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Volume 1 contains the stories “The Book of Blood,” “The Midnight Meat Train,” “The Yattering and Jack,” “Pig Blood Blues,” “Sex, Death and Starshine,” and “In the Hills, the Cities.” Two stories were adapted into movies: "Book of Blood" (2009) and "The Midnight Meat Train" (2008). "The Yattering and Jack" was adapted by Barker himself in 1986 for the U.S. television series "Tales of the Darkside."
Trailer of "The Midnight Meat Train:"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPazfR_DyAo
Trailer of "Book of Blood:"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jQjvTkfaWY
"The Yattering and Jack" on "Tales of the Darkside:"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtHGer9Hk9U
Clive Barker's greatest horror was not in his "Books of Blood" but it deserves a mention here anyway:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7TWm3Akw-s
The “Books of Blood” are a series of horror fiction collections written by the British author Clive Barker. There are six books in all and each contains up to six stories. With the publication of the first volume, Barker became an overnight sensation and was hailed by Stephen King as “the future of horror.” The book won both the British and World Fantasy Awards.
Although undoubtedly horror stories, like most of Barker's work they mix fantasy themes in as well. The unrelentingly bleak tales invariably take place in a contemporary setting, usually featuring everyday people who become embroiled in terrifying or mysterious events. For the hardcover editions, Clive Barker himself illustrated each book’s cover. [Source: Wikipedia]
“Everybody is a book of blood;
Wherever we’re opened, we’re red.”
Clive Barker
The starting point for “2001: A Space Odyssey” was a short story written in 1948 by Arthur C. Clarke called “The Sentinel.” It dealt with the discovery of an artifact on Earth’s Moon left behind eons ago by ancient aliens. Clarke and director Stanley Kubrick took that concept and built an epic story for the screenplay of “2001.” Clarke also wrote the novel which was published soon after the film was released. The story now deals with a series of encounters between humans and mysterious black monoliths that are apparently affecting human evolution. A voyage is undertaken to Jupiter tracing a signal emitted by one such monolith found on the Moon.
Things I like in the morning:
- lots of coffee
- light seeping in through the window
- having a couple of hours to myself
- good books, especially with the dust jackets removed (a little risqué, no?)
A great deal of hardcovers are prettier underneath the flashy outer shell.
Young Danny Cross couldn’t understand the telegram from the Security Commission ordering him home from college. He wondered whether it had anything to do with the reported “death” of one of America’s leading atomic scientists in a rocket explosion over White Sands. He was surprised that it was only another thorough security check and a change of security card – the vital “open sesame” to anyone living in the Alamogordo, New Mexico, of 1981.
But Danny noticed a change in the atmosphere at the proving grounds and in the communities where its scientists and technicians lived. As more atomic scientists disappeared in “rocket explosions” miles above Earth – explosions that failed to scatter debris under the sites of the accidents – the former camaraderie was replaced by an air of suspicion and foreboding.
The continuing disappearances led Danny to conclude that a highly skilled scientific group had planned, constructed and was operating a space station in secret. He suspected that even his father and mother were planning to leave Earth for an extraterrestrial life. [Synopsis of “Rockets to Nowhere” by Lester Del Rey (1954)]
From "An Appreciation" by E.C. Comic fan Larry Stark:
"E.C. comics," we called them back then.
"Entertaining Comics -- A New Trend in Comic Books," was the way they described themselves. And they were right. The great Horror Comics of the Fifties, as we've come to remember them -- were a brand-new concept in both comic art and story-telling. Seriously conceived and executed, wildly and freely creative, it was a sign of their excellence that they never really died a natural death. They were killed -- legally tried and ultimately executed like criminals -- by a frightened generation of witch hunters. Nothing remains of them now but the tattered copies yellowing in the closets of collectors like myself -- and a very strong memory. For brief as the life of E.C. was, it flashed with such brilliance as to make forgetting impossible. . . "
What could possibly be scary about a pet cemetery? Stephen King answers that question in spades with one of his scariest stories. He tells the tale of a family that moves into a small town in Maine and strange things start happening from day one. The two children are hurt in accidents and, soon after, the family cat is run over outside their new home. The cat is buried in the “pet sematary” in nearby woods where the town kids bury their dead animals. Now the paranormal story begins and soon all hell breaks loose.
"Pet Sematary" was adapted into a movie in 1989:
Kepes, G. (ed.), The Man-Made Object, New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1966.
Essays by: Christopher Alexander, Dore Ashton, Michael J. Blee, Marcel Breuer, Theodore M. Brown, Francoise Choay, Gillo Dorfles, Kazuhiko Egawa, Joan M. Erikson, Jean Helion, Marshall McLuhan, Herbert Read, Leonardo Ricci, Henry S. Stone, Jr., Frederick S. Wight
“Tarzan and the Lost Empire,” the twelfth in the series of Tarzan books, was first published as a serial in Blue Book Magazine from October 1928 through February 1929. The story involves a lost remnant of the Roman Empire that Tarzan and a young German find hidden in the mountains of Africa. The book is notable for the introduction of Nkima, Tarzan’s monkey companion who appears in a number of later Tarzan stories. It also reintroduces Muviro, first seen in “Tarzan and the Golden Lion,” as sub-chief of Tarzan’s Waziri warriors.
Bip Pares was a prolific designer of dust jackets and book wrappers - she also produced posters for companies such as London Transport. This is for a 1942 Compton Mackenzie novel.
Though essentially a minor collection, “The Shuttered Room & Other Pieces” offers some illuminating footnotes to Lovecraft’s story, and adds to the list of Cthulhu tales the memorable title story and the haunting “Fisherman of Falcon Point.” The jacket art is by Richard Taylor.
After a shower of blazing lights in the sky, a plague of blindness befalls the entire world and allows the rise of a deadly and seemingly intelligent species of plant. The novel was the basis for the 1962 British film "The Day of the Triffids" starring Howard Keel:
From the dust jacket:
When two Englishmen on vacation to the Canary Islands unearthed a bundle of age-old sheets, they were surprised to learn that they were the autobiography of one Deucalian, the warrior-priest of Atlantis. Deucalian was the governor of the Province of Yucatan, and on his recall to Atlantis learned that the throne had been seized by the beautiful but tyrannical and unscrupulous Phorenice. A revolt had flared up and the capital city was besieged by the rebels. Even before his arrival at Altantis his fleet was attacked to prevent his landing. Phorenice had chosen him to be her consort, but he met and fell in love with Nais, daughter of the chief priest, Zaemon. And this sets in motion a chain of events that rocks the nation and eventually results in the destruction of the Continent of Atlantis through the occult magic of Zaemon.
1948; Mysterie in Blauw by Hartger Menkman. Cover art by RJP ?? SEE LARGER SCAN FOR COLOR AND DETAIL !!
Frank Herbert's celebrated science fiction novel "Dune" was first published as a three-part serial "Dune World" in the December, 1963 - February, 1964 issues of Analog (formerly Astounding Science Fiction).
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The Chilton Company, which was better known for automotive manuals, put out the novel in book form in 1965. "Dune" was the basis for a less-than-stellar film directed by David Lynch in 1984, an Emmy-winning TV miniseries written and directed by John Harrison in 2000 and a popular 3-D video game in 2001.
Jasper Maskelyne (1902-1973) was a British stage magician in the 1930s and 1940s. His “Book of Magic” describes a range of stage tricks, including sleight of hand, card and rope tricks, and “mind-reading” illusions. A 1937 Pathé film, “The Famous Illusionist,” was made of Maskelyne, looking dapper and apparently eating a boxful of razor blades, one at a time.
Jasper Maskelyne was one of an established family of stage magicians, the son of Nevil Maskelyne and a grandson of John Nevil Maskelyne. He is most remembered, however, for his entertaining accounts of his work for British military intelligence during the Second World War. His exploits in the camouflage unit during the war are described in David Fisher’s book, “The War Magician” (1983), and in Maskelyne’s own book , “Magic: Top Secret” (1949). Book reviewer Peter Forbes writes that “the flamboyant magician’s contribution was either absolutely central (if you believe his account and that of his biographer) or very marginal (if you believe the official records and more recent research).” [Source: Wikipedia]
Here is a link to David Fisher's book "The War Magician:"
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A combination of circumstances and a mishap of war stranded Tarzan in the mountains of Japanese-held Sumatra nearly two and one-half years after the invasion. Here, in company with American fliers, natives, Dutch guerrillas, a Chinese, a Dutch girl, and the granddaughter of a Borneo head-hunter, he found a full scope for his jungle-trained senses.
Sumatra is approximately the size and shape of California. And right there all similarity ends. This island sprawls across the equator. Its great forests, its lush jungles, its mountainous backbone are the abode of such an aggregation of savage life as may not be found in an area of similar size anywhere else in the world.
There are elephants, rhinoceroses. bears, wild dogs, tigers, orangutans, monkeys, wild cattle, cobras, pythons, and Japanese, just to name a few. There are native collaborationists and bands of Dutch outlaws. The stage was already set for high adventure and the other actors were already there when Tarzan arrived.
The close companions who shared these adventures with him were a pilot from Oklahoma City, waist gunners from Brooklyn and Texas, a ball turret gunner from Chicago, a radio man from Van Nuys, California, a Chinese, a Dutch reserve officer, a Eurasian girl, and blonde Corrie Van der Meer, the daughter of a Dutch Sumatran planter. Viewing the diverse racial origins of this aggregation, their friends of the Dutch guerrillas dubbed them "The Foreign Legion."
“Wings” is a 1927 silent war film acclaimed for its realistic air combat sequences. The film was shot at Kelly Field in San Antonio, Texas with hundreds of pilots and planes of the US Army Air Corps and 3500 infantrymen on a mock battlefield constructed on location to simulate an actual WWI battlefield. The film won the first Academy Award for Best Picture at the first Academy Award Ceremony in 1929, the only silent film to do so. The film was re-released for a limited run in theaters on its 85th anniversary in 2012. Here is the link to a movie trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFRas2-x_OQ
“Speed” Powell, in his racer the “Shooting Star,” terrorized the sober citizenry of Temple, Washington, who prophesied a bad end for him. He had but one champion, the girl next door, who adored him. Powell however directed all his attentions toward Sylvia Lewis. When the war came Powell found his way into the Air Service. The qualities that had brought him into disrepute at home, now served to make him a brilliant pilot; his flair for speed, his bent for mechanics, his nerve and daring. He was sent overseas as a member of the First Pursuit Group.
Powell’s flying mate at the front was David Armstrong. Theirs was a friendship begun at ground school and sealed by a series of desperate adventures in the air. An hour before their last flight together, Powell precipitated a bitter quarrel between them over Sylvia Lewis. Estranged, they flew off on a balloon-strafing mission and Powell led Armstrong to his death. It was only when he was going over his dead comrade’s effects that he discovered that David and Sylvia were lovers. A different “Speed” Powell returned home to pick up the threads of everyday living, to find himself and to find the girl next door.
Kepes, G. (ed.), Sign Image Symbol, New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1966.
Essays by: Rudolf Arnheim, Saul Bass, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, John E. Burchard, Edmund, Carpenter, Henry Dreyfuss, Heinz Von Foerster, Lawrence k. Frank, James J. Gibson, S. Giedion, J.P. Hodin, Abraham H. Maslow, P.A. Michelis, Rudolf Modley, C. Morris & F. Sciandini, Robert Osborn, Ad Reinhardt, Paul Riesman, Ernesto N. Rogers, Werner Schmalenbach
How CANADA Conquered THE COMIC BOOK UNIVERSE.
by John Bell.
Toronto, Dundurn Press, [november] 2oo6. ISBN 1-55oo2-659-3.
7 x 9-3/8, 112 sheets ivory bond perfectbound in ivory light card endpapers with 5/8" black & white cloth applique head- & tailbands into 7-3/16 x 9-3/4 black carnival groove-covered boards printed brown letterpress spine only, interiors all except 21 pp printed black offset with 3-colour process additions throughout, in 7-1/4 x 9-3/4 white byronic brocade dustjacket with glossy PVC verso & 3-3/4" flaps printed 4-colour process recto only.
cover graphic by Dave Cooper.
37 other contributors ID'd:
Leo Bachle, Stanley Berneche, David Boswell, Chester Brown, Alison Carr, Richard Comely, Dave Cooper, Palmer Cox, Arch Dale, Clayton Dexter, Adrian Dingle, Hal Foster, George Freeman, Ed Furness, Gregory Gallant [ie "Seth"], David Geary, Harry Hall, Rand H.Holmes, Calum Johnston, Harold A.MacGill, John MacLeod, Vincent Marchesano, Henry Mietkiewicz, Bernie Mireault, Gabriel Morrissette, George Rae, Paul Rivoche, Richard Robertson, Spider Robinson, Su Rogers, Jon Saint Ables, Gerhard [Shmuck], Joe Shuster, Dave Sim, Charles Snelgrove, Paul Stockton, Colin Upton.
includes:
i) SPOTLIGHT CHESTER BROWN AND THE SEARCH FOR NEW NARRATIVES (insert between chapters 6 & 7, pp.139-168; references Brown's instigational association with jwcurry, p.146)
This first edition copy still has its original dust jacket! Dust jackets were used as early as 1830. After WWI they were often designed by prominent artists and became a great marketing tactic. This one was created by John Held Jr, who also designed many covers for Life Magazine in the Jazz Age.
Location: Special Collections, MSEL
Kenneth Roberts (1885 – 1957) was an American author of historical novels. Roberts worked first as a journalist, becoming nationally known for his work with the Saturday Evening Post from 1919 to 1928, and then as a popular novelist. Born in Kennebunk, Maine, Roberts specialized in regionalist historical fiction and "Trending Into Maine" is an homage to his native state. He often wrote about his native state and its terrain, also depicting other upper New England states and scenes. For example, the main characters of "Arundel" and "Rabble in Arms" are from Kennebunk (then called Arundel), the main character of "Northwest Passage" is depicted as being from Kittery, Maine with friends in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and the main character in "Oliver Wiswell" is from Milton, Massachusetts.
American artist N. C. Wyeth (1882 - 1945) was the pupil of artist Howard Pyle and became one of America's greatest illustrators. During his lifetime, Wyeth created over 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books, 25 of them for Scribner's, the Scribner Classics, which is the work for which he is best known. The first of these, "Treasure Island," was one of his masterpieces and the proceeds paid for his studio. Beside his many illustration plaudits, NC Wyeth is famous for being the father of artist Andrew Wyeth and the grandfather of artist Jamie Wyeth.
[Source: Wikipedia]
One of the fascinating series of "The Roadmakers Library" issued in 1948 and this, on traffic control, by one of the foremost experts on the subject. A Alker Tripp had a long career in traffic management having been steered by his family into a career in the Metropolitan Police, where he rose to became Assistant Commissioner (Traffic) in 1932. He wrote extensively on the subject as well as having a life time interest in art, his desire to train as an artist apparently thwarted by his father!
This cover jacket (or dustwrapper) has, apart from a wee road roller) a marvellous set of period traffic signals!
The novel was originally published as a paperback in May, 1956 (Gold Medal S-577).
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The author Richard Matheson adapted his book for a motion picture which came out in 1957. It has since been named to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant and will be preserved for all time. It's a classic. Here is a small excerpt from the motion picture:
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (1934-1968) was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961.
Yuri Gagarin died just shy of his Vostok 1 mission's seventh anniversary, on March 27, 1968, when the MiG-15 fighter jet that he and instructor Vladimir Seryogin were piloting on a routine training flight went down outside a small town near Moscow. Alexei Leonov, who in 1965 became the first man to leave a spacecraft and float in the open vacuum of space, has worked for years to learn what led to Gagarin's death. He finally gained permission and spoke about the details in an interview released on Friday, June 14, 2013, by the state-funded Russia Today (RT) television network.
"We knew that a Su-15 [fighter jet] was scheduled to be tested that day, but it was supposed to be flying at the altitude of 10,000 meters [33,000 feet] or higher, not 450-500 meters [1,480-1,640 feet]," Leonov told RT. "It was a violation of the flight procedure."
A new declassified report confirmed that an unauthorized Sukhoi (Su-15) supersonic jet flew dangerously close to Gagarin's MiG-15. “The two jets must have been no less than 50 kilometers apart." Leonov said.
"While afterburning the aircraft reduced its echelon at a distance of 10-15 meters [30-50 ft] in the clouds, passing close to Gagarin, turning his plane and thus sending it into a tailspin — a deep spiral, to be precise — at a speed of 750 kilometers per hour [470 miles per hour]," Leonov said in the television interview. “Now, a jet can sink into a deep spiral if a larger, heavier aircraft passes by too close and flips [the jet] over with its backwash. And that is exactly what happened to Gagarin. That trajectory was the only one that corresponded with all our input parameters," Leonov told RT.
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
An imaginative reconstruction of history and legend, "A Search for the King" is an idealistic adventure, a medieval tapestry, woven with richness and color. It is the story of the troubador Blondel's search for Richard the Lion-Heart, held prisoner by Duke Leopold after one of the Crusades. From castle to castle, across the face of Europe, Blondel journeys, singing his ballads, encountering giants and dragons and enchanted forests, as he follows the trail of the King.
Archiv für Buchgewerbe und Gebrauchsgraphik
Archives for printing, book-craft, and commercial art
Darstellung des Buchgewerbes
Heft 11: Die deutsche Buchgraphik
Deutsche Buchillustration und Buchschmuck der Gegenwart mit kurzen Rückblick auf ihre Geschichte von Dr. Wolfgang Bruhn
Kustos der staatlichen Kunstgewerbebibliothek Berlin
Seite 529
Der Buchumschlag und seine Geschichte
von Walter Hofmann
Seite 585
Umschlagentwurf und Gutenberg-Plakette (mit Genehmigung der Bildgußabteilung des Lauchhhammer-Werkes): Walter Hofmann
Satz und Druck: Breitkopf & Härtel. Buchbinderei: Spamer AG., Abt. Binderei. Farben: Berger & Wirth. Papier: Ferd. Flinsch. Sämtlich in Leipzig
This early Arkham House anthology of works by H. P. Lovecraft includes such fantasies as "The White Ship" and the novel, "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath," and such horror stories as "The Moon Bog," "The Unnamable," and the novel, "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward." There are poems and collaborations and revisions by Lovecraft, including "The Diary of Alonzo Typer," "The Curse of Yig," "The Mound," "The Horror in the Museum," and others. To the writings by Lovecraft himself have been added a "Cthulhu Glossary," by Francis Laney, designed to summarize what is known about the fabled beings and places of Lovecraft's monumental creation, the "Cthulhu Mythos."
1946 4th print; The Adventures of Sam Spade by Dashiell Hammett. Cover art dust jacket by Leo Manso.
Since July, I've been working on a project for my photomedia studies at Sydney College of the Arts as part of my Masters degree. Final assessment takes the form of a custom printed, hardcover photo book with a matt laminated dust jacket (this is the cover above) and I'm relieved to have just sent it off to the printers this afternoon! It features 26 images from the series I have been working on, both formally and informally, for the past couple of years.
While this book is just a prototype (I am initially printing just one copy) and will only be seen by a few pairs of eyes, the process of continuing to develop this series, articulate the concepts behind it, and prepare a selection of my work in book form has been immensely instructive. I'll be continuing to work on this series in more cities around the world for the next couple of years, I feel!
Graham Greene - The Man Within
Bantam Books 355, 1948
Dust Jacket Artist: unknown
"A haunting story of passion and violence."
"Pinocchio" is one of the most beautiful works of animation ever produced. Through Pierre Lambert's research, and beautiful, careful reproductions, this volume celebrates the genius of the legendary artists who, more than seventy-five years ago, worked with Walt Disney to create one of the world's most beloved animated films.
This book from The Viking Press is just one of several popular books that, together with magazine articles, TV shows and movies, explored the possibility of space travel and sparked children's imaginations during the 1950's. So, in May 1961, when John Kennedy proposed a trip to the moon and back by the end of the decade, no generation was more eager and better prepared for the journey than the children of the 50's. Many of them would go on to become space pioneers and make their childhood dreams come true. May the dreams never die.
Walter Gibson was an accomplished magician as well as an author. Under the Street & Smith house name of Maxwell Grant, he created and wrote 282 of the 325 novels about the most famous crimefighter to battle evil-doers in the pages of pulp magazines -- "The Shadow." So in creating his other crimefighting hero, "Norgil, the Magician," Gibson combined his talents as a mystery writer and a leading authority on magic. "Magic and mystery are so closely interwoven," he once wrote, "that it is hard to tell where one leaves off and the other begins."
Stories about Norgil first appeared in pulp magazines such as "Crime Busters" and "Mystery Magazine" during the 1930's and 40's. Each story employs a famous stage illusion as a plot device, and Norgil is a solitary representation of several real-life magicians who made those tricks popular. These long-lost stories are collected here for the first time in book form.
This book from The Viking Press is just one of several popular books that, together with magazine articles, TV shows and movies, explored the possibility of space travel and sparked children's imaginations during the 1950's. So, in May 1961, when John Kennedy proposed a trip to the moon and back by the end of the decade, no generation was more eager and better prepared for the journey than the children of the 50's. Many of them would go on to become space pioneers and make their childhood dreams come true. May the dreams never die.
Although this is a Professor Challenger story, it centers more on his daughter Enid and his old friend Edward Malone. Another friend from “The Lost World,” Lord John Roxton, is also involved in the novel's second half. Professor Summerlee, who has died of old age around this time, is referred to by the mediums much to the anger of Professor Challenger. Heavily influenced by Doyle's growing belief in Spiritualism after the death of his son, brother, and two nephews in World War I, the book focuses on Edward Malone's at first professional, and later personal interest in Spiritualism. [Source: Wikipedia]
Eric Ravilious designs used for Version 4 Dustjacket illustrations of Publishers Dent & Dutton's "Everyman's Library"
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Quoting from the blurb on the dustjacket:
“Bold, imaginative and packed with excitement, STAR WARS is destined to become a classic in the genre. This is the novel that brings that ‘sense of wonder’ back to science fiction – each page brimming with heroic adventure, unexpected marvels and amazing characters…”
For sure! Little did they realize how really huge it would become.
Persephone books reprint neglected novels, mostly early to mid-twentieth by women. They are lovely grey paperbacks, with patterned endpapers and matching bookmarks which reflect the book.
The novel was originally written in 1933 and it was adapted in 1951 as the film "When Worlds Collide" produced by George Pal. Here is a link to the trailer for the 1951 film: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXeT-yHNcFI
This book from The Viking Press is just one of several popular books that, together with magazine articles, TV shows and movies, explored the possibility of space travel and sparked children's imaginations during the 1950's. So, in May 1961, when John Kennedy proposed a trip to the moon and back by the end of the decade, no generation was more eager and better prepared for the journey than the children of the 50's. Many of them would go on to become space pioneers and make their childhood dreams come true. May the dreams never die.