of America's best known writers of horror stories and novels including the legendary Psycho. His story 'The Undead' is a horrifying tale of a modern-day Dracula. Another major writer of suspense is Ruth Rendell and her story 'An Outside Interest' is a frightening tale of malicious mischief that ends in disaster.
Fear, sensuality and the unseen world which lurks just beyond 'real life' combine in the stories gathered in this volume to create an erotic feast. Be warned! This book will disturb, excite and arouse. |
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Post by jamesdoig on Jan 24, 2024 19:50:00 GMT
Slim pickings of late, but the Lifeline bookfair is on in a couple of weeks so things should pick up there: This one isn't scarce but unusual to find it at the Vinnies shop in Mitchell for $5:   2 bucks at the junk shop:  $2 with photos of the Anthony Quinn film:  $4 from the Vinnies shop:  $2 from the junk shop - hadn't heard of thye author before:  Another one of these for 2 bucks from the Vinnies:  |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jan 24, 2024 20:44:58 GMT
I have that edition of "The Garden of Fear"! Somewhere.
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Post by dem on Jan 25, 2024 10:48:44 GMT
.... and that particular edition of Gothic Tales of Terror is a particular favourite Haining of mine, second only in my affections perhaps to The Penny Dreadful. Gollancz brought out the best in him. Not seen that Fontana-Collin's edition of Hunchback of Notre Dame before. Lovely cover painting. Does the artist receive a credit? Picked this up at the market Sunday gone. The fiction is quality. "He had learned, too, that X-rays were dangerous to human life. They did not act quickly, but if they were in contact long enough with human flesh they did cause serious damage. They caused ulcers — cancerous ulcers. And it had been ulcers like that which had caused Alex's death." Death Corner has a witch burning, a fatal beating, a killer highwayman, multiple road casualties, a cursed football pitch, and a player stretchered off dead. You don't get that in bloody Match of the Day magazine. The Boy's Book of Soccer for 1946 (Evans Brothers, 1945) A Word about this Book
Great Matches of 1945
How Football Started.
In Case of Argument: Facts about Football
The Magic of Wembley
It was Murder All Right! (Story)
Little-known Facts about Soccer
The Story of the Cup.
Keeping Fit.
How the Spectators Laughed !
Death Corner. (Story)
Joe Mercer Says —
Football Terms in French
Getting a Team Together
International Matches during the War
Strange Soccer in Paiforce
Pity the Poor Ref!
Terry's Big Chance. (Story)
The "Government" of Soccer
Football amongst the Allies
When England toured the Continent.
A Flying Start
Sport on Postage Stamps
Grandfather at The Oval
Where they Play; What they Wear
Football in Strange Places.
How a Star Player is Made
Kicked Around.
Football Thrills (Story)
Laugh with A. W. Smith
Boy—Boots—Ball
Football Records
A Matter of Windows. (Story).
Landmarks in Soccer History
Scrap Book.
Picture Pages.
Crosswords.
Cartoons.
Quiz and Puzzle Corner.
Answers to Puzzles. |
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Post by jamesdoig on Jan 25, 2024 21:45:03 GMT
No credit for the cover that I can see. I reckon a collection of Gollancz titles would look good on the shelves. Here are another couple picked up recently:   |
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Post by dem on Jan 26, 2024 11:11:24 GMT
No credit for the cover that I can see. Isn't that a signature beneath "a masterpiece of love and hate"? Tikit.net credit John Rose who also provided equally brilliant cover art for F-C's 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea[/url] two years earlier (1955) |
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Post by jamesdoig on Jan 26, 2024 21:46:25 GMT
Isn't that a signature beneath "a masterpiece of love and hate"? Tikit.net credit John Rose who also provided equally brilliant cover art for F-C's 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea Oh, yeah. Didn't think to look at the actual cover! |
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Post by jamesdoig on Feb 9, 2024 20:30:38 GMT
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Post by jamesdoig on Feb 10, 2024 5:59:40 GMT
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