Post by Calenture on Nov 24, 2009 11:24:39 GMT
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Received yesterday, issue 31 of It Goes On the Shelf from the extremely knowledgeable Ned Brooks.
The magazine is published at "The Sign of the Purple Mouth" and is an ongoing descriptive listing of the many wonderful books, DVDs, pictures, etc., sent to Ned by the famous and the Not so.
Whether it's (let me see) Dead Reckonings, literary criticism from Hippocampus Press, edited by Lovecraftian scholar S T Joshi and Jack M Haringa;
Time Grows Thin a book of poetry by by Lilith Lorainne, ed. by Steve Sneyd - the former name is a pseudonym of Mary Maud Dunn Wright (1864-1967), the latter a name I recognise from SF fanzines of the 70s. There's a stack of his publications listed on Amazon.
Brooks writes that "many of her poems have titles that would have fit a tale in the SF pulps of her time - The Titan's Goblet, The Gateway of Vroome, The Flaming Sign..."
Ned prints her poem Earthlight on the Moon in IGOTS 31, and it's really rather good.
Basil Wolverton's Wolverton Bible does sound interesting. Brooks tells us that Wolverton was known for his comic-grotesque art in Mad Magazine. He also illustrated Biblical material for the Worldwide Church of God, for a 6-vol. set called The Bible Story; but some of the work was considered too grotesque or violent to use. Now it appears in The Wolverton Bible
The above image is linked to the site where it and much more of the artist's work appears.
Just three selections from a fascinating 24 page magazine. You can download it for free here.
Thanks, Ned.