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More Horror World message boards Did you buy the new Residents CD yet (DEMONS DANCE ALONE)? Also, when's the next chance an unknown like me is going to get a chance to send you a story? Thanks. Keep up the excellent work. (Just ordered FEESTERS) 108 Fri July 25 2003 - 13:44:33 Fullname: Andy F Email: Comments: John,
109 Wed July 23 2003 - 02:43:58 Fullname: John Pelan Email: jpelan@cnw.com Comments: Hi Mario: I've turned in the book and intially thought it was fast-tracked for this fall, now I'm told it may not be out until 2004. Ah well, we'll have DARK ARTS, SHADOWS OVER BAKER STREET, and CENTURY'S BEST HORROR to keep us amused until then. ;-) Cheers, John 110 Tue July 22 2003 - 20:05:36 Fullname: mario Email: Comments: John, I'm looking forward to "A walk on the darkside". When will it be published? 111 Wed July 16 2003 - 04:29:40 Fullname: John Pelan Email: jpelan@cnw.com Comments: Well, well, well... Our Boris is back with: 3 Wed July 16 2003 - 00:07:28 Fullname: Boris Email: brichards@hotmail.com Comments: If you didn't want anyone to spot that "Lena J Pohn" is an anagram of John Pelan you should have chosen your puppet i.d. with more care. Sorry to disappoint, if I were to use a socko it would be much more clever than that. Want to e-mail Andy and have him match ISPs? Thought not. As for the old bogeyman-in-the-closet routine, I realize that you may well have scores of offended folk trailing in your wake who you would rather believe just one easy to deal with enemy, but please don't go confusing me with no one else, even if you do need to keep up appearances. Very well, I'll assume for the time being you're not Hoppy. So what? Wisely but accidentally I missed an initial out of my email address which I certainly WON'T correct now as I suspect that you are one who revels in psychotic sock-puppetry. No, don't have time for games like that. I posted because I was amused by an editor being chased for debts on a message board, My e-mail was down for several days while hooking up our new system, my friend cleverly thought of this an equally fast way to get a message through. and by the thinking behind slipping your own stories into collections featuring some of my favorite writers, Slipping? Hardly. I'll admit to one unfair advantage, once I sign a contract I start working on a story for the book. It's often as not stipulated by the publisher that I do so. tho I can now see that you don't actually invite comment and will go to transparent lengths to see off neg crits. No, I don't pay any attention to negative criticism (and very little to accolades either...) I write what it pleases me to write and the vast majority of readers and numerous editors and publishers are seemingly pleased with the result. If you actually have something to say, by all means speak up. So far, all we've heard out of you is innuendo and nonsense. If you're something other than a common troll, by all means share your thoughts on particulars of my fiction or anything else you'd care to talk about. Cheers, John 112 Wed July 16 2003 - 04:15:30 Fullname: John Pelan Email: jpelan@cnw.com Comments: Hi Paul: Great to see you stop by! Congrats on the Birkin haul. Save your money for the collections featuring his unreprinted pieces from DEVIL'S SPAWN. There's three stories that were not reprinted or rewritten for the later collections. "Green Fingers" is in my top five for Birkin, which is high praise indeed... Cheers, John 113 Wed July 16 2003 - 02:01:30 Fullname: Barbara Roden Email: ashtree@ash-tree.bc.ca Comments: Chris K. wrote: >>>After many fits and starts (and numerous full moons), I finally finished Vampires Overhead. Now I can imagine why our good friends at the GSS took so long to release it. There must have been a few arguments in the house over whether or not to go with this one as they are sticklers for high quality.<<< Actually, no arguments in the house over this one at all; we both liked VAMPIRES OVERHEAD, obviously others disagree. C'est la vie! By the way, there have been enough arguments and confusions over this elsewhere, so I want to get things straight here. The GSS (Ghost Story Society, presumably) had nothing to do with VO; it was published by Ash-Tree Press, which is a numbered limited company owned jointly by the two of us (Christopher and Barbara Roden). We both also run (voluntarily) the GSS, and edit (voluntarily) its journal; but that's all that Ash-Tree and the GSS have in common. The GSS doesn't publish anything except ALL HALLOWS, and as a Society the GSS is owned by its members. Normal service will now be resumed. Barbara 114 Tue July 15 2003 - 23:07:28 Fullname: Boris Email: brichards@hotmail.com Comments: If you didn't want anyone to spot that "Lena J Pohn" is an anagram of John Pelan you should have chosen your puppet i.d. with more care. As for the old bogeyman-in-the-closet routine, I realize that you may well have scores of offended folk trailing in your wake who you would rather believe just one easy to deal with enemy, but please don't go confusing me with no one else, even if you do need to keep up appearances. Wisely but accidentally I missed an initial out of my email address which I certainly WON'T correct now as I suspect that you are one who revels in psychotic sock-puppetry. I posted because I was amused by an editor being chased for debts on a message board, and by the thinking behind slipping your own stories into collections featuring some of my favorite writers, tho I can now see that you don't actually invite comment and will go to transparent lengths to see off neg crits. 115 Tue July 15 2003 - 21:05:41 Fullname: Paul Finch Email: Comments: Yo John ... in answer to a question you recently posed about anyone in the UK having picked up any editions of CREEPS. I can't say that I have, BUT ... I recently visited a book fair in a run-down stately home quite close to my home town, and was astounded to come across a large number of paperback Birkin collections from the 60s and early 70s, all going for like 30p each. Rememberng many conversations we've had in the past re. the great CB, I bought the lot and have been devouring them ever since. The only downside, I suppose, is that this means I now won't need to order your HARLEM HORROR. Still, it was worth buying all these musty, dog-eared old tomes just to be able to read GREEN FINGERS ... that surely must be one of the most chilling horror stories ever written, and yet I've hardly heard it mentioned before in any conversation on the subject. Is it to early, or too late, or just too plain cheeky to suggest you consider it for 100 BEST HORROR STORIES OF THE 20th C? It's gotta be a must in my humble and uninformed opinion. 116 Tue July 15 2003 - 20:21:12 Fullname: Jim Rockhill Email: jrock@locallink.net Comments: Have not yet seen Hirshberg's collection, but that and a recent book by Victor Sage entitled LE FANU'S GOTHIC are high on my list of anticipated titles. Jim 117 Tue July 15 2003 - 20:07:30 Fullname: John Pelan Email: jpelan@cnw.com Comments: Hi All: Seems this Boris chap craves attention much in the same way as Hoppy of Barkerville. Considering the sort of cretins that are known to stalk message boards, I certainly don't blame anyone like Lena for not leaving her e-mail addy where "Boris" could get at it. Such a chap is likely the same sort that gets their jollies dialing random numbers and breathing havily into the phone. It's very nice to see Jim, Jerry and all dropping by... So... Anyone get hold of a galley of Glen Hirshberg's new collection yet? Cheers, John 118 Tue July 15 2003 - 19:21:29 Fullname: Jim Rockhill Email: jrock@locallink.net Comments: Boris, eh? A dubious honor this, John, rather like having the village idiot park near the door after deciding that this--and only this--porch is worthy of his carefully expended drool. What kind of sad, imbecile goes out of his way to raise trouble on someone else's message board and then has the ironic temerity to question the reality of any of its other denizens? I suppose such persons have to do something to occupy their time after aliens have used ray-guns to carefully remove the tobacco from their cigarettes every night and clouded the minds of men to prevent industry from listening to claims of their having built an engine requiring only tap water for fuel. For the person who asked about Bob Leman: Bob's emphysema is interfering with his ability to get around as much as he would like and leaves him too winded to carry on lengthy phone conversations, but he is otherwise much the same. Jim 119 Tue July 15 2003 - 17:07:46 Fullname: Bukowski's Elbow Email: Spam Me Not! Comments: Jeez, watching Boris and Pelan spar is like watching two multi-headed hydra in an arena. Who will they be next? Do we really care? Where can I score some nachos? What's up next, Juggling Sharks? 120 Tue July 15 2003 - 13:40:17 Fullname: Jerry Email: Comments: Pay no attention to this moonjerk John, you are a star where he is a miniscule speck of dust on an unknown planet. Your work has been invaluable to the genre, especially in terms of inovation. At Midnight House you have set standards in production and creativity that others would do well to follow. The fact that my first three books have already sold out proves that people really do want your books. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 >>
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