Fantasy Collection...

[Exsanguinator]

Inspired by Deano, who was inspired by Radio 1 to post a fantasy thread down in Retreat... How about a Fantasy BL Collection?

Which 6 short stories (or at a stretch - book chapters) would you include in your personal Private Press edition... and why?

Oh - and one more thing - you have to come up with a title for your collection along the lines of Fruiting Bodies and Other Fungi, Second Wish and Other Exhalations...

Well you get the idea... [img]smile.gif[/img]

[topol_sheap]

this is way to hard to make a choice... can I have a 6 volume edition of all the shorts? a kind of swap [img]grin.gif[/img] - you wanted 6 shorts, I want 6 volumes [img]smile.gif[/img] how can you expect me to choose... although I guess I could, but let me know on the 6 volume thing first!

[Nathan]

Here are the six off the top of my head.

Aunt Hester
The Viaduct
Back Row
The Thief Immortal
Billy's Oak
The Disapproval of Jeremy Cleave

These are all short enough that they could be put in with Demogorgon to make a nice-sized hardcover.

It could be titled Demogorgon and Other Dark Denizens

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[Exsanguinator]

If it's shorts you want then I'll buy you a gift voucher for Calvin Klein... For this you're limited to six short tales in one volume.

[Goth Girl]

Mine would probably be..

The Viaduct (can't help clapping my hand over my eye when the kid does!)
A Real Game Boy
Dagon's Bell (cos I used to go to the pub named in it!)
Kiss of the Lamia
The Man Who Photographed Beardsley
Snarkers Son

and it would be called (oh hell, can't think of anything snappy!): The Gruesome Grimoire and other Nasty Narratives

[Nathan]

You sayin' I can't have my book?

[Lagula Longarm]

I will have to give this serious thought, as we're only allowed six stories...could Khai of ancient Khem, be counted as a short story ?

[Nathan]

*muttering to self*

Khai better not be allowed if Demogorgon's not. Dam nazi bawstawd!

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[The Caller of the Black]

Now come on children, play the game. Khai and Demogorgan are novels, NOT novellas or short stories.

My collection would be called "The Sh#t Rare Book of Sh#t Rare Lumley Tales" and comprise of...

Synchronicity, or Something
Spaghetti
A Real Game Boy
The Man Who Saw No Spiders
The Kiss of Bugg-Shash
The Statement of One John Gibson

In a hide bound slip case limited edition of one (for me) [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[ September 03, 2003, 03:41 PM: Message edited by: The Caller of the Black ]

[Nathan]

But... but...

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(Hope he knows I was teasing! [img]grin.gif[/img] )

[Sophie]

I don't think I can make my collection as I feel I haven't read enough BL to make one, so I'll just look wonderingly(sp)? at everybody else's collections.

Sophie

[topol_sheap]

can I have novellas in my choice? i.e. Return of the Deep Ones, Beneath the Moors, and Lord of the Worms?

[DC 1]

Mine would be:

Inception
No Sharks in the Med
Necros
House of Cthulhu
To Kill a Wizard
The Sun the Sea and the Silent Scream

I would call it simply "Lumley Shorts...Volume 1"
That way, I can get another chance to pick volume 2 etc...

[Lagula Longarm]

I am really struggling with this one.. there are too many short stories, chapters. everytime i think i have a final 6, and go to post, i keep thinking of other stories......this is going to take a little longer than I anticipated.

[Exsanguinator]

Novellas fine - chapters of novels fine (each chapter counts as one choice) - novels, not fine! lol

I've got about three definites and about 33 must haves so I'm in the same boat as Deano - I think it's time for le Sac Magique!