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Post by cauldronbrewer on Aug 17, 2021 16:33:18 GMT
The Essential Guide to Mummy Literature (1997) I like this book, but I like the Vault thread, too.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 17, 2021 16:49:02 GMT
It is! And I've been going through the Vault's lovely contribution to all-things Mummy, with much more enjoyable results. Especially pleased with the addition of comics as well, which is unfortunately missing in Frost's guide. In which case, you might be interested in Pulp Horror #7: The Mummy Lives!, which includes a lengthy entry on comics and incorporates a version of the Vault biblio. Profusely illustrated, full colour, the works.
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Post by drauch on Aug 17, 2021 16:50:47 GMT
Ah yes, I've had that in my wishlist since its inception. Perhaps high time to make the purchase!
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Aug 17, 2021 18:05:24 GMT
In which case, you might be interested in Pulp Horror #7: The Mummy Lives!, which includes a lengthy entry on comics and incorporates a version of the Vault biblio. Profusely illustrated, full colour, the works. I really need to order this, too.
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Post by jamesdoig on May 27, 2022 21:45:50 GMT
Rescued this from the shed - 1976 Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection. It still holds up well, similar to the Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, which is still a favourite.
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Post by jamesdoig on May 27, 2022 22:03:18 GMT
Did anyone ever get price guides back in the day? All a bit redundant now with the Internet, and they were always roundly condemned by collectors. At least they're useful for relative values, but even that's debatable. No one seems to have done the same thing for British paperbacks. Hancer was one of the first - published in 1980. Not sure what the monkey signifies on the 3rd edition(*update* - it's holding a Tarzan paperback). This one was at least accurate because it only listed sale/auction prices: This was the largest - over 930 pages, and not bad as a list of most of the main US publishers Gary Lovisi's is the most recent one I've got, published in 2008. Picked it up at the remainder shop years ago, and it's a nice glossy book with lots of colour images:
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Post by Michael Connolly on May 28, 2022 9:51:42 GMT
Rescued this from the shed - 1976 Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection. It still holds up well, similar to the Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, which is still a favourite. Three years ago I started a thread on The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection here: vaultofevil.proboards.com/thread/6932/encyclopedia-mystery-detection
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Post by andydecker on May 28, 2022 13:34:11 GMT
Did anyone ever get price guides back in the day? All a bit redundant now with the Internet, and they were always roundly condemned by collectors. At least they're useful for relative values, but even that's debatable. No one seems to have done the same thing for British paperbacks. Unfortunately they never interested me back then. Nowadays I often think that these are surely nice research instruments.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Jun 8, 2022 7:17:29 GMT
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Post by Michael Connolly on Jun 11, 2022 11:56:07 GMT
I think I last saw The Guide to Supernatural Fiction about 35 years ago when I borrowed it via Inter Library Loan for the second time. While, for example, it has less information on anthologies than Mike Ashley's Supernatural Index, it is superior as Bleiler is critical even when you might not agree with him. It will be interesting to read it again with my now greater personal knowledge of the novels and short stories he describes. The book is available to download from numerous websites. I had no qualms about downloading as it is out of print and only available second-hand for exorbitant three or four-figure sums from bookdealers.
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Post by Alf on Jun 11, 2022 17:39:35 GMT
Just downloaded this. It covers a huge number of novels, the majority of which are out of copyright / public domain
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Post by dem bones on Jun 12, 2022 6:10:07 GMT
'Guide' ... was the one got me started on the road to ruin, i'e., taking notes on stories as and when read. Pretty sure it was his antipathy toward so many stories/ anthologies/ novels I loved lit the fuse. Sometime circa early-mid-nineties, I asked Ted Ball and Eddie Gibson of the Fantasy Centre if they could get me a copy, and they did ... by ordering one direct from Kent State University. £20, as I recall. No idea when it went out of print - maybe they still have copies?
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Post by Michael Connolly on Jun 12, 2022 7:23:29 GMT
'Guide' ... was the one got me started on the road to ruin, i'e., taking notes on stories as and when read. Pretty sure it was his antipathy toward so many stories/ anthologies/ novels I loved lit the fuse. Sometime circa early-mid-nineties, I asked Ted Ball and Eddie Gibson of the Fantasy Centre if they could get me a copy, and they did ... by ordering one direct from Kent State University. £20, as I recall. No idea when it went out of print - maybe they still have copies? No. I've just checked. It is out of print and there are no new copies on Bookfinder.com. The Guide was also a great influence on what I chose to read. I should have ordered a copy of it at the time. At least I can now read it on my tablet etc. I did buy The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural when I saw it in a bookshop. It is also downloadable: uk1lib.vip/book/19195909/c89947
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Post by ramseycampbell on Jun 18, 2022 9:53:30 GMT
Oh dear! Many of my contributions may be horribly out of date.
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