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Post by dem bones on Oct 20, 2007 10:32:24 GMT
While we're on the subject. Couldn't not revive this one .... Right. Vault pin-ups. Truly awesome cover-babes. To start us off ... Mmmm. He's yummy. Now, a couple of our more popular favourites ... And ... Relax, FM. The Wheatley flame babe and Michael Green's barmaid will be up soon ....
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Post by severance on Oct 21, 2007 11:53:56 GMT
Spider Girl by Peter Lear (pseudonym of Peter Lovesey) - Granada, 1980 Sarah Jordan, beautiful and clever, has conquered her childhood fear of spiders. Now she studies them for her PhD at an American university. She studies their ritual of mating and death. She watches as they stalk their prey with chilling precision. And, little by little, she comes to know the spider within her. Sarah Jordan is a woman gripped by a strange and terrible metamorphosis. She is beautiful and very deadly... She is Spider Girl
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Post by pulphack on Oct 22, 2007 8:52:16 GMT
peter lovesey???!!! it's a long way from historical crime, but - phwoar, she an trap me in her web any day, etc.
nice to see this thread reinstated with urgency. what does that say about the members? (fnar fnar)
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Post by dem bones on Oct 23, 2007 12:27:44 GMT
Phwoar! Make mine a double, etc. Ah, it never takes us long to forget our pretensions about being a 'serious horror forum', does it? Thank goodness. And, from serial offender, Michael Green, a little something for the ladies - should any of them rejoin.
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Post by pulphack on Oct 23, 2007 18:33:43 GMT
mmm, if that doesn't make them...
seriously, this business of terrible/kitsch(horrible term)/strangely deranged covers is an interesting one. after all, the odder it is, the more likely i am to pick the book up on the off-chance. i suspect this is true of most of us...
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Post by dem bones on Oct 23, 2007 19:21:21 GMT
You're not wrong. I was gonna save this until I'd actually attempted to read it but, disappointingly, it's cruelly long (370 pages - what was he thinking!) although I'm quite taken with some of the chapter headings ( I Must Submit, My Master Will Have His Girl Please Him, I Encounter Targo, Who Is A Slaver, etc.). Yes, I can confidently predict that this will be a complete pile of crap.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 21, 2007 14:58:15 GMT
June John's serious study of the Black Arts, Witches, the Devil, and the 'Psychological Aspects' of dabbling, etcetera (Nel, May 1971). Astonishingly, the previous owner has scribbled "of interest but little value" on the inside cover. What a lot of tommy-rot! The Richard Whittington-Egan edited Weekend Book Of Ghosts & Horror #2 (Harmsworth, 1982) boasts this dramatic reconstruction of poltergeist phenomena assailing young Esther Cox in 1878.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Nov 21, 2007 20:17:37 GMT
Interesting that the image presented of 'Black Magic Today' bears what I would guess is a striking resemblance to Black magic yesterday and Black Magic tomorrow.
Craig
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Post by franklinmarsh on Nov 27, 2007 16:45:18 GMT
Back on the old board, Steve submitted a cover of James Hadley Chase's There's A Hippie On The Highway which featured...erm...the inside of a wig. In 1979 Granada got their act together Apparently it's a brilliant Hadley Chase shocker, packed with suspense and violent action galore and with the savage power of a .45 automatic.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 12, 2007 13:47:22 GMT
Lynn Keefe - The Pleasure Seekers (Sphere, 1971) Blurb: Lynn Keefe tried to retire after writing the fabulously successful How Did A Girl Like You Get Into This Business? But she soon got bored being a lady of pleasure. When she left her home to open her House, she did it with a bang - the most beautiful girls, the most exciting specialities - and wildest good times - of any joy spot in the world. and Lynn Keefe tells it all without a blush in this cavalcade of new ways to satisfy old desires.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 21, 2008 6:35:18 GMT
John Gaunt - The Man From Sphere (Sphere, 1968) Galahad Brown, Paperback Export Sales Manager Extraordinaire is The Man From Sphere with a redhead in London, a blonde on a Zanzibar beach and between, a revolution which threatens the whole of Africa.[/i] Don't have a copy of this, but it's fast become a demonik most wanted. An amorous paperback seller? What could be more enticing to any self-respecting phwoarlord?
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Post by franklinmarsh on Apr 21, 2008 11:17:42 GMT
The name 'Galahad Brown' rings a bell for some reason. But honestly - The Man From SPHERE, published by Sphere? That's as abysmal as the Radio Stars Buy Chiswick Records song on their first album.
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Post by redbrain on Apr 21, 2008 17:50:19 GMT
I wonder whether the Man from Sphere is friends with the Man from Del Monte.
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Post by redbrain on Apr 21, 2008 17:53:53 GMT
You're not wrong. I was gonna save this until I'd actually attempted to read it but, disappointingly, it's cruelly long (370 pages - what was he thinking!) although I'm quite taken with some of the chapter headings ( I Must Submit, My Master Will Have His Girl Please Him, I Encounter Targo, Who Is A Slaver, etc.). Yes, I can confidently predict that this will be a complete pile of crap. I've read some of it (I think that, taken in its entirety, it's as near to being unreadable as any book is) - and can confirm that it is a complete pile of crap. ;D
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Post by Johnlprobert on Apr 21, 2008 18:16:13 GMT
I love the font they've used on that 'Black Magic Today' title - does anyone know what it's called or where I can get it for Word?
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