Rope! Another superb UK movie novelisation from 1948. Many full page photos and a photo preview of Hitchcock’s Under Capricorn as well.
Chatty, informative article about the latter talks about a nine minute single-take scene in the movie, and that Ingrid was filming 8mm footage BTS.
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1978 american serial killer thriller published by #NewEnglishLibrary in 1980. #arrivedtoday
Author Steven Whitney might also be the Steven Whitney who’s a screenwriter, a movie star biographer and, um, the writer of ‘a woman’s guide to gynecology’.
But I thought women wrote women’s guides?
Neil Williams (aka?). Another author with three books published by #NewEnglishLibrary but no other trace of him online.
Empty Sea (1975) graced with this gorgeous wraparound cover by William Francis Phillipps who nightmared a generation with The Rats paperback.
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Just picked up Don Glut’s third Frankenstein novel, Mews Books edition, 1977.
Might stop there as the fourth has an awful cover.
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1962 horror story collection curated by Charles Beaumont, no less. A prime Twilight Zone writer who passed far too soon.
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Here’s yet another Peter Haining book, but this one is “factual” and not an anthology! One of many occult themed volumes he collaborated on. And for 1964, he was
ahead of the game for pouring fuel on the bonfire that became a hot (media) topic by the 70s. Trendy satanists!
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“A CHILLING INDICTMENT OF THE AIRLINES AND THE AVIATION INDUSTRY FOR THE LAXNESS, INCOMPETENCE, AND AVARICE…”
This 1970 book looks interesting. John Godson wrote at least five books about plane disasters, but I’ve not found paperbacks of any of them!
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While researching Walter Gibson, I found this incredible 1974 wartime account that I’d rather read his description of, than scan it on Wikipedia.
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Picked up this London Mystery Magazine from 1975 (with weirdly dated cover art) for an example of Guy N Smith being published in obscure quarterlies, just before he hit the big time with New English Library’s Night of the Crabs and The Slime Beast (both 1976).
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Never heard of this but looks like a cracker. Filmed in 1962 and 1979.
Ace Books movie tie-in, published by New English Library.
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PG Wodehouse isn’t usually my kind of purchase, but the story looks like fun. Great cover too.
1967, New English Library.
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Completed collection of ‘Nathan Aldyne’ detective novels. Pseudonym for the awesome, much missed, horror author and screenwriter Michael McDowell. Could only find the last volume in the US.
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One of the last few repurchases I’m going to make (most of my outstanding missing books are rubbish). I had this, secondhand, in the 1970s.
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Couple more bucket list finds.
Petru Popescu’s novelisation of Peter Weir’s The Last Wave (1977).
Michael Moorcock’s maniacal Fireclown, with this crazy clown US cover art.
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Gillian Freeman’s The Leader (1967 New English Library edition). Story of the rise of a new ‘Hitler’ in UK politics, from the author of The Leather Boys!
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Oscar Wilde by Frank Brennard is a brief biography published to coincide with one of the competing movies released in 1960. This version had Robert Morley as Wilde and, um, John Neville as Bosie. #ArrivedToday
A Four Square book, from the year before they were taken over by #NewEnglishLibrary
Amok! King Kong knock off! Publication timed for the 1976 Kong remake!
From Bernard L. Ross, author of the Capricorn One novelisation (UK version only)!
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