Post by Calenture on Mar 1, 2009 20:14:32 GMT
In this issue, Justin Marriott interviews Peter Beresford Ellis aka Peter Tremayne. Since 1994, the only Peter Tremayne books have been the Sister Fidelma mysteries---on the lines of the Cadfael books, I believe. As you'd expect, the Fanatic interview concentrates on Ellis's earlier work, the Dracula series, Snowbeast, Zombie, Morgow Rises, etc.
John Mains' interview with Chris Lowder, who wrote The Blood of Dracula as Jack Hamilton Tweed, provides a good companion piece to the Ellis interview.
The Fanatic investigates the Skinhead Revival ... the incredible story of the youth cult pulps that refuse to die.
"Although there had been other books that were more violent and contained more sex, none of them had been written in the hard-hitting, take no prisoners style of Skinhead, and it was the first exploitation book aimed at its subject matter rather than middle aged suburbanites seeking vicarious thrills."
The man who began the Filthy Workshop at Vault of Evil, Franklin Marsh, provides a review of the Skinhead books of Richard Allen
The paperback cover art of Richard Clifton-Dey is in the spotlight this issue, cover scans shown including those for Leiber's A Spectre is Haunting Texas, Moorcock's Martian trilogy, Ballard's Concrete Island and Pike's Jubal Cade
Written by Curt Purcell of Beyond the Groovy Age of Horror, The Twilight World of Eli Podgram is another look at the Peter Saxon scrapbook of horrors, this time concentrating on the Monster Hunters, and if that isn't enough, we have The Man From O.R.G.Y, a special Fanatic undercover investigation.
Fanatical Thoughts readers' letters include missives from DJ (son of Laurence James), Steve Goodwin, Noah Brown, Peter Ellis (aka Tremayne), Fred Nolan, Andreas Decker and that champion of John Russell Fearn and previously editor of Vision of Tommorrow, Phil Harbottle.
Paperback Fanatic costs £5.25 inc postage by paypal to Justin's e-mail address, or you can PM him. Might be better to do that PM at Vault of Evil as he's likelier to be visiting that site.
Justin's email is justinATjustincultprint.free-online.co.uk (replacing the AT with @, of course).
Above is a sample page from an earlier Paperback Fanatic. Click on either scan to connect to the PF site.