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     Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 121.214.140.185 |
Ordered a copy today - can't wait!  Link: http://www.hippocampuspress.com/other/inconsequential-tales.html | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.157.91.19 |
Ooh, thanks for the link - just ordered it myself. Wasn't even aware of this, but then there are so many things out there particularly from the small press world that I rely on this board to tell me about, although if I checked Ramsey's news more often I'd have known about this earlier! | ||
| Alansjf (Alansjf) Username: Alansjf Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 93.97.93.216 |
Same here - ordered it on Tuesday, so I'm hoping to have a copy in my hands early next week. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Just ordered this - had some spare cash in my Paypal account. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.114.136 |
But Lawks, that cover's awful. Blank would have honestly been better. Do I sound like the sort of guy who might be put off a play because the hats were bad or something? Quite possibly. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
I very much like the cover, and told them so. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Wow. This looks great. Just ordered. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
I love the cover. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.23.233.246 |
Just with me having studied art at college etc, having seen stuff there I feel might have done Ramsey more justice. Do covers matter? Actually, when it comes to it, I'm not sure Ramsey's work has ever been married successfully to imagery, at least not as often as he should. Nor King, for that matter, not since the early days of his 70s paperbacks, in particular the Salem's lot with the drop of blood. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113 |
I CANT AFFORD ANY MORE BOOKS! (I just ordered it ) Tony, I think the Warner covers from the late 80's/early 90's were best. I think the cover on this collection looks fine...The title sounds a little 'shrug-shoulders' but hell, I just want to read it! Like Mick, I must check the main page now & again, rather than coming straight to the 'board - I didn't know this was coming out. gcw | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
>>>Actually, when it comes to it, I'm not sure Ramsey's work has ever been married successfully to imagery Vincent Chong's latest covers are damned good. And what about J K Potter's stuff? | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113 |
....not sure about the popcorn though...Ssssh!  gcw | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
The Potter-Campbell combo is a marriage made in, well, somewhere scary. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113 |
Yeah, the Potter/Campbell axis felt the very best to me, the Headline ones tended to be a bit so-so, but the books were great. I loved PS's Darkest Part Of The Woods -It wasn't technically too great at the time (enormous leap in quality in the last few years) but I love looking deep into the trees.... gcw | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.167.124.223 |
The Darkest part of the 'Wods'- the slipcased edition- is probably one of the most beautiful books I own. Also one of my favourite Campbell novels. Headline did some good covers too,but the Campbell Potter projects are always amazing and fit very well togeher. And Chong is the man! Looking forward to the collection! | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113 |
Yes, 'Woods' seems a little forgotten now - seems to live in the shadow of (the brilliant) Grin Of the Dark...As does Secret Stories. Shame, both are top flight Campbell, and 'Woods was particularly welcome as a return to the supernatural!  gcw | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Potter fans may like to know that Millipede have a new edition of The Influence with his illustrations scheduled early next year. It isn't announced yet, but here's the site. http://www.millipedepress.com/millipede-press/ | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
I have the American hardbacks of Nazareth Hill, silent Children and One safe Place - all three have excellent covers. | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
Generally the American market is much more open to illustration on the front covers of genre fiction. In the UK publishers tend to go for design-lead covers, some of which are okay, some of which are downright lazy. (Not including any of Ramsey's books in the by this way). I'm really pleased the my boss agreed to go for the fully illustrated full colour covers for Abaddon books as Mark Harrison has produced some lovely art. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.33.78 |
Looks great to me! I've just ordered my copy. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.114.136 |
Oh yes, DPOTW was lovely. I forgot. But yes, I like illustrated covers, for the most part. I just wish dvd and book covers could be like album covers; get a proper artist in and keep the design for good. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
My copy just showed up! It looks brilliant. There are 22 tales in it. And the cover is superb. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Huzzah! I hope mine's waiting for me at home. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
It presumably has an epigraph from Fredric Brown: 'Don't you understand? Nothing matters!' | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Well, I read the absolutely fascinating 'The Reshaping of Rossitor' this morning - the first version of 'The Scar'. Great to see how elements of the story were nascent here. But most intriguing are the little flashes of the mature Campbell that, like Rossitor's pseudo-personality, keep sneaking out from within a rather hodge-podge narrative that is part-Lovecraft, part-meandering structure. The finale in particularly is pure Campbell, and it reveals quite tellingly - within the context of a tale which bears few of its author's stylistic mannerisms - how powerfully the Liverpool landscape has informed his prose. Its like even back then the environment was informing his most inspired writing. Otherwise, the characters have many motivational problems - that above all reveals the youth of its author. But the writing is generally professional (if the structure isn't), and there are the occasional inspired phrases that hint towards what was to come. A fascinating piece of horror history. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
My copy still hasn't arrived. Bastard postman. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113 |
Got mine this morning - ! gcw | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.141.80 |
Me too!  | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113 |
(It's up next for work-reading after Coffin Nails...) gcw | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.141.80 |
I'm about to start the last tale in Coffin Nails - really enjoying it, and I can 'see' JLP writing it, and chuckling away to himself from time to time! | ||
| Alansjf (Alansjf) Username: Alansjf Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 93.97.93.216 |
There's a lot of good reading in this collection, although after the self-depricating introduction I kind of expected a lot of the stories to be worse than I actually found them to be! Highlights include "Broadcast", "The Shadows in the Barn", "Murders" (the best of the SF stories, I think), "Snakes & Ladders" and "The Burning", but there's certainly nothing here I'd describe as flat-out terrible. As Gary points out, it's fascinating reading if only for those hints and whispers of all the great work to come. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Great picture of Paul Whitehouse on page 124, too. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.203.130.70 |
I've got this on order, to be added to the teetering piles of books in the second library annex. Mick & GCW - delighted to hear you're still working through that book of mine that now feels as if it came out such a long time ago. Time for another one (or two, or three) to come out soon I think. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
Huzzah! My copy finally arrived. It's a lovely little volume. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Check out page 124 - where's Harry? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
Will do. Just read the first two tales, and the last one, and it's fascinating stuff. I actually think "The Burning" is very good indeed. Slight, yes, but it hits the spot. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
I don't know quite what I expected when I bought this book, but it's better than I ever could have imagined. Some of these tales are great - yes, okay, minor Campbell; but still great, and never less than fascinating. It's like those bootleg Beatles session tapes - a glimpse at another dimension of the artist you know well. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
That's exactly how I feel about it. It's an extraordinary volume. |