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    Lucian Poll's Collection

    Evening all. I must still be on a probationary period as I can't upload attachments direct to the forum. Nil desperandum, KBO and all that. Here are those snaps I took a while ago. I've uploaded them to my blog so with a bit of luck I can link to them here.



    So here are my Cemetery Dance mags going back to 2002. Despite this photo being saved as portrait WordPress has decided to rotate it to landscape and refuses all attempts to rotate it back to normal. Sigh.
    The home of your least humble servant, Mr Poll: http://lucianpoll.com
    Then, of course, there's the Twitter thing: @LucianPoll
    ...oh, and the Facebook thing too: https://www.facebook.com/lucian.poll
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    #2
    My copy of Cemetery Dance issue 57 also contains this unfortunate stitching error:



    Does this make it even more collectable?!
    The home of your least humble servant, Mr Poll: http://lucianpoll.com
    Then, of course, there's the Twitter thing: @LucianPoll
    ...oh, and the Facebook thing too: https://www.facebook.com/lucian.poll

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      #3
      My Grave Tales...



      Sadly I never received issues 3 and 4.

      I still maintain that the cover for issue 6 is my favourite across all my issues of CD and GT. Wonderfully twisted!
      The home of your least humble servant, Mr Poll: http://lucianpoll.com
      Then, of course, there's the Twitter thing: @LucianPoll
      ...oh, and the Facebook thing too: https://www.facebook.com/lucian.poll

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        #4
        Here is the first book in the Bryant & May series, penned by prolific UK horror author Christopher Fowler. I notice the US editions of these books have very different covers!



        As I mentioned in the "What Are You Reading" thread, the sleeve of this hardback is incorrect. The shot is a little blurry but the character on the left, May, is holding a smoking pipe. However in the books it is the other character, Bryant, that smokes. (You can, of course, see the correct cover on Amazon.) According to the author the mistake was spotted early in the printing process but not before a couple of hundred copies had already been shipped. Whether the story is true or apocryphal, I was quite pleased to find my copy was one of them.
        The home of your least humble servant, Mr Poll: http://lucianpoll.com
        Then, of course, there's the Twitter thing: @LucianPoll
        ...oh, and the Facebook thing too: https://www.facebook.com/lucian.poll

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          #5
          ...and even happier when he signed my copy:



          (Just for the record, as you can infer from the photo, Lucian Poll is a pseudonym. (What, on the internet?!? No way!) When I heard long ago that Shaun Hutson wrote under a number of different pseudonyms (and still does) to serve different markets I thought that was a pretty cool idea. Of course I couldn't hope to sell anywhere near his numbers, but I liked the idea all the same. So Lucian Poll is my means of working out my nastier story ideas.)
          The home of your least humble servant, Mr Poll: http://lucianpoll.com
          Then, of course, there's the Twitter thing: @LucianPoll
          ...oh, and the Facebook thing too: https://www.facebook.com/lucian.poll

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            #6
            Nice collection. The dust jacket error is neat.

            For pictures you can use a site like photobucket and link the pictures from there if you don't want to use your blog. They no longer have a maximum limit on uploads for free users.

            Hope to see more!

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              #7
              Thanks, Joe. I'm glad they were of interest. (Relieved too!) I'll get a few more snaps together and will post them in the coming days. Thanks also for the tip re: photobucket.
              The home of your least humble servant, Mr Poll: http://lucianpoll.com
              Then, of course, there's the Twitter thing: @LucianPoll
              ...oh, and the Facebook thing too: https://www.facebook.com/lucian.poll

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                #8
                Very nice stuff.Can not wait to see more.

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                  #9
                  Good stuff, thanks for starting another collector's thread!

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                    #10
                    Okay, here are a few more snaps.



                    I've always had a soft spot for horror comics. There were always a couple of ragged copies of Eerie floating around that just so happened to land in the hands of an impressionable pre-teen. I had often seen tatty old magazines for sale via eBay, but when Dark Horse started printing the entire run of both Creepy and Eerie in handsome hardback volumes I was a very happy (old) lad!
                    Last edited by Lucian Poll; 10-12-2012, 10:30 PM. Reason: Grammar. I could tie myself in knots over it for days.
                    The home of your least humble servant, Mr Poll: http://lucianpoll.com
                    Then, of course, there's the Twitter thing: @LucianPoll
                    ...oh, and the Facebook thing too: https://www.facebook.com/lucian.poll

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                      #11
                      This is something I am particularly pleased with...



                      In the early 1980's a partwork magazine called The Unexplained ran for a couple of years here in the UK. (Again issues of these were often left dotted around the house when I was a nipper.) Each weekly issue covered assorted topics of the... well... unexplained. Fast forward thirty years and they have a certain charm in these cynical times. Anyway, what you are seeing here is a complete collection of The Unexplained: over 3,000 pages of stories, articles and accounts of oddness split over 157 issues.

                      Obviously there had to be thirteen volumes!
                      Last edited by Lucian Poll; 10-12-2012, 10:20 PM. Reason: Replaced link with image
                      The home of your least humble servant, Mr Poll: http://lucianpoll.com
                      Then, of course, there's the Twitter thing: @LucianPoll
                      ...oh, and the Facebook thing too: https://www.facebook.com/lucian.poll

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                        #12
                        I also like the binders for The Unexplained:

                        The home of your least humble servant, Mr Poll: http://lucianpoll.com
                        Then, of course, there's the Twitter thing: @LucianPoll
                        ...oh, and the Facebook thing too: https://www.facebook.com/lucian.poll

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                          #13
                          And here's a (blurry) look inside volume 1. Spontaneous human combustion anybody? Oh go on then...

                          The home of your least humble servant, Mr Poll: http://lucianpoll.com
                          Then, of course, there's the Twitter thing: @LucianPoll
                          ...oh, and the Facebook thing too: https://www.facebook.com/lucian.poll

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                            #14
                            Great stuff. I love the Unexplained books!

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                              #15
                              Love the horror comics myself.Great stuff.

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