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Post by goathunter on Apr 24, 2024 4:43:38 GMT
Sinema in David J. Schow's Silver Scream wouldn't be the worst place to start. Most (all?) of the above 'splat pack' have stories in that beauty. I'll second that! Silver Scream is still my favorite anthology. Every story is a winner. Hunter
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Post by goathunter on Apr 22, 2024 14:57:54 GMT
I wasn't sure where to post this.... Ray Garton died yesterday morning. He'd been sick with various ailments for years, but was only diagnosed earlier this month with Stage 4 lung cancer. Ray first burst onto the horror scene with the publication of Live Girls, and became one of the biggest names in horror fiction in the '80s and '90s. Ray Garton OnlineThis photo was published in the October 1988 issue of Twilight Zone. The caption should read: Craig Spector, Joe Lansdale, Richard Christian Matheson, David J. Schow, Ray Garton, Robert McCammon, and John Skipp. Photo by Beth Gwinn, 1986/7.
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Post by goathunter on Jan 11, 2024 0:11:08 GMT
Fantastic site, Jim! It's about time, too.
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Post by goathunter on Jan 5, 2024 18:55:25 GMT
Interesting. Do you happen to know which version Centipede used? As I have seen and wrote the Ebook version has a different prologue. Problem is I only have the translation which can be different for a lot of reasons.
Seems all the Ebook versions are edited. I looked up Candlemas Eve which at least has lost the sex scene in the prologue. Again I have only the translation and not the original. But it is one thing to edit some sentences or even pages, which can do any editor, but a new prologue like in Blood of the Impaler can (normally) only be done by the writer. So it is possible that Sackett did the changes himself. In this case all complaints about different versions are senseless.
I hadn't realized there were differences in the editions, but I'll try to look today to see which prologue is in the hardcover edition. I do know that any changes in the ebooks were done by Jeffrey Sackett himself. I'm the one who brought him to the attention of Crossroad Press. He considers the ebooks the definitive books as he originally wrote them (suggesting that the original Candlemas Eve scene was an editorial "suggestion", IMO). You may have noticed that there's no ebook for Mark of the Werewolf. Instead, there's Lycanthropos, which is the original version of Mark of the Werewolf with Nazis as the bad guys. The editors at Bantam didn't like the Nazis and made him rewrite the book to use biker gangs or whatever they are (it's been a long time since I've read Mark). Sackett never liked those changes, so when he did the ebook, he published his original manuscript with the Nazi story intact.
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Post by goathunter on Jan 3, 2024 2:57:21 GMT
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Post by goathunter on Jan 3, 2024 2:55:21 GMT
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Post by goathunter on Sept 12, 2023 18:53:01 GMT
The most infamous one is probably Chuck Palahniuk's "Guts." The story can be found easily via Google.
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Post by goathunter on Sept 1, 2023 13:17:07 GMT
I've not read that, but that sounds like a perfect example of how a writer who puts some work into their novelisation can make something that stands out as a book in its own right, rather than just a kind of souvenir of the film or show, which is I guess what tie-ins were supposed to be before VHS, etc. Card expanding the characterisation with some interior monolgue and POV to give them an extra dimension is exactly what a writer should aim, really - it must make the job of novelising more interesting to put that thought into the work. If memory serves, the first three chapters are backstories for the three main characters. You're right, novelizations of films used to be the only way you could experience most films a second (or first) time in the days before HBO, VHS, Laserdiscs, etc. As an avid reader of a number of them, I used to get really annoyed when a novelization did not follow the movie's script precisely. (Hey, I was, what, 10 to 15 when I read most of them). I later gained an appreciation for how they were often based on early script drafts and included things cut from the final films. It was only after I matured and read more that I came to appreciate the novelizations that did more than spit out the screenplay in prose form. It's been a long time since I've read a novelization. I read the Skipp & Spector novelization of Fright Night last year. I think that's the only one I've read since reading The Abyss when it came out in 1989. Because by then, we had VHS and LDs, and novelizations seemed to be kind of pointless. There's no telling what I've missed from novelizations of films I've enjoyed.
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Post by goathunter on Aug 29, 2023 12:09:06 GMT
When Orson Scott Card's The Abyss was published, it included a foreword about how it was something unique, a novel based on the screenplay, and not a novelization of the screenplay. And it was, too. It was a great novel, because Card took you into the characters' heads, in addition to including more that was cut from the theatrical release. The standout scene for me was {Spoiler}the scene where Catfish tries to swim with Bud to the wave pool, but halfway there, he tells Bud he can't make it. In an exciting surprise a few minutes later, he shows up and punches Coffey. In the movie, he just shows up, but in the novel, you learn that he gets an assist from the aliens, though he doesn't realize it, if memory serves . It really expanded that scene and enhanced the whole story, IMO.
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Post by goathunter on Jul 24, 2023 13:40:17 GMT
I loved Herbert's books...until The Magic Cottage. I hated it, and I only read two or three after that.
Shrine is still my favorite, though I honestly remember nothing about it anymore. I just remember that at the time, I thought it was his best work.
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Post by goathunter on Apr 15, 2023 23:12:54 GMT
Excellent comparison. Willard and Fade to Black are similarly-themed and were mismarketed. The rats are only scary in Willard because Willard uses them to exact revenge on people.
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Post by goathunter on Jan 30, 2023 14:14:59 GMT
For my money, Silver Scream is the best horror anthology ever published. Every story is a winner, and most are just flat-out amazing.
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Post by goathunter on Jan 18, 2023 22:24:10 GMT
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Post by goathunter on Jan 18, 2023 22:20:31 GMT
This is the cover of the Dark Harvest hardcover edition, released in trade and signed & numbered states. The art is by Rick Araluce.
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Post by goathunter on Jan 13, 2023 2:42:22 GMT
Te author was obviously writing with a film version in mind. The 2nd act set in the school was OK, the rest was Enid Blyton with sweary bits. Felt very much like a step outline / treatment rather than a novel 3/10 It was his very first novel. Not just first published, but first written. FWIW.
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