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Post by jamesdoig on Apr 17, 2021 13:06:48 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)? Who would think a horror anthologist would look so sharp? I feel like a chump when I go to a bookshop and ask if they've got a horror section - in fact I usually don't ask at all and see if I can find it.
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Post by Swampirella on Apr 17, 2021 13:12:14 GMT
I've never had the nerve to ask, just try to find it on my own. Often, there isn't one
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Post by dem bones on Oct 31, 2021 14:14:00 GMT
Peter Haining. "An impression of the ghostly figure which the author saw during his research for this book." "My own researches with camera and sketch-pad have I am afraid only resulted in the little drawing here of what I saw with two companions on a dark winter evening in Chigwell, Essex. The squat figure was almost translucent and we could clearly see the ground floor of a house behind it." —Peter Haining, Ghosts: The Illustrated History, 1987.
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Nov 5, 2021 23:23:38 GMT
Peter Haining. "An impression of the ghostly figure which the author saw during his research for this book." "My own researches with camera and sketch-pad have I am afraid only resulted in the little drawing here of what I saw with two companions on a dark winter evening in Chigwell, Essex. The squat figure was almost translucent and we could clearly see the ground floor of a house behind it." —Peter Haining, Ghosts: The Illustrated History, 1987. It was winter, he saw a snowman. The carrot nose and the rock eyes, or, as it was in the old days, the coal eyes, had fallen off. Case closed.
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Post by dem bones on May 8, 2022 10:37:16 GMT
Pole Vault in the Underworld, Daily Mirror, 7 April 1977. The Reader in Question, Suffolk & Essex Free Press, 1 August 1991 Master Spine Chiller, Aberdeen Evening Express, 7 December 1979.
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Post by andydecker on May 8, 2022 12:33:57 GMT
I always thought those regular columns with a writer's photo an invention of tv writers for crime shows. But they are indeed real as shown here.
With all the evidence you documented here it seems Haining was quite loved by the media and not only in fan circles.
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Post by dem bones on May 9, 2022 17:06:06 GMT
I always thought those regular columns with a writer's photo an invention of tv writers for crime shows. But they are indeed real as shown here. That column appeared in Haining's local newspaper, with whom he seems to have remained on good terms. Here's an enthused contemporary review of The Supernatural Coast. Keith Plumridge, Mystery of Mermaids, ( Lynn Advertiser, 4 December 1992.
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Post by dem bones on Jul 24, 2022 6:22:16 GMT
'M. T. C..' Tales of Terror, Coventry Evening Telegraph, 13 July 1978 Spider Robinson, The Ancient Mysteries Reader, Galaxy, Sept. 1976 Fritz Leiber, The Ancient Mysteries Reader, Fantastic, Nov. 1976
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Post by andydecker on Jul 24, 2022 12:32:38 GMT
The Leiber review is interesting. He didn't held back his opinion. Still it is kind of sad that at the end he began to ramble. This bit about Machen and Merritt is not only far fetched, it has nothing to do with Haining so what's the point?
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Post by Dr Strange on Jul 24, 2022 16:59:18 GMT
Interesting to see Geoffrey Household mentioned - "a neat and cleverly inconclusive treatment of the Atlantis theme" sounds intriguing.
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Post by andydecker on Jul 24, 2022 17:29:21 GMT
Interesting to see Geoffrey Household mentioned - "a neat and cleverly inconclusive treatment of the Atlantis theme" sounds intriguing. The book can be read on Archive org. To borrow for an hour. I used it to check for the Merritt, only have the novel.
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Post by dem bones on Mar 4, 2023 18:43:40 GMT
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Post by sandyrobertson6 on Mar 12, 2023 15:15:38 GMT
Peter Haining's bookplate is an image I'd like to add but I have no idea how to post an image here. I have his copy of Best Horror Stories edited by John Keir Cross with Haining's bookplate in it.
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Post by dem bones on Mar 12, 2023 19:39:48 GMT
Peter Haining's bookplate is an image I'd like to add but I have no idea how to post an image here. I have his copy of Best Horror Stories edited by John Keir Cross with Haining's bookplate in it. Hi Sandy. All the images are remotely hosted — not ideal, but best we can manage. We've a pair of Haining bookplates earlier in thread. I'm guessing yours is similar to the one posted by friend Humgoo? Ex-Libris Peter Haining
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Post by dem bones on Oct 5, 2023 6:05:50 GMT
— Dedication, 'Richard Peters,' Barry Manilow: An Illustrated Biography (Pop Universal/ Souvenir Publishing, 1982)
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