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Post by weirdmonger on Apr 30, 2008 13:33:43 GMT
What a good review! Found 5 Cone Zero authors, so far, Des. Thanks, Dr T. And you'd better enter the competition as the top entry so far is one author found!!  |
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Post by weirdmonger on Apr 28, 2008 10:54:59 GMT
This time for Weirdmonger, I decided to forget all advice on the more accessible or difficult stories, and just opened the book at random. That worked.  Thanks for TLO.  Also, your other bit sort of justifies me in my belief in 'The Intentional Fallacy'.  des |
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Post by weirdmonger on Apr 28, 2008 7:56:07 GMT
Thanks, Rog! Glad you're still enjoying it. Can I please quote your latest comments to the 'Weirdmonger' thread on TLO that you started? |
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Post by weirdmonger on Apr 28, 2008 7:52:21 GMT
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Post by weirdmonger on Apr 27, 2008 10:29:58 GMT
To celebrate the above review here is Cone Zero: an image of my desk here at Tendring HQ: |
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Post by weirdmonger on Apr 26, 2008 8:18:15 GMT
I am *really* pleased with this review of Zencore: tinyurl.com/3s7haf“a work that is staggeringly important” I am still selling copies of Zencore here: weirdmonger.livejournal.com/2007/07/26/If you buy a copy now before ‘Cone Zero’ comes out, you will be eligible to get ‘Cone Zero’ at half price. Please tell others. |
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Post by weirdmonger on Apr 25, 2008 15:57:39 GMT
I've just finished Reggie Oliver's three collections in 'one sitting' as it were:
The Dreams of Cardinal Vittorini and Other Strange Stories (Haunted River 2003)
The Complete Symphonies of Adolf Hitler (Haunted River 2005)
Masques of Satan: Twelve Tales and a Novella (Ash Tree Press 2007)
This was a significant experience in my reading life. Combining the odd dark pleasures to be found in Robert Aickman, Walter de la Mare, M.R. James, Elizabeth Bowen, Oliver Onions but some elemental beyond these called Reggie Oliver ... with an idiosyncratic love of the British seaside, theatrical productions, conscious paintings, crabby scholars, teachers like those from the English grammar school I went to in the fifties and sixties, strange lusts and desires ... and essentially compulsive story telling, with evil swirling about fleshily or spiritually or both...
And much else.
A major modern Horror writer. Virgin territory for most, I guess.
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Post by weirdmonger on Apr 23, 2008 16:02:59 GMT
The Dying Earth is for me an absolute classic - That in spades. |
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Post by weirdmonger on Apr 23, 2008 14:08:11 GMT
I remember taking young Mark through canal tunnels. I didn't realise, though, that he'd made much good use of the opportunity. Excellent! ;D I too recall a Canal-Boat voyage (with a crew of about 8) under Captain Redbrain many years go. (A different voyage to the one mentioned by Mark). We, too, went though a canal-tunnel. Very echoey and spooky. And lots of Wolverhampton locks! While on that trip, I wrote my story 'Gongoozler' reprinted in the Weirdmonger book. des |
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Post by weirdmonger on Apr 21, 2008 18:48:59 GMT
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Post by weirdmonger on Apr 21, 2008 10:46:56 GMT
I've now tracked down my copy of CoC 48 and my memory served me correctly. It is a remarkable article entitled 'Who Killed St John?' which includes a flow diagram that has to be seen to be believed.
I suppose, if Redbrain is agreeable, I could attempt to scan this article and reproduce it here?
des
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Post by weirdmonger on Apr 20, 2008 22:17:59 GMT
came across it again today while googling Crypt of Cthulhu. It was an essay based on a discussion between two friends who had both read the story and come up with a different answer. The two friends in question are Redbrain and Weirdmonger I think I have read THE HOUND aloud to Redbrain at least a dozen times since 1967. I think the last time was about two years ago when I travelled to London to see Goldfrapp at the Albert Hall. His article in CoC, I recall, is an amazing piece of work. Not read it for some years. Googled this: Jeffery, Peter F. “Who Killed St John?”. Crypt of Cthulhu No. 48 (WN 6, No. 6)(St John’s Eve, 1987).
Jeffery’s article “Who Killed St John” comments on the ambiguity as to whether the winged hound that mangles St John in England is the same being as the skeleton in the grave.
This question did not come up in the pub quiz tonight. |
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Post by weirdmonger on Apr 20, 2008 17:42:30 GMT
I know the answer. And so will Redbrain.
I'm going out now to a pub quiz. And I'm not sure if you want an answer now or later.
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Post by weirdmonger on Apr 18, 2008 8:03:54 GMT
Meanwhile, here's Kenny Everett (He's the one you look at second). I was privileged to hear by chance a live broadcast (in the sixties from one of the North Sea Pirate Stations) of Kenney Everett being trained by Tony Windsor (Tony Withers) in how to be a DJ. Probably KE's first ever public broadcast. des |
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Post by weirdmonger on Apr 16, 2008 22:03:48 GMT
I've never come across this series, I was in five consecutive issues of this series. Boast Boast! ;D |
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