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78 Mon March 12 2001 - 00:53:45 Fullname: Samantha Yates Email: sam@cageybird.freeserve.co.uk Comments: Help - I'm having a nightmare! Can ANYONE tell me where I can buy a copy of RED BRIDE. I have been searching the world (well the internet) but to no avail. Also seeking City Jitters and Bureau of Lost Souls. I can't find them anywhere and it's driving me mad! 79 Fri March 09 2001 - 15:44:28 Fullname: Garry Rice Email: gary.rice@bskyb.com Comments: Christopher - Back, way back, I interviewed you on Channel 4's "Box Office" programme. We then met on a Birmingham - Euston train, which you were travelling on following a book-signing. Subsequently I have read and enjoyed your oeuvre. So that's me, and that's my grovelling intro. Thing is, I know this shit-hot Avid editor who's dead keen to break into trailer-making especially. Is it worth his while contacting you via Creative Partnership? Keep up the sterling work, anyway All the best! 80 Sun March 04 2001 - 19:37:05 Fullname: christopher fowler Email: chris@cfowler.demon.co.uk Comments: Somebody told me this message board had shut down - what gives? I think I've answered everyone personally lately (long winter nights), and just to keep you up to date: 'The Devil In Me' will be published by Serpent's Tail early next year, arond the same time as 'Mr. Bryant & Mr. May' (working title), a novel published by Warners. I'm also currently writing columns in The Edge, PURE Magazine and The Third Alternative, as well as reviewing books in The Independent On Sunday. All Best, Christopher Fowler 81 Fri March 02 2001 - 19:29:42 Fullname: nicky priest Email: nicky.priest@ntlworld.com Comments: Just a quick message, did you base the seaside town in 'Calabash' on Southend at all. Some of it seemed familiar to me the Kursal on the front and the description of the arcades. Just curious. nicky 82 Wed February 28 2001 - 15:56:37 Fullname: nicky priest Email: nicky.priest@ntlworld.com Comments: The first book of yours I read was 'Spanky' bought for me by my hubby. Reading it was like watching a film. It was funny, fast paced and with a gripping story, although people who saw me with the book thought it was gay porn!(sorry you've probably heard that before) The structure for disturbia was brilliant Anneka Rice for Goths. Psychoville was as dark as it gets and there is nothing more sinister than the aspiring middle classes. The characters of Bryant and May are fantastic I can tell you've been asked about them alot already, but a series featuring the two would be brilliant if you could get the casting right. My hubby wants a mention for the 'posse' of insomniacs - big fan! Your stories lend themselves to film so much we need a film!!!!!! As for your new book I have been thinking about a possible title. The only one i've come up with so far is 'Eurydice and Popcorn' you know the trivialisation of tragedy etc. My hubby isn't impressed but I thought i'd mention it any way. Anyway i'd heard of this message board so thought it was about time i contributed to it myself. The only complaint I have is the difficulty in getting hold of your titles. Have you done a vampire story? if your thinking about stop thinking and do it. I've read all the books of yours I could get hold of exccept 'Red Bride'. Any tips on how to get hold of the harder to track down items. I would like to find 'Bureau of Lost Souls' It sounds intriguing. You'll have to find some way of writing faster i'm a quick reader and not easily sated!!!!! I have to say that my favourites so far have to be 'Spanky', 'Disturbia',Pschoville', 'Calabash' and 'Darkest day' in that order. The humour really makes your novels work for me. The strongest story has been 'Spanky'. I enjoyed 'Rune', 'Roofworld' and 'Soho Black'. The descrptions of rigor mortis in 'Soho Black did make me feel more than a bit nauseous kind of inhibiting my total enjoyment of the book. I've never been very good with descriptions of veins and stuff but thats a bit of a personal thing! Again your work is fab! You keep writing them and i'll keep reading. bye for now 83 Wed February 28 2001 - 15:52:07 Fullname: nicky priest Email: nicky.priest@ntlworld.com Comments: The first book of yours I read was 'Spanky' bought for me by my hubby. Reading it was like watching a film. It was funny, fast paced and with a gripping story, although people who saw me with the book thought it was gay porn!(sorry you've probably heard that before) The structure for disturbia was brilliant Anneka Rice for Goths. Psychoville was as dark as it gets and there is nothing more sinister than the aspiring middle classes. The characters of Bryant and May are fantastic I can tell you've been asked about them alot already, but a series featuring the two would be brilliant if you could get the casting right. My hubby wants a mention for the 'posse' of insomniacs - big fan! Your stories lend themselves to film so much we need a film!!!!!! As for your new book I have been thinking about a possible title. The only one i've come up with so far is 'Eurydice and Popcorn' you know the trivialisation of tragedy etc. My hubby isn't impressed but I thought i'd mention it any way. Anyway i'd heard of this message board so thought it was about time i contributed to it myself. The only complaint I have is the difficulty in getting hold of your titles. Have you done a vampire story? if your thinking about stop thinking and do it. I've read all the books of yours I could get hold of exccept 'Red Bride'. Any tips on how to get hold of the harder to track down items. I would like to find 'Bureau of Lost Souls' It sounds intriguing. You'll have to find some way of writing faster i'm a quick reader and not easily sated!!!!! I have to say that my favourites so far have to be 'Spanky', 'Disturbia',Pschoville', 'Calabash' and 'Darkest day' in that order. The humour really makes your novels work for me. The strongest story has been 'Spanky'. I enjoyed 'Rune', 'Roofworld' and 'Soho Black'. The descrptions of rigor mortis in 'Soho Black did make me feel more than a bit nauseous kind of inhibiting my total enjoyment of the book. I've never been very good with descriptions of veins and stuff but thats a bit of a personal thing! Again your work is fab! You keep writing them and i'll keep reading. bye for now 84 Wed February 28 2001 - 15:51:52 Fullname: nicky priest Email: nicky.priest@ntlworld.com Comments: The first book of yours I read was 'Spanky' bought for me by my hubby. Reading it was like watching a film. It was funny, fast paced and with a gripping story, although people who saw me with the book thought it was gay porn!(sorry you've probably heard that before) The structure for disturbia was brilliant Anneka Rice for Goths. Psychoville was as dark as it gets and there is nothing more sinister than the aspiring middle classes. The characters of Bryant and May are fantastic I can tell you've been asked about them alot already, but a series featuring the two would be brilliant if you could get the casting right. My hubby wants a mention for the 'posse' of insomniacs - big fan! Your stories lend themselves to film so much we need a film!!!!!! As for your new book I have been thinking about a possible title. The only one i've come up with so far is 'Eurydice and Popcorn' you know the trivialisation of tragedy etc. My hubby isn't impressed but I thought i'd mention it any way. Anyway i'd heard of this message board so thought it was about time i contributed to it myself. The only complaint I have is the difficulty in getting hold of your titles. Have you done a vampire story? if your thinking about stop thinking and do it. I've read all the books of yours I could get hold of exccept 'Red Bride'. Any tips on how to get hold of the harder to track down items. I would like to find 'Bureau of Lost Souls' It sounds intriguing. You'll have to find some way of writing faster i'm a quick reader and not easily sated!!!!! I have to say that my favourites so far have to be 'Spanky', 'Disturbia',Pschoville', 'Calabash' and 'Darkest day' in that order. The humour really makes your novels work for me. The strongest story has been 'Spanky'. I enjoyed 'Rune', 'Roofworld' and 'Soho Black'. The descrptions of rigor mortis in 'Soho Black did make me feel more than a bit nauseous kind of inhibiting my total enjoyment of the book. I've never been very good with descriptions of veins and stuff but thats a bit of a personal thing! Again your work is fab! You keep writing them and i'll keep reading. bye for now 85 Wed February 28 2001 - 04:08:57 Fullname: Paul Priest Email: nicky.priest@ntlworld.com Comments: Yes me again, Been racking my mind constantly , thinking of a possible B&M title and thought of theatres,actors etc, combined with darkness and thought of Puck's final words, beginning : "If We Shadows..." - My mates think it's crap,but I kinda-shoulda-sorta like it ! I know it hasn't got anything to do with Orpheus or Offenbach - but if you're going all thespian and tricksterish maybe the supreme trickster - Puck/Robin Goodfellow 's Lokiesque machinations could be an apt allusion ? After all it's a bit like Soho Black - The theatre/film being mainly illusion;our own imaginations bring the reality (Sorry I've been reading too much Eric Voegelin) Enough ! I've already said too much on these boards and am beginning to dislike the idea the more I write about it ! Still, I've come up with an idea, albeit a pretty lame one,and can now get some sleep - Nicky's just finished "Uncut" and was a bit freaked out with the Cannibal Castle, loved "Jouissance de la Mort", thought the Passenger Paul story was a bit too like the Clive Barker "Subway" story (lot better written though) and thought you did well in turning your hand at some well-worn concepts and giving them some inspired freshness and vivacity - not once while reading it did we say "oh this one's boring, or too predictable" and skip to the next story which is high praise - people don't realise how hard it is to write a good short story (Stephen King's "Nightmares and Dreamscapes" a prime example - Diabolically Abysmal!!!) You've a rare talent ! More Please ? Soon? 86 Tue February 20 2001 - 03:23:01 Fullname: jane Email: janethecat@yahoo.com Comments: greetings all... haven't surfed in for a while. anyway dropped in to query whether "darkest day" was re-released? i hadn't read it - thanx to mr/ms priest (the extremely eloquent) for mentioning it - and found a copy sraight away - in all unlikely places - Borders. Anyone in Australia - the Melbourne store has a surprising array of CF novels. -------------------------------------------------- New Bryant & May novel title? How about Black Match? -------------------------------------------------- New horror concept? any internet relationship getting out of control! the power that systems administrators seem to wield! a marketing guru's plan for world domination - or maybe i should save that for my auto-biography. -------------------------------------------------- When is something new coming out? jane 87 Mon February 05 2001 - 19:11:48 Fullname: frida Email: frida_w12@hotmail.com Comments: Hello! I just have a question about your short story "The Master Builder". Where can I read it? I would be very grateful for an answer. 88 Wed January 31 2001 - 01:58:47 Fullname: Paul Priest Email: nicky.priest @ntlworld.com Comments: Sorry,me again, if I'm getting annoying,please say so... but nicky and I have been thinking, after discussing an essay by chesterton called the "mystagogue" - it speaks of Satanists always insisting upon the shapelessness,wordlessness,unutterable character of the abomination -they call him "horror of emptiness" (ref R.L. Stevenson's "Dynamiter"'s black witch), they worship him as the unspeakable name, as the unbearable silence.They think of him as the void in the heart of the whirlwind, the cloud on the brain of the maniac; the toppling turrets of vertigo or the endless corridors of nightmare.... I used to have terrible nightmares in my teenage years of someone who lurked in the deepest recesses of my mind, and would ultimately destroy me...no matter how wonderful and beautiful my dreams were,he would be there to pull down the curtain of illusion and lead me to that chasm he had waiting for me - he shouted and roared at me - but it was if it were in a vaccuum, but forever spinning and annihilating - night after night for years I was living in sheer terror -more scared than at any time in my life (and believe you me I've had some scary moments - nearly getting blown up by the UVF, facing a crazed drunk wielding an axe, and getting beaten up and strangled within an inch of my life )- but nothing matches the presence of that "thing" in my subconscious... then one day it was gone, nothing, and I haven't experienced it since, not once in fifteen years.... I used to work with Rent-boys in Dublin, ensuring they had free condoms,clean needles, trying to get them off the streets, getting them to the hostel where they could shower and change etc, and they understood the real meaning of fear.... there were many eastern european businessmen who would travel to Ireland for long weekends to try out the clean young flesh, and occasionally one of them would end up their weekend of pleasure with murdering one of these pretty-boys - there weren't many, only a handful of "mysterious deaths" washed over by the gardai , but the sheer terror was tangible - it was as if we were in Whitechapel at the time of Jack the Ripper.... Nicky and I feel that this whole aspect of horror writing, so prevalent in the past, that sheer vertigo of absolute...I don't know how to describe it ,but you know what I mean...is missing !!! Do you watch the powerpuff girls ? They have an arch-enemy (the devil) called "him!!!" - for a kids cartoon series they are encroaching upon what really good horror is about, and you must know what I mean,because there are so many glimpses of it in your writings - but an anthology of terror - film-noir like - Clive Barker,Graham Joyce and Ramsay Campbell have come close,but just lack something - you know - the sheer nightmare of it all !!! Maybe I'm just chasing the antithesis of rainbows,have you ever read "hostage to the devil" by Malachi Martin ?- He was an ex-catholic priest turned Vatican II basher, but it's about "real-life" exorcists - the book may be a pack of lies, but there is a spark of sheer unknowing terror between its covers - I feel, we feel, that the silent nightmarish horror where there is absolutely no escape could be an ideal topic for an anthology, for there must be an amount of ignored/forgotten "diamonds in the ash" out there... Sorry for going on so long, if I'm annoying anyone on this message board please let me know and I'll stop posting, but I just see christopher fowler as, how does babylon 5 put it ? the last,best hope, for bloody good horror writing.... 89 Sat January 20 2001 - 02:37:37 Fullname: paul priest Email: nicky.priest@ntlworld.com Comments: I once wrote a story called "Exilium" concerning the Lapis Exilium, the emerald encasing satan when he fell like lightning from heaven, which some traditions say became his throne, others that a shard of it was cut to form the Holy Grail - I adore the concept of exile/banishment/release - The famous quotation from the Egyptian Book of the Dead,beginning :- "Death faces me Today..." echoes this. Orpheus descending...diifficult one - would have a terrible time coming up with a name for something like that.... 90 Wed January 17 2001 - 16:51:54 Fullname: Louise Email: elliot-murphy@fridays.freeserve.co.uk Comments: hello christopher,have you forgoten that copy of Red bride you promised me?I've got a great idea for a horror story about a crazed fan who didn't get her copy of a book..... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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