tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7813967103667404007.post5978351939101314088..comments2024-03-05T05:55:07.097-06:00Comments on VALANCOURT BOOKS BLOG: Coming soon: Three novels by Gillian FreemanValancourt Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16679069032708534064noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7813967103667404007.post-22495583635823271512013-09-30T13:28:41.423-05:002013-09-30T13:28:41.423-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Bruciferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11476117857189225339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7813967103667404007.post-31231765898003205682013-09-30T13:22:41.970-05:002013-09-30T13:22:41.970-05:00Wax looks really intriguing. Turns out White also ...Wax looks really intriguing. Turns out White also wrote The Wheel Turns, which was the basis for the many film versions as The Lady Vanishes. Looks like Gilbert was actually more of a standard detective novelist, save The Woman in Red, which intrigues me because the movie versions were so good. But she doesn't really fit with the others save that one diversion. I'd love to read more R.C. Ashby as well! Thanks for the ongoing amazing reissues! I think I'll try the Birkin collection next.Bruciferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11476117857189225339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7813967103667404007.post-1592383395233731892013-09-29T16:08:20.606-05:002013-09-29T16:08:20.606-05:00Thanks, these are good ideas. We recently picked ...Thanks, these are good ideas. We recently picked up a 1st ed. of Ethel Lina White's WAX (1935), which I think is about murder/horrors in a wax museum. There are some intriguing things to be found among those 60s Gothic paperbacks -- on eBay the other day, I came across one that was a novelization of a Patrick Hamilton play, and another trying to pass off Caroline Lamb's Glenarvon as something you'd actually want to read! Marjorie Carleton and Anthony Gilbert are names I don't recognize at all -- but will keep them in mind. Thank you!Valancourt Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16679069032708534064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7813967103667404007.post-70595934448173820492013-09-29T12:42:17.928-05:002013-09-29T12:42:17.928-05:00A suggestion: gothic thrillers from the 30s-50s by...A suggestion: gothic thrillers from the 30s-50s by women writers, basically the Daphne DuMaurier school of writers, many of whom had their novels filmed during the heyday of film noir. Though marketed in the 60s as gothic romances with lurid paperback cover art, I understand that some of these novels are quite good and aren't mysteries in the conventional sense, more like harkenings back to Sheridan LeFanu and Wilkie Collins. I can't vouch for anyone in particular yet, other than DuMaurier, as I'm just digging into this genre myself, but some writers that seem to be coming up over and over again and look very promising are Ethel Lina White (author of Some Must Watch, a.k.a The Sprial Staircase, and famously filmed), Joseph Shearing (one of Marjorie Bowen's pen names and author of So Evil My Love and Blanche Fury, both filmed), Margaret Millar (quite well loved as a psychological noir author; no film adaptations that I know of), Marjorie Carleton (author of Cry Wolf, filmed with Errol Flynn and Barbara Stanwyck), and Anthony Gilbert (pen name of Lucy Malleson, author of The Woman in Red, which was filmed as My Name Is Julia Ross in the 40s and again in the 80s as Dead of Winter with Mary Steenburgen). These seem worth investigating, and with the exception of Some Must Watch and a couple of Millar's novels, none seem to be currently in print.Bruciferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11476117857189225339noreply@blogger.com