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     Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.188.253 |
I received a couple of hefty tomes in the post today: BOUND FOR EVIL (well done, Tom!) and TAVERNS OF THE DEAD - and have just been browsing their contents. They are both beautiful books and the line-up of stories in each has me very excited about getting stuck into them. Anyone else here have these two anthologies? Anyone read them yet? | ||
| John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
I've got both of those, Huw. I believe BOUND FOR EVIL has a few good writers featured in it... | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.188.253 |
Yes, I noticed more than a few familiar names in there... Another book I got today was the new Tartarus edition of Machen's DREADS AND DROLLS, greatly expanded to about twice its original length! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.83 |
I received my contributor copies of "Bound For Evil" only a few hours ago - it's a beautiful volume. | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.244.142.189 |
I read a few stories in Bound for Evil, and I like it a lot so far. It is a marvelously produced book as well, it just oozes old-school quality. FYI, in the latest issue of F&SF magazine there is an amusing story about a book collector that could have fit in well in "Bound for Evil". I received another very interesting book recently: Sharp teeth by Toby Barlow. It's a werewolf love story... written in free verse! Surprisingly this shakespearean approach seems to work well (judging from the first few pages). The always dependable Rick Kleffel wrote a review here: http://tinyurl.com/yss8jr It is also one of the nicer looking recent books coming from a big publisher. Another really interesting recent anthology is Wastelands (Nightshade books), these are all post-apocalyptic tales, a genre which I do love from time to time. And in this book I read for the first time a story by rising SF star Paolo Bacigalupi: "the people of sand and slag". You still can -and should- read it online at the author's website: http://tinyurl.com/2422ar This is one of the best, most intense SF stories I read in quite a while. It starts off as military SF but quickly it becomes very weird. So I am looking forward to his first collection to arrive: Pump Six, also published by Nightshade Books. This guy writes really interesting SF. | ||
| Tom English (Deadletterpress) Username: Deadletterpress Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 68.10.130.152 |
Tom, I'll need to look up that bookish tale in F&SF for the follow-up to Bound for Evil. I have so many stories I couldn't get into BfE, including another two by Ramsey and several older classics. I'm sure Rhys Hughes would come up with another bookish tale, too. By the way, for those who haven't seen the BfE ToC, many of the RCMB are well represented: John L. Probert, Gary McMahon, Gary Fry, Barbara Roden, Simon Strantzas, and of course, Ramsey! (Hope I haven't left anyone out.) --Tom | ||
| Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 121.219.21.46 |
Bound for Evil arrived here yesterday - very impressive, in apperance and content.(Thanks Tom) The chapbook also looks interesting. | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.244.142.189 |
> I'll need to look up that bookish tale in F&SF for the follow-up to Bound for Evil. It's "The First Editions" by James Stoddard. It's an amusing story, fantasy-like rather than horrific. | ||
| Tom English (Deadletterpress) Username: Deadletterpress Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 216.54.92.149 |
Thanks, Tom. I like the title! (It might work well in a "sequel" volume. Half of BfE is dark fantasy: the weird tale, supernatural tales, ghost stories, etc.) Hey, Lincoln. Glad it arrived safely. |