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Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown)
Username: Lincoln_brown

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 121.219.157.75
Posted on Friday, September 19, 2008 - 01:14 pm:   

...arrived this week.

books
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Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown)
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Posted From: 121.219.157.75
Posted on Friday, September 19, 2008 - 01:17 pm:   

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Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown)
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Posted on Friday, September 19, 2008 - 01:20 pm:   

Shit!! - sorry about the MASSIVE pics. How do I re-size?
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Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown)
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Posted on Friday, September 19, 2008 - 01:34 pm:   

books
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Zed (Gary_mc)
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Posted on Friday, September 19, 2008 - 01:37 pm:   

We have the same carpet. or did you break into my house, books in hand, to take those snaps? ;-)
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Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown)
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Posted on Friday, September 19, 2008 - 01:48 pm:   

Maybe. Do you notice anything missing?
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Zed (Gary_mc)
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Posted on Friday, September 19, 2008 - 01:57 pm:   

Yes, damn you!

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Frank (Frank)
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Posted From: 79.187.206.46
Posted on Friday, September 19, 2008 - 02:01 pm:   

I've fot that edition of the 'Parasite', signed by Ramsey, who replaced it after some 'homeless' person nicked all of my signed Ramsey hardbacks, which I'd had since I was 18.
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Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown)
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Posted on Friday, September 19, 2008 - 02:12 pm:   

At least he had good taste

Welcome aboard, Frank.
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Frank (Frank)
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Posted on Friday, September 19, 2008 - 02:16 pm:   

Cheers Lincoln. I fell overboard a few times, but I managed to grab the severed tow-line, and like every reliable psycho tamed the troppy waters and clambered aboard.
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Stevebacon (Stevebacon)
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Posted From: 90.211.103.112
Posted on Friday, September 19, 2008 - 09:51 pm:   

I love that cover of All Hallows 36.
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Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown)
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Posted From: 124.180.178.236
Posted on Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 07:26 am:   

ligotti/morris
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Jonathan (Jonathan)
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Posted From: 91.143.178.131
Posted on Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 10:58 am:   

I love that cover to Dark Companions. Close to The Bone is a superb collection by the way.
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John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert)
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Posted From: 90.203.130.135
Posted on Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 11:31 am:   

Hey! A huge picture of Coffin Nails! Thanks Lincoln! Let me know what you think of it!
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Adriana (Adriana)
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Posted From: 99.230.239.233
Posted on Friday, September 26, 2008 - 05:31 pm:   

Why must people put SPIDERS on covers??????
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Huw (Huw)
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Posted on Friday, September 26, 2008 - 05:47 pm:   

I wish they wouldn't. I always have to look away when I fetch Ramsey Campbell, Probably from the shelf. I'm thinking of making another cover for it just to escape that image. Spiders are the only creature I have a genuine, irrational terror of.
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Joel (Joel)
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Posted on Friday, September 26, 2008 - 07:18 pm:   

They spy on us you know. And tell their friends about us. On the web.
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John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert)
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Posted From: 90.203.130.229
Posted on Friday, September 26, 2008 - 08:13 pm:   

Possibly even on threads like these...
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Hubert (Hubert)
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Posted From: 78.22.231.91
Posted on Friday, September 26, 2008 - 08:14 pm:   

Spiders are cool. Admittedly the extreme close-up hereby included is a bit intimidating.

DSCF0034-4
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Hubert (Hubert)
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Posted on Friday, September 26, 2008 - 08:17 pm:   

She's a beauty, isn't she?
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Hubert (Hubert)
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Posted on Friday, September 26, 2008 - 08:23 pm:   

This one's only slightly less intimidating. My own Brachypelma Albopilosum:

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Alansjf (Alansjf)
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Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 93.97.93.216
Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 01:23 am:   

Jesus H Christ, a little warning woulda been nice!

I should really go and tell the neighbours not to phone the police, but then I'll have to explain why I screamed like that in the first place...
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Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston)
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Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 11:44 am:   

I've always wondered what does the H stand for in jesus h Christ...?
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Huw (Huw)
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Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 02:37 pm:   

Hector? Or maybe Hubert?

Hubert, that second spider is quite beautiful. I'm not so bothered by the furry ones - it's the ones that are all legs, and really fast-moving that bother me most, like the huntsman spiders we have over here. They look malevolent to me, for some reason, and I feel nauseous and terrified when confronted by one.
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Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey)
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Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 03:03 pm:   

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_H._Christ

Until I read that I took it to stand for Holy.
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Hubert (Hubert)
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Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 03:07 pm:   

It's also very hardy and quite docile, but I refrain from handling it because of its urticating hairs.

Huntsman spider? Is that a large one? I imagine you have very nice tarantulas in Taiwan. Ever heard of the cobalt blue?
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
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Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 03:29 pm:   

I presumed the 'H.' didn't stand for anything. I prefer Rik Mayall's version - "Jesus H. Corbett"...
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Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown)
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Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 03:46 pm:   

We have Huntsman spiders here in Aus. - and they do grow quite big. They're also fast!
Hubert, are you familiar with the Funnel Web spider? Can be very nasty.
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Craig (Craig)
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Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 03:49 pm:   

Until I read that, Ramsey, I'd never heard of "backronym" either.
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Alansjf (Alansjf)
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Posted From: 93.97.93.216
Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 06:34 pm:   

I used the H for 'Haaargghhhh!', which is roughly the sound I made when I scrolled down the page and saw THE BIGGEST SPIDER IN THE WORLD! staring back at me.
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Hubert (Hubert)
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Posted From: 78.22.238.203
Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 07:42 pm:   

Huw: no funnel spiders here in Belgium - the biggest specimen you will come across is the inocuous daddy longlegs

The biggest tarantula in the world is the Theraphosa Leblondi. I once owned a male and believe me, they're HUGE, like a good-sized crab with 2 cm long fangs . They're very agressive, too, but always give fair warning before they strike.

This is a female:

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Mick Curtis (Mick)
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Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 08:25 pm:   

Is that your head it's crawling over, Hubert?
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Hubert (Hubert)
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Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 10:27 pm:   

I have a HUGE head
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Joel (Joel)
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Posted on Sunday, September 28, 2008 - 01:35 am:   

Apparently Jesus got his name from a remark made by his carpenter father: Joseph hit his thumb with a hammer while making a bookcase, and expressed his distress. Mary said: "That would be a great name for the baby."
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Craig (Craig)
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Posted on Sunday, September 28, 2008 - 08:42 am:   

Wow, Joel. Someone should hit you on the head with a hammer for that one.

I expect better jokes out of you, sir.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 10:41 am:   

Better than my son's joke; 'What do you call a black man with spaghetti on his head? A Pastafarian.'
We have a spider down the path running by our garage - it's taken to building very thick webs across the way that actually wrap around you if you don't notice them. It's horrible because the spider always dangles at the centre, the bastard.
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Hubert (Hubert)
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Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 12:35 pm:   

Be glad it's there, otherwise you'd be engulfed by all manner of insects.
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 12:52 pm:   

I don't mind spiders - I just don't like being caught by surprise by them, landed on suddenly and stuff.
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Albie (Albie)
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Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 12:57 pm:   

I was watching RETURN OF THE KING and KNEW that a big spider would crawl into view. It did. I squashed it.
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Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown)
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Posted From: 58.165.11.223
Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 12:58 pm:   

And finally, some ATP titles. The cover artwork on the Benson books, by Douglas Walters, is excellent.
That's it for a while - next shipment is a month or two away, and will contain some McMahon, Strantzas and a Ramsey rarity.

ATP
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Tony (Tony)
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Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 01:10 pm:   

I see Lucas is rejigging Return of the Jedi to make the ewoks into big spiders.
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Hubert (Hubert)
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Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 02:44 pm:   

We can but dream
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Hubert (Hubert)
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Posted on Wednesday, October 01, 2008 - 04:50 pm:   

Found the pix with the guy who handles his theraphosa leblondis. Gives an idea of their actual size:

DSC00498

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And yes, that drop at the end of one fang is poison.
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Craig (Craig)
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Posted on Wednesday, October 01, 2008 - 05:10 pm:   

Ack!

... It's even more repulsive with those pale fleshy tentacles attached to its back....

"Spider spider, burning bright...."
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Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown)
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Posted From: 121.219.228.84
Posted on Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 03:22 am:   

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Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown)
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Posted on Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 03:25 am:   

new books
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Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown)
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Posted on Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 03:26 am:   

campbell
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Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown)
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Posted on Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 03:28 am:   

campbell2
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Zed (Gary_mc)
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Posted From: 81.96.242.126
Posted on Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 09:26 pm:   

Nice to be represented in your collection, sir.
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Allybird (Allybird)
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Posted From: 79.70.11.219
Posted on Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 10:00 pm:   

Same here Lincoln! Thank you.
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Karim Ghahwagi (Karim)
Username: Karim

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Posted From: 204.104.55.244
Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 - 11:18 am:   

Very Cool Lincoln! :-)

My list of books bought this week- maybe I'll post pictures!

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
http://www.edgarsawtelle.com/reviews.html

Stephen kings's The Dark Tower: Treachery- comic issue 2
http://www.marvelcomics.pl/stuff/covers/dark_tower_treachery/dark_tower_treacher y_2@p.jpg

Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
http://trishsdiary.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/child44.jpg

Aliens No Exit: By B.K. Evenson
http://prettythings.pullbot.com/artworks/18012/ALNOV6-4x6-SOL-CVR_medium.jpg

Predator: South China Sea by Jeff Vandermeer
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n56/n283096.jpg

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman will ill. by Dave Mckean
http://www.neilgaiman.com/works/images/TheGraveyardBook_Hardcover_1218248432.jpg
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Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown)
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Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 - 08:44 pm:   

Karim - please post some pics!
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Karim Ghahwagi (Karim)
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Posted From: 80.167.124.223
Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 - 10:55 pm:   

newstuff
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Karim Ghahwagi (Karim)
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Posted From: 80.167.124.223
Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 - 11:00 pm:   

Couldn't find the Preadator one,(Weird) but also found a 1970 Nebula award collection for next to nothing.
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Karim Ghahwagi (Karim)
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Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 - 11:03 pm:   

morebookporn
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Simon Strantzas (Nomis)
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Posted From: 99.225.111.224
Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 - 11:20 pm:   

Oh-oh. Bookcase porn. Here we go ....
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Zed (Gary_mc)
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Posted From: 81.96.242.126
Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 01:09 am:   

My most recent purchases:

my picture
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

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Posted From: 86.159.141.80
Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 01:36 am:   

When did you take that pic, Zed?

:-)

Jim Thompson's stuff is bloody excellent - I went through a phase a few years back of reading everything of his I could find. I seem to recall there were two fat omnibuses of his work, so I read those, then carried on with all the Black Lizard stuff. Mighty fine books. Then I moved onto the likes of Dorothy B. Hughes, James Ellroy, David Goodis and beyond...
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
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Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 01:39 am:   

...not forgetting John Dickson Carr, whose superb "The Hollow Man" is part of the same series of 'Crime Masterworks' from Orion as the Thompson books you have there.
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Coral (Coral)
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Registered: 10-2008
Posted From: 91.111.30.53
Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 01:51 am:   

I'm too traumatised to add anything useful, Hubert stop it at once, there are arachnophobes present!!!

Hee hee, it took me months to rustle up the courage to pick up Probably, and it took some serious stamina to keep picking it up.
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
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Posted From: 82.3.65.135
Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 08:53 am:   

Who the fuck put those fucking spiders up fucking there? Fucker!

:-)
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Zed (Gary_mc)
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Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 09:20 am:   

Mick, Thompson is my absolute favourite crime writer. There's a madness to his work that's utterly thrilling. THE KILLER INSIDE ME is a masterpiece.
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Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown)
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Posted From: 203.51.163.246
Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 01:05 pm:   

Karim - some very nice editions on your shelves. Is that the 'Books of Blood' 1st ed. hardcovers on the top shelf?

Zed - what is 'The Words of Their Roaring'?
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Karim Ghahwagi (Karim)
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Posted on Sunday, November 16, 2008 - 12:10 am:   

Thanks! Yes they are Lincoln- first ed. hardcovers of the Books of Blood.
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Zed (Gary_mc)
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Posted on Sunday, November 16, 2008 - 12:34 am:   

Zed - what is 'The Words of Their Roaring'?

Karim, it's an Abaddon Books zombie novel - these are the guys I'm writing for at the minute.
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Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown)
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Posted on Sunday, November 16, 2008 - 12:37 am:   

"Karim, it's an Abaddon Books zombie novel - these are the guys I'm writing for at the minute"

John - thanks
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
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Posted on Sunday, November 16, 2008 - 01:12 am:   

Thanks! Yes they are Lincoln- first ed. hardcovers of the Books of Blood.

D'you mean you don't own the original paperbacks? Tut, tut...

:-)
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Karim Ghahwagi (Karim)
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Posted on Sunday, November 16, 2008 - 11:02 am:   

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Karim Ghahwagi (Karim)
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Posted on Sunday, November 16, 2008 - 07:39 pm:   

But I have all six prints of Barker's covers of the Books of Blood, signed and numbered.
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
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Posted on Sunday, November 16, 2008 - 08:34 pm:   

To be honest I wasn't too fussed about those. I bought the paperbacks as they were released, then picked up the Weidenfeld & Nicholson hardbacks (the ones you have) but when the lovely Scream/Press editions came out I bought those and sold the W&D ones.
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Karim Ghahwagi (Karim)
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Posted on Sunday, November 16, 2008 - 09:15 pm:   

Haven't seen the Scream Press ones Mick, I just love the format of the six hardbacks (1.sts!). In any case, a wonderful collection, whether bound in human skin and signed in blood, or in a bog covered tattered copy for 10 cents. Great graphic novel versions of these stories as well by Edwards, Mckean etc.
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Karim Ghahwagi (Karim)
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Posted on Sunday, November 16, 2008 - 09:17 pm:   

By the way, I don't really have a problem with spiders, but everytime I scroll down on this thread...those spiders shots are just terrifying. My partner was looking over my shoulder and freaked out when she saw them.
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Zed (Gary_mc)
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Posted on Sunday, November 16, 2008 - 09:46 pm:   

I'm rubbish with names, me.
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
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Posted on Monday, November 17, 2008 - 12:31 am:   

Karim - you're right of course - the contents of the BoB series are excellent.

http://www.clivebarker.info/blood123bib.html

...I'm sure the actual first hardback was from Sphere and an omnibus edition of either all the first three, or the first two. It was intended for libraries, and so any copies that turn up are usually in a poor state. The W&Ns are the first full hard back first editions - the Sphere paperbacks the first editions as they preceded the W&N hardbacks by a year or so.
The paperbacks had the swirly photos on them initially, but when they started to sell, the publishers ripped the covers off them and added a Barker cover to each.
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Karim Ghahwagi (Karim)
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Posted on Monday, November 17, 2008 - 03:41 pm:   

I have the omnibus US hardback of the first three books also with the Campbell intro.
Unfortunatly the W&N don't have the Jerusalem Street Postscript I think. Barker was supposedly going to release a new volume of stories but so far...nada.
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
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Posted on Monday, November 17, 2008 - 06:18 pm:   

Yeah, I thought the new collection was imminent, but it seems to have gone very quiet...
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Karim Ghahwagi (Karim)
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Posted on Monday, November 24, 2008 - 09:33 pm:   

Mick he just bloody announced the new collection in 2009!
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Karim Ghahwagi (Karim)
Username: Karim

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 204.104.55.242
Posted on Friday, November 28, 2008 - 09:47 am:   

Zed- regarding the Jim Thompson- wasn't he Kubrick's screen writer for a couple of his early pictures?- The Killing etc? I remember reading somewhere that he kept getting screwed on the writing credit on Kubrick films?
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 85.158.139.99
Posted on Friday, November 28, 2008 - 01:32 pm:   

Mick he just bloody announced the new collection in 2009!

Hurrah!
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Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.96.242.126
Posted on Friday, November 28, 2008 - 07:59 pm:   

Karim - yep. He also wrote the screenplay Paths of Glory (a great, great film I saw for the first time recently).
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Frank (Frank)
Username: Frank

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 79.187.206.46
Posted on Saturday, November 29, 2008 - 09:54 am:   

Zed - you know, mate, I always had a mental picture of you as Jim Thompson stooped over your keyboard with a unfiltered cigarette dangling from one corner of your mouth. Then I saw a photo and the illusion was quickly dispelled in favour of The Grinch (;
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Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown)
Username: Lincoln_brown

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 124.180.188.166
Posted on Friday, May 29, 2009 - 06:37 am:   

'Prime Evil'. Thought some of you might be interested in this.
primeevilbook
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Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 124.180.188.166
Posted on Friday, May 29, 2009 - 06:43 am:   

primeevilbook
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Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 124.180.188.166
Posted on Friday, May 29, 2009 - 06:45 am:   

primeevilbook
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Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown)
Username: Lincoln_brown

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 124.180.188.166
Posted on Friday, May 29, 2009 - 06:46 am:   

primeevilbook
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Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 124.180.188.166
Posted on Friday, May 29, 2009 - 08:03 am:   

theinf
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Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 124.180.188.166
Posted on Friday, May 29, 2009 - 08:04 am:   

theinf
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Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown)
Username: Lincoln_brown

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 124.180.188.166
Posted on Friday, May 29, 2009 - 08:05 am:   

theinf
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Niki Flynn (Niki)
Username: Niki

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 78.32.69.29
Posted on Friday, May 29, 2009 - 08:31 am:   

Gosh, this thread is full of such HUGE...

pictures.

I like spiders. Live ones anyway. It's only dead ones that bother me.

And I have major book envy now. Still, all in good time.
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Gcw (Gcw)
Username: Gcw

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.151.125.173
Posted on Friday, May 29, 2009 - 09:10 pm:   

Someones been splashing the cash....

gcw
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Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown)
Username: Lincoln_brown

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 124.181.86.193
Posted on Sunday, September 06, 2009 - 03:38 pm:   

IYCSMN
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Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown)
Username: Lincoln_brown

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 124.181.86.193
Posted on Sunday, September 06, 2009 - 03:40 pm:   

IYCSMN
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Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown)
Username: Lincoln_brown

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 124.181.86.193
Posted on Sunday, September 06, 2009 - 03:41 pm:   

IYCSMN
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 82.38.75.85
Posted on Sunday, September 06, 2009 - 06:36 pm:   

Bloomin' 'eck! I thought I was going to read a nice thread about books and I'm confronted with enormous spiders instead! Eeeek! Thankfully, I don't mind spiders so much (though I don't think I'd want to find any of the ones shown here in my bath!).

Now, please everyone, don't start an innocuously named thread and then start putting pictures of huge snakes on it, will you? Otherwise you'll hear my screams how ever far away from me you live!

Lincoln - you obviously love beautiful books. Not just well written ones, but beautifully presented too.
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Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown)
Username: Lincoln_brown

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 124.181.86.193
Posted on Monday, September 07, 2009 - 08:58 am:   

Hi Caroline - yes, I'm very passionate about collecting. Won't be posting anymore pics - judging by that comment from GCW, some may find my 'showing off' offensive.
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 82.38.75.85
Posted on Monday, September 07, 2009 - 08:09 pm:   

Well, I like looking at them anyway.

I think books like these are proof positive why ebooks will never be better than the real thing (as discussed on another thread).

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