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Post by demonik on May 10, 2006 9:06:21 GMT -5
As I've been updating and amending threads rather than start new ones, I figured it might be an idea to log the changes as they occur rather than expect people to wade through all this rubbish just to see if I've changed a word here and there. From now on I'll record any changes here and, should there be any interested parties, they can at least keep an eye on how things are coming along.
I did some totting up last night and, by my reckoning, there are notes to 108 of the Not At Night stories, 74 Creeps and 51 solo Birkins.
Today I've added a few words on Cave's Watcher In The Green Room ('Terror By Night') and J. Joseph Renauld's killer plant outing Suzanne ('Switch On The Light'), bringing the Not At Night tally up to 110.
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Post by demonik on May 11, 2006 11:33:19 GMT -5
Another four ticked off from Tales Of Death, one of the later Creeps which, other than Oswell Blakeston's excellent The Hut and a decent demon flower yarn, has little to recommend it.
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Post by demonik on May 13, 2006 5:02:50 GMT -5
Elliott O'Donnell's competent but uninspired The Ghost In The Ring from the third Creeps volume. Unless I can get my hands on the books I'm missing, I've only 17 more Creeps stories I can add comments to (and just over 50 Not At Nights) before I've exhausted my supply of them.
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Post by demonik on May 13, 2006 14:36:54 GMT -5
O'Donnell again, The Tank Of Death from Shivers. Dick's opinions on feminists and "folk what want to employ coloured people ... when there are thousands of white men out of work" are about as un-P.C. as the Creeps series gets, but Tank ... is still a far more engaging story than The Ghost In The Ring IMO.
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Post by demonik on May 14, 2006 15:54:08 GMT -5
Finished Shivers the 3rd book in the Creeps series, adding notes to the Philip Murray and two Tod Robbins stories (of which Wild Wullie The Waster is certainly worth a read).
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Post by demonik on May 17, 2006 8:19:02 GMT -5
Four from the Not At Night's: The Devil Bed from #1 and three from #6 Switch On The Light including the truly lovable Flower Valley and killer putrid-blob-of-slime epic Bhuilleneadh.
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Post by demonik on May 18, 2006 3:50:22 GMT -5
Added cover scans for Not At Nights #1 through to #11.
Attempted to do justice to Romeo Poole's astonishing 'lobster serum' mirth-inducer, A Hand From The Deep, from Not At Night #1.
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Post by demonik on May 19, 2006 3:13:38 GMT -5
Mopped up the remainder of Not At Night #1. I don't know what was wrong with my mind when I made some lukewarm comments about it not being among the better ones - it's terrific!
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Post by demonik on May 21, 2006 15:12:47 GMT -5
Finished the last three from Gruesome Cargoes, an interesting collection if only on account of it being entirely free (as far as I can tell) of reprints from Weird Tales. As such, this would appear to be truly a collection by British authors making it closer in spirit to a Creeps antho than a Not At Night
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Post by demonik on May 23, 2006 14:35:07 GMT -5
Three more from At Dead Of Night, F. A. M. Webster's forgotten gem The Owl, Seabury Quinn's Curse Of The House Of Phipps and Hugh B. Cave's incongruous Four Doomed Men - an Oriental crime caper which he wrote under the pseudonym Geoffrey Vace.
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Post by demonik on May 29, 2006 22:34:27 GMT -5
Another trio, all fairly routine I'm afraid, this time from Tales Of Death (Creeps). This book certainly suffers from its lack of a Birkin original and this time there seems to be an emphasis on the supernatural as opposed to the conte cruel.
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Post by demonik on May 31, 2006 4:27:33 GMT -5
Completed the notes to Tales Of Death. But for The Hut and some unintentionally funny offerings (a "MY FATHER - A LEPER!" denouement had me gurgling like something not altogether sane in my chair), there's little that raises this above the ordinary. Despite all, I wouldn't be without it, but Horrors it ain't!  |
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Post by demonik on Jul 30, 2006 2:47:59 GMT -5
Finally got around to some more Birkin, namely the lengthy crime caper "The Beautiful People" and yet another dead infant nasty, Child's Play. The latter is one of his sporadic science fiction attempts. Both are from Spawn Of Satan
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Post by demonik on Jul 31, 2006 12:22:29 GMT -5
Three more from Spawn Of Satan including the almost unbearable title story after which the grim family curse melodrama of A Right To Know comes almost as light relief.
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Post by demonik on Nov 3, 2006 13:27:40 GMT -5
Just in case anybody's still checking out the world's least happening board, I'm currently trying to list the contents of Robert A. W. Lowdnes excellent pulp revival publications, Magazine Of Horror and Startling Mystery Stories. I don't have complete runs of either, but should be able to piece together a full listing. Once that's done, I'll start thinking about adding what cover scans I can.
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