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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Feb 13, 2024 10:32:09 GMT
The reason may be that, apparently, it has been revised numerous times. Do you have different print volumes or digital which sometimes gets updated if you want it or not. I have, I believe, the original paperback edition from 1985 or 1986 and another one from the mid-90s, and am currently reading the Kindle edition.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Feb 12, 2024 22:07:07 GMT
I just started rereading THE GLAMOUR, something I have done a number of times over the years. It seems to me to be different every time. The reason may be that, apparently, it has been revised numerous times.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Feb 10, 2024 21:49:16 GMT
6 AND THE SILENT SCREAM: Is that a very poor Richard Powers painting? I've no idea. The back cover attributes 'design' to some chap named Sam Suliman. I can't see it in The Art of Richard Powers. If it is I am sure it would not have been included in THE ART OF RICHARD POWERS.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Feb 10, 2024 21:06:44 GMT
6 AND THE SILENT SCREAM: Is that a very poor Richard Powers painting?
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Feb 8, 2024 18:59:29 GMT
NECROSCOPE is quite inspired. About that cover, I have told this story before on another board, but it may prove instructive also for Vault members. About 30 years ago I stayed for two weeks in a hotel in Palo Alto, California. The housekeeping staff consisted of Hispanic ladies who did not speak English. I was reading that very edition of NECROSCOPE at the time, and I suppose I left it lying around the room. One day I noticed the number of Gideon bibles had doubled; there were now two. Some time later there was a total of three. One afternoon I came back to my room before they had had time to supply fresh towels. There was a knock on the door. When I opened it, a hand holding the new towels was stretched out toward me from beside the door, where the housekeeping lady was hiding with her face averted, presumably to avoid my evil eye. And throughout the rest of my stay the atmosphere was a bit strained. In THE BRIAN LUMLEY COMPANION, Bob Eggleton relates a story about that cover causing consternation on a plane. I feel mine is better, though, so, Bob, if you see this, feel free to use it next time.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Feb 7, 2024 21:00:36 GMT
The Brian Lumley Companion There is an interview in that one where he makes the remarkable statement that he had to shut the NECROSCOPE series down early because it was just the same thing over and over.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Feb 7, 2024 11:02:30 GMT
Apparently Christopher Priest, who was once married to Lisa Tuttle, died two days ago. ---Jojo Lapin X, Master Conversationalist Another one. R.I.P. I know I read one of his novels, A Dream of Wessex, but can't remember anything of it.And I watched Nolan's version of his novel The Prestige, which must be very different from the movie.
The film of THE PRESTIGE is a very faithful adaptation of the novel, except that it actually improves on a technical detail of the plot. THE PRESTIGE is unusual among Priest's novels, which are often more dream-like and ambiguous. I just started rereading THE GLAMOUR, something I have done a number of times over the years. It seems to me to be different every time.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Feb 5, 2024 20:15:17 GMT
the documentary is really well done. I agree - it was excellent. I also watched a Dario Argento doco that looks quite recent - made me realise I haven't seen any of his films after about 1980. Try TRAUMA (1993), his American film. Argento fans tend to hate it, but it is actually wonderful.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Feb 4, 2024 17:46:59 GMT
I really enjoyed Lisa Tuttle's story, never having read anything by her before. Apparently Christopher Priest, who was once married to Lisa Tuttle, died two days ago. ---Jojo Lapin X, Master Conversationalist
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Feb 2, 2024 20:09:17 GMT
I just reread "The Viaduct," a sort of horizontal variation on William Sansom's "The Vertical Ladder." Sweat-inducing stuff, and really a model short story. "The Viaduct," was my own introduction to Lumley, followed by The Whisperer not long after. There are others I know I liked a lot on reading but can now only vaguely recall - Fruiting Bodies, No Sharks in the Med, Necros etc - whereas that first pair stayed with me ever since. R.I.P. I am afraid my own introduction was THE BURROWERS BENEATH, and it took me decades before I was willing to try Lumley again.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Feb 2, 2024 19:31:31 GMT
I just reread "The Viaduct," a sort of horizontal variation on William Sansom's "The Vertical Ladder." Sweat-inducing stuff, and really a model short story.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jan 31, 2024 19:55:01 GMT
Amusingly, the first story that was available in the sample after a long rambling editorial intro in which the word Weird was obsessively repeated, was something involving a guy at a urinal struggling not to piss his pants. That story is actually perfectly readable, albeit with a lame ending which suggests the author never had any idea of where to go with the premise. Scott Sigler is nevertheless a good storyteller---I thought his trilogy starting with ALIVE (2015) was lots of fun.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jan 30, 2024 20:21:46 GMT
I paid money for the ebook. It also looks horrible---all in boldface. I feel like you are taunting me now. Not at all, it's just that my own interest in Weird Tales pretty much ends with the short-lived Weinberg-Moskowitz revival. Should add Marvin & Saralee Kaye's Weird Tales to above list of personal favourites. At least I managed to cancel my order of the physical book in time. Why was I even interested in this, you may wonder. Well, the Amazon reviews are quite enthusiastic, including this somewhat odd one from "R. Hobson" titled "Buy it now before it is gone": "I don't like long reviews, hate them actually. Every story is an excellent example of Wierd writing, the way it used to be; it makes you think, makes you wonder, and sends you to your cupboard to make sure all the dangerous chemicals are still there."
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jan 30, 2024 19:15:23 GMT
NECROSCOPE is solid. And you are right, he wrote some really great short stories.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jan 30, 2024 16:58:11 GMT
In 1816 a guard at the Tower of London was terrified by the ghost of a bear. He hit it with his bayonet--presumably affixed to his musket--but it went clean through the bear and stuck into the door. The guard was so scared that he later died. The bear was given the name Old Martin. I like the non sequitur ending. It is like something by Jack Handey.
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