tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post5103696209395038503..comments2024-03-28T19:52:07.635-04:00Comments on Sweet Freedom: 3 books I almost completely forgot (two deservedly) and recently finally "found" again online...Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-83738103455634395072013-01-29T19:51:12.110-05:002013-01-29T19:51:12.110-05:00And I can't say I'm sorry I managed to for...And I can't say I'm sorry I managed to forget Moran and probably otherwise miss Scholastic's attempts to franchise him altogether... Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-5969685147769326432013-01-29T14:42:40.794-05:002013-01-29T14:42:40.794-05:00I think I missed Frank Edwards altogether...simila...I think I missed Frank Edwards altogether...similarly, though, ONE STEP BEYOND's conceit helped diminish my enjoyment of that no-budget tv series (you'd think Alcoa could've afforded to throw them another buck an episode).Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-55139717614431971712013-01-29T14:40:54.010-05:002013-01-29T14:40:54.010-05:00Mike, that Jones-cover of CONJURE WIFE is on the l...Mike, that Jones-cover of CONJURE WIFE is on the link I have in the text of the post...it was indeed sold as a gothic by Award (and I hope no gothic fan was Too disappointed). Gents, I would go on to pick up a RIPLEY'S BION collection (but only one), and collections with titles such as STRANGE BUT TRUE AUTO RACING STORIES (and the similar BASEBALL volume), but that's about as far as I ever went with such things, beyond the issue or two of DC Comics' GHOSTS I bought. I found even the section of "true" ghost lore in THE HOUSE OF THE NIGHMARE anthology reviewed in an early FFB post here somewhat annoying, in that it took up space that could've been devoted to horror fiction not trying to pass itself off as fact...those John Canning volumes, which seem to be kept in print consistently or at least dusted off for instant remainders too frequently, and at least one extremely lurid (but not even sexy) British volume I found in a public library managed to put me off such things indefinitely...so far...wonder if that last was your Harold, Mike...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-91252645692180769512013-01-29T12:54:56.972-05:002013-01-29T12:54:56.972-05:00My first copy of CONJURE WIFE was a late '60s ...My first copy of CONJURE WIFE was a late '60s Award Books paperback with a Jeff Jones cover, very much in the paperback gothic mode; it might even have said "An Award Gothic" or words to that effect on the cover. Fortunately I knew who Leiber was. As for the "unsolved mysteries" books, I still have probably a dozen or so; my father worked with the late Frank Edwards when I was a kid, so we had all his books. I wasn't credulous enough to believe them for long, but the stories he told and the way he told them still fascinate me. And of course there were others--R. DeWitt Miller, Harold somebody who told some of the creepiest "true" tales I'd ever seen, and more.Michael E. Stammnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-54271779906687319192013-01-26T20:07:52.480-05:002013-01-26T20:07:52.480-05:00For a while, I picked up every true-weird book I c...For a while, I picked up every true-weird book I could find. They seemed a logical extension of the Believe or Not! books I devoured in grade school and once I discovered Frank Edwards I was hooked on that laughable and fascinating genre. Even today, I will still pick up a true-weird book on occasion.Jerry Househttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482856733981933159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-36782637721585703892013-01-26T18:42:30.278-05:002013-01-26T18:42:30.278-05:00That last might say something about the stories, s...That last might say something about the stories, since they haven't stuck with either of us (the clever title of the book might say something about Berger's acumen, too...but I suppose it might've drawn some of the more reading-resistant/dunderhead boys, and some of the more rebellious girls). I haven't actually picked up a copy again in four decades...of any of them.<br /><br />Did you collect Schurmacher, or was it just the content of the "true-weird" books that made them worth picking up?Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-83676318915459058542013-01-26T18:38:14.341-05:002013-01-26T18:38:14.341-05:00At one time I had the Berger and both Schurmachers...At one time I had the Berger and both Schurmachers but they all went walkabout, as most of my books did back then. <br /><br />I'm pretty sure the Howard Pease story was a Todd Moran, a teen-age hero that Scholastic seemed to push at every possible opportunity. Except for the Asimov, I can't remember the others from the Berger book.<br /><br />Jerry Househttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482856733981933159noreply@blogger.com