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Post by dem bones on May 27, 2021 11:09:35 GMT
"Horror of horrors! Could such a monstrous, unheard-of thing be done?" Andrew Brosnatch (he predominated that year). Hurley Von Ruck - The Terrific Experiment: Horror-tale of Hypnotism. Dr. Paul Richards, leading psychotherapist, receives permission to conduct an experiment in hypnosis with Jacques Voisin, child-murderer, before he goes to the scaffold. Among the small team Dr. Richards invites to witness the experiment, two students; our narrator and Maynard, his frail, timid room-mate. Unknown to all, Voisin, a powerful Black Magician is the most powerful hypnotist among them ... Edward Podolsky - The Masters From Beyond: Last Days in a Lifeless World. As it was with the Marie Celeste, so the same fate befell the passengers and crew of the Caroline during the summer of 1898. Alien abduction, 'the Devils Footprints,' brain-eating ET's roaming the Russian wastes. Captain Gennet's record of events reads like the ravings of a lunatic! J. U. Giesy - Ashes of Circumstance: The Cold Ashes of a Cigar Spelled Sudden Death for Two. A paranoid man is prone to jump to the wrong conclusion. And also to forget that his best friend — who he suspects of having an affair with his wife —is not the only smoker of the two. The Terrific Experiment and The Masters From Beyond are wild. Not the least enthused by Ashes of Circumstances.
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Post by Swampirella on May 27, 2021 13:34:16 GMT
"Horror of horrors! Could such a monstrous, unheard-of thing be done?" Andrew Brosnatch (he predominated that year). Hurley Von Ruck - The Terrific Experiment: Horror-tale of Hypnotism. Dr. Paul Richards, leading psychotherapist, receives permission to conduct an experiment in hypnosis with Jacques Voisin, child-murderer, before he goes to the scaffold. Among the small team Dr. Richards invites to witness the experiment, two students; our narrator and Maynard, his frail, timid room-mate. Unknown to all, Voisin, a powerful Black Magician is the most powerful hypnotist among them ... Edward Podolsky - The Masters From Beyond: Last Days in a Lifeless World. As it was with the Marie Celeste, so the same fate befell the passengers and crew of the Caroline during the summer of 1898. Alien abduction, 'the Devils Footprints,' brain-eating ET's roaming the Russian wastes. Captain Gennet's record of events reads like the ravings of a lunatic! J. U. Giesy - Ashes of Circumstance: The Cold Ashes of a Cigar Spelled Sudden Death for Two. A paranoid man is prone to jump to the wrong conclusion. And also to forget that his best friend — who he suspects of having an affair with his wife —is not the only smoker of the two. The Terrific Experiment and The Masters From Beyond are wild. Not the least enthused by Ashes of Circumstances. I "read' them all only yesterday; "The Terrific Experiment" was indeed wild; the others left me cold. Well, I didn't even bother reading more than a few words of "Ashes".
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Post by dem bones on May 28, 2021 7:10:32 GMT
Andrew Brosnatch H. Thompson Rich - The Seven Ring'd Cup: Thrills a Plenty are Met With in the Search for Jamshyd's Cup "Then Doris read a while. Somehow she didn’t feel like writing today, even with the exchequer so short and a story contracted for from Pilgrims’ Magazine. The truth of it was, she was sick of writing pot-boilers! She would have jumped at the chance to sit down quietly and write a novel, but these incessant stupid stories to be mingled with Hints on Knitting and How to Put Up Jams and Jellies were beginning to get on her nerves. She was tired of writing for women. She wanted to write red-blooded yarns for men to read — and she couldn't because she hasn't had the experiences. " So Doris Lee places an advertisement in the Times, offering her services as a solver of mysteries. Her first client, Henderson Osbourne, young, handsome, potentially immensely wealthy, has a tricky one. His late father, Franklyn, engraved a cipher on the side of a Persian cup revealing the whereabouts of a treasure trove. To date Henderson has been unable to crack the code. Perhaps Doris can help? Middle Eastern adventure, treachery. live burial, and romance ensue. It's very charming, actually, if not at all what I'd expected after the unhinged lunacy of his The Purple Cincture. I know these stories can often sound silly, and probably are, but it seems to me that there is a huge explosion of imaginative ideas here, and some real boundary pushing to come up with new twists on themes. Some of the stories are truly how-on-earth-did-that-get-printed-outside-of-vanity-publishing dreadful, but they're seldom dull. "A pleasant excursion from the land of reality," as an ad for the bumper 1924 "anniversary edition" put it. Pulp fiction as unashamed entertainment is where its at! I find the Wildside reprints a joy to flick through, let alone read. Last year, Mythos Press published versions of three issues from 1923, very welcome for sure, but these were something called 'readers editions' - the news items, advertisements and extraneous material stripped out to appeal to the "modern reader." I fully realise the story is the thing, but for me at least the illustrations and now ancient ads greatly enhance the experience.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on May 28, 2021 10:45:24 GMT
I find the Wildside reprints, a joy to flick through, let alone read. Last year, Mythos Press published versions of three issues from 1923, very welcome for sure, but these were something called 'readers editions' - the news items, advertisements and extraneous material stripped out to appeal to the "modern reader." I fully realise the story is the thing, but for me at least the illustrations and now ancient ads greatly enhance the experience. I'm frantically plotting how to rearrange my bookshelves to make room for these.
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Post by dem bones on May 28, 2021 12:44:05 GMT
I find the Wildside reprints, a joy to flick through, let alone read. Last year, Mythos Press published versions of three issues from 1923, very welcome for sure, but these were something called 'readers editions' - the news items, advertisements and extraneous material stripped out to appeal to the "modern reader." I fully realise the story is the thing, but for me at least the illustrations and now ancient ads greatly enhance the experience. I'm frantically plotting how to rearrange my bookshelves to make room for these. Same thing. At least they're a sight slimmer than the Mythos press editions, though something will have to go to make room. Find myself really excited at the prospect of another two to be announced any time soon.
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Post by samdawson on May 28, 2021 15:16:09 GMT
I find the Wildside reprints, a joy to flick through, let alone read. Last year, Mythos Press published versions of three issues from 1923, very welcome for sure, but these were something called 'readers editions' - the news items, advertisements and extraneous material stripped out to appeal to the "modern reader." I fully realise the story is the thing, but for me at least the illustrations and now ancient ads greatly enhance the experience. I'm frantically plotting how to rearrange my bookshelves to make room for these. My wife has just agreed to me putting up a second set of bookshelves in our dining room. This means losing a rather nice Indian table, two chairs and a rather unsettling old family portrait, but, if my calculations the other night when everyone had gone to bed were correct (this was the night someone had thanked me by sending me a bottle of single malt, mind), it will allow me to get around 565 books down from the attic. Even if they don't make it onto the shelves this should mean me at least opening up the boxes sealed in 1983 and containing the SF and horror books I read as a young teen. I will lay any good ones out and take a pic.
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Post by helrunar on May 28, 2021 15:20:27 GMT
That's quite exciting, Sam! I look forward to the photos!
cheers, Hel
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Post by Swampirella on May 28, 2021 15:37:43 GMT
Me too! As a fellow book lover, I understand your happiness at being able to get books out of the attic, especially after decades. 565, wow! I don't have any in the attic myself, but have been accused of having bats in my belfry.
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Post by samdawson on May 28, 2021 16:06:07 GMT
What I'm not looking forward to (apart from building the shelves and manhandling countless boxes down a ladder) is that I know from experience it will mean reboxing hundreds of books and returning them to their exile above. But at least I'll have seen them again and I will be able to resume waiting and failing to win the lottery so that I can buy a place with a room just for me and my books
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Post by dem bones on May 29, 2021 9:33:36 GMT
Andrew Brosnatch Pointless me attempting The Gargoyle until Wildside get around to the Oct and Nov issues. Likewise, O. Henry's The Furnished Room. A classic worthy of the name, but it's not been long since last rematch. H. P. Lovecraft - The Temple: Found testimony of Karl Heinrich, Prussian lieutenant-commander of a German U-boat during the Great War. The U-29 has successfully downed a British freighter when a dead man is discovered seemingly clinging to the submarine's deck. Rifling his pockets, a fellow officer finds a curiously carved ivory head which he keeps for himself. Henceforth the sub is plagued by living corpses swimming past its portholes, and madness, suicide and mutiny among the crew until Heinrich is last man standing. The U-boat is lured to a sunken city. "I became subject to the most extravagant visions - visions so extravagant that I cannot even relate them." Now he tells us. We leave the officer as, kitted out in divers suit, he vacates the stricken vessel to explore the devil-haunted ruins of ... Atlantis?
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Post by dem bones on May 30, 2021 9:47:56 GMT
Andrew Brosnatch The Eyrie: A satisfied readership, Praise for the new Weird tales Reprint dept and suggestions for future inclusion. Editor enthuses over a Seabury Quinn's story in the next issue, The Horror on the Links. Quinn responds with two terrible limericks. Also: "'Miss E. F.,' of Cleveland, Ohio, asks for 'more stories of underground dungeons and quicksand pits, swamps, haunted houses, ghosts, ramshackle castles, snakes, spiders, apes, doctors’ experiments. Who votes for the above stories speak up,” she adds; "we must keep our magazine weird. Whispering Tunnels was a riot." Miss E. F. should be in Vault.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Jun 9, 2021 22:55:59 GMT
I'm frantically plotting how to rearrange my bookshelves to make room for these. Same thing. At least they're a sight slimmer than the Mythos press editions, though something will have to go to make room. Find myself really excited at the prospect of another two to be announced any time soon. I've finally completed the grand bookshelf reorganization to create space for the Wildside Weird Tales reprints. The overhaul had the added bonus of clearing some potential spots for upcoming installments in the British Library's Tales of the Weird series, a few Terror Tales anthologies (or maybe a Spooky Isles Book of Horror), a fantasy/science fiction anthology or two, and a steampunk anthology if I can find a likely-looking one (I have a chaotic yet fussy organizational scheme that exerts a strange power over my purchases). Of the three volumes, the September number is the weakest by some distance. Despite trusting Dem's judgment, I couldn't resist the cover for the September issue. We'll see if I regret buying that one first. "Horror of horrors! Could such a monstrous, unheard-of thing be done?" Andrew Brosnatch (he predominated that year). Hurley Von Ruck - The Terrific Experiment: Horror-tale of Hypnotism. Dr. Paul Richards, leading psychotherapist, receives permission to conduct an experiment in hypnosis with Jacques Voisin, child-murderer, before he goes to the scaffold. Among the small team Dr. Richards invites to witness the experiment, two students; our narrator and Maynard, his frail, timid room-mate. Unknown to all, Voisin, a powerful Black Magician is the most powerful hypnotist among them ... Having read Greye La Spina's "The Gargoyle" before, I skipped ahead to this tale. The first few pages didn't inspire much confidence, but the story picked up considerably when Voisin revealed his magical powers.
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Post by Swampirella on Jun 9, 2021 23:03:48 GMT
Same thing. At least they're a sight slimmer than the Mythos press editions, though something will have to go to make room. Find myself really excited at the prospect of another two to be announced any time soon. I've finally completed the grand bookshelf reorganization to create space for the Wildside Weird Tales reprints. The overhaul had the added bonus of clearing some potential spots for upcoming installments in the British Library's Tales of the Weird series, a few Terror Tales anthologies (or maybe a Spooky Isles Book of Horror), a fantasy/science fiction anthology or two, and a steampunk anthology if I can find a likely-looking one (I have a chaotic yet fussy organizational scheme that exerts a strange power over my purchases). Of the three volumes, the September number is the weakest by some distance. Despite trusting Dem's judgment, I couldn't resist the cover for the September issue. We'll see if I regret buying that one first. "Horror of horrors! Could such a monstrous, unheard-of thing be done?" Andrew Brosnatch (he predominated that year). Hurley Von Ruck - The Terrific Experiment: Horror-tale of Hypnotism. Dr. Paul Richards, leading psychotherapist, receives permission to conduct an experiment in hypnosis with Jacques Voisin, child-murderer, before he goes to the scaffold. Among the small team Dr. Richards invites to witness the experiment, two students; our narrator and Maynard, his frail, timid room-mate. Unknown to all, Voisin, a powerful Black Magician is the most powerful hypnotist among them ... Having read Greye La Spina's "The Gargoyle" before, I skipped ahead to this tale. The first few pages didn't inspire much confidence, but the story picked up considerably when Voisin revealed his magical powers. Glad you're enjoying it. I think it was my favorite of all & won't be forgotten soon.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Jun 10, 2021 11:43:03 GMT
William Sanford - The Midnight Visitor: A Lively Imagination Sometimes Plays Queer Pranks. Man in bed thinks something has crept in through the door. Rubbish space-filler. Even by the standards of page-filler, this is terrible. Andrew Brosnatch E.E. Speight - The Blackthorn Gallows: The Figure on the Gibbet Called Martin Hawk to His side. Traditional supernatural horror set in East Devon. To save his own skin, Martin Hawk, killer and poacher, betrayed a naive young accomplice, whose rotting corpse now swings from the gibbet on Blackdown Hill. The dead boys widowed mother cajoles him down to seek revenge. A step up from "The Midnight Visitor," though I got bogged down in the flowery prose. "Darkness" didn't do much for me, either. Maybe I should've heeded Dem's warning, as I'm dreading my appointment with "The Flying Halfback."
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Post by dem bones on Jun 10, 2021 12:44:34 GMT
Despite trusting Dem's judgment, I couldn't resist the cover for the September issue. We'll see if I regret buying that one first. There's many a cemetery would be a grave or three lighter were it not for unfortunates who "trusted Dem's judgement." Maybe the Feb and Aug issues spoiled me, or I was Weird Tales fatigued by then, but the Sept issue seemed slightly less remarkable. Am guessing The Gargoyles is among the highlights, but no point me attempting it until I've hard copies of the other two installments.
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