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Giancarlo (Giancarlo)
Username: Giancarlo
Registered: 11-2008
Posted From: 85.116.228.5
| | Posted on Thursday, February 24, 2011 - 08:00 am: | |
I've ordered "KELLER MEMENTO" from Ramble House. It's tales by David H. Keller, one of the best (imo) writers hosted by Weird Tales and Amazing Stories. I fondly remember, among others, "The Worm" and "The Thing in the Cellar" re-published in the long time defunct US "Magazine of Horror" which, together with "Startling Mystery Stories", sported a reproposal of old pulp and more-than-pulp masters. I used to read them when a youth. I'm still missing them. |
John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert)
Username: John_l_probert
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 82.33.242.34
| | Posted on Thursday, February 24, 2011 - 01:10 pm: | |
Ramble House are good aren't they? I've just bought and read 'Reunion in Hell' by John H Knox from them & I had such a great time with what have to be some of the pulpiest and most outrageous stories I've ever read, filled with crazy plots, over the top sadism and ladies in skimpy underwear or nothing at all, that I've just written to the publisher to express my utter delight |
Giancarlo (Giancarlo)
Username: Giancarlo
Registered: 11-2008
Posted From: 85.116.228.5
| | Posted on Monday, February 28, 2011 - 09:28 am: | |
Indeed you are right, John!
I received the book and I was amazed at the long list of alluring titles in their catalogue.
The Keller book itself is candy! |
Joel (Joel)
Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.37.199.45
| | Posted on Monday, February 28, 2011 - 01:51 pm: | |
I read the Keller 'best of' collection Tales from Underwood years ago (the UK edition), and feel he's rather a one-hit wonder. 'The Thing in the Cellar' is his claim to fame, though the rest of the book is tolerable. Apart from some nonsense about a jealous man getting his love rival to eat fish-hooks and then killing him with a giant magnet.
(Sound of multiple RCM members rushing to order the book.)
I like to think that Manly Wade Wellman's 'Up Under the Roof' was a response to 'The Thing in the Cellar', with a child responding to a similar challenge with quiet courage rather than helpless terror. I'm sure the relative publication dates of the two stories don't discourage that view. |
Joel (Joel)
Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.37.199.45
| | Posted on Monday, February 28, 2011 - 01:52 pm: | |
RCMB I mean of course, sorry. |