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Saturday October 11, 2008

Tourist’s Guide to Transylvania: Further Afield

“Some of the most delicious vegetables in the known world are produced by the undead Gardeners of Sheloth, a small group of enthusiasts who sold their souls in exchange for supernatural botanic skills.”

Consciousness, The Weird — Tags: — Viking Brian @ 6:21 pm


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  1. These are wonderful. I had a similar mind warping experience to what you described in the first post. Only for me it was an issue of Weird Tales found at Woolworth’s.

    Sheloth blood turnips are too die for, btw.

    Comment by Elisha Grey — Saturday October 11, 2008 @ 7:23 pm

  2. I never saw this one. My favorite was always “The Dracula Collection”, also by Octopus Books. I don’t know about your book, but The Dracula Collection was obviously made up of covers to old British horror novels, but arranged with extensive text to form a story. And the majority of them were definitely pornographic. (Light nudity, lots of blood and guts in stunning colour.)

    It was the story of some guy who in true Lovecraft style, goes searching for darkness, and finding it. One of his guides is, of course, Count Dracula, who is very charming while going into detail about Hell, demons, his family, and the like. But then you see Dracula at his most vile as he realizes that his guest is just another mortal and not a member of the supernatural world at all.

    http://www.amazon.com/Dracula-collection-Selected-paintings-Darkness/dp/0706413245/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223778367&sr=1-2

    Comment by Leslie — Saturday October 11, 2008 @ 8:37 pm

  3. I know this is off-topic…but where are the new episodes?

    Comment by Dylan — Sunday October 12, 2008 @ 9:46 pm

  4. we’ve got 2 shows in the can. i had wanted to cut one this weekend and post it, but i ran out of time. something will get done this week for sure. hang in there!

    RE: Dracula..i’m going to try and get a copy of that right now. sounds amazing!

    Comment by Viking Brian — Monday October 13, 2008 @ 9:26 am

  5. Yes! That’s relieving…for every day I have to wait for a dose of Viking, I make up for it in alcohol, and I’m getting a bit…unsteady.

    Comment by Dylan — Monday October 13, 2008 @ 10:49 am

  6. Oh! Dude! I own that Dracula book! It’s under a pile of vinyl…amazing!

    Comment by Dylan — Monday October 13, 2008 @ 11:10 am

  7. i now own that dracula book too! and the original octopus release of Tourists Guide to Transylvania (i owned the Cathay books edition, which i’m guessing was an american arm of Octopus or something?)

    any other recommendations from people on other awesome Octopus Books are similar stuff please post away. i also owned as a kid “The Occult and Supernatural”

    http://www.antiqbook.com/boox/syber/0215666.shtml

    this was another Octopus release and counted as my first introduction to Crowley and the Golden Dawn when i coerced my parents to buy this for me when we were on a family vacation to Canada in 1979. this book is awesome!

    Comment by Viking Brian — Monday October 13, 2008 @ 11:58 am

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