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     Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 121.219.157.75 |
...arrived this week.  | ||
| Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 121.219.157.75 |
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| Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 121.219.157.75 |
Shit!! - sorry about the MASSIVE pics. How do I re-size? | ||
| Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 121.219.157.75 |
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| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
We have the same carpet. or did you break into my house, books in hand, to take those snaps? ;-) | ||
| Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 121.219.157.75 |
Maybe. Do you notice anything missing?  | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Yes, damn you!  | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 79.187.206.46 |
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. | ||
| Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 121.219.157.75 |
At least he had good taste Welcome aboard, Frank. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 79.187.206.46 |
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. | ||
| Stevebacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.211.103.112 |
I love that cover of All Hallows 36. | ||
| Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 124.180.178.236 |
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| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
I love that cover to Dark Companions. Close to The Bone is a superb collection by the way. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.203.130.135 |
Hey! A huge picture of Coffin Nails! Thanks Lincoln! Let me know what you think of it! | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
Why must people put SPIDERS on covers?????? | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.199.104 |
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. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
They spy on us you know. And tell their friends about us. On the web. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.203.130.229 |
Possibly even on threads like these... | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.231.91 |
Spiders are cool. Admittedly the extreme close-up hereby included is a bit intimidating.  | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.231.91 |
She's a beauty, isn't she?  | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.231.91 |
This one's only slightly less intimidating. My own Brachypelma Albopilosum:  | ||
| Alansjf (Alansjf) Username: Alansjf Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 93.97.93.216 |
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... | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
I've always wondered what does the H stand for in jesus h Christ...? | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.36.20 |
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. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_H._Christ Until I read that I took it to stand for Holy. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.231.91 |
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? | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.48.186 |
I presumed the 'H.' didn't stand for anything. I prefer Rik Mayall's version - "Jesus H. Corbett"... | ||
| Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 124.180.178.236 |
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. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.232.178 |
Until I read that, Ramsey, I'd never heard of "backronym" either. | ||
| Alansjf (Alansjf) Username: Alansjf Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 93.97.93.216 |
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. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.238.203 |
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:  | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.48.186 |
Is that your head it's crawling over, Hubert? | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.238.203 |
I have a HUGE head | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.197.47 |
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."  | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.227.21 |
Wow, Joel. Someone should hit you on the head with a hammer for that one.  I expect better jokes out of you, sir. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.129.151.199 |
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. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.238.203 |
Be glad it's there, otherwise you'd be engulfed by all manner of insects. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.129.151.199 |
I don't mind spiders - I just don't like being caught by surprise by them, landed on suddenly and stuff. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 77.86.114.169 |
I was watching RETURN OF THE KING and KNEW that a big spider would crawl into view. It did. I squashed it. | ||
| Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 58.165.11.223 |
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.  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.129.151.199 |
I see Lucas is rejigging Return of the Jedi to make the ewoks into big spiders. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.238.203 |
We can but dream | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.234.183 |
Found the pix with the guy who handles his theraphosa leblondis. Gives an idea of their actual size:    And yes, that drop at the end of one fang is poison. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.255.180 |
Ack! ... It's even more repulsive with those pale fleshy tentacles attached to its back.... "Spider spider, burning bright...." | ||
| Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 121.219.228.84 |
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| Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 121.219.228.84 |
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| Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 121.219.228.84 |
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| Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 121.219.228.84 |
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| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
Nice to be represented in your collection, sir. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.11.219 |
Same here Lincoln! Thank you. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 204.104.55.244 |
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 | ||
| Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 203.51.163.246 |
Karim - please post some pics! | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.167.124.223 |
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| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.167.124.223 |
Couldn't find the Preadator one,(Weird) but also found a 1970 Nebula award collection for next to nothing. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.167.124.223 |
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| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 99.225.111.224 |
Oh-oh. Bookcase porn. Here we go .... | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
My most recent purchases:  | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.141.80 |
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... | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.141.80 |
...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. | ||
| Coral (Coral) Username: Coral Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 91.111.30.53 |
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. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Who the fuck put those fucking spiders up fucking there? Fucker! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
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. | ||
| Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 203.51.163.246 |
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'? | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 93.162.116.100 |
Thanks! Yes they are Lincoln- first ed. hardcovers of the Books of Blood. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
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. | ||
| Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 203.51.163.246 |
"Karim, it's an Abaddon Books zombie novel - these are the guys I'm writing for at the minute" John - thanks | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.141.80 |
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... :-) | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 93.162.116.100 |
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| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.167.124.223 |
But I have all six prints of Barker's covers of the Books of Blood, signed and numbered. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.141.80 |
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. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.167.124.223 |
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. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.167.124.223 |
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. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
I'm rubbish with names, me.  | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.141.80 |
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. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.167.124.223 |
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. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.141.80 |
Yeah, I thought the new collection was imminent, but it seems to have gone very quiet... | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.167.124.223 |
Mick he just bloody announced the new collection in 2009! | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 204.104.55.242 |
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? | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 85.158.139.99 |
Mick he just bloody announced the new collection in 2009! Hurrah! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
Karim - yep. He also wrote the screenplay Paths of Glory (a great, great film I saw for the first time recently). | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 79.187.206.46 |
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 (; | ||
| Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 124.180.188.166 |
'Prime Evil'. Thought some of you might be interested in this.  | ||
| Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 124.180.188.166 |
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| Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 124.180.188.166 |
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| Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 124.180.188.166 |
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| Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 124.180.188.166 |
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| Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 124.180.188.166 |
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| Niki Flynn (Niki) Username: Niki Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.32.69.29 |
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. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.125.173 |
Someones been splashing the cash.... gcw | ||
| Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 124.181.86.193 |
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| Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 124.181.86.193 |
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| Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 124.181.86.193 |
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| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
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. | ||
| Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 124.181.86.193 |
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. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
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). |
