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Post by steppedonwolf on Jul 24, 2009 19:11:49 GMT
Mainly food, booze and chat. A chance to walk around his smallholding and see the pet cemetery. In previous years there have been ghost walks, film screenings and so forth. Not sure what this year's agenda is. By the way, he's posted some free downloads on his website: www.guynsmith.com/page5.html
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Post by Dreadlocksmile on Jul 24, 2009 20:47:24 GMT
Sounds like a good day to be had for all. However, I just announced to my girlfriend that it's GNS's BBQ on the 6th September and she informed me that that's the weekend when we'll be celebrating her birthday.
Beginning to look like I'll be missing another one.
Next time gadget...next time...
Oh, and cheers for the freebie download link. I think I'll nab 'Hounds from Hades' and the audio version of 'Crabs Armarda' .
It's turning out to be quite a good day today. Time for a celebratory drop of whiskey me thinks.
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Post by funkdooby on Aug 1, 2009 7:36:02 GMT
Just out of interest, has anybody managed to complete their GNS collection? Surely you jest ;D Even GNS doesn't have a complete GNS collection
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Post by funkdooby on Aug 1, 2009 7:37:52 GMT
I've got all the novels released under his name and Gavin Newman, except 50 Tales From the Fifties. Didn't bother with the Jonathan Guy books or the Disney novelisations, or the chapbooks as the stories in those have been compiled in the Black Hill Books collections. The only thing I'm really after now is the second edition of Bamboo Guerillas, the one with the picture of the charging Jap soldier on the cover. Funkdooby says he's found loads of copies of it in the past, but I haven't found a single one. I must admit that I haven't seen a 2nd ed. copy of Bamboo is a long time now. They were plentiful round the charity shops of the south east in the 80s, though.
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Post by funkdooby on Aug 1, 2009 7:51:02 GMT
I suppose 'complete' is hard to define but here is my take . All first editions - 73 horror/thriller GNS novels, 4 disney novels - 2 Gavin newman novels - 5 jonathan guy novels - 12 non-fiction books - 4 self published books(50 tales from 50s etc) - 5 chap books - 1 graphic novel . You may want to include different editions/covers/foriegn etc. Thats my take anyone else want a go :-) There are several unpublished but completed handwritten novels out there. I've seen them go up for sale from time to time but never tried to get on as they normally go for silly money. Der Ruf des Werewolfs is a bugger to find. Some comedian was offering a copy for a thousand notes a couple of years ago But the story was published in parts (and in English) over the course of around a dozen issues of GR starting in issue 2. The soft porn novels are similarly exceedingly hard to find. The Thorpe & Porter romance stories are all but impossible to find - not least because GNS wasn't even credited as the author and has no record of the titles of the stories. Finding the non-fiction articles GNS has written over the past 45 years should be fun trying to locate, as he's penned about 10,000 LOL There are all manner of other exceptionally rare GNS titbits to hunt down. I have a copy of the James L Bradley novel which shares an identical cover with the now rare second edition of Bamboo Guerillas. Rumour has it they accidentally commissioned both GNS and Bradley to write the same novel...and they turned out different enough to publish both. When the GNS one sold in high numbers, they re-used the Bradley cover for the Smith 2nd ed.
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Post by Dreadlocksmile on Aug 1, 2009 8:22:50 GMT
This man is seriously in the know on GNS!
I too have a healthy GNS collection. I'm no obssessive collector of his work, but I do have the vast majority of his horror novels except for a very small handful of titles.
Funkdooby - A man of your knowledge/obsession/dedication towards GNS should be on this forum more often!
Got any more interesting facts on Shropshire's finest?
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Post by garryc on Aug 1, 2009 9:51:37 GMT
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Post by funkdooby on Aug 1, 2009 11:00:08 GMT
This man is seriously in the know on GNS! I too have a healthy GNS collection. I'm no obssessive collector of his work, but I do have the vast majority of his horror novels except for a very small handful of titles. Funkdooby - A man of your knowledge/obsession/dedication towards GNS should be on this forum more often! Got any more interesting facts on Shropshire's finest? Probably LOL Around the time GNS was looking to get into publishing novels (1973, 1974), he was invited to submit some synopses to NEL, one of which was for a novel called Rat Mania!, about giant rats attacking a major UK city. But this was turned down as that publisher had just accepted another Rats novel from a new writer, which had an almost identical plot...
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Post by funkdooby on Aug 1, 2009 11:10:04 GMT
Curious, but sensible, I think. I can see why GNS was so popular with publishers back in the day - to be able to write a novel from scratch, even a short one, in 4 weeks (comfortably! ;D) is a phenomenal achievement.
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Post by Dreadlocksmile on Aug 4, 2009 10:23:57 GMT
Around the time GNS was looking to get into publishing novels (1973, 1974), he was invited to submit some synopses to NEL, one of which was for a novel called Rat Mania!, about giant rats attacking a major UK city. But this was turned down as that publisher had just accepted another Rats novel from a new writer, which had an almost identical plot... Man, that's crazy. Herbert's 'The Rats' was such a ground breaking novel. To think Smith almost got in there first. Keep the GNS factoids coming squire... Here's one of my own. Smith designed and created his own fully working gun, which he still has to this day.
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Post by Dreadlocksmile on Sept 25, 2009 12:53:34 GMT
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Post by Vaughan on Sept 25, 2009 13:22:25 GMT
Wow, I'd buy those in a heartbeat.
Sadly, I don't have an Ebay account. :-(
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Post by Dreadlocksmile on Oct 2, 2009 19:10:37 GMT
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Post by Vaughan on Oct 2, 2009 21:23:58 GMT
Yeah - something else I'd have loved to bid on..... if I had that famous Ebay account...........
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Post by funkdooby on Oct 3, 2009 14:59:01 GMT
Yeah - something else I'd have loved to bid on..... if I had that famous Ebay account........... Why not register one? Interesting to see the alternative Festering cover proof there.
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