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Rhysaurus (Rhysaurus) Username: Rhysaurus
Registered: 01-2010 Posted From: 212.219.233.223
| Posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 12:08 pm: | |
For all you horror heads out there... The Screaming Book of Horror (Edited by Johnny Mains) From the publisher's website: "This anthology will hopefully remind you of a time when horror books didn’t try to be overly literary or snobbish or superior in tone. The tales inside will take you back to when your stomach took the occasional lurch. Stories that might be found by a teenager fifty years down the line when he or she discovers the book in a relative’s bookcase, or whatever passes for a second hand bookshop in the future, and give them the fire in their belly to try their hand at writing a horror story. This is a horror anthology in the tradition of the anthologies we all grew up with." For more details check out this link: http://www.screamingdreams.com/thescreamingbookofhorror.html Includes a previously unpublished story by the late great John Brunner (Stand on Zanzibar, The Sheep Look Up, Traveller in Black etc) and this year's Booker nominee Alison Moore! It's a limited hardback collector's item, folks!! |
Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec
Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.244.38
| Posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 01:07 pm: | |
Mine's already ordered |
Joel (Joel) Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45
| Posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 01:44 pm: | |
The line-up is more appealing than the blurb, which echoes a misconception equally beloved of traditionalists: that 'literary' means 'old-fashioned', as if a century's worth of modern literature (complete with sex, violence, drugs and skateboarding) had never happened. For that matter you can find plenty of those elements in Zola (except maybe skateboarding). But to be fair, 'manifesto' introductions are very hard to write. The last one that worked was the Al Alvarez introduction to The New Poetry in 1962. His polemic against the 'gentility principle' still resonates today. |
Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec
Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.244.38
| Posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 04:29 pm: | |
I don't take a lot of notice of book blurbs I must say - I just look at the line-up. It's clear from the title, the cover art (I *love* Steve Upham's cover art), and the editor that this is intended to be a modern-day Pan Book of Horror. So that and the line-up is enough inducement for me to buy! |
Joel (Joel) Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45
| Posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 - 06:27 pm: | |
Of course – I wouldn't argue with that. |
Des (Des) Username: Des
Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.140.213.156
| Posted on Tuesday, October 09, 2012 - 08:48 pm: | |
I Have started a real time review of this book: http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/the-screaming-book-of-horror/ |
Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.23.232
| Posted on Tuesday, October 09, 2012 - 10:48 pm: | |
So you've now embraced horror, Rhys, I take it. |
Joel (Joel) Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.24.14.64
| Posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2012 - 10:54 am: | |
Wow, that's a surprising bargain. Oh, I see what you mean. |
Des (Des) Username: Des
Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.177.160.60
| Posted on Sunday, August 10, 2014 - 11:03 am: | |
My own favourite real-time review of a Horror anthology, if I am allowed to have such favourites: http://nullimmortalis.Wordpress.com/2012/10/08/the-screaming-book-of-horror/ |