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Post by johnnymains on Sept 28, 2024 9:12:20 GMT
The new Dorothy K Haynes book cover. Released on October 24th. Has some cracking unpublished stories. One of them I think may even become a Vault favourite.
The contents: Foreword - Johnny Mains Introduction - Craig Lamont No Such Person The "Bean-Nighe" Matthew Lurk, Tractorman The Wobbly Castle The Man in the Wall Oblige Me With a Loaf The Head Scots Wha Ha'e Gas Barleyriggs Help the Railway Mission The Black Chain The Boorees Don't Look in my Window Dorothy Dean Day of Wrath The Moonbow Vocation The Memory Up, Like a Good Girl! Changeling Those Lights and Violins Suspended Sentence The Curator Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch... A Horizon of Obelisks APPENDIX I: The letter from Mervyn Peake APPENDIX II: The Text of 'Suspended Sentence' For those interested, the previously unpublished stories: The Man in the Wall Don't Look in my Window (this is the one I think will *really* take off) Day of Wrath The Moonbow Suspended Sentence (but was previously broadcast on Radio 4, 18th October, 1974) |
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Post by Swampirella on Oct 10, 2024 19:37:27 GMT
Just saw on social media that this came out today. I love the cover art, and I'm sure the contents are just as enjoyable. Edited by our own Johnny Mains.
From the BL Shop website:
When she was able to hear something
besides her own pulse she listened to the phrase the two in white
whispered again and again, distinguishing, at last, the words. “Come out… come out into the dark… come with us…” In the flickering candlelight of pitchy Autumn nights, malevolent
spirits crowd the gloom and weird, terrible things come to pass. Ever
since the days of the pagan Samhain, storytellers have observed the
tradition of spinning tall, twisted tales of dark magic, spectral
stalkings and unearthly creatures to mark this festival’s uniquely
frightening aura. Collecting up a haunting haul of short stories and a handful of
strange seasonal poetry spanning from 1780 to the 1970s, this new volume
celebrates the riotous weird of the Halloween season through the works
of legendary ghost story writers such as Edith Wharton alongside rare
literary treats, rediscovered by Johnny Mains and returning to print for
the first time since their original publication.
Publication date: 10/10/2024 Author: Edited by Johnny Mains Brand: British Library Publishing Number of pages: 320
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Post by dem on Oct 17, 2024 10:17:09 GMT
Cover add: Just out! ToC: John Clare - 'I dreaded walking where there was no path' [short poem]
Charlotte Riddell - Sandy the Tinker
John Kendrick Bangs - Carleton Barker, First and Second
Sabine Baring-Gould - Crowdy Marsh
R. Ellis Roberts - The Hill
Ulric Daubeny - The Garden that Was Desolate
Marie Corelli - The Mystic Tune
Bessie Kyffin-Taylor - The Wind in the Woods
Amyas Northcote - Brickett Bottom
M. R. James - Wailing Well
Anthony Gittins - Gibbet Lane
Nugent Barker - Curious Adventure of Mr Bond
R. H. Malden - Between Sunset and Moonrise
Robert Aickman - The Trains Looks like a nice mixture of familiar and lesser-known tales. Love this for forthcoming (Dec) Summoned to the Seance, Sandra Gómez? |
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Post by Shrink Proof on Oct 17, 2024 11:42:42 GMT
"People don't go anywhere unless there's a signpost" - Julian Cope |
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Post by helrunar on Oct 18, 2024 2:23:44 GMT
Love the cover for Summoned for the Seance... a title I may need to add to my reading 'device.' Wonder just how many variants we may see of those classic lines: The fingers MUST TOUCH! DO NOT BREAK THE CIRCLE!!!
cheers, Hel.
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Post by toff on Nov 12, 2024 18:08:29 GMT
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Nov 25, 2024 21:06:57 GMT
The new Dorothy K Haynes book cover. Released on October 24th. Has some cracking unpublished stories. One of them I think may even become a Vault favourite.
The contents: Foreword - Johnny Mains Introduction - Craig Lamont No Such Person The "Bean-Nighe" Matthew Lurk, Tractorman The Wobbly Castle The Man in the Wall Oblige Me With a Loaf The Head Scots Wha Ha'e Gas Barleyriggs Help the Railway Mission The Black Chain The Boorees Don't Look in my Window Dorothy Dean Day of Wrath The Moonbow Vocation The Memory Up, Like a Good Girl! Changeling Those Lights and Violins Suspended Sentence The Curator Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch... A Horizon of Obelisks APPENDIX I: The letter from Mervyn Peake APPENDIX II: The Text of 'Suspended Sentence' For those interested, the previously unpublished stories: The Man in the Wall Don't Look in my Window (this is the one I think will *really* take off) Day of Wrath The Moonbow Suspended Sentence (but was previously broadcast on Radio 4, 18th October, 1974) How did I miss this? Just acquired the Kindle edition. |
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Post by ramseycampbell on Nov 27, 2024 11:02:48 GMT
The new Dorothy K Haynes book cover. Released on October 24th. Has some cracking unpublished stories. One of them I think may even become a Vault favourite.
The contents: Foreword - Johnny Mains Introduction - Craig Lamont No Such Person The "Bean-Nighe" Matthew Lurk, Tractorman The Wobbly Castle The Man in the Wall Oblige Me With a Loaf The Head Scots Wha Ha'e Gas Barleyriggs Help the Railway Mission The Black Chain The Boorees Don't Look in my Window Dorothy Dean Day of Wrath The Moonbow Vocation The Memory Up, Like a Good Girl! Changeling Those Lights and Violins Suspended Sentence The Curator Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch... A Horizon of Obelisks APPENDIX I: The letter from Mervyn Peake APPENDIX II: The Text of 'Suspended Sentence' For those interested, the previously unpublished stories: The Man in the Wall Don't Look in my Window (this is the one I think will *really* take off) Day of Wrath The Moonbow Suspended Sentence (but was previously broadcast on Radio 4, 18th October, 1974) Is "A Song at the Party" lurking in there somewhere? |
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Post by dem on Nov 27, 2024 21:27:23 GMT
Hi Ramsey. I'm sure this has been asked before but have you considered suggesting to the BL that they reissue Meddling With Ghosts as a 'Tales of the Weird' volume?
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Post by helrunar on Nov 28, 2024 3:56:34 GMT
Johnny's foreword for the Haynes book is a delight, and includes one of my favorite bits of writing from this rather unsavory year. Reminiscing about the Eighties (not my favorite decade, but I guess I'm ten to fifteen years older than Johnny):
It was a brilliant time to have your eyes gouged out by dusty volumes that had waited patiently for unsuspecting teenagers, such as myself, to be caught up in so much delicious horror.
Apt, true and exquisitely phrased.
cheers, Hel.
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Post by johnnymains on Nov 28, 2024 10:48:34 GMT
Heya Ramsey, it was in my original line-up when I proposed the book to the BL, but when I stepped aside to let Craig Lamont take the reins, it was dropped by him, for whatever reason he had. I only made one intervention, I asked that Up Like a Good Girl! be reinstated.
Here's my original list before we knew of the existence of Craig working with the archive and the unpublished stories.
Changeling - Modern Reading No 8 – 1948 (can be found in Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch – ’96 edition)
Thou Shalt Not Suffer A Witch (From Thou Shalt Not Suffer A Witch 1949 and reprinted in – ’96 edition)
The ‘Bean-Nighe’ – Pan Horror 8 1967, (found in thou shalt ’96 edition)
The Head - Scottish Tales of Terror – 1972 (found in thou shalt ’96 edition)
The Man Who Went Too Far - The Eight Ghost Book - 1972
Up, Like A Good Girl! – Gaslight Tales of Terror, 1976 (Thou Shalt – ’96 edition)
Zelma, my sister-in-law - Pan Horror 19 - 1978
King of the Fair – 12th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories - 1979
Those Lights and Violins - 65 Great Tales of the Supernatural, 1979
A Song At The Party - New Terrors Two – 1980
The Wink – Peacocks and Pagodas - 1981
The Boorees – 14th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories, 1981
A Lady in the Night 20th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories, 1984
Gas - Thou Shalt Not Suffer A Witch – ’96 edition
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Post by johnnymains on Nov 28, 2024 10:50:50 GMT
Johnny's foreword for the Haynes book is a delight, and includes one of my favorite bits of writing from this rather unsavory year. Reminiscing about the Eighties (not my favorite decade, but I guess I'm ten to fifteen years older than Johnny): It was a brilliant time to have your eyes gouged out by dusty volumes that had waited patiently for unsuspecting teenagers, such as myself, to be caught up in so much delicious horror.Apt, true and exquisitely phrased. cheers, Hel. Ah, thank you Hel. That was an intro that was a lot of fun to write. |
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Post by ramseycampbell on Nov 28, 2024 13:28:07 GMT
Hi Ramsey. I'm sure this has been asked before but have you considered suggesting to the BL that they reissue Meddling With Ghosts as a 'Tales of the Weird' volume? Thanks for reminding me! I should! |
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Post by toff on Nov 29, 2024 1:34:02 GMT
$83.98+ used for Meddling with Ghosts - definitely time for a new printing!
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Post by johnnymains on Nov 29, 2024 11:50:49 GMT
Oh yeah, I mentioned this at the Tales of the Weird event that was held at the British Library at the beginning of the month that I'll be doing a Midsummer/Lammas/Walpurgis themed book out next year called THE DEAD OF SUMMER - am really excited by it, collected some good stuff together.
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