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Author:  JPOKELA [ Fri Sep 30, 2011 5:38 pm ]
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Nice book. I am 40 pages in and enjoying the tone. Clarity of prose and a modern feel. Sweet!
Author:  BigT [ Fri Sep 30, 2011 11:36 pm ]
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I'm loving it as well. Though I am a little confused since i'm also reading The Chosen as well. How does the Wraxall Inn fit into these two stories? In WW Abbie mentions it being in her family since the '50's. Anyway great story and much appreciation for mentioning me in the acknowledgements, Ed. Also got confirmation that my copy of Necro Files should get here by next thursday. Looking forward to reading Xipe.


~Tony Beals
Author:  squeakytherat [ Sat Oct 01, 2011 11:48 am ]
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Glad you guys are enjoying it. It does sound pretty awesome. I can't remember the last time I read a decent witch tale, or saw a decent witch movie (the first 20 seconds of Season of the Witch was great. The rest sucked giant moose cock in hell).
Author:  BigT [ Tue Oct 04, 2011 12:51 pm ]
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First off Ed, let me say this is now my favorite book of yours. While there was only small amounts of sex and violence compared to your other books, I absolutely loved the plot, and the characters. I recieved it on thursday and finished it just after midnight last night. I thought considering one of the plot points revolving around midnight made that an interesting coincedence. Yet another interesting coincedance was when I woke up this morning and "palm-dialed" 666 on my phone lol. Anyway, I think I loved the epilogue the best. Very great way to end the story, and I am really hoping you sequalize this story or at the very least the characters. I love it when a story doesn't end the way you expect it too.
I also want to thank you for putting me in the acknowledgements. It is great being recognized by one of my favorite authors.
@Cassandra, It was really good. I can't imagine what Leisure might change in their TPB edition but was a great read. I wanna try to get a hold of the stories Ed used to base this story off of now.
Ed, I have been looking for a book with the two stories you used to write this book but I have had no luck. I was able to buy Count Magnus and other ghost stories, though.

~Tony Beals

P.S. Hate to do it but...Go Tigers! lol :p
Author:  BigT [ Sat Oct 08, 2011 11:15 am ]
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Ok I found one of the stories in the book I bought yesterday and Barnes and Noble has the second volume by Penguin classics so when I get some money on my card later, i'm gonna buy it and hope the other story(A view over the hill?) is on it.

~Tony Beals
Author:  Edward Lee [ Sun Oct 09, 2011 5:22 pm ]
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Big T, thanks for the very kind words. James' View from a Hill and Mr. Humphreys and his Inheritance can be found in the old Penguin pb of Collected Ghost Stories, which you should be able to get used dirt cheap on Amazon. But it's best to spend the extra money if you got it and buy Vol. 1 Count MAgnus and Other Stories, and Vol. II The Haunted Dolls House and Other Stories, both annotated by S.T. Joshi. Joshi's a genius of providing tons of inside info on HPL and James. And thanks much to the rest of you, too, for buying this; I'm quite partial to this book (I'll be picking up my copies at my po box Tuesday. As far as I know, the Leisure version (Witch-House) uses identical text, so there's nothing cut. The whole time writing it I wished I could go totally hardcore with it but realized it wouldn't improve anything cos the story's not cut out for that. However, I do have somme JAmesian tributes planned: a sequel of sort to Haunted Dolls House and a modern (and quite trashy) novella called Mr ad Miss Humphreys and their Inheritance. Both will be so hardcore, I'm giddy thinking about it!

Edward Lee
PS--the name Wraxall I used antagonistically; it's actually from a different James story, Count MAgnus, I think.
PPS--Now I HAVE to root for the damn Tigers cos they beat the Yankees! I think they did the same damn thing in 06!
Author:  BigT [ Thu Oct 13, 2011 11:10 am ]
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Ed,
Your very welcome. I have the first volume and I plan to order the second one today. I'm currently well into The Passage by Justin Cronin, so I definitely be a bit before I get to those stories. The version I have is the Joshi version.
Since I was reading The Chosen and Witch Water at the same time, I was confusing Wraxall and Wroxton. I can't wait for your other tributes and pretty anything else you have coming out soon.

~Tony Beals
Author:  JPOKELA [ Sat Oct 15, 2011 10:57 am ]
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Finished WITCH WATER. Loved the clear prose style. Very happy to read a great book. Deserves some awards!
Author:  jonah [ Sat Oct 15, 2011 11:41 am ]
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I got my copy in the mail today, and it could not come at a better time. Having real life things going on have kept me absent from the forums for a bit, but thought I would still drop by to express my appreciation for the breaks these books give me. It goes straight to the top of the TBR pile. Thanks again Lee.
Author:  cthulhurising666 [ Tue Oct 18, 2011 12:05 am ]
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http://www.amazon.com/Penguin-Complete- ... 57&sr=8-23

this is also a good deal.
kills two birds with one stone...
Author:  Edward Lee [ Tue Oct 18, 2011 9:27 pm ]
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I got my contrib copies at my PO Box yesterday and nearly keeled over. It's really cool looking! Thanks, all, for picking this up. I really hope you like it!

Best
Edward Lee
Author:  kresby [ Tue Oct 18, 2011 10:24 pm ]
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Over half way through with WITCH WATER and really digging it. Hard to put down. Very intriguing and well written.
Author:  Jack Staynes [ Thu Oct 20, 2011 5:35 am ]
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I got my copies through on Monday. What a sweet looking piece of Book. I won't be starting it yet though. Need to build up a little Lee stockpile for them long winter nights coming in, but I'm looking forward to it for sure.
Author:  JameyWebb [ Sun Dec 04, 2011 12:35 pm ]
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Just ordered a copy of this, as an early Christmas present to myself. Really looking forward to reading it, especially after browsing this thread.
Author:  Wetbones [ Wed Dec 28, 2011 1:27 pm ]
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Finally got my copy today. Preordered it but waited for a bunch of other books to come out so I could save on overseas shipping costs. I'm masochistic that way. Gorgeous book and I feel guilty just thinking of fingerbanging its pages.
Author:  JPOKELA [ Wed Dec 28, 2011 8:50 pm ]
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Copies have pretty much disappeared off the web. This is gonna be one of those rare ones....
Author:  squeakytherat [ Fri Dec 30, 2011 10:21 am ]
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Author:  JPOKELA [ Fri Dec 30, 2011 1:59 pm ]
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There will be other editions. No doubt about that!
Author:  Edward Lee [ Sun Jan 01, 2012 11:54 am ]
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I know that Dorchester has slated for release both the digital and trade pb version of Witch Water (they, uh, still haven't paid me my advance for it, though, but I'm a patient man and happy to give them the benefit of the doubt!) Hence, they own those rights so there wouldn't be a Deadite pb of this book. I am hoping Deadite will publish the trade pb of Dunwich Romance, though, once the time stipulations of the hc contract have been met. I also noticed that Dorchester is re-releasing some of my older mass-market pbs as trades, which is cool. (Backwoods is one of them, I think.)

At any rate, thanks very much for your interest in Witch Water; it was down and dirty roller coaster of fun to write!

Best,
Edward Lee
Author:  Wetbones [ Thu Jan 05, 2012 10:58 pm ]
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Finished it in two sittings. This is an excellent novel that is entertaining and suspenseful throughout. There are certain similarities to the plot of GAST/BLACK TRAIN (horny protagonist moves into a hotel in a new town, falls for a local girl, there are dreams of a fucked up past) but that didn't bother me. As I expected, my favorite parts were those written in ye olde English and luckily there were quite a few of those. I stand by my comment from a while back, when Ed posted a sample from the book, that I'd be down for a novella-type project written entirely like that. Not the most mainstream approach obviously but I'd dig it and it'd certainly be unique! Also impressive was the part where time flows back and forth, a part of the narrative that could easily have ended up being confusing when attempted by a lesser writer.
Author:  KK Jones [ Sun Jan 08, 2012 7:57 pm ]
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On Dorchester's site, it says this will be released next month. That's what I'll be reading next month!! :D

Kind of like Black Train/Gast?!?! I will definitely be a happy reader!

Konnie
Author:  Edward Lee [ Mon Jan 09, 2012 8:27 pm ]
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Thanks hugely, Wetbones, for the generous words. If it's any consolation, Dunwich Romance is written entirely in an attempt to sound like HPL, but its interspersed with some interesting diary entries written by Wilbur Whateley, featuring what I hope is an entertaining vernacular.

Konnie: this is how pea-brained I am. Yes, Gast and Witch Water both involve an old bed and breakfast mansion complete with a "museum" full of old artifacts, plus there's a sexual quirk bubbling in the protagonist, but this fact didn't even occur to me until the book was done! Writers sometimes sport a weird kind of creative blinders: we don't see obvious topicalities. Recently, my girlfriend proofed my novel Ghouls and immediately noticed the two main characters: the Colonel, and Sanders. In TWENTY YEARS that never occurred to me! Perhaps I was subconsciously endorsing KEntucky Fried Chicken!

Take care!
Edward Lee
Author:  Wetbones [ Fri Jan 13, 2012 10:06 am ]
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Author:  Edward Lee [ Wed Jan 18, 2012 5:52 pm ]
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Thanks much, Wetbones. As a hardcore HPL fan, you may appreciate the detail in Dunwich Romance more than the typical reader. Take care!

Edward Lee
Author:  squeakytherat [ Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:33 am ]
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I just rediscovered my e-file of HPL. I've only read one so story so far (Haunter of the Dark). I wanted to read up on some Cthuhlu stuff because my 3-year-old is totally enamoured with him/it. I just had to order her a stuffed Cthuhlu that she can take to bed (the octopus will no longer cut it) :D
Author:  Edward Lee [ Thu Jan 19, 2012 9:59 pm ]
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Very cool! Check CafePress.com or Zazzle,com; I'm pretty sure they've got Cthulhu toddler clothes! And since you've rediiscovered your hpl file, be sure to read Rats in the Walls, Dunwich Horror, Colour out of Space,Dream's in the Witch House, and (probably my fave) He. Each story is a world of wonder!

Best,
Edward Lee
Author:  squeakytherat [ Thu Feb 02, 2012 11:34 am ]
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Read this on Brian Keene's blog about Dorchester: http://www.briankeene.com/?p=10520

Looks like I'll never get my preordered Witch (water) House from them :?
pissflaps

Hope Ed didn't get too badly stiffed by them.
Author:  Edward Lee [ Fri Feb 03, 2012 9:56 pm ]
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Actually, they owe me at least 6k--THAT'S a stiffing! I guess I'm a lousy business man and always give publishers (or just about any business) the benefit of the doubt. Big mistake. I should've taken Brian's advice rendered way back when--probably too late now. Looks like I'll be walking like a cowboy for a while! Of course, other things in my career are going very well--I've much to be grateful for. And, yes, I do expect to be going heavy guns on Header 3 once I get my mother's situation stablized.

Later!
Edward Lee
Author:  squeakytherat [ Fri Feb 10, 2012 1:03 pm ]
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If Dorchester are, indeed, going under. Does that mean you can get the rights back? I hope so.

I also heard today that I'm mentioned in the acks of TDR!!!!!!! SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Thanks Ed, you rock :*
Author:  Wetbones [ Sat Feb 11, 2012 3:33 pm ]
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I sure hope the Leisure/Dorchester titles will end up getting reprinted by somebody who actually pays Ed for the sales. There are a couple (MONSTROSITY, THE BACKWOODS...) of them I skipped when they originally came out but am kind of curious about now. Of course I could get copies on the secondary market for pretty much nothing and that remains an option but I'd prefer Deadite Press to get them so I can buy new copies instead. The Leisure/Dorchester covers tended to be bland and boring (SLITHER was an exception) but just imagine what gory, fucked up goodness Deadite would deliver.
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