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My favorite M.R. James story is "The Mezzotint." Really creepy. I also liked the fantasy, The Five Jars, something a little different. I know a lot of people don't like a first-person narrator, but I do sometimes as I think it can create a lot of suspense just going along with the narrator and seeing where it all leads. Two freebies from Crossroad Press today. I've had these on my wishlist for a while so I really did a doubletake when I saw these were free. Deathgrip by Brian Hodge. (Great writer, BTW.) Quote:
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I'm reading one of theirs now and it is one of the best horror books I've ever read: Son of the Endless Night by John Farris (best known for being the author of The Fury). $3.99 at Amazon and Kobo. Check out the contest going on now at Kobo for coupons or check the Kobobooks coupon thread here. Basically, the title is the name of the demon possessing one of the characters. Complex story with lots of characters, unusual situations, progressing to a legal thriller with the defense in a murder trial of not guilty due to possession by a demon. All the witnesses to the murder are being killed of in unusual and grotesque ways. lol Great writing and descriptions. This would make a great movie. Anyone who likes the best work of Stephen King or Dean Koontz will like this. Quote:
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Picked up the Hodge and G. Wayne Miller books.
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Well, this one doesn't sound like horror, but they claim it is. Anyway, free short story from Corvus Investment in Fantasy: a Horror Story by Arthur Pendryll. Quote:
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Brian Hodge was a contributor to the Dell Abyss line of horror novels, about 20 years ago. This was and underrated and classy line, mainly comprised of psychological horror, if my memory is correct.
Hodge, himself, is an underrated writer. Here's some interesting information on Dell Abyss: http://toomuchhorrorfiction.blogspot...ck-covers.html http://trashotron.com/agony/columns/2003/05-15-03.htm Don Last edited by Dr. Drib; 05-17-2013 at 06:48 AM. |
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So, yes, I picked up that story by Brian as well. Very glad he was mentioned. Don: Is there a particular e-book edition of M.R. James' ghost stories which you consider to be especially well done? Last edited by Prestidigitweeze; 05-17-2013 at 04:03 PM. |
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05-17-2013, 12:18 PM | #38 | |
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You double-posted in the same post. This may be a first for MobileRead! I'm glad you were able to meet him. It seems like he disappeared for awhile (or was undercover in one sense), but he now seems to be back, which is great news for his fans. Let me look over what I have on James and I'll post a reply here. Don |
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Not to butt in, but on M. R. James:
For those who don't mind paying $10 for an e-book, Ash-Tree Press' e-book edition of A Pleasing Terror: The Complete Supernatural Writings is the one to get. All four collections of ghost stories, the uncollected ghost stories, The Five Jars, the incomplete drafts of ghost stories he never finished, and his essays and articles on supernatural fiction, all annotated by the great James scholar Michael Cox and other experts. Plus some other odds and ends by and about James. The only drawback is that the e-book doesn't include the illustrations from the print edition. But since the print edition is long out of print and costs hundreds of dollars secondhand, the e-book is really a bargain even at $10. A Pleasing Terror is available for Kindle, or direct from the publisher in EPUB and PRC. If you're a bargain-hunter, $3.49 for the Wordsworth Editions release of James' Collected Ghost Stories on Kindle is a good deal, and it looks like a decent version, though I note one of the Amazon reviews complains of no table of contents. It's missing a couple minor stories by James, the fragments, and The Five Jars, but unless you're a completist they're no great loss. Curious Warnings: The Great Ghost Stories of M. R. James has all the fiction including The Five Jars, but at $11.29 on Kindle it's even more pricey than A Pleasing Terror, without notes, and (this is a deal-breaker for me) the editor has broken up James' ridiculously long paragraphs into ridiculously short ones, under the debatable impression that this will make the stories more accessible to modern readers. Last edited by Brendan Moody; 05-17-2013 at 03:23 PM. |
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For those without deep pockets, there is this Megapack series (which I've been very pleased with as a series). However, I do not yet own this edition.
It's only $0.99 and is available for the kindle here: http://www.amazon.com/The-M-R-James-...8818691&sr=1-4 Don |
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That looks like a great pick as well. It's missing the stories from his fourth collection, because those are still under copyright in the US, but only one of those stories, "A Warning to the Curious," is particularly good, and anyone who picks up the A. N. Donaldson freebie will find "A Warning to the Curious" included at the end anyway.
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Thanks for the detailed recs! Have you yourself gotten to look at the formatting for A Pleasing Terror, esp. in epub? I have no problem paying $9.99 even for a writer who's now out of copyright, but for $9.99, the editing had better be good even with footnotes and extra content (are the footonotes out of copyright as well?). Quote:
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It's more or less self-pub (Long Midnight Publishing only publishes Douglas Lindsey, from what I can see, otherwise, and has no website). |
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The footnotes are in-copyright; they're explanatory stuff from modern scholars, about sources and obscure references and what-not. Some of them also appeared in Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories, Michael Cox's selection from James' ghost stories. They're neat if you're a James enthusiast, but not necessarily worth the added cost otherwise. I should amend my earlier statement: "For those who don't mind paying $10 for an e-book and who are very into M. R. James, Ash-Tree Press' e-book edition of A Pleasing Terror: The Complete Supernatural Writings is the one to get." For those not familiar with his stories, something like the Megapack would be a better initial selection. As I mentioned, all his major stories (barring "A Warning to the Curious") are there, and if the formatting is good it's a great deal for the price. There are, of course, public domain versions of all the stories in the Megapack, but many will have dire formatting. I've had good luck with the University of Adelaide's public-domain e-books in the past, but I haven't looked at their versions of James. |
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