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Post by dem bones on Nov 21, 2008 15:43:06 GMT
Not quite in the same league as either manifestation of the delightful Spider Girl, but i'm desperate for a B&H. Gil Brewer - Satan Is A Woman (Priory, no date: Fawcett, 1951) There is a legend of olden time that the Devil is not a fallen archangel at all, but a woman with flaxen hair and green eyes - a beautiful creature with an angel face who can bend innocent young men to her will, and bring them to their doom.
Larry Cole never heard of this legend.
He lived it. Dead interesting bloke, Gil Brewer. Old school noir pulpster, drank himself to death, etc. Recent reissues of The Vengeful Virgin and Wild To Possess/ A Taste For Sin prove that the whole, old-style Phwoar! cover is still alive and wiggling. Here's the excellent commemorative site: Gil Brewer
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Post by dem bones on Dec 25, 2008 9:31:46 GMT
Happy Christmas to the Vault Phwoar Corps! The bride got this for me, he says all proud! Aran Ashe - The Slave Of Lidir (Nexus, 1991, 1992) Blurb: "You shall find that all inside these walls is not as you. have feared: for within the Castle of Lidir reside many pleasures and desires, the like of which you, in your inexperience, have scarcely dreamt, not even in the most carnal of your fancies" . The Slave of Lidir is the first of the Chronicles of Lidir, the story of Anya, a copper-curled innocent beauty sold into delightful slavery. Her husband, little more than a stranger to her, abandons her at the Castle; here she is put in chains of gold and delivered to the Taskmistress for training. But not even the Taskmistress's possessive desire for her new charge can, prevent news of Anya's beauty reaching the Prince ... The second volume of the Chronicles is entitled The Dungeons of Lidir. It would be!
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Post by Johnlprobert on Dec 25, 2008 16:14:39 GMT
Finally something that more in line with the true meaning of Christmas - having the time to catch up on a little pervery.
Anyone else get interesting Christmas presents? My father has made a remote control ferret that's utterly terrifying.
"I think it might be a bit too scary for children' he said in his strong Welsh accent as this rat-like thing scurried around my lounge floor.
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Post by carolinec on Dec 25, 2008 17:28:55 GMT
My father has made a remote control ferret that's utterly terrifying. Only in the Vault could someone utter a line like that! For some reason, I got an image in my mind of Compo from Last of the Summer Wine when you said that!
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Post by allthingshorror on Dec 25, 2008 19:17:00 GMT
My god - a remote controlled ferret? There HAS to be a story there somewhere!
Xmas - well apart from kicking the shit out of small American kids on Xbox live with Call of Duty 4 - my missus got me the following:
A mint edition of Christopher Lee's New Chamber of Horrors ed. by Peter Haining - (Souvenir Press 1974) hardback. I nearly weeped with joy when I saw it.
And the follow up - but this time the Mayflower paperback - More of Christopher Lee's New Chamber of Horrors
Ach - Xmas isn't that bad - I've managed to shut the missus up with an Ipod and a Mo Hayder book (don't read her - she's awful...)
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 26, 2008 14:47:47 GMT
Lovely, John. I'd really like to see that. Nice to hear of a dad with a bit of chicanery left in him.
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Post by carolinec on Dec 26, 2008 15:01:56 GMT
Nice to hear of a dad with a bit of chicanery left in him. Mine's spending Christmas on the south coast with his girlfriend (he's 86, she's 60-something)! Thinking about it, this is the perfect thread to announce that kind of paternal tearaway behaviour!
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Post by dem bones on Dec 29, 2008 8:59:10 GMT
Anyone else get interesting Christmas presents? My father has made a remote control ferret that's utterly terrifying. Mine's spending Christmas on the south coast with his girlfriend (he's 86, she's 60-something)! Thinking about it, this is the perfect thread to announce that kind of paternal tearaway behaviour! .... and people harp on that youngsters have no role models to look up to. In memory of Bob Rothwell - a mini Dennis Wheatley special! The great man strongly advises you NOT to buy his latest masterpiece or you'll be in terrible danger! ... meanwhile, this lucky young lady shows off her library of luxuriously bound Wheatley first editions .... Nexus, eh? Blimey!
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Post by andydecker on Dec 29, 2008 9:52:59 GMT
I would always take the library Hmmm okay, if the gal is included in the package, what the hell? Maybe she can cook too
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Post by andydecker on Dec 29, 2008 11:04:08 GMT
somehow they can´t compare to british photocovers
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 29, 2008 11:08:36 GMT
The German Cover certainly lacks that Blackpool postcard sense of cheeky fun but I'd still be suckered into the devils team on the basis of the photo
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Post by dem bones on Dec 29, 2008 11:36:05 GMT
Hmm. I'm not sure what imagecave's policy is on "cheeky fun", but we can't help but try. Forger NEL and Hamlyn and all that soppy giant creepy crawly versus mankind nonsense - Nexus is where it's at! I agree with Craig - that Sandra Shulman cover is tops. Great to see Vault getting back to its old highbrow self .... as i'm sure Caroline will be the first to agree if she ever logs in again ....
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Post by carolinec on Dec 29, 2008 14:04:45 GMT
Great to see Vault getting back to its old highbrow self .... as i'm sure Caroline will be the first to agree if she ever logs in again .... Oh I'm still here and watching you all, don't you worry about that! To tell you the truth, I'm enjoying this thread ... I think it provides an amazing insight into the deeper workings of the male mind!
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 29, 2008 14:38:43 GMT
'deeper workings of the male mind'
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Post by carolinec on Dec 29, 2008 15:01:41 GMT
'deeper workings of the male mind' Precisely! Oh, I forgot to say .. don't forget - when you trawl through the book covers looking for things to post here - us ladies have needs too! Covers showing scantily clad young men would be most welcome! I mean, we don't want to be one-sided about this, do we?
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