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Post by darkeyesoflondon on Apr 12, 2020 10:34:17 GMT
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Post by helrunar on Apr 12, 2020 13:22:52 GMT
Hi Dark Eyes,
Welcome to the Vault! Very nice article about this series. As one of the token Yanks prowling around here. a lot of these NEL titles seem rather exotic to me, since so far as I know, none of them were distributed over here.
Didn't The Orgy of Bubastis have at least one other edition? I have the feeling I've seen the title, which made an impression because it sounds so hilariously camp (to this reader, at least), but with a different cover and different bibliographic details.
You get special marks for this astute sentence:
It's fair to conclude that 'The Orgy of Bubastis' - and, sadly, there isn't an orgy in sight here - is Hyde-Chambers' staunch moral warning about his three biggest fears: drugs, health resorts and Germans.
cheers, Helrunar
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Post by Swampirella on Apr 12, 2020 13:31:14 GMT
Yes, welcome from me too; hope you enjoy your time here! I really enjoyed your blog; "The Venomous Serpent" looks particularly appealing to me; I was glad to find it's available as an ebook as not surprisingly the print book is a bit rare.
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Post by humgoo on Apr 12, 2020 14:55:02 GMT
The Venomous Serpent seems to be much loved among Vaulters:
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Post by darkeyesoflondon on Apr 12, 2020 16:02:25 GMT
Thanks all - yeah in the UK the NELs have wildly differing prices. I picked up most of these for no more than £5 tops, but I was looking to research Errol Lecale next and some of his output is second mortgage land!
David
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Post by sadako on Jun 1, 2022 23:04:45 GMT
What would be reeeeeeeally nice, would be a list of ALL the NEL horror novels of the 70s. Does such a list exist? Would love to know what I’ve missed!
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Post by dem bones on Jun 2, 2022 6:13:12 GMT
What would be reeeeeeeally nice, would be a list of ALL the NEL horror novels of the 70s. Does such a list exist? Would love to know what I’ve missed! It's long due an update, but here's the listing from our wordpress offshoot, Nasty Nels |
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Post by andydecker on Jun 2, 2022 10:50:03 GMT
So many great short novels and also so many bad ones which often have become unforgettable. 
Such a steep curve of ever more unrestrained content from the humble beginnings of the steamy 'satanist' Gothics of Sandra Shulman and Raymond Giles to Ball, McNeilly, Smith and Herbert in just six years. NEL should have deserved a better ending than being swallowed by corporate publishing and shamefully and silently being liquidated.
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Post by sadako on Jun 25, 2022 2:57:12 GMT
What a superb list. This reminds me that I started buying nasty NELs aged 12!
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Post by sadako on Nov 1, 2023 0:38:40 GMT
Justin Marriott’s interview with Guy N Smith refers to his first novel, Werewolf by Moonlight (1974), coming about because NEL needed “a werewolf book set in Britain for their horror series”. Why wasn’t it numbered up and added in? Another potential contender from 1974 is Etienne (James Moffat) Aubin’s Dracula and the Virgins of the Undead sporting “No. 3” on its cover. Was it also intended for the Horror series?  |
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Post by dem bones on Nov 1, 2023 10:38:30 GMT
Ha! At one time the "what was #3 in the horror series?" debate played out on Groovy Age of Horror, here, and in Papeback Fanatic — think by the end we were unanimous as we could be that it was indeed Moffatt/'Aubin's outrageous Dracula and the Virgin's of the Undead. |
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Post by sadako on Nov 1, 2023 12:09:23 GMT
Ha! At one time the "what was #3 in the horror series?" debate played out on Groovy Age of Horror, here, and in Papeback Fanatic — think by the end we were unanimous as we could be that it was indeed Moffatt/'Aubin's outrageous Dracula and the Virgin's of the Undead. But… but… Venomous Serpent was Horror no. 3! 5 is the missing number. |
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Post by dem bones on Nov 1, 2023 12:33:41 GMT
Teach me not to read back through my own drivel. Will have to hunt through the PF's as, from the listing I've got #5 as Cyril Donson's equally ridiculous Draco The Dragon Man as #5; so maybe we settled on that as it was published between Plastic Man and Orgy of Bubastis.
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Post by sadako on Nov 1, 2023 12:49:04 GMT
Teach me not to read back through my own drivel. Will have to hunt through the PF's as, from the listing I've got #5 as Cyril Donson's equally ridiculous Draco The Dragon Man as #5; so maybe we settled on that as it was published between Plastic Man and Orgy of Bubastis. Ah, cool. I didn’t know the publishing order. Similarly, not yet found a Guy N Smith publishing order. Everyone I’ve found lists them in categories… crabs, sabat etc. |
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Post by dem bones on Nov 1, 2023 13:05:37 GMT
Teach me not to read back through my own drivel. Will have to hunt through the PF's as, from the listing I've got #5 as Cyril Donson's equally ridiculous Draco The Dragon Man as #5; so maybe we settled on that as it was published between Plastic Man and Orgy of Bubastis. Ah, cool. I didn’t know the publishing order. Similarly, not yet found a Guy N Smith publishing order. Everyone I’ve found lists them in categories… crabs, sabat etc. There's a chronological GNS Biblio (up to The Resurrected, 1991) in the First UK Paperback & Pulp Bookfair Souvenir Booklet from 1991, by, I think, David Whitehead, which I'll scan later, though Shane P. Agnew's Illustrated Bibliography: The Complete(ish) Guide to Collecting the Works of Guy N. Smith is the obsessive's choice. |
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