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Post by justincase on Jan 19, 2012 20:45:00 GMT
(it is obviously a "he" and an author still very much alive). I can confirm the first statement quite categorically, but as for being still very much alive... at this precise moment in time I'm not so sure about the very much part! Er... thanks! I don't think I've had that effect before. One to add to the CV! Hah, I thought you might be "he".. I'm seriously looking forward to the booklet - what a great time for ghost stories. Alive and well has to be good enough these days. ;D
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Jan 19, 2012 21:51:46 GMT
Many thanks, justincase! Glad you're excited about the booklet. I can't even begin to say how thrilled I am by it. I'd always been saddened by the fact that G&S had ceased being a fiction based publication before I'd even discovered it, as it would have been a real honour to have had a story appear there. So to the prospect of having my own Haunted Library booklet is fairly staggering.
And, since everything is looking pretty much set, I'll reveal that the title, which is shared with the main story, is to be Ex Libris: Lufford - which should give away which story this is a sequel to. The second story is If You Don't Come to Me, I'll Come to You, and there's a section of 'extra material' tying in with the main story, entitled A Lufford Legacy?
The main story was written for the G&S sequels & prequels competition, but was way too long (over 13,000 words) for the book, so it was Ro's suggestion that I write up one of the other ideas I'd considered so the stories could be published together. As I say, fairly staggering. I hope you'll enjoy them.
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Post by Johnlprobert on Jan 19, 2012 22:13:09 GMT
Many thanks, justincase! Glad you're excited about the booklet. I can't even begin to say how thrilled I am by it. I'd always been saddened by the fact that G&S had ceased being a fiction based publication before I'd even discovered it, as it would have been a real honour to have had a story appear there. So to the prospect of having my own Haunted Library booklet is fairly staggering. And, since everything is looking pretty much set, I'll reveal that the title, which is shared with the main story, is to be Ex Libris: Lufford - which should give away which story this is a sequel to. The second story is If You Don't Come to Me, I'll Come to You, and there's a section of 'extra material' tying in with the main story, entitled A Lufford Legacy?The main story was written for the G&S sequels & prequels competition, but was way too long (over 13,000 words) for the book, so it was Ro's suggestion that I write up one of the other ideas I'd considered so the stories could be published together. As I say, fairly staggering. I hope you'll enjoy them. This sounds marvellous! I'll keep my eye out but please let me know when it comes out so I can grab a copy!.
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Post by Johnlprobert on Jan 19, 2012 22:16:01 GMT
Great to hear from you lurkio, and thanks for the updates. Fascinating line-up for the Sarob anthology. Lord P is a pleasant surprise. Mr D that made me smile very broadly indeed! Thank you very much!
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Jan 19, 2012 22:27:11 GMT
This sounds marvellous! I'll keep my eye out but please let me know when it comes out so I can grab a copy! Thanks ever so, m'lud. I was also pleasantly surprised to see your good self amongst authors when Ro sent me the list, and I'm very much looking forward to The Mezzotaint! Excellent and intriguing title, that. The plan may be to release the booklet in September to coincide with/as a companion to the Sarob Press book, but as soon as I know for definite, I'll make an official(ish) announcement.
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Post by Johnlprobert on Jan 20, 2012 0:08:35 GMT
This sounds marvellous! I'll keep my eye out but please let me know when it comes out so I can grab a copy! Thanks ever so, m'lud. I was also pleasantly surprised to see your good self amongst authors when Ro sent me the list, and I'm very much looking forward to The Mezzotaint! Excellent and intriguing title, that. The plan may be to release the booklet in September to coincide with/as a companion to the Sarob Press book, but as soon as I know for definite, I'll make an official(ish) announcement. Thank you Mr Lurker! It was a pleasure to write & took me back to my days of writing stories for All Hallows, so I was truly delighted to be included. I can't wait to read the rest of the Sarob Press book as the lineup looks splendid.
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Post by jamesdoig on Jan 20, 2012 5:36:55 GMT
The main story was written for the G&S sequels & prequels competition, but was way too long (over 13,000 words) for the book, so it was Ro's suggestion that I write up one of the other ideas I'd considered so the stories could be published together. As I say, fairly staggering. I hope you'll enjoy them. Crikey, a Jamesian novella! I'll certainly look forward to that
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Post by justincase on Jan 20, 2012 13:49:29 GMT
Many thanks, justincase! Glad you're excited about the booklet. I can't even begin to say how thrilled I am by it. I'd always been saddened by the fact that G&S had ceased being a fiction based publication before I'd even discovered it, as it would have been a real honour to have had a story appear there. So to the prospect of having my own Haunted Library booklet is fairly staggering. And, since everything is looking pretty much set, I'll reveal that the title, which is shared with the main story, is to be Ex Libris: Lufford - which should give away which story this is a sequel to. The second story is If You Don't Come to Me, I'll Come to You, and there's a section of 'extra material' tying in with the main story, entitled A Lufford Legacy?The main story was written for the G&S sequels & prequels competition, but was way too long (over 13,000 words) for the book, so it was Ro's suggestion that I write up one of the other ideas I'd considered so the stories could be published together. As I say, fairly staggering. I hope you'll enjoy them. Yes! This sounds wonderful.. I really can't wait! What a great return to the booklet format.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 20, 2012 23:29:10 GMT
Mr D that made me smile very broadly indeed! Thank you very much! I mean it, your honour. Ghosts & Scholars will always be very special to me as it was the first small press booklet I ever read and it left as huge an impression as the Black Books and Paperback Fanatic would in the years to come, not a compliment i bestow lightly. It's heartening that we have a smattering of James Gangsters on this board (eh, Mr. Doig?!!) incidentally, one of my primest prime suspects is noticably absent from the Sarob collection so i'm delighted he'll be making his presence felt in the prestigious Haunted Library booklet. Well done, Lurks!
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Post by jamesdoig on Jan 21, 2012 0:02:03 GMT
It's heartening that we have a smattering of James Gangsters on this board (eh, Mr. Doig?!!) Embarrassingly, I let my subscription to the G&S newsletter lapse a couple of years ago, so I'm very much out of touch.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 21, 2012 7:11:30 GMT
It's heartening that we have a smattering of James Gangsters on this board (eh, Mr. Doig?!!) Embarrassingly, I let my subscription to the G&S newsletter lapse a couple of years ago, so I'm very much out of touch. That's not so bad - mine lapsed somewhere around 1994 . But i was thinking more along the lines of Ghosts & Scholars contributors and my trusty G&S index tells me you had three stories published in the journal which is as many as Roger Johnson!
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Post by Michael Connolly on Jul 18, 2012 9:57:37 GMT
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Post by dem bones on Aug 5, 2012 6:19:21 GMT
i find it's better to hit 'em with some visuals and details, codex. Not so many Vault people have mastered the art of clicking on links yet! Rosemary Pardoe (ed.) - The Ghosts & Scholars Book Of Shadows (Sarob, Sept. 2012) Paul Lowe Rosemary Pardoe - Introduction
Helen Grant - Alberic de Mauléon Rick Kennett - Anningley Hall, Early Morning John Llewellyn Probert - The Mezzotaint Christopher Harman - Quis est Iste? Jacqueline Simpson - The Guardian Reggie Oliver - Between Four Yews Louis Marvick - The Mirror of Don Ferrante Mark Valentine - Fire Companions Derek John - Of Three Girls and of Their Talk C.E. Ward - The Gift David A. Sutton - Malice Peter Bell - Glamour of Madness
Notes on the authorsWhile you still have their attention, you remind 'em that it's likely to be sold out unless they move sharpish, and now, only now, do you hit them with the " more information from Sarob Press"!
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Post by dem bones on Aug 5, 2012 12:17:40 GMT
E. Joyce Shillington Scales, from Arthur Gray's Tedious Brief Tales of Granta and Gramarye (Heffer, 1919) Another rifle through the wardrobe of wonder and woe, this time to find a round thirteen Haunted Library Newsletters running from Christmas 1988 through to August 1993, plus bonus programme for first ever Ghost Story Society Convention, Chester, 30th October 1993, as attended by Vault co-founder-to-be, Ripper. No frills, and yet somehow far more impressive than certain of the fully-fledged Goth & Vampire 'zines revisited of late. Rosemary Pardoe confined the content to Jamesian News, small press publications received, and, primarily, details of forthcoming Haunted Library releases (by Christmas 1988 we're up to Ghosts & Scholar's # 10 , the most recent booklet being 'D. N. J.'s The Moon-Gazer & One Other), but it is amazing just how much information you can cram into just the one folded A4 sheet! These were exciting times for James Gangsters. It's a year on from the excellent Dalby-Pardoe edited Ghosts & Scholars hard-cover from Crucible, the Equation Chillers series was still an ongoing concern and the next addition to the series would be Frederick Cowles' posthumous collection Fear Walks The Night. Alas ... Some highlights. The Christmas 1988 newsletter announces that the newly formed Ghost Story Society have published their first newsletter and it is very much in your interests to join. Meanwhile , Johnny Haelterman has published the first issue of Geesten & Geleerden, a Dutch language selection from selection from Ghosts & Scholars 1-8. and Robert Price's brilliant, sadly short-lived Spectral Tales - "America's answer to G & S" - reprints Frederick Cowles' The Thing From The Sea and includes a "long and fascinating (and totally wrong-headed!) article on M. R. James by S. T. Joshi." The letters column in the second and final issue would be what you might call "a bit lively." April 1989 devotes a block paragraph to Stygian Dreamhouse, a new fanzine from Mark Samuels who "starts things off as he means to go on with a controversial editorial in praise of the amateur ... (the publication includes) five supernatural stories, all depending more on atmosphere than shock, ... the longest of which, by Simon Clark, concerns that surprisingly suitable setting for a supernatural tale, the rock music industry." Further good news on the independent publication front. Jeff Dempsey & David Cowperthwaite Dark Dreams # 7 is "surely the best yet" bith in terms of appearance and written content. August 1990: "In May, Hammer started filming a new series of thirty minute ghost stories for TV, The Haunted House Of Hammer. Among the twenty-six scheduled for dramatisations of MRJ's 'Oh Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad ..." and Canon Alberic's Scrapbook." Dallas Goffin
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Post by justincase on Sept 5, 2012 17:21:32 GMT
Another rifle through the wardrobe of wonder and woe, this time to find a round thirteen Haunted Library Newsletters running from Christmas 1988 through to August 1993, plus bonus programme for first ever Ghost Story Society Convention, Chester, 30th October 1993, as attended by Vault co-founder-to-be, Ripper. No frills, and yet somehow far more impressive than certain of the fully-fledged Goth & Vampire 'zines revisited of late. Rosemary Pardoe confined the content to Jamesian News, small press publications received, and, primarily, details of forthcoming Haunted Library releases (by Christmas 1988 we're up to Ghosts & Scholar's # 10 , the most recent booklet being 'D. N. J.'s The Moon-Gazer & One Other), but it is amazing just how much information you can cram into just the one folded A4 sheet! Great stuff.. .thanks for sharing - no matter how far I stray I always end up back at this forum - this kind of post is one of the reasons why
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