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Post by helrunar on Dec 24, 2018 19:05:26 GMT
Many thanks, Richard, for that gorgeous scan. I'd never heard of that comic. Looks tasty!
I was in college sans TV when The New Avengers aired over here. A few years sgo, when I had a Netflix account for a while, I finally got to see all the shows. (When I was living in Beijing in the early 90s, I saw the Peter Cushing episode dubbed into Chinese.) I enjoyed the series more than expected. The discs have been on my shopping list for a couple of years now.
Wishing you and yours all good things for the hols, Steve
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Post by cromagnonman on Dec 25, 2018 2:49:55 GMT
Many thanks, Richard, for that gorgeous scan. I'd never heard of that comic. Looks tasty! I was in college sans TV when The New Avengers aired over here. A few years sgo, when I had a Netflix account for a while, I finally got to see all the shows. (When I was living in Beijing in the early 90s, I saw the Peter Cushing episode dubbed into Chinese.) I enjoyed the series more than expected. The discs have been on my shopping list for a couple of years now. Wishing you and yours all good things for the hols, Steve You're very welcome Steve. While I can understand why fans of the original 60s show never really took to it I have a lot of lingering affection for the New Avengers. It was one of those shows - along with Warship, Survivors and a few others - that I watched with my dad on their original airings and as such these programmes will always retain a certain nostalgic piquancy. Some of the episodes were better than others, and I think "Target" and "Last of the Cybernauts" remain my favourites. What I most like about watching it now is its roster of eclectic guest star lists which are full of 70s stalwarts like Keith Barron, Malcolm Stoddard, Caroline Munro, Gwen Taylor, Martin Shaw and, most poignantly, a down-on-his-luck Ian Hendry. And you have to feel a lot of sympathy for the lovely Gabrielle Drake who featured in most of Clemens' shows and yet never got the starring role from him that she deserved (she was second choice here for Purdey, I believe: always wished I'd asked Clemens about that when I had the chance). Still, as Patrick Macnee himself said, the greatest purpose the show served was in discovering Joanna Lumley and who could disagree with the great man about that. Anyway, that's more than enough gabble for a Christmas morning from me. Thanks for the holiday wishes and have yourself a marvellous bug-crushing Yule.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 19, 2019 19:22:12 GMT
I think that Avengers story was pulled from a Christmas annual, wasn't it Dem? An ingenious example of lateral thinking there from the ever resourceful Mr Haining. The only surprise in this being that he didn't do it more often. According to John Steeds Flat, it was first published in the ABC's The Avengers annual for 1969. Same source reveals the Daily Mirror ran a Brian Clemens 'Avengers' story, The Sleeping Dragoons over 11-14 October 1976. And via goodreads, Midsomer Murder, "A special Christmas story about Inspector Barnaby, by Caroline Graham," was published in the Daily Mail over 24th, 27th and 28th December 1999.
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Post by helrunar on Jan 20, 2019 1:55:01 GMT
The complete "Fangs for the memories" story is scanned and posted here, on this great site: bearalley.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-new-avengers-annual-1977.htmlIf you click on the "newer post" link towards the bottom left hand corner, you can read the scan of another story from the mag, "Hypno-twist." Great art from John Bolton. cheers, Helrunar
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Post by dem bones on Jan 20, 2019 21:57:26 GMT
More scary New Avengers versus Dracula capers in K.Linden's Debt Paid, In Blood (Susan M. Garrett [ed.] - Wynter Tydes # 1 Jan 1983), which you can download via Avengers Anew
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Post by helrunar on Jan 21, 2019 5:24:53 GMT
Awesome, Kev! I'll have to take a look.
cheers, Steve
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Post by Dr Strange on Jan 21, 2019 15:09:34 GMT
Peter Haining (ed.)- Classics Of The Supernatural (Pan 1998: Originally Severn House, 1995 as Ghost Movies: Famous Supernatural Films ) Peter Haining – Prologue: Things That Go Bump On Screen
James Herbert – Hallowe’en’s Child J. B. Priestley – Night Sequence Eric Keown – Sir Tristram Goes West Thorne Smith – A Smoky Lady In Knickers Dorothy Macardle – Samhain Gerald Kersh – The Extraordinarily Horrible Dummy M. R. James – Casting the Runes Shirley Jackson – The Bus Nigel Kneale – The Trespassers (aka ‘Minuke’) Robert Bloch – Lucy Comes to Stay Daphne Du Maurier – Don’t Look Now John Carpenter – Harlequin Michael McDowell – Halley’s PassingBlurb: Cinema audiences all over the world enjoy a good ghost story, and for over half a century stories by the famous writers of supernatural fiction have been adapted for the screen. Classics of the Supernatural brings together the best of these chilling, inspirational tales.
Collected here for the first time are short stories and self-contained episodes from works which inspired such classic pictures as The Old Dark House, The Ghost goes West, Dead Of Night, Ghost Story and Beetlejuice. As several of these stories have not appeared in paperback before or have long been out of print, Classics of the Supernatural is a must for anyone who loves a chilling tale. It seems Haining included a "substitute story" when he couldn't get hold of the original that "inspired" the film and, at least in some cases, all the "substitute" needed to have in common with the film in question was that it had the same writer - I read Michael McDowell's Halley's Passing fairly recently in one of the Valancourt anthologies, and it's hard to imagine anything further away from Beetlejuice. I lifted the following from an Am*z*n review - "Halloween's Child" by James Herbert: A substitute story for the film "Haunted." A driver encounters a strange creature on a lonely road on Halloween night. "Night Sequence" by J.B. Priestly: A substitute story, with a similar premise, for the film "The Old Dark House." A couple seek refuge in an old house when their car breaks down at night. "Sir Tristram Goes West" by Eric Keown: Original story for the movie "The Ghost Goes West." "A Smoky Lady in Knickers" by Thorne Smith: An early Topper story to represent the film "Topper” about a couple of ghosts who are husband and wife. "Samhain" by Dorothy Macardle: A substitute story for the movie "The Uninvited." Atmospheric, creepy story about the festival of the dead. "The Extraordinary, Horrible Dummy" by Gerald Kersh: Original story for one part of the anthology film "Dead of Night." "Casting the Runes" by M.R. James: Original story for "Night of the Demon." "The Bus" by Shirley Jackson: Substitute story for "The Haunting." An elderly woman's bus journey takes some strange turns. "The Trespassers" by Nigel Kneale: The BBC television production "The Stone Tape" was a screenplay but its concepts were first explored in this short story by the same author. "Lucy Comes to Stay" by Robert Bloch: Filmed as a segment for the movie "Asylum." "Don't Look Now" by Daphne Du Maurier: Original story for the Nicholas Roeg film of the same name. "Harlequin" by John Carpenter: Original story from which "Halloween" was devised. "Halley's Passing" by Michael McDowell: Substitute story for "Beetlejuice." A cold, calculated serial killer has a hidden secret.
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Post by helrunar on Jan 21, 2019 16:38:53 GMT
Thanks, Dr Strange. The tales by du Maurier, Kneale and Shirley Jackson sound the most intriguing to this reader.
cheers, Hel
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Post by dem bones on Jan 21, 2019 18:24:01 GMT
It seems Haining included a "substitute story" when he couldn't get hold of the original that "inspired" the film and, at least in some cases, all the "substitute" needed to have in common with the film in question was that it had the same writer - I read Michael McDowell's Halley's Passing fairly recently in one of the Valancourt anthologies, and it's hard to imagine anything further away from Beetlejuice. I lifted the following from an Am*z*n review - "Harlequin" by John Carpenter: Original story from which "Halloween" was devised. Not so sure I'd agree with Am*z*n reviewer re "Harlequin." Story seems to have as little in common with Halloween as "Halley's Passing" does with Beetlejuice. Of course, it's always possible I missed something. Still think John Carpenter's contribution is the weakest item in the book.
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Post by Dr Strange on Jan 21, 2019 20:09:36 GMT
Not so sure I'd agree with Am*z*n reviewer re "Harlequin." Story seems to have as little in common with Halloween as "Halley's Passing" does with Beetlejuice. Yes, I couldn't see any connection with your description of the story at the top of this thread. And then I thought, maybe Dem's just avoiding the spoiler, and "when he tears off his scales .... he's Captain Kirk".
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Post by dem bones on Jan 25, 2019 12:11:04 GMT
For all the moaning, I had a great time with this collection.
Michael Dowell - Halley's Passing: (Twilight Zone, June 1987). A phenomenally prolific serial killer who has met his victim a night target for more centuries than he can remember. Our man of a thousand stolen identities is very ... bloodthirsty.
Gerald Kersh - The Extraordinarily Horrible Dummy: (Denys Kilham Roberts [ed.] Penguin Parade #6, 1939). Ecco is tormented by his ventriloquist doll, Mickey, to the point where it is a concern to onlookers which is manipulating the other. The dummy is possessed by the spirit of Ecco's domineering father, Professor Vox, who swore to teach him the art of voice throwing if it killed them both. Creepy, understated. Haining was insistent this was the inspiration for the famous Dead Of Night episode, but for reasons I can no longer recall, have never been entirely convinced.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 26, 2021 8:15:13 GMT
Got this a while back, set it aside so there would be a Haining to read over Christmas. Peter Haining [ed.] - Ghost Movies II: Famous Supernatural Television Programmes (Severn House, 1996) Derek Colligan Credits Peter Haining - Prologue: A Night of Terror-Vision
Susan Hill - Farthing Hill (The Woman in Black) Bennett Cerf - Room for One More (Great Ghost Stories) Algernon Blackwood - The Listener (Mystery and Imagination) M. R. James - The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral (Ghost Story for Christmas) Elizabeth Taylor - Poor Girl (Haunted) Leon Garfield - The Ghost Downstairs (The Ghost Downstairs) George A. Romero - Clay (Tales from the Darkside) William F. Nolan - The Final Stone (Terror at London Bridge) Elizabeth Jane Howard - Three Miles Up (Ghosts) Dean R. Koontz - The Black Pumpkin (Phantoms)Credits: Ever since the Sixties, tales of the supernatural adapted for the small screen have achieved large ratings and a number have remained fixed in the imaginations of viewers. The very best of these stories of fright and fear have been brought together in this second volume of Ghost Movies.
Collected here for the first time are a number of outstanding short stories which were either the basis or inspiration for several classic TV productions such as Ghost Stories for Christmas, Tales from the Darkside and the recent BBC success, Ghosts. This is an essential collection for both viewers and lovers of ghost stories alike!Peter Haining - Prologue: 'A Night of Terror-Vision': Mostly concerned with the BBC's broadcast of Stephen Volk's Ghostwatch on 31 October 1992, which received several complaints, and, sadly, drove one troubled young man to hang himself, so convinced was he that his mum was possessed by Satan. Susan Hill - Farthing Hall: ( Good Housekeeping, Dec. 1992). The weeping ghost of a young woman in long-sleeved nightgown haunts a guest room of a residential home near Little Dornford. In the late Nineteenth century, Farthing House operated as a shelter for unmarried mothers and their illegitimate children before serving as a military convalescent home during WWII. Mrs. Flower, visiting an octogenarian relative, is spooked by an infant's cry in the night before the full-blown manifestation of it's mum, Eliza Marie Dolly, who died aged nineteen in 1902. NB. Title given is likely a misprint, as the story has since been reissued as Farthing House and property is referred to by that name throughout the story. Bennett Cerf - Room for One More: (Bennett Cerf [ed.], Famous Ghost Stories, 1944). Originally published as The Current Crop of Ghost Stories. Begins with a variation on Lord Dufferin's Curse/ The Bus Conductor relocated to a New York plantation, mode of transport, coach and horses; a freshman's initiation at a haunted house claims a terrible toll; a young woman takes a fancy to a white frame house on a country to lane, only to recognise its resident ghost; on a similar note, John Sullivan learns just who it was got mangled to death at the binary the previous day; a farmhouse haunted by a piece of slimy seaweed; the curse on a dead girl's white satin dress; and a phantom hitch-hiker on the main road from New York to Baltimore. Leon Garfield - The Constable's Tale: ( Daily Mail, Dec. 1993). Strange adventure of PC Porlock in Clerkenwell on the night Mr. Scrooge reluctantly entertained his Christmas ghosts. The young policeman became suspicious something was up when the grim spectre of seven-years-dead Jacob Marley dropped in at The Queen's Arms. Elizabeth Taylor - Poor Girl: (Cynthia Asquith [ed.], The Third Ghost Book, 1955). An Edwardian governess in her first post is seduced by the ghost of the man Hilary Wilson, her precocious, seven-year-old charge, will grow to be in adulthood. To put further strain on her continued employment, Miss Chasty attracts the unwelcome attentions of Hilary's lecherous old goat of a father. Seems to have been the author's solitary ghost story, more's the pity.
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Post by andydecker on Dec 26, 2021 11:00:56 GMT
Haining always manage to amaze me with his eye for selling topics.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 27, 2021 17:01:38 GMT
Bennett Cerf - Room for One More ( Great Ghost Stories) I have been watching so much WHAT'S MY LINE recently, I feel I know Bennett Cerf personally. There are still people around who sound like he did, but they are not allowed on television anymore.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 27, 2021 17:34:52 GMT
Nov. 4. - I attended a curious lecture in the French quarter on "Death", but the room was so hot and I was so weary that I fell asleep. The only part I heard, however, touched my imagination vividly. Speaking of suicides, the lecturer said that self-murder was no escape from the miseries of the present, but only a preparation of greater sorrow for the future. Suicides, he declared, cannot shirk their responsibilities so easily. They must return to take up life exactly where they laid it so violently down, but with the added pain and punishment of their weakness. Many of them wander the earth in unspeakable misery till they can re-clothe themselves in the body of someone else - generally a lunatic, or weak-minded person, who cannot resist the hideous obsession. This is their only means of escape. Surely a weird and horrible idea! I wish I had slept all the time and not heard it at all. My mind is morbid enough without such ghastly fancies. Such mischievous propaganda should be stopped by the police. I'll write to the Times and suggest it. Good idea!
Algernon Blackwood - The Listener: (The Listener and Other Stories, 1907). Diary entries of a struggling freelance writer, recently moved into miserable lodgings in the City centre. Over a period of three months, he is tormented to breaking point by yowling cats in the street, rats in the skirting board, a noisy kid and the ghost of the previous tenant, Blount, a veiled reclusive creeper, with a massive, misshapen head suffused with bronze-coloured blotches, and sallow limbs rotting by inches. One night, in a dream, the foul smelling spectre — who is forever moving his victim's pens — makes known its intention. "I want your body; I want its covering. I'm waiting for it, and listening always." Truly a horrible story. Paranoid man in cheap sh*t room with Necrosis.
William F. Nolan - A Final Stone: (Dennis Etchison [ed.], Cutting Edge, 1986, as The Final Stone). A decade after the original London Bridge had been reassambled across Lake Havasu, a recently rediscovered stone is added to complete the project. Opening ceremony II coincides with the first of a series of homicides mimicking those of Jack the Ripper. Police chief Dan Gregory, his love interest, Angie Shepherd (good at finding corpses in the river), and ace reporter Lenore Harper join forces to hunt down the butcher before he or she can re-enact the last and most obscene of the original murders. Dean R. Koontz - The Black Pumpkin: (Twilight Zone, Dec. 1986). A weird old timer offers scary, uniquely carved jack o' lanterns on a pay what you believe they're worth basis. "You just give me what you want .... though I'm duty bound to say that you get what you give." Even though twelve-year-old Tommy Sultzman resists temptation, a magic pumpkin still intervenes on his behalf, ridding the youth of his self-serving, career politician parents and bullying elder brother.
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