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Allybird (Allybird)
Username: Allybird

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 80.47.90.63
Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 07:42 pm:   

I finally have my own copy, Craig. It cost me £30 but I sold a story a few moths ago (good that the money from the sale of one story should go to the purchase of others). Apart from anything I make from selling stories the only income is from hubs job so I can't buy too many books.
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.179.199.19
Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 08:06 pm:   

Is this hard to find now? I have a paperback copy somewhere, but I bought that new many years ago, for the usual £4.99 or whatever it was then.
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 75.16.79.36
Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 08:21 pm:   

It is impossible to find, Mick... but whatever happened to that omnibus Tuttle supposed to come out?...

This was one of the most enjoyable collections of single-author short-stories I'd read in recent years, Ally - comparable only to (excepting the landlord's many: a constant given) BLACK EVENING, by David Morrell. This one's much easier to find, Ally; if you've not read it already, or only some of it, I encourage you to go out and get it - a superb collection of horror stories by one of the genre's masters, who doesn't seem to produce too much in this arena anymore (? - right?)....

It just now occurred to me I never mailed you the Tuttle-edited collection SKIN OF THE SOUL, that had the wonderful "Mr. Elphinstone's Hands" by Tuttle in it (and some other good ones!)... do you still want me to mail it?... send me your address again....
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Allybird (Allybird)
Username: Allybird

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 80.47.90.63
Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 08:32 pm:   

One of my favourite stories is THEY by Morell. Is it in that collection, Craig? Snakes again. I've written two stories with snakes in - in the last few years, FOR YOU FAUSTINE (out soon) and THE LAST SUPPER - out next year.

SKIN OF THE SOUL - Certainly and thanks Craig. Can't find your email addy. Can you email me - address on my website?

Forgot about the Tuttle colllection coming out soon but I can't get enough of her anyway - one of the few books that when I'm on my death bed I'll make sure goes to the right person.
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Steve Bacon (Stevebacon)
Username: Stevebacon

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 90.209.11.186
Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 09:26 pm:   

It is a great collection. I'd wanted to get it for years, and then I spotted one on Alibris last year or so for about a fiver. I was a bit suspicious ordering it because the next copy was on sale for about forty quid.

It's great that you use the money earned by writing to fund book purchases, Ally. I think Zed once told me he did that, too.
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.179.199.19
Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 09:53 pm:   

Just checked - I have Nest of Nightmares, Lost Futures and Memories of the Body.
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Allybird (Allybird)
Username: Allybird

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 80.47.90.63
Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 09:57 pm:   

Yes - Steve - it seemed so right.
Going to have a difficult time next weekend - trying to buy stuff. My hubs helps so much and we share money. I once told him that if I gave up my (hated job as manager in housing in Moss Side and Hulme) to look after baby daughter I earn half your wage - enough said but ...we've used funds to send me to WHC Canada 2007 etc.. Brighton next year. Perhaps I should write faster......
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Frank (Frank)
Username: Frank

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 213.158.199.91
Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 10:12 pm:   

I've never read anything by Morell. Never fancied it, but now I might.
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Huw (Huw)
Username: Huw

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 218.168.184.108
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 - 02:14 am:   

Lisa Tuttle's collections so far:

A Nest of Nightmares
A Spaceship Built of Stone
Memories of the Body
Ghosts and Others Lovers
My Pathology (e-book)

Ghosts and Other Lovers is a great companion to A Nest of Nightmares, as there is no overlap (the stories appeared previously in various anthologies and magazines). Ally, you'd like this one!

There's a useful bibliography of her fiction, including uncollected tales, here:http://home.arcor.de/anyx/lisatuttle/english.htm
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Huw (Huw)
Username: Huw

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 218.168.184.108
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 - 02:21 am:   

Craig, I have Morrell's collections Black Evening and Nightscape, and they are both excellent. I think Morrell is one of the relatively few authors who is capable of writing both powerful horror fiction and entertaining, well-crafted thrillers. He often cites Sterling Silliphant (a writer on the 60s show Route 66, among other things) as an influence. He published a book about writing just a few years ago, too.

I'm surprised more films (apart from First Blood) haven't been adapted from his work, to be honest.
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 75.4.240.206
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 - 02:56 am:   

I think NIGHTSCAPE is even harder to get than A NEST OF NIGHTMARES.... His work is lean and mean, characterized by an utterly lucid prose. Somewhere I read a piece by him about writing, and how he got started, etc... can't remember where, now... but it was very good, wherever it was. I've not read his novels, but I should, shouldn't I?... I know his second published novel THE TOTEM is a straight horror piece; I have it, but have not read it - but what's his best novel, any genre, Huw?...

I also know he wrote an apparently heart-rending personal memoir, about the death of his own son, which is also difficult to locate.
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Allybird (Allybird)
Username: Allybird

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 80.47.90.63
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 - 05:36 am:   

Tried to cancel the Amazon order because of the new Tuttle coming out eventually. I thought you could cancel an open order even if it is an outside seller. Seems I have to contact the seller to organize a refund...
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Huw (Huw)
Username: Huw

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 218.168.184.108
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 - 06:13 am:   

Craig, some of my favourites are:

Testament
Blood Oath
Creepers
Scavenger
Double Image

I haven't read the series of linked novels that began with (I think) The Brotherhood of the Rose, but you can't really go wrong with his stuff. It is always well-written and suspenseful. His new novel The Shimmer looks good, but it's not out in paperback yet. The book on writing is called Lessons From a Lifetime of Writing: a Novelist Looks at His Craft, but I think it was reissued recently under a different title.
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 75.4.228.6
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 - 08:01 am:   

Huw - I'm too lazy and too much a Gemini to decide - can you pick out for me YOUR favorite of those five?... As it is, I couldn't find the Westlake novels mentioned on the other thread, so I may as well try for some Morrell - his stuff's always pretty easy to lay hands on... or I could just read THE TOTEM... I've had it sitting around here long enough....

He really is a writer of enviable skill - he makes it seem SO easy, so so easy... so easy you want to beat him....
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Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.219.8.243
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 - 09:45 am:   

Testament is the single best thrilelr I've ever read.
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Huw (Huw)
Username: Huw

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 218.168.189.223
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 - 12:48 pm:   

Craig, I was born with the moon in Gemini, so I can be indecisive at times as well! However... I'd agree with Zed - Testament is one of the most powerful suspense novels I've read, so I definitely recommend that. The others are good, but I think Testament is at another level.

I noticed a lot of cheap copies of Nightscape on abebooks, by the way.
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Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.47
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 - 12:53 pm:   

I don't believe in all this horoscope stuff.

That's a typical Libran for you though isn't it.
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 75.4.247.251
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 - 04:05 pm:   

TESTAMENT it is.

Good thing you don't believe in horoscopes, Weber - we're in a Mercury Retrograde right now....
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Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts)
Username: Tom_alaerts

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.78.35.185
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 - 04:33 pm:   

So, who publishes Tuttle's upcoming collection? I didn't know about it. Tempting !
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Allybird (Allybird)
Username: Allybird

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 80.47.90.63
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 - 04:58 pm:   

Tom - Ash Tree Press, I think. Would love to see the TOC for it. Can't rem if it was put up here on this board - think so.
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Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts)
Username: Tom_alaerts

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.78.35.185
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 - 05:15 pm:   

Thanks Ally. Now that's really good news.
I only have her novella "My Death" which I thought was ok (not superb) but I was always curious to read more of her work.
I once saw LT on TV, late 1980s, it was a debate on the bbc called "horror café" with her, Clive Barker, Ramsey, and John Carpenter (who was still a film god back then - how the mighty have fallen!). After the debate they broadcasted Romero's excellent "Martin".
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 75.5.7.162
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 - 05:24 pm:   

And here it is, Tom! Or part of it....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhV1iwwuUF4
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 82.38.75.85
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 - 08:46 pm:   

Craig, I love you! (in a purely platonic way, obviously)

I've been trying to track down "Horror Cafe" for ages. I remember seeing it at the time, but I could never find any reference to it anywhere after that - it seemed to have vanished completely.
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Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts)
Username: Tom_alaerts

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.241.9.216
Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 - 09:43 pm:   

I had taped it but a family member accidentally recorded something eminently forgettable over it.
I remember that Carpenter said he loved Ramsey's The Hungry Moon - actually a comment that pushed me to check out this book, until then I only read some of Ramsey's lovecraftiana as they appeared in dutch paperbacks.
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 75.5.5.118
Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 03:56 am:   

Well, I found a copy of TESTAMENT today - just plain wasn't able to find the Westlakes mentioned from another thread, so... maybe I'll crack this one open next, or soon at least, I hope....

(The forward, dated 1991, mentions "The Minutemen," whom frankly I've never heard of - funny how it fails to mention the group from the [apparently?] opposite end of the political spectrum, that ended up coming back from the dead, at least recently, and in the U.S., The Weather Underground - a google search brings up [page 1] immediate and many refs to the latter, but absolutely no refs to the former - not even in the multiple Wikipedia pages mentioned... just an observation....)
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Huw (Huw)
Username: Huw

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 218.168.186.152
Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 04:57 am:   

There's quite a bit of info on the Minutemen on the net, including a Wikipedia page and various historical/military sites.

Hope you enjoy Testament, Craig. If you don't, there's no hope for you, I'm afraid!
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Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin)
Username: Richard_gavin

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 69.157.36.197
Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 04:45 pm:   

Wow, I hope someone uploads the rest of that Horror Cafe round-table discussion. I kept hoping that Ramsey would chime in before the clip ended, but alas.

He did seem to be enjoying his entree at least.

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