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     Johnny_mains (Johnny_mains) Username: Johnny_mains Registered: 04-2010 Posted From: 82.22.70.137 |
Noose and Gibbet (eta DEC 2010) Noose and Gibbet's second book for 2010 sees for the first time the stories of Oscar Cook and Christine Campbell Thomson in a complete collection. With a re-discovered story from each - 'On the Highway' by Oscar Cook and 'The Brood of the Beast' by CCT - both have NEVER seen publication in book form. A biography by Richard Dalby and Johnny Mains will document their story as husband and wife and the creation of the infamous NOT AT NIGHT series, which Christine edited, and both wrote for and beyond. COVER: TBA CONTENTS OSCAR COOK GOLDEN LILIES (1922) SI URAG OF THE TAIL (1923) ON THE HIGHWAY (1925) CREATURE OF MAN also known as DOG DEATH (1925) THE GREAT WHITE FEAR (1925) THE SACRED JARS also known as WHEN GLISTER WALKED (1927) PIECEMEAL (1929) BOOMERANG (1931) HIS BEAUTIFUL HANDS (1931) THE CRIMSON HEAD-DRESS (1936) CHRISTINE CAMPBELL THOMSON OUT OF THE EARTH (1925) BROOD OF THE BEAST (1925) WHEN HELL LAUGHED (1926) AT NUMBER ELEVEN also known as THE GRAY LADY (1929) THE RED TURRET (1931) PUSSY (1931) BEHIND THE BLINDS (1932) THE BLACK HARE (1933) BEHIND THE YELLOW DOOR (1934) EMPTY STOCKINGS (1936) MESSAGE FOR MARGIE (1964) A Biography of Christine Campbell Thomson - Richard Dalby A Biography of Oscar Cook - Johnny Mains OSCAR COOK GOLDEN LILIES first published in: Hutchinson's Adventure Story Magazine - Sept 1922, then Keep on the Light - Jul 1933, then More Not at Night, 1961 SI URAG OF THE TAIL first published in: Hutchinson's Adventure Story Magazine - Jan 1923, then Weird Tales - July 1926, then You'll Need a Night Light - Sept 1927, then A Century of Creepy Stories - 1934, then Still Not at Night - 1962 ON THE HIGHWAY published under the pseudonym of 'Cargray Cook' (Cargray a pun on the story) in Weird Tales - Jan 1925 - HAS NEVER BEEN PUBLISHED IN BOOK FORM CREATURE OF MAN first published in Hutchinson's Mystery Story Magazine - April 1925, then Weird Tales - November 1926 then as DOG DEATH in Terror by Night - August 1934 THE GREAT WHITE FEAR first published in Hutchinson's Adventure Story Magazine - June 1925, then Grim Death - August 1932, then A Century of Creepy Stories - 1934 THE SACRED JARS first published in Weird Tales - March 1927 then as WHEN GLISTER WALKED in Gruesome Cargoes - July 1928 then A Century of Creepy Stories - 1934 PIECEMEAL first published in By Daylight Only - October 1929, then Weird Tales - February 1930, then Not at Night Omnibus - 1937 then Second Pan Book of Horror Stories - 1960 BOOMERANG first published in Switch on the Light - April 1931, then A Century of Creepy Stories - 1934, then Pan Book of Horror Stories - 11 Dec 1959 HIS BEAUTIFUL HANDS first published in At Dead of Night - November 1931, then Not at Night Omnibus - 1937, then Pan Book of Horror Stories - 11 Dec 1959 THE CRIMSON HEAD-DRESS first published in Nightmare by Daylight - April 1936 CHRISTINE CAMPBELL THOMSON OUT OF THE EARTH first published in Hutchinson's Mystery Magazine in April 1925, then in Weird Tales in April 1927, then in You'll Need a Night Light in September 1927, then in More Not at Night in 1961, then in Tandem Book of Ghost Stories in 1965, then in Third Armada Ghost Book in 1970 BROOD OF THE BEAST first published in Hutchinson's Mystery Story Magazine #28 May 1925 HAS NEVER BEEN PUBLISHED IN BOOK FORM. WHEN HELL LAUGHED first published in Hutchinson's Mystery Magazine in January 1926 then in Gruesome Cargoes in July 1928 AT NUMBER ELEVEN first published in By Daylight Only in October 1929 then as THE GRAY LADY in Weird Tales in Oct 1929 THE RED TURRET first published in Switch on the Light in April 1931 then in A Century of Creepy Stories in 1934 then in Realms of Darkness in 1985 PUSSY first published in At Dead of Night in November 1931, then in Not at Night in 1960. BEHIND THE BLINDS first published in Grim Death in August 1932, then in Still Not at Night in 1962 THE BLACK HARE first published in Keep on the Light in July 1933, then in Not at Night Omnibus in 1937 BEHIND THE YELLOW DOOR first published in Terror By Night in August 1934, then in Not at Night Omnibus in 1937 then in Pan Book of Horror Stories in Dec 11 1959, then in 65 Great Spine Chillers in 1982 EMPTY STOCKINGS first published in Nightmare by Daylight in April 1936 MESSAGE FOR MARGIE first published in Fifth Pan Book of Horror Stories in Dec 1964 | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.182.229.104 |
Two thumbs up! | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>Two thumbs up!<< Glad it wasn't two fingers!  Seriously, this sounds good. I admit I'm not familiar with either of them, but I do remember the Not At Night series (though I've no idea if I actually read any of them). Johnny, you're a one-man publishing/editing dynamo at the moment.  | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.182.229.104 |
I have paperback copies of two of the Not At Night books - read them as a lad (yes, they did have books then. Just no cars...) and loved them at the time, so I'm already salivating at the thought of this. Damn you, Johnny Mains - raider of my bank account! | ||
| Johnny_mains (Johnny_mains) Username: Johnny_mains Registered: 04-2010 Posted From: 82.22.70.137 |
Caroline - cheers! Made a few quid from Back from the Dead - so may as well put it into some good projects! | ||
| Johnny_mains (Johnny_mains) Username: Johnny_mains Registered: 04-2010 Posted From: 82.22.70.137 |
Mick - just very glad to be bringing the stories from the pair back into public concsiousness! | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.144.105 |
I gots to have this. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
More power to you, Johnny. This sounds intriguing. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Fantastic!! If only it were possible to reissue the entire 'Not At Night' series - I know them only as the near legendary inspiration for Van Thal's 'Pan Horror' books. The forgotten classics of weird fiction from the 20s & 30s that must lie therein... (sigh) | ||
| Johnny_mains (Johnny_mains) Username: Johnny_mains Registered: 04-2010 Posted From: 82.22.70.137 |
If only it were possible to reissue the entire 'Not At Night' series It's been thought of and discussed with a few others and the upshot of it is that a project like that would be a logistical nightmare as the copyrights are all over the place. Would take years to sort out. Same as the Pan Horrors.} | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
 Good job I held onto my Pan & Fontana collections then! Actually, nothing would make me part with them... But to own an entire set of the 'Not At Night' series - that has to be the Holy Grail of horror fiction as far as I'm concerned. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
I have most of them, in really beat-up copies purchased mostly from a second-hand bookshop in 1979. There are two or three I don't have. The content is uneven, and I wonder what readers made of the odd Lovecraft, Howard or Smith story tucked among the anecdotes of colonial torture and experimental surgery. The books are of huge interest for enthusiasts of Weird Tales magazine, which furnished most of their contents. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
You jammy sod!! The tasters I got in the stories that Van Thal included in those early Pan Horrors have always had me craving to read the 'Not At Night' books... time for an internet search and a small bank loan methinks! | ||
| Johnny_mains (Johnny_mains) Username: Johnny_mains Registered: 04-2010 Posted From: 82.22.70.137 |
Got five of them - three with intact dust-jackets - but that was a LOT of saving.... :D | ||
| Johnny_mains (Johnny_mains) Username: Johnny_mains Registered: 04-2010 Posted From: 82.22.70.137 |
Les Edwards has agreed to do the cover - will be an original piece |