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Post by ollonois on Aug 17, 2018 10:53:32 GMT
hi, I have some issues of this publication. Is it an interesting reading? Any horror or mostly s/f and fantasy?
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Post by dem bones on Aug 17, 2018 15:57:35 GMT
hi, I have some issues of this publication. Is it an interesting reading? Any horror or mostly s/f and fantasy?
The five issues I've seen each include horror & supernatural fiction, mostly original but also classic reprints (Le Fanu, W.H. Hodgson, M. R. James, Dino Buzzati, H. R. Wakefield, etc.). Several of the originals found their way into the corresponding volumes of Karl E Wagner's Years Best Horror selections. Again, Ramsey Campbell's contribution to the Nov. 1981 issue, is a creepy favourite of mine.
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Post by andydecker on Aug 17, 2018 17:49:16 GMT
Some of the issues are a kind of who's who of 80s horror. King, Campbell, Schow, Skipp, T.E.D. Klein, who also was the editor, the Mathesons, essays and reviews by Disch, articles by Schow. In the few issues I own I don't remember outright fantasy. Maybe some urban fantasy.
It is a nice Kodak moment of a particular era in the genre bevore it imploded.
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Post by Knygathin on Aug 17, 2018 22:27:42 GMT
I have one issue only in an old stack. It features a fun article by Gahan Wilson on the game CALL OF CTHULHU (which I wanted to play as a teen, but never did - it was too expensive. :/ ... I prioritized my book and art collection).
I just found that it also contains M. R. James's "The Malice of Inanimate Objects", which is nice because that story is not in my copy of Collected Ghost Stories (the only James book I own, ... a cherished one).
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Post by jamesdoig on Aug 18, 2018 0:02:21 GMT
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Post by andydecker on Aug 18, 2018 13:00:30 GMT
Thanks for the scan. I always wanted to read Wagner's list. A lot of it is unknown to me.
On the stinker list are also one or two interesting books.I have more of them then of Wagner's list. What does this say about me? Hm. I really have to read Saul's "Suffer the Children".
I also looked for my TZMs. it is a bit disappointing that I only have one Klein, the rest is mostly the last issues.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 18, 2018 14:32:01 GMT
On the stinker list are also one or two interesting books.I have more of them then of Wagner's list. What does this say about me? Hm. I really have to read Saul's "Suffer the Children". Same here. Clearly R. S. Hadji had yet to experience true suffering if he'd not read far worse ghost story collections than Unholy Relics. Fair enough, It's difficult to defend The Vampire Tapes on any level, but I absolutely adore it. Rest In Agony is neither particularly 'good' or 'bad,' it just sort of ... exists. And The Sucking Pit? Is this man on some bizarre crusade against proper literature or what? The Transition of Titus Crow. Ok, we'll give him that one.
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Post by Knygathin on Aug 20, 2018 13:13:58 GMT
... I just found that it also contains M. R. James's "The Malice of Inanimate Objects", which is nice because that story is not in my copy of Collected Ghost Stories A very slight piece, essay rather than short story. I had hoped for something much more sinister (but that probably would have been more in line with Arthur Machen's mystical work, than James's traditional view of the supernatural).
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Post by dem bones on Aug 20, 2018 15:57:37 GMT
I always wanted to read Wagner's list. A lot of it is unknown to me. On the stinker list are also one or two interesting books.I have more of them then of Wagner's list. What does this say about me? Hm. I really have to read Saul's "Suffer the Children". The bookshelf concludes in the following issue ('Supernatural Cats') with: Thomas S. Disch - 13 Great Works of Fantasy from the last 13 Years R. S. Hadji's 13 Neglected Masterpieces of the Macabre Karl E. Wagner's 13 Best SF Horror Novelsy R. S. Hadji's 13 Most Terrifying Horror Stories T. E. D. Klein's 13 Most Terrifying Horror StoriesT. E. D. Klein [ed.] - Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine (May-June 1983) Artifact T. E. D. Klein - Editorial. In the Twilight Zone: Cone Fever.
Fiction
Stephen King - The Raft Curtis K. Stadtfeld - In the Field of the Dying Cherry Tree Ardath Mayhar - The Tuck at the Foot of the Bed Robert H. Curtis - Harry’s Story Chris Massie - A Fragment of Fact Andrew Weiner - Takeover Bid Joe R. Lansdale - Listen
Interviews
James Verniere - Mel Gibson: Mad Max Remembers George Miller Lorenzo Carcaterra - V.C. Andrews and "all those beautifully bizarre little things ..." James Verniere - Anthony Perkins on Bates 1 & 2
Departments/ Articles
Thomas S. Disch - Books Gahan Wilson - Screen Jack Sullivan - Music Ron Goulart - Nostalgia: Walking with Zombies and Other Saturday Afternoon Pastimes Robert Martin - From Down Under to ‘20,000 Feet’ Isidore Haiblum - Confessions of a Freelance Fantasist: Part I Ed Naha & James Verniere - TZ Screen Previews Marc Scott Zicree - TV’s Twilight Zone (Part XXIV) Thomas H. Disch, R. S. Hadji & Karl E. Wagner - The Fantasy Five-Foot Shelf (Part I) Rod Serling - The Lonely (Screenplay) T. E. D. Klein [ed.] - Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine (July-Aug. 1983) Joe Burleson T. E. D. Klein - Editorial. In the Twilight Zone: Ailurophobia
Fiction
Ennis Duling - Huggins’ World Jack C. Haldeman II - Open Frame A. Wayne Carter - Edison Came to Stay Gordon Linzner - The Peddler’s Bowl S. Fowler Wright - The Better Choice Gahan Wilson - The Book Jon Wynne-Tyson - Mistral
Interviews
James Verniere - Douglas Trumbull: Saved by the Machine Peter H. Cannon - H.P. Lovecraft
Departments/ Articles
Thomas S. Disch - Books Gahan Wilson - Screen Ron Goulart - Nostalgia: The Haunted Radio Robert M. Price - Famous Last Words H. P. Lovecraft - Something About Cats (Introduced by S. T. Joshi) Thomas H. Disch, R. S. Hadji, T.E.D. Klein & Karl E. Wagner - The Fantasy Five-Foot Shelf (Part II) Isidore Haiblum - Confessions of a Freelance Fantasist (Part II) James Verniere - TZ Profile: Donald Sutherland A Feline Portfolio James Verniere - TZ Screen Previews Marc Scott Zicree - TV’s Twilight Zone (Part XXV) Rod Serling - Five Characters in Search of an Exit (Screenplay)
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Post by jamesdoig on Aug 21, 2018 9:00:07 GMT
The bookshelf concludes in the following issue ('Supernatural Cats') with: Thomas S. Disch - 13 Great Works of Fantasy from the last 13 Years R. S. Hadji's 13 Neglected Masterpieces of the Macabre Karl E. Wagner's 13 Best SF Horror Novelsy R. S. Hadji's 13 Most Terrifying Horror Stories T. E. D. Klein's 13 Most Terrifying Horror StoriesHere it is:
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Aug 21, 2018 12:12:17 GMT
There is something a bit studied about some of those lists. Strange that the best works should all be largely unavailable.
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Post by mattofthespurs on Aug 21, 2018 12:56:34 GMT
I've still got my complete collection of Twilight Zone mags. Started collecting them in my late teens but I was more interested in the bits about the TV programme, the scripts and the articles, than I was about the fiction. Now I keep them for the stories. Keep meaning to get them professionally bound up.
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Post by andydecker on Aug 21, 2018 16:48:51 GMT
There is something a bit studied about some of those lists. Strange that the best works should all be largely unavailable. You are right. A lot of these novels are truly obscure.
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Post by helrunar on Aug 21, 2018 19:46:09 GMT
Interesting that AC Benson was mentioned. I got the impression a year or two ago, rightly or wrongly, that his work was a little too Christian/Catholic for my elderly palate, at this stage in the scheme of things.
I just finished an extraordinarily boring, rote-written novella by Sheridan Le Fanu in the Dr Hesselius series, "The Familiar." There was no suspense at any point in the narrative to speak of, and the title animal proved to be a "fine old owl" that made what could at best be termed a cameo appearance towards the end. I report this only to say that something previously unread by a favorite artist does not always prove to be all that life-enhancing.
H.
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Post by helrunar on Aug 21, 2018 19:57:55 GMT
Awww, poor maligned MP Dare got put in the "stinkers of the weird" bin. So unfair. The stories really are a lot of fun.
But he shares this honor with Bram Stoker and our own Guy N. Smith.
I feel obscurely, malefically compelled to track down Dracutwig. According to Goodreads, the novel opens with Castle Dracula as looking like a giant egg somebody dropped out of the sky. I may need more of that if our new operating system here in the office continues its track record of driving me terminally batty (sounds like the right niveau for this kind of thing).
cheers, H.
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