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Post by dem bones on Aug 18, 2018 9:34:27 GMT
Justin Marriott [ed.] - Pulp Horror #7: The Mummy Lives! (Paperback Fanatic, Aug. 2018) Cover painting: Rik Rawling "The Living Mummy special! 68 pages, full-colour. Articles on the appearance of The Mummy in American comics, German pulps, Novels and short-stories. Includes checklists and heavily illustrated throughout." Justin has confirmed the contents are as follows. Order via: Amazon UKAmazon US & Co
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Post by dem bones on Sept 6, 2018 23:28:01 GMT
A welcome treat mid-day when gallant postman came staggering from lift weighted down by a bumper, discreetly packaged survival kit from House of Fanatic/ Marriott Escort Agency Enterprises. MOV #10, Hot Lead 1 & 2, and Pulp Horror #7. Will start with the latter as am relatively familiar with contents from sneak preview of a proof. Justin Marriott (ed.) - Pulp Horror #7 (August, 2018) Justin Marriott - Pulpit Of Horror: Editorial
Justin Marriott - Four-Colour Mummies Justin Marriott - A Short Order Of Mummies: includes Marriott/ Demant/ Vault checklist of mummy-themed horror & supernatural fiction, 1924-1981 Justin Marriott - Novel Mummies & Checklist, 1940-1990 Andreas Decker & Justin Marriott - Die Mumie Kommen
Justin Marriott - Ditko and Ellison: Pre-code Horror and the Year's Best
68 pages of full colour assault by mummy pulp in its many guises. The editor's lead article is a celebration of the mummy in comics from 1940 to the close of the seventies, judiciously illustrated with relevant cover art and panels from same. Lively commentary liberally sprinkled with micro plot-summaries and recurring themes ("There were also a number of trickster-mummies who would lure the gullible and/ or criminally insane into taking their place in the museum display which imprisons them.") Am particularly fond of the ghastly sample illo from the early version of Help Us To Die! ( Eerie #13, Avon May 1951), the supremely disgusting closing sequence from Doom In The Tomb (Mystic#22, Aug. 1953) wherein Edmund Kleig learns the secret of the embalmers' art first hand, and General Rah, confused mummy turned American "football" star on cover of Creepy #93 (Warren, Nov. 1977), the second of their "All-sport specials." David Jackson The Mummy's Shroud (script: Donne Avenell), House of Hammer #15, Dec. 1977) Boris Grinsson The Mummy's Shroud cinema poster, 1967 H. W. Perl cover painting for Earl Ellison's novel, The Tomb Of Horror (Hamilton, 1946). J. K. Potter interior illustration for Arthur Conan Doyle's Lot No. 249, Night Cry, Winter 1986) A Short Order of Mummies and Novel Mummies are essentially the one extended commentary with checklist interludes, the emphasis most exclusively on the weird pulps and lurid mass market paperbacks. As with entire issue, it looks gorgeous, with full colour cover scans of several unfamiliar (at least to me) titles. The bibliography is still very much a work in progress - will update our end with Justin's additions over coming days. Inevitably, further historically significant (if gloriously terrible) stories have come to light since Pulp Horror #7 went to press, including Francis D. Grierson's The Hall of the Dead ( Weird Tales, April 1923) and Adam Hull Shirk's Osiris, ( Weird Tales, June, 1923). We round off the survey in Germany, whose canals and lakes are seemingly infested with sexually charged punting-mummies if the cover art for certain Bastei publications is an indication. No let up in the riot of colour and a fun co-commentary. Not quite sure how the collaboration breaks down - Justin's narrative interspersed with Andreas on plot outlines and author info, I guess - but it sure works for this reader. The issue closes on a tribute to Harlan Ellison and pre- and post-code horror comic veteran Steve Ditko who died June gone. One minor correction; Harlan Ellison had at least one more story selected for Years Best Horror, She's A Young Thing And Cannot Leave Her Mother ( YBH #17, DAW 1989), a gory cave encounter with the Sawney Beane's cannibal clan. Less celebrated than The Whimper Of Whipped Dogs for sure, probably rightly so, but it remains my favourite of his macabre offerings. The first exclusively pulp Mummy biblio?
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Post by dem bones on Nov 7, 2018 11:37:59 GMT
News update from the House of Fanatic. Rik Rawling Curse lifted, technical issues resolved, deskinned, resurrected: Pulp Horror #7: The Mummy Lives! has returned from the sarcophagus. Cover design slightly amended, otherwise contents as above. Am*z*n.ukAnd here's an *exclusive preview* of the tasty cover art for Pulp Horror # 8, due December. Full details as and when ... Rik Rawling
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Post by helrunar on Nov 7, 2018 14:37:16 GMT
Tasty!
H.
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Post by helrunar on Nov 7, 2018 14:43:34 GMT
I would love to know more about the Sabat: Man in Black feature.
Somehow, I completely missed the earlier thread about the Mummy issue. This absurd thing people insist on calling "resl life"....
Cheers, H.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 7, 2018 20:32:10 GMT
I would love to know more about the Sabat: Man in Black feature. Somehow, I completely missed the earlier thread about the Mummy issue. This absurd thing people insist on calling "resl life".... Cheers, H. Am guessing the article is written by Justin himself, but could be wrong. Mark Sabat. Ex-priest, SAS-trained killer, exorcist, Satanist-buster, vampire hunter, compulsive masturbator. As created by Guy N. Smith. Rik Rawling's delightful painting depicts a scene from Sabat 1: The Graveyard Vultures. See also Sabat 2: The Blood Merchant, etc.
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