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Post by helrunar on Nov 14, 2020 22:53:06 GMT
Andreas, the only time I bought a pulp/horror themed magazine on ama zombie, the Kindle edition only had a partial version of the complete contents.
It's sad because with postage rates to Mordor, I mean the US, sky high now, I hesitate to order books from overseas unless they're something really special. Last Spring, I ordered a Simon Raven book from Australia because even with the $25 shipping charge, it was cheaper than any copy I could find sold in the US.
cheers,Steve
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Post by andydecker on Nov 15, 2020 10:05:04 GMT
Andreas, the only time I bought a pulp/horror themed magazine on ama zombie, the Kindle edition only had a partial version of the complete contents. It's sad because with postage rates to Mordor, I mean the US, sky high now, I hesitate to order books from overseas unless they're something really special. Last Spring, I ordered a Simon Raven book from Australia because even with the $25 shipping charge, it was cheaper than any copy I could find sold in the US. cheers,Steve Yes, you are right. I used to order often overseas in the past. In the pre-online times there were a few stores which specialized in delivering overseas. I even used E*ay when it became a (rather) safe instrument. The last order, I think, was a couple of action adventure novels which got complicated because of some problem with customs. Or they send the wrong lot, I don't remember any longer. Some years later postage became unreasonable high. But as the kraken had grown and delivered old books, it was kind of okay. The sweet lure of getting things without any hassle.
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gloomy sundae
Crab On The Rampage
dem in disguise; looking for something to suck
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Post by gloomy sundae on Nov 15, 2020 13:52:11 GMT
I bought the Kindle edition. Is there really a Ramsey Campbell interview included? It seems to be missing in the Ebook edition. Which also has an erratic page-numbering and no content-page. The interview runs from pages 32-36 inclusive in the paperback. Ramsey on The Wise friend, personal folk horror favourites, Limericks of the Alarming & Phantasmal, recent movie recommendations, and what scares him. Re the Kindle. I'm guessing the illustrations are b/w throughout but are the photo's in colour? I'm thinking especially of the one of Anna and Charles Black at the Those Who Dream Monsters launch. dem
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Post by andydecker on Nov 15, 2020 14:12:51 GMT
I bought the Kindle edition. Is there really a Ramsey Campbell interview included? It seems to be missing in the Ebook edition. Which also has an erratic page-numbering and no content-page. The interview runs from pages 32-36 inclusive in the paperback. Ramsey on The Wise friend, personal folk horror favourites, Limericks of the Alarming & Phantasmal, recent movie recommendations, and what scares him. Re the Kindle. I'm guessing the illustrations are b/w throughout but are the photo's in colour? I'm thinking especially of the one of Anna and Charles Black at the Those Who Dream Monsters launch. dem Thanks! A pity. I just read the interviews and browsed a few of the articles. I wasn't keen on the movie stuff, to be honest. Wouldn't have missed it, if they omitted these. Photo's are in colour, also the one with Charles Black, book-covers also, illustrations like the Oliver ones are b/w.
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Post by David A. Riley on Nov 15, 2020 15:15:33 GMT
Andreas, the only time I bought a pulp/horror themed magazine on ama zombie, the Kindle edition only had a partial version of the complete contents. It's sad because with postage rates to Mordor, I mean the US, sky high now, I hesitate to order books from overseas unless they're something really special. Last Spring, I ordered a Simon Raven book from Australia because even with the $25 shipping charge, it was cheaper than any copy I could find sold in the US. cheers,Steve As this is printed by amazon kdp, surely the postage rates for ordering this through amazon.com in the States would be domestic, not overseas?
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Post by helrunar on Nov 15, 2020 15:24:51 GMT
Have no idea, David... I thought Andreas was discussing an electronic edition. That was what I had ordered previously but it was a different title/pub from this.
So had no idea it was actually being printed over here (US)--that's the case with the Lulu titles. I'm not really up on all these specifics.
H.
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Post by andydecker on Nov 15, 2020 16:43:41 GMT
Andreas, the only time I bought a pulp/horror themed magazine on ama zombie, the Kindle edition only had a partial version of the complete contents. It's sad because with postage rates to Mordor, I mean the US, sky high now, I hesitate to order books from overseas unless they're something really special. Last Spring, I ordered a Simon Raven book from Australia because even with the $25 shipping charge, it was cheaper than any copy I could find sold in the US. cheers,Steve As this is printed by amazon kdp, surely the postage rates for ordering this through amazon.com in the States would be domestic, not overseas? It is avaiable also in print, I guess print on demand, like Justin's line. So domestic postage. But I wasn't that interested to order print as my primary reason was the interviews and the new Oliver story. The Kindle was enough. I don't have a problem that those Kindle editions are abridged, they are low priced. But it would be nice if they would mark the editions as shortened or list the actual content so you can make an informed decision.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 21, 2020 18:19:49 GMT
I wasn't keen on the movie stuff, to be honest. Wouldn't have missed it, if they omitted these. Me neither, but maybe half the readership are thinking they could do without the book stuff. Had another dip in earlier. Particularly like the Anna T interview, the Ramsey Campbell interview, the artwork of Randy Broecker, Jim Pitts, Reggie Oliver, and Allen Koszowski, the book reviews, and some of the original fiction. D.T. Langdale - Tomatoes According to Geoff: All Geoff Higgle cares about is selecting the juiciest ingredients for tonight's burger, but Detective Razen is insistent he is their chief suspect in the abduction of a missing schoolgirl. Worst of it is, Geoff has these vivid flashbacks ... And who is this 'Silas Leroy' character Razen and colleagues are obsessed with? Christopher Fielden - Shadow of an Incubus: A chance of release for the ghost of James Blake, thief and alcoholic, if he can persuade the former gangland Mr. Big who murdered him not to kill again. Cannon has reformed character since shooting down Blake, an action he now regrets. But the once torture-psycho's new found equilibrium has been sorely tested by a doctor who has been sexually harassing his niece.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Jun 28, 2021 10:38:36 GMT
No one seems to have mentioned this yet. Phantasmagoria Special Edition #4: Ramsey Campbell. It was published last month.
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Post by David A. Riley on Jun 28, 2021 11:13:15 GMT
No one seems to have mentioned this yet. Phantasmagoria Special Edition #4: Ramsey Campbell. It was published last month. An excellent publication, with 270 pages of articles, reviews, stories, photographs and some amazing artwork. And the next Phantasmagoria Special, to be published later this year, will be devoted to Karl Edward Wagner.
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Post by David A. Riley on Sept 5, 2021 10:19:29 GMT
This might interest Vault regulars: Trevor Kennedy, besides editing and publishing Phantasmagoria and Gruesome Grotesques, also hosts a radio show nearly every Sunday between 12 noon and 2 pm on Big Hits Radio UK. This week, between playing music, he will be reviewing Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 2 and discussing two movies: MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME (1985) and MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015). There are also dedications to a lot of familiar names.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 14, 2021 10:56:33 GMT
Trevor Kennedy [ed.] - Phantasmagoria Special Edition Series #3: M. R. James (TK Comics, 30 Oct. 2020) Edward Miller (Les Edwards) Stephen Jones - M. R. James: An Introduction Stephen Jones - Selected Bibliography
Trevor Kennedy - Haunted by M.R. James Richard Dalby - The Ghost Stories of M.R.. James M. R. James - Ghosts — Treat Them Gently M. R. James - 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad .." Kim Newman - 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You' (1968) Ramsey Campbell on M.R. James (interview) Ramsey Campbell - The Guide Stephen Jones - James McBryde: M. R. James' Favourite Artist Trevor Kennedy - Curious Warnings: The Complete Ghost Stories of M.R. James: Book review Les Edwards: A Jamesian Portfolio Mark Morris on M.R. James (interview) Stephen Gallagher on M.R. James (interview) Trevor Kennedy - The Conception of Terror: audio drama review. Malachy Coney - A Curiously Pleasing Terror: An Appreciation of the Life and Work of Montague Rhodes James
Jamesian Fiction Adam L. G. Nevill - Where Angels Come In David A. Sutton - Return to the Runes Johnny Mains - Aldeburgh Raven Dane - The Front Parlour Dean M. Drinkel - Made in Stone Joe X. Young - Matters Relating to the Cessation of the Mozart Club Barnaby Page - 'Oh Tweet and I'll Come To You" Con Conolly - When You See The Count Frank Coffman - Night Shapes
G. C. H. Reilly - A Quick Stop in Martin's Close. Jim Moon - Lost in a Maze G. C. H. Reilly - A Worthwhile Warning to the Vulnerable David Brilliance - "No Diggin' 'ere!" Carl R. Jennings - A North American take on the Television adaptations of M. R. James Jamesian Reviews Acknowledgements
Interior artwork: Randy Broecker, Dave Carson, Peter Coleborn, Les Edwards, Stephen Jones, Allen Koszowski, James McBryde, Jim Pitts, G. C. H. Reilly A Christmas present from lovely Bride of Dem. Had so enthused over the Chetwynd-Hayes special, it was as good as a given I'd have a fine time with this. Except — despite abundance of quality artwork and inclusion of proven winners, Ramsey Campbell's The Guide and David A. Sutton's early G&S thriller, Return to the Runes — I didn't. Just couldn't get into the thing at all. So .... will just throw this out there and see where — if anywhere — that gets us.
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Post by humgoo on Oct 14, 2021 12:41:31 GMT
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Post by Michael Connolly on Oct 14, 2021 20:45:44 GMT
Trevor Kennedy [ed.] - Phantasmagoria Special Edition Series #3: M. R. James (TK Comics, 30 Oct. 2020) Edward Miller (Les Edwards) Stephen Jones - M. R. James: An Introduction Stephen Jones - Selected Bibliography
Trevor Kennedy - Haunted by M.R. James Richard Dalby - The Ghost Stories of M.R.. James M. R. James - Ghosts — Treat Them Gently M. R. James - 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad .." Kim Newman - 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You' (1968) Ramsey Campbell on M.R. James (interview} Ramsey Campbell - The Guide Stephen Jones - James McBryde: M. R. James' Favourite Artist Trevor Kennedy - Curious Warnings: The Complete Ghost Stories of M.R. James: Book review Les Edwards: A Jamesian Portfolio Mark Morris on M.R. James (interview) Stephen Gallagher on M.R. James (interview) Trevor Kennedy - The Conception of Terror: audio drama review. Malachy Coney - A Curiously Pleasing Terror: An Appreciation of the Life and Work of Montague Rhodes James
Jamesian Fiction Adam L. G. Nevill - Where Angels Come In David A. Sutton - Return to the Runes Johnny Mains - Aldeburgh Raven Dane - The Front Parlour Dean M. Drinkel - Made in Stone Joe X. Young - Matters Relating to the Cessation of the Mozart Club Barnaby Page - 'Oh Tweet and I'll Come To You" Con Conolly - When You See The Count Frank Coffman - Night Shapes
G. C. H. Reilly - A Quick Stop in Martin's Close. Jim Moon - Lost in a Maze G. C. H. Reilly - A Worthwhile Warning to the Vulnerable David Brilliance - "No Diggin' 'ere!" Carl R. Jennings - A North American take on the Television adaptations of M. R. James Jamesian Reviews Acknowledgements
Interior artwork: Randy Broecker, Dave Carson, Peter Coleborn, Les Edwards, Stephen Jones, Allen Koszowski, James McBryde, Jim Pitts, G. C. H. Reilly A Christmas present from lovely Bride of Dem. Had so enthused over the Chetwynd-Hayes special, it was as good as a given I'd have a fine time with this. Except — despite abundance of quality artwork and inclusion of proven winners, Ramsey Campbell's The Guide and David A. Sutton's early G&S thriller, Return to the Runes — I didn't. Just couldn't get into the thing at all. So .... will just throw this out there and see where — if anywhere — that gets us. Apart from the Ramsey Campbell pieces, as I've already said in the Vault, it's not as good as Ghosts & Scholars.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 16, 2021 5:59:46 GMT
... and Jim Pitts artwork for Chetwynd-Hayes' The Hanging Tree returns as A View From A Hill. Had another go at some of the fiction. Comparisons with G&S are inevitable, but, notwithstanding they've a theme, story and much artwork in common, they are chalk and cheese. Raven Dane - The Front Parlour: Tanworth House, Oxfordshire, 1872. When her parents succumb to dysentery, Olivia, ten, is taken in by her evil aunt, Lady Eustasia Kent. The little orphan is terrified and despondent in this mausoleum of a home, but then so are all the servants - those who've not managed to escape. Even kindly young governess, Miss Barlett, is considering her position. Olivia lives in constant fear of her Ladyship demanding she play with the dolls house in the parlour - an exact replica of Tanworth, right down to the resident skeletal demon. There's many a scullery maid gone missing down the decades, and her Ladyship is due to offer further sacrifice. Hackneyed, hilariously miserable cod-Victorian horror story - not sure there's anything remotely 'Jamesian' about the telling. Kept me entertained, which is all I ask. Joe X. Young - Matters Relating to the Cessation of the Mozart Club: Preposterous rumours surround the abrupt demise of Charles Aske-Haley and his secret society of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart enthusiasts - a Hellfire/ Bullingdon Club hybrid with mandatory cannibalism if the wildest stories are to be believed. Provost Harcourt reveals the grisly truth via his traditional Christmas ghost story before a group favoured pupils. David A. Sutton - Return to the Runes: (Ro Pardoe [ed.], More Ghosts & Scholars, 1980). Abbot Karswell is dead, a victim of his own black magic, but — with much assistance from a sympathetic relative — his vindictiveness survives the grave to claim another victim.
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