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Post by fordcapri on Feb 10, 2021 14:13:04 GMT
Just finished reading Wolfcurse, To be really honest... I thought it was bl**dy good! Ray Tyler was explored, as a person, in a fair amount of detail and we were privy to his innermost thoughts on almost every page. It also played a good game in keeping us guessing as to whether or not he was a werewolf or just believed himself to be. With a lot of POV shots, this could make a really good film. Interesting that it came out at about the same time as An American Werewolf in London and The Howling. Yeah, I enjoyed it. Some good writing in this one, some nice turns of phrase and intelligent descriptions. The Guy could write! I'd give it 9 out of 10. Maybe even the full 10.
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Post by fordcapri on Feb 2, 2021 18:40:07 GMT
Someone lent my mum and dad his book; they both read it and said it was fantastic. I don't know much about him (since I didn't read the book), but it's clear to me that he was a hero in the truest sense of the word. He must have achieved more and helped more people right at the very end of his long life than most people could during the entirety of theirs. Such a shame that, even at 100, he probably died sooner than he should have. I really ought to read that book. R.I.P.
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Post by fordcapri on Jan 25, 2021 13:38:20 GMT
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Post by fordcapri on Jan 24, 2021 19:02:32 GMT
I'll assume, perhaps wrongly, that people just don't want/buy/read those kinds of books anymore. The pulpy horror and war books that you would find in the revolving racks at train stations, airports and motorway service stations. I am guessing that people just glue their nose to their iphone or whatever now and don't read short, sensationalist books on car/train/plane journeys. Or lying on the beach. I bought The Slime Beast in July/August 1979, to read on holiday in the caravan. Nowadays I'd be attached to some kind of device either feeding my eyes or my ears. Guy's books, and those of others like him, were ubiquitous during the 1970s and 80s, but I'll assume that they aren't as popular now. Collectors will still buy them, and aficionados, but I bet the general public aren't interested. For me it was mostly Doctor Who books during the 70s and then the harder and more violent Sweeney paperbacks. For me, the horror reading began with GNS and dad's old copy of Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edger Allan Poe.
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Post by fordcapri on Jan 23, 2021 9:14:21 GMT
...I don't read as fast or as regularly as I used to. Don't know why. Anyway, I've read 54 pages and am about to start chapter 5. Ray has just made a nocturnal visit to the local abattoir, having previously raped his wife, smashed his boss in the face and thrown a garden fork at his next door neighbour. Nice. I'm enjoying it. Great stuff!
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Post by fordcapri on Jan 22, 2021 15:15:42 GMT
I'm expecting great things of this...
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Post by fordcapri on Jan 18, 2021 19:54:15 GMT
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Post by fordcapri on Jan 16, 2021 17:36:12 GMT
Arrived this morning. Several copies on ebay... I bought the cheapest... in better condition than I expected. Anyway... read the first chapter; yes, seems like classic GNS stuff! Violence, sadism, sex, horror. Can't go wrong! I’d have given that post two thumbs up if I could. Wolfcurse is really good FC. It gets a hard time from some fans but don’t listen to them, they don’t know sh1t, I really enjoy it. It’s a bit like The Good Life meets Peter Stumpp!! IIRC in the opening chapter our somewhat volatile ‘hero’ flies into such a psychotic rage, he assaults his boss, storms out of work and when someone foolishly tries to mug him, he grabs the poor dude’s ballsack so hard he pops his assailant’s nads That's not exactly what happens... but you're close enough! What actually happens is this: Lord Stanton emerges from the bank holding a suitcase bulging with £1 notes and begging letters - obviously he's going to distribute the money to the poor and needy of his parish. As he approaches his Rolls Royce Silver Shadow, ten or twenty masked and armed hooligans attack him in a bid to jump the queue. Enraged, Lord Stanton swigs a keg of Watney's Party 7 and goes all Bruce Lee (or Big Daddy) and kicks and throws the assailants all around the car park. He then takes a portable sulphuric acid throwing machine (his own invention) from the boot of his car and turns the scattered and unconscious villains into Incredible Melting Men. Halfway through this, however, he feels a bit peckish and rips the gonads off one of them, shoves them into a handy Cornish Pasty that he keeps in his top pocket for such emergencies and has a quick snack. In keeping with GNS tradition, he also enjoys a pipe and a quick five minutes of how's your father with an ultimately doomed random woman who happens to be passing and takes an interest. That was chapter one in a nutshell. Can't wait for chapter two.
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Post by fordcapri on Jan 16, 2021 14:53:37 GMT
Arrived this morning. Several copies on ebay... I bought the cheapest... in better condition than I expected. Anyway... read the first chapter; yes, seems like classic GNS stuff! Violence, sadism, sex, horror. Can't go wrong!
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Post by fordcapri on Jan 13, 2021 10:58:28 GMT
Ta. I may check it out. Sounds OK. Several copies on ebay at the moment.
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Post by fordcapri on Jan 12, 2021 21:58:12 GMT
I gather there was a fourth Werewolf book, called Wolfcurse. I thought there were just the three...
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Post by fordcapri on Jan 12, 2021 18:42:39 GMT
(Interesting. From 2015, taken from Guy's website and originally printed in Shropshire Star / Mid-Wales Journal.) As well as his latest books being available and a possible film in the near future, Guy will also be making an appearance tomorrow night (Saturday 31st Nov 2015) for a Halloween Flicks in the Sticks special film showing. Screening Dilys Thorpe, who runs Flicks in the Sticks for the local area, wanted to bring something a little out of the ordinary to the audience for the spookiest night of the year. So together she and Guy will be presenting a special screening of ‘Island Claws’ at Clun Memorial Hall, starting at 7.30pm. The action takes place on a tropical island where marine biologists are experimenting with growth hormones on crabs. This results in radiation-mutated crabs. The film is taken from Guy’s book ‘Night of the Crabs’ and he will be on hand after the film showing to answer questions from the audience. Tickets are £4.50 for adults and £2.50 for children and they are available by calling (01588) 640254. For more information on Guy N Smith, and to access his back catalogue of books, visit his website at www.guynsmith.com
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Post by fordcapri on Jan 5, 2021 19:35:45 GMT
I've said it before (probably), but I'll say it again.
I was at my friend's house in Derby, about five or six years ago, and we were sitting there chatting; probably about Doctor Who and how bad it was now. Anyway, the phone rang. He picked it up and after a moment or two said, "Hello Barbara." I knew that he knew her - and whilst I was there, she just rang up for a chat. I made myself scarce and went to have a good look through his DVDs and books, so I have no idea what they talked about. Probably talked about me and what a damn nuisance I was; looking through everything and taunting the cat.
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Post by fordcapri on Jan 5, 2021 18:02:45 GMT
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Post by fordcapri on Jan 5, 2021 9:21:56 GMT
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Post by fordcapri on Jan 4, 2021 10:30:18 GMT
Legendary Hammer Horror actress has passed away aged 88. R.I.P.
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Post by fordcapri on Jan 4, 2021 10:03:11 GMT
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Post by fordcapri on Jan 1, 2021 18:45:35 GMT
...and they'd have to be set in the mid 1970s. 1975, 1976 and maybe up to and including 1979. Don't set them in the modern day, it would work better set 45 years ago. I think I've read all of the books mentioned. I may have to re-read them now. Must be 45 years this summer since the first one was published... the sizzling summer of '76. I'm surprised that Guy didn't write a book about swarms of killer Ladybirds! Anyone who was alive in 1976 and remembers it will know what I mean. Anyway, roll on June/July and I'll dig those books out again...
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Post by fordcapri on Dec 29, 2020 9:58:29 GMT
Nice to see that Guy had a model TARDIS on his windowsill. A shame he never got to write for Doctor Who...now THAT would have been interesting!
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Post by fordcapri on Dec 29, 2020 9:29:10 GMT
Speaking of heart attacks and high blood pressure... Which was my favourite Angel...? I loved all of them!
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Post by fordcapri on Dec 28, 2020 15:45:45 GMT
Very sorry to hear this. I read 'The Slime Beast' in 1979 and read it every five years or so. I emailed Guy a couple of years ago and got a nice reply, he also suggested that I go along to his annual convention. Sadly, I didn't. Never will now. A good writer of pulp horror, which kept you gripped and never outstayed its welcome - The Thirst and Bats Out of Hell are also very good and what can I say about The Crabs that hasn't already been said? Essential summer reading in 1976. A prolific, imaginative and sadly underrated writer.
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Post by fordcapri on Nov 19, 2020 20:53:31 GMT
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Post by fordcapri on Nov 15, 2020 14:45:40 GMT
R.I.P. Des... not many of the old guard left now.
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Post by fordcapri on Nov 6, 2020 10:23:59 GMT
Just pointed out to me by one of my friends...
Sean Connery died on 31/10/20. 3+1+1+0+2+0 = 007!
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Post by fordcapri on Nov 5, 2020 13:46:37 GMT
I think you’re photo is better Fordcapri 😀 Thanks. Yeah... I did actually think about emailing it in to them, but, as is so often the case, I thought "Nah, someone else has probably already done it and it's probably better than mine." A lesson there, me thinks.
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Post by fordcapri on Nov 5, 2020 12:46:22 GMT
Cambridgeshire. It is mentioned in today's local paper. Personally, I think MY photo is better... maybe I should have sent it in! Oh well.
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Post by fordcapri on Nov 4, 2020 12:56:07 GMT
I took this photo at about half past ten this morning. The plane was almost directly overhead. I wish I'd taken it a few minutes earlier. Oh well. Quite a sight!
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Post by fordcapri on Oct 31, 2020 12:49:07 GMT
Blimey... another one that I thought would live forever. I suppose, as 007, he will. Often imitated, never bettered. Of course he did many, many other things apart from play Bond, but, inevitably, this is what he'll be remembered for. The iconic Bond and one of the icons of the Swinging Sixties. 'Goodbye, Mr Bond'.
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Post by fordcapri on Oct 28, 2020 9:24:46 GMT
Countdown and TV Action (1971 - 1973).
Doctor Who Weekly (1979 - 1980).
2000 AD (1977 - 1980-ish... because it WAS a kids comic at first!)
As it is, I've ticked Look-in and A. N. Other.
Gotta give honorary mentions to Whizzer and Chips and Shiver and Shake! I never got them, but my brother did! They were great too!
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Post by fordcapri on Oct 8, 2020 12:29:57 GMT
A bit more info, via various Grantham newspapers... www.granthamjournal.co.uk/news/grantham-musician-brian-licorice-locking-who-found-fame-with-the-shadows-has-died-9125699/"Grantham musician Brian Locking, who played bass guitar with The Shadows in the sixties, has died. Brian, who was 82, died in north Wales this week, but had lived most of his life in Grantham, moving there as a small boy with his family. He was born in Bedworth. Brian joined Vince Eager's The Vagabonds in Grantham in the late 1950s. They travelled to London in search of fame but it didn't last long and Vince went on to become famous in his own right. Brian also stayed and was offered a tour with Terry Dene which led to him joining Marty Wilde's Wildcats. Then he was offered the position in The Shadows and took the place of Jet Harris. he remained in The Shadows for 18 months and appeared in the film Summer Holiday with Cliff Richard. Brian's sister Barbara Wilson, who lives in Leasingham, was 12 when Brian joined The Shadows. She told the Journal: "It was amazing. I was very popular everywhere I went! He kept his music up after The Shadows and he became a kind of ambassador for them in places like France and Germany. He went everywhere". The article below is copy-protected, but there's stuff in there that I didn't know. www.granthammatters.co.uk/category/grantham-present/
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