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Post by humgoo on Apr 8, 2020 18:15:13 GMT
He's too young to go at 67, but he'd probably done more than others can do in two lifetimes I suppose. The energy he displayed (judged by the threads on the Vault and the few Haining books I have) is stunning. Dying on the pitch seems not a bad way to go for such a super bundle of energy after all.
The Vault to me is ultimately a celebration of reading, and of those who make books. Among those wonderful bookmen and bookwomen celebrated here Mr. Haining certainly stands out (Do I need to add "warts and all" de rigueur? Perhaps not.  ) |
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Post by johnnymains on Apr 8, 2020 18:59:25 GMT
Wow, so Peter Haining was a football guy! I remember his hobby was bullfighting as listed in his books! A football fan to the end. Literally. Apart from the bullfight anthology, he compiled at least three sports themed selections, the self-explanatory Hole in Fun: A Round of 18 Humorous Golf Stories, (1988) and LBW - Laughter Before Wicket: 100 Years of Humorous Cricket Short Stories, (1986), and an epic Murder At The Races: Stories of Crime, Corruption, Murder and the Sport of Kings (1995). Is chess a sport? If so, he published one of those, too, not to mention a biography of colourful daredevil rider Tornado Smith: Wall of Death Pioneer,(1998). Peter Gushing's Monster Movies...  |
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Post by dem on Apr 10, 2020 18:03:51 GMT
 Craig Lancaster-Marr, The Un-Dead: THE Legend of Bram Stoker and Dracula, Crimson #24, Autumn 1997.  David Robert Wooten, Who is Peter Tremayne? (Edward J. Rielly & David R. Wooten [eds.], The Sister Fidelma Mysteries: Essays on the Historical Novels of Peter Tremayne, McFarland, 2012) |
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Post by andydecker on Apr 11, 2020 11:36:51 GMT
This is a great scan quality, dem! Congrats.
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Post by dem on Apr 13, 2020 13:20:59 GMT
 The Penny Dreadful, Neil Barron [ed] Horror Literature: A Reader's Guide, Garland. 1990 (One of five entries).  Vampire: Chilling Tales of the Undead, Sapphire Aurora, Grimoire IX, April 1993. *: Realised this afternoon that I'd already posted the Velvet Vampyre's Midnight Tales review, so have replaced it with Sapphire's take on Vampires from Nosferatu's Grimoire |
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Post by dem on Apr 15, 2020 10:52:18 GMT
Book & Magazine Collector # 263, Nov. 2003, includes R. M. Healey's nine page interview. |
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Post by dem on Apr 16, 2020 5:33:07 GMT
 J Gordon Melton, The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead, Visible Ink 2011 (originally 1994).
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Post by andydecker on Apr 16, 2020 9:09:00 GMT
[/b] # 263, Nov. 2003, includes R. M. Healey's nine page interview. [/div][/quote] This is very off topic, I have to apologize, but this cover gave me the idea to dust off my Sharpe DVDs and put some in the player. I am a major fan of Sharpe. A couple of years ago I started to buy the series again in the form of audio-books, the German production was narrated by the voice-actor who always does Sean Bean which was a nice bonus. Unfortunatly they stopped about the middle, but did the books in their chronological order, starting with the later written prequels, which I never read when they were published. When the series first was translated in the early 90s, I read them all and liked them a lot. The publisher didn't pick up the later books and didn't bother to keep the series in print, which made it both rare and highly sought after. I sold them and lost sight of Cornwell. A few years later another publisher did the first Warlord Chronicles, which didn't interest me, but were and are very successful in sales. Inevitably the rest of Cornwell's work also was translated, and Sharpe got a new edition. There are very few writers I regulary re-read every few years. But Cornwell and his Sharpe is one of them, even if they are of the few not in print. |
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Post by dem on Apr 17, 2020 16:38:25 GMT
These three provided by Johnny Mains, to whom many thanks.  Alex Strachan, Myths of Mankind, Edmonton Journal, 5 July 2004  Keith S. Felton, The Lucifer Society, L. A. Times, 10 Dec. 1972.  Nicholas Lezard, Great Irish Drinking Stories, Guardian, 23. Nov. 2002. |
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Post by dem on Aug 5, 2020 7:57:09 GMT
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Post by dem on Sept 2, 2020 9:01:45 GMT
Magician's Circle and The Wizard's Den capsule reviews both Interzone #193, Spring 2004. Uncredited photo from dust jacket of A Dictionary of Vampires (Hale, 2000)  Knights of Madness, Interzone #155, May 2000.  A Dictionary of Vampires (Hale, 2000): Not especially relevant; I just like the photo. |
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Post by humgoo on Dec 9, 2020 16:27:15 GMT
PH's bookplate, from a copy of David St. John's The Sorcerers (New York: Weybright and Talley, 1969)
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Post by dem on Apr 17, 2021 7:21:08 GMT
The Dream Machines, NEL, 1972 A Dictionary of Vampires, Hale. 2000.  The Fortune Hunter's Guide bookplate, Sidgewick & Jackson, 1975 |
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Post by andydecker on Apr 17, 2021 11:40:26 GMT
Absolutely love the 70s style photos. He looks like he was coming from the set of The Sweeny, the shirt and the tie could give on serious desorientation. |
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Apr 17, 2021 11:49:00 GMT
Is it just me, or does Haining sort of look like John Noble (Denethor in Lord of the Rings and Walter Bishop in Fringe)? |
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