Posted by demonik on May 30, 2013
This just in from the house of fanatic ….
Justin Marriott – Paperback Fanatic #26 (May, 2013)
Hector Garrida
Regular departments:
Fanatical thoughts:
Fanatical mails: Alaister Durie, Coplin Clynes, Mark Savage, Murray Ewing, Johnny Mains, Winston Whitmarsh, Sarah Morgan, Stan Wedeking, Stephen Sennitt, Tom Tesaruk, Stuart Williams, Nigel Taylor, Scott Carlson, Clive Davies, Andrew Kerston
Top Tens: Tom Tesaruk, Stuart Williams.
Features
Justin Marriott – The Delicate Vice: A history of sleaze publishers Midwood Books
Lynn Monroe – The Midwood Style: The distinctive artwork of Paul Radar.
Graham Andrews – “Had I But Known, Dear Reader …”: The works of crime author Mary Roberts ‘The Bat’ Reinhart.
Justin Marriott – The Original Soprano. True crime with Joey the Killer
Justin Marriott – Breakfast In The Ruins: Thirty years of classic ‘Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction’ cover artwork.
Graham Andrews – To Hell or Connaught: A review of John Christopher’s Nazi leprachaun novel, ‘The Little People‘.
Justin Marriott – Made Of Stone: Men’s adventure author Alan Caillou
James Diog & Graeme Flanagan – James Holledge – Master of Sensational Journalism: An Aussie pulp legend remembered.
Nigel Taylor – One Of The Best Was Bob Shaw. A tribute to the SF author.
Cameron Fowler – Beatnik pulps
Cranston McMillan – Detecting The Seventies. TV detective tie-ins including ‘Kojak‘, ‘Cannon‘, ‘Police Woman‘ and ‘McCloud.’
Frank Frazetta Midwood illustrations.
Subscription details from the Fanatic Megastore
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Posted by demonik on May 21, 2013
Paul Finch (ed) – Terror Tales Of London (Gray Friars Press, 2013)
Cover Illustration: Steve Upham
Nina Allan – The Tiger
London After Midnight
Roger Johnson – The Soldier
Queen Rat
Nicholas Royle – Train, Night
The Horror At Berkeley Square
Adam Nevill – The Angels Of London
Boudicca’s Bane
Gary Fry – Capital Growth
The Black Dog Of Newgate
Rosalie Parker – The Thames
The Other Murderers
Mark Morris – The Red Door
The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
Barbara Roden – Undesirable Residence
Nosferatu In Highgate
Jonathan Oliver – The Horror Writer
Butchery In Bleeding-Heart Yard
Christopher Fowler – Perry In Seraglio
The Monster Of Hammersmith
Marie O’Regan – Someone To Watch Over You
The Black Death Returns
David J. Howe – The Outcast Dead
What Stirs Below?
Anna Taborska – The Bloody Tower
Blurb:
The city of London – whose gold-paved streets are lost in choking fog and echo to the trundling of plague-carts, whose twisting back alleys ring to cries of “Murder!”, whose awful tower is stained with the blood of princes and paupers alike.
The night stalker of Hammersmith
The brutal butchery of Holborn
The depraved spirit of Sydenham
The fallen angel of Dalston
The murder den of Notting Hill
The haunted sewer of Bermondsey
The red-eyed ghoul of Highgate
And many more chilling tales from Adam Nevill, Mark Morris, Christopher Fowler, Nina Allen, Nicholas Royle, and other award-winning masters and mistresses of the macabre
Coming soon: Available for Preorder from Gray Friar Press
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Posted by demonik on May 14, 2013
Alan C Jenkins (ed.) – Thin Air (Blackie, 1966)
Alan C. Jenkins – Introduction
M. R. James- The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
Algernon Blackwood – Running Wolf
Andrew Lang – The Ghost of Glam
S. L. Sadhu – The Haunted Mosque
Oscar Wilde – The Canterville Ghost
Sir Arthur Grimble – The Whistling Ghosts
Elliott O’Donnell – A Ghost in the Ring
Warren Armstrong – A Phantom of the Seas
Francis Hayley Bell – The Unforgiving Garden
W. W. Jacobs – The Monkey’s Paw
H. G. Wells – The Inexperienced Ghost
W. H. Barrett – The Ghost of a Saint
Rudyard Kipling – My Own True Ghost Story
Charles Downing – The Death Watch
Saki – The Open Window
Guy de Maupassant – An Apparition
Washington Irving – The Spectre Bridegroom
William Fryer Harvey – Sambo
Edgar Allan Poe – William Wilson
Richard Middleton – The Ghost Ship
Hugh Walpole – A Little Ghost
Charles Dickens – The Signal-Man
E. F. Benson – The House with the Brick-Kiln
Arthur Quiller-Couch – A Pair of Hands
Oliver Onions – Phantas
A. E. D. Smith – The Coat
Roger Lancelyn Green – The Story of Admetus
Ambrose Bierce – The Stranger
Geoffrey Palmer & Noel Lloyd – The Haunted Forest
Alexander Woollcott – Full Fathom Five
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