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Post by Calenture on Jan 14, 2008 23:30:48 GMT
Found this message on one of my infrequent visits to a Yahoo mailbox.
"I wonder if you an help.
I am trying to find a Pan horror book.
The front cover is of a young girl with the head of an old lady carrying a teddy bear behind her.
Pan books is written on the top left hand side of the cover.
Much appreciated if you can help.
Marc."
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Post by Dr Terror on Jan 14, 2008 23:43:05 GMT
One of the Tales of Unease books, I think.
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Post by Steve on Jan 15, 2008 6:46:46 GMT
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jan 15, 2008 10:54:15 GMT
My God,
how do you guys do it? I can hardly remember my own name.
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Post by Johnlprobert on Jan 15, 2008 10:58:37 GMT
I remember that. The first one has a skull in a wineglass, I think.
Burke is a pretty good writer as well - his 'We've Been Waiting for You' from Ash-Tree is a very good collection & includes his Pan Horror contribution 'Comedy of Terrors'
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Post by franklinmarsh on Jan 15, 2008 11:28:15 GMT
What a loathesome cover. Just goes to show where Bo Selecta got his inspiration from.
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Post by Johnlprobert on Jan 15, 2008 11:58:40 GMT
It reminds me of that story 'The Happy Return' in Pan 9 by ?Dulcie Gray
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Post by dem on Jan 15, 2008 15:18:53 GMT
One of the all time great covers! John Burke - More Tales Of Unease (Pan, 1969) Andrea Newman - She’ll be Company for You
Herbert Harris - The Escort
Virginia Ironside - The Young Squire
Miles Tripp - Snow
John Christopher - A Cry of Children
Arnost Lustig - The Beginning and the End
Jeffry Scott - He Said I Could
John Brummer - Speech is Silver
Stewart Farrar - The Girl in Question
Christine Hickman - So Dark the Rose
Alexander Walton - Clegson’s Folly
Elizabeth Lemarchand - Time to be Going
Penelope Wallace - Tell David…
Alex Hamilton - The Flies on the Wall
Victor Lucas - Here Comes a Candle
R. Andrew Hall - Split Image
E. C. Tubb - Little Girl Lost
Michael Cornish - They’ll Have to Go
Alan C. Jenkins - The Blind Man
Stephen Meadows - Frances
Arthur Sellings - Jukebox
John Burke - Be our GuestThanks to blackmonk for providing the coverscan and details of this one. |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jan 15, 2008 18:19:21 GMT
Yes,
that cover provided me with a few sleepless nights as a kid. There were echoes of the horrific child figure in Don't Look Now.'
Craog
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Post by carolinec on Jan 15, 2008 20:38:05 GMT
Oh yes, I remember that cover from way back too. I think I'd tried to put it out of my mind it's so scary. I don't know about sleepless nights as a child, but I think I might have a sleepless night tonight if I don't lose that image again really quickly!  |
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Post by redbrain on Jan 15, 2008 20:53:07 GMT
I think that I may have been too old in 1969 (I had my 23rd birthday that year) for the cover to give me uneasy nights. Maybe it would have been a different story had I been as young as Caroline.  |
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Post by carolinec on Jan 15, 2008 21:06:57 GMT
I've reached that age where I've started to regress back to early childhood again. Either that or I scare really easily!  |
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Post by Calenture on Jan 16, 2008 12:31:10 GMT
Thanks for the help identifying this one, folks. I was slightly puzzled because Marc's email originally originally included the line "the image is on the vault of evil website". Then it dawned on me that the image might be only a detail shown at Vault of Evil: The Site, or Vault of Evil: Encyclopedia Phantasmagoria. And I think I remember that Encyclopedia Phantasmagoria was a Wikipedia version at one stage?  While the internet sleeps, Dem's quest for world domination continues... And he knows every mad scientist trick in the book! |
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Post by allthingshorror on Mar 25, 2008 7:09:54 GMT
That cover is wrong on so many levels. I'm going to have to get a copy. Fast. |
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