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Post by pulphack on Apr 16, 2008 16:36:52 GMT
The Horse Is Dead reminds me of some old story about a conductor getting annoyed with a female cellist...
That John Creasey is a Dept Z story, i'll be bound - arrow did a whole load of his dept z novels, particularly the pre- and during WWII ones - that had some very odd looking photo covers, but none quite as bad as that! it looks like it's escaped from Doomwatch...
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Post by Calenture on Apr 23, 2008 20:17:14 GMT
I think this one's quite sweet. I just wish I knew what exactly it was. Answers on a postcard?
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Post by franklinmarsh on Apr 24, 2008 7:43:08 GMT
I thought at first it was one of those fox fur things that ladies (and Gary Holton) used to wear round their necks. It could be a very well scrubbed up roadkill. I can't remember the novel at all, and googling for reviews didn't help. I'll have to see if I can track one down. It would seem to be a parent of the one on the cover of Unknown Mission
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Post by dem bones on Apr 24, 2008 7:51:59 GMT
I thought it was a very ill hedgehog first of all but now I'm wondering .... is there a scene in the novel where a poodle turns arsonist?
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Post by Johnlprobert on Apr 24, 2008 9:20:19 GMT
Maybe they are all covers originally intended to be used in some kind of detective series:
Robbie the RoadKill Rat Opens Another Case
Harry the Hit&Run Hedgehog Investigates
Freddie the Flattened Fox Goes Adventuring Again
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Post by sadako on Nov 10, 2008 11:47:33 GMT
I rewatched THE UNDYING MONSTER recently, but I still can't read that bloody paperback on the Underground - it's so embarrassingly awful!
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Post by valdemar on Apr 27, 2012 20:57:50 GMT
Never mind shonky covers, I was laughing at the poorly researched blurb for 'The Undying Monster' The 'Suffolk Downs' indeed! If only! The highest part of Suffolk is only about 300 feet or so above sea-level. I've lived in Suffolk all my life, and I love the area with all my heart, but sometimes, just sometimes, I wish that it weren't so damn flat. Ah well. I intend going climbing in the Norfolk Alps in the summer, followed up by some fell-walking on the tops near Ely...
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Post by pulphack on Apr 28, 2012 6:30:25 GMT
very off topic but that reminded me of a children's duo i saw at a folk festival in Walton once, who were called The Norfolk Mountain Rescue Team, and had a puppet rabbit called Tosser who liked to juggle, with one of the duo feeding lines like 'Ah, Tosser likes bouncing his balls...' Honestly, these folkies... Actually, they were the best bit of the weekend.
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ssppookkyy
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Post by ssppookkyy on Sept 11, 2013 18:38:38 GMT
I have to say I agree, I attempted it a couple of weeks and gave up after about 30 pages, was just awful! Shame because its a funky cover. It pains me to say it, but the cover is the best thing about it. Apologies to our older members who've suffered it before, but this thread just isn't complete without .... Jessie Douglas Kerruish - The Undying Monster (Tandem, 1975) “Devil or ghoul, the bane of Hammand would have it’s victim”Dannow on the Suffolk Downs: For generations the Hammand family have laboured under a curse, apparently due to an evil ancestor who sold his soul to Satan. To make matters worse, they’re plagued by a werewolf who does for most of them, either rending their bodies or driving them to suicide. Now London-based Miss Luna Bartendale, a psychic detective, is called in by the present owners to see if she can prevent their doom at the fangs and claws of the monster. First published by Heath & Cranton in 1922 and successfully filmed by 20th Century Fox two decades later, Tandem released this paperback version for no apparent reason I can fathom in 1975.
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Post by zaraath on Oct 1, 2014 4:44:53 GMT
If the cover really is the best thing about it, I'm very glad that the text never troubled my eyeballs. Sorry mr. brain, I was replying to Coral's post about The Book Of Urban Legends which is appropriately bog standard. There's nothing wrong with The Undying Monster! I agree, I read it at age 10 or 11 and it has been one of my favorite books ever since. I bought it with parents' largesse a year or so earlier off the revolving rack at the local drugstore, but when my mother saw the cover of the 1970 pb edition (my avatar) she confiscated it "until I was ready". I didn't grok the nature of the monster until well into the book, if then. If there was a big hairy werewolf on the cover it wouldn't have been as frightening or mysterious, imo.
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