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Post by dem bones on Jul 27, 2021 17:17:40 GMT
Not a House of Fanatic publication, but so assuredly kindred spirits it feels like they belong in this section. Peter Enfantino & John Scoleri [eds.] - Bare Bones #6 (Cimarron Street, Spring 2021) Peter Enfantino & John Scoleri - Dueling editorials
Don D'Ammassa - The Overlooked Library
Matthew R. Bradley - Moon on the Wolf on page and screen
Peter Enfantino - The Annotated Guide to Web Terror Stories
David A. Sutton - Horror Anthology Series in Britain
John Scoleri - Caroline Munro and the Lamb's Navy Rum Campaign
Richard Krauss - Digging into Crime Digests
Craig Beam - The Outer Limits of Home Video
Sleaze Alley
David J. Schow - R & D
About the ContributorsSuperb 110 page digest from the talents behind the superior Scream Factory fanzine. Peter Enfantino - Mistress of the Putrefying Lash! The Complete and Unedited Look at the Sleazy World of Web Terror Stories. An annotated guide to each story featured over the brief but spectacular lifespan of the celebrated * 'sixties shudder pulp. Bondage, whips, chains, torture chambers, seven foot amazons, suburban flagellation cults, giant crabs, & co. But what's this? The Girl in the Iron Collar; a solitary asterisk? Mistress of the Six Gates of Horror; a measly 1½? Adjudicators have been strung up by their ... tongues for less. David A. Sutton - The Pipes of Pan and its Dark Voices: Horror Anthology Series in Britain: A concise history of the home grown (with a little help from Weird Tales) mass market horror anthology from Not At Night and Creeps through to the present day. Reads like a companion piece to the same author's peerless On the Fringes for Thirty Years: A History Of Horror In The British Small Press (Shadow, 2000). John Scoleri - Caroline Munro and the Lamb's Navy Rum Campaign: Interview with the much loved Hammer Heroine conducted by Bare Bones man during making of the DVD, Caroline Munro: First Lady of Fantasy. Offset by 20-plus gorgeous publicity stills from the Lamb's Navy Rum ad campaign. Don D'Ammassa - The Overlooked Library: Unfussy if lengthy synopses of the eight novellas comprising John Burke's Hammer Horror Film Omnibus and Hammer Horror Film Omnibus: Vol 2 (personal favourite, a stripped back The Plague of the Zombies. To be continued .... *. Approximately two Vault contributors like it. |
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Post by humgoo on Jul 27, 2021 17:35:12 GMT
Peter Enfantino - Mistress of the Putrefying Lash! The Complete and Unedited Look at the Sleazy World of Web Terror Stories. This is sick. This is indispensable. Which combine to mean "book ordered"! |
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Post by andydecker on Jul 28, 2021 7:36:29 GMT
Ordered.
While I skipped a few of the former issues, this is a must have.
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Post by dem bones on Jul 28, 2021 8:56:50 GMT
It really is a cracking issue. As with the best Paperback Fanatics, the articles about "stuff I'm not that interested in" are among the most interesting. More notes. Craig S Zahler - Ten Quick Takes: Author favourably reviews a random assortment of SF, fantasy, supernatural horror and MOV paperbacks by Lovecraft, H. Rider Haggard, Dean Ballinger (".... the savage events bring to mind Death Wish and Mad Max [the original] as realized by Richard Laymon and Sam Peckinpah,"), Carl Jacobi, Vin Packer, Brian Hodge, J. Allan Duncan ("Fantasy fans. Seek out this author's work!") and Philip Rawls ("uncomfortable reading ... seventies nihilism at its least apologetic.") Richard Krauss - Digging Into The Crime Digests: They love their annotated guides, do Bare Bones and here's a blow by blow account of the July and December 1953 issues of a short-lived detective pulp, Private Eye, published by John 'Girlie mags' Raymond. David J. Schow - R & D: The author's fond reminiscences of Twilight Zone, the outstanding fiction mag launched in tribute to the late Rod Serling, which ran for 60 issues from 1981-89. Schow concentrates on stories by contemporary authors ("Ramsey Campbell's immortal 'Again'"), but personal favourite sequence of the magazine would be the focus on supposedly forgotten masters like H. R. Wakefield (Sept-Oct 1984). |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jul 28, 2021 9:23:01 GMT
I am a big fan of S Craig Zahler's films, but did not get very far into the novel of his I tried to read.
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Post by drauch on Jul 28, 2021 13:57:21 GMT
I am a big fan of S Craig Zahler's films, but did not get very far into the novel of his I tried to read. I've enjoyed his films as well, but my mileage with his written works ended the same way, ditching Wraiths of the Broken Land under the fifty page mark. Not a great writer. Quite verbose with an unnatural dialogue that seemed very thesaurus heavy. I personally don't find him to be a good director either; his films could easily shave off thirty minutes without losing anything and his camera blocking is often static and dull for long periods, his dialogue suffering the same as the novels. But the material provides interesting pulp fun and the endings usually culminate into something exciting that any shortcomings I can easily ignore. |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jul 28, 2021 14:43:38 GMT
ditching Wraiths of the Broken Land under the fifty page mark. In my case, after about two pages. One of the many admirable aspects of his films is his zany use of diegetic music. Somebody gets in a car, and a song, written by the director, comes on the radio that comments on the plot, sometimes giving background information that is communicated only in this manner. There are no radios in BONE TOMAHAWK, of course, but the song "Four Doomed Men Ride Out" that plays during the end credits sums the story up nicely. (It may well have been inspired by Enzo G Castellari's KEOMA.) |
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